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The Broken Albatross.
The broken albiltross has stumbled
Upwards to (hilt pedestal of sad admittance
Which he thought he'd ncvcr touch .
Cured orhls avian fi xat ion. now
The fcn lhcred old nlUn si ts (next to
The wcasal and th e wren)
And cri es gen tl y;
He has bee n mournin g since the wo rld o frn cil
Bcc,um; a pan o f him once more.
The n oor bencm h crowls Wilh the sc uIIling
Leaves over wh ich he once sailed, walki ng stooped
Wilh wings outstretched. in content silence Leaves thm he once, once believed
Were lapping waves ...
His wings hang. stiff but dangling. in the
Brcczeless auditoriuOl. his rou nded.
Hugely.beaked hend droops
And tears drip frolll lhc eye-hole in his
Chin; and this river from within
Rumcs his downy breas t with li ny wei marks.
When soon those st OIl C aud itorium doors
Swing slowly open. all three
Upon that dusty pedestal will stir.
The wre n. whose eye of fructured g l n~~
Betrays a keencr, sh,lrpcr stare from the tunnel of a
Tattered beak, will lift his he<ld and sigh.
The play that ne vcr startcd wi ll finish,
And the pedestal will gri nd towards
The littered grou nd. ,lI1d :lllt hree
Will be helped down by
Gent le. cold. an d bored hands.
The weasel wi ll remain slumped. :lnd mot ionless.
Without the solace of a eh:l nging-room's
Prh 'aey. the broken albatros.~
Will be slowly di smantled to reveal
The swe<lty, wrinkled figure stood within.
And "Just once more." he wi ll whisper.
Dragging one lame foot through the Icave.~
As he feebly walks.
Wingless. pale arms outstretched.
Miming e\'apor.tting wonls
And gently fingering an ancien t wound that.
In the restless, airless darkness
Dfhis fe<lthered regalia,
H ilS never healed.
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CONTENTS
2.
4.
8.
15.
Editorial
The Master's Speech
Common Room News
Francis Melville Haywood
A TribUTe
16.
Making a Mark
Inscriptions and miKeliany oj
Morlborough College
18.
20.
22.
Sinai Trip
College Societies
Trip to Vietnam
A country on the brin k..
24.
26.
Celebration
Finding Freedom in Exile
The destruction 01 0 peacelul nOlion
28.
No Fireworks
New Yeor 's Eve in Poris, 1995
30.
32.
Choir Tour to Catalonia
The Fairy Queen
33.
Mount House Exhibition
HlJnry Purcell
Tr.c An Bcaks Exhibition
34.
Joji Koyama & Eve Peasn all
Art Review
35.
Paul Danks
Artis! in Residence, 1995· 96
36.
School Skiing Trip
Conodo, Easter 1996
37.
38.
Passion Play
Duke of Edinburgh Awards
Gold ond Sil ver bped itions
40.
4l.
Shell Rawlings Project
Marlburian Club Day 1996
Su nday 3rd Morch
42.
Hockey Tour
44.
Subscription Concerts
45.
46.
54.
56.
58.
The Real Showgirls
House News
CC force
House Drama
Sports Section 1995-96
Zimbabwe
1995 ·96
Mor lburion 1995/96
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"Educatioll ;s
l JOt
a I)ror/llct: marks, diIJ/Olllfl, iob, mOlley
ill Ibnl order: it is II process, (/ never-ell dillg Olle."
(fle/ Kaufman, television in/eroiew, 1967).
" Educatioll is aVOllt feading bumall sOllls to /VIm! is best,
{llI(/IIU1killg what is best 0111 of 'belli; lImltbese two objects
(lrc alllm)'s attainable together." UoJm Utlski", Th e StOIlCS of
The editorial,
Michaelmas
1996 ...
Veil ice ( 18S '1-3).
Ed uc:u ioll seems 10 become clHang lcd morc and mo rc in
the language of grids, grades and comparalivc league tables.
Yet a good school ca nllot be judged merely by c;<;arn ina rio n
res ul ts; what is important is tha t ir shou ld offer an
envi ronmellt where ind ivid ua ls can nuurish according to their
own relat ive strengths a nd gifts, an ell vironment where the
I)roccss of education is nurturcd. Education is about
opporluniry and discovery.
Th is edit ion of Th e Mnrllm rinll both succccds and fails. It
succceds inlhal it bears witness to o pporruniry, d iscovcry and
thc achievement of excellence; it fail s in tha t as a tcstimony
to
all that' represents a singlc aca demi c }'car in th e life of
Ma rl borough College it is bou nd
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bc woeful ly incomplcte.
Chairmlll1. M y Lonls. uu/i('s
lIlItl Genllemell.
One of the pleasures each terrn
for me is the Essay Society
Meetings he ld in the Master's
Lodge. Emly th is term (and shonly
after a self-indu lgent awards
to move in any major wily from the
with the overa ll A level anti GCSE
pol icy that the College has purstll.:d
results gained last year. At GC5E.
for decades of m:tim:tining breadth
in o ur entry. As with any school ;1Ilt!
the percelllage of those :utaining
grades A * and A rose from 40% to
Ihe inadequate means of measuring
50% aga insl a nationa l ligure of
academic performance used by the
respectively was equall y pleasing.
ceremony held by the television
So. too. was the increase to 19% in
industry) a healthy discussion
the percentage gai ning A* grades
only at GCSE aga inst a natiorwl
developed over the relative meri ts
o f Theoretical Mathematics and
fi gure of 3%. The ke y indicators at
History as a means of seeki ng Irllth .
A level similarl y moved up with
After some deb'lle. the proponent
56% £:lining A and B gmdes :lnd
74% g;lining gmdes A to C.
u fTheoreticOlI rvlathcmatics as the
appropriate vehicle agreed with
the Hi storian 0 11 a po int. 10 which
Commentators. po liticians al ld
employers have mised questions
the si mple reply came."1 wou ld
over standards ilnd. despite proICS!iItions to the contr.u),. it has to be said
like to thank my parents". To day
I would like to sh:lre that sentiIlle nt. OIrguably more genuinely.
thilt. while the natio nal statistics for
GCSE have remained static. at A
and say how Illuch all of us at the
Jc"c1the l>CfCelllage gain ing grade A
nationally has moved from II f;l-l to
College welcome parental imerest
.md support m a whole range of
different events.
T he POIst year has seen the surge
of interest in the College, to wh ich I
referred last year. develop sig nifieilntly. The Shell entry in September
th is year is larger than in the recent
past and represents the largest number we can admit. 'n le nUllOlir on
the grapevine thm entry standards
are rising is tnte but I wou ld like to
e mphasise thm there is no intemi on
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13 % illld the overall pass rate at A
level ;lIId GCSE of 96% and 97%
Government andjoufI1alists. it wi ll
16% over Ihe past six years wi th ;1I\
lake some years. probably four or
cqui valelll movcment of 7% to 33%
fi ve. before this movement to which
I have referred is reflected ill the
of the cllndid:ucs natiomlily gaining
. gmdes A and B. Since there is no
v;lriOIiS tables published each year
evidence that I have seen to indicate
from August onwards. Wc valllC the
c hildre n we currently have Ihe privi-
that th is gener:ttion is genetica lly
brighter. the issue over st:mdards is
le~ e
o f educating and it is in their
imcrests that realism is included in
any assessmem o f thei r perfor-
pertinent . The national targets for
the year 2000 are probably unall:lillable ;lIld. if they arc reached. it must
mance. Notwithstanding Ihal. we
were <IS pleased as the examinees
renect different targets being SC I for
g rade boundaries in extemal exami-
well with seven successes and con·
gratulations arc due to Abigail
Boreha1l1 o n her Cho ral Scholarship
to Gmwille a nd C"i us ;1' C:unbridge.
On the wider educational front.
we will Ix: responding to the educ:l·
tiona I reforms proposed by Sir Ron
Deari ng in his report on the 16· 19
a range o f courses sufticie mly Ilex ib1c to ~ u it the needs o f those who
re{jllire bre;ldth and those who
continue to be developed o utside the
academic currk uluill and. much as I
would like to scc pupils broadening
fawHlr depth in the studi es fo llllw·
thei r experience more and seeking
ing GCSE. The nat io nal framework
10 expand their interests by suppo rt-
ret'lins A levels and there is nothing
ing and being committed to e\'ems
which do not eall o n their particu l;lr
ex perti se. there has been no lack of
nat;ons. Gi ven the wnge of abilit y
nations is to be reduced.
This movement reported acade·
mically rcnecls credit on the pupils
Ad vanced Supplcmentary cou rs·
es :Ire also 10 be reslnlctured. The
current AS le\·el courses introduced
consullation have demonstrably
fa llen nn stony grou nd. The new AS
courses arc horizontal rather than
of Jan uary and the beginning o f
vertical slices of A lc ve l. th ai is to
Fehruary rightl y re ported on the
say thcy represe nt the half-way
stage of a course of study towards A
level and wi ll be :lmeotns of broad-
bear by the Common Room.
Discussion has st.lfIcd on lIlallYo f
the constructive criticisms rai sed in
the report but the tonc of the re port.
accurately re flectcd in the SUlllmary.
which was se1ltto all parents. is di s·
tinctly encouragi ng. No i s~ u es weI"C
raised which had not already been
AS levels and the Applio:d A levels.
Alongside a !:Iriff o f courses
idemified earlier and discussion. fur
requ ired for the Diploma is the
requirement of cert:ti n st;mdards so
is under review currently 10 e nsuI"C
th;tt the ablest children arc really
stretched while the needs o f uthers
are properly attended to. An e11l:our·
aging signal can be seen from the
improvement in the llu1l1ber o f
pupi ls who gained o ffe rs from
Oxford and Camhridge thi s yea .. : the
Hi story uepartment did part icularly
opportun ity this year. All comll1llll i·
ties benefit from the mutual support
o f groups who have d ifferent imer·
e.~t:.. but in common with social
ening the Sixth Form curriculuill.
The apex of the new fram ework for
quatili cal ions is the N'ltio nal
Diploma at Ad\'anced level wh ich
brings together the stra nds of A and
ex:unple in the ;Irea of diffcrentia·
tion. had already started. This iSloue
Many strengths of indi viduals
in the mid I980's withollt much
and o n those teaching. The
Inspectors who visited us at the end
exceptional commitment brought to
to Uni ver.;ities. frequent ly after a
wonhwhile GA P year. our response
will be dri\'en til a great ex tent by
the demands of Admissions Tutors.
o f the pupil s here. we C:1I1 at least
be pleased with the progress o ver
way complacent.
in1; ly on moc.lular examinations now
so prevalent at un i\'ersities. Since
the Vilst majority or lea vcrs move o n
:lge Tange . Published i1l :\pri l this
year. it proposes the introduction of
in thi s 1"C\'icw 10 suggest that the
qualit y and rigour in i\ level exami-
the past year. though we arc in nn
Neither wi ll the idea that the means
of a~sess m e nt will depend increas·
demanded by employers in the ke y
skill s (If communication. the appli .
cat io n of number and information
technology. From our standpoint.
the retenti on of A level alongside the
clear recommendatio n 10 develop S
levels further and the introd uction of
the new AS levels is Illost of inter·
cst. The possibilities of introducing
new Cllurses wi ll not be uverlooked.
trends beyond our boundaries. too
many confine themselves to the
limit'ltions o f the pursuit of the ir
individual inte rests rather than seize
the opportunity lOe." pand thei r
hori zons. In contl":lst. others stretch
the mselves and gain ~reat ly fm m
thl,! range o f u)lport ullities a":lil:lblc.
Nowhere has Ihilo been greatl,!r th;11I
in the field of travel. Last sununcr"s
successful expcditiollto Ladakh is
tn be followed hy an expedition to
Victn.un th is year. The choi r tour is
in Spain th is ho liday. and many
pupil s have enjoyed the chance to
sk i in Canada . ex perience life in the
dese rt in Si nai. rock clilllbiug in
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I'rovence or hel p developme nt in
Gunjur in the Gambia. C loscr to
horne. wc have enjoyed many varied
Art Exh ibitions in the l\'lou nt
l' I IIlI~ e
and the netb;11I VII virtu;llI y unbe;.t-
the qu;.li ty and range tOllched on
en. We were del ightcd. too, with Jon
j ust now arc not produccd by
Copp's rcccnt appoill1l1lcllt as Scnior
Coach 10 the Great Britain Mcn's
chance. Nei ther is the general
positivc movclllent orlhe College in
Olympic l'lockey Team in AlI'lllt;!.
olher w;.ys./\l1that 1 have
Thc growth :Ind Sllccess of
menti oned re lics on exce llc nt
Basketb'll!. the successes in Sq uash.
Lacrosse. Swimm ing inlhe Bath
teachi ng and much hard work by
and Ollcr CmllllCtit ions ;md
Shoot ing with its yo ung team all .
the o pportunity to Ih;1I1k them. as
we ll as the Bursar and his staff
as e xamples 10 illustrate real
achievement.
whose co ntributio n is vital.
SCf\'C
Individual achievcments such ;.s
the rare distincti oll ga ined by
William Unwin being selectcd for
the National YOUlh Orchestra as well
the be;lks concerned. and I welcome
unreservedl y for the inspiration.
enco urageme nt. and. in some
instances,thc chi vy ing they havc
brough t to be;.r onlho:: ch ildre n
as the National Youth Choi r and the
committed to their care both
academically and in other ways.
and the Art School. 'Ille prud uction
o fTh c Faerie Queen hlst ;UJlU1l1ll.
and the much ;Iccl:li med productio n
pupils whu gained their gold Duke
of Edinburg h award. provide furth er
~ ubjcct ed
highli ghts. The loplendid Wilkinson
ra nge o f pressures and no words can
o f The Passion Play in Chapel were
Sword presented by the Honourable
adequately re Oeclthe horror of the
most powe rfu l and im press ive
perfonll:lnees. \Ve were honoured
Arti llery Company for the best cadet
in the Lower Si xth o il ihe da y of our
;lppalling incident in Dunblane or
by How;lrd Goodall composing for
the choi r a ~\'I ag ni llca t and Nunc
Biennia l Inspectio n re nected the
li nks the HAC has with past Old
Dirnitis which received its first
perfoml;lIIce in SI. George's C hallCl.
Marlburians and. they no doubl
hope, futurc Old Marlburians. 'Ille
Wind sor, A new C D, recorded
earlier th is term by the choi r. wi ll be
available in September ;lIId the
successes g;li ncd in thc Salisbury
perfoflnance of the 51. Jol1ll Passiun
coming third in the IInal o f the
Thomas Cranmer Nationa l Awards
in the Lent Term was one of the
highlights of the year. This is not to
underval ue the instrument;. 1side
where numerous co ncerts have
en;tbled ense mbles. so loists,
orc hestr::lS and bands to perform
sueccssfully amllhe adjudic;lt io n of
Br;lsser at a National Compet iti(JIl
rdlcctclI creditably o n the standards
now reached.
The \Vorld of schools has been
ov..:r the P;lst year to ;1
the untimely death of headmaster
Jamcs L.twrcnce, who was
murde red defend ing a pupil at hi s
C lassics I~cad ing competition.
Oli via Cook's achicvement at
and Kathry u Harrison and Edw;.rd
Baring bei ng r;lllked in the top 25%
of all contestants in a Nat ional
Mmhe rnatics C hallcnge demo nstr.lle
achicvCllIell1 in a d ifferent sphere
and the Mission earlier this tenn
helped many to assess where they
stood with thei r ow n faith. Many of
thcse ;.chieve lllcilts result frnmthc
school gates. Such tnlgeuies fo r
whi ch 1996 will he rc mcmbcred
put our local difficulties into
combined support o r those at the
pers pective. 13m pressures there arc:
successes o n the sponing fro nt .
largely in the younger age groups
;md the Shell in particular. In the
College and pare nts. Such support
has ocen panicularl y evidcnt this
year in thc activitics associated with
whether from security issues . mised
by these tragedies. curricu lum
change, social pressures or employ-
Lent Tcrm cspecially. both the buys
and girls througholll the school
the beagles and the IX)lo team mised
from wi thin the Shell year.
ment and uni versity pressures.
Collectively they arc increasing
ach ieved man)' line results with the
hockey Xlu llbeaten ;.g;.inst schoili s
The academic performancc of
the past year and ;Ichieveillents of
with severa l acting as ex ternal
forcc s and ()thers proving 10 be
T here has been a pkthum of
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internal. I ha\'e no wish to address
allow it" is in Illy view false and
have a right
the ex ternal prcssures c ..;ccptto say
the t;lles we hear together with
that I sec no ev idence. dcspite
journalists' observations, that a
COI1Hllent s from lJlany parents
rC:lssurcs me th,lt this is the case.
essary pressures PUI upon them.
That is nOI to say they willnol exert
change or government would be
likely 10 provide a real thre:!t to us
Unsupervised panics. together wilh
irresponsiblc behaviour hy retailers
cence. T hey arc ind ividuals, chang-
ror example in the mailer of c harita-
selling alco hol. bring di ffi culties.
ing indi viduals, bUI incapable of
ble swws. Internally I believc that
give conllicting signals to the yo ung
bei ng anything else bu t themselves.
we need to recognise tlwt pupi ls
and result in double standards when
They have tn c heck themse lves in
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to have any unnec-
press ures on the school and home:
Ihey certainl y will : Ih;11 is ,ldolcs-
days than they have done for somc
the intcrests of their sun'iva) in society and the home ;md school COIll-
lime . l1ec:mse o r mcdia eXposure_
IImnily in wh ich they li vc. and it is
probably face 1I\0re pressures thcse
Ihey arc aW,lre o f cmployment
Ihe j tli m rcsponsibili ty nflheir
difficulties and the pressure on
places at uni versities. especial ly
schuul and the ir pare nts to ensure
Ihat chccks are ,lpplied and double
some to which sevcr:!1 as pire.
standards. especially in Ihe :lrca of
Gr..ldes, therefore. mailer mo re with
social :Ict ivilies. arc not introd uced
cxpcct:lI ions for the vast m:ljority
\c;lding to confusion ami fnlstralion.
Thd r parent s. teachers. and the ado-
lyi ng in Ih is direction. Furthermore.
even for those of high abi lity. the
lescents the msel\'es. face a dilemma
si tuat ion is made worse by some
and Ihe trend today to hide behi nd
institutions, companies and uni ver-
alleged fa lse gro up alt itudes is
sities who reali se that the present
situation over suppl y and demand in
unhelpful. To increase the pressures
during thi s time inlhe form of lin at-
many subjects and in emp loyment
opportuni ties is in the ir f'lvour. T he
t;lillable C.'I: Ill!ctations. or compromise the famil y slandards. will
result of Ihese pressures is th:ll
surely be counterproductivc.
addi tional subtle pressures arc
cxened by te:lchcrs ami parents o n
Realist ic aspirations in all aspects
arc vital. for these provide goals
their charges and children. Certai nly
for which indi viduals can aim and.
no one is consc iollsly trying to be
in so doing . lhe young fo llow a
unplells:llll. but it must be important
path that should lead to a fu ll .
rcw;mling and active life in fu ture
that ex pectations do 1101 exceed a
child's abilities. What mailers is that
years. I look fo rward to seei ng
an individual should achieve the
best he or she is capable of
measured against our boundaries.
pupils leave the College "eadcmica ll y fulfilled and wilh a sound
achieving amI I fear Ihat parent s
T he maj(lriIY. of course, under-
and l'esponsilJlc sci of values :Illd
sometimes ex pecl more of their
children than their childre n c;m
stand this hut such social pressures
standards with which they C:11I
(and Ihere arc others. of cou ~e)
c mb;lrk onlifc. living wit hi n
achievc. Social pressures are also
arc unhel pfu l.
"
increasi ng panicularl y with the
younger age groups. Children,
II is said thaI adolescents arc
now so much more adv,mcetl
do not believe this to be true:
lIlay be superficia lly more
hut I belie ve they malUre ;md
develop in the full ~c nse at the
sallie rate as they e\'er ha\'e done .
There have always bee n ellollgh
pressures on adolelocents and they
(ial
part icularly in the ir fi rst three years.
arc vcry sensitive to peer group
inOuenccs and the pressures ror
parlies in the holidays with totall y
unrealistic approach to the suppl y of
a!cohollllust surely be res isted. The
cry "but all my friend s' parents
"
t
we arc 1111
able to plllY our part in e nsuring
that Ihis is achieved. Schools are
essentially abo ut people lind so
long as we all
, the same way
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COMMONROOM
F
irsll y I would li ke to apo log ise 10 Richard
~\'larkh a ll1 for fa iling 10 record las t year tha t we
welcomed him\o the Hi story Department in
Septe mber 1994 . September 1995 saw the
arrival of no fewer than SiXICClll1CW rllll1l1 cmbcr.~ of
Common Room. Five were no strangers 10 anyo ne. in
Ihallhcy wcre a lready with us part lime. but became fu ll
lillie: Sally Bryant in the Drama Department and Wanda
de Sararn in the IT Department. Lav inia Ford in the
English DCp<lTtmcnt, p;\[ Kno wles in the Biology
Dcpanmcm and Ho ll y Williams as tile EFL tutor.
Bernard Parish rejoined the Malhs Department. having
been here 011 exchange inlhc carly 80s. The ot her new
arrivals were Alex Arkw right. who lOok over as Head of
\Vind. Pau1 Danks, o llr Art ist-in Residence. James Di xon
and Peter Kcighley, who joined the History and Bus iness
Studies Departments respecti ve ly, John Mal [e tt, arriving
fresh from p layi ng for En£land in the Rugby World C up
and taking over as De ve lopment Officer, Peter Mart in.
who was he re for the Mi ehae lmas Tefll l in the Modern
Languages Departmcllt wh ile John Bateson was on sabbatical. Guy No bes. who joined the English Department.
Kri sten Reed. the Vi rgin ia Fe ll ow. teach ing Engl ish.
Ibchel Tolputl. who took over as cenll uieist in the Art
Department and Em ili e Quignard. the rrel1ch assiSlante.
In December we s'lid farewell not only to Peler
Martin and Bernard Parish . but '1 lso to Toby Lendon and
Heid i Nesse ler. our two Australi an tutors who retu rned to
the southern hemisphere to :conti nue their studi es. In their
p l.lce we welcomed in January To m Mi llner from the
King's School. Parramatla. and Kate Hendry from
Gee lo ng Grammar School. In additio n Geoff Smith
j o illed the Matlls Departme nt and Greg Wel ls joined us as
aPE assis t.m t. ha ving ju st graduated in engi nee ring from
the University o f New South Wa les. At the same time
Tony Barry. no stranger to Common Room. returned
from Australia as an Associ ate Member as
teehnicianJinstnJctor in the IT Department. and Jane has
si nce joined him here. Anna Goldsmith spent si.~ weeks
of the Lent Term with us as the Span ish assistant.
The end of the summer term 1996 sees a large numher
o f Common Room leaving. Terry Rogers retires as
Second Ma~ter and Deputy Head. after 32 year~ at
Marlborough. He and Hilary w ill be greatly mi ssed. and
we wish thcm every happiness, though we are del ighted
Ihat Terry w ill -be staying on as College Archivist in succession to David West. As David hands over the
Archives. we extend to him and to Una every good wish
and record with affection thei r lo ng associmion with
Marlborough. which for David goes back over six ty
years . Janet Tanner (D irector of Stud ies for twelve yea rs)
and Gera[d Groffman retire 100. and we thank them for
the ir long service to the Modern Languages Department.
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and most rece ntl y as He:ld s of Sp.mish and Oriental
Studies respecti ve ly. We shall miss the m . •md Prue. but it
is good to kno w that all will still be living close by.
Chris and Isobel Rathbone are moving \(J Leeds.
where Isabel is alre.uJy work ing and where Chris will
do ubtless quick ly channel hi s energ ies into the musical
life of the North. Ph ilip and C hri stine Lough leave us to
movc to Windlesham in West Sussex . where Phili p has
been 'lppointed Headmaster. Andrew Richards w ill be
away next acade mic year on cxchange in the USA. We
also say farcwell to Laurence and Alegria G unner. as they
move aft er len year.~ at Marlborough to Windsor Cast le.
whe re Laurence will t;tke up hi s appointment as reside ntia ry C:man. Richard Wilkinson retires too. and he and
Ann will be movi ng north to Yorksh ire. Nei l Farquh'lrson
leaves us and is heading soulh again 10 Z imb'lbwe. Hazel
Lawrence l eav e_~ (no t for the !i rst time!) to take up an
'lppointme m w ith the Ramblcrs> Associ'ltion on mai nl:md
Euro]JC. GeolT Smith is leaving too. and John Mallell
moves away with his liancec Emma : John will be taking
up a full timc post with Bath Rugby Club. but we arc gl;ld
that he will still Oc " b lc to coach some o f our teams. Paul
Danks leaves us after hi s year as Arti st- in Residence.
Emilie Quignard re turns to Fnmce to continue her studies
and Kristen Reed will be mov ing back to the USA. To
"II who are leaving we send our warmest thanks and
good w ishes.
The Commo n Room communi ty has w itnesscd fOllr
new arriva ls over the pas t year. B House has had two new
residents. firstly with the arri va l of Rory Brown in
OCIOOcr. and later w ith the bi rth of Sian Jones-Parry in
Febmary. Rebecca Barry s urprised lll.lIlY by arriving five
wee ks early, in M.lY. and at the end of the s ummer term.
Janl ie McVcigh waS born. We wcre delighted ill Ju ly to
hear of the birth of Isaac Watkins. Our congrallliati ons
and best wishes go to a ll these fami lies.
We were sadde ned to learn over the SUlllmcr holidays
last year of the deaths of Dennis Clements. formerly Ihe
Collcge's Head Gardener. and o f Bill Gonion. formerly
the Rackets Profess ional . In Novembcr we learned of the
death in New Zealand ofG eorgc Heywornl. Master from
193910 1952 . Jul y 1996 has bec n made much sadder with
the news of the dealh of Hermione Budge. Bursar's
Secretary for 100 terms from 1958 to [99 1. Toall the ir
fa milies we extend ou r sincere condolences.
As another bu sy year at Marlborough draws to a
close.we are delighted to welcomc Martin Evans as
Presiden t o fCo J1l nlon Room in succession to Brian
Wallis .• lIld 1 hand over to Guy Nobes as Comlllon Room
Secretary. It is again heartening to re n ect on the
strong spirit which brings the wide Common Room
conmmnity IOgether.
Mil
GERALD GROFFMAN
CHRIS RATHBONE
When C hris Ralhbonc played Messiaen's "Transporls
de Joic" 10 Roy Wilk inson. (DircclOrof Music at
Marlbo rough in 1973) as part of his aud ition fOl' tht: puSI
of Assisla11l Director of Music and Or£:misl. r womkr if
Roy knew what he was tak ing on. Chris's work in the
Music Depart llle nt fro m Ihal time to the presc nt da y h;IS
madc fu ll usc of hi s mu lt i-faceted musicali ty.
En:r si nce his days at C:unbridgc and as Assisl:Illl
Organist at C .rlislc Cathedral C hris h:ls been rcco,g niscd
as a vcry line pl:lYCT wilh a prodigious I1msic .. l appe lile
and grc:11 sight-reading gins. Now he is known 10 the
Marl borough Community as the man al lhe eOllsok o f
the ti ne fouT-l11anual l·!iI1. Nonn;m and Be:lnl organ in
the ctwpc1. He has madc IwO recordings oilihi s in ~ lru ­
melll and is featured as accompanist in the various Choir
C Ds, lal>Cs and reco rds, His laste for thc music of :.uch
modem composcrs as Leighton and Messiaen hasn't
been to every Chaplain's taste but his wizard!'}' has left a
s ucce.~s ion o f orga n pupils mesmerised. A rece nt innovation initiated by C BR is the series of O rgan Reci tals in
the Lent Term featu ring Beaks :l11d pupils in a tl vc or six
week cycle. C hris's performance o f "La Nati."itc tlu
Seigneuf" used to be:1Il annual cvent in the
Chapel .
With C BR 's depan urc at thc end of the
Sum mcr Te fm. we wilness the d isappearancc
uf a kind of Renaissance man of music.
Lessons wi th Jean Fry :lllhe College equippcd
him for dou ble bass playing with First
Orchcstr.l, Chamber Orchestra and various
jazz: ensembles. He took lip the Fre nch Hom in
an idle Illomenttoo and has been a regular in
the Ikl s~e r horn secti on since most people e:1II
remember. Ifhe is 110t playing hom in Fi rst
Orchestra it is because he's on the do uble
bass !
Chri s's scholarl iness is evide nt in his
meticulous programme notes for the
Subscript ion Series. occasionally beyond Ihe
underswnding o f a Shc ll pupil on his ti rst
concert outing. The West Room shel ves arc filled In
c'IJl;ldty with books. scores. C Ds -testimony 10 hi s
voracious musical appetite. taki ng in Gershwin, Kurt
Weill. Siockhausen :md much else. It 's d ifficullto find a
composer Chris doesn 't know something abo ul :md his
know1cdlle o f musical works is encyclopaedic. though
Brahms is one of his few "blank spots" .
Speci al C ho if W:lS something created by C hris and
under his di rection as likely to sing an arrangement o f
"Summertime" as a prell y Eliz:lbeth:m madrigal. Si nging
and the Cathedml Choral repcn oire is very much in his
blood . At a recent CBR amI Friends coneen in the
Adderley, we wcre re minded once again of C hris's
excellent tenor voice. I have rather taken it for llfamed
over the years Ihat in un:lccompan ied materia l for C hal>c l
Cho ir. C hris's tenor voice (occ:lsionally his al to one 100)
can be heard linning up an insecure line somewhere un
decani or can loris.
Gerald Groffman leaves the College at lhe end 01 this SummerTerm,
having spent 23 years at the school. Anyone who knows him will lind it difficult to believe that he is indeed due to retire, let alone that he was to do so
live years ago, belore the College'Sneed for his spcclafist skills persuaded
him to stay on, Seeing his lean, upright figure striding purposefully across
Court, one is bound to wonder to what he owes his vigour. A happy family
life? (His wi fe Prue, a well knOl'ln College figure In her own right, has certainly given him great support over the years.) Regular exercise? Gelling up early
In tim morning? Loyalty to the imperfect subjunctive? Whatever the reason,
he remains in every respect extremely fit. indeed fitter than many a younger
man; he Is a sociable, lively member of Common Room (a body which he has
In his time served as treasurer).
Gerald was appointed as a teacher of French and Russian, and it is in this
capacity that he served the College for the first part of his career here; subsequently his remar1<.abfe skills as a linguisllcd him to teach German and
Spanish too, albeit on a tess regular basis. Classes have always appreCiated
the quality of his work. Scornful 01 certain developments in Modem
Languages teaching which have seemed to him merely modish, he has been
uncompromising in demanding the highest of standards of his dasses, as of
himself; he has also brought to his lessons a rare breadlh of knowledge. HIS
public examination results over the years have been correspondingly good;
more importantly, though, he has communicated a real concern lor scholarship, not least through sheer force of personal example.
Gerald has served the College in other ways too, however, notably in the
theatre. In the departmental sphere his productions of 'Le Barbier de Seville',
Anooilh's 'Antigone' and 'L'Alouelle', camus' 'Caligula', a
reworking of L'Etranger' and his own stage version of
Voltaire's 'candide', all of them performed to a full house
in the Memorial Hall, all 01 tllem bold in vision and meticulous in their execution, were a marvellous achievement.
(One can only regret that changing examination patterns
have since then made it dillicull to carry on the tradition.)
Other dramatic work too, for example a striking 'A' House
production of 'The Government Inspector' and t\'.'O memorable Common Room plays, demonstrated his skills. He is,
of course, a fine performer himsell, as anyone whO has
heard his rendering of McGooagall's verse will testify.
All this would represent a distinguished achievement
in itself, but il is Ille later phase of Gerald's career here
which has perhaps Deen the most remarkable. At a time
when most would De gralefully contemplating a relatively
quiet life, Gerald chose 10 develop his talent in two new
directions, with typical energy and vision. First, in 1985, he
r;r,,,t,1 G"'(("'~11 took a year's leave to study Arabic at Exeter University,
then returned to introduce the subject at the College, seeing in it (as in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, whose introduction he also
fostered) a discipline which would be intellectually demanding, offer the
College a distinctive locus of excellence. and also help meet Ihe nation's
needs in a changing world. He has pursued his aims single·mindedly, with
untiring vigour, not just at Mar1borough, but on the national stage too, as secretary of the Schools' Arabic Project, and treasurer of the Schools' Japanese
Project, both of which organisations he was very active in helping to initiate.
The success 01 his work can be measured by the fact that since 198625
Marlburians have gone on to study Orienlallanguages in further education.
His endevours have been all the more notable sInce In 1988 he also took over
Ihe Memorial Ubrary, where he proceeded 10 selin place many of the structures which have made recent improvements possible.
With all that he has done, notably in the sphere 01Oriental languages,
Gerald leaves the College a most generous legacy, He would not want a restful retirement. I am sure - even as I write, he is learning Hebrew in order 10
read the Old Testament in the origlnal- bul he deserves a richly rewarding
one. We wish him and Prue every happiness In lhe future.
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It was C hri ~ who broughtthc co mposer Kenneth
Leighton \o lhe College in 1982 to hear pupil s singing
and playing SClllle of hi s music. Leighton's music is probabl y o ne of the inn uences C hri:; wou ld admi l to in his
own compo:;itional work , much of which has been heard
o ver the years in College reci tals. Countless are the de:;canis and special arr:.lIlgements Ih:tl Chris has provided .
o ft en al vcl')' sho n notice. It has e\'en been known for a
tnltllpet obbligato 10 be fashioned during the sermon ;md
performed in the final processio n! C BR 's script is met iculous allli stylish like his calligraph y.
The cata logue o f achievements continues: Music,, 1
Director for projects such as "The Fit iry Queen" and
"I'htppy End"; tll tor in C3. at one time thought to be the
"Mllsieal ]-lnusc pitrexeel lencc". He was Acting Director
o f Musie prior to my arrival here. and a Illore modest and
unassLJming man I have },etto mee\, with so llI,tIly talents
to brag about. Some who know noth ing of Chri s's mu sical g ifts will remember a tall . impressive bearded man
wi th a bricfc;tse and an eq ually bearded dog in tow. Those
wi th longer memories will tell tales o f his early Illum ing
cycle rides through the back lanes o f Lockeridge with:t
copy of "The Gramophone" in one hand and the hand le
bars in the olher. The College loses a giall\ of a musician
;md a ve ry dear man .
DAVID GREEN
David retired fro m Marl borough after 36 years
te;tching: 33 o f those years were spent at Marlborough.
History and Cricket. or Cri cket and Hi story, ir you like thai was what Da vid w:tS about. He came here because
in the Sumlller o f 1959 he had tOll red Canada and the
U.S.A . with an amateur M c.c. side whi ch was capt;tined
by Dennis Sil k and managed by John T hompson. They
were both so impressed with David thittthey suggested
to the then Master. Jo hn Dancy, that he should rephtce
John T hompson as Master-in-c!lilrgc of Cricket on hi s
reti rement. '111e deal was agreed and David left Derbyshire
lor good.
David was ad mirably qualifi ed [0 TUn the Cricket. A
schoolboy ~ta r at Hunon -on-Trent Gmllllllar School he
went on 10 play for Derbyshire before his 18th bi rthday,
Duri ng his National Service he represented the Army and
the Combined Services. I-Ie was an imlllediate choice for
the Cambridge XI when he went up in 1956 to joi n the
side which included stich all time 'greats' as Ted Dex ter,
Bob Barber ami Galllini Goonesee na Those were the
days when Cambridgc could be;!t counties such as
Laneilshire ;md Gloucestershire ou tright in two days.
David's high poi nl was a bri lliant and ehanceless 85
against the Indians in 1959.
David ran the cricket here for 14 years during which
the Xl's record reml: Played 11 9 Won 66. Drawn 40. Lost
II (of those. 6 were to Millfiekl!). That might speak for
itself but I wou ld add from Ilillch personal observat ion
th;lt Dil'lid was never latc. never unprepared or !;tck ing
the right e1luipltlent and showed true professional dedic:tlion in every arca o f coaching. Cricket did loom ];u'ger in
the lire o fl he school then than now. His tenurecoineided
with the laSlten years of the Marlborough-Rugby match
at Lords. O nce that was gone it Wit S hard to mainla in the
impet us that we o nce had had.
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Not for one moment should it be thou!!ht that David
was j ust a cricket beak who al so taught a few classes. He
was one of the best org;U1ised and most professional
teachers I have ever worked with . He was almost never ill
- fi ve da ys off in 3 1 ycars. Over the many years that we
worked ' in tandem' we never hitd a cross word. Indeed. it
was alw:t)'s Dav id who was looking ahead, David who
was provid ing the fi rst d rilrt of ex;,m papers and so ronh.
His chosen field was the 16th, 17th :tnd 18th Celllurics in
bot h Bri tish aud European Hi story. He taught o ne spec ial
p;'per aft er another on Briti sh 17th Century slilrt ing with
James I ;uul linishi ng with Willi;utl and Mary. He a lso
e nli vened and informcd Dcpanmental meetings throll~h
his dee p and susta ined in volvement in eX lernitl ex:nnining. For twent)' )'cars, he WitS an Examiner wi th the
J. M .n. at Manc11ester and Chief Exitlili ner for 12 of those
years in hoth '0' and' AO' leve l. He was rightly proud of
lhe successes o f his pupil s. especially when, ou t of an
unsettled class o f II. 9 gai ned O xbridge places. ;U1U when
his 'hottom' set in the Hundred scored 12 A passes ;tt '0'
leve l out of 18 candidates. ThaI Oxbridge success is
proba hly without equal in all the College's 'A' level
records. So much for the view thm David was 'on ly a
cricket be"k'!
There were so many more "Teas besides where a m;U1
of D;l vid \ or~ani s a t i onal skills could shine . He r.m the
t\'larl bnrough College Summer Scitoolthirtee n times,
bro:tdening its scope :tnd r.mge and mak ing it into one of
the very bcst S ummcr Schools in Britain. He started the
'Prep School Visit' and or£anised the fi rsl six of those
visits. It is Iwrd for us to imagi ne 1I0W that it was 11 01
always a necessary pan o f the school year. He was a
val ued 1·louse Tutor in Calion House for sixteen years
and was aCl ing Htlll Semastef Ihere fo r a term in 1974.
So, we sahtle it major ligurc in the school's life over
the last 30 years as he goes off to his golf and his gitrde ning at Manto n Hollow. Sensitive ;tnd self-deprecat ing,
bm also enormous fun. with a tntl)' 'wicked ' sense of
humour, David was always ready 10 tel1 colleagues ;\IId
pupils beauti fully honcd stori es or to provide re rorl.~ 0 11
the latest nw tches o f hi s two ra vourite clubs, Derby
Coun ty and Swi ndo n Town.
MO'
JANET
TANNER
Janel Tanner retired at the
e nd of Ihe Summer term,
concludi ng a career of twent),
eight years distinguished
service to lhe College. She
joined the staff in 1968 as
the first fe male me mber o f
Common Room: the fitel
that it was a further six years before a female colleitguc
e merged le ft he r wondering whether her own appointment had bee n considered a mistake. She had applicd
for a post primaril y to teach French but also to int roduce
Span ish: ill addit ion. an ability to coach rugby was
stated to be an adv:llliage. Whilst Janet has neve r made
an appe arance on lhe rugby tield. she has eontribuled
massively in OIher areas and it call trul y Ix: sa id
Marlborough has reaso/lto be 1110St gr:lle fu l to its
pioneering appointee.
T hroughout her career classroom teachi ng h:IS
always been Ihe cornersto ne o f her work: c:lrefu l ;md
mcticulous in her approach. her concern for the welfare
arid success of her pupils is second to none. W hilst she
has re t.. ined her close illlerest in French. the bulk o f her
leaching carlle 10 be 11I:Ioe up o f Span ish by force o f circumst,mces. As she hands over res ponsibi lity for the lalter. ils popUlarity is such th;lllwQ beak s .. re now
insuffici ent 10 deli ver it : a far cry from the early days.
numher of .. t! min istrati ve e hallgcs, most ntltahl y the
imroductitlll (If Ihe CtJllcgc's HWll part icular hrand of
Profcssional lkview:nul Dcvelopment for Ihe leachi ng
stall. Once more. she showed much adeptness in steering
a way throug h a mllllbcr of content ious issu..:s to evnl \'!.:
;1 system which i:- now S\!eurely and smnnthly in place.
Janet was fully involved as a resident in her early
ye;lrs al Marlborough. She joi ned the Co llege allhe s.. l11e
tilne as the fi rst intake (If g irl ~ into the sixth form and sh..:
was <lsked 10 be R e~i d e nt Tutor in Lilllcfield to :tssist
with the arri\'al o f girls there. She re mained fm se \"cil
years which included virtually Ihe whole o f one term as
acting HousemaSler when ivlike Dav is suffered a heart
attack. T he f:lctthat she was largely undaunted by thi s
unexpech:d step into the limel ight says nmch for
her versatility.
Janet holds a unique place in the hi story of the
/-,·Iarlbnrnugh Comilloll Room and we s.. lute her ach ievements: it was imice{1 nn mi stake whic h John Dancy iliad..:
in I Y6S. F,lr frolll i(. Janet pl:ms 10 cnnti mle living in the
tOWI\ and we extend to her every possihle good wish for a
happy ,lIId active r..:tirel1lenl.
It remains beyond question that her greatest service
to Ihe Co llege has been her exercise of the POSI of
Director of Studies betwee n the years of 1980 :md 1991.
She held the pOSI for by far the longest pcrifxi to datc and
what is more she held it al a time when the p:lce of
change. generJ.ted both within the College and without.
was quite fonnidable. These years saw the introduction
of General Studies. Design Technology. Information
Technology. sea changes in the Oxbridge "dmissions
proccdure. the binh ofGCSE and its protean offspring courscwork. 111e introduction of g irls 10 the Lower
School in 1989 cqually brought wil h it a whole Yaricly of
issues for the Director of Studies to address. Underneath
all of this ta me the necd to reorcanise the timetable 10
cope with the variet), of new dC~Jands. resulting in Ihe
introd uction of lhe much dre:lded thirty fi ve mi nute peri od. Carefu lly produced papers were quiet ly steered
throug h the relevant meet ings: suggestiolls which arose
during somc heated d iscussions were noted and incorporated and the structure which we ha ve today was devcloped. Its essential fitne ss for Ihe circumstances is
delllonstratcd by Ihe fat tthat it has lasted well owr half a
decade and it loo ks :IS though it has pl enty more tililc to
nUl yet. lis dclivery was an object lesson in how to succeed in introduci ng a m:tjor change. T hrough he r tillle in
this post. Janel came to be greatly respected by thc whole
of Common Room: .. Iways ready 10 lislen and to explain
points which mi ght Ix: causing concern . she was:l huge
support 10 1-leads of Dcp:lrtment in the role. as she
always saw it. of the ir f..c il itator nit her than thei r mi stress. She came to acqui re :I massive m astery of the fi eld
and il was indeed a privilege 10 succeed her - for she
appeared 10 know :tl1lhe ;lIl swcrs and one onl y had to
ask 10 be told that the most il11ractable of problem s was
al le;lst capable of solution. often in a nu mber of ways.
The task WliS jusllO judge which of these wa.~ likely to
be the best.
On her retireme nt as Directorof Studies. it was a
great boon that her wisdom W;lS not lost to the management of Ihe College. For three years she he ld the post of
Sen ior Mistress and in her own (Iuiet way she oversaw a
Where:ls the rugby mis:-ed ollt.lhe College's music
derived mudl bendit ami Janet has he":l1 an ever reliable
violi nist in the Fir:-.t Orchestra :lIId ot her music.. 1groups.
More recentl y she has WIll!"ed tirelessly ill C3 and has
been a wbe guide and friend IU the pl"Onli:-ing and
unpromisillg alik e.
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LAURENCE
GUNN ER
Laurence Gunner. who
ha:- been Marlborough's
Chaplain for ten years, is 10
Ie:l"e the College this Slllll mer when he takes III' his post
:IS I~ eside nliary emon at SI
George's C hapel . Wimlsor.
Typically. Laurenee
descrihes many of the format ivc evcnts uf hi :- career as "nlistakes". Haileybury taught
him. :lIllongst othcr thi ngs. unobtrusive m,m -manage ment
- a nice blend of authority, teamwork and leadership by
example - the ke ynotes of the Gunner style. Pro test was in
the width ofonc·s trnuscr-hollnms - thi s was Ihe time of
the tcdd y-boy.... Were th..: Gunncr trousers tlrainpiped or
not ? T her..: is .~( lllIet hi n g of Ihe rel)CI in L:mrencc. the til ter
against estahlishmcnt windmills. From the Navy as an
upper yardsm,m he aCljuire(i a broad-mi ndedness that
ille\' il<lbly cUnies from serv itc life. bil l also a strong sense
Hf ju:-tice. cu lti vated by a rlot -a llOl,;cthcr-happy spd l in
the Ju{ige At!n)Cate's Office. and a kee n aw:treness of the
d .. mage slri fe c:m do to humanity as he observed the
EOKA campaign in Cyprus.
T heil !;;I me Oxford and a (leg rce in Law at Keble. He
failed tn learn Ih..: answer 10 the question posed to him
slime years laler. "O f what usc has jurispmdence OCl!n 10
you in your mini!>II")"! (Answer "Not a 10C"). but he did
1c:lrn e nou gh linguistic phi losophy In be able 10 :mswer
creditabl y the fo llow-up. "What effeci has Wi u gcnstei n
had on yo ur preachingT (A nswer 011 a Ilosleard pleasc to
the edi"lr of the M:lrlhll riall). Laurence's decision 10 enler
lhe Church came IClwards the end of hi s time at Keble.
where the innue n c~ of the Wardell. Eri c Ahhnll. was
added 10 the example of Basil Wal son. chaplai llto the
n<lva l squadron in /Vlalt a. who had succeeded in transform ing and unifyi ng the eOlll llulIIity hc served by his
energy aud sellsc tIl' pu rp tlse. Marlhorough wi II recogni se
similar l,il ellts ill Laurellce himself.
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Arter a curacy in Cheltenham ami a period as priest in
cha rge in Hernell·lcmpstcad. he wenl in 1969 to
Bloxham School :IS C haplain. Sevcnteen years I:lter he
WilS he:ld hunted to comc 10 Marlborough by Roger Ell is.
and he :md Alegria arrived at Ihe College in Seplember
1986. It look Laurence some lime 10 feci at home· but
perh aps Ihis was because he bel ieved in tackling the
issues Ihat TC(luired his allentio n carl yo n. 1·le introduced
sacristans and fos tered their grmvth into a vital li nk in the
College's pastoml care. The training o f the Lower Sixth
grew oul of a request by th ree /-I Ms that he train thci r c:lptains. The Confirmatio n course. the s ponsoring of confirmands. the re·shapi ng of Sunday al f\'lari borough into its
present form. were all accomplished . Chapcl was s ubject·
cd 10 the same careful scrutiny which ma rks all his enterprises: the ne w sound system was installed. as was the
usc oflhe Nave leclem to bri ng tile priest into closer cont:let wit h hi s congregation. and the C rypt Chapel was cre·
ated. The school became IIsed tll immac ulately- printed
service sheets. little re:lli sing that :ttthe start they nccessi·
t:lted a m idn ight tri p back to Bloxham to tYPC-Sl:llhem.
Now. of coursc. lhe computer lite rm.:y o f the Chaplain is
legendary. Chapel services we re ru n wilh ,III efficie ncy
:md ,III intensity which is the hallmark of Laure nce's
churchm an ship and which eV!lked a corresponding
response in ma ny Marlburia ns. Scrvices should appe al to
,I II the se nses. he maintained . and llIany a low-churchma n
who has become famil i:lr with the s plendour of
Marlboro ug h '~ services ha~ cOllie to agree wilh him .
Of cven morc signifi cance for Ihe life of Ihc school.
however. Ihe C hapl ain's role under L:mrence de\'elo rll:d
into one at the heart of lhe College's pastoral care. to the
ex tcnt that thc care g ive n 10 indi vidual pupil s is One o f thc
aspects of Marlborough's lifc of which we arc proudest
toda y. Thi s we owc, s ubstantially. to Laurence and it is
the aspect of llis contribu tion that we w il l miss the 1110Sl.
His role in this regard can be like ned to an iccbcrg - nine
tenths below the surface but o f immense signi ficance to
those who arc in the same shipping lane.
For what great events will Laurencc be rcmembered?
St Paul 's in 1993? Laurence had tll baltle fo r a Eucharist
scrvicc which would emure that the school and the congregatio n were participators ralher than spectators· no
"hym n·sandwich" for Marlborough on its 150th :lIlnh'crsary. L:lUrencc himself is proudest of Social Services. ,llId
particui:lrly of ils connection with Brimblc Hill · the
school for the severe ly- handicapped whi ch pupil s visit in
Sw iudon. The long-term. unadve rt iscd cOlllmi llnent o f
the pupi ls who arc part of III is group malters:1 great deal
to those:lt the school. to Ihe pupils ami 10 Laure ncc himself. The M ission. in Lau re ncc's las t term . will undoubt·
edl }' st" y w ith m:lny whom it has touched and will
innuencc Iheir lives fund amentally.
Alld now. on to new field s at 51George's Windsor.
Their gain is our gre:ll ioss :Iud we shall also mi ss A legria
enormously - as a friend and also as a tu tor in Mill Mead
and B I. in both of which houses she has unored while
also teaching Spanish at St ~'I ary's Cai ne. L:mrence will
do hi s new j ob s uperbl y and it is a fitt ing movc for some·
one whose enthusiasm for new eha ll e n ~es is :Ipp:lrently
inexhaustible and whose e:lp:lcity tn ri se to Ihe great
occasion eq uall y so.
RSG
UI I99(; 11 111 11111
RICHARD
WILKINSON
Rich:trd Wilkinson retires
at the end o f the Summer
Term after nine s plendid and
profi table years at
Marlborough. He was
appo inted as HC:ltl of
Genera l Studi es in January
1988 but it is as a dist inguished and m uch respectcd
Histori:1II that he will be most re membered.
Richard left his re nowned Yorkshi re Prep. School,
Bramcole. in 19·19 and arri ved :lt MC as the Top
Fou ndatio n Scholar. He e njoyed his time in 132. where he
shared a stud y wi th Mark Tully. laler the BBC
Correspondent in India :md Richa rd 's Bcst Man :11 his
weddi ng 10A nn. Richard much reg retted not playing
I-Iockey but he enjoyed his gilmes, particularly C rickel
and. if he could havc been granted any w ish. it wo uld
have been to play for his beloved Yorkshire and to open
the batting wilh his hero. Geoffrey Boycott. He <ll so
enjoyed play ing the organ and has continued 10 do so in
Chapel: at St George's. Preshute and in Yorkshire.
After se rv in ~ in Cyprus as an O fficer with the Green
Howards. Richard wo n a C I:lssic:l1 Scholars hip to Tri nity
College. Cambridge followed by furth er academ ic
achie\'ements in gaining an M.Litt at Durham and a PhD
at Hull in HYlIlllody ! He has always enjoyed writ ing
Hi story and while at Marlborough. he has written hooks
on Lo ui s X I V: France '!IId the Cardinals and :Irt icles 011
Ma7.:lrin and Hore-Belisha for HI STO RY TODAY. He
h:ls recen tly been commissioned by Hodder and
Stoughton to write it book o n Sevenleenth Century
England .
Richard 's leaching carecr has been a varied one. He
taught at Queen El izabe th 's GS.l3lackburn and at The
Royal Grammar School. Newcastle and was l'lead o f
History at Bolton. wherc he taught MJ 13. He w:ts appo inted I·k:ldmas ter of Scarborough College in 1974 and had
cleven vcry happy and successfu l years there be fn!\!
moving o n In he Hcadrnasterof King Edward ·s. Whitley.
Marlborough was fortun:ll e enough to find a man o f
Richard 's qual ity avail" ble to He:ld the General Studies
Departlllellt alld he threw hi mself into Ihe life of the
College imillediately. ~\'I CWG had Ihe good sellse to
invite hilllto be a House Tutor in Cl and what a success
he has been there. He has also run the College Charities
with greal nair and has also nm a vc ry happy Bridge
Society and School Fenci ng. He has refereed School and
1·lollse Soccer and um pircd Cricket 100 and played tile
Organ I'm She ll C ha pel. Richard is also a renowned
preacher ami we have been fortunate enough 10 he:lf him
in Ch:t pel on seve r-II occasions btu the most melllof'lble
for me WilS hCilring him preach on John Wesley in a beautiful Chape l in the Yorkshire Dales ... where he was also
playing the Org:m.
It i~. of course. as a Icacher thai Richard will best bc
remem he red . Hi s scholarship. emdilion and wit make
hi III sOlllcthi llg of a legend in the c lass room :!IId he has
a l way~ been highl y regarded by his colleagues and
studellIs. As onc of his Oxford bound pupils said .
"RWW's niltu ral combination o f insightful scholarship
with altruism amI humility has nevcr ccascd to be;1
source of inspi r:llion for his pupi ls:' ;\nother ;Idded si mply. - " He's adorable!" - a young lady I haslen to add.
RWW's classroom is, by ch;mce. an :lI llalg:unalion of
the study he oncc shared wilh Mark Tully and RM
Brown. Richard likes children - he loves teaching them and is naturally biased tow:lrds all g irls and boys fro m
CI. He adores his \'ideo and "'lid. malerial"' has become a
well known catchphrase along wit h "SI:lb me" and
··Whizzo··. He has alw:lys been so wdl suppo rted by hi s
~\life. Ann. who herself has been a hi ghly regarded Tutor
HI B3 and Collon 1·louse and a much lo ved and respecled
fri end to m:lny.
We say g(Kldbye 10 a grcal characte r ;mu devotcd
schoolmaster.
.llnl'/-:
PHILIP AND
CHRISTINE
LOUGH
'!lle way in which Ihe
Loughs live their lives is an
exemplary blast in an age
which guards privacy in such
ajea ln us fas hion. :md living
:md work ing with them. or
being taug ht by thell1. has been a remarkablc experience
for so many people here. We have been privileged to
ha\'e Ihem in the local COlll1l11l11ity and in the collo.!ge. hut
all good things come 10 an end. In 1\lIg list Philip ami
Chrisli ne le fl Marlborough for Wind lcsham Ho use.
where Philip has hcell appo inted hc;nlmuster. They ha ve
participated inlhe li feof thecollllllunil), here in fulllllea surc. ;LIld their great hospitality at Delle 1·lo lise is wel l
known. Pupils and C2 parents. in particular. have bee n
prcsented wi th an o pen house in which e\'erybooy has
been made to fcel at home and v:tlued: they arc the sort
of people Ihat boarding schools YC:1n1 for.
Philip arrived al thc col lege in 1979 and he a lready
knew a grem deal about schools Ihe ll. having grown up al
Temple Grove when.: his father W;t~ healilnaster. Phili p b
that valuable son of cre:tlure, an all rou nd schoolmasler.
and his self·effacing manner belies the fac t thm he h a~
done everYlhing Ihat IVlarlboro ug h can eX I>cct of a beak
and a great deal more. and so a brief survey of his time
herc is woefull y inadequate. In additioll to being a key
member oflhe rvloocrn La nguages department. in which
he has undertaken a great de .. 1or hard work 10 ensure the
success of the French e;(changes. he has produced plays
and run the L;\\v Society. having sludicd law after he le fl
Oxford. He has n lilihe cricket he re :1Ilt! hi s great abi lit y
and e nthusiasm have done much ftw the game at a ll
levels. ;md th is has also l>cen Ihc case with rugby alltl
hockey. He has becn a cari ng and wise tlltor in Presh ule
and C3. and the experiences affo rded by hi s tillle in Ihese
houses pa\'ed Ihe way for his outstanding work in C2.
which he c;tll\e to in 1989.
In ltJ80 Ph il ip tied the knot with Christinc. and her
p'lssionate interest in Fre nch and German and hcr great
enthusiasm for so mally as pects o f sehool life, have made
her a tremendous ally. Ncither lIfthcm seems to need
much sleep and their huge enef£Y has enabled Ihell1to
g ive so much time to ind iv iduals. and it is thcir endless
generosity and conccrn for Ihe well -being of the community that Ihey live in that ha ve tHade C2 such;t success ful
housc and won thell! such witlespread respect ami fricndship. Dene 1·louse. which resembles a tl ourishillg restaurant. has heen a magnet for so many people. o nen from
filr beyond the confines of M;lrlborollgh. notahly the
Australians they m:ldc fri ends wi th duri ng the ir exchange
al Melbourne Gra mmar. The mosl regular nocturnal
visitors have been C2 tutors. who Iwvc often to ured Ihe
house in large lIumbers. lured in to pUlli ng ill a bit of extra
dUly because the Loughs in~pi re loyalty ami working with
thell1 is plain good fun - :tml their hard work has m;lde
Ihe boys in C2 a very agreeable comlllltllity in which to
spend till1e.
Phil ip' s grcm patie nce. wisdom and sense o f fun .
together wi th Christinc ' s joie tic ViVTC and sense o f commitme nt . h:I\'e been e ,xemp!;try. T hey h:1'Ie al ways been
enthusiastic ahout their work here. and their knowledge
ilbout the :lchic\·emCnI:. of Ihe boys is encyclopaedic. It
shou ld be recorded that when they stancd in C2. the business of worki ng in a vcry hlrge split site build ing and then
inheri ting the fin al year til' 113 presented the housc. with
considera blc challenges. The old Field Ho use. C2s former
home. was in a poor physica l slate and it W;IS packed full
as a resu lt of the dcm ise o f Ihe j unior houses. In addition
10 the d iscomfon callSo.!d hy this. the civilizing effect or
cocd llcatinn clsewhere in the collegc was not fe lt ill C2.
which hadjllsl losl il s upper school gi rl s to the new ly
opened MllITis. and few g irl s then dared to enter what
seemed tn he all intimi d;lting male stronghold. However.
the house W;IS slcered Ihrnug h a dilTrcult transi tion into its
present form ami site wilh great care and dedication: it
was a Herculean task.
The Loughs leave a happy ;!IId civil izcd co mmunity o f
boys behi nd them. and witnessing their great acilievement
has been an impressive and hugely enjo}':lbh: experience .
The sadness c;msed by Ihcir dep:lrlllTe is cushioned by the
fact thaI Phi li p and Chri stine will be freq uent visitors
because Cmriona has been joined here by J uliet. and
Will iam will follow. In adlliliun tn thei r own childre n. it is
certain thai the college wil l be welcoming eve n more
Windle~ha m pupils (Ihcre arc over I1fty here :It the ti me o r
writi ng) guided here bY;1 headmasler and his wi fe who
ha\'e inve~ t ed so 1I1u("h lu ve and energy in Ihe college ;md
who know Ihat it is a good place in which 10 live and
learn. wt lrlhurough could IlIltlw vc asked for beller
servant s and it could not wish for better ;lmbassadors. We
wish them well and <lrc d\!e ply grate ful for all thaI they
have done here.
SGII
111 '11111 11996
Q
TERRY
ROGERS
Terry and Hilary Rogers
arrived in Marl borough at the
beg inni ng o1'lllc Michacl m<ls
term of [964. Terry. a
Chemical Kinc[icisl. and
Hilary. also a fcso.:arch
Chemist. It.::fl QMC Lo ndon
\0 do post-uoctoral n,: sc <l Tc h
allhe Uni versi ty of Chicago
in 1960. Aft e r two years they
decided \0 return to the 11\0 re temperate dimes of Bri tain.
Terry j oined the staff o f Milili c id School where in the
w inter or 1962 they ex perienced olle of the col dest winters o f the cCllIury. T hen full y harde ned he brought Hil ary
and his young SOli \0 ~'Ia rlborough <ll lhe invitat ion o f
John Dancy. Accompanyi ng them from Chicago. via
Somerset. was a Ford Ra mbler estate which conti nued \0
SC fYC the III well fo r many years. as a greenhollse.
Terry and Hilary quick ly made the ir mark o11 ll1e
College . Terry's intc rests arc wide. He is a meteorologist.
keeping the Co llege's records for more than 25 years . He
is a philatel ist. specia lising ill Brit ish stamps. particula rl y
first-d:1Y covers . He has been known to search thro ul!h
thousands at (Jlle sitt ing looki ng fo r the un usua l specime n. The Marlborough arca has always beell one o r his
great j oys. whether exploring it or reading some detailed
work on Ihe histol) ' oflhc College. the tow n or the COUIItrys ide. He is a GW R e nthu siast. steTl1 mi ng rrom a time
when rail way engines showed real character anti both drivcr lind stoker polished with pridc . He reads vorac iuusly,
tho ugh o fte 1l th is happens, gone midnight. alkl' all other
c01llmitmenl s afe lini shed . Whatever he has tu rned his
attent ion to he has brought that sc ho larly hleml of intell igence, curi os ity a nd meti cu lous care 10 bear. and all w ith
great good humour. His hUlllour haS shown clearl y i1l that
he has been all ardent su pporter of Portsmouth footb'l 11
team si nce boyhood.
Aft er three years here he was as ked by John Dancy 10
be Head of Chemi stry. T hen began a 1I10S1 prod uctive
time in tl1<1t dep;If11l1e ll l. Terry Rogers and Bria n Will iams
spe nt man)' hours of dd ai led work prodlU.: ing one o f the
best A level C hemi stry practical books of the ccntmv.
Unfo rt unate ly it s launch w incided with the witiespl:ead
usc o f tl \c 'cow ing machine ' so ne ither of thc aUlhors
ga ined g reatly fin ancia lly. Undaunted. Ilrian Willi ams
and he, toget her with ot her members of the depart 1l1ent.
collaborated in the prod uction of several Multi ple Choice
and TruclFalse books or test questions for 0 and A levels
which remained in usc in many schools for more than a
decade. Prize Day Ex hibitions were mounted ;l11 nuall y.
with a n air and a linish that made pupi ls proud and parents pleased .
In 1975 Rogcr E llis asked Terry to beco me
Houselllasier of B I. After several years as Ihe so le Tutor
in C3 under the guidance o f Trevor Gartside as its
Housem:lster. his apprellt ieesh ip had been tho!'U u!!h. He
accepted the new challenge with a ll his cha!';l e l er i~tic
energy and care. A ft er five years ' 1n Col lege' which were
enormo usly h;IPPY and successfu l years. as OM s from B I
will readily alles!. he was asked by Roger to take over
Preshute on Michael l3 irley's re tirement from the House.
No change o f 1·louse is e;lsy for an HM. particularly after
just fi ve years. but Terry and Hilary again took up the
11\1996 111 11111 11
challe ngc. T hey spent e ight years in Pres hute and aft er
the i11 ili al str;li11s of settl ing w ilh a House or qui le d iffe rent ch;lraCler they aga in lead one o f the hap piest and most
successfu l I-lou ses in the College. Not onl y d id the boys
and !!irl s in their care bcnd'i t e normous Iy from careful
and sup portive parc nti ng but their resident 1·lollse Tutors
g;lined greatly 100. many of those going on \0 be ve ry
successfu l Housemasters in the ir turn.
Co-educati on has been a development Ihat Tcrry has
been greally involved in. Roge r Ellis set up a committee
to consider the fe:lsibility of int roducing co-educ:ltion
throug hout the school as long ago as 1978_ Under Tcrry's
chairmanship the com mittee wr<.!stled long and hard with
both the principles and the practic..: of such an introdueti oll . Sad ly. as he would say. lhe prohle ms. part icularl y o f
the CO il versions o f Houses, had no clear. financi al ly feas i·
ble. sol utio ns at Ihat sta!!e. A decade late r both the che miSI1,}' and the l'i nallces w~re ready for such a devclo pment
and he was asked by Da vid Cope to act as Co-education
Co-ordi nator fo r the de tailed planni ng associated with Ihe
introduction of girls in10 Ihe Lower School. As Co-Co he
steered the intro:lue tioll with hi s characteristic carc and
precision . He W:lS in al the eOllce ption and the delivery of
the new era for the school and he dese rves great credit for
its subse{luCllt health y de velopment.
David Cope was Ihe third Master III sec Te rry's (IUa litics and o n the retirement of Michael Dain in 1988 he
asked Terry to become Second Mastc r. II has been in this
role. probabl y mOTe tha n an y other. lhat all of hi s gellllike facets have full y shown. No one in hi s generati on m
th...: College could have listened 1110re care fully. advised
so sagely. encouraged so much and worked so huge ly on
Ihe school's behal f - and all done regard less of the ti me
and drol'! involved. Scientifi c co lleagues classi fy him as
the ult inwlc nudear particle .
T hroughoul their time ill Co llege, Terry and Hilary
have entertained pupil s, parent s :lIld colleac ues \I'ith
1111 stinting and warm hospitality. Someti me~~ it has been at
the ·turn of a key' as Terry has ushered guesls through the
door to a somewhat bC llluscd . though very welcom ing .
Hilary. Te rry wo uld ·explai n' thm he had fou nd them
'aft er Prep' or in the ' Com mon Room Bar· .. . c learly in
need of S01l1C . sl1 sten:mce· .
Wit h the ;lrri v,, 1of Edward Go uld as Te rry's fo urt h
Mast!!!' he has had what must have been th ree o f the most
satisfy ing, though equally hard-work ing, years of hi s
timc here. TIle IHICit:uS has been sOl1\ew lwt ful ler :111 ([ the
bind ing-fraction grea tcr, Ihough wh:ll thc Physicists
m ight class i fy as TER 's nuclear properties of . Lovc ' and
' Charm ' have bee n equall y cv ide nt.
After 32 ye:lrs Terry is to 'relire' , joi ni n!.! Hi larv who
ancl' so many years o f teach ing. herself took relire;llent
four ye:lrs "go. Il ut llcit her will reall y ·retire·. for Hilary
is to ret urn 10 (10 some part-tim!! le:lc hi ng and Tc rry is to
take ovenhc Co llege Archives from Da vid West. At last
they will have a ch:mce to enjoy the hOllse they had built
in Curdigan Road almost twe llty years :lg0 and Terry may
j ust get nl'lJUnd to tackling some of thosc cha lle nges
Hil ary has plan ned for him . No do ubt he and Hilary wi ll
have g reatcr opportu nity to give Portsl1lo11!h Town all
the support they need and to I'isit o ne o fTe rr)"s
favo uri te holida y des ti natio ns - WOOIIOI1 il assett. We
wish thCll.1 well in what we hop..: will be a long and
ha ppy ret ireme nt.
HII'
FRANCIS
MELVILLE
HEYWOOD
A six year old boy was once
taken to the zoo and was fascinuted
by the way the sea·lions slid over
the side into their pool. A particular-
ly vigorous one was called George.
That night the boy refused to get
into his bath unless he was allowed
to slide in over the edge. This he did
with 1\ gren! ~ plas h :Ind everyone
shouted. "George!" And George he
has been ever since. This was
Francis Melville Heywood whom
we remember as :l fanner Master of
Marlboro ugh. and who died. aged
87, in November 1995, visiting his
daughter in New Zealand.
George Heywood's arrival at
Marlborough in 1939 at the tender
:Igt: of 30 and just one Icnn before
the o utbreak of World War II
rarie!» disappearing into the armed
services - with all thi s, George had
to cope. helped by an aging staff of
men who stayed on long after norIllal retiremenl age. And a further
complicmion wus the arrival at short
notice, two d:ays before war was
declared. o f the City of London
School as evacuecs.
Marlborough can be thankful :md gnlleful -that lhe College was
in the hunds o f a llIan who combined academic prowess with a n:air
fo r administration. George brought
liS through the war unscathed and
sct abo ut the post-war reorgn nisntion and development which started
liS onlhe path to where we arc today.
Typical o f the man, he went on
from here to devote the remaining
J 7 yean; of his working life to the
1110st deprived of peoplc as Wnrden
o f a boarding school for disabled
chi ldren.
But none of what I have written
so far has iIIuslmted the strong fa ith
and sensitivity of George Heywood.
At the height of the W:lr, when
news o f casualties W;IS coming thick
and fas t, George wrote to a frie nd:
"It is nOl very pleasant 10 sec
710 boys in fro lll of you (in the
Memorial Hall); to realise thai it is
yo ur job \0 ensure for them as good
an educat ion as possibl e; to wonder
w hat on earth will hnp pe n to them
w ithinthrcc YCilfS. and whelherlhcy
will h:I\'c any chalice of using wha!
Ihey've learnt: and Ihe n 10 Iry \0
utter wo rds sizzling with
encouragement and opt imism,"
/)(,,·;tl lI".,
11J(lrkcd the end of one era and heralded the sInn of 'Ltl9thcr.
Some of us elm remember the
staid and convcm ional world of the
1930s: Chapel evcry day and I\\'icc
on Sundays; black lmifonn with
black tie and black school cap - :md
stiO' collar!'> on Sunday!>; everyone
addressed by surname.
Into this world callie unconventional George Heywood. young and
brilliant - scholar of Huilcybury,
~chorarofCa mbridge. Double First.
Rugby blue (I was fortunate enough
\() witness him playing hi s I ;L~ t game
ofrugger for Common Roo lll on his
40th birthday). He was an outstanding academic. and yet. of all the port!"'Jitl' of Masters in the Norwood
Hall. his is the only one in an informal pose and not in aC:ldcmic dress.
The conjunction of George's
arri val and the outbreak of a sixycar war. spclt disru ption and
change in the established order of
Ihi ng~. With all the problems of
food rationing, total hlackout at
night, shortages of :111 sorts. lind
with all the younger me mbers o f
Common Room (his contempo-
III lUl l! 11996
~
feature
Whether it be IWllg ing a hath from the cha pel spire or
drilling a hole into the mu scum block willI. everyolle has
an ambition to leave a mark on the College they have
loved so much ... or something :llong those li nes.
Al though our d:lil y lives co.!ntre li llie around the weal th of
inscriptions and memorials that surround us, each pupil
visits the chapel and Me m Hall at least once a week and it
is for thi s reason that this arti cle is be ing written - in
order to set the record straight.
Roc ks. Many orlhe legacies
le n by masters :md pupil s So.!em to
be in the form of large stones : the
Wedgewood Stone. Hel l·s SWne
(up to the left or the athl etics track
in Hc ll·s meadow) and the Saree n
Stone. on Leaf Block Lawn. in
memory of Mr. Dud ley Smith.
There seems to be a strange connection here between extre me
intel li gence and large, il1l11I()Vable
objects. Wedgewood was rel ated
to Darwin and bcqueathed the Liberium sc ientific collection ofpl;mts. wh il st Mr. Dud ley Smith worked in
Bletchley Park with Turin during the war and hclllCd
cmck the enigma code. It seems that he mu st have bee n a
man with an immense se nse for the abstrilct.
From minerals we come 10 Memorials. The name of
my Great Grandfat her is o n the Melll Hall wa ll and is also
in the chapel. The stories behind the illseript io!l s are
almost always tragic: the talc o f the classics scholar
(whose life was cuI shorl by war) commemorated in the
'"Tu lvlareellus Eris" window has captured gener;ltions o f
imaginati ons, and Ihe recent
George Cannon mCTllorial is
of great comfort and sign ifi cance to those who kncw hi m
as pupil s :!Ild colleagues. The
Corfield memorial out side
the book office pays tribute
to those dead at the baltIc of
Mador.!. It is a sad f:lc t that
one often forgets tile purpose
behind the memorials. to
11 [1996 IIl1lllllll
perpetuate the memory of a
person, ;\Ild we must stri ve
to combat it.
Everyone knows that
people at Marlborough arc in
tunc wilh Iheir mystic sides.
and it is no surpri se thm
with in Ihe c:nnpus we find
both the burial mound of a
wizard, and a whi te horse
carved into the chalky hillside. It is of course the wizard 's mound Ihat gives Ihe
town its HOlme U\'larl-borough fro m 1vlerlin 's borough). and it is a well known
ractthat strange incant:ltions
Can be he:lrd in the grol1o at
midnight on Midwinter·s "nd
Midsummer\ day. 11 has been
suggested that the Illound has
something to do with
Marlborough C:lstlc (as frequented by Henry II ) but all
pupil s find this laughable and
momlly unacceptable.
[t is amazing what you
lind lying in your back yard
when you nctuall y pause to
look at your surroundi ngs: of
course much o f it is indescrib:lble and in any case
unsuitabl e for publication in these pages.
rcason alone it m u ~ t be worth a look!
b UI
for that
In any ease when you next go into Le:l/" Block. think
of the great Herbert Leaf. .. whilst hurrying through
court, pause at the Bradleian window and think of the
City of Lo ndon Schoo!. and the war. The stories one l1nds
beh ind the inscripti ons arc sometimes tr:lgic but alw:lYs
fa scinating; they wou ld make a greal book if anyone felt
like writing olle.
Mad about Us.
creative
writing
Tooa)' we saw a coach arrive
An d dump a crowd of sick :lIId nmd
Who Mumbled in the sea breeze,
Cries :lnd incohcrc:nI mumbles, s;ld
And joyous simultaneously.
n,OSC just-audible rami ngs losl
,\nd scattered to the sea·breeze. free
To drift on aimless winds. acro~,
'nle bl:1Ck deeps. sinking. sinki ng 10 a
A sea thai's twinkling IOnigll1 .
The crowd fil ed. gu ided. to a house
I\bov.: liS now in cold moonlight.
The gues t hOllse or the mad is ful l
Toni ght. We bOl h stand hand in hand.
Theil I\'e undre ss. slowly. wat ching
The sea lap at the shell-strewn ~:lI1 d .
I don't feci qui te th e sa me toni ght.
Bathing naked's not so f Ull
Since seeing madmen gaze acro~~
Those
W:I\'CS
we're to exult upon.
You're pink: bare legs don't IUm me on:
Your hrc:1StS framed by a dark cX P:lII~<!
Of water aren't as beautiful
Th i!> time. and ...'1 you r frilly palUS
Drop to the sand I want 10 say.
"No. not t on i~ h t. Co me on.let·s go."
BUl l stay silent. and you t;lke
~'I y Iwnd. and ru b your sandy toes
Ag:linst m)" I c~. You kiss 11Iy lip~.
l llC madmen wi th their silent Scre;II11.~
Arc w:l tchin g us ton i~h1.
Their cri es ;JfC blowing b;lck to shore in dreat11~
}\ luc id mind would dre:ld 10 ponder.
Naked. hand in hand. we \\,;llk
Towards the crashing. gliuering wonde r
orthe hi gh tide. We do (lot talk .
With w: lter ro und our wa ists.
I ~top and gla nce toward s toni ght's asy lulll
The mad-hOIlS\: with the sea-yiew: hut
Noth ing stirs. Th e 1 101J.~e is sitem .
The current.s IOS~ us back and fon h:
We splash ;md Ihr.Js h and k b~ and du tch,
Enta nJ;lcd. in Ihe moo l1lil sea.
To ha ve YOII dosc. to slroke and touch
A lw:l)'s instills a sense of ri J; ht:
But not ton ight. ..
T he moon above
b prickling al lheir di.~l odged mindS:
My usua l thoughts o f w:lTIlllh ;!nd lo\"e
1·lave seeped imo the dasping se:l.
Q ui ckly di lu ted. The waYe's action
Pans us . joins us. bU11'1ll shot
'1l1rough with a cold. d;,rk dblraclion.
'1l1e m:ldhouse \\':ltchcs ;IS we swim
i\nd make lo\"e on the sand in moonlight.
;\-1ad mumbles rain from;\ bl;lck sky.
G ues t-house cUrlains are twit ching toni ght.
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" ... we slept under the stars. The night was always clear,
and the shooting stars were numerous."
"You bcllo.:r be fit. or you won't have:! lot to laugh
aboul on Ihi s trip:' was Ihe warning we were given a few
weeks before ourdepan ure 10 Sinai. It was ~ug gest ed that
a mini mUIll 01'30 minutes
exercise every d;IY wou ld be
wise to prevent co ll ap~ in g
somewhere in the middle of
the desert. We had been awarc
of the fael thaI Ihis exped ilion
was ca lled a desen "challenge". but had not expected
it 10 be a bail ie fo r life or
demh. We thcrefore staned
the journey with
mixed feelings. especially those or tis who
had nol observed the
suggested exerc ises.
Butlhe Ii rst two
days of our trip were.
much to our rei icf.
more re laxing than
tiring . We arrived at
Sharm-el- Sheikh. in the sou th o f Sinai. ill the laiC afternoon of OClober 201h. and immediately got ;Icquairued
with the Arabs: well known reluctance 10 work. We had :!
fr iendly chat with the airport's ground stafr. who cou ld
not be persuaded to unload the plane. We w:d ted for o ur
luggage in the hoI. afternoon SUIl. Even then. not all of
it hnd arrived.
We then received a warm welcome fro m the Beduins.
who were going to drive us through the deso.:rt intho.:i r
jeeps for three days. They lOok us to a nearby beach
where they cooked li S a deliciolls fre sh meal. and hclped
us set tip camp fo r the night. The stln goes do wn very
early in Sinai. so we soon slipped into our sleepi ng bags.
T hroughout the week we slcpt under the stars. The
night was alw:lYs clear. and the shooting stars were
numerous. The name of our lour operator (""Wind. S;l1ld
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:l11d St:lrs"") was nol
withollt1l1e:m ing. Wh:lt
the name docs not mention however. arc the
scorpions and snakes of
which the Bedu ins
waTno.:d us. As soon as
we got into our sleeping
bags people grew pilfano id. feelin g that animals were all ovcr them. Often someune wou ld jump up
scre;uning that there was a scorpion o n hi s mat - the worst
we ever :lCtu:llly found was a lillie. scared beetlc.
Early on the second day we were dri ve n \0:1
cor" l reef. for wh ich S in;! i and the Red Sea area
are so fa mous. We snork led for almoslthe whole.
day and also got to know the art of haggling, a skil l
which the Arabs master at an early age. The nati ve
childre n at Ihe beach insisted on selli ng us handmade ribbons: Ihey bcc:lllle quite rude when some
of us rejected them. Their mastery of Eng lish was
admirahle . although not entirely rcpeatable here.
T hat evening we passed through SI K:lthe rinc's
village. close to the famo us St Ka therine 's
monastery. I was very surpri sed to learn that this
small . plain town is o f ty pic:l1 size for S inai . The
COUlltry reOl lly docs on ly consist of desert . with settlemcnts like St Katherine's spread sparingly across il. We
cam ped in the mountains above the 10WIl. Although Sinai
is vcry hot during the day. even in October.:ls night falls.
Ihe temperature plu mmets. especially at th is altitude .
T hose o f"u s who had nO! brought un y warm clothes were
awfully cold.
We usually got up al6a1l1 with the sunrise. but that
morning it was still dark when we packed. We arrived
early ;11 the bottom of
Mou nt Kalherine. 5 ill;1i \
highest mountain. A few
hours :d'ter we had startcd walking. We had
brcakfast in the green
oasis o f the Monastery
gardens. We saw their
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true beauty later. when wo.: luokcu l lown frolll the mOlln-
tain' s summ it.
Mohammed. our lIlu hil ing ua l leader, was continua ll y
checking Ihal we bot h drank Cllol1gh and protected our
skin rroll11 iJe SUII. We h'lfJ boughl proper Arab hcadscarfs
the day before and !lOW looked li ke 11; ll i \'o.; s .
T he lOur up \0 the top o f Sl Ka therine's was an ex tra-
ordinary experience. We had all '"ll'lzing vio..:w in all
directions . From 1hi s height. olte discovers 1I1<111hc desert
has many ditlerc nl asp(:CIS. Duriug thi s and o l her
following days. we Si1\\' both rock and sand desert. We
trekked through Ilafrow va lleys, ova 1I1ollll1ains. and
acros ~ tlat d..:scrts. 11 was a landscape thal offered all
kinds. of v'lri;l!iolls.
On the
third night
we l11e\ ou r
new gu ides.
a dozen
Beduins
who had
brought
their
camels with
them. The
men
(between
10 and 60
years old) we re fr iendly. and all belonged to the one
tribe. In the cvc nings we sat arollnd the fi re with them.
and they baked bread. cooked tea. sang songs and taught
us games. At the beginni ng of o llr trek. we had had the
ambition to ha ve lunch break s not longer than an hour.
I-Iowe"cr. we soon found thai the Beduins did lH)tlikc to
hurry. Thcy frequeml y fell aslecp and let the ir camel s l'lm
away to graze. so thaI we always had :11 least three hours'
resl. The tre kking was Iherd orc not \'cry tiring . but
nobody regre tted thi s. T hc Bed uins made us aware that
they do not s hare our necd \0 keep Ollrsel"es busy al l thc
time. They have an enti re lifetime in which 10 get things
done. and like to take evcrythi ug easy.
T his same patience was required from us to deal With
the camels. who had the sa me attitude to wor k as their
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masters.
They would
stop at every
si ng lc bush .
and 110th ing
would makc
thcmlllo"c
umi l the
plant had
fully d isappeared into
their
mouths.
E"c!)' day some of us were allowcd to ride o n them. but it
was Illuch quicker 10 go by fool. :IS wel1 .I S being more
comfortable. [t's (Iuite s hak y on the h:tck of these animals
and one can easily get sick. or at least very s tilT.
During the week. the Beduiu s taught us how \0 follow
and d istinguish camel tracks and how to know thc timc of
day by mc:ms of sll<ldows ..
One experience I will ne"er forget was the obsel''';ttio n of the sun sinking bl!h iml a hill top as Ilooke(1o"er
a great expanse of desert. I W;IS ove rwhc lmed by the
sile nce and the tranqu ill ity o f the 1I10ll1ent and I hardly
dared 10 bremhe.
During o ur lirst kw days we had rece ived fre sh
and de licious food blll now we had tn live from army
ration packs.
Consequent ly StUlle o f us sta rted to fee l ill . bUI ne vertheless we had a wouderl'ul
time in Sinai and wen.: sad 10
Ieavc the country 011 October
27th. The only thing we wc re
definitely all looking forward
to was taking a s hower whi ch
we had missed for mo rc than
a week.
One can on ly hope that Si nai will rema in as unspoiled
and its inhabitants as " uncivi liscd" as they arc nOw.
The cou ntry is so be.mt iful .lIId the people seem to bc
so peaceful and satislicd wilh Ihclr li "es.
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" ... 1was overwhelmed by the silence and the
tranquillity of the moment and I hardly dared to breathe"
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POETRY SOCIETY
Thi s has been a busy ye:tr for the
Poctry SocielY, whidl has ag:l in
grown in membership ami cnthusi:l.~ m - perh:lps renecling Ihe nalional
boom in verse reading and wriling.
Atlhc heart oftlte Soc iety's a<':liv ilY
is the series of re:uJings it hosts by
established or less well known poets.
Thi s year's series was launched by
Alison Bwckcnbury. whose c:lrcftllIy obscrved poems o f rural life.
focusing on the rhylhms o f the seasons. on horses, :md history. delivered with a qukt sincerity, remi nded
some o f the audknce o f the
Georgian lllovel11c nt of the earl y
20th cen tury. Th!; ncxt reading. in
January. was opcned 10 the Lower
School. to hear Ma11ltew Sweeny,
whose versc c:tme alive in the rc:lding: jaunty. irreverent lyrics. full o f
colloquial vcrve and hUlllour. which
proved very popu l.. r with a largc
audience. A strong contrast was provided a 1110l1 th 1:lIer by Katherine
Pierpoi nt. who arrived in
Marlborough the day after the T.S.
Eliot Pri"l..c aW:lrds. for which her
recent volul11e Trunk Beds had heen
short lislcd. The poetic trunks shc
offered a smaller bul imrigued aud io
e nce were di stinct ly rich :tnd mysteri OLIS - a name to watch for the
fut ure. A crowded Lenttenll was
completed by a nlre readi ng from
Tony Harri son. who needed no introducing 10 many :<owde nts. This was
:111 eleclri f ying :'l1(ll1Io\'i ng reading.
by one of Britain's b e.~ l - known poets.
co\'eri ng subjects such as the Gulf
War. the contlict in Bosnia, the poet's
own childhood and dia lect. Here was
.. poet assured uf his craft . deliveri ng
important and ullsell iing observa-
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ti uns ahulItlhe world we li ve in. as
well :ls IInding much 10 eelehrate.
TOllY Harrison's ot her re:ldillgs th is
ye;u· arc in ROl1le :md Bologna: il
was a privilege to be in the
Memorial Hall 10 hear Ihi s dislinguished \'oice.
The voice with the unenviabk
lask uf following Harrison be longed
to Mallficc Riordan, an Irishman living in London. whose first ((l Ikeliun. a Word From the Loki.
appeared last year. Riord:m writes of
ordinary th ings. like food and furni ture. endowi ng them wi lh signiri(ance thai is at once enlightening
and fa miliar. The last reading of lhe
year saw a wekume retu rn by Glyn
1\'laxwe ll. whuse panache and
hU1110ur had eapli\'ated the Society
members Oil an earl ier visit. and
entertained Lower Sixth English
students al a Lo ndon con ferem:e.
T he Societ), docs f:lT mon: than
host such readings of course. T his
ye:lr. we h;l\'e judged the Prep
School Poetry Compelition, won by
To m Morrow of Beeston Hall for his
Poem "Peach": we have also held
cvenings of "Own Versc" readings
and workshops. and launched;1 ncw
I}oetry fCv iew. The Horse in the
Chalk (named after a line from
Louis t\'laeNeice, in a pocm abou t
hi s schooldays:1I l'\'lari borough).
111e high light of Ihe year. however.
was probably the ··Words and
Music" cvcn ing held in the Oven.
with pe rformances of pocms sct \(I
mu sic in v;!l·ious styles. sometimes
bizarre. always rivcll illg. This is
bound 10 become a rcgul:u·cve nt .
M;my thanks to James Plummer
for hi s e.xccllcnt job as Secretary.
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THEOLOGY SOCIETY
The Theology Soc iety is a group
thatl11eets at Hill side. 0 11 average
three times .. term. 10 discuss a variely of religious. ethic:11:md philosophi c:tl issues. Usually. a member
prepares .. short speech o f introduclion and Ihe debate runs from there.
T his year allend:mce has been
remarkably strong, hence the success oflhe evcnings Ihat havc ocen
spent look i n~ at the problem of evil
and su ffering: evangelism: Illiracles
and divine act ion: and whether the
love of money really is the rool of
all evil.
The :lim o f Ihe society is 10
heighten awareness of the world in
which we li ve and allcmplto make
sense of our religious systems and
moml dilemmas. ·1l1e socicty also
encourages ( ritical study ofth c
Bible. ;md lextual analysis is
often a usefu l and stimulati ng
st:lfI ing point.
In Ihe futu rc il is hoped Ih:'1
more exlcmal sJleakers wi ll be il1\' iled to share the ir views and take
members· eXI>crience beyond a siandard syllabus educ;ltion - as W:1S Ihe
case with the engaging and potential ly revolutionary ideas David
Row expounded in his slide
presentation on :lrcltaeology and the
O ld Testament at the end o f the
Lcnllcnn.
Thank you to all who presel11ed
papers for the sDcielY and to Ihose
who have supptlTled the socicty. as
wel l, of course 10 Reverend Dales.
SPECTATOR SOC IETY
In an crrat ic yea r for the society.
the first tenll's enrorced do rmancy
was fo llowed by a Lent com prising
twO meet ings o f differing s tyle but
o f sirnil;lr high q ualil),. Luck would
appeil r to have been aga inst us in the
Michac1 rnas, den ying us the clllllpany of our arranged guests . Snow.
wind. IOITential r:li n. minor intes tinal complaim s: we were waiting fo r
the rivers of blood and the plague of
frogs to make our ill-fortune tru ly
biblical.
In Jan uary Sir Ludo vic Kennedy
gave an impassioned ye t lucid
account o f the case for voluntary
eU lhanaski. provo king much deba te
from all sides. Hy taking such a hard
line on the issue. the great polymath
raised many Jwckles. which made
for it vc ry s timulating even ing.
A 1110nth later, M ichae l He;nh.
the cartoon editor of The Spectator.
cmne down from Londo n. doling out
hooks and jokes to al l prese nt .
Although his visit can hardl y claim
to ha\'e sparked muc h de bate
(des pite many valiant e ll'orts). Mr
~lea t h reg:tled us wi th story after
story fro m hi s colourful life and
aequaimanees. providing us w ith a
memorable eveni ng.
PSYCHOLOGY SOC IETY
T his TCcent ly fCvived society nll1
by Mrs. Knowles. has proved \·ery
po pular. The meetings arc in fo rma l
and have been we ll received wit h an
average a[[cnda nce of over twclll y
pupil s. As psychology is a popular
course al Univcrsity. the socicty has
provcd inval ua ble to those considering it as a deg ree s uhject. Thc speak crs ha ve incl uded the P.~yc ho l ogy
lecturer ali1ristrnl Uni ve rsity discussing 'Thc e ffeci of the mind on
the body'. as well as a postgr.tduatc
from O ."l:ford Uni versity who I:llked
:tbout his research on 'Stress
amongst N HS e mployees'.
PH ILOSOPHY SOC IETY
Thc re vivcd Philosophy Soc iety
has amasscd a r..:spcelable membership. Meeti ngs takc place in thc
pc:lccful at mosphere of Prcshutc
Library unde r the :legis of r...lr.Frasc r.
The introductory open meeting.
planned by Mr.Fraser himsel f. began
wit h readings from Plato (thc
·SYl11llOsium· and ·Phacdrlls·) :lboLlt
the n<lturc of lovc. but thc subscqucnt
disc ussion ranged through the wide
fiel ds of metaphysics and cthics.
In the sccond meeti ng.
Mr.Watk ins undertook tocxplain to
us logic and its huge \·arict y of appli cations. Afler setting (lut the basic
princi ples over a glass of wi ne. he led
di scussion b;lse{1on;1 numher of
famous problems. Logic. wc Icarncd.
can illuminate subjects as di ve rsc as
computer scien('e and' A licc in
Wonderland' .
A furt her e:lgerly anticipated
mect ing look place in the Summer
Term. Fra ncis Lee prO\·ided:1I1 expla·
na tion of Natu ra l Law and the ideas
of Thomas Aquinas.
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LITERARY SOCIETY
During Ihis acade mic year. the
Lit erary Soc iety has been revived.
Our fi rst s peaker was Limbay
C larke. playwrig ht and novelist
(winner o f the 1989 Whi tbread Pri ze
for Fict ion for h is no vel. The
ChymiclII We(/llillg). who t:ll ked on
T he Art of Writing'. In an illuminating discussion of the role nfthe
imagination in art Lindsay C larke
exp lored the importance of dreams
ami medieval romance literaHtTC in
hdping s hape :1Ilt! nouris h his own
wri ting. Di scllssio n celli red o n his
no vels and his day to day ex pericnce
of writing. The meeting is to be
rC11lemocred. too. for the d iscovery
or a nUlllocr o f no vel writcrs
amongst those prcsent.
Our second SllC:1ke r of the
A utumn term was Humphrcy
Carpenter. biogr:tphcr o f Iknjamin
Brillen and W 1-1 Auclen, ami
Director of the 1995 Cheltcnh;11Il
Li tcrary Fest ival. He s poke abou t
biogra phy and explorcd SO I11C o f the
res po nsibilities and challenges facing biographers of li ving ;111(1 dC;ld
subjccts. Humphrey Carpenter is. of
course. an Old Marlburian . and it
was a pleas ure to see him here
agalll .
Inlhe Lent te rm, Gary O'Connor
spoke o n 'ShakesllC:lre: the Man'.
Gal)' O 'Conno r is it dis ting uished
wrilcr: formerly Drama C ritic for
the Financial Times. he has worked
as a Di rector for the RSC and ror
man y years has been wri ting R:tdio
plays for the BSe. He has reached a
wide audience as a biographcr: hi s
O livier biography is well- known.
and his biography o f Damc Pcggy
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Ashcrof! is fo rthcoming . He has also
struck OUI rc<.:elltl y all a career as a
novelist, but it was as a biographer
o f Shakespeare that we had invi ted
him to join us. Dari ng to work in
th is dangerous area. h i ~ book had
draw n man y warm revicws. and
SO Il1 C critical ones. His lalk to the
SocielY impressed upon us the idea
of Shakes peare as a man steeped in
crises. historical ami personal, and
in the time available Mr O 'Connor
substalll ialed his skctch of a life by
recou rse to cvidence drawn fromlh e
plays. Not cveryone was convinced.
but the excitement of the q uest was
undeniable .
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DEBATING SOCIETY
Under Ihe experienced guidance
of tlk Marti n Eva ns. the machine
that is the debating socicty took off
this year and .~oarctlt o great heights,
following the example SCI by fam ed
inte ll<.:<.: ts sud as Blunt. MeNie<.:c
and Betjeman . Thc motions were
often fue lled by provtl<.:ative and
humourous intclj cct ions fro m the
l1oor, all of which res ulted in the
banging of the iron hammer of
Mr. Evans.
[n the 1vlichclmas terln. Ihc
Illotion 'Thi s House Believes th;11
the Dropping of Atom Bo mbs on
Japan in 1945 e mNevcr Be
Just ified" was deba ted in a fierce
and unre lenting manner. w ith sti rring final speeches from both sides.
Speaking for the mot ion were Philip
Fitz-George Parker anti Camilla
Gore, and against Juli us Cocke and
CoeoAtnas. In the face of obvious
bias in the audience. who clung to
the atom bomb like a new born baby
to its mother. Mr. Fitz George
Parker made an inspired last plea for
the lllotion. bill was in Ihe end
defe:L1ed in voles by a narrow margin. Ninety two allended the debate.
In the Lent term a !i ghler topic
was addressed: "Th is '·Iouse
Believes thaI the Pen is Mightier
Ihanthe Sword ." On thi s occasion
the speakers were :let ive examples
or their :lrguments: speaking for the
mot ion were Michael r-oIlCII,
Oxford-bound scho lar, and Francis
'·Iasek. Czcch expert: O li ver Bevan.
XV prop and scho lar. and Grisha
Ni kolski . XV prop and actor, spoke
against the motion . The result was
explos ive and verball y violcn t:
:I!thuugh many expressed the opi niOllthat parker vectors o f the proposition would not stand 'l chance
against the double-headed axes of
the oppos ilion. Michael Follett
al most swung the balances with
sOllie ba rely disguisedjibcs at his
opponelll s. bllt ultimatc ly his argumen t seemed somewhat ho ll ow. ~k
l3<,;v:lII. adopti ng the accent of the
learned. constructed what can only
be described as a sledgc ham mer
argument that battered the audience
into submiss ion. The sabre Ihat rested by hi s side Ihroughoutthe debate
no doubt swung a few votes. The
mol ion was again del'cated.
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w
e arrivcd in Ho
Ch i Minh city
hot, st icky and
cxhausted after a twc nty
seven hour journey that
had landed us on the
other side Mthe world.
Emry to a communist
country requires more
paperwork than we had
patience fo r. bu t evc nlually we were rewarded wi th our
first g li mpse o f Vietnam - a sea of faces crammed
together. m:tsking all the light and intensifyillg the heat.
For many this summed up every cx pectation. but for olh·
ers thc daun ting prospect of forcing their way through
the crowds was 1heir only thou ght.
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We then had the su rrca l ex perience of being shepherded into an air-condit ioned bubb le, otherwise known as a
bus. From th is removed v.m tage point we viewed Sai gon.
At firs t it seemed almost Emopean wi th its wide boulevards and Freneh colonial buildi ngs but it soon gave way
10:1 hub-bub of dail y life. Men aud women. deep in eOll vers:ttioll. were StlU:Lning at cvcry street corner .md in
fnmt o f makeshift shop fronts. swarms o f motorcycles.
bicycles and eyclos filkd the roads. (Later we were to discove r lhat crossing one nf1 hese roads was trul y terrifyi ng:
:[fter every hesitant footste p. four of fi ve bicycks would
brush past: wading into th e~e streams of traffic bli ndfolded would have felt no kss secure!)
The American war crimes museum was harrowing. It
described weapons and IOrtures used in the war wil h the
aid of graphic pholOgraphs and pictures. Inj uries we re not
reslncled 10 initi'l l wounds infli Ch:d during Ih..: filltlli ng.
bm cou ld be inheriled by Ihc n..:xl g..:n..:r;llioll:l:' wo.: saw
from Ih..: pick led babies, defortneu by paro.: rua l ex pDs ure
10 chemic;tl warfare.
A slark conlr'I.~ 1 to thi s was Ihe richu..:ss ol" lh..: rn'lrket
we visit..:d that arto.:moon. We smell a l1li XIlm: of exot ic
herbs and s piccs, TOlling meat and fo.:r meru inll fOli c
Despite Ihis putrid mix. the atmosphere was vibral ing
wilh life.
Our fourthous:md mile jounley conlintted along'l
road fult of dusl and pot holes. Luckil y for tis. bu~o.:s
came ctose to the lop of Vieln:ll11eSe road heirachy and
lesser bei ngs were made 10 cal dust as our adre nali nc
j llnkiedri vcr kept his foot 10 the noor and hand 011 th..: hOnl .
A highlight of the Meko ng Delta was Ir:lve ll ing hy
boal through crocodile infested wat..:rways lin..:d wil li
Jac k fmit lro.:cs. to;l family hut wher..: Ih..:y o.: lIIertailied us
with bananas and gr..:en. biller lea. Thi s htlu ~,,: wa~ on..: of
many such houses cl ll.~l..:red along a favo ured fi shing
b;mk wi th wat..:r hippi ng gem ly beno.::Uh its wu(xkn sti lis.
r-.'Iuch of o ur lengthy journey illvol ved !>I ints !ln lh..:
Reuuilication Expr..:ss. The mainlllemory was u f hei ng
unable 10 move in a humid 3S"C. hath..:d ill mosquit o
repelle nt and SI\''':<l1.
SO we joul"lIey..:d onward. over the Ce lli ni!
Highlands. along th..: eX lensiv..: coasIJi m:, Ih mug h th..:
underground tunlle l villages used du rin!; th..: wars. li p and
down Ihe ~'I arble Mo untains. The main cha lkng..: was
the three da)' ascent of Fan si Pan . We l.:fl lh..: moun tain
tow n of Sa P:I delerlnined. Howe\'er. tlUl" ..: lIIhll si<l~ ln in
monsoon weal her conditio ns was a snurn: (\f milch
allluselllellllO ethnic minoril), hill trihes wc mCI aln ng
Ihe way. A memorable ..:.xperic lice was crossing a hridg..:
made from rope anti bamlmo calles which qui v..: r..:d
bcnl!alh any weigh t. Some walkcd. but l1losl crawled o n
all fours looking f..:arfutl y althe raging torrent o f whi t..:
waler below.
Halfwa), Ihrough Ihe firsl day, !>oako.:d 10 the ski n.
knee dee p in mud. t~O\'e TL-d in !cecllc!> ;md Ih 'ing nff
Vietnamese energy biscui ts . spirits w..:rc in r:lpid dcclin..:
and Ihe general consensus was that thi!> cou ld be.HI ..:xpcrience that we might appreciat..: ... afterwards.
The stcep, mudd y ascenl was ..:x tremd y tiring and Ih..:
night was spenl camping ill Slre;llllS of \\'al..:r. Th..: d..:cisiollto abando n the cli mb was m.tde Ih..: n,,:x l lllorning.
but everyon..: had given their:ttl and felt a s..:ns..: of
:IchievClllent .
Our final days were sl>cnt absorbing the culi ur..: in the
relative lux ury of Hannoi and Halo ng Bay.
It was the eX I>cricnce of ;l lifelil l1": and non..: will
forgetlhe imag..:s of paddy fi clds. laughi ng Buddhas.
incense coils in highly decorated t C lllple .~ ,lIld snak..:s.
whether dried, live, or pickled in alcohnl!
lir/,..,·, ,/ 111/... " & /'1011
James Plummer and Henry Scott-Gall
S
ma ller than Wom b!!)c!.: . <Iuicler than the Blitz.
cheaper Ihan Glyndcbounlc.thc sc hoo)"s
undercurre nt o f music enthusiasts - ami even
musicians - resurfaced 0 1110 the Memorial Hall
stage. What was once known as 'T he Celebration of the
Indi vidua l' has in reeell! years cO lli e \0 be known simpl y
as 'The Celebrat ion': bu t if ;1Il)'lh ing. its audiences ha\'c
seen nothing but improvc rm:n \ in the q uality of IIllLsicians
and pcrfonn anccs with each passing year.
To s;'Y thai no one - not even the bands - were pr\!pared for what would happen this year would be to exaggerate. Events before the concen were. however.
shro uded in secrecy - IllOTC so than uSllal. Amongst fnur
groups. only olle (Ihe form er I nner Sole) had played OIl
the Cc1cbr;rl iOIl before and li ne-ups. names and hair
sty lcs had changed so many timcs that no one knew what
to expect.
The Lower School bl<\\<cly kicked on- the llight playing O:lsis COvers to a growing audi ence, Shaft , as they arc
know n, put on a good show eOll.~i d e rin g the ir inexperi ence. They were all compete nt Illllsicians but failed to
mesh. no doubt something tl1m will im prove with more
events . The lead singer, Be n Montague. had one of the
bener \'o ices o f the e\·ening. but the band seemed to be a
vehicle for his ego. and instead of doing his hair he
should havc SI>cnt more time learn ing hi s lyrics.
What followed was a first for Marl borollgh College:
an a ll girl group called ·Screeeh·. fmn ted by Mi r. ullla
Peacock and Caroli ne Wildman. Thcy mised the ([lIality
of tile evellt. Ap;ln from tuning problems (Ill "One hand
nn Illy pockct". they were vcry good indecd . with unusual
songs alld a good compositc 1)'lI1d.
J;ulleS Durrant thclllOOk over the microphol1e for the
rising s tar.~. ' Peepshow'. Guitar guru Nick Radford was
inspiratio nal and well suppon ed by Boyd- Brent on b;l.~s:
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a wide ben h was made for Durrant's antics as he rai sed
the pit into a swcat ing and viole nt frenzy. A f:mtastic
aITay o f kung- fu moves were dcmonstrated by thc b:lssist
in betwecn ri ffs. and thc band built to:1Il ap preciated cliIllax wilh " '·Iard 10 Handle" belting OUI into the crowd . A
TUmour that a r;lp b;lIld was maki ng its debu t had been
c ircul:Uc(1 befo re the cvellt. and several members of the
Hu ndreds proved the m founded. The music appealed to
some more than others but in ;IIlY case it was a bl<\\'c
attempt 10 gi\'c thc Cclebr'ltion :1 bit of variely.
lllen came Blordd, fro nt ...-d by Jamcs Bo nd villains.
Ph ilip Fitzgeorge-Parker and James Box on guitars. Phil
was a conscie nt ious leader. allowing me mbers of hi s
band to shine through. Thi s was very classy act. and an
enjoY:lble prel ude to the head liners.
,I
'T he Ind igo Power Company' rounded o ff the event
wilh a set madc up most ly ofthcir own songs. Julius
Cocke remembered his lyrics ami played off the audience·s cries of '4ppreciat iu n rvlad(JIl Il:t-style. The percussionists tv\artin Ham pton and Joji Koyama provided a
wall of sou nd for the rest o f the group to build on: Henry
Scott-Gall o n guitar: Dan Haython1 o n sax: Ed Kingston
returning to the CoUlIpUS to takc up the bass and Natalie
~-IcGrony :IS muse and ce llo player. llleir professionalism was rew:trded with showers of daffodils from
groupies Miles Green and Max Gmha m at the front. 111e
sct did 1101 re;lll y build to a cl il llax only becausc it was all
of such high ([u:llity, and they certainly deserved their
position in the line up.
Despite the odd disma l stage d i\,e and a few overe nthu siastic f:ln s. thc evcning was varied. well organiscJ
and abovc ai L fu n, and a testament 10 Ihe underground
talent still rCllwining at thc Coll egc. Thanks to Mr.
Farquharson and the other tcachers who made it all evcnt
wonh repc;tt iTl£.
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11 ~'Ia rc h 10 th 1996, people all overthe world
m(lrched for pe m;e in Tibet to C01l1memorate
the 37th anni ve rsary o f Tibetan National
Uprisi ng Day. Tibet is a huge. remote country
- 2.5 mill ion ki lometres s(lu:lre and over 11.000 feet
high. II is the world's highest and broadest plateau bill
somehow the world remains ignora nt to the plight of the
Ti betan people at the hands o r the communi st Chinese.
O
As a l3u{ldhist nation. Tibet has ex isted in peace :lItd
neutrali ty for hundreds of years. There is no distincti on
between the re ligious and IXllitical hierarchy, since the
whole cuhure revolves around rel igion. The CUrTCnt
leader is Te nzin Gyatso. His Holi ness. the rourteem h
Dalai Lama .
111 19 13. the independence of
Ti het W:IS <l rJicially recog nised
by the C hi nese government. and
in 19'18. by the Indian govemTIlent. However. in 19-19. the
COllllllunist Pany of China. led
by Chairman roo·lao. seized hold
of govemmental power and in
1950. marched into Tibet. In
1959. His Holiness. the [):II:Ii
Lama. ned from the Winter
Pal;Icc in Lhas:t (Tibet's capital)
:lIId w:tlked :tcross the
Himalayas 10 India. a journey
which humlreds of thou s and .~ of Tibet:ms have subsequently made.
What happened in TiarU1:IIllell Square in [988 happcns c \'cry year in Tibet. bill still world powers do not
:lCknowlcdge China's unlawful presence in Tibet. let
alone the unlawful actions take n and the horrifi c violations o rhuman rights . The United Nations Ull i\'ersal
Declarati on or Human Rights recognises:
• The right to freedom of thought , conscience and
rctig ion ... the right to freedom of opinion. expression
and I>caceful assembly. (Articles 18.19.20)
• Likewise. Anicle 88 of the Constitution of the
Peoplc's Rcpublic of Chill a states that: The People's
State holds that the question o f rel igious bcl icf is a
private mailer; belief or non belief in relig ion rcl<lh:s
Le h & obove teh :
1\~J1rr""T~. l1~t'lnl.
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rr"'b"l1~ nINlan NUli"",,1 UI"i, i" K 1)""
M",.-h IOrh 1996.
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II". from
1)h.·"."tI""I<~ InJi<,.I"" II('OI'/~n""n'rmt""uJ
,h~ "("ClUj"" ,,/I tI"'-" ,/,.. h"",/,I.
to the I>crsonal fre edolllllf an
individual .
However. the cuntinued
violence in reaction to religious
acti vi ty invalidates both of
these declar:ttions.
Traditionally. Ti betan life
revolved around the GOOO JIl OII cstaries which. even fo r lay lleo,
pic , served as schools.
universities. community centres
and hospitals. When the
"'~"'m,'"m~ '" 1995.
Chinese invaded. they razed
nearly 5000 of these instit utions to the gro und. claimi ng
"There is Ino mueh reli gious aCli vity. [t is interfe ring wi th
the 1>Cllple's pnxluctiv ity and {htily life". In 1993t herc
were 1.643 monasteries after a period of extensive
rebuitding in the latc e ighties. In 1994. the Chinese
declared that there was to be " no furthe r rebuilding o f
temples and monasteries and 110 new monks and nuns".
To rein force thcir point , a syste m of fines was introduced.
Thc toll h a~ becn levied at 15(X) Yuan for every child in 11
monastcry (arou nd £120). The avcrage farmer carns
:Iroum1500 Yuan a year. Th is system has been extended to
co\'cr polit ical demonstrmiolls (the favoured rorm of
protcst amongst libctans) - the fin e for e\'ef)' child
in\"ol \'ed in a demonstr:ttion (despite thcir peaceful
natu re) is a ridiculous 10.000 Yu:m.
Sadly. thc tactics of the Chinese do IlOt end with dcterrents. In 1995. two rcmote 1l1011:lste ri es were besicged in
paramilitary operat ions (which Ic ft hundreds dead) for
possessing the Tibetan nat ion:llllag. S ubsequclltly. IIUIIS
and monks h:lve been forced into joi ning the anll)' - :111
anathcma to thei r Buddh isl bel iefs - and made to brc:tk
thcir vows of celibacy. e ither Jlubl ic.tlly. with one another.
or thro ug h rape. The Ti betan language has been ollllawed
and nationa l drcss prohibited. In what was once a population of 7 mill ion. over 1.5 mill ion have died as it direct
result of Chinese intervention.
•
hl! .lama,;!.! caused by the Chiw.:sc exte nus in
e very direction. M illiolls of pcnph.: have moved
T
from C hina into Tibet. l);Irti cul ;II'ly \0 L hasa.
Whilst pushing Tibet"s fra gile ceo-system to neilr
breaking-point. they arc also ensuring the demise of
"libel,1Il cu lUlrc by force of their shcer numbers.
Hillsides. o nce covered wilh de nse wtllxlland. have now
been completely deforested. The Tibetan Pl ateau. one of
the worhj"s richest uranium de posi ts. is being carelessly
exploited . luming vaSI Ir:lcIS o f land intn dumps for
nuclear waSh:. Tibetans in "1iI)C\ have nothing left \0 call
thei r own.
One person under imlllense danger froml hc Chinese
govcrnmcrll i s Gcdun C hockyi
Nyim:l. who was recognised.
at a vcry young age.;ls the
Elcn:nth Panchcu Lama. The
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"",.. "/f~'" ;" 'Ii/>rl ,
C hinese in stated thei r Pam.:hell Lama in Peking. 50 monk s
were ;l1TesWd at Tashi Lhullpll til pre"c11l thel11 interfering
in Ihis matter. Shortly afterwards, Gedun , hi s parents and
Chadrcl Riupochc (the head Mthe search pany which
found Gedlln) also went missing. ;\t ni .. e years of age.
Gl'dll n Chockyi NedulllllUSI be the world's you ngest
pol it ical prisoner,
Thro ugh all the troubles. the Dalai Lallla has maintained a peaceful stance towa rds C hina and towards Ihe
C hinese people who arc also suffer ing at the hands o f
their own J;0vernmcllI . Like Ghamli. he has e mbraced
peaceful protest and in 1~8~ was awarded the Nobel
Peat'e Prize for all his effo rts. It seems thai the world
is pre pared to at-kno wledge
the work o f one man. but
still wi ll not help the people
he represen ts .
Dahli Lama and Ihe Pancheu
Tibet is IIllt a rich COU llI ry,
Luna, as wel l as many other
nor eve n a cuuntry which many
leachcrs, arc chosen by the
people have heard of. Their
recogni tion of a reinc:mlale, a
indigelloll s culture has been all
syslem which hinges on Ihe
but destroyed and survives only
Buddhesl belief in rebirth .
in poe k c l.~ of refu gees li ving in
When the tenth Pancheu Lama
India and Nep:11. The refugees
was nearing his de;lth , he g:lve
in Dhar:lllIsala (home o f the
clues as to where and when he
Aa lai L:Ulla alld his
would be reborn, By using tra- I '''"" M ilUl ·I "r",·"ml: 10 \I~JI ..m"ll". V ho,,,,,,.,,IIt. ApIIIIW6.
Governlllent-i n-Exile) aTe
ditionalmethods for the recogworking incredibl y hard 10
nition of n.:i nc:lrnates. Gedun Choekyi Nyima was
raise awareness of thei r plight. There is also a talk, by His
subse(ltlentl y named as the Eleventh Pancheu 1...<m1a in
Holiness, the Dalai L;It1i:l, to he followed by a "Peace in
May 1995 by I-lis Holiness, The Dah.; Lama, This deciTibct" Fesl iv:ll :It the Alexand ra Pal;Ice, Lo ndon. on July
sion was rejected by the C hinese despi te unanimous con20th 1996. After spending a considerable a mount o f time
sent and agreement by the Tibct;H1s. The C hinese chose a
there myself, 1 fe lt that it was 111)' dUly 10 raise people's
differe nt boy.lhe six ye:.rold Gyaltscn Norbu . in
aWarene!>s in Europe. After all that the), ha\'e becn
December. :md hastil y enthro ned him in Peking instead
through, the TibetanS:lre o ne nf the 1II0St ope n. friendly
of the tr:uJitio nal seat:ll Tashi Lim npo in Tibet. II is wideand hospitable gro ups of people I have cver mc\. I feci
ly suspected that this boy will be hmught up to challenge
thaI. after so much time in silem:e, the ir cause really
the Dal:!i Luna inste:ld of working wi th him as the two
deserves to be heard now.
Lamas have done for generations. The cuntinuity o f
Tibetan Buddhi sm is very much dependen t upon the con·
tinuity of the lineage between the Pancheu La ma and the
If yo II (I/~' II/wII/iIlN 1111 II1Il'I'/lillg illilldia dlll"illg YOIII" gop
I"!"III; IhNI' (I/~' sOllie !I'fJllde'lfid IJPfWflllllilil's/(}1" 1'C,llIl1lecI"\t"(}I"/.;
Dalai Lama. The seem ing ly terrible consequences of a
·ill f)lm r.WlIII.WI/a, /('(lcilillg Eng/i,I·1t 10 IIWll ks (111(1,11111.1" (or /O
bre.. k in the line are curren tl y being investi gilled.
On a more immediate level. the sufcty of Gedun
Choekyi Ncdull is very much douhted. When the
llC"ldy IIrriw'd 1~'fi 'Ne'e,\"J. dl'lIlillg lI'ilh IIII' n 'filge'c' f'(}f!II!mioll. or
/ ' \·, ·/1 \l'orki"g /J"/"/';'.\·'(/.!:I' (111111' Tilll'lml /1I.I'lilllll' for fhe
Pnf"I"lIIillg !Ins.
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he Gan.: du Nord is possib ly Paris's largest statio l1 .
rcceiving arrivals rrom Loudo n. Brussels and
Amsterdam almost hourl y. in additiOI1 to TGV
trains from all over Northern Fral1ce. With typical
French hUlllour it lies tucked uncomfortably il1lo the
city's least welcoming districts. As with all gre:lt
European stations. its surroundings ha\'e become Ihe laSI
re fuge of the desper:lle - and everybody likes 10 keep;1
res pectfu l dist:U1cc. It is generally
acceptcd that people lra vel
th rough stations; onl y the insane
decide to check out the local
atmos phere. :lI1d wit h thi s in mind.
most of thc less dangero us hotels
make sure that they arc silUalCd :IS
far away :ls poss ible. It is no coincidence either. that the richest.
most glalllourous parts o f Paris
arc nOi within com fort able
walking distance.
T
Arri ving in it PlIrisian sl:IIioll
approximately ol1e week aft er the
nationwide gcneral strikes had
finally grou nd themse lves 10 a ha lt
gave me a defi nite sense tha!
sornelh ing. somewhere could go
horribly wrong. A long :lI1d dour
w"lk through an unkno wn foreign
city (where Ihe population is still
not enti rel y cOllvinced whether it
should be beating up or ripping o ff
foreig ners. and where the wea ther
is almost Siberian in its ~eve ri t y)
seemed frightcning ly realistic. It
was an excit ing momcnt arriving
at the Gare d l! Nord .
However. the exci te ment I:Isted in its purest form for
onl y .. bout one and a half minutes. Thi s was the time it
took for the locals \tl work Olll tha t I was Eng lish ;111(1 a
tourist. The inh;lbitants o f d ifferent cities ap ply this information in varying ways. In Amslcrdillll they offer you
ridiculously hard drugs. In P:tri s the y o ffer yo u hOlcls.
most of them beillg (coi ncidenl:!lI y yo u might th ink) in
the Pig:llIe - where the tour guides recommend eare rul
s pccificmiol1 o f w:mtillg thc room by the night. and nnt
by thc hour. It was SOOIl apparent that the trad itional
to urist mac hinery was once again up and fu nning. and in
1] 1996
JlIIllll1\1
just as twisted fashion as before. From the l1lomentlhe
first Iwppy Fre nchman ru ns up 10 you and says " Do ...
YOll ... speck ... EnglceshT or "You nee" . ote1. monsi\!urT. to the lIlolllellt the patron of some s upposed ly
che:1Jl bar charges "bout double the price of tha t suggested 0 11 the dour. yo u cannot escape the feeli ng Ihm you arc
a lOurist in a card board f:lcade ofa e ily.
O
llie mosl " rear ' parts o f Paris
arc Ihe ones the conve ntional
tou ri sts avoid . And. mostly. this is
with good reason. Fe w touri sts
inte nt ion:llly make it as far as
Be lleville. in the North East of the
city. It is horne to more nationalities th:m you cou ld shake an
immigr:llion pennit al. Chinese.
Vietnamese. Algerians.
Ghanaians. Greeks. Jews.
Mu slims have all found a home
here, on the edge of the o ffi cial
C hinatown. There is a wealth of
restaurants. and the odd fu llb lood ed Frenchman looking quite
we ll fed .md. c haracteri sticall y.
miserJ.b le . Nevertheless. like
1II:IIIY s uch parts. 13e llc\'ille is also
horne to cheap. yet eompar.ui\"ely
safe. hote ls where you C'1Il fi nd a
rclati vely dean roo m for about
Ff.200 per night.
Since 1was staying o vc r the
New Year's holidays. the prospect
of how the French would ee lebmte
the arriva l o f 1996 both intrigued
and worried me. Havi ng witnessed. on the 141h July. what
seemed like the ent ire urba n populace squeeze into the
square at Bast ille :md proceed to dousee:lc h other in fi reworks. I expected ... we ll .•mything.
On the face o f il. New Year's Eve in Paris is lill ie
more tha n a chance for the cl ubs to charge a Ff l 50cntT)'
fcc . But. ir o nc peers more closely Imo Ihe gloom. it is
:ll so a chance to see the c ity's laten t insanity shift up a
couple of gears. [n the Chale lct and Be:ltIbourg qllaticrs.
we saw a man in his late twenties sing ing love songs al
the lOp of his voice to a srn;111 red Pcugeol. He was sti ll
there. singing to the same car. and
possibly still 011 the same song. whc n we
passed hilll thrcc o r four hours latcr. In
the earl y hours o f the morn ing. a tee nager silting on the Metro platform opposi te
to us began to cat hi s ticket. Unsmistied.
he then scratched aro und fo r a second
discarded ti cket and ate that. Afte r
midn ight all the drunks. young and old.
and the freaks. seemed to co llect ill the
cily'S Melro system. There were several
patches of vomi t in o ur c:lrriage as a
token gesture of the ir presence.
Bel leville rema ined peaceful . despi te
all the we irdness going o n practica ll y
everywhere else. T here was the occasional rando m expl osion of fire cracke rs
here and there. but nothing like the 14th
Jul y when bursts o f virt ual war break o\lt
between gangs o f cord ite fix ated
teenagers. However. thi s peace lasted until ahmn 5am.
when an unknown c\hnic gro up un leashed itse lf lI pl l11 the
streets. The lIo ise of drums suddenl y llan::d up. aCC\l lllpanied by what sounded like high-pitchcd asthmati c bag
pipes. It was nearer to psychological warfa n.: th:1Il music:
not even Briau Eno in one o rhis stra nger mood s would
havc appreciated il. O nly :Ifter the safet y of sunrise d id it
seem safe elloughto sleep.
Despite there be ing all th is acti vity o ve r New Year 's
Evc.the streets seemed strangely empty during the rest
of our stay. There was a numbed . une nthusiastic fcd ing
to the c ity. In the SlIIllIJlCr. Paris had bee n crowded ami
fri..:nd ly. T he tuurists t: lumsily wandered about. and the
bar stafr. sho pkee pers. and even the wai ters manag..:d tu
SU lll1l10nU p smiles and goodwill. Now. wit h the
Christmas light s - looking con vinc ing ly li ke thuse of
Oxford Street from the year be fo re - bufli.:ted by the
freez ing winter willds and plummeting te mpera tnr..:s.
there was a brood ing . hungover feel throughoul. The
owners o f the bars and brasseries were happy of ('"{lU rse .
since they had m:lI1aged to drum up their prices i1l ti 111e
for the holiday season. despi te the strikes. Bu t because
these three week long stri kes had shattered 1I0t on ly the
city. but also the whole cou ntry. it seemed as though
many people h;ld either elected to sl:!y at ho me. o r get
out altogether.
Thro ughout Oll r stay. there was tension in th..: ai r.
although it W:lS nothing you could defin itdy pu t your
ti ngeron; Airports. post orti ces. hospita ls. oniees. uni versities had all been dosed until a mailer o f days berm..:.
It could ha ve bee n the cold. but all the smi les we saw
looked like grimaces. It c:lnnot be easy to appear happy
and bear enormous we lcoming sm iles when ther..: arc
"Defcat the Govcrnmem" signs e verywhere. especially
in a culturc where being miserable is considered so
fashionable. Perhaps it was mere ofT-season depression
that had stmck th is strange mischord . or maybe the
North East. and Bellev ille in particular. were the ~ 1I1 ky
exception 10 the norm: in short . perhaps things wc r..:
happier elscwhcr..:.
Things cl sewher..: would prtl])ab ly have been mo re
expensive. As Louis Fc rd inand Cc li n..: wrote. "pove rty is
the cheapest way 10 li ve" . Ik llevillc provides everything
those tryi ng 10 travel as che:lpl y as possible could want , o r
can rea li stica ll y afford. It is o illy a short jo ufIley by metro
(iI' it happe ns to be working th;lt {lay) 10 the centre. and
Iypically it was ther..: we spcnt most of our lime. T he
uncolll mon abscnct: o f to urists became an advantage. T he
streets were free for us to get lost and disorie ntated in .
Even whe n slightly trallnlatised . P:lris will al ways perform its conju ri ng tricks for any visitor. at any time. It is a
maelstrom of static hide alld seck. :llmost t:onsciously
losing you and then le;lding you to strange . illl riguing.
even beuutiful places - certa in ly places you ne ver thought
you wcre going 10 visit. As the crow Il ics, Paris is a small
city. As the tou rist w:l lks, it is cnormo us .
Hauss1I1an 's avenllcs ;lIld streets generally give off an
air of di gnifi ed sulkiness. someth ing thatlhe winter
months do nothing to di scourage . As a result. Paris has
such a strong sense of ident ity that it is no wonder :mi sts.
philosophers and write rs have 110cked here fro m the
beg inning of th is ce lllury o nwards. They 100 would have
found that it is o ne o f the few European ci ties where it is
possible to fe ci cultural eV": 1I when you havc lost vi nuall y
:111 san ity. So nl;i ny Pari sians seem \{) have losl theirs
many years ago.
Such is the nature o f all the imposing arch itecture that
you pass beneath . Often it is d ifficu lt not to feel a sense of
guilt as if you an.: walking ;lcross sac red grou nd. across
someone el se's life :1Ilt! tratlitioll s. Thc rampant COIllIll..:rcialisat ion that ex t..:mls out w;lrds fro m the Elysees,
Trocadero and Eiffcl Towe r 1I1 igl.1I tfy and convince you
otherwi se. but for the fore igner arriving in the afte rmath
of the: nati on's most pru lilie political upheavals for two
centuries. there was a d il'ferellcc betwcen the wi nter ;md
SUllllllcr seasons Iha! wellt bcyoud the relentless cold. I
could 110t hel p feeling an embarrassed sympathy for the
city. It was like the CIl OflllO li S vol leys of fireworks that arc
sO skill fully di rected at the German to urists during the
Ihstille Day ce1cbr:l! io ns. Inesc;lpablc.
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pany of tony four !lew In Barcclona on 1st July to
embark 011 a choir tour from an hotel base in
Solsoll:l which included seven formal conccnsor
perfOnllallCeS and two unofficial ones in Ihe local town.
A
Thc l'lotd Gran Sol had:l pool and a lennis coun and
ahsorilL'1l our pany on two noors with e:l~e and relaxed
management. It fel t allimcs as if we were the sole residents.
Travel each day by coach W;l~ Illadc bcamblc by
unchar..lcterislical1y tcmperamental weather, a pleasant
courier called Al ba and an engaging driver.
was for us, shroudcd illlni ~1. In Barcelona there were people
dancing the Sardana (tr.lltitional Catalonian dallce) 011 the
Cat hedral steps. The Picasso Gallel)' W:IS round the comer
and Gaudi's t~nllas tic modem Cmhedml a shon coach drive
away. Barcelona is all amazing city and one visit was perhaps not (Iuite enough to ahsOI'b ai llhe sights. As we dowc
out of the city in the l:lle e\'cning. the driver's delour via the
Olympic Sladi um and harbour area was a lIlelllor.lblc one.
Other concerts had a IIlllre homely fl avour. perhaps best
illustrated by Iho.: day slX!nt at Puig Reig to theeasl of
Solsolla. An electric organ :uut bathroom aco u ~ ti cs presented
a challenge, butlhc Choir sallg sUIX!rbly here!(l a f;nlla sticalI)' ko.:o.:n audience including HlemlX!rs of Ihe local choir. This
was an early ev..:ui ng lX!rform:mce for :l change. foll owed by
an cvcning mcal in the open air with the Puig Rcig dlOir and
infonnal singi ng from both panics. We sat in a large circle
and sang IOgcther Bruckner's Locus ISle and then it W:l~ time
to go 10 a local market place :lIld dance the Sam:ma. 111C
steps arc simple enough, resembling a remedial Morris
Dance as people revolve in curious ways-our p:ll1y
stlliggled until the locals sellis on the right road.
In Puigcerda we wero.: ; d mo~t into the high Pyrenees :Ind
herc the Choir showed theillscl vcs in ebullient mood despite
:1thinly attended (:om:ert and poor weather. Wecros$cd
brieny over the French bomer for a meal in a rcst:mr.mt
freq uented by Ar..mxa Sanchc7, Vicario. A \'cl)' laICfini sh
mo.::mtlhat the lour pany was clambering into Iheircoach
The most prcxligious locations for IlUT singing were Ihe
Abbey al Montserrat and the Cathedml in Barcelona. Our
shOll pcri'(mnance at Montserrat was witnessed by a
gradually changing tide of 10llri ~ls. In Barcelona we s:mg
sections of a Mozart M:l<;S al the appmpri<lle points in the
lilUl'£y and Ihe recital following the Mass came olT well
despite the huge distance between 01'£:111 and Choir. Chris
RathlxlIle a.~ usual had to cOIX! with some tricky :lccompanying situations: at B:lrcclona ho.: had Iho.: choice ofthrce
organs:lIul thc oue he chose could only be approached by
lift in the comp:my ofa security guant! Both Iho.:se places
had a stTl,lIlg lourist ingredient . The view fro m tho.: top of
the fu nicular r..lil way al ~'I onscrra t is usually sUIX!rb but
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after Il pm when one membcroft he party revealed thaI a
pc>rtabJc CD and ,I C'Uller:.1had IX'Cn stolen from his bag in
Ihe chureh. A gloomy mmosphcre might wel l have resulted.
Inslead. while a slllall party consulted wilh the local police
with the tine detai ls of what \Y'l~ missing and how it had
gone. the Choir Sal in the coach wilh an audience of fi ve
Calahm ian locals
and pmceeded 10
sing Ihrough thei r
ent ire repertoire
without break for
jusl overall hour!
wilh nighl fa lling
before Ihe usual
10.OOplII slart.
choir memhers in
their robes satmlering down a narrow
~ I opi n g street and
the swifl:. :.cream·
iug .Ioove the rool"lops. This was a disl im:tivc and memor,lble fina le with each piece received wil h r:.lpturouS and
prolonged applause.
Abig'lil Boreham Wa.~ outslanding as a SOpr:UIO so l o i ~ t
throughout. and so lOll W:1 ~ Susannah Trc~ il ian . Will Unwin
(basoon). James Hall (Il ute), A;lron I3 UI'(:hell (oboe) and
i\ lark Nonll:1II (o",;,m) did eXlrl!rnc1y well 100 in providing
instrumental i n1 erlt l dc~ during c~ !n c\!rts.
We also had a
wanll welcome in
Agr:ullum (f:llll0 U5
for'lilllu ns - an
alrnOllu/hone),
nougat we SOIWin
production :ll Ihe
local faCIOI)') and
in Ca~ h: ll ar del
V'llles. Once again
these smali lowns
pn.xluced large
audielKcs, wel coming parties
from local choirs.
~ lIl a ll presentations :IIld plent), of traditional food and drink .
It is difli cult perhaps to conjure up the scene OIl Agr:ulllmt
Staying in olle pl:tce thrnughuut meant therc were 100
many hours sflcllt travcll ing. Ne\'enhc1ess we were able to
savuur SUIllI! of th\! local atlllosphere and pe rfOnll our lighl
rCJX'rtoin: in the \Own squ:lrc. Eneour.!ged by Ihe local prit;SI
we broke all tradit iolls :lIld lX'rfol1ned a Iwent)' minute
pro.;lr.!lllllle in Ihe Solson'l C lthedr.ll start ing al rnidd:1Y!
'111e tour ended with Ihe Imditional relll.icring of "Rock a
ma Soul" al the baggage reclaim area ,II He.lIhmw Airport.
l\mong~l t he hugging and farewells there were quile a few
leafS. even from the oldest and moSI mature of lxl)'s.
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"The F;\iry Queen" is rCllowllcd for its mix of mu sic,
dance and drama wh ich combi ne to form what is often
known .. s a "semi .opcr;J," f\ S the programme pointed
out. it was .... stimulating o PPol'luni [y for the college to
join its de panmctUli of dram.. and music in an unusua ll y
challengi ng piece o f theatre," The striking impl ic:uions
o f [h is comment ho re down onthc spectator on clI[eri ug
[he Melllori;11 Hall. as [he eyes were assaulted by a
[echnico lollred b;lekdrop, behi nd whieb lurked the
orchestra and choir, clOIhed in amnon ian leotards, T he
biz:lrre ;lPI>carancc of Ihe traditional ly consen'ative
musicians provided a dy namic contnlsl with the
opening scene. lakclI slraight frOIll Shakespeare's "A
fvlidsulII1I1er's Night Dream" ,
Andrew Richards. playing Egeus. draggeu Her1l1ia
(Naomi Kerb:!l) onto stage in full coun alli n:. and banging his sC:lbbard 011 the ground. dCcl;tred Ihe laic begun.
llle energetic and comic interplay between the tWO was
indic:lIive of the vi tality o f the playas a whole. :md sct a
(]uick pace that w;\s matched uy the rest of the cast.
Adam Shaw. playing Demetrius, was the suitably
handsome subject o f Helena's desires, whi Ie Martin
Hamptoll portr:tyed all effcrvesecnt Lysander. inlent lin
wooing Ihe beautiful He rmi.. ,
An ominuus note was struck with the surreal e ntrance
of the sex ually ambiguous and Illajestic Oberon (Daniel
Haythom ) and the stu bborn ;Illd forceful Titania. seductively re pre~ell te d by Hil ary Attenborough, Around them
sprung;1 cnlourfu l tribc of sin ister fai ries who added a
mystic d imcnsion 10 the proceedings. A nned wilh spears
and feat hers in their hair. they occa~ionall y threatened
members or the ;tullience ullfOl1unate cno ugh 10 be
silting dose to [he slage.Thc bestial Andrew Shepherd.
wi th horns ill his hair and hooves un his fee t. gave a
dazz ling performance as Puck, Oberon's me,~se n ger,
However. as Shakespeare intended. the mosl comic p;II't
of the play came with the appearance of Grisha Nikolski,
inspiringly caSI as Bollom. and his mot ley crew of
playcrs. which included Josh "Sledgehammer" Leon.
and 1'...lall Ke rruish-lones. We;lri ng a donkey's head :tnd
'ee ii-orr ' iug compu lsively, Bol\om was the lucky
recipi ent of Ti tania 's love (,,!though he d id not perhaps
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ap preci ate it s signific;1I1ce) amllH.! eOlllmanded stage tutd
audience ali ke with his bounding energy.
Christopher Rathbo ne led his Oreheslra in magnificent !>otylc. Slacked up li ke vchicles in ;t multistory
c:!rpark, from behind an opaque b:tckdrop desig ned by
Polly H;\I1. enabling n:tughty fairies to hide when neees·
sary, Abig:l il Bnrclwm (Juno) and Will Unwin (Phoebus)
deserve special prai se fo r voca ll y Ilavig:tting their ways
thro ugh what must be two o rlhe hardest solos in the genre
(espec ially when wearing clabor..ltely large he:tddresscs).
llicir stage presence was bolh capliv:lting and gnlceful,
The choi r in general g:tvc an :lccornplishcd pcrfonn:mee.
providing gaps for the audiencc 10 renecl upon proceedings alld addillg to the atmosphere of Ihe drama. Aaron
Burche ll , Gubriei Bure hcll, Kirsty Lindsay-German.
Sus;lIIl1;\h Tresilli;lII. Stephen POllinger and Willi:un
Whit iny all sang demanding :nlllme IllOn\ble solos,
"T he F:li ry Queen". 0 11 ;!ccount of ib very nature. W :l ~
an ;ullhitious aim for both the llirector and the performer~ ,
Orgal1iliing a cast of actors. musicians and si nge rs into a
cohcrent te:lm is a t:lsk e\'en Hercu les would have avoid·
ed; high acclaim musl go to Nigel Bryant for produc ing
what many agreed [0 have been the best school play of
recelll years,
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in surface ;lppearance and texture form. Her simple.
rounded forms and pots. (remi niscent of domestic
appliam.:es) were combined with dilTe ren l surface t C .~ ture s .
p:\ltems and gJ:lze effects.
ow:,rdS the end of the
Michadmas term '95. 1hc
Art BC:lks (that is 10 say
t-.'Ir. Stokes. Dr. Hamilton.
r-.k AlIcn. l\·liss Tolpull and ]\'1155
Han) held an exhibition of a selec·
lion of their work in the Mou11I
House. This callie as (Iuite ,I shock
to mm;t pupi ls. since the thought
had nc\'cr really occurred to
anyone that lhc An Beaks actu:llly
produce their own work as we ll
as teaching !
~·I r. Stokes. head of the Art Dep:Jnrnent. ex hibi ted
smaller pieces. demonstr.lling line control of inks and
other mediums: most were stud ies of moths. Also ;1I1Iong
his exhibits were sollie books
th:ll had bL--en cO;lIed in paint
and bound with string: these
pil.'Ces appeared to carry a narmti"e d emelll th:1I remained a
mystery. since thc contents of
the buoks were inaccessible.
Despite the odd sneak preview
roaming :lround the An School.
their work had never rc;llly been ~cc n
before. It was an excellent idea 10 provide
pupils. beaks and (since the c,xhibil ion was
open during the end of term eurol services)
parents alike. the opportunit y to sec their
work. and good lhal1hcy could put on sllch
an exhibition .
The facllhallhc Art Beaks all specialise
in. or [each somethi ng different rllc,lIlI that
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the exhibited work WlL~ varied. Dr.
Ibmilton. being both an
i\n :lnd History of Art
teacher. exhi bited a
numocr of pieces b:lsed
on gothic :lrchitectuTC and
architecture :lround the
college. imo which he
sometimes introduced
abstro.lct p:liming. In one
p:Jiming. forex.ullple. he
made linear. geomctric
markings. composed fro m
;j view of coun that hlY
behi nd these lines. The
different b:Lckground
tones very much affected
the appearancc and colour of the markings.
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r...liss Hart exhibited some
of her gr:lphic design work.
including some post:Jgc slamp
designs .1Ilt! a poster fo r a fair.
She combined different
compositions. stylc~
and fon ts. One e .~ h ib it­
cd piece contained
floral designs. below
which was a design for
;L fairy talc type gate:
these were working
drawi ngs fo r the SC I
design for "The
Fairy Queen".
M r. Allen. being
both the printmaking
specialist and an ;j\'id
mountain biker. ex hibiled pieces based 1m ordnance survey maps. Different pri nts
were ex hibited of the Jinc:lr type markings derived from
cn11lOurs. leaving the impression that each composition was a
bird's eye view of a landscape. However. the pallems the
contour markings created enabled the pieces to be viewed in
many diffcrent WOl)'S.
Atlthe work exhibi ted was llalUrally ofa vcry hi gh
standard, and highlightcd the fact thaI the Art Beaks arc
indeed arti sts inthcir own right.
Miss Tolputt.the ceramics sl>ccialisl. ex hibited a seleclion of her ceramic sculptures. She appeared to be interested
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'O ne doesn't always know
where ideas begi n. An impu lse to
an image can be both urgent and
obscure ', (Michael ROlhcnslcin).
Whil st it is imponanllo
acknowledge Ihe achicvCIllCIll of
every individual who graft.s to
produce a folio of quality wilhin
the studios of the Art Sc hool. and
precision to magic illlo life a host of (] uirk y fig ures :Ind
animals. Thcse characters populate her images in an
intrigu ing web of relationshi ps wh ich altill1es uncolllforta bly reve:l ] some tru th abou t the way we behave :md
thi nk. This is why they :Ire h:lrd-won. Not beC:lUSC they
t:lke hours to dr.IW- they don't . (I have seen Eve produce
a series o f spcclacu lar drawings in the SP;ICC of a pre p ..
there :lTe a wondrous many of
these. it is righ t \0 celebrate
exceptional achieveme nt.
Hoth Eve Pcasnal1 and Jaji
Koyama have been exceptional stu -
dents. Jajj's ability to make
uncompro mising work ofsubtlcty
and lincssc is informed both by rigarm is dmwing d iscipline ;md a
£, ... /'rasmdl
wide nmging knowledge of
contemporary art. C lown though he may sometimes be.
l oj i is no fool. He is the o nl y student I have seell in 16
years oflcaching. who has the disci ptil1l.:d obsession
which char:lctcrises truc .mistry. A qUlllity before which
o ne feels humblcd. A great deal of his work is rooted in
his acute perception of Ihe richness o f WOOl and we:lthered surfaces to be found in any m ajor ci ty oflhe world:
bl istered paim, fragmcnls of posters, semi-obliterated
gram ti. limc-worn wi ndows: surfaces wi th thdr own
unique histories. many of them embodying g limpses o f
Joj i's personal history. as well :IS ret1eeting his cem;eless
desire to travel. Joj i's paint ings reveal a Japanese
sensibility incorporaling :1 contem porary Western
urb:m aesthetic.
Joji's paint ings arc h'1Tdwon. The result of hours of
working and fe-work ing.
Eve's drawings arc equally
hard-won, but for very
differenl reasons. Her
draugh tmanshi p is awesome
for someonc of her age. She
uses line with subtlety :md
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and have take n the libcrty 10 rescue them from the dustbin after she has left. di ssatistied). They are hard-won
because they arc allcmpting 10 cOllle to tenn s w ith dee p
issues that arc, in a sense. impossible to articulate. It
requires coumge to comment on the hU111:1I1 cond ition
through drawings thM many wou ld d ismiss as 'wei rd'. It
speaks volullles, though, that I have yet to meet someone
who has 110t sel1sed the quali ty of Eve's work.
I :Ull pro ud Ihat the Art School has Ihe flcxib il ity to
accommodate studcnts o f this calibrc, and then celebratcs
their aehievcmc nt.
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When 'A level students in the Art School were asked
to reneet on Paul Dank's role as this year's artist, in-residenee, the ir response was heart fe lt, posit ive and encouraging: "He has been a constalll source of support:' " He is
ycry approachable :md alw.!ys willing 10 share his ideas:'
"Hi s in t1uence can be see n in a lot of our own work:'
From my standpoint as head of the Art school, Paul's
year with us has been both stimulating and reward ing,
Te;lehing alongside him o n lhc 'A' lcvel course has been
a real joy and great fun. Whil st embracing innovat ive
stratcgies and e ncouraging students to work in a personal
way. hi s belief in a disciplined approach to both drawing
and painting is cle;lf.
What has been particul:!rly impressive, and this has
been commented 011 by many students, has been P;UlI'S
ski ll in handli ng pai nt. Whether he is creating flawless
sur l~lces that rcfl ect your gaze, man ipu lating the energy
of poured paint or rendering o bjects and figures wilh
electrically charges lines. his con trol is im peccable.
If one t:lk e.~ lhe trouble to look closely enough. to
peer beneath the surface - and his surfaces arc
beautifully and ski lfu ll y made - one discovers a greal
de:!1 of wit and intelligence. Hi s constant reference 10
lhe way Ihat Gainsborough and Constabl e arc viewed is
challenging li S all to consider more carefully how we
view accepted forms of 'art' ourselves, We a ll make
choices about the colours and images we have in our
homes, be itlhe colou r of our bcdroom walls, the liyi ng
room carpel or the Constable print over the firep lace. We
arc surrounded by ev ide nce these cho ices and Paul calls
lh is a 'domestic arti stic language'. The way we buy a tin
()fhousehold paint off the shelf. Ihl.!l1 purchase a reproduction ofGainsboTOugh's
··Mr. and 1\·lrs. Andrcws'·.
and place one on top of the
other in ou r living roOI1\ is
evidence of om use of this
language. By placing these
S,11l1e things together in a
d ifferen t contexl - that of
a fo rmal art ex hibition of
considered artifacts encourages us to renect
on this aspect of our
everyday lives.
Questions have bee n raised dllring the ycar both abou t
the access ibi lity of Paul"s work. and about the necessity
of Marl borough having an artist-in-residence at all. As fa r
as the former is conccrned. anyone who has madc the
I.!ffon to ta lk to Paul abou t his work has been generously
rewarded. Pupils from all years. and even beak s. have
responded warml y w having the work opened up for lhem
through rich. honest and stimulating discu ssion .
Concerni ng the i rnportance of .m artist-in-residence: it
is self evide llt that if Marlborough is about providing as
rich an educat ive experience as possi ble for its students.
then they should be exposed to the excellence of committed professional s in the ans. sciences and spor\. I can say
unreservedl y thai Paul Danks has been an excellent role
model and wi ll be a h'lrd aCllO fo llow.
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For the first two days we terrorised the slopes of Mount Stoneham,
a small resort in itself, yet w ith enough excitement to tic kle everybody's fancy.
his year's
skiing trip
had a Jivcl y
and infallible
repLll:ltion 10 livc up
to; ),CI nOi at any
st:lgc d id it d isappoint. The skiing
part y was made up of
a di verse mix of
students and tcachers
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with thirty-one in t0 1:l1. We
resided in the excelle nt
Ramada fo ur sl:lr hOlel. The
sharing of beds was certa inl),
cos)" yel kept thl! cost of the
holiday to a minimum. and
aft er the initial gasps of
delight. everybody's excilement at the prospecl of sharing
beds d ied down. The food in
Ihe hOlel was tantali si ngly
good. being a mix of French
and Italian c uisine,
Quebec was to be our b;lsc for the holiday yel lhe
skii ng was to be shared between IWO resorts, which were
abo ut a thirty minute coach ride from the hotel. For the
first two days we terrorised the slopes of Mount
Slo nl!ham. a sma ll resort in it self. yet with enough
exci tement 10 tickle e\'crybody's fan cy. The snow covcr
was nothing sha n o f exce lle nt with 100'1(, of the pistes
open. The scenery WlIS differe nt to the Alps with less
spectacular panol<unic views. but who needed Ihat when
bombing dow nlhe piste close 10 the lift off?
Neil (it's al right. we do it li ke th is in Z imbabwe)
Farquharson spent most o f his time trying 10 injure
himse lf in the trees. whii sl Pcte ( 100% pure .tdrenaline)
Vukusic weill balli stic snow boarding closc to Ihe edge.
For the next fOll r da),s a liI' snow paradisc was MOIlIl1
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Sainte-Anne which was 11 far larger .md more diverse
resort. It offered rn.my 11 tricky black double diamond run
to conqucr .md we fou ght quite a bailie against the
cle ments, with Ihe climalic conditions being far fromlh e
aver.lge. One thing noticeable with Ihis resort and wilh
Can:lda as a who le was the lack of queues for the lifts. A
max imum of a minutc's wait was ex pected at thc worsl of
lift s. which maximiscd plcasure time.
'Ille apres-ski complcmented the day's skiing. On thc
Tuesday nightlhe pre mier di vision local derby icc
hod ey match was our Veutle, which proved to be more
like box ing on icc! Amlrew
Cochr.lIle managed to
acquire the puck and James
Durrant. Chri s Aikens and
Rachel Sicc all appeared on
the localtclcvision sports
round up. O n the lllU TSday
nightlhe local ' bowl:mmm'
sup pli ed the entertainment.
as we introduced the arl of
leg spin bowling to the
Canadialls.
TIle trip was superb and
we made Illany new friends.
I would like 10 thank our
Skie rs World representat ive. Patrick. who worked
li relessly on o ur behalf e nsuring money was saved whilst
maximising enj oyment .
Canad<l proved to be cheape r than the Frcm; h Alps.
and offered . on balance. beller skiing ; who will nOI return
to Canada?
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The gene ra l buzz around
college is that last weekend's
Penny Reading 'The Passion
Play' was superb - professional. moving lUld powerful - and
I totally agree. What struck me
immediately was the atmosphere in the chapel. that deep.
dark and mysterious place.
which surrounded the audiellce
cven before the play began.
The set was simple and sparse.
the lighting basic. the music
addictive and the acting
wOllderfu ll y convincing on
all levels. Nigell3rYllllt's
adaptation brought all the
elements together.
The set. a long chipboard
stage. the only add itio n to the
chapel's gold altar, dark wood
and colourful walls and
windows, put the action (luite
literally in and around the
audience. Whi le most of thc
action took place on th is stage, the altar was used as a
rich contrast ;md setting for the authorities. Jesus'
opponents, to plot lllld punish. The usc of the length of
the chapel was remarkably effective, bul [ feel. as I know
many others may do, that cl ear vision and hearing were
not always possible - many words were lost in echo,
despite the generally good voice project ion. I also liked
the way sce nes on the stage took place at allemativc ends
so that movement seemed cOll tinuous, and the Last
Supper or the Resurrection for example. were nOl in the
S: lIl1C place. The lighting, for me, was one of the
strongest elements. which goes to show that 'less is
more'. It was true innovation that made the light shine
through the window onlO the angel and the crucifix . or
the blue light at the last supper, or the shadow cast upon
the altar as Jesus was removed from the cross. The
choice of music was equally suitable to the atmosphere,
emphasising the dramatic mOl1lents as we ll as taking
advamage of the volume of the chapel to create an
eerie sensation.
People " Iways have high expectations of actors in
'school productions' (I hes itate to usc that phrase), and arc
quick to compare them to what they'vc seen before.The
standard of acting in the 'The Passion Play' was very high.
Such figures as Jesus and Mary mean different things to
everyone and thaI was the challengc ,l1ld
difficu lty of it. Adlllll Shaw played J e~ LL s with a perfect
hlend of calm. rags. fru stration and acceptance, and gavc
a truly hUlllan element to the Son Of God. Olivia Cook
(Mary), was forcefu l yet touch ing: Hilary Attenburough
showed energy and devotion as Mary Magdalene: Naomi
Kerbel fi lled her role wit h emot ion . I W,IS very ililpressed
by Susallnah Tres il ian, who let loose as the adulterous
woman, and Tom Daniell. as Judas. shuwed with nair the
agony ofh i .~ role as deceiver. The authorities (Ben Fogg,
Andrew Hopper. James Ibbotson. Francis Lec and Ivar
Wigan) were suitably evil and provokcd much ironic
hUlllour. The soldiers and torturers. the perfect antidote to
the tragedy of the story. wcrc wonderful - funny,
gr{)\esque, violent. One had to laugh at the black comedy
of the crucifixion, but our mimls werc never distracted
from the foclls. The disciples, Peter (Stephen Hewitt),
Sarah (El izabeth Stopford). the centurion (Ali Boyd
Brent) :md the
angels (Abigail
Boreham and
Susannah
Tre.~i! ian ) were
all excellent as
well.
There was
a dominant
scnse of unity
and seem lessncss about the
acting. and the
play's duration
of on ly 100
minutes mcant there was never any lagging . On a critical
nute, I think occasiona ll y emotions ran 100 wild.
However. I pUlthis in rather half-heartedly and merely
because it's necessary as a balance to the admirable and
memorable qualities of the production.
Amy Cnxtu
(Orillinal/r I'''JII~d in 711~ Ne",../!ut /.
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Gold Duke 'Of'Eilinb,u r!gh tE~I;'edli'!()'\.
27th·30th August 1
had been reading 011 the train.joumey down to
Danmoor. lost in the world of A 'Iale ()r~'o Cilie.\·
where the wine WOlS n ooding down the cobbled
street: and I had 10 rus h to gct off the tr:li(l. Very
n ustered, r grabbed my rllcksackod!.nd had no choice but
10 d<lsh into the driving raip.
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I had arrived. alo ne. at I vybridge on the south edge of
the moor. r put my book aw.lY alld pulled o n waterproofs.
11l1<1gine my rel iefwhcn Emma and Jo came towards me.
smothered in waterproofs. maps ill hand . Wc had an hour
10 wait for the last member of our group. r...lari:l11 .
Duri ng the first nigh t in a campsite a nervous atmosphere preva iled. We wcrc all unsure how we. ind ividually
alld as <I group. would cope. We were visited by (Jur
assessors. Mary and Anne. who were 10 support and
s uperv ise us over the
four days. They went
Ihrough o ur ro Ule cards
(80k m covering the
length alld breadth of
Dartrnoor). and checked
o ur kiL Afler a brief test
of Ollr COlli ilion sellse
aud lirst aid knowledge
we were passed as lit
for the moor. and were
left to our OWII devices.
We woke al 5.45al11.
and by 7.30am we were
I km .tway fromlhe
campsite. At li rsl we got
tangled up in fann land. and couldn't find the path.
However, we were soon on the Two Moors Way. a hanlcore Irack, and began 10 make good progress.
After lunch we began to cu t across o pell 1ll00r1:md,
and the weather deleriorated. Several icy downpours
froze my h.mds as we began 10 baule uphill through
clcph.ml grass .
I
Looking back now. the days were fairl y si milar and
the memories merge into one. We awoke before fi rst light
and were usually gone before it began to drizz le. We
walked. talking in pairs. or trudging in determ ined
silence. Our backpacks graduall y grew lighter meal by
meal. OUf spirits Oueluated with lite lime o f day and the
weat her conditions. During Ihe evenings - tlte besl part of
the Jay - we relaxed in our lents, or in the sun. watchi ng
o ur s uppcrcook as we " I<l yed cards or chatted.
The second day was my wors!. We were constantly
ho urs ahead of our schedule, and our map reading
seemed f<lu Jt lcss - b1ll I fcll terrible. By the end of lite day
my feel WeTC so sore Iltat each SICp was a new e ffon. and I
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had run nUl of el1ergy. With 2km l0 gol saw no prospect
of ever making it 10 oure.llnpsitc. let alone sun'iving tlte
rema in ing 40kl11. S heerdeterminalion lOok me s tep by
sle p up the hil l. and to tlteeampsite where I col lapsed,
dangling my feet in the river. Fortunately I revived
enough afler supper to do a su n-dance with 'Magic
Marian'. and for me and the we<llher Ihi s was Ihe turning
[xlint o f the expedition.
We spen t the 3rd .lIld 4th days in North Dartmoor: tlte
scenery became more l>eautifu l and the sunshine less evasive. As we toiled our way like beetles up man y of the
great Tors - S illerford Tor. Yes To r - I had a great feeli ng
of energy and life . We were so far ahead of time thaI we
made a 4k111 de tour 10 d imb the highest point on
Dartmoor. High Will hays.
We had a crisis ol1 lhe last night. even if we did n't
rea lise il at the time. The evening was fabu lous: warm
and sunny. and we had been in camp since 3pm. As our
clot hes and the tents dried out. we had a hilarious game
of cards . which went 011 and on. We cooked s upper early.
and boiled water for d rink ing the nexi day. Out sti ll . as
dusk came. our assessor hadn't come to check us into
camp. As it g rew dark we concluded Ihat she musl have
bccn delayed by one of her olher gro ups, and expected 10
see her in the morniilg.
r.,'lorning came. and we were packed up c'lrly. We
hu ng around llll[il 7.30. our scheduled (ime. in case she
appeared at the last minu te: but (hell we heudcd off into
the thkk fog Ihat obliler:lled Hound Tor.
We moved fasl des pile the 30m visibil ity - up and
over HoulI{l Tor and then Link Hound Tor. We even
sca led Cosden Hill without a problcm. T hen we took a
bearing dowll the other side to continue along our ro ute.
As we got lower. the fog became thinner. and then
cleared. We saw :. fi gure in the distance. It w:.sA nne.
delighted to sec us.
As we fou nd out. we had been the crisis of the previous e\'e ning. M:II')' h:ld come 10 check us into camp. and
had been unable to find us. She went to the place we h:.d
marked onlhe lIlap (an o ld tiu ller's hut) and ha<[ found a
perfect campsite. but with no tents. We. however hml
obliviou,.{ly hit the river a li tt le dow nstrelllll ,IUd. being
lazy. had continued down until we found a bcaut iful
c:unpsile.just behi nd a fin ger of land.
r.,-Iary had searched and slilllmdn't found us. She
stayed Ollt until dark re-tracing our route in case we had
run into trouble. She had phoned Anne! and intemlpled
the family cclebr.tting her son:.s retum from sea. It got
wllrse :md wor;;e. The whole o f Anne's family and /I.-lilry
had been up s inc~daw n loo[..'ing for us! I donlt th ink thilt
even bei ng gen uinely sorry could have done much for
Mary's :mger.
We reached 13clstone, our fin al destination, our spirits
soari ng agai n. We s(oppcd. and stood a mo mellt . (Jne foot
on the tarmac. and olle foot on the moor. f r ;I last look :11
the spread of fam iliurcountry and the Tors \\!e had
climbed. Mary and Anne turned up with much improved
tempers. and we reviewed the-expedition. We had succeeded. :md the sense of:achievement was immense.
Most illllmn:lIllly. I>crhaps. we knew each other. :md our·
seh'es. much beller.
Silver Duke Of Edinburgh Award
Expedition
1(:am; Hermiolle /-Iol/wu/. /Jrel/(Iol/ Mon' alld UJII/
/-Ioo/Ier (1.6)
e dropped ofT at our starti ng point feelin g
highly opt imistic on Tuesday 25th June. Two
days in Dorset. walking through beautiful
landsc:lpe :md'camping Olll: what could be
better when the rest of the year were going through the
undesired. tedious process of exa m give-backs'! Litt le
were we to know that qLLi le a few things wnuld no t go
as planned ...
Slarling out at4pl11. we only had II kilometres to
walk to our c:lmpsile. T he weather was fresh lind warm
and before long our heav}' tracksuils had been swapped
for shorts which we never thought we would need. Our
schedu le was lenielll and we.man ..,ged to fit in a game of
frisbee (O{}C Brc.ndo n had bought for Ihe expedition).
,-,Then ns wcambled along chattering amicably ,lIId laughing al our rrienUs hack at S.ChOOJI we suddenly realised
how far b hind schC'dule we hlt l)Cco;nc - a sudden
. ..... hom e ofP:ICC.W,lS nee1tEd. AltffLS point OLLr COlllp .. SS
W
reading failed liS. We lOok a wrong tllm (if nOI
two) ami il was only by guesswork Ihal we
man:lgcd 10 lind ourdesignaled c,unpsite. Being lired and
hungry we bec:mle very fm strated on find ing a nOle fro m
Nick.uur :lSSCssor. simply sayi ng "Where arc you -l aleT
Pondering whelher we had already fai led. wc rus hed to
put up t./ ur ten t and ~ Ian cooking in the hOI>C thai Nick
would be impressed and forget about ollr late arrival.
When hc did ret urn , we were happil y munching on a
much desired me;11 with the tire burning sa fel y ;md camp
looking very ne:11.
After a hearty breakfast Nick encouraged us to
re-timctable the day. Suddenly we had to walk do uble the
numher of kilometres in what seemed like half the time ~
The result of this W:L" a sliglllly dampened trio selling ofT
at a vcry quick, almost mnni ng pace. The wemher cOl1linued to be beautifu l as our hike took us along high coastal
paths rising .. bove the smooth ness of the sea below.
_ Concelllmlion ,lI1d caut ion wcre needed as the path
became smaller and even more rural. i\ wrong step could
easily have left us hanging for (lUI' lives on' the cl iffs.
After Slopping for lunch we trekked 011 a nd the only
problem we carne :!cross was a rather klrge group of
horse... blocki ng our way. Brcndon tried to make friends
with them whil st T OIll a nd I
slipped quiet ly amund them.
Ic,wi ng Brendon complete ly
stmnded. It was on ly guts and
brutc force thai enabled him 10
rejo in us!
Th..:: early evening broug ht
us into a I>crfect selli ng for
camp. Old mining caves went
back lift)' yards inlo the black.
w:ller-dripping clilTs leaving
an open :1fi!:I at the fro nt above
the :-urgi ng o flh e :-.ea below.
L,,;tving our bags hidden. we
tTo()ped offin search of a fres h waler supply (gathering
drips fro m the ca\'csdid nOI "PPC;lr a ll thai :lppeal illg to
us!). The slin soon SCI. and, completely ex hausted by the
d:lY's walki ng. "I'tel' :1good brew.up we fe ll asleep.
I h:ld a rest less nigh t not being able to sleep on stich
hard ground. but Brendon and '10 m quick ly bu llied l11e out
or my ~ad mood and wesct o ff on our conclud ing day.
Walking inland :md towards our final dest ination. Corfe
G lstle. :Ill went according 10 pl:lIl as we jUlI!;cd the
d i eck-inlilRes 10 perfec9on. T he I:lst leg o n what was yel
anolher sunny d:lY, W:lS along Ihe Downs and into Corfe.
After being to ld or our success in Ihe completion of the
cxpcdili ~lI\. the th ree of us ildjollTlled 10 Ihe neareSI
reSlaurant for a much dcser.'ted and needed meal. The
to .. st went to lIo.onc"bul ~ursclves. and why 110 t?
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Marlburian Club Day 1996
Sunday 3rd March
Anile H a ye~ . e njoy coffee wi lh ~vl r~. Gould in Ihe
Master's Lodge or wa lk roulld Ihe COllege 10 bring Ihemselves "p-Io-dale with den;lo pll1":llIS.
A reception was held ill Adderky where drinks WL:re
serwd by all allen tiv..: tcam led by Ihe Senior Prefect
Vicky Lucas. and thell lunch was taken in the Norwood
Hal l. Ollce agai n. O Ms. p:lrtieularly the o lder generation.
were i Jl1pres~ed by the quality and di versity of tile ~knu
- in spite o r the absence of Trc:lde Bolly!
As usu:ll. during the atkrnoon. there were a \'arieIYof
act ivit ies for the or"h 10 watch. T hl\:c hockey matche!'>
took place hetwcell OMs :md boys and girls :-:chool
teams. There was a r.Lcket!'> match in which Roben
Wakely was j oined by Guy Barker. Ally Robinson and
Richard Spcuuer. :md the Rille Club aud Hunt C lub were
in\,ol\'cd in their re.'> pccti ve :lctivi li..: ....
tub Day SI:lrtCt! a s usual ill Chapel wi th Ihl!
College. The highlight o r the service was the
dedication o f the me1l1orial to George
C
H cywlJOtl , MOISh.:r
orlhc College from I l,lJ9 to
1952 . i);lvid Wcst gave a del ightful il11f()(luclion and the
Memorial Plaque was blessed by the Reverend Laurence
Gunner. Everyone who "lIended the servi ce received a
copy o r lhe superb obituary o r GCllrgc Heywood. written
by David West.
Fo llowing the e h.lpel service. orvis w ilh their wives
:Illd fam il ies adjourned 10 the Norwood I-Iall for w llec
prior 10 the C lub Annual General Meeting. which was
hcld in tho.: Garnell Room.
The PrcsidcllI Peter Worl idgc (C2 1(44). aflcf a vcry
acti ve and !>lIccclos fuJ YC;Lf. handed o\'cr the r..:in s \0 H is
Honour Judge D;lviJ $avi11 (Ll 194-1 ). ThL: Commiucc's
nominat ion as PrL:sident-Elect is GL:lIenll Si r Patrick
Palmer ( B2 1947). who is the G O\'L:rnor & Constable of
Windsor C:lslle. John Uzit:: 11i (CO 1950) was electL:d
Secretary ufthe C lub in snceess ioll to Ro l1\!rt Smi th
(11 1 1943) who has retired after sevo.:l1 vcry successful
yo.:ars. Followin)J Ihe normal C lub lmsino.:ss. the Master
gave a brief prese illation o f the Col lL:ge and his plans
for the fUlure.
While Ihe A.C.M. was in progress. wives and fam il ies
were able 10 watch a gymnast ics di splay organi sed by
Ai'tcrt L:a at the Norwood Hall. lhe day ended with the
Penny Reading which this year took place ill C hapel
wit h :l much-praised perfortn:Lnce (If "Thc Passio n Play".
Th is was:1Il ambitiou s projec i whkh W:LS much cnjoYL:d
by m ...ls.
A ll ill ;111. :lIlother succ..:ssful Clu J) Day. T he numbers
wcre slighll y down O il prL:vious years. but the :lge-sp:lIl
ranging fmlll a 1923 L:lllrall1 t(1 1990 elltr:mlS was as widc
spread as usual. ThL: weather was di sappoint ing blltlhi s
h;l!'> become a fealllre ofCllib Day and was ccnainly not
enough to daillpe n thc enlhtlSiaSIll of orvis.
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oc ey our
IIr tirst e.'< l>eriences of Zimbabwe were vast
rugged landscapes and stunning sunsets.
l'lav ing had such a bi g journey. the lirstlcg
of the tour was sl>erll rec uperat ing in
Nyang:l. The first of n ur sight seeing venues was Worlds
Vicw. a spot ;It the top o f a lIIountain.
O
SI. Georges Selmnl in
Harare. was our ncxt
dest ination and was to be
our home for the lIex l
week. We were billeh!d
with f;L1lli liesof the 1st XI
from the school. St.
Georges were havill1::1
centenary tournament. and
Marlborough College was
one of six p;lrt ic ipating
teams. 1\ game W;IS played
each day against a tea m and
o nlhc fina l day there was a
a six-a-side tournament and
a centenary dinne r and
presentation. The games
were played in the
aft ernoons. lw() of which
were played at the N;ll ional
Hockey SI;Hlium. We came
fourth o ut of Ihe six teams.
The squad comprised four Remove. li ve 1·l und rcJ.~ . and
seven Lower Shih players. The !I\'e teams we played
were considered 10 be some of the best in the country so
all in all we were pleased wi th (lur performance.
As the hockey was in Ihe afte rnoon. we were able to
go sightseei ng in Ihe rnorn i n g~. A nati ve African vi llage.
a seaplmle port, a g:L1lle reserve, a lobaceo floor (the
largesl ill the world) and ;r snake park were just some o f
the places we went to see in our firsl week. Many a time
we were able 10 sample some o f the loe:!l delicacies. We
were well looked afte r by the famil ies ofSI. Georges' ,Inti
our fi rst week was 10 sct the lo ne fo r an enjoyable tour.
0 11 SUllday the 7th of July we !lew 10 Bulawayo. our
home for the second week. The first school we ~t a ycd al
was Nmlhlea, a large but poor govern ment school o n Ihe
oulski l1:. of Bul:lwayo. Dcspi le poor facilities we were all
impressed by the effort they welltlO 10 make us fe ci vcry
welcome. It was good 10 see so many Marlburi;ms givi ng
old hndey ki llo mcmbers o rlhe No rthlea Hockey team
as their own ki l WilS in bad cond ition and outdated.
Our second (ieSli nalilln in Bu lawayo was MillOn
College. another government school. The Hoc key
Stadium was right by the school so the wann-up that day
consisted nf nrnn ing 10 the Stad iurtl. Tiredness \>eg:mto
creep up on us, and having played S games in as many
days plus a six -a-side tournament, people we re looking
weary. However. tile IWf{les\ games o f the tour were yet
[0 co rtle as we still had to play Plumlree . F;llcon and CBC
respecti\·ely. T he last three g;lIne~ S;IW u ~ pl;IY ~oll1 e of the
be~1 hockey on tile tour, especially ;Igainst Falcun - the
National Champiolls.
The day after we had played CBC we lllove{1 u n [0 our
last destination and into our last wee k. We travelled by train
across Zimbabwe from Dulaweyo to Victoria Falls, a
[wel ve hou r ovemight joumey. When we arrived at [he f;lli s
we checked in at the Rain bow hotel . We stayed here for the
tirsl part of our week and fro m the hotel we wellt un Ihe
SundownerCmi sc. experienced whi tewater rafting and
watching the crocodiles stl nb;t1hing on the banks.
The tour h;u.l heen an incredible e:<pcricnce for
us ;1 11. We were privileged e nough to p:lrl icip;l\e in
;lctivili.:::-. which very few people have the oppo rtu nity 10 be part of in thei r scholastic carea. I would
like \0 thank 1'\'l r Markham. Mr Clcm inson and
Sle\'e Nelson for organising :lnd .~ u pcrvising the
lOur. Lastly I wou ld like to thank the players for
m:lking it an unforgcttable trip.
finally we "hi ted Victoria Fall.~. The Slindowner Cmi se
was Ihe fi rst oPl>OMlmity we had had I\) see large wild animals si nce we had been on tour ;md we saw a herd ofthiny
elephants du ri ng the two-hour vOy:lge. The Victoria F:llls
were spectacular. The last port of call of the week was take n
up by Safari anll altho ugh this was greatl y e njoyed by all.
the highlight of the week had been the whitewater rafling,
which in volveu a trip down the Z:ullbezi over abou t tiftee n
rapids. The only unncrving cvent of the d:lY had been
Picture
creative
writing
1\ puma il or a youn g girl hang~ , ., i lel1l l),.
Fr:lIm:d hy the pale wall o f th e h:II'e roum.
Beneath il a ch:lir. II'I}(xlcn. a child's eh:lir:
11.~ ~ h adow ~ I e; il s the dear light. fmm o ll l~i{le.
Where Ihe new :-'lIn warrn~ Ihe \\"t,,-Jden O,,,-,r
Orlhc ~I ark r()()l11. ami a bree.lC htow:-' I lmm~h Ihe \ inc.
An o ld lady sils in a I"l)t.·king ch:lir:
Her dct ieal e f:lI:e illumin:!I<."d hy Ihe ~Ofl
~u n .
She is rC:lding: and from wilhinlhis ~olln.tle ~s room
She call he:lr Ihe IC:1I'es !.Tinkle in ul1Iidy confusion.
The yo ung girt wa tc h e~ her. The chair renlcrnlx:rs her.
The sun c:lr pd.~ Ihe floor Ihat lime ~prc;ld helwec nlhe m.
Slil il he o ld lady rcad:-.: ;nul Ihe leaves
Flai l :lgain~ llhe light. forced by Ihe brcl."I.e.
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Ce>ncer-ts
From the 51:111. the 1995-6 season promi sed to be one
to remember with an impressive line-up of world class
performers <ldoming the posters ;md brochures "round
the College and town. How bellcr to start off 011 151h
October Ihan wilh the second visit II) i\'larlbofOugh
Calkgc of the world's Icad illg solo percussionis t.
Evelyn Glennie. Her progr,lI limc was extensive and
varied w it h an arrange ment of "Born 10 be Wild"
del ivered in her delightful Scolli sh accent next to
Ncy Rosauro"s ralher mure ethereal COllccno for
i\brimba. We arc a lwHYs rc,HJ ing in the music press
how even
morc fan tastic
she really is
when we
remember tha t
she is totally
deaf ;md this
rcaliS.llion
made the COIl-
cert all the
morc sumning.
The moods she
was able [ 0
creatc with the
help of somc
s ubtle anu colourful spot- ligh ting we re vc ry
intensc indeed.
A difficult act 10 follow. you m:ly think. But
this was nott llc case for cel li st Natalie Clcin.
1')94 BBC Young Musici.m of the Year and
lirSI Briti sh winner of the Eurovisioll
Competi tion for You ng l\'llIsieians in Warsaw.
also in 1994. Dubbed by lll;my a s the next
Jaqualine DlI Pre. s he was. qu ite simply.
phenomenal. She played wi th :lswn ishing
malurity and depth consideri ng her age and
her Beethovell. Shostakovich. Brahi lls and
MaTlinu constituted a ravish ing programme.
T he lIext cOllcen on 12 Novemocr in the ChallCl was
the highly acclaimed National Youth C hamber C hoir o f
Great Brita i n unde r M iclwcJ Brewe r's expert \li n!eti oll.
Thi s gro up of 25 si ngers is the crcalll of the 130 strong
Nati onal Yout h Choir ofGrc:1I Brilaill and the y appea;ed
with the Nemo Brass Quintct for what was to he a rea l
tre.l1. Typicall y for the NYCC. the programme was about
as varied as it possibly wuld oc wit h works by Bach.
James Erb and Robin Nelson's setting o f the Mi ssa
Brcvis. They caused a s tir w ith one piece wrillen for
them called 'The Ti ger'. Thi s was a setti ng o f the poem
Tiger. liger. burni ng bright' wit h those words re pemed
over and over <lg;lin in fi\'e different l;ll1guages .1I1d in
either speech. noise or si nging.
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Anyone requiring a slight ly more up-beat concert
could not have been d is:lppointeu by the UBC Big Band
on 21 January. They have a
tremendous reputation :lner
ha ving wo n the 'Best Big
Band' award at the Briti sh
Jazz Awards in 1992 and
1994. amI we wcrc not let
dow n. They performed
piecl!s by G le n Mi ller.
Tommy Dorsey :lnd Ted
1·1cat h (:Ilthough he was not
the re to conduct it thi s
time). They we re fun and
colourful and their programme covered a varict),
of light jazz with more
sou lfu l ballads with the
aid of a fine b'lrilone
soloist.
The IlCnuliimate concen on II
February was g ivcn by thc bri ll iam young
pian ist. Joanna MacGregor.
Since bc illg selected by the
Young Concert Anisls' Tmsl
in 1985. s he has g ive n highly
praiscd recitals in the f.lllIOUS
International Piano Series althe
South Bank. the Barbican anu
the Wigmore Hall amongst othc rs. Hailed hy many as olle of the
coull try 's most innovative and
exciti ng you ng p1:lyers, she IlCrformcd works by Bach, Art Tatum,
Ravel. Schumann . Django Bates and
Banok. She was great fun to wa tch
and challcd 10 the aud ience rathe r lhan
an nounci Ilg her programme morc formaly. She is well known for pro\' id illg
a grem spectrum of music and her current outs tanding recordings include music by Satie. l ves.
Gerschwin and Barher.
T he season reached its lin:tle wit h a perfonmmcc of
Bach's 5t John Passion. I~obill Nelson di reelcd the
Marlhorough Co llege Choral Society. C hapel choir .md
orchestra. They were joi ned hy fi vc vc ry distingu ished
soloists: James Oxley. a .~ uJlerb te nor 'cvangel is t' , Ruth
Holten - sopr:mo. Emily B:mer-Jones - :1110, Chris
Dan iels - tenor :tnd the great Stephen Varcoe. bass. Once
agai ll th rough lhe Subscript io n Concert series.
Marlborough was treated to a real fea sl o f lOp class music
and perfo rma nce.
Porcu",on • P,ono • Slrlngo • Pcrcu.. ,on • P,ono • Slrongo • Porcu.. 'cn • P,ano • Su,ngo • Porcu ..,on • P,ono • SI"ngo • Pcrcu.. ,o ... P,ano • 51"ng'
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the reo I
atpong.is the pari o f Bangkok that 's orimming
wh ile we were approaehell by a couple of girl s who sal
over w\lh seedy bars and se." :,hows. To urists
down and pLLl lhcir hands on o ur knces and stan ed t;llking
and Thais al ike, ;l!Iractcd by the lights and
to us. A ll see1t1ed harmless. and realisi ng we we re
sm ili ng touts, wOI lk by looking fo r a good time.
not interested Ihey lefl. al which point we ;llso decided
P
n ere are appro:dmatd y 200,000 peo ple that orfer thei r
sc.'w al services for mOllc)' in "n miland . Aboll! 10,000 afC
male.
m o~ t
Of lhc lll young bo),s. 11Ic governme nt has
failed to enforce its 1:1\\'S on
pro~lillll io n ,
:nul T hailand
to leave. The bill
W:l S
brought to
li S,
4 x beers. 2 x gi rl s !
A lill ie w"y along wc we nt into the next bar. The
at mos phere here was a lillie d iffe re nt. There w as 1m
explicit sho w o n the cent ral stagc . T he girls were
has often been hailed as "the sex capital of the world",
stu nningly be:mt iful but far too you ng. T hey looked
Some Japanese and G cnna n CO Ill I)anic ~ send thc ir
bored: it
employees 10 lJ angkok 011 a holiday as bonuses for
performed we re a t fi rst much more ~ ki lfu llh a n sexua l.
cxtr.:l producti vity. Docs all thi s b;ld press rc n ccl lhc
We were shocked ;md cven ~ pc ec hl ess :11 S0111e . A s cvcnts
true picture?
W:l S.
afl er all. o nl y a job. The aCls Ihey
slow ly lent towards a more scx ua l nnture, the fun
We arrived in Bangkok after a stunning fi ve
1l1 0 111h ~
s udde nl y went OUi of the cvening . The man nexl to
LI S
in Nepal. A fter a fe w days o f adj usting to the <: uhu ral
(old enough to be our fllth er) was s urrounded by five
shock of traffic jams and McDollalds we set ahout
··hoslesses" . with IwO nn hi s knees. He ~ee11lcd happy,
ex ploring the many de lights o f the capital. It was
but wc fclt disgusted and e mbarrassed lmd so we left.
amazing to be in a city where we had air conditi oning ,
We came nUl nOllalking Illuch : we both had a lotIO
skysCr.LI>CTs, western style shops, Dunkin Doughnuts,
thin k aboul.lt was str:lIIgc. forc\"o:n though wc had been
and an incred ible selection of food. II was far more
di smayed al the age of the girls and the ob violls inte ntions
de \"cloped than Ne pal. and we fcll.lllal erialistically. al
o f most of the me n. for most o f the e\'ening we had not
home. However. one of the things Thailand has got that
felt uncomfonable with the situation. It was an experience
England doesn't. is l>alpong.
which we did not regret. btu we ne\'er went again nor felt
After a delicious roast d inner (11l1d a draught
the desire 10 d o st). For the next hour we haggled w ith the
Guinness five months in the waiti ng!) in an English style
se llcrs in Patpong lIlarke t. on the doors of the sex bars.
pub. we vowcd 10 find OUI for ou rsc1vc,') the true nature o f
for fake designer clolhes and prese nts fo r fri ends and
Ihe red light district and so e ntered lhe first bar we c ame
fami ly. We laugh ed ;md j oked w ith som e of the locals
\0 . Inside were abo ul
a dozen yo ung auracti vc Thai girls
p;lrading on a central stage in swimsuit!; w ith numbers o n
and ended Ihe ni ght in a normal bar. For some the nighL
had JUSt begun .
their fron ts and backs. The CLLslotllCrs were mostl y
European white males. sitt ing around tahles :ind drinking
beer. The idea was Ihat YOLL picked a number :Ind paid
for. allhe very least. 11 friendl y convc:rsati on. A fter a
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New Court
This year. New Court came "under new management"
-.-,.
bUl1hc spirit ,md ethos re mains the same. The present
Upper Sixlh wcre the tirsl ever Ne w Court Shell. so the
house fe d s il has come of age.
The cotu ribution orthe I-louse is cv idclII across several spheres. It W:IS pleas ing Iha\ New Coun wo n the Senior
G irls Hockey when so lTlany contribLllc 10 •• 1I thrcc school
[cams regularl y - even w ithout [c:tding first le;llll goal
scorcrll!ssa I-lodge who was 100 you ng \0 pi:!)'.
Dramatically. both the ·P'lssioll Play' alld the 'Fairy
Queen ' saw several contributors frolll this '·Iouse. As well
as laking pari ill bOlh. Naom i Kerbel has also participated
in two BBC Radio plays during Ihe year.
O ur HllUsc play' Riles' look place 011 a p:lck(:d
summer IC rlll weekend w hich also included a music
concert and a f;lI11ily BBQ. Congrmulalions 10 Sophie
Civardi for directing lhc play and 10 Louise Hoswood
and Susan nah Tre.~ ili a n fo r org;mising Ihe concert.
As ever. New Court held il s traditional
May day breakfast prior to hearing Mudrigals.
Unfortu nately. ra in preve nted thi s hapl>cning
around our courtyard : however. the girls and
tu tors still e njoyed Ihe weahh of good food.
To make everyone else j ealous. the spread
included melon. SIr::twberrics. chocol;lte chi p
cookies and creme eggs!
We wo uld like 10 wish nu r Upper Sixth a
fond goodbye and hope they find happiness in
their future careers.
II,...b
,I~ H~rr)"
B House
It is wonderfu l 10 repon Ihm lwo boys h;lve secured
places;n O ,xford ;11\(1 Cam bridge. John Ibbolson (len June
95) has a place;1I 51 Jo hn's College Cambridge to read
C lassics and Michael Follett has a place at 8alliol
College Oxford 10 rcad History.
T he l'louse has a lso been vcry fortunme in the kind
g i ft of photogmplls hy I3rllce Chalwin which now ,ldorn
Ihe we ll ;lIId give il a wo nderful feel. It is a lso good 10 sec
the crrccllhal the photographs have had on visiting pupils
- many have been \'ery impressed by thclll. Colle,lgues
fine c:lstlet! by Nick Aikens :uul Admn Jackson, created a
thnught.pro\'oki ng and atmospheric contempomry fable.
have also been most enthusiastic aboutthelll alld they
have encouraged pupils in both creative wri ting and art
lessons. We arc very gratefu l to the Sa lke ltl family for
their most kintl don:ltion.
In academic terms the house is Ihri ving wilh mosl of
Ihe boys in the Lower school doing well o n the
Conullcndation fro nt. Both Upper and Lower S ixth have
a good number o f scholars wilhin Ihem and it has been
\'Cry good 10 sec much intelleclllal discussion happe ning
around the house - somet imes a little late at night ! I'm
also delighted that next year's She ll will include an
academic and art scholar.
The sport continues to go very we ll . T he L\lwers WO Ii
the 1·louse Cricket compet ition on Prize day l a~t year and
the 1·louse also look Ihe 1·louse Swimming Cup on the
previous day. We arc very gmtcful to Alexander
Wadllmeister for all hi s sup port wi th the swimmi ng. The
lowers rugby side were al so successfu l in their compet ition at the end of the Michaelm:ls tenn. We al so managed
to win the 1·lockey six a side compe titio n at the end of the
Lentterrn. The Shell boy.~ won the house stceplechase in
both Michacllllas & Le ntterrns.
Our sl>lming life has not been as successful as in some
years . perlwps. but there have been not able triumphswinning the Shell rugby competition. for e.":II11ple. and
pUlling tip line performance in hockey .1lId cricket losing
the eo vete(1 Uppers Imphy. it is trlle. but pUlling in a fin e
display of cricket in the process. We havc re:lched the
linal stages o f the Lowe rs tenni s co mpeti tion, and
am icip:!le th:ll George Yam wi ll lead liS to g lory in the
swimming gala at the e nd of term. The grc:lt slx>n ing
occasion o f the summer. the TCvered Barllln Hill Fathers
v. Sons tmltch. broke wi th tradition by including two
Illothers 0 11 the "Fathers" team: victo ry thi s ye:l]" went 10
the Sons. avenging thcirdcfeatthe pre vious year.
The house has ag:lin bee n husy with excursions,
ranging fru11lthe cultural. such as the flow -traditional visil
til sec Ihe ilbpired Rambert Dance CWllP:UlY. to the
energetic - wilh canlle ing tri ps to the Rh·er Wye.
impromptu summer evening walks to Barbury,amlt he
Shell's long weekcnu in Snowdonia. being highlights. On
the lauer. the long a:oocellt of the Dolgarrng gorges. :md the
lIe;.;t day's scramble up 10 the ri m o f De" il's C:lUld ro n.
hroughtllllt :t great spirit of mlventure alld co-nperat ion.
There is no doubt Slime signilic'lIlce in the fa ct that. in
the last weeks ofte l"ll1 . B:lrtotl Hill was singled tllll for
specia l allcntioll by a terrific IhullderslOr1l1 . whe n. no
doubt in re~poll sc 10 John Wynne's Lear-like invocation
In the 1·lea\'Clls, the 1·louse was shaken by a violent
lightning holt.
Th;mk s go to Nic Jones. for his sheer enthusiasm
and c01l1mitment as Captain of 1·lo use, and 10 Dan
HaYlhorn ami Ed Fall . for the ir excellent leadership as
Heads of House.
.IIll'
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Barton Hill
Thi s has been a busy and productive year for Barton
I-lill. full of confidence after the :lcadclIli c success which
carlle with the summer public ex'lminat ion results; such
excellence was justly ee khratcd at the :l11nual Scho lar's
Supper in February. which this year had to spill into the
Common Room.
But the fi rst moment of euphoria of the new year
c:une with the triumph o f the House Shout. when Harton
!-lill's rendition of 1\'ladness's " It Must Be Love" look the
Mem Hall cro wd by Slonn. There weTC wild fr.llem.ll
celebrations with our t win. Elmhu rst placed second,
Another success in the pcrfonning arts CWlle :11 the end of
the year. with "The Stone-Sel ler'·. Barto n Hill's house
play, receiving its World premiere . T he pnxlucti on team
of Chri s Ai kc ns, Hugh Sadleir and John Wynne. and a
The reg ular Tuesday and Wednesday nighl riots in the
Sports Hall remain fre~ h in Ollr mind s: the red and while
attire and f:l ces. the tlying ma ltese cross. Richard Hlillt on
the trumpet mnidst 111 1 fewer than 200 supporters in the
Gallery - these were simply IInforgell:lble and played a
large part in our glorio us 1·louse Baskctb;lll Victory. Our
undefealed leam was c:lp:lbly led by Marc Boxser who
scon.:d most of [he 27 po i ru ~ against the 24 o f C2 in
the fina l.
G ildas Braille wa.~ c:tptain for fencing. retained the
Wilkinso n Sword :lnd flexe<1his muscles as Prefect and
Ho l·1. Jack Webb was C:lptain o f Soccer.
Strong conviction and tac tful diplo l1l'u.:y led to the
cont inuation of o ur fine Pantomime tradi tion despite a
change in house drama arr:mgements. The Story of Santa
kidn:lppcd into and rescued from space was performed hy
a brill iant cast led by Leo Conville. Aamn Burchell and
Henry Bankes~Jo n e s . Gabriel Burchell dis tingui shed
himself as the first Di rector in fivc years who neither
swore nor wepl after the final dress rehearsal.
T his was a li vely. enco uraging year all round. Long
live CI!
C2
C2 has been Ic{1 in admirab le sty le this year by
C harles Haskell. willi insp ired Ihe house to a fine win in
the Waler Polo Cup with a memorable display of skill and
sportsmanship. 1·1e has. more importantly. led a good.
consc ientious Sci ofC"ptains who have kept other mem·
bers of the House in good fe ll ie.
Olher U6 1uminaries have included Lee Arnold and
,\Iex Kwok, whos skill s brought the HOllse basketball
teallllo the very brink of victllry in Ihe final against C I.
The ho ning ofth cse skil ls seemed 10 involvc a larger
lIull1herofbrokcn w indows in the 1·louse Ih<ll1 usual bllt
such is Ihe price of success !
Dav id Carr has added a pleasant ly cynical anrJ icOIiO'
clastic slant to 1Il0stt hings. Nicho las Ibdford has p:lilllCd
and played his guitar (smiling a 101 bUI wi sely saying
lilllc) while Pascoe de G lan ville . Ollie G ill. Luke
Ka ullt:r.c and Pier.; Lee have kept their heads down and
worked so lidl y all year. (Belie"e that if you can! ).
Olhcr C2 successes thi s ye;tr have included a win in
the l'lockey Cup. due entirely 10 our home grown ta len\.
Any sllggestio n to the cont ra ry will re ndcr thc perpetrator
liab le to ev il procecdings. An excellent Upper School
d;mce was held during the Lent Terlll . featu ring yet mo re
hOllie grown talent. and. as [ write. we are duc 10 see the
fm its of the 1·louse Play (d ircc ted by A ndrew HOPI}Cr)
and a subsequent l'louse concert later in 1\·lay. Successes
in :111 sorts of OIherc ups will no doubt follo w.
C2 next year will be in the capable hands of Mark and
Lisa McVeigh. who will inheril a superbly dcdic;lIcd
team of tutors. Dame. Houseman and cleaners. I wi sh
thelll every good fortune ill a wonderful job.
I'll.
• 1996 1II IIIInl
C3
C 3 struck pc wter
Ih is tcnn (gold in our
eyes) when it Iri ·
1I1llphantly ca rri ed off
the Boys Gym nast ics
C up to IhunrJero us
:lpplause in the Melli
I·hl ii. This three inch
high cup Ihat nearly
dW:lrfed Slephe n
Pnllinger will embelli sh
our 1·louse photographs
for years 10 coine. The
whole 1·louse ce1i.:brated
as Ihe generous
HouselllaSler filled it tu
the brim wilh a vinlage
Vin ~'I o u sseux from Gateway.
The Ho use has had:m e .~ t r.tord i naril y good year wi th
nur triump hs such as Gavin Price find ing a girl friend.
A lex Morrissnn-Alwater I!;lnli ng a commend:llion. TOIII
N Ull gClling up for period o ne on Th ursda y (sometimes)
and Ali Boyd 13relll progressing from one to two chords
Oil Ihe guil<lr.
On a seriuus note, academic e ndeavours were 10 the
fore. as someone passed:11I A Lcvel . Ihe Shell had a quiet
night during prep. and Anthony Rettie translated the word
"bo njour" with some success in his French oral.
We were all panicularly pleased when Omar S;llem
had a shower. amI he is 10 I}C congrallliated on gelling thaI
job done al last.
Genuinely. we are sorry to lose Mr and 1"lrs McVeigh
C2 (an undeserved demolion for the m), Mi ss Tanne r 10
Fran!':c and MI" Ralhbolle til Leeds. whe re he will IiIke up
a position onlhe left wing. wit h tvlmphy in goal. Fond
farewells 10 the U6Iea\"cr.;. I know y o u'lI all miss me.
e very morning :md last illi ng at night.
II I
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Morris
Frnmlhe l'louse thaI wins the waterpolo. wi ns the
House Harnmny cOlllpetition. wins the Shell
Steeplechase. gcls more people into Oxbridge Ihan any
other House ami produces the fir.;t fema le Senior Prefect
since 1993. it could never be s:lid thatlhe girls of Morris
l'lousc are umambiliolls. Yet l}Chind the scbolarl y e.xlerior
Ihe Morris girl s :Ire learning 10 appreciate the finer things
in lifc: brea kfast in ho u ~ , fruit always available, a
sizeable garden (SOITY C2 ... ). two house mascot s, Angus
;1Ilt! Hamish. who never fai l 10 rcmind us (and C2) of
thcir presence. and evenl hc luxury of o ur very own
l1Iasterchcf, Sir Digby. Th is year Morris has also
we lcomed a number of exc hanges from France. Germany
and Jap:lI1 and a lso Clare from the Mi ssion. All have
been successful and li vely add itions to thc House. not
least Theresa von Eltz Rubenach. from Stuttgart \\"hom
we will all be sorry to sec leave.
House ini tiatives thi s year ineluded a successful
Japanese evening led by Mr and Mrs Nobes (the latest
/"I'lorris I-Iouse Suciety offering) and the Shell hosted
Saturday Night B:lsemellt "'happenings" for members or
their yeargroup. We look forward 10 mark ing Ihe William
l\'lorris cen tenary in October 1996.
Inlhe Le11l Term Vicky Lucas comp1cled a superb
tcrlll as Sen ior Prefect: thi s term Camilla Brown has
represented the college at shooting. and Tamsin Savagc
and CI:lire Thacker have both had poetry publi ~ h ed in
n:llional anthologies.
Our onc di ~;a ppo int1l1 e ntlhi s year had to be the
Interhouse Basketball competition where we had victory
snatched from us in the final minute. However. our lighting spirit and the imroduction of the Shell and Remove
county sports players will no doubt bring us TC\'cnge nexi year.
Many thank s must go to all the HUorS. especially to
Mrs. Rhea.'1 dedicated and "on our wavelength" tlilOr
who is leaving ;It the end of this terlll. It remains only to
say goodbye to the Upper Sixth who between the m ha ve
led the l'lousc wel l. havc always beCll there to he lp liS
\Vith those more complex prcps and. more importantly.
have been good friends to many Orll$.
Mike Box . Geny ['101111e5 and Ceri Essex. BOIh Bryan
UmeZ:lwa and \Vil l Unwin \\'t:re winners of prizes at
String D~r )' and Wind Day respectively. with Will Ullwin
also willn ing p1:1ces in both the Natio n:11 Youth Orchestra
and lire Nal iollal You th Choir - an exceptional achieve ment.
Lilllciield's the.mical abilities arc equally str011g . The
Fairy Queen saw i\dam Shaw. Andrew Shepherd and Ben
Sutclifrc in fine form. while the Passion Play added Ihe
name of Ivar Wig:1I1 to 11 grow ing band o f strong performers. and Jeanie Scott and Kate Mann worked backstage .
Nor can thi s play be allowed tIl pass withOlltmention of
tire olltst:lIlding acting of Ad:ulI Shaw as Chris\. and Ihe
sadisti c soldiering of And rew Shepherd.
On the sport s field. Lilll cfieid boys reached the finals
of the water polo am! Lowers rugby. while the g irls ho ld
rhe (ennis cup. and ma intain their tradition of a strollg
netb:rllteam. Thi s term. both hoys' and girls' school tenni s
teams arc captained by Lill1cncldia ns - Dan Gore and
Ki zzy Kemp·Gee respectively - and the .~ will1mil1g team
by John Grey.
Lillielicid is full of very individual characters who
add atlllosphere and make it " most inh,.:resling hOllse in
which to live. It strikes a good balance bel ween a rela ...: ing
escape fro m busy school life and a li vely. good·humourcd
environment. We sholl id add that this splendid atmosphere would never have becn possible withollt Mr & Mrs
de Sar;ull. whom we thank for their many years o f
devotion to the house.
Summerfield
Coco Atnas has been an excellent '·Icad of House
thmugholLlthe year in which refurbishment has continued
during Illost holi days. applications for house places have
increased most encouragingly :l1ld morale has been high.
I~e · dee oraled bedsits enrich our surroundings though
soon become acceptcd as the way thing s arc . Perhaps
even morc popu lar has been the smart new blue table
tennis !able during the wimer months and the Ooodlit
basketballl1et in the newly tarmackcd courtyard for tile
spring .md SUlllmer.
Litllefield
Lilllefic1d is a house gifted with strong talent s in
Iml11Y fields, espec ially Oil the arts rron!. [n art itself.
theTC was recemly a varied and fascinating exhibition or
work by Ross Birkbcck as part of the :rrt scholars' show
in the Mount House. Inl1l usic. it is one of the on ly houses to hold a house concert. This ycar there was a splendid
display of talent rrom such music ians as Will Unwin.
Rachel Elli oil. Bryan Urnez;lwa. Ed Baring. Adam Shaw.
COlllilluing the sporting theme. our rugby cuppers
side. ably led by James Lawrel1ce. gave the even tual
winners qu ite a fri ght in the second round ;lIld on an
individual note. Laurella Fox-Pitt is to be congratulated
on representing Eng land in the European Junior Three
Day Event Champ ionships. Falwd ROllmani retained the
College Rackel s C up and Romilly Evans captained
Marlborough 10 the semi-tin:ll s of the Sou th West
England GolfChamp iotlships whilst the three curren t
internationals on Ollr tu tor te<l 11l continue lu achieve
honours. Adrian F"':IT:Lnd was third in Ihe AAA indoo r
I'!cptathlo n: John Mallen won :1 Rugby Cup Winncr's
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medal with Bath: Richard Maikhllll won a bronze medal
with Guildford Hockey Club in the European Cup.
There have been most enjoyable Outdoor Acti vity
days at Coate Water (water sports), r.·I'lrlborough downs
(moulltain bik ing). the Mendips (abseiling amI caving)
and Corte Cast le (ropes course).
We wish our cx:uninees great success this summer
and hope thai they will be able 10 emulale the excellelll A
leve l results obta illed last year by Han Ph~la (AAAA.
k sus. Cambridge). Rosie Manners-Spencer ;md Wendy
Walker (AAAC) and Abi Durr;1111 (AA B). We also wish
the very best to ,mol her quite olltstaml illg E.S.U. Scholar
from America. Rita Mitchell. as she returns to take up her
place at Dartmout h College.
Caldwell opened for the Crick..:t XI. With formid able
performances i l l Ati lletics from Tom Crosland and Ono
Makome. and likewise in Rugby rrom Tom. Alex and
Will Peacock. it e;tl11e as no surprise to sec that success
born..: Olu in House competitions. We were X-Country
Relay runners- up: Upper I·jockey semi-rinali sts and
6-a-side run ners- up: At hletics champi ons and
unbeaten at foo tball.
UnderToll1 l'lodge's able editorship. the rej uvenated
Newssheet has .~ee n a new and vibranl leasc o f life. The
' House ShOll! ' (Cl liforn ian Dreaming) and Christ mas
Dinucr were both roari ng successes.
G:IP yeilr destiual ions cover the globe: Austr:tlia (Rick
Land: Loui se Halll - not together!): Canada (Tom C.):
Papu a New Guinea (Will Gadsby): Japan (A lex): ~\'l a l awi
(L:mra Irw in); African mi ssion work (Rory PagelWilkes); and Paraguay (David Miller) 10 name but a few!
/JudI/ Milia
Turner
Re\clltion of the Marllmri;1II Club Trop hy for the lx:sl
sporting house a fillillg tribute 10 last year's Icavcrs and
the Cllrrelll members of the l'louse) made for a splendid
start tll thc year. Ilen Stobart retufIled to b..: S..:nior Prefect
and C,lptuin of the XV. and thirteen new pupil s joi ned the
House.
Qur musicaltalc1lls, an often forgolletl quality of
Tuftier. led 10 a nn..: performance of Freddie's Teddi e in
the 1·louse Shou t aud Julius Cocke deserves special COI11Illend'llion for a vi rtuoso solo perrormance. On the same
dny Wi ll iam Peltor ran the fas test leg in the inter House
steeplechase (for the third year running) helping us re tai n
the Cross Country Champiotlshi p.
Cotton
As anothe r year slips by, it is time to pause. and
relket on Cotton ;lIId all its d istinguished ill habi tants
withi n.
The first full year under the assured tu telage of Mr.
Alloll. closely supported by Mrs. Alloll . 1\111'. Sm ith and
Henry the dog. has Iwssed very successfull y indeed.
1995-96 has seen ;\ hosl of achievements allributablc
to Colton and those within, a testamelllto the v,lriety of
enterprises undertaken by COllonions. DiekOIl Ausden
won the Major Scholar,;h ip (Shel l), David Ryle won the
Chemistry Prize (U6) and Alexalll.kr Mil kr successfully
WOIl a place at Oxford.
On the sport ing field, college-wide. Beli nda
WeSl m:lCOII represented I st X I girls hockey: David
Mil ler capI:lined Ihe unbeaten Hockey XI: and William
~I HI96 1 1l 1l 1tl11l
T he rugby ridd saw morc victories. wil h the Shell
team g;lin ing second place inlheir competition and the
Lowers re<lchi llg the se mi s of their,;. Clippers. for Ihe
second time in three seilsons. came to Turner when old
rivals Preshutc were soundly beilten. [t was particul arly
fillin g thai Upper Sixth Illembers Toby Bril1on. Piers
Tuggey and Wil! Pellor all scored decisive tries. The
evening wilt be re membe red for many;t YC:lr: in
customary slyle VetJ\'e C liquot W:lS enjoyed by all .
["cn \It1 r sport ing efforts have come to fruil ion
wi th George Co vclury's :lppointmcnl :ls girls
captain of squash. Alicia Fox- Pitt 's c"plainc), o f the U 15
nClil:l1l anll Lucy Macfadyen's captaincy o f U 15 tennis.
Tn C;II' il all we won the Shd l netball and Lowers hockey.
cli m ax in~
Somewhat inev itably Ric Cow ie)' and Gabriel York
the linal or the squas h eompelitio n and C harli e
Laughlon did well to re:lch the fin:l l of the j unior
cqui valent. Their presence. :llong with Ju lius Coc ke. Ben
Stobarl. Pat Craig and Hugh Twort gave us victory in Ihe
inter 1·lolisc scillash competition.
conlc~ t ed
The Lent term S:lW the Shell :md Lowers side re tain
their hockey cups and the Senior side lost o ut to Pres hule
in the semi-final s. Pat C raig 'I.~sullled captaincy oflh e
shooting team :1Ilt! Patrick Pay ne shol fo r the school
during his ~ h ort visit from Spain. Piers Tuggey was
appointed as capta in o f the Xl.
Uuder th..: forcibk lIir..:etion of Kirsti..: Urqu hart and
Martin lenic. Ihe combincd 1·lo llse Play " How would you
like your stake'!" was a blood fi lled vamp feast.
This year 1·louse spiril lms been strong. We havc bee n
wel l kd by our prefects C amilla G ore and He lena Sto ne.
Preshute
In addit ion. academic credibility was lllai11l:tined
with many impressivc results. particularl y Elgan l'luang
who managed In complete 9 A grade Mmhelilat ics
Modules in four te rms !
This year sees the dcparturc of a fine body o f me n
and womcn. and in my fi nal year at the helm I could not
have wished to have been associ:ucd with a fi ner bunch.
Particular than ks to Fred Johansen. Toby Bri lto n and
Wilt Pehur for the ir ollt st:mding leadership and 10
Marina Neilson f(lr splendid dUlies :IS Sacrist:m. Good
luck 10 thcllI all and in the words o f the Turner Hous..:
hymn : "Dear Lord and Falh..:r of mank ind, forg iv..: ollr
foolish ways ...
Rill'
Mill Mead
W..: al ways SUSI>CClcd il. but now it's o ffi cial : Preshut..:
is worth th..: walk. This was the re frain of th..:
Cooke/Luwndes Christmas song Ihal somehow c:lplUred
I>crf..:ctl y the spiri t of the house.
T he sumliler te nn rea lly shows what a speci:ll place
Preshute is: thc sell ing is as delightful :IS ever. and the
fabric nf the house is smil ing once again afte r a prolonged
face Ii ft from ou r eilul l ie nt builders. Jack and JOl!. C harli..:
has Ih..: g:lrd..:ns in great sllilpe; Sarah and Mrs F. cook
terrific t"OIlti. Ih..: lad ies and Mike who eleanlilf U .~ :lTC
cheerful and kind, and, believe mc. Iherc is no-one like
our Ihllne. tvl rs Rose.
111e th ree lI inner parties were iI sparkling success
fill ed wilh convivi al people. and I' m sure Ihatthis new
found Ir:,dilio n is SCI to continue .
Although the I-Io usc Harmony trophy was snatched
fro m under (Jllr nuses, we have high hopes fo r o ur vocal
lalo.:nls nex t ye:tr.
Although acade mic honours narrowly eluded us. we
were proud o f: Robbie Rush's art ex hi bition; The Senior
S'x:cer C up; linal places in l'lockey and Rugby; semis in
Baskelball anll Wat..:rpolo: a final for the Jun ior Socce r;
our unmatchabk g irls losing 0-26 to Elmhurst at Nelll'llI :
Ihe ~ame inimitable heroines stunning everyOIl": (butlhe
j udg..:) in the 1·lollse Harmony, and - 10 celebrale Ihe Iot a hOllS": bar whose brew. lighting and all -round hospil:llily
arc unequalled ill the school.
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t has been an historic year for the Combi ned
Cadet Force. Intensi\'c prcp:Lr.!lion look plllce
for the Bicnnial lnspcctioll which was carried
out by Gelleral Sir Anthony Mu llens KCB.
OBE. Colonel. The Royal Dr:lgoon Guards. C:ldcts
displayed fool dri ll and weapon do ll 10 a st;mdard
that is seldo m achieved at school age and the Colour
Party were acclaimed as outstanding. During the
Inspection the College ro nnally affilimcd with the
Honourable Artillery Camp.my by the present.llion
o f a Sword o f Honour.
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C3 and Mill Mead
C3 and Mill Mead performed the ir House play this
year in the Garnelt Room . It was not exact ly one or the
grcal. dassic. intellectual
plays of yore. It was nO!
rea ll y a play thallricd (0
make its audience th ink
dee ply aboUllhc mysteries
o f the uni verse. [\ WilS
1I10rc ,I play thm did ils
leve l bcsllO take Ihe
chronic ( mickey) out of
ping incidenl in llrazil. Guerrillas Cilpture a Briti sh diplomat and ransom his life agaillst thc release of workers
impri soned Ily the fasc ist sta te. During the ordeal the two
strike up a pseudo-camaraderie which is both surprising
and well conceived . Yet when the rescue scheme goes
am iss , the terrorbt sti ll manage to kill the ambassador.
The tension during the whole phlY was marvellous,
the TV studio atlllos phere artificially created by Shaw
detrilct ing nothing from these scenes. and thc climatic
linish to thc play was well acted :md poigniUlI. On the
whole Lin lefield 's effort was deellled. in public opi nion ,
to be pick or a hig h qUil lity bUllch .
every serious vampire
l'Hlry ever wrilh.:n. and al
C2
The Long and the Short and the Toll
Ihis it succeeded
admirably. The script.
although unlikely 10 win
many prizes for originality. was cleverly wrillcn
with 110 poss ible double
entendre left unheard.
and the cast took advantage o f this. The fang s
look a litt le while \0 put
in. and the SCotting was
not vcry well alTangcd.
bUllhc sheer blistering
(IUalilYof the programme
made lip for it ;j ll. The music. phlycd by Mark Norman.
was also consistently excel lent.
Conspicuous by its lack ofwngible SCI. though losi ng
nothi ng from it, this play continued the theme o f kidrlilp
that had bee n starled the previolLs wcekend by Lillididd.
T in: play was set in the East I ndie~. in a war torn region of
Siam. T he kidna p victim on this occasion was a nati ve
C hinaman. A British arlllY outpost has been surrounded
by the enemy. The choice is made to dilch the prisoller dcad. but who is 10 deal the fatal shot ... "! The play was
once again incredibly tense as the wo uld be executioners
argued out the morals of laking ;lIl()ther man's Ii fe in
wartimc. The lighting, at times was brilliant and the acting of the e nt ire cast was impressive. Specia l mentillil
however. must go to Nick Stockwell . who played the
sergeant with br:l\·ado. and to Sam llurslO n who WilS
excellent as the terrified . muted prisoner.
New Court
Littlefield
Savages
Once again th is was a sombre play. Owing to the
le ngth oflhe initial play and the lime restrictions o rthe
play festi val (40 min . or less). the play appcared in a
much shortened form . However. havi ng been structurally
modi fied and e.l;cellently cut by director Adam Shaw. the
e nd product WilS st ilrt ling. The play is based on a kidllap-
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Rights
Ncw Coun gave us a fem inist c rit ique o f the malc thai
was surprising ly walchable. iI' onc d isregarded its SOHlewhat one sided message . Sct in the toilets of a major
corporation, the play o ffe rs the wome n a chance to air
their views 10 the audience. and each olher. Hal fway
thro ugh this anthropomorphic bonanza we w itness a
young lady who uppears 10 have bee n in the lOilet a lill ic
100 long to t~ merely powuering her IlIN;, /-Ia\'ing
knocked on her door :l1ld :IPI>C:lled v..:rb:l lt y 10 Ihe girl.
the olher l adie~ arc 'privy'to an emotional su icide - no
doubt brought about by a man. All in ailihe play was a
lillie too hard line for sOllie o f the lIIell ill the audience.
Ihough obviously it provided a 101 o f fU ll for all ill volved.
Elmhurst
Steaming
Directed by Will Whiting. Ihe piece was con fidently
h;lllllled by a mainly Lowa Si.... th C:ISt. Oily Woudford
W;I~ ~u l>crbl y ~ UI)(;rcil i ous:t~ the naked man . playing the
pari (seem ingly) without clothes and cmbarras~me nl. Ben
Stevenson malic an excellent contrast as the Plll-UI}o n
slreet-sweel>Cr. while Toby l\:lason (man in evening dress)
and Juhn Owen-Jones (WOlll:lIl) pnxluced convincing
performances. Nothing of substance. IIr amusemt::nt
\'alue. was lo~tt\ltht:: audielH::t::. All in all. a simple
me s~age - "clOlhes make Ihe man" , Entenainingly
cOlnlllull icaled.
The grealest problem wit h thi s play was Ihal it had to
be reduced fro m its full-le ngth form \() less than fony
miulIIes. and the stre ngth nfthe pl:ly (its character di vC(sity .md development,) were lIeccss:II'ily ralher s:lc rificed.
1·lowev..:r, li n: twellty mi nute Elmhurst produclion
was. for all thaI. s ucce s~ flLl . [ Ihought il was all1u~ in g and
snappy as an eutity urllo itself. eve n if il was over a lmost
before it h:td began.
The siaging was si mple. but the usc of a scro.!en lit
fro m behind to prod uce silhuuettes of the ac t re~ses
changing behind il brought a hinl of varielY. and the presence of an ;rudiellce on three sides wa'> not a problem.
All in all the pnxluclion was the wOrl hy effort of hard
work, and all involved were pleased by what they
produced on the night.
Barton Hill
The Stone Seller by Michael Ponsford
t\'lichae l Po nsford and his house afforded us:r bleak
\'iew of the fUlure. A pOSt holocaust world wher..: water is
the most valu:r b1c commod it y provided the setting rur
thi s scl r-searchirrg play, When a slranger p:lsses throug h
the vi llage with a bag fu ll of stones. nothing sec illS OUI o f
the ord inary: but these Slones allow the dehydrated
vill agers to imagine the sea.:1 ncar dei ty in this time of
drought. T hi s sombre play provided food ror Ihe
intell ectual s among the ;lIIdience. although left ~o me
wonderi ng why Ihey were there (i n a physica l. ralher
than mental sense).
B1 House
One was Naked and One Wore Toils
The progr.rmme for B I's production was;m imposing
dOClllllent. duminated by a strik ing soc ialist-realist
piclure of Lenin addressing Ihe mas~es. T:lken togelher
with the directors warning th:.t Fo W;IS :r man with "a
theatrical mission". one was left fearing a heavy glling
piece of propaganda. Thi s. tha nkfull y, was 110 110 be. The
script turned out to be light and willY. focuss ing on Ihe
predicament of an ambassador naked in a bill. a 110wer
se ller in an eve ning dress :!IId a prosl illlle.
Summerfield
Up and Under
T he play depictcd a hi!;hl y amusi ng. if slight ly crude.
parolly o f the Nnnhem life. ;-\ struggli ng rugby league
team from Bradford. :Lre rt::ju \,cn:rted by thc inno\';lIi\'e
old master (a brill i:lIlt performancc by Nick Dobson).
H:lving dragged thcmsdws up from hottom or the league
loS\!~ to cup conlenders injml onc seawn. Ihey face the
fina l. The coach i~ so conlidcnt of hi~ tt::am's uJx.·oming
vil·lory. Ihat he I>cts his h il US\! olillie re~u l l. With thirly
secomls left on the clock the coach sc uds the willning kick
wide and bec\l tne ~ instantly h(Jmele l>.~. whereupon the Test
of lhe team COII~\Jlc him with promi .,e~ ofwarnr bilter.
Always :Imu sing alld ol'tell hi larious. thi ~ was one of the
ocHa house play~ o n di splay, Congratu lations In all concerned, panicu l:lrl y 10 Nick fl Ir Ihe well suslained aecellt.
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Rugby XV
Played 12, I\'lJn O. DI"(/II'Il J. /.u.I'19
What ,I hard RC;ISOIl il has heen for liS alL!'>ul one thaI
rem ai ned fu ll of cIHJc;\\'our despite ~om c imJ iITcrc nt resu lts.
Pre-season went \'c ry wel l bU I it soon bccmnc d car thallhc
pla yers were lackin g in experience. We stayed:u a prep s!; hoo1
in DOr.; Cl and played two practice Illalchcs 'Igainsl Wimoo urm:
and Bou rnclllolll h Colts. l3 ourncmou th were quite stron g hut
we recorded a "points win",
The season ~ [ano:d with the visil of Monmou th. a fi x. lure
Ihal we tWlle wo n oflen in the recent p'ISI. This ycaf lh cy pro vc d
10 be 100 stro ng Jc~pit c some g,ll lant de fen ce. We had hi g h
h op,,~ of n victory ag:li llsl Abingdon bUI poor selec tion on m)'
co llection of Ul1 per and Lo wer S ixth ultin1<l tc'l y ge lled to cre;lle
,) pOlen t mixture o f e.' plosivc p{JII"er. pace and panache in the
b;)ek-line. w ith imperious co ntrol from th e forwards.
We had a decided ly shak y st,)rt to the se ;\.~ un w ith oli ly t\\'o
victo ries in the first si.\ malche ~. bu t thi s bel ies the f:Jet that the
losi ng m;Jrgi n.~ of the first three defeats cruell y to talled only ten
poi nt ~: 1>.!onmou th. Eton :lIId SI.Edward's were all cx tremcly
fmtunatc 10 lllce tlls when in oll r mOSl VOI:llile phase ufthe
season. Wha t sign ified Ihe slature of this team was its reso lute
(k tcrminalion and eonl )l1it mellt. in the imllledinle w()kc uf II
dhappoi nting defeat at Radle)', to improve - together.
1\lIlgbo urne were to he Ihe firsl to ~u frer at th e hands oflhi~
newly- follnd resolve: Karl Luet zow prod uced two quil e del';)slatin g '13litzkrieg' run s on either sidc of half tillle - thi s see med
bchalfmuJ a strong SCI of Abingdon forward., Oil a small pilCh
put pay 10 ou r c han<.:cs.
Thi.~ year Radl e)' we re particularly ~trollg lu\d we did not
ha w th e edge required to snlre th e points our press ure suggesled II'e l11i gln . We Iwd two more games before halfterrn. both of
which were "winnable" bul. as the lensio n muunted. 1101 havi ng
won. we bcg;1lJ [(J make man)' unforced mi stakes and gave aw,))"
far 1O() m any permhie ~ .
After half-te rm we hop ed th,)1 a slig lJ1 l), more ex pansive
game would all ow us to make the most of the sc,)son.
Cheltenham (:)11';),) pnll'cd 10 be much too diflicult but , ) g"i n ~t
C li fton ,md Br)'a nston we began to sec the way forward and we
reco nkd lWO good draws.
Dawr tscy's W,L~ for me ;llld man)' of the players the low
point of the st,)son. We tra vellcd aw"y. played on ,I sllwlllliteh
;1I1d de spite prepa rin g {Iuite well we faile(lto re all y create more
than Olle chance whi lsl man;)ging tu be qui le soft in defence.
1>.·I:)ny thank s must go 10 Ben Stobart for hi s loY'rI.~uJlP"on
over the last three years. He ha., hecn a lOwe r (Jf st rength and a
great ro le model muJ I am surc that he will go froJ)) strength to
stre ngt h. He was se lected in the Colts (U 19) Divis io nal squad
thi s season.
Colou rs (for Mlccess ,lIld co nt ributi on over ,11)(1 "bove
lhe ho no ur of playing for the XV) wcrc award ed 10 O. f ry.
G. Nikolsky. O. Beva n and r. j ohansen and re-awarded to
B. Stobar!.
Rugby XL
Nayed: 13 il'tm: 8 lJmwlI: I L.,s/: 4. For: 209Against: 108
Without dou ht,th is year's XL provcd thelmelvcs to bc ,)
form id;)ble and [lnwerrultea m. Lcd in a I,JIl g ui d and yet
comuwnding r;islt io n by thc irre pro ac habh: j,))1\es f owler.l his
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aflerwart! s to be thc turning point of o ur season lIS we smldcn ly
\\"o ke lip 10 Oll r eno rmolls potential. We cnded that In;I\(,:[1 jubilan tl y a~ Nick Do bsu n carried us home in the final minute with
;\ s(H)r in g penalty kick. From llt; )l early Oelobcr wcek end we
wen t an impre ssive eigh t matches and nine weeks un beaten and
unchalle nged. scoring an awe~ome 160 points and conccding a
Illere 25.
Wit h the cve r-reliab lc Will Pcaeock (l1\d Gare th Price g raeefllll y m'crcollli ng Nellnderth;ri upposite numbers. the back line
eX llded d.)~s ,lilt! p; ) s~i\ln. Both Nick jones and Tom Crosb nd
de st roye d ka rsome Opposi lion wit h ch.lrging or daning nlllS.
supported mid sOllietimes superseded by th e blinding I);)ce of
a ll y Crawley ma l ,\ Iex Miller. S uch movemen t was. of cuursc.
fllrn i ~hcd an d enabled by a p:lck of daunt ing size. mobilit y and
;ihilit)'. C has Oakshell - a de fi nite ca ndid,He for Player of the
Seasoll - had II pivotal ro le in o pe n play ami pro ved nw gll ificelll
in str;mgl in g (so to s peak) opposition all'l eks. He was just o ne
<lut of it collection of O\llstillidillg Lower Si ;>; th players - toO
numcrous II) merll ion hefc- who must ~u rcl}' be in O:\lntcrni""
for XV pbo:C1o neXI1oca~on. Finall y. onc o flhe quie l e~1 and yo:t
mO~1 prolicic lII and cx perieill-cd o f the tearll W...~ John Grey at
hooker (a nd occasilmally prop) who. in Iwrlicu la r, 111rnu:m.:d
B ry:m ~l on :md Clifton. What madc th b d il·cr~e group of
iml iddu:lh ~uc h ~l dyna mic te.un wa~ the gerlUine fig ht ing 'pi ri l
prese nt ,md the w: ly in whi d l cvc rYOlle playc d, thou ght and
foug ht forcm: h mher. I will long rcmcmbcr th is temll. its v~·ry
diffe rent ]l 1 :l yer~ ami th e ]lrogre~~ it m.rd.:. with d.:cp prid.:.
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Rugby 3rd & 4th XV
.Inl xv - Played 10, \lhll 5. LOSI 5
i\ I OIrk'~ 1ll i ~ .. ed pe nally •.III.:mpl 10 ~cc u rc .m'::<lremely satisfying
:lIld Ilell de ..en·cd 1\ in ( 15 - 12). The folll)w ing \\ ee k. a d i~ nl pl­
\·II ... id.: wcre nalTtl wly dcfealctl 5 - 12 bY'1I1 nnhc:lten C liftllll
~ ide. It \\'a~ plea~ing hl .'':C the side pull hlgcihcr alkrlh is
tld".::!I. ,nul record a hi g wi n 'lg:li n ~t lJ:l u nhey"s. The 10.. - {/
vi":lOry (lg,ri n ~I Hi ,hop.' Wonl., wolhs SChOlll shlluld nOI go
Ulllllcllliolled if only fo r Ih.: lo(,k of disappui llllllell i 1m thc
[e;nll·S f;r..:~·~ "n he,lri ng Ihe linal wh i ~ ll e. I-o-[ Ucil lo Ihe tli ~ ma y of
thc team. bolll1hc li r) an .. ton amI Wdli nghlll g:mlc:-. \\'':~ c;lllcdled.
Thi., 1'::1111 i, p:lck<,d fu ll Il l' pl,l ycn: wi th [hc :Ihi lil)' 10 dn
we ll . I ItMtl forw:rrtl w ~cdng many oflhc m conti nu.: on III
e"labli:-.hing;1 ve ry ~IK·ce~sft11 XV.
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Forlhe umpt c.:mh ~':;ISOII Ihc 3rd aml ·l!h XV slillad II·cn t
about things ehecrfull y and energc tic'lll y h UI produced nmd er,11': r.:s ult ~. Our oppo nelUs werc 'lft.: n a bil higger :Ind qu icker
(nol !.:;c,1 wi lh their handling skill,,) bu t we playe d wit h a lot of
cn.: rg)' and cutlltlliullenl. i\·fany good mO lnen1S sIaml UUl in Ill y
mC nlory o f Ihis year's ]rd XV: bu t cspcciall y Ihc trcmcndous
b:lck.row dcfcncc of Toby Briuon. Phi l ii' Mou and Will Peltor
in thc Rmll.:y g;Ulle: l1.:n Sander's lil1al commitmen t in Ihe
lous.:. PCI.:r Ilensb),'s (Iuic k thinki ng and his match'lI'ilmi ng Iry
:Igains[ 51. &I\\'ard ·~ :md lhe who!.: l .:all1·~ p.:rfonll:m.:c o n 11ll."
lIay. lI :lll cl icked :lg;linsl D:lUlltscy's Wh~' ll the \\ ing (Adam
Sh;I\\' ,md Simon Arch er- Pcrkin~ ) scored li vc tries helll'cc n
them. Therc were glXKI results ag;linst Bry:uIs[o n. [00. in [he Il u
season. Thc .Jlh XV we r.: ;11[heir best when Jam.:., Leask wa, ,I(
tl y h'llf.tu kick (hc h:llImilcs alu! 10 kiek goal ~ ;IIU! when Bcrt ic
Steve nso n was tit cnou gh 10 run around.
,\1 )' Il wnb [0 Will l'el1or. lh.: C:lplai n ur lhe ]nJ XV. I\ho
alwOl)'~
w'lIIt.:d the be~l fmm and forh i~ IC:IUI :md ~et;1 fine
cx:nnpl c in h i~ leaders hip. and to lk l1ic SICl"o;nSl)1I ami
Charles I la~kcli (on loan from SI:lvallger RFC) l\hl1 k d Ihc .tlh
XV. A special lhank you. too. to ~\"I r Em, .lIul /l ir W.IIJ"in~. II ho
conlribuleU Mr much In this 1':111I'S Rugby in their Ilitlcren[
wa}'~. and lu the 1:lr1;e IIUll1ber of p:lrcnt ~ whl) C;lIm: reg ul arly
III ~uppo r1 u~.
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Rugby First Colts
Pla.red 12. II'!-)// II. t o.I·/ I
This ha~ oc.:n an impress!"': l>t!aloOn for Ih.: fi r~ll·llli s. II ilh
Ihe only r.:\'en.:rl being agai ,,~[;r ~Irong Clifton learn.
The tca m W;IS built around an im pre~~ i \'C b;lck 1\1\\
(Cannon. Ranll:r ll ;lI1d PClers). :llld:1I1 cnterpris illg bal'k linc.
'111e h:l cks.led by le:rlll capt:rill Dal' ill Mark. ~IJo;cc~, full y
adopted Ihe lI ustrali,lII methocl of flat ;lligulI1':lIl. O nce this new
I.:dll1ique W'I.' mastered.lhe .:xlra llimen~illn in back play
re ~ul l .:d in many qualil Y Irics. Thc allaeking Vo n i\h rll ,II full
bad :lUd ph ys ieal lkdlcr in the cemre ensured Ih, ll
/llarlboruu gh carnc. l) ut on top in m;ln )' of lhe hard fought
IIl;nches. Thc teams I·k-tories would nOl h:n·e been p(l~~ib lc
I\'ilholllth.: tlood of pn1o~.:ss ion supplied by Fr:l~.: r. Broadh ursl.
Williamson aIlU l3a" ko;~·J olles.
'nle COIl1o b.:gan their s<;::N)n in line ~ t) I.: OI nd !>et lh.: IOnc
for [he re.\! of Icrrll wi lh :1 59 - 5 vic tory (I,·cr i\ lonlllnulh.
Agai nst Ibdl.:y. lhe hard runnin g of Ollic R,mdall ami lac klin:,;.
of Gabriel York .: n ~ured that Ih.: 0JlIKl ncnh w.:r.: lcpt out of Illc
g:ulle (w.: wo n 22 _ O).Ourdo~e~1 g;II11': of the ~east\n was.1
win ~ Ig ain.~ t Chdl cn hal ll ColI.:gc. The ~ itlc ,lulwed gl"':;11
de t.:rmill:lliun to co me from be hind on [hree occ'l~i on s. It
ap l)Cared in Ihe d)'ing minu tes Ih:lllhc [cam \Io uld h'lve to~ci ­
lle for a 12- 1(I tidc:u bill Ri chard Cowle)' puun..:ed ul)lm David
Rugby 2nd Colts
1'1(/,\"('(1 Y.
11'011
4. 1)1"(/11"11 O. 1..0.1"/5
XV·~.:, .:r) II h.:re. c()n~ i ~lenc)' i~ nc,lrly ;rJII " ) ~
:11I:m from ,Iteam·s own inj uri .:~. Ihe be~1 playcn.
arc regul:lrly los[ [oael ,I~ repl:ln:ments fur lhc 1~1 XV. Th b .. h o
m,lle~ [cam p:lllern~ difficult 10 tI.:wlup.
For 2ml
i ml)(I1o~i ble:
Inl r:li nin g for nu" t <lf th.: ,ea~nn lI'ilh Ihe Cltlt~ lS I XV.
lu,w.:vcr. th e 2nd XV \\'ere abl.: 10 pl'I Y III a p,lllcl"ll whi c h
all llw.:d the playcr .. IU cxprc,s tllcir tal.:n[ ... Fro m one cx trcmc
[0 :Ul olher - th e fru-rr: ltion of tl d c:lt :II 1';mgho ul"Il ': Wilh 'l
m u c h - d i~nl pl e d IC'l m. lu fine I'ic[ories "vcr 5t. Ed ward·s. Ehln
:md loe:ll I ~ I XV~ _ Ihe 1...:1111 ~h"wed gre, l[ char;Jo: ler. and ill il ~
I'I:lY. nl ud l illl cl1lioll.
Flal ;rl igmnelll il:lo:k pl:r}' with d o ....: p:r.~si ng \Ias ~ucc.:,~ru l ­
I)" :rdollled. \\ ilh mid· lield di ~ l ribll tlOIi b.:ing a gr'::11 "Ifength.
The f01"\1 :rrd~ II orl cd hard and dro'·c II ell. reg ul:lrl)' prol·iding
good qu:rlil)' h'lll am I pUlling "P I)()llen l .~ on Ihe h:rd fIKJI .
Thi s [emu h;!., mu ch tak nt. ;tnd ne.' 1 ~ca~l)ll· ~ .,.:ni or squad
~ Iulli id 11:IIC greal dcpth.
IJ.lf/'ll,IIIM
Rugby 3rd Colts
I'll/yell 7.
\\'0/1-1.
1.•0.1'/ J
1111S ";r~;r I'en' mi xed sca~on for Ih.: Ihird cult... We h:u.l
" 'lIle linc "il: [ uric~. mn~1 note:lbly Ihe 21} - 5 dde,lt uf C lifton
whi.:h di.. played Ih.: fact 1II:III h,II mOln), I,f lhe ind jl'i,hlals
111\ olved I)(J~'e~~ thc nccessary ~ kilb 10 pl:l)' ;It ;111 inc rea~i ngly
high level. Wh.:n le;ll1I cohesion lIas ~Irlmg Ihe gnlll p del cl upo:d
all alirnil·'lhle del.:rmin'llion Ilwl hcipl:d thcll1 lhrollgh some hard
l,;; nneS. Tllc le,lm wer.: ha mp... red dur inl,; Ihe ~C:rM Hl hy an ev.:r
ch;tl1!! inl! C,N but a Ilum hcrnfregulan. in Ihe ~id.: pTOvid.:d Ihe
b:rckhtn ~e I.f Ihe IC'II Il. Jon Chang and K..:nn y Lalli w.:r..- oflell ,II
111.11111
1996
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the forcfrulll of mu ch of the :Iclion :mu rcgu larly prodlKed
impre ~~ i\'e physic:II displays. Phi ! Co~by's determined
approadl to eve ry game h..:: pla yed indicated his abilit y III play
at a hig her h:vd and inspi rcd man y tC:UI\- nwt es to follow his
lead.
Congralul,uillns to allt hc rcgu!m'S in Ihe sidc and wd l donc
for thc unstinting e ffon s in Ihc face IIf both defeat ,md vic tory.
JiI/I.11
Rugby Junior Colts
lSI X/ - I'/(lY£'(/ /3. \\'0118. Orall'lI I. uw -l
2m/ X / - Phl),I'r! 9. \VOII 3. 01'(/\1'11 0, l..tw 6
3nl XI - P/(I.l'efI7, I\'{.m -/, /)r(/\rn O. LMI J
By :LII accoullls the Junior Colts XV was a successful h,:;nn.
The y had balall!.:c, we ight and mobility in th..: Jlil ~ k, speed :tnd
creativi ty behillLl.
Afte r a tough opening match:lI Eton wher..: they came out
se!.:ond best, th e side settled into a healt hy nlll of Sill wi ns on
the tmt. A droppcd g0.1! from Charles R,muilll in the dying
seconds brought :I 9 - 8 \' ie tor), over Radley: be Uer still wa.~ the
perfonnance a\\' a)' <1\ Cheltenh,1I1l where cverythi ng di!.: ked ,lIul
the home side were lucky on! )' to go down by 28 points.
In the pack Jonat han Godd,Lrd an d Ed ward 'Woody'
Websh.: r d":'llt (l ut the bulk of the physi!.:al punishme nt. Jonathan
D;lw showcd skill :It scmm-h;M ,mLl th e backs :LlI pl;lyed we ll.
thou£h spi..'cial mClllioll goes to Charles Rand all (capt.) and
Harry ll1akclock. There is ple nty o f talent in this ye<lr ~ruLJP :
wi thou t thc injuries to Oliver Tugge), ;JIld Bertie. Miller it re;llI ),
would h:l ve been a phenomen,11 SC;l~on .
Rugby 1 st Yearlings
Played 12,
W /l1I
10, f)rl/lI"ll2. Lo,wO
111is was an ou tstand ing tealll of highly skilled buy~, full y
descl"\'in£ an unbeaten sca_OIl ;Illd the Tunler trophy. But it
didn' t luo k so prumisi n£ duri ng the !irst game against EILlil. To
~tart with we had a IS point lead ,It h,llrtime bu t then drewlhe
g;l me. during the ~eco nd hall': well. th ings could onl y ge t he ller!
They did! Whi lst nOI wishing to ehruil icle all of the games. it
is worlh hi ghli ghting the Radley lImw aw,Ly - all guts and
power: j ll~t a~k Ed Stc\"c ll~on! The demo lishi ng of varil)LJ~
teams wa.s o ften clinical allLI Icad 10 ~I,)me early ends to certain
g;lme~. not:lbly Bishop Wordswon h's and Daulllsey·s. Bllt the
shear drama o f the last minute will :Igilimt tl ryanston W:I~ a
particul:lf favourite.
Loo kill g ba!.:k. it h a.~ heen a good ler m with a very
determined gmup of plilyers who hal'e learnet110 h:md le mId
run at every OPI"llmunity. I look fOI"\\'ard to seeing the boys
named enjoying their rugby ,II Ihe "ery lOp - wel l done.
}NLI'
Rugby 3rd Yearlings
Played 7.
\VOII
4. Drawl/ 0, LO.\·/3
With :tlarge numbe r of playcrs o f ctJIn p:mLb1c abilit y fru m
which to M!lL'C t, it was de,l r e;lr! y, )I1 Ihat competition fur n place
in this ye.l r ·s 3rd Yearlings \\'ould be !icrcer thall for a IIlllg
ti mc, In fac t. by the end oflhe sc:l~on (j\'er Ihiny players had
represented the ~ hool ,n this IC\'e l, and nil call lake credit for
the part they pl1l yed.
The Ilighlights of the se:lson \\'ere lI ndoub ledly Ihe IJ b hop
Wo rdsworth and Cheltenham ma t c h e.~, hot h of whic h were won
convincingly at home. The Bis hops game especiall y pmLlueed"
weillth of we l1-exet'llted 1ll0\'cs, with it dett'rmined forw,Lrd unit
;lnd skilful b:leks wo rk ing well bolh indil'id uit1 ly and together,
We ll done 10 "lIlhe pl uye rs ove r Ihe se'lson. The signs for
next ye"r's Ju nillr Colts :Ire pro mising.
Am
Rugby 4th Yearlings
PlayCl/-I. ' I't", 2. DraWl/ O. u),\'12
Th is was a conslmlll), eh;lnging le: Ull. wi th pla yers IllLlving
to hi gher ec helons. We had our ups and dowlls. In ou r fi~ t
match :lg;linst Eton. Ewn pm\'ed the better side but we had a
nOI;lhlc vicwry over SL Edward's (2-1-0). We lost to Rad ley.
a\\,<I)'. btll li ni ~hed the se:Lson w ith a home win against
Chc1 tellh:mt ( 3~-O).
As captain . I wou ld li ke 10 a th"nk the te;[l11 and t-.-Ir. Brown
and IJ r, Ponsford for th eir effo rt s.
1),111 "<I'r h,nx
Hockey Girls 1 st XI
P/flyed 10. mm 4. Drfllrll 2 , Lml4
It Ims been an interesting lerm fllr the 1st XI wi th l11:ut y
une xpec ted resu lts,T he fir .. t fix tu re proved \'ery prom i~ing with
a win aga inst Snulh Wi lts U IS. After winni ng Oll r seeu nd malch
we came up ,Igilinst Prior Park. who had rcee ntl y bee n pl' lying
in a lournamen t in Spain ,1I1d hild therefore be!.:o me a very
strong side. We lo~t thj s match wh ich unfortunately lowered
tea m lIIoml. bu t we soon bounced b:lek.
Our most ~ut'eessf\l l wi n o f the seilson wa.~ against Re:luing
Uni l'ersil Y 2nd X I wherc we scored 5 gO:lls withou t co nccding
,my. This wa~ as il result of Aliss:1 Fut e h'~ effoT\ s . sal'ing the
tea m nwny til iles nnd ~he pro babl y round herse lf the most
eritic,.1 player in the match. Our hi ghe ... t goal swrer \\'a~ the
youngest in the te;l m - Tcssit Hodge - who impressed ;111 with
her phlY,
After ha ir term. due to i llnes~ :lIld inj uries, the team h:ld to
be eh,mged qui Ie subslami,dly. We COPi..oJ wd l when Kate
Bickford (onc of ou r slnlllge r pl ayer~) fel l ill. matdling hlsl
year's win of th e ro unty cup. The fi rst 6 ga mes were won e:lsi ly
laking us 10 the fi nal ilgilinst 0111' riv:lls D:lulbey's, Since they
lwd al re,ldy heillen us eilriler in the term the whole tealll was
determined h i prove themselves. Je nnie SlOne and Katherine
Milne r playcd:1great gamc in defe lKe proving to be the pilbrs
of stre ngth thmugh what WilS their third seilson in the 1st XI.
VicttJry 'lIId the cup Sill\' us ,Ill del ight ed with the ollteull1e! TIlis
thcn I\llIk us 10 thc d ivi~ional final s. yet Katc's pfCSen!.:c on thc
rig ht ll'ing W,IS missed. The te,un was laidened wi th nil :llId
afler the .~eeoll( lm atch o f the to urnament I broke my collar bone
and /\bi Mac l,lchlall also inj ure d herself. We m:lI1iL£eLlto !'CeLLre
-4th Jl l:t~'e in the co mpeli tion whkh we had b-ce n favoured to
win. Huwc\'er. ou r n:.sult was impre.-.si\·e consideri ng the
condition o r the team.
Our sueec~s in malches WilS m:linl)' du e to our Slrength 0 11
the right helped by Be linda West nmcott. who had a good underst,lIldillg of mid-field phlY. :md who enabled li S to co nn ec t the
gallic well dowul his side. Wh cllt he ball was taken le ft the
co mbination o f Kirsty Lindsay-Ge m mn on the wing. L,IUr.!
Kcm p-Gee (a keen playe r who~e ent husiastic altitude moti vated
the te'lIu ). <l nd i\hi Maci:lehl,m.. {;ulUther gre,Llly impro\'cd
pla yer), fou nd the tcam;m :dtern:uh'c :lIld rcli:Jb1c route to go:lI,
Liz Stopford cmll": into the team la te but adju~ted quickly
meeti ng new demands. and Clnire Leslie ended her last fell'
1ll,ltdles ph.yillg 10 Ihe very be.~t of he r ab ility.
It WilS h;lrd being e;lplain :lI1d ~pelldin g the last two m;Ltches
of the season Illl the side line, .lIld the res ults thcmscl\'es were
not 3.'i imprcs,.,ille :IS l a~ 1 year. hul we h:lvc pulled togethe r and I
enjoyed the se3.~n irml1el1o;;cly.
Hockey Girls Under 15A
PllIyn/ N.
Hockey Girls 2nd XI
Played 10. \Ib n 7. D rml'll
J. U}.~I 0
This W:IS a tnlly me rnor.rhle season in which we were
unbeaten in 10 IIHltclres :md abo eollee h:d lire Br:rdficld Sixes
Shield when !!cpUlis ing for Ihe 1st XI.
AlI1 on<; the more notewon hy ~ca t p, were t h()~e o f
Chelte nh am College b l XI (J.O) :md Chel tenham Lad ie.~
College (4· 0 ).
This \'ear th e defence w;\~ re:lll \' ~ol i d wilh Frances R\'k
Lueind<l Cook, who conceded the gnmd hH al llf ) go:r ls :rll SCastHl.
At hal f bac k we hml \'ari otl~ combinations ill\'olving Vic ky
Lucas, Jo NULl. Rosie Keane, Emma O'Lo ne :Hld Alice Sykes.
Alice's I:lclit-al awarel1":ss :lIld all:tcki ng Il:dr down Ihe rig ht
fl ank W :lS one o f our rea l assels :lIId her ~ ho rt corne r slopping
a l.~o prO\'idcd the platform for:1 ])()\e nt SCI pieCl' ro uline. Em ma
O' Lone is tire bes t lJUsher of a ball in th e schoo l ami her
de li ve ry o f slrort comers wa.., ilwalu:lble. Although lingering
on the 3rd XI for most o f the !>Cason, she d i ~ p [a)'ed tremendous
potenti:ll when fina ll y pro moted,
Our cO l11 b:!ti ve midfiel d consis ted o f R:lchel OUlram. Fiorm
Cannon. Fion:!. WOfmll and George Covc ntry. The fi rsl lwO
were regula rs who played in :1 Iypicall y .Iggrcssive slyle a ll
sca.~n , George hit th e short corners powerfull y and Fiona
Worr.:tll dc.<;ervcs sped.!1 mention for bm\'cl y figh ling her w:t~
bac k int o Ihe team afler :t hOTTific inj ul')' in the fi N wee k of len II .
Up frolll \I'e had the speedy du o o f Fion:1 HOllsln n on Ihe
righl wing and R:lehel Hudson at eemre forw:l rd. Our game
plnn lnl'oll'ed chu cking the b,llI ~ hi n d Olll)()sing defcnders for
Fiona to run 1111 to: il was ;I joy In w:lIch lI..:r hunk dow n the
win g and along the by- line before del ive ring thc p..:rfeel p;I'~
fo r Rac hel Hudson 10 COll vc rt.
The team \Vas :rhly captain..:!! by anuther re cipienl of Ih..:
Iiouslon Hurricarle - Gin ny MeGr:rth. G inn y scored lUIS of
goals and waS:1I1 oUlstandin g c:lptain.
Profound th: lIl ks and cO r\gr:rtu lmions tn all t h (\.~ c invo lved
in a fu n season,
S,lI/ )/)
Hockey Girls 3rd XI
/J I'lHl'II
I, 1-'1.1'1()
WinnCfSof the girl's Turner Cup. the J rd X I remaincd
undefeated :Ifler a brill iant SC:l~OIl ,
J es,~ ic:! Keane 11' :lS ~t rong in mid·field while the backs
preve nt ed all bUlthe mo~t dctertll ined nppos ilion fro m re:Khing
the goa\. Once there. Julia r-. l i ll ~ (w ho br:t\'ely 100 1.. on Ihe job
of goalkeeJ1C r) prol'itlt:d yet :mtJther SI)(lke in the :llready
wd l-o iled wheel. m:tki ng il d iOieuh for the olh..: rl e:uns to ~orc .
Meanwhile, :lll he .!u ack ing end, Jc.,~;ml)' Smith. Zoe
Jord an and Olivia Coo k slI1'I(,: ked th e ,!;O:lls in from a ll d irc..:·
[ions, working nilll hl y Ihrough Ihc opposi tio n.
Eve ryone in th e S(luad descrl'cs cOllg ralu l at i on ~ for rb ing
the oce:l..,ion :md playing wdl in eaeh match, However.
special th:mks must go 10 Miw nda U mls: ry. Finn who capt:rined
Ihe lea m brill iantly Ihrou gholJ! th e SCU ~I)II :md o f enu rse 10 Uob
Rat cliffe withoul whn~c inv aluah le c(melr ing am i enco uw ge·
Illentt he tea m wo uld II cve r have got so far,
hi
Th i ~ h:t~ Ix'en a I'ery enjoyahle ~e:t~on for me. und h(jpcfull ~
for thc te,llIl as II ell. As a grou p the )' hal'c learn! m:lll y th i ng.~.
Ihe m{l~t importan t of whic h i.~ Ihat dct..:rmination C:lII kecp a
t~':l m in 1II;ltchc~. e\'e n :lg:rirh l lllore ~k i ll fll l \I]lponen ts. The
highlighl oflhe sca~on wa, Ihe gu l ~y pe rform:rnec th:lI lhe te:ll1l
pll t in ;rg;,illst Chclten h.rlll Lld ie~ Cul le,!;e. which ac tually led 10
many non· hoe key ~ tl Jlport en. \'elll uri ng 0 11\11 the '\ Slro ttl sce
wh:llihe exc ite rneru W;I~ :Iholll.
The 1": ;UI1 was "::lplairr ed :rbl y by Aleth ea Stcvc n, who
h;tHlcr in Ih..: ce nt~ midfi eld. Her midfield
partn er. LUlr:! 1101I,to n. ;d ."11 deserl'C~ co ngr:nul:nion for her
d~term i n a l i o n . The (Iefcnee h:lll a f..:w teet hin g lroubles, hm
when thin,!;s sett le,1dll\\' 11 wilh Ihe eOl11 hin; rtion nl' Claudia
Ponikowski. Hc1l' n Rmcliffc , Gemm a D:Lr I ~y. So phie ,\li en and
une fl f eitlr..:r Suzie Fitlucda or Jane Ih hn l ~{l ll , luoked co nfide nt
and setu rc.
Jl ro \'~ d : r t e nac i O Il ~
oUlslandi~lg :11 swee pe r. She was :th'ly :Is~isled by Ih..: keet~r.
PIt/yell 1/, Won 10,
mill 3. 1-'I.w.5
The te: l111 del eloped lU I ..:nt·our:t,!;illg att,le king style :md thi ~
larg..:l)' due 10 Ihe effort.' :11111 e ffecli ve n.r nn ing o f S:m rh
Folle\l, L rra Hall, O:risy Il unt and Alicia Fox· I'ill. Goals were
nOI ple nt iful bUI L:tr:t ~ hnu ld hc eongr.lI ulalcd (I n being Ih..:
te:lm\ hi ghest sc.. rer.
b
Alt in :tit , Ih i~ gfllll p pro\'ed II) be a prolll b ing leam IlIlee
they s t art~d to he lieve they ~"lU l d win 11l :l1ch c~ :md once Ihe)'
~t:lft ed 10 enjoy bau li ng for Ihe bait ,
RTM
Hockey Girls U15B
I~llln!d 6,
IJrl/ll'/l 2, Lo.w.J
A ltho ug h Ihe resu h s d o n ' t ind ic at e it. th e tem n 's hoc k ~
l.' y :Ib ility illcre a ~c d a s Ihe Se:lSOll pl'Og ressell . In the
matc hes p layed , Ihe g ir b wo rk ed u n d eveloping Iheir
ski ll s and We fl.' ahle to inc re a se Ihe variel Y nf th e ir movcs.
They hecame m ore adep l al pass ing to the wi ngs. a t kee p ing Ihe p la y w ide a nd in ll sing Ih l.' circle crfe c ti vel y. Thi s
was parl ic u brl y l.'vide nl in lhe ~e(;{J l l d h 'llf of the se ason.
The ha ck s. (Sarah Ullllg harl. I [a n nah O' Reag :m and
C ath l.'rinc Ni c ho lso n) had a ve ry go od seaso n a nd we re
ull tiring in d e fen ce. A na ~ l y bl ow III Sar;th ' s head ill the
C lifu)11mal c h ~ t ill d id n ' t ~ I Op their det e r min at ion \0 ge t
Ih e ball oul. In m id fi eld, In na Le ask :md Kat ya S h ipste r
bo th prO\·l.'d 10 he v;try reli ab le. AI t im es th l.' forwa rd s
lacked agg ressioll, b UI we rc still abl e 10 put to gethe r sollle
goo d pc r fo rm ances. A nnabel H u d ~on . Kirste n B ri ggs and
Lucy Be rry SCOl'l.'d som e excit ing go a ls . th tlug h unfonu-
nately not e no u gh to w in :my g:tllles. Nc w 10 th e s po rt .
Leonora Pea rl. N ata lie C a nto r a m i especia ll y Lucy
t>.kFad ye n m ark e d ly im p roved o ver the w int e r. S pecial
IIlc l1l io n ~ go to Hele n Warnock fo r her:lll rou nd im provc me n!. Sophie A llso pp for he r co uragco u s g oal kcepi ng
a nd to S uz ie Fidu c i:t w ho was promo tcd to th e A lea rn for
her 101' pe rfonnan ce,
The U 15B team wa s la rge in n um be r ami thou g h so me
didn' t play as o ften in malc hes a s tl lhe rs. all the g irl s p artic ipatc d well :11 trai nin g ~C S S i() ll S ami scc med 10 h<l vc run !
II I
IlIU I \ 1996
I
Hockey Girls U14A
I'loyefl8. IVOII J, Dmll'l! 2. 1..{lx13
The le,lIll had excellent wi ns against BrY,n1s lon, Monkton
Coombe :lIId KingslI'oo d. :md gO'od dr.lw.~ again st King's
Winchester and Chcllcnham Lad ies', T he g;lInes ag:linsl
Da ulllscy's. C lifl ou :lt1d Dean C lose were all elos':!}' co ntested
losses.
Seplc mba was a month of gell ing lIsed 10 pl"ying wilh
.::adl olher and to IT'l in ing h,lrl l; we were ddighlCd to win our
lirst game Ingcthcr. T in: Daulllscy\ ami DC:lll Close ga mes
forced a re think so Iha l new pl.lycrs ,HId nell' posilion.~ we re
tried. Since carly O c tober we los t only the Clifton gmnc :md the
lessons learned then helped liS con tinue to develop a nd tn fin ish
o n Ihe hi g h notes ofa wi n agains\ Bryanshm :lI1d:\ c umpetitive.
fast-moving and thi lly dr.Jw OI£'linst Chehenh'lIll Lldies·.
Shev<lllt1 IVa~ <l elllllmiUed .md milch illiproved glla lic , She
IV.IS <Jssisled by Ihe exeellenl d efen~ i ve s ki lls of tile backs.
S'lrah and C:tlriona. Hannah Gillingh;ml played:1 ro ving role ,IS
a eenlre half. assisted 'It half hac k by Ihe ., eellre tackling and
passing of Kalie ;lIul Alice. who linke d with the f$t 1'. k rryJ and
skilful Emnm at inside forw<lrd. Jess prol'ided light en in~ pace
o n the ri ~ hl \\'in~. ;!lul alon g with Emili;llJIl the lefl wi ng Ihe y
pmvided snme ollt~tamJ in g att'Kking nnls and ero~ses. Goal
honollr.~ wo,;re slwred by the forwards and centre hall" wi lh
Emma makin~ some p,tr1iclllarly impre.~~ h·e ShOK Emma ,HUJ
Ibn nah had the good fortune to improve their g;ulLe fun her
through th e Wiltshire County teOlm.
l-1 .ul II'C bee ll withou t Jon Copp' s ow n stylin g and s hH pin g of
]l,Hle m s ,md il11ric;!cie.~ of ou r hoc key. the X I wou ld
lll ldoubtedly nel"er havc found itself in the hi g hly-cm'e ted
p(.~ition o f heing able 10 claim s upre nw cy abovc all.
t h~
Th e sense of an urgelltly aggres.~ive collective dete rm ination tOll'in was one of th e h,l lIm arks oflhis tea m. Even after
go in g ,\ go;>1 dow n to an impressive Canford ~i t!<:. the X I fought
its way bal'k to a gargall tu ,lIl 3-1 victo ry. Th e p(l~itivc introduction o f younger players s uc h as Pete He nsby. Will Les lie. Rick
Cowley ,lilt! George COI1l), n bodes well for futurc sca~on s.
whilst mueh of Ihe ex perie nce a nd qu"lity tl o wing movcments
shou ld be mtribuled to sel'ewl Upper Sixth pla ye rs.
Seth Holm es. willllhe mind ofa spo rtsm,ln and a style of
hockey to m;lh; h. was a ~talwart a t $we<!pe r: Jack Webb's
d,,~.zlin!! close st ic k co ntro l crcated ;lI1d pllt away several c ru cia l
!!oals: l\n!!US Mcl n tYI\!'.~ committed runn ing both on amI off the
b:tll :;;II'e !tim 'U1 ·i mpl\!s~ive goal- a-g,l ll1<! rollio: and Pier~
Tu ggey's unscrupulous and exac ting finishes lowered th e heads
of a plel hora of team s.
Julien Elge ti (L6) \\,;I.~. when defendiug. an impe netrable
barrier. and on the altack co uld s plit a dden<!e with a s in gle
On Ihe whole. Ih e team ha.' played w ith g reat ent hu sias m
'lIld. with the excellent coaching of Mr. Ric hOlnls. Ihe players
h'lI'e adjusted well hltheir po.~i ti(>HS and roles lI'ilhin the team.
A thank you to allthe players and to the team of beaks help in g
with the Yearling.~. including Mr. Nobes. M i .",~ BOYl'e mal ~'I f:'
P.ltehin~.
Hockey Girls U14B
PI(lyed 5,
\\'011
2.
f)/"{/1I'1/ /,
LfI.\·12
The' B' Team c njoyed a cO l l.~i dcwhl e dq;rCl' of SUl'Cl'SS
th is sea.~o n. gain ing in eonfidelK'e ami ahility as tlte le;un
progressed.
T he reco rd: won 2. los t 2 and drew I. W' IS a fair reflection
of the te:lIn's SI;lI1d;lrd. and thallk~ mu~t 1,!0 to L\'lrs. P'lIching all d
Mr. Nohes fm Iheir uns tintill g eo.,ching effnrls.
Hockey Boys XI
PI(lyet/9. WOI1 7. f)1"{I1I'1I 2. LtM'/ 0
For the first tim~ since the early 198{r.~ the X I achieved an
unbe;)ie n season. The result s hl.re ou t the success Il f a teaml ha!
scored a mass ive 33 goa ls and conceded fewer thml 10. With
s ucccs.~ agai nst fonnidab le opposit ion s uch as Cheltellham.
C.mforu and We llin g ton (aga in,q whom only a questiolwb le
!asi-mill ute penalty nick de nied us victory). the XI asse ried
tlteircl;tim .IS "Th e Force To Beat" on the sc hoo l (·in:u i1.
The ro le of the coach in g .~t"IT was par.nlloUIlI in adlicving
the kind Ilf hockey we pla yed . With Jon Cop p in\'o ll"ed in the
G re;)i Bril'lin team SCI- UP for tin: firslthree week s of the scasoJi .
Richard Markham took the helm of the team. and with 3 wi ns
.1Ilt! 3 cle.1I1 s heet s uUIlcr hi s tutelage. se t the preced<!lI t for the
big clash matches til co me. Neil Farquharso n also mad e in\'ahl'Ible contrihll!ioJ]s In the d irel'lion of th e X l' S Style of hockey.
Ii 11 996 1I II IllJ Ili
p:lS~. Atthe he,lrt of nllll'h of our play was M:t .~ Klin k (L6) who
wa~
lOp score r with 16 gl>a ls. With hi s deadly drag nicks and
Ihe ge nius or his dr ibbling. Ma x's enl11rib uli o n was in e,~ t i nw bl<! .
A~ C lptaill I hOld the pri vileg<! 10 help hlend ;>l1lhesc hi ghlys killed indil'iduals into" ., ingle cogent uni l. Although no t doi n!,!
o urselves tnleju s ti ce in the YOUlh Cup. durin g the sc'l.~on the
lea m c rea te d frec- !lowing palterned hockey o r th e hi g hes t
cal ibre po.~si h le. A n a mal gam of allthesc factors combined to
emi tle the Xllo I;[ y claim to th,lI mo.q elusil'c of all sporti n1,!
li tles: Umlcfe;[ted.
Hockey Boys 2nd XI, 3rd XI,
4th XI
21111X/ - Played 9, lI'rm 9. Dmll'l/ O. Los/O
3,.(/ X/ - Player/9. WOII 3. f)r(ll\ '/I 3. Lox/ 3
.Jlh X/ - Played 7. JIIO/l 2. Orall'l/ 3. Lo.w 2
This W;[s. withoUi a shadow of doubt. ~-!.lrl borough·s most
slI c..:essfu !. vibra nt and I"urmid"hlc 2nd XI to have gr.ll·ed th e
sdillo l hockey c ircuil in at leas t thirty years .The oUlstamling
n'llure of thi .~ s uperb. nay magnifice nt. te,1Il1 is cI<!ar when one
inspects ils record: 18 goa ls scored for. ,1I1d a Ill e re two
co nceded. Period ical ly rini:-tuned by the irrepressib k Dmlny
'thc Mun st<!r' Dempst..:r. thi .~ wa~ ;1 unique co llec ti on of fine
indiv iduals. ril'alled perha ps only hy De rby Cu unty's !cgend'lry
C hampi ons hip-win ning sill<! of 1975.
Ol'cr tWIl .~e a ~on s uf 2nd XI hoc ke y there ha$ emcrged a
nuc1eu!> o f intdlige nt. experienced .lI1d gifted Illayen. 11 1m han'
formed the bedroc k or 1996. TIte Capt:lin. Johnn y ~lcnmuir.
perhaps nut the mo~t prolific or go,tbl·orers. neve rthdes.~
proved him ~e lf to be:m ever-present figure on th e pito.:h.
hrilli:tntl y ,tnd nuidl y .~n:tkin g throu gh defender., w ith o.:llI1;'UIll mate case ..,olllctimes passing as many as five at :Itime. Kar l
Llltemw, our uniqu c riposte to ' 'IcSSfS Eimer <Iud Klink, was
tlte most d:lunting and impas~,lhle of defender~ that o nc o.:ou ld
imagine, a tnl e in~pi r.lIi on on th e Icft-h:l11d side. Alex Ki chic
11$ impro ved immensely up front. ami thi s sea~nn h:l s Ih:II<.-·<I
!>evcn glial- wi th ~ontctime~ M: int ill:lting panac he: his fCward i~
th e cOI'eted di stincti lln o f To p Scorer. 'nle lang uid Will
Clldwcll h:ls played ,I croci;11 role nn the Idt. .L1 ul along w ith
Hockey Boys 1 st Colts
P/(/,1'f'(1 7, WOII 2, Drawil I, Lo.w 4
E,H'elle t1l l'icloric~ we re obtained :LL:ai n ~ I CanfllTd an d
Radl ey. a ~trml g draw agai nst 51. Edwa~(]".~, hilt hc:tv), defe;lt s
\Vere co nced ed aga i n ~ t C hdtcnh: ul1 and Wdlin gton , The team
Il"ff{[wl y I\I-t In Bradfield and D;nllll ~eys,
:! I player.; I"epre~e nted th; .~ le:lI11 in ;1 sea~on of inju ry. illne~s
and eh:mge. The proce ~.~ o f te;lm -huildin l! has been short -term
OIlId it hots bcell di ffi cu lt to devel op paltcr~' o fp l;IY, It has been:t
lough ~e ".,un hut a challcnging o ne wi lh Illenty o f characlerbuildi ng opport u nit i e.~. T he sea:-'(l11 did hal'e its mag ic..l
mome nt., but thl're wa' ple nt y ofhamm cring tOO, OI;I'cr O~good
~cflred a he;llthy I:tl ly 1)1' goa l~ w hil e aliI er Uol l:md made;1
Iwhil of SOlving pen;tilY nicks :It Ihe nlileremi. Tom C:ulilon II';IS an
c!ll.'l·til·e c:tpt:lin when he played.
Th er.:: is plemy of t"lelll in this ~qu:111 :tllllthcy:lfe like ly
secure soniC impre ssi l'e ac hieveme nts in tllei l' rcsl)Cl·tivc
01)C1I team.' .
10
Hockey Boys 2nd Colts
PftlYI'ti 6,
th e harryin g and :.ublime Joji Koyal1l ,l, has heen imcgr:tilll o ur
:LIIaeking l·a]lability.The fin:11 mcmbe r of t hi.~ tl\'o·sea._on
Upper Sixth cohort W;L~ Alex Miller. whosc di., trihlu ion :m.!
determin:lIi on 11':1.' of und ou bted benefit to the tca m.
Many M:hoo ls hOl \'e suffered hum iliOlting defeOltS at the
h:mds of this yea r's 2 nd XI: Radley. D:lIIntscy\ (in IInfl.rge tt:thle arctic condi lion ~), Chcltenham. De:tn C hl 'e, ~·l onJ,.ltlll
Combe, Wellingto n :lIld 5t.Edw:trd.~ all ~ucc um hed to nur
del':lsI<lting frmu -lille with no re ply. T he often Ilero.: ule:nl
defencc, co mpo .•ed of Ham ish Laing. I'byer of Ihe Sea'll1l
Cha7, O:lkeshett. Ferg ie Miller. and chirpy keeper A(e.~
Goodwill. proved indomitable in Iheir de li allee
uwr,llilling
:m:lcke rs and will ~urdyeH'd ne .~1 year, Tom Saunder.-, :I IOIle
cumer o nt o th e ., cenc, simil:lrl y h;ls a good future . It o nl y
remains tn mention the talented Archer, l>e r kin~ : S im SCI Ired
sewr-J( eXl'dlent goals late o n in the ~eOl~on. :lIId ku nie harned
many all o ppos in g defe nd er.
or
I Ihorou gh ly enjoyed ph.ying wi th this exce ptional grnu p
of people, and the te:t m should dcsen edly go dOlI n in
~ l arlb uri an folklore.
Hockey Boys 5th XI
I)/aycd -I. \1'tJ/i 3.
f)r(ll1"1I
I, Lo.\·/O
The unbe;lten ~a SOIl demonStraled \larlhorou g h's l·o nsid·
crable sIrength in de pth. T he te:tm cont:lin cd ~nm e ski lful
players. It beat ils own -tlh X I o n astmlurfand re:td ily :ldOlpled
to the 101ler)' of g r.I!>~ pitches for mo~t of Ihe sc hnolm atches.
We were solid in defence. wherc we g,l\'e away only one goOlI,
alld in mid -fid d: ;tfter a comfonOlhlc win Ol'cr 1{;lllle y. Ihe
:m:le\,: PUI SCI'cn ~oa l , paS! Mo nkt o n Combe and had:lt 1e:ISt
Ihat number of chancl's againsl \\'ellin gto n, Everyone mn
;tmund el1lhu ~i:t~tic:llly, compeled energetically, ,IUd noisily
enj oyed th e lea m' s lI'ell·desefl'ed sU\: ccs~cs. fnun Ihe k:tmik;ue
Ric hard Gibson in gcml 10 the goa l-slo uin g {\Ie,x Hmwn u]1 from.
JEO
11'011
5, D I"IIWII 0, LII.w I
T hc 2nd Cl) It .~ h:ld:1 S L1cccs~ ful sea~on . winn ing 5 o f Ihelr 6
m:ltl'ltes in tine ., tyle, .mt! losing nnly 10 C hdt c nh;1I1l in a cll1>efou ght m;lteh when fuhhed throu g h injury and Iir~I , t ea m
dell1:1II (1, of SC I eml key players.
T lte rc IV;IS C1 Hl ~ id c r,lhle st renglh OIl Ihe ]',Ick, where' Dutch'
Holland :tml .'lIhsecluem ly COlvin I brri ~ were brave, com mill et!
and \ ery co mpete nt goal kecper~. Billy Lyo n ami ~ I ax Bickford
WCfe 'Ieady hac k ~, marked o ut hy Iheir posilional se n~c . Ihcir
timing Ilflackles and en'ect;\'c d i.'lributio n.
We ne\ er Ilu ite ,,<:uled Ihe Im lf-Ixtc k pfl~ it ;on~. p;lniclll:lrly
ce nlre, half. due 10 the ffellUent ch:lIIgcs in the firsl tea m SCI I1P,
hut !he po~it i ll n w:l.~ 'Ilways strongly fil lell hy Tflm Burn e, 1\·like
Bu,h ur C:lhriel York. J;lInl's Nidt(1 lson changed fwm [efl w in g
10 t)cc," nc a fiN -rale ri g hl h;ll(. hu sy in allack ;Uld lldenc e - a
great SI1]1po r1 I" the righl hand ~;de attack tea m Gahriel Y'lrk
and K" ,ase K:tbwe . wlto posed end less prohlems tClo ppo., ing
defellce.' with Iheir fa,I and skillfu l ~:tlli e~ II"wn Ih c touch line.
On Ihe lefl h:j[lll .~ide wc had Lew is Mallin g hosti ng pasl opponenl, and comhi nin g I~ ell with the team's m l)~ t impfl.lvcd pla yer
on the kft wing, Num;t Hem ho.:nte, I3 ctween them :111. Ihcy ~e t up
in numerable dmncc~ fur Anthon y Bec her and R:n'i S;tbharwa l.
bolh II ilh:1 re:11 in., tin el and nOM: fur goah, In s lol awa~..
or
'IlI;s 11';1 ' an excellent team w look ;tfler: Ihey ]lr.lCliscd ,lIld
pl:l)'ell 1t,lppil)', and gal'e IllC a lo t nl" enjoyment both wi th thei r
exci ti ng play :nul their exc mpl ary ,md cnlhusiaslic :1]lpro'LC h.
My th: lIlks 100 1<> Greg Webb fur hi s endle,., ly cheerful su ppo rt.
ami til Andrew Shepherd. Chri~ Fowler ami v:trillu.' refugees
fmm Ih e firs l team fo r the ir I'a illable cnn trilmt ions,/\n y tc;tm
Ihat 0.::11\ prod uce co nvincing win s aga in,! Br.ldfieltl, Radley.
Wellin gton. C;mford ;lIul SI. Edw:lrd 's i._ a !cam 10 I)C
reckull~d with !
I')L
Hockey Boys 1st & 2nd Junior Colts
I.t'/ XI - f'1(ly('{11 I. \1'(1/15, 1)/"{/\\'1/ 2. 1.(1,\'/4
211d XI - PI(/."!'ti 9, \l'm15. Dr(lll"lI 3. Losl I
The hI Junior Cnlts had a gliOt! ~e;lsnn hUI wcrc unluck y to
lose a ga me ami hcnee were roh bed of an IUllle1".!:tted se:LS\1t1. As
'''111111 11996
~
a group o f pb ye r~ Ihis is;1 ve ry 1,Ilc nted ye;lr .md il b ob\·ious
Ihat in Iheir 1\1'0 ~'e:u"Sal l he Col lege Ihey Im \'e leamed .. 101. The
high point of Ihe ~aSOrl ilS r;IT;IS I W;I~ (l)I)ce med w.. s \\ hcn the
tcam tr.welled 10 Wc1 li ngtun. had 10 \Iail over tll"O hours bo:fore
the ir g;mlc was scheduled to ~ ta rl. and then Qut' playe{ lt hei r
oppo nents. T his was also the game where I thin k Ihe team SlIW il
all click int o pl ace becau se uf Ih (: fil et Ih:11 el'CI)'Olle \I·;I.~ Iry ing
and eonccnt r.l lillg un th ei r ()w n j obs.
A few pl;lyers dese rve .' I)Ccial me nti on. Oliver Tuggey ami
Hum phrey Taylo r (ho lh con fiden t nnd strong pl;l),ersJ WCfC
prcp:m:d to gil'e 110% cfro., panicularl y du ring Ihe We llington
~;U IlC. ,\ nother key playe r w .. ~ the ca pl.;tin. ~ Iall :-'·latG regor.
,\ !though he m i ~scd a num he r of games due to inj ul)' he sho\led
real detcnn inatinn in .l\Iemllli ng to fi gh t I"lek [Q full fi tness. l ie
is a skillful an d I:1 le nt ed ball playe r ami has gre at promise.
Bert ie ~'l i11 er ;Ind Lu ke Hyde.Smi th arc ellceptiou:lll y tillented
YUlIn g players and on scI·cnt l IJol.:C;ISions il was their skill s in
light silU,llio ns which gm 1I ~ out of diffic lll lies.
Therc ;I re or course lUn man y ]1eople 10 menti un indi vidually and those whl) have nIH heel! si ngled (Jut ~houl d not feel tha i
Ihd r cfrnns Were not c.~~e l1l ia II O Ihe leil lll·.~ ~ucce~~.
'1lI,mksl:!O to EG N. C/\ J . JRW ,md c.'I)Ccially S MDD who
louk the team f(lr Ihe fi rSl llit rt Ilf the sc;.son.
NOI
Hockey Boys 3rd Junior Colts
Wcl lingw n to SL'CUfe the Tumcr C up from thc 2nd Xl on goa l
dilTerence. The pl,lIfoflu fOf the sUCcesS was Ihe de fence.
GOill kce pc r Ti m II lure h concc nt raled we ll and was d..:.-cisil·c.
especially when nt:t kin;; a " it;I I pe nally Sil\'C agai nsl Wclli ng ton.
The IwO bac ks. RUI)Crt L lIlgdon and capt ai n Toby G:lI1 i1;;hcr.
were fa., 1 ami ski lful. cumhining wd llo cover a lmost "lithe
opposilio n could throw atl hcm. In midfie ld .lhc C2 Iri n of
Wi llenl\·lan;;. Ed Ste l'cnson and Nick Jenn er worked I'cry hard
and enjoyed com ing forwa rd. O n occasio n ~ . the ,ldditi on of
M;lrk Toml inso n a nd Rob SWlle prov ided e.~lra skill and
co nt rol. T he lead ing goalscorcr was James C;\ldwell with ten.
including hat tricks iI;; .. illst Wel lington ;utd 5 1.Edward·s. He
was ab ly ~u pponed by Uellr), Dovc r. who demonstr.lled a good
eyc mId conside rahle St" l11 in... The prov idcrs were ofte n Ihe 111'0
wi nge rs. Ihe tri cky ;lIId cffec til'e Ro ly Gla ncy o n lhc left ,lIId the
enl hl\ ~ias tic and elTe rveSCcn l Will Garthwai te Oil the righL My
l h:J Ilk.~ 10 all thc playcrs ;utd to the m,II1 Y p;lrcnls who gavc
m uch ilpp recia ted ~l1 ppo n .
JMi
Squash Club
This was a m uc h beller sc a~(l1l Ihan I..sl Michad m;ls for the
lSI V - Iheir slat i.~l ics could so e;L~i l )' h;)\'c read 1>9. WS. L I so
dose wcre the nliltthcs lIg;li nsl 51. Edward's, R;)dley mul
B r~·;III 't on . O nly against C harlerhousc were we we ll and tnll y
otl [d:ls~cd . We h:II'C;1 young side wilh;1 lot of promise.
SI)cc1:tl menti nn mllsl go to thc Jun ior Colts who were
un l)C;lle n.
1'lu,\"('(/ 6. IIh n 2, I)r{/\ \"I/ I . i...t,s/3
A mi.... of ;11 1e m()t i o n.~ t h ar; u: l e ri ~cd th is seaso n for til e 1.C.
:rs - from a desl)C r<n e l (l~s III it wea ker SI.Edward 's side who
were nOI able 10 pass bUI We re ab le 10 di ~nl pl \\"e ll. In a
Iriu mpha1l1 roUl or j\'lonklon Com be by millions of gll,11~ [0 nonc.
h has there fore bee n IIIllre reward ing to have a group of
boys who ha\'C enjoyed their hockey. whittever the weather ,lIld
eit her o n the dry or below a ce nti mctre u f w:I\er. The ir te;lI11
perfonJlances wcre cllccllen[ mId dc~ p ile losing toO m;my
g;ulle~, the players gili ned muc h clI pcrie nce ;Ind will l)C wel l
~ u ile d for Ihe C nlts di yb iol1 n e .~t lerr u .
The girl s encnun le red ,"cr)' lill ie o pro~i tionthi s /errll
our cocducatiorwl rivills. This was frustm tin \! (or them
as there is stre nglh in deplh (a.~ the 2nd tcam prol'cd ag ainst SI.
Edwa n.l"s). We shall sha ll be looking for an c s t en d~ d :lIlt!
lougher fi .~l u fe li ne ne.... t year.
alll o n g.~ t
CI>II~
Gi"' ~
Played 8.
\\lOll
5.
lJl"(jll'l/
3. /"0.1'10
W hal;1 wca lt h oflalc nl we have;lI Ye arl ill!!S lel'cI: Under
the strict guid:lllcc of Robc rt Grel· i lle. l-l eyg ale~ Y....arlings ~lUls
I)C,,, C;t nronl. Cheltenh;lI li. 0 .... 11, C1o.'>C. Daunlseys ;lI1d
Wellington, tOlal li ng I g gnal ~ with only 2 against. Lois Tallon
topped the goa l scoring in the ~cl ioo l l l ()) though ~ome orlhesc
he da imed for the 3rd X I.
In defe nce. John O Wen -Jon cs was in goal. Hu gh
Mac Donald Brow n and Ih Hldy Barrell ~Illid "tthe ha ck .
l\"I<mlrCe Youg.,,,ku!. Rob G rcl' illc·Heygil te ;md Dan Palching
.\CC llfe and crc;ltive in midfiel d. T he forward line hml il ;111 :
Iwo faSI winge rs in Quicn tin Hicks (md OliVer Bate mall.
play makers in Jul ian Ash wn and M all P()C()C k with Ja in Wri gh t
al ccn tre forward.
Wcll done
bd ~~
NNC
Hockey Boys 3rd Yea r lings
Played 8. WO/l S. Draw" O. 1.•0.1'10
. T I.l is was a I'inwgc scaso n of e i g hl .~tr: ti g hl wins. including
\' lcton cs o\'e r IblUe}'. Chcltcnha m a nd . mo~t sig nific;ulI ly,
J Colt~ V
Pla)c,1
9
9
7
J
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7
7
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LO'1
4
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Hockey Boys 2nd Yearlings
V
Girl,' 1MV
211d V
o
Rackets
i\ f ;clwc/lIIlIS 1995
",
2nd
Cllcl lcnhillll
'14
Cl ifwn
J./3
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311
Eton
0/.1
on
Win('hc'lc r
0/J.
l'larr",,"
'14
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Wcl linglUli
Vt
4m
I lil ilcyhu ry
Colt~
~12
'14
' V}
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Look ing purelY;1\ results achieved in blac k ilnd while, thi ~
term could be reg'lf(kd ilS ell trcmcly disappoinling. H;lllpily
[Imt i ~ nm Ihe case O l'c r the lasl fou r mlllehes playt,.-d the I .~ t
r .. ir (F" lmd Roumani fMani n Hall1 ]1ton) 11:I\'c impro\'ed .1r:mlilt_
icall y and prod uccd e .~ d/ i n g l)Crfnrm<lllc('s ;Igainst 1·... 1)· strong
OllpO., itillll culminalin g in lite cnl ~h i ll g defeil t of Hai leybury
ilWll)'. AI limes Fahad l~ ou n H1ni has shown thai he i .~ (lne or lhc
besl pl;lye rs on lhe circuil whi le Mlirtin 1·lamplo n has be(,:o1l\e iI
\'cl)' compc tent No.2 string. I IOI)Cful1 y their imp rov ing (nrlll
will be maintaim:d;n Ihe Public Se h oo l~ Single.,
Champ ionships held al Queen's Club hef(lre Ch ri.~ t lll a~,
Un.fortunatel y il ha.' been impossible 10 field (Jur Slnmgest
2nd p:ur IJ~ more .than lwo occasions. while the CHitS p,lir :Ire
grauuall y 1I11pTnVm£ hut need to ··grow·· !l1'O o r three inches.
Due 10 lac k of e .~[X!ricnce the Junio r Colt.~ hal"e ouly pl;lyed
onc Illalch bill Wllh luck Ibe re~ 1 nfthe lield willlX:CO IU ghl hv
the eml of the Lent Terlll.
Colours are ,Iwarucu 10 f almd Roum;mi and Mart in
IbmplOlI.
HilI!"
I..CI1l
1996
Yel agai n. poor results ol·er.JlI but much o f the play lI as
hean ening an d the male hes fu ll nf lil'e ly cxc hanges. Win"
wcre recorded O\'er Ru gby and Winchester and Ih rillinc
c(J l1le~ts played with Welli ngton ;nld Charte rhouse. h I~;I S all
the more dep ressing thal lhe fi rs t pair cnuh! nO I rai~e their
g,une together in th e doubles at Queen·l< as th ey wun si ngly
there Ix:fore Chrhtmas.
The first round loss tn Winchester \\I:I ~ o nl y s ligh tl y
mitig;ned by Win che~l e r" s stron g showing in I;ner roun d ~
thou gh they were ~ ma~ h ed by ElO n I in the fin al.l... lanin
Ibmpton has pmgres~d so much in the 1:lsttwo years th;u it
would be a great pity if he did nOI continue wilh Ihe g;1I11", (11K...
he leal·...s school. F;llmd Roum;mi was the only pl' l),er whum
Nick Blliky ·re.tred· in the Singles Championship. l ie IV: •., rig ht
to ~e Fah:td a.~ :l thre at but. I'ery ., adl y. lack of co n ~i~t e n ey was
our slar ]lla)'er·.~ undo ing.
The l>ceo nd p:li r ju,c did nOI pr:Leti~e together ..:nough to
ac hiel'e ,I proper u ndel'l' t ;IIJdin~. though il was I ' ... ry good ttl ~ ... c
them win their first match 011 Qlleen·s. The Colts hal'e to learn
Ihe I'i t;ll necessity o f keeping the h;tll in play. TIle Juni or Colts
showed a lJ1":;l ~ll re of improl'emenllhis ler m and 1I'0n an
exci ting rnaleh al Charterho u ~..: ,
cx tremely dose nwtch CI eme rgcd the \'ic IOr"S by 27 [min ts 10
2-1. Congratul alions 10 bOlh teams for giving so m uch enen.!\' 10
lhccOlllpetilio n.
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.22 Shooting
This has h..:en it I..:rm dcvoted HI l;tlcn l·spt111 ing and recon.
slmetion. f.,'lore members of Ihe Shcll ,lilt! Remove than ever
before havc h..·C ll ~ h oot ing regula rly on Tuesday's and a
sig nific,lIlt num her of them nnw fe; lI ure on the t\ve r:lge.~ Board.
I lead ing this hoard. and mnSI appmwb tely. win ner of the
M,C I(.C. t-.kd al (Se nior). is Ihe new C:l ptain of Shooting,
Palriel; Craig. wilh a :;.core (If 'Jill! ()(). wh ich he has et]1lallcd in
matches induding;1 magn ifie..:nt 9K nn ;1 If)·hull card agOl inst
Wellington. I(u nner· up was P'I.'i(OC de G lanville. wlltl:-e possible
( If)CIII (0) shnt iUlhe m,llch :lg;linsl Ihe OMs was Ihc unl v one
achin'ed under m:ltch condi lio ns. but which f:liled 10 Wil; us Ih;u
match ..:ich~f - 760 I' 7(.K. Paul Koro nl;H has contin ued In
imprnve bot h in praelicc :lnd in malches. and full y de.<.;eTl'cs 10
win Ihe \-I.C.R.C. t-. ledal (j uni or) as lOp rnarkSIll:1ll in the Lower
Schuo l. He :,1,...0 ~ hot a co nsistent 98 10 help Li u leficld win thc
1·louse Shooling Com pe tition (Philbrick Cup) by ,L fai rly
co mforlab le nwrgi n frum C2.
The eonlrihmion ma de by one ( If ( Hl r Sp:mish sllI tle nls.
Payne. shoulll nol go unremarl;ed . NO l on ly did h..:
shollt for ~'I :lrlhoroug h hUI gavc us lI l e~~nn in COU nel<), ;md
friend Iiness.
P~·dm
Two Ix:gi nnerli. who h;I\·c real ly made an impact. arc James
Kirby and John ~ I Or.lIl1. They ~ h o t as a Cadet Pair aga i n.~ ll hc
OM's tn score:tn imprcssivc 190/200. whi ch would .~ u rcly have
won h,ld Ih~ Or.1" s produced a p;lir (or them 10 shoot ;Ig;li nsl. O f
the ..... John r. lnr.m t had the highest improvemenl rating o f
cveryone in the sq u,ld and now lies Rlh (l\'erall: no me;1Il
a... hiel·em..:nt fllr ~Ilme"ne slill in the Shell . He Iherefore wins
an M.C.R.C r.1cd;ll.
/)w/x;
,IIer
Full-Bore Shooting
Basketball
Plt/yed 4. WO/l 4.
1)1"(/11"/1
O. 1..0.1"10
The prel·ious seasou and Ihis h,' rrn have ~ec n the rx-·e mer·
genee of b;lsketb:l11 :II Marlborough ,lfler a three ye;l r ahse nee.
Comprehen, il'e w i n ~ ol'cr sCl'erallocal ba~ k e th;dl .,c h llols
hal'e confirmed Ihe hot hed ofb:l.~l;ctba l llale n l allhe College.
An impressive di ~ p lay of bas ketb;11l agaitl~t the e.'P..:rience(1
opposilion o f Swindon New Co llege led to a I'ery pl ea~ in g
54-H vic tory. as wel l:l~ :m 82-14 mass;lI: re of II)Ca l ba.d :ethall
ril':J1. Warminster. Part ieul;uly noteworthy pcrforrll;ulc ....' C:Il11e
from te:lI11 (:aptai n ~ larc Ho:o;er and senior team ~t:t r Lee
Arno ld.
The facl th,Jl the majorilY nftea lll members ar... fro m Ihe
lower year groupl> in the sc hool shows Ih;n Ihe College should
1001; to ,lllrospemus b:lsl;el-balli ng future. under the guill:lt1ce
of new coach Dr Vukusio;.
Cnn di ti on~ und er II hich ~ hoo l i n g HlOk p];lce this summer
have remained th l! ~; lI ne as for last sea~o ll (T;lrgcl Rine and GP)
bUllhe personnel ha ve a lmnsl. completely ch:mged. Of lasl
ye:t r'~ VIIJ. P;llrick Cr.lig and Pa<;eoc de Glanville have lIIo re
th,m fulfi lled Ihe pnllllise they shmvetll;lst year. the St:lllatl
01\ ing milch to Palricl;'s quiel and unas~ ullling leadership.
It It'IS. therefore. bee n a sea~ n ll ill which to hui ld up
exp... ri ellce :md shoo ting sl;i lls. T his process lx:g;lIl wilh IWO
day~ (If intetl~il'e shuuling and Imi ning 011 Bisley :lIlhe end of
Ihe I::'lsl..:r hnlid:LYs. where we were hel pe d by O~'ls Tony de
L:lullay. Don:lld Anderson and C h:lrles Brooks, We arc
imme nsely gr.ucfu l for their ~ h;lI"t!d e '~llCrtise ,lIld sl;ilful
eO:le hing. Tn fini sh th e wedelld. our lOp Ih ree joined wit h
lhCl1l1O compel..: forthe Malvern Cup Hlh overall ).
This year we :llso re·sl:tned;m excep tionally popul:lr
Interhnu.<.;e Tou rn ament whi dl W'I.~ played we ll ,md received a
n\ll ~s of voca l. :111[1 :lI tilt1e ~. fanatiCl1 suppon. Two lIl alc he~
e:leh week wcre played ov..: r Ihe full ten wee l;s oflerm.
resulting el-entual1 y in a .~emi . fin;1 1 ill which Turner and
I'reshute went OUI hono umbly tOlhe strenglh of h;L~ ketb;LII
cxperience from C I :1IId C 2.
This was not th,,: o lll)' new cHm[X!tilion en tered for by the
experiellced shols. Marl b(lrough was well r..:prescn led lit
the Greshall1s Open Champ io nships in May and the Wiltshire
;md Dorsel OpelJ in June (both OIl B i ~ l ey). as well ;IS competing
:IS ,lIl VIII and Fours ill the main TR !.:lIm pe ti tin lls ope n 10
schullb. U n ~ur]lri sin gly Ihc VIII on ly achieved 71h pl,Jre in the
CI:tyw n Challenge. bUI Will iam Unll'in·s 67.7 PUI him Xth
individually. Will w:~~ OI lso part of the Senior Four who
deci,il"cly defe;lled Sherbome;u ·nle Wilts and Dorscl1'. lalch.
10 lI'ill lhe Sherborne Cup (last co mpeted for in 19(4).
The linallx:lween C I ;md C2 allmcled a crowd lI umbe ring
in e.~cc.,s of some IWO hun dred p••.-nple 10 Ihe spons hall . In an
bc~1
m')~t
The OM l1l;lIeh brn ughl the worsl \Ju l in thl! weal her hUll he
VI11 so;ore of the seil.<on (59 ) ag:tinsl a star·studd ed O~ I
11111 11 11 1 1996 I ~
le<l111 10 lrai l hy o nl y (5 1)()i nts . It \\' <lS Ihe Junior Four. caplained
by Jack Bro:ll lhur:; l. who faccd simil li r weather earlier in th e
1II0nth and wiln th e Juni or:; C up in the l' uhlic Schools Target
Rifle C hall enge M,lI Ch org:mised by We llington. 'nIC p rol11i~e
of these young 'tyros' gives c:mse 10 hope for eve n greate r
Sllt'cess in yellr:; 10 cOl11e.
ll y compari~on the G P lealll. led by An thony ,\01 011. has
had mixcd fortu ncs hu t pr.lc tised 'Is~i d uous l )'. 111e dom iml1 l1
figures of the ., e.-so n h'lVe been Patric k Craig ,md 1'; I ~eoe de
Glanl'ille in Ta rge t Rifle. Patr ick ga ined tile highes t aggreg at e
score in matches 10 win Ihc Seal C hil llenge Cu p. whilst P,ISC()C
ac hievcd a notahle 138/15010 win T he Wi ltshire Colllel Cup in
open com p'etit inn.
/JIrlJ('
Well ill glO11 tu m ed OUl lO be ,III exce ptio ll illly do~e male h:
wc losl the 1st fo il ,lIld epee 5·4 and Ihe s" bre 6·3. lt w a.~o ll l y
the 2nd fo il and Iheirco n\' incing viclory of 8· lthal en:lhlcd us
10 win {)\'c;.lIl: Ihal is than ks 10 Eri Owa ki. C harlie Cu rrie ;U1d
Ben Ald ridge.
The disappoinling match of Ihe se a~m turned out 10 be
a!!:l i n~t IJ riJdtidd . Perhaps we may h:I\'c bee n 100 ('on tident.
h;\,in:; beate n the m 43-11 l;~~tlerm . butl<omc1 im<.'S thb i ~ a
diftic ult lesso n 10 le:lrtl.
My Ihan ks go to Ihe fence rs for a moSI enjoyab le seasoll: In
Gildas Bmi ne for hi s l.1cdicllinn :lIId his impressive Ic;ldership
as C,] pl:lin (Ihere h :L~ been a Br.lino! on the lemll for the la<;1 nine
YC;lrs). :Jlld of cou rse to J im I\~ hley- I)ow n for his leadership 1:lst
term. ,nul lO Eri O waki as secrelmy for k•.'cpillg me orGmliscd.
11k: Ke igh le)' Cup for the 1II0~1 im proved fencer is :I\\';mlcd
10 C h:lrlie Cu rrie ,lIId the W ilk inson Sword for lhe mosl
"celHlI plished fencer 10 G ildas Braine. C{ !lours arc :Iw: lnlcd 10
Gel!f" S haw ;)1\(1 J,lI lles Wright .
Fencing
Mic!wdll/o.)· 1995
\1'0114. u H·rl. D rawlI
IWI\
0
Netball Upper school
It's been (luile an enclm r.lging len l1 and the irll prol'emenl in
the (I Ualily of fencing has been considerahle . We h:lu an
encouragi ng ~1 ;lrI IO the se,L~on with a elO'iC win O\'er Harrow.
We 10Sl ln Ellln so mehow. bul it did no\ see m tuo drama tic:
Ihey we re deil rly a beller side :Ind a pre·se ilsoll tour 10 J'lpan
hild obvio usly helped Ihem eo n ~ i derably. Ne\"en hde~s. l here
were some cl(l~e houls and wc will re lll m nt.'x t ye:lr wi th mnre
corm nitment and eonfh k nee!
Due 10 the ...chool play our side wal< ~e\'erel)' deplcled
:Il,!;!inst CliftonllllJ we were ;! Ii n le cOllcen-ed. Even so. Charl ie
C urrie. Alex Lydialc ami BiI)':ml Randel. who only staned
fe nc ing Ih i .~ ye ar. did part icul;lrl y we ll in win ning twO Oll t of
Iheir three bo ul s in Ihe :"I rd Foi l tea m.
On 19th NI>\"e mbcr. s<:ver.ll pupih entered Ihe SllIJlhern
ret;ion U IS :1IIt! U16 Epee cumpctilil >n. Some of the ~(I U :ld \\erc
;1 liu le ~urp ri sed :lI lhe qua lity o f en try. bmt his wa.~ Ihe fi n.I
c(1111)Clil ion in whic h ;m y o f Ihem had fe nced. Ne\'Crt heless. the
ex pe ri cnce wal< ilwa luable ,md Ihe im pm\"ement in Ihe st:lI1d:lrd
offenci ng \1',1' 1l1ll'ious.
T he III n.~ 1 nowblc l)C rformll nee in Ihe ulil lch ,lgil insl
SI.Edwa rd·s was :Igain by Charlie C UI'ri c who was fenci ng in
Ihe 1st Sahre I<:a m for Ihe fir..l time: he managed to win 2 bou t ~
oul of 2.
ln lhe malch ilgainst ll r.ldfie ld. Gl::nffShaw represe nt ed Ihc
se h{)(JI on " Il thl'ec WC111)(IIlS anu WOI1 1\ out of 9. J:unes l3u.~ta ­
Benso n 60m of6 (Foi l and Epee). bUl lhe beSI achievemenl
here wa.~ from Ben CooJler. l3en slarted fenci ng for the first lime
after hat f lerm ; he represe nt ed Ihe .~c h oo l in the J nl (o illea m
and wo n 2 OUI o f :"l bo uts.
I'.\"I\
Lelll'lerlll 1996
II isco mfoning:lI Ihis slagc 10 be able to look back ove r
Ihe whole season wi lh :Ilhni r.ltion fnr Ihe sq uad and for Ih ei r
t'o mmilment ; so me of Ihem in paniclI 1:!r h:l\"c worked hard ,nul
Iheir sland,l rd :IS fence rs h;ls im proyel l sig lli fie' lII lly.
\Vh al took me by surprise lhe most III:IS ollr loss agiJ inst lhe
O;'.-is: the esse nce o f Iheir tea m \\":IS jU~ l t he s:lIlle :~~ 1 re member
it when I last fenced for lhem aboul 15 yeal1l ago! Despite a few
cx tr.l po unds ( Ill.~) and a few more (or less) grey hairs. clearl)'
Ihe ' In ali ly of lheir fenci ng hilu. if all Yth ing. imp roved with
m,llurily: il j u.~ t g()Cs to show Ihal yo u ~a nn Oi be:11 eX I)Cri ence !
Well done Ihe O~'l s: an impress i\'c performance and a gc neroll.~
lu nch. th iJ nk YO Ii .
P/oYI'd 11 . 11'011 /0. Dro wlI O. /..ostl
Coachi ng in" ~ch ool i~ MJ unli ke a cl ub where one mighl
h,l ve Ihe same grnup of pla ye rs fo r mall y ),e;)r:;. III th e sc hool
enviw nmen t lellills co rn e ;1Ilt! go and Ihe ch,II 1enges reappc'l r.
However. the maj l!rity of Ih is squad has been to£e t h ~r for a few
ye:lrs :md their re~lIh.~ rcfl('cl Ilml fac t :1110 thei r ah ility.
Ove r Ihe ye:lrs we have increased the number o f tix tu res
tl wt we can ti t inlo this shon lenll prO\'idi ng a greiller challe ngo!
anu more ma1c he~ for our 2nd and U 16 h.·' lms.To do Ihi~ :md It)
will 10 " ul of II is;1II OUlst,lIIdill £: performan ce.
We .~ Inrl ed Ihe season w ith goml wi ns againsl Ji rmltield ;I ud
Corllhc :md then MKJ1l mo\"ed o nlo the lougher
fix tures. Beati ng Prior Pa rk. Clifton and Ki ngswood refkoed
wel l on our pla)'er:;.
~'hln kt{ln
Sile i ~ stil l ;l c nu.:iiJl '1.~1',.:ct in nelh;111;lIul o ur Ii:lrrow los~
Cheltenham was a re fl ectio n of Ihd r ability. hU I also the
~i/.e of their gO:11sho(J[er.
;lgai ll~1
O ll r inler sc hool season end ed wilh a greal win ove r Ihe
D a\l n l.~eys. 53·34 1I':IS aj usl reflection uf
oll r ~ u periori l Y anu II greal way to end the season.
Inc;t! oppositio n f ro ll1
O n the I:\).t Sunday oflerm in our l:i rge In\" ilat iou Netball
"1"o urnnment we hosted 14 under 18 le:Ull.~ and 10 U I flleams.
New Col lege fmm Swindon arc alw:IYs very stmng :nul th is
year hm'ing II'nn Ihe Nat ion:.l Schools Netbilll competi tion Ihe
day hefore. Ihey ca me and won ou r C(l ml)clilion 100. We playe.l
and losllo Ihem ill the selll i-linals ha l' iug won ,Ill (J ur gro up
g;lI lles.
Filially I would like to th:1I1k :111 those young lad ies who
haw t;i \'en w m uch 10 lhe College and 10 nelball o\"cr Ihe years.
SOllie .. ro! leaving .. l lhe end of this year :lIul Iheir nelb.. 11 abililies will be sorely missed. Olhers will still be here and it is for
Ihem 10 risc 10 Ihe c hall enge of m;linl .. inin g our high ~t:md ard s.
Colou rs awarded 10: L. Kemp-Gee. J.Stolie. E.Spellce.
A.Marlin.
L.FtJ.~· Pill ,
JI:.J'
Netball 2nd VII
P{ay('(/ II. 11'(111 II , DI"(/II'II O. 1..11.1"1 0
The 2nd VII ha\"e had :1 swr ming season. W ilh an U1l bcaten
reenrd. We hml MIllie exee llell1 \"ic l orie.~ includ ing wins oyer
Cheltenham L:ldie!'> College 25-8.
We had a \'C ry sirong defence w ith /\lex i\ lan in 8: T;Jtl)'a
Gemm il usin g Iheir hcigh t IIl lhe tealll·.~ ad,·:mt;u:c . ami
i\ lir.uld:ll'e;lcoc k \ dyrmrnic intcrcept ion~ ;u1(1aggrc ...,il·c spiri t
rn;ld~ our defence a force 10 be rcdnncd with. Rac hel OUlram
played on d~s p ite juj u!'ies. wh ile Ihe ellcrs)' ,IIU! timin g of the
ce nt re cOlin pl:lyers (Fiona Worrall. Zoe Jordan a nd [{:Icile l
Hulison) ol'crcal11e Ihe Oppnsilion wilh o ut e.xceptiol1. Th e
allacking pallern s of play dmnina ted o ur cin:1e t h;mk~ to
Rosie Kean'S intelli gent posilionin g ,llId reliahle s hunting:
alreldy she is ~ h\lWing sig ns of folluwi llg in her ~ i sTef '.'
fU(lt ste p~. Vicky Lucas provided the ,mchor for nul' attack
con s i~tently !'>hOOlilig w ilh narc :md pl\.'C isi uIJ ,md as c;lpl;lin
her elWllllr.lgernenl and leadership in~pired Ihe leam to Iheir
cease h.·s~ vic to ri es.
On be half o flh e team. we'd like tn thank Mr.Pa teh ing for
h i~ su()Crh coac hing ,IIU! co nSl,mt supp·on.
11, I,·I~,..",,,,,,, AI.-.. Mil"'"
Netball 3rd VII
Netball U14
1-nll Term
Whell I first ~aw Ihe g irl~ on Ih e nethall court in early
J:H\lIary. I rea liscd wc had:1 lot oi"work 10 dn, cove ring basic
~k i lls before could prngress unto more :td\"anced lactica l pl'l)'.
We ~(M)1l e~t:tb li ~hed a selbe of purpo~e an d dclermin:lIi nn d uring the long pr:,,:tiec ~essio n s ;md Ihe g ids were rewarded wi lh a
grc:ner ul1der~ landi n g of the g;ulle and a bCll er ie I'd of ~ki l l.
Dc~p ite my ini tial mi _~g iving.~ . the" girls pul led toge lll\'r,
<ldl ic\'ing M.me C;o;Cc!1c1ll resul ts .tnd ! wiluld lik e 10 cOl1g mlUlat e Ihem all. There i ~ ~Iill a IIllIg w:ly 10 go if wc arc 10 mainta in
:lIul indced impro\ c upon the high ~I:m(brd o f nctball currentl \'
o n di s pl:t y in Ihe uPI><! r schrn)1 hUI ift!te g irls mairtlain Ih is
.
pmiti,'C :tppro;lch I ,JIll s ure Ihatl hcy wi ll Co nt inth! \I) im prol"c
a nd devdnp.
I hope that Ih c)' wi ll rise 10 the Ch:1 1le nges in fro nt of them
neXt year.
/>/flyel/ -I, II'(m -I. Dr{/\I"II O. Lost 0
The 3rtl VII neth;1I1 were ~MlIl r.:ady fo r ;!eTinn. Tan ya
Gemm ill and S,mdr.1 M ic hclmorc were con,i~lenl l v ~l r"lI!! in
defence :lIlo\\'ing only a few !'>hols to reach the ir go·a l.
Me:mw hile. un Ce nlre coun Emil y Bmler, O li\"ia COllk :uuJ
Zoe Jortlan did thdr I><!Sllo preve nt Ihe ball fn .m eve n reachin g
our defe nsil"e e nd. linkin g lip wc ll im n th e :ttt:te king cin.:k.
Once I h ~rc, Amy Ki rkwood and C ha rlie Peever., w.: re ready 10
IIdil'e r goal ;!fter 1,!U;t! into "ur wai lin g ncl.
Lcd by Tany". th e tca nt worked wclliogether ,md pnxhlcl'd
.~OI11 C n:r)' good ne lh:tll over Ihe sea~on . Th an h m ust gu 10
i\ lr.P:lI(·hing who c,l;lChed us Ihroug hom :lud hl'l()Cd lilah' it a
brilliam ;.cawn.
Netball U15 A's
Played N. \\'1')11 8. Drawil O. Lo.w 0
A r~.' ult likc Ihis .'I>caks f,'r itse lf. After lhe firstlo.~s again.-t
Balh. Ihe le,1111 W'I.~ ~ humed. 1~1ra Hall wa.~ nHIVed h:tck 10 Goal
Keeper II here s he forged a s tron.!:; link with Ka t}':! Ship~t e r w ho
together pili u p a Mrong defe nce all SC:tMlII. Kin-te n IJri1,!gs,
Nil'OIe Li,lliell a nd A I<'th':'1 Steven knitted "'gelher the
l'~ntrc,coun, Thl\.'C quick pl;lyers roon learned 10 pla~ II ell
Ingelher providi ng good feed.~ 10 S"mh Follell :tnd ,\ lida
Fo~- Pill as s hoolers.
TIw Ic:u n a~ ,I who le de~er"es credit for thei r greal tenaci lY
fight in g hack o n seve ra l occ;t~io n s front th ree go:tls d uw ll.
Netball U15 B's
/'!ayetI9, II'I'JII 8. Drml"ll O. Lost!
lEG
Lacrosse XII
/J;II'ing !t:rd only just e no ug h ()Cople for a le:lm durin g Ihc
i\ l id l:tdm'I.~ Te nn we en de'd up lI' ilh ,llmnst cnnug h fo r IWO
te,mlS h)' the e nd ofthc sca$on :md S011\e c.~lremdy sati!'>fyiuf'
rCMl lis 10 ~holl' for it. Wilh players r.tn g ing from novice
RellHI\'CS 10 more e~ pe r ienccd Up~r S ixt h"s, w': 11\,ln;lgcd 10
ac:t lc a wel1 -hal;lI1eed :md s uccessful le; un whic h ac hieved
~o m ~ vcry gtlod re ~uh.,.
/\l lhou g h we o nl y had a fell' Ina td1 es d uring the
i\ l ic hac!U!;Is term lI'e co mpe tcd very well in a cn uple of
tOUn1:ttlll'l1 t, :lga in ~t <,.\ ()Crienccd Jacm..:....: ."c1HH,l le:l m.' . Wilh
o ur ~ u pcrh gnalie. L.m be Fenner. viec c:t jlt ain Helena Slone .
:tlllil io nor Sle\'CIN Ii I. we cre:tled a fmm id:thlc defence :lround
Ihe gna!.
Wilh :, fa":l and effec ti"e m idfield ~ction we m:m aged to
!'>rllre g0:11 alk r go:1I w il h accur.lIe ami consistent s hootillg from
,\!ke Hera ld. Kri ~ t y C:ISlIl'101i and capl;l in Donlie Brett. nle
whole le,ulI h :l~ perfn rm.:d oulsTa nd in g ly. Thi s ~e'l.~o n wi th
e"ullllcs, win~ including th e ~ll1 all sc hno b \Ourt1;Ullent. Onc
playe r w ho has improl'e(] C\1U ~iderably is Eve Pea~ nall who onl~'
heg:l n pla yin g in Septemher hUI proved to be all in va lua hl e
nll'11Iiler u f th e lea11l .
i\J:lI1Y Ilwnks \0 Mi ~s G;lll fo r :tIl hcr co.:tching, SUppOrl and
en l'OU f;t £ell1en t: il h a~ 1x.'Cn greatl y 'I Jl prcciatc,1.
Football - Granham Casuals
Ol"cr the paSllw\! ~'ears the Granha11l C :1.<I1:1I< ha,'e he('ome
formid:thle t ea n1l"'\h~cssed of g ifted indil"idu;th and h ril1i:mt
flue ncy. Ollt nftwe nty fO Uf nwtdlcs. 11I:1 ny of the111 aga ins t
clln,iderahly 1110re cx()Crie nce,1and el"e ll ~e mi - p rofes.~ ional
te;tm~. Ih e (ira nh;1I11S have l"fcat~d a qui le o ut.< t:md ing rCl'ord of
twenty III'/! I'iclor ies.
:t
Many th,mks and much ercdillO Colin Smith for h i~ palient
and imcll ige nt coac hing.
AI~.
Th i~
le:un pU I up a st ron g Opposilillll Ih rou g hou t lhe season
endi ng on an un be;lIe n re sult. T he capl:li ney W:I!'> sh;tr.:d
hetll'eell Lllcy Berry a nd Hele n Ratcliffe. Ag ile playe r~ pUl u p a
~trung centre courl. Hclen Ralcliffe and Claudi;l Po nik"lI"s ki
worked wel l defe nd ing aggressively Ihroughol1lthe se,,~o n.
Man y Ilw n ks 10 Mb.~ Coll i ~ l l11 for th c s pirit lind knowkdge she
spre,l<1 Il ml\ lg ho llt the players.
,I f illrr
Cricket 1 st XI
Plo.I·I'd 15, 1\'1')/1 J,
f)/"llIfII
7. Lo.\·/ 5, ,\lwl/(lolIl'd I
With:1 y" un g :I1HI relal ively ine.\ pe ri cll c('d side, the lSI X I
s1eadily im pt"U l"ed a~ the SC 'I.~nn p rogres.~e d ;lml have dcse rl"cdly
re.,:or(]ed thr..:e I"lewrie., .
Th e sea.. on
~ taned
wi lh two hard fou g hl draw~ again st
'" 1111' 11 11996 U
a regular plaYl'r. 111e side was eapl.. iued wi th grcat poise by
C h;lrles Oakshen (Tu) who ro~e 10 the challenge magnifice mly.
I-l opdull y he has icMlled so me impol1anllcssons .. boul lhe an
uf t'il plail1c~' du ring the lasl lerm.
Well inglon :lnd Ihe MCC. before being pUi to Ihe sword by
Romany :lnd Elon. Ironic:, II)" both b,nlles might h:we had
different results. wilh Romany narrllwly winning by 15 run s
,HId the Marl borough b:lI~men lo~in g their 1a~1 wi ck<'1 'Igainsl
Elan wil h onl y .hree OI'<'1"l' renwining.
Will Caldwell. one of unly fuu l" U6th \0 pl;IY thi s sea~on .
proved 10 be Ihe roc k upon wh ich mosl innings were found ed
(570 nms a\-I0.7) and as Ihe I)ilehe., harde lh:.1 Cha rl ie Ingham,
Fergie Miller. George Co myn, 1\ l i~ tair Bird. Peter J:lrroitJ ;:nlll
Tom Burne all IU,'11e useful con l ri bu\i un.~ with Ihe b:11.
The side would pwbahl y ad111 illo heing" sligh tly stron ger
halLi))g side anti it was plcasi ng 10 see that a ll the lop-order
t);lt~mcn mad e scorc~ II l"er 30 :11 SO Ill C point in th e ..;caso n. 50m<'
of these innings wcre: M illcr 93 n.o lll:1:1inSI Well inglOn: J;,rrold
43 agaiml Cl ifton: 1)oson 66 ;!l:1ainst Winchcsler: l'loopc r -1,1
;lgllinsl windH!Slcr: Roge rs 511 agilinsl 51 Ed w;ml"s: Ik nshy 65
:lgainst 51 Edl\' .. rd's.
As far a..~ Ihe bowling is cuncem ctl lhe 111:11111c largel y fell
upon the , houlder.. c\f L~lll·rence. Dobson (bOlh Su) and Hooper
(C I ). Ru ssell-Jones (Tu) provided some useful overs of ~ Ilin
laler o n in Ihe season bu t il was the three seamel"ii plus Gadsby
(Co) who spc arhemlcd Ihe ;!\lack. Dobson in pal1iw lar
. Ie\·elopctl well dur ing the seasnn :md howled so me long ,lIld
econo mi c;l! spells. The best performances with the ball werc;
Hoopcr.1 for 27 "£'l i n~1 Sherbomc
Lawrence 3 for 33 a g ain~ 1 C lifton
Dobson 3 for 29 ag ain~t Clifto n
G:ld~by
3 for:m agai n~t Winchestcr
Dobstlll 4 for 46 ;Ig;linsl C hchcnlm m
The dra w "gains. Win chesler ]1rllled tn he Ihe turning puinl
uf Ihe season when I'iclllry was ju.-t abo ul within our gmsp. ami
viclOr ies ol'er 1\ li\1GI;nllorg;1Il (where Tom Bllme and Geor;;e
Co myn each wok four wickels) am i the Marlborou!.!h Blues
(t hanks to a Fer;;ie M iller centu ry ;1I1l1 excellelll bn~1ing fro m
Hu gh Dobie) were well de~er\"e d .
Defeat fo llowed al l{adky, where we In~lwi l h onl y three
b.lIl.~ o f the mall' h remaining bUI flll1une fil\'uu red us the
following we<,k when lIe bCai Ille I'rt:e FClfC.'>tl'rs in si milar
c:ircunlsl.mces. '111e Fore.~tc rs 11I:IICh saw three fi ne indil'idual
performances I\' ilh Will C.,ldweil scoring a maiden ce nlury ;lIld
Hugh Dobie and Tom Burne bUl h hav ing fnu r wickel h;wls.
The SI Edwards 11I;ltch result ed in a draw wi th another fin e
knoe k from Caldwell and so me cllce ptionally quick howl ing hy
Da vid Mark. AI Ru gby (Ihe tradiliun:iI colours Ilw lch j despilc
half cc nlUri es fm m C;ddwell. In gham and Bird and good
bowl ing from Dobie ami Hil me wc wc re be.nen by a slrong
Rug by side in the pcnu ltimale ol"crofthe th e two day 1I1.l1 ch. II
h.,d bcen ,I good ga me but 11\'0 middlc order col la pses had cost
us dearl y and Rugby prohably de.\Crved Ihcir \'icwry.
The cnd of .season matches saw iI Pri le Day dr..\\, ;lgainst
Ihe Blues and a di sappoinling end uf season festil'al in whic h
r~in w...~ the main winner. Howc\'cr, spirils sho uld be high a~
lillie colours return nex • ."C:lson.ineludin g lhe four leadin g
wickcl takers and th ree b:II.• men wilh h;M ccnt uries or bellCf
10 their nam e.
Spccial memi on should 'llso he I1wtle of Pie rs Tuggey. whll
enpl:lined th e le;lIn very wel l. eOlllll mndin g the respeel of hi ~
fellow players, sclling ;1.~I U l e field.~ ;1I1d changing his bl)wil'rs;ll
se nsiblc interv als. In .nldilion Rolan d Oakl>hc lI kept wic ket
wilh d i ~t i neli on .
IWI'
Cricket 2nd XI
P/llYf'(/8, IVOII 2. D/"{/lI"lI 3,
Lo.~13
The 2nd XI ha l'c had a lIe rli successful ~e ason. The Icam
wa.~ a very you ng one wi lh onl)' one memher o f Ihe Upper Si.~t h
• t996 11l1111 tl1 1
I have cnjoyed t'lkin g I h i~ side and they arc a pleasant but
vcry determined group of players. I would like In 1I1;1nk RMR.
RBI' anti ADM for th ei r hel p dll ri ng the season.
HHI
Cricket 2nd Colts
P/flyet/.J. H'tm 9, DraWl/ 2, I..OSf 2
The 2nd Colis of 1996 ~t aned thc SC:l.wn wilh 2 unbc:lIen
)'C;l rs behind them. In bot h Ihe Ycarlings "nd the Junior CullS
not one Ill.nch wa~ lost. Suddenly il .111 went vc ry wrong. 'n lC
fir~tma\ch ll£"i l1st Well ington was limited ovcrs. We sccmed
dCMlIlwd when their No.3 scored 100 ;1I1d No.1 scored 50.
Unfol1u nat el y. this se t lhe trcnd for the matc h. an d the g:nll e
W<lS convincing ly lost. A c:1 p1:lin's innings 0f311 from Lewis
Martin, howcvcr. avtlidetl tota l emha rr:l.~s m e nt
The nelll two m: nches .lg.linst S herbo urne anti Elon wen.'
both drall's. and Tom G<ld.~ h y·s 6 wickc ls ilg;linst ShcrbCl umc
was Ihe mos l nol;lble achie,·cmenl. The last m:llch :I(!ainSI
R:ldley 11':15 a very m<!ll1omble one. Ihou£h for perb:lps the
wrong reasons: we were all oul for 54 !
Ahoget her then. it di sa ppoi nl ing season. btl! we pl;.yed in
\'Cry good spiri t undcr Ihe f;llher-like care of Mr Dempsler.
Cricket 1 st Junior Colts
PI(lyet/. 10 lI'rm 7, Dmll'lI 2. Los/ /
Whal
an exce llent SCill>(lIl !
MIlr.l1e IV:lS l1i bh from the bel1 irming oflhe SC;lson hur Mr.
Ford and I bOlh fe ll that a jjood numberoflhe St'nior pl;lyers
wcre not lOlly convi nced of lheir abili lies 10 be;lt ."Ome of our
consisle nll y lough opposilitln. PI:l ying Ihe big ;tl i boy sc hools is
:llways a greal and eseiting elmllcnge for us ill a co-educ:uional
cllI'ironmen l ,lIld lI"e reil ihal it good deal of work needed to be
done to produce able ;1I1d con fiden t pb ye r~ who would be
will ing to chall enge rh e bc.~t. I'ractice ami d isc u s.~ ion were ,III
h$ ed around I h i~ ohjcc ti ve :lnd our res ult s sholl' Ihatthc
pla ye rs cen;l;nl y fU~e 10 th(! challenge in producing:1I1 excellent
~et o f re sllh~ ;md sO llie lirs. C hl~S pcrforrnanccs .
Ourobjccti\'e fOf the !oC:l$on II'a.~ put lhem in 10 b:lt and
chase. This we did succe.~~{ully 011 many u.xasions M) llletil11e._
chasing fonnid:lble .<;core., an d in v:1 riably overhauling thelli.
\\'dJington. Sherborne. Clifton ;IIUJ more a ll sut·cumbed \0 Ihe
c.xcellent haui ng of ou r opening bal.~ lllen with Paul Koronb
ami Berlie ~·Ii ller ~l!Iting the lone ftamthe ~ t arl of th e ~ea.'t) n
: Ihl~' as~hh:d when the chips were down in vel)' lOu,!!h gafllc~
'Igam!ot Radle)' and Cheltcnham by I larry Blakcloek who sawd
the d,.y on a couple of o<:casions.
Our !>eason ended in typical Myle :!\\',IY at St.Edward.~. Wc
pUlthcm in on'l slow wkkc t on a vcry ~mall pitch amlthc \'
Iluid ly notched Ull 17li and dccl .. red. We b:lued wit h our ·
cn~lOm;u)' ca ul ion and gmwingconfidence rdeilsing MilX
/lbcgregor in hi ~ first g:une 10 score .. whirl wind 66 11 .0. to 'c;Li
Ihe game ;lIId de~ troy SI. Edward·~.
Wc anemp tcd til be e:'lciting. We wiUllcd It) enellu(;lgc a,
many players a!o po~s ihle (We bl<xKied 20) ;md lI"e W;1I1Ied to
wi n. I fcdthat we ~uCCCeded as d id th e player~. Th ill g .~ Inok
bright forthe futul\: .
JH'II,(;,IIF
Cricket 2nd Junior Colts
The season ~t:lrIcd well with a t.:uIII'im:ing Vitt.,ry Over
R:Jdky: we bowled Ihem OUI for 4·1. 1-I0\\'e\·er. a!1 did nlll gu MI
smoothl y in Ihe next !;ame "gain ~t Eton. the Marlborou!;h ._i de
being bowled for 2 1. 111e Junior Colis 11 "s showed trlle ~p irit
wi lh a I() wicketvic tol)' ol·er Clifton Colle!!t.:." couvincing
win o\'er Bradfield and ;ll'ery im]ll\:.~s i \"l' last g:J!lle win /)l'er:1
.\trong St. EdwlIrd., \Cam.
Highlights thruughoulthe Sta.,on included a hat·trick fmm
Tom Ready. whll fin ished the sca~orl wi th figures of III wic "c1~
fur 5~ ru n.~. Olher nO\;lble bowlel"lo iucluded Jim Grey and
Sluart Bedford \Vith the Iwl. J im Gre y. Ollic Mai ttan.I· I·lud"lIl
;nld TOIll Ready had excepti onal Sea.•oIlS. as did Nkk Cr:l bhe in
the fin:llthree m:ltches.
Thank you 10 Mitch P:llching. !'eter Ford and Chri~
Cutforth whose help wa .• apprcci<lted Tht.: learn W:1S led well hy
Ollie Mailland·l-\ ud.'>Q n ;lI\d the bl)'.~ re._lltlllded with gre<ll
enlhusia~1Il; well done to :111.
r.1I
Cricket 1st Yearlings
P/ayelll.J.
\\~m
9.
f)r(/\l"/1
5. /..Jw 0
The 1st Ycarlin g.~ h:lll a most sucee~sful seasoll. recording
MIUie memorable I' ictorics and winning th t.: Tu m<."rCup. Under
Ihe inspir.l1ionalle; ••Jcrship of E. Cooke. lhe scalp' tlf
Sherboune. Wellington. Winchesler. Mid. GliUllorg:1I1 and
Wiltshire were al! claimed, along wit h Ih{)l>C of sonic le.• ~er
rivals in the Lord \ Tal'em<'fsco mpctition.
/l1;I u)' fi ne pt.:rforlllallt.:es were produccd by indi\' i du:lI ~.
Hugh Won bowled wi th consistency bUI it was Quelllin Hich
II ho tllok mosl wickets whe n under prcs~ ure. Andrew Bu!>h
llireatelled wit h the Imll bUI hi ~ ~eastlu wi lll)<! remembered fur
~o mc b l i ~ lering knocks Wil h Ihe bat. Jame., C;ddwe ll ~corel l
ne;lrly.j()() rUIlS, wdl aheml of anybody ebe. but ~Olile greal
]lrc.)(Ili~ was abo shown by /l latthew Jacob. '\Il dtel\' COI·entry
and M;m Pocock.
Mo~ t imporlantly. Ihb was Ihe ~m:lfl e~t side Oil lhe circuit.
Impeccable ill their blaze rs. erildile in manner. clwrming altea.
Cooke·s boys had few eqlwls. A memorable .~eason.
SHe
Cricket 2nd Yearlings
PI(/.H'rl9. \\~!/1
6. Drill.." 2. I.•o.\·t I
Th i~ I\'''~ all enjoyable and Mlccc!osfu l sca~()n. with vic l orie.~
Over Bradfield. Clifton. WincheS ter. Sht.:rborne. Cheltenlwm and
Elon (lhe !aller be ing Etol1's fi r.~ t dde:1l for Ihree ye:lrs). Dcfeat
;lt l~alile}' \\'a~ Ihe o ill y di ~app{)illling h' llting
pe rformance and lhe only lime that we were bowled out.
The mO~1 fr~·l]ucn t m;llch·11 inner ;' lHllead ing II ickN taker
11·il.~ Roddy Bm·uell. who bowlell fa." ;lIId slr;licht :md will
~ ul\:! y ge t fUflher 0PP")f\un itlc.. at firsttcam Ic~·el. He was ;,bl,'
~ uPJlt.lTled by Il lIgh ~lacDo ll ald - llroll'n . who o'·ercal]]e early'
St.:ilMJlI b:ld IU1;k wi lh grc;1I de lerminatioll aud \\'a~ rewardcd bv
fivc II i1;k1;ts:u Cheltellham and .ome mudl enjoyed successc~
wi th hi. leg .... nda ry ~ I nll'cf ball.
The SUPllt)l"\ howling was IlMlally ~u perior to lhat of the
op p,,-,ilion. Olil·eTBaleman w;,. mean ;lIld effecti ve. pcr:.u;,dill!!
nllt: uilfunulla te Bradfielll bal ~nwn to de.~trov hi .~ 011'11 wicket ~
1),1Il II:uchilig. with a g.... Ki ecolullnical actio;l. mm·ed lhe hall a
101 bUI \\"a.~ not :d\\'ay~ c,,)IIsistt.:lI1. Rob Gfe\" i lle- l1 eyg;l\e·~ ~I ow
left ,mil provided welcome ,'arielYanu encourag ing cont rol: he
will Mlrely bowl a lot more O\"er.~ ...~ he mo\'es up tht.: school.
On lhe baHing side. th e leadiug nHl scorer \\'a.~ Dal·e l3ell.
who :llways t.:n ~ ured thaI his illu illgs gol uffto a I>mit il'e ~tan.
The patient anchor role was played by James Lewis, who W.LS :J
~ hrcwd aud popu"'r Cillll.lin. Nick Aitken .• improved as the
wickeb g01 filster ilnd wil l .<;(orc ,1101 more ru n!> in Ihe future.
Luke /l1;lr~ha ll di ~p l :l yed good lemper-linent and Icchnillue ,lIld
.. I ~o fielded \·ery well. ;IS did S:un Chri ~ ! cy who mmle ~eve m l
II.~eful contrihntions :md WllS an examplc 10 us :11 1 ill his funning
belweell the wicket.~. Roh Fri ~c he had fe ll' o PPOf\uni lie., to play
il long in nillg~. but his c hance will come. Finally. it ~ holiid be
noted Ihal tht.: 7eta b,'uling ;,\'cr.oge or our pro fessional number
elel·en ( Rodd y Bamell) wa.~ wel t de ~e rl"ed .
Cricket 3rd Yearlings
PIf/yccl9. \\'1m 8.
f)/"ml"lI
O.
/.0.1"1
I
After a damp ami mi.emble dde:11 hy Wellingtun 011 the 11m
S.. lurd;,}' of term. thi .~ le;11I1 ell1h;lrked .... ;1rell1arbhlc ~c'lnen{"e
'lf eighl consl'cmil'e victories. Preferring to bat ~ectlnd. Ihe team
confou nded '<C\"eral opptl~ ing side~ by nel"er giving Up :, n m
c h: l~ e,'ell \1 hen ;111 :lppe;lrt.:d lo~1.
E:1,il y the mos t im]lressil'e :nld ~al i~fying "jewry came
ag:linq I~ ;ldley. H:lI'ing dropped ~cI'cral calc he~ we allowed
IhCllItn ~core 1(1;\ run~ - a score which It Hl ked omin(lu ~ l y large
duri ng;]l1 e.\Cellel\l ol)Cning spell by Ihe Hadley opening
1><111 l er~. The hero nf the hou r w;]~ Ro r), Shaw whn. lliIl"ing
\\':t\ched in agllll)'''S Ed I·lind narrow ly Mlfl'il"eu fi vc IJilII.~ fmm
a refre_hed ol)Cnilig bowler. dn·ided enough W;I~ enough :lIld
~e nt three of the next four balls 10 Ihe boundary to .•eCUTe what
II',IS a rcmark;lh lc \'ietnry.
The team W:IS \·ariol"ly c .. ptained throug h Ihe !>eason hy
W.. )(Kifnrd. Jon;lIh:1I1 Lo\l"nde ~ .md \\'illelll Marx:oll o f
whom did a gl)( ..1job m t:ttillg tht.:ir how lers :'lIld restricling
the ~coring mle lI'ilh ~e lls i b l e field plat.:ings . Behind the
~tump~ I~ory Shall'·~ wicketket.:pillg lI'a~ e.xeellentlhrollgholll
Ihe ~e:l.tJn.
~ l ar"
All in all il II ;', an excellent ~iI~on. and il h a~ l)Cen:l
plc'Nl re to work with such a wdlmotil,.. ted and gl)(Ki he:lned
!!fOliP of boys. II i.• a te~I:U l1enl to Iht.: strenglh of thc yeargroup
Ih:11 manyofthc~ e player~ did not pl:IY :11 ,I higher level. ;,~
~ urt.:l y their lalellt m1(1 dedicatiun dese rved.
SJE
III tlllt l 1996
II
Cricket 4th & 5th Yearlings
41h X/ - Played 4. 11'011 J. Drlll!'1l I. LO.\'/2
5111 XI - P /a )"uI4. 111m !. D"(/\1'11 O. LO,I,t3
T he zes t for life and villi and vcrllC Oflhc l1 e\ 'CS~iOlI' wa.~
onen no\ tran ~ I ; l lcd 10 the stlll;}r.:. Pcrhaps the presence of
clevell o lher Il<!OPJc W'I.~ a dislmclion \0 o ur normally precise
amI to~used vision of the job in hand. 13:Il!ing proved a
probh:m. Run s were hard \0 come by due lu a l<!udcIIC), [0
h:lcmnrrhagc o nce confronted bY:I ball tha I was n"likdy [0
miss the SlUmps.
The Winchcslcr ginn\! was:1 triumph or will ag.tinsl
mh'cr.;ity. Sei th.;: Herculean lask of36 nlll s by Ihe Winchester
big g uns. (l UT hoys almost m:milgc\l tu sm::I!.; a defea!. bUI
w illuw flashed illlhc s unlight to take us \0 llur mClllorabJc :lI\d
only victo ry.
sec
performances ne xt year. Notcwort hy [c,II11 performcrs were
Numa Heathcotc and Willi,ull HackCI -l o nes for compe ting in
many differen t Clien ts. Dan Ev,lIls for hig h jumpi ng <In exeellenl
person:ll i)c~l of 1.70m ,lIul finally Nedee m .-\1-Astrai):l di for
excellent j Ulnpin g and s priming. The U 15 hoys werc the class
:1l:1 ;md when we had a full team including th..: l:rickelcrs we
werc inl'incible. Luke ~-larsh,1I1 (100m). Rob L:lI1 ham (SO m H).
W;l lter Paiee (ShOl ) ,111(.1 Toby Gull:l g her (80m H) w ill :11 1be represen ti ng the co ll ege althc I.S.A.C. I'aiec will al so be going to
lhe En g lbh Schools Nat iona ls durin g lhe holidays. Olher gootl
lea m performer.~ we re Nick Jenner. Ed l ackson and Loi l: Tallon.
:tH·
Tennis Open Boys
lol"l VI - FloyedH, \VolI l. Drall'l1(), LosI7
211d \'1 - Played 4. 11'011 2. J)r(lll"ll O. LoSI 2
Init i,illy. Ih is pmm ised to be an awe-inspiring season for Ihe
ope n tenn is. wilh g rca t d isplay of cross-court agility and e .~Jle­
rienced nct play. Unfortunalcly lhe pmmisc f<llled 10 nWlerialisc.
The in ili <ll pailings (D,IU Gore anti Fah~d Rnumani: Jal:k
Wcbb ,lIld Marlin H<lmpt on) produced compe\('111 enough maldl
pl<l y to OVerl:ome the medi ocri ty of Well ing to n. bllt wi th an ever
lal:k in g sense of on court eol1lmunie<ltion (essential to do ubles
pl;IY) resu lls plullll11cted.
With o ff-cOU TI encourilgclllent from Mr. Wakely ami 1\lr.
Keig hlc)'. and with pair :lI lera tions ill the last ICw l1I;1tdl~S. dose
encounters were ;lehie\"Cd. Ihough Mar lborough nel'er reillly
~ howe d lh e delerminalion that was so b:ldly n..:eded.
It W<lS <In c njoyable SC:ISOllnonc lhe lcss.
Tennis Open Girls
lsi \'/ - Played 9. I \illl 8. Drau·1I O. LOSl 1
2nd VI - Played 9. \I/o/! 7. 0/"(/\\'11 O. L(I.I"I 2
Athletics 1996
31"(1 V/ - P{oynl 3. \lb/l I. Dr(lll"ll 0, Lo.w 2
Boys Result.I'
The ~eason Ims bee n a.~ si;o:;o:ling as thc wC:lther - a ve ry
a I'ery busy Ol1e. The majority o f Ihe first
le,1Il1 are in the uPI1Cr si:»th and the dedil:ation fo r th ose who
had revision looming s hou ld be highly eo m ml!l\(icd: relieving
:lggressiu!1 on court 1.::111 wo rk wonders for pc m up sl r..:s~~
~ulTess ful lcrm :tnd
"Ahillgdoll
01!1:1I-1ml. UI7 - 111l1. VIS - hI
Hum/my D(ldc.\' Shir:ld
OPI'II ·51h. V 17 - (jlh. U 15· 111l/
Six SduJ{)/s
OPI'II -1/1(1. V 17 - .Jlh. U 15 .
vRmf/<!.I; 1J/1J.I"JIIIIII. /lnllljidd
OI'I'n -1nd. U 17 - 3111. U15 · 11/(/
Milk elll'
U16Buys.3111
V I1mdjie/d. C/I(/rrl'11wll.\·'~
O,!<!II - 3/"{1. V 17 - 31t/. U15 · 1.\·1
V Killgs\\"ood
VI6 - L
:\lIlI!rk~/j" CliP
U /5 8u\"s - lI: U/5Girl.\"-/~
Combi,it'(/- L
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As always o ur resulls do not renecl wh,H a fu ll ~ trength
teal11 could halle 'Kh iel'ed. However. we hauled our way
lhrough a packed season and displayed ~olne excellelll performances on the way. Our open side had IOI ~ of 1;!lCllI. bUI was
missing To m Cro~s ami. \ViII Peltor a nd Joh n Foley for mOSI of
the e<irly season (lherefore our IHl mbcrs were low). Noteworthy
team pt:rformers lI"er~,- Cmwle)' (who u.-;u,lll y completed fi\'e
even lS per mall:h). Yi u (who was Crawley·s able si tl e- kick )and
Moss (w ho cousistelll ly prod uced fine shot and disl:uS throw·
iu g) When Foley returned after injury hi .~ help was outsl:mding.
T he U 17 side was I'ery yo ung a nd fou nd it hard to
compele with the older boys. Howeve r. I look forward to their
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In tllC i\bcrdare Cup public sl:ilOo l competit ion. Ih e team
of fo ur did eXlremely wel l reaching the semi· lina!. only to be
beaten bY:l ' <cry s trong Peter S)·mond s C o lle ge s ide :11
Winche~lcrTenni.~ C lub. Emnm Spelll:e played extremely wcll
ag.,ins t lOugh o pposition.
Tenni s pr:lCtil-es have been supervised by Mr L:ulll1Cr1 wh o
has ,llways been rc,ldy to give helpful hillls anti en li\'Cn dull
mo m ~lI t s with his notable sense of humou r. Thank you Ill\} to
Miss G:1l 1. Mary and Mr Smil h who 11;I\'e en<lbled us 10 adlie'·c
~uch a sucl:essrul .~ea son.
Tennis Boys Colts
lSI \1/ - P{ayt'l16. \lim 4. Orowil I. Losl 1
2nd VI - Played 2. Ilhll /, 0/"(/1\"11 0, LD.\·/ /
Thl! l SI VI season W:l.~;1 good one but CQuid have been a
I'i nt:tgl: o ne if it h,ld nOl been for:l bout or injuries espcei,dly [<l
(he talen ted Bi lly Lyon who missed half of the ma(dles. The
(eam w,l.~ h:d by c:'p(,lin K:t.'asc Kahwe whose humour lift ed us
whcn:.pirits were na~~inj;.The firsl pair (Ben I\lonl;>l:\ue :md
Amhnny Il ....c her) played some stunning ten ni.' and . when
they m,maged w channel all their energy into the game. Ihey
wcre IIllbcat:lblc . Ka.~a.w Kabwe paired up wit h Billy LrOll
~nd thcn with I~yan Sluan who grew in confidence and
effectiveness. Le ft h'lIlder Ed Baring prod uced;l consi~ t ell1]y
gClOll performance ~nd was eager to improve hi~ ga me
further. The 1st VI wa~ also enric hed by the pc rlimu:ulc c." uf
Tari(ll-l:tdd:ld. Ali Lion :lI1d ~·I 'l rcus ~·Ii 1c.,.
Thc H Te:un abo elljo~'ed a gO<ld SC:l~t1n and wcre onl y
n'-:llly oUI. p1:Jyed by 13 1)·;tlbton. They \\ erc unfonlllt:ue to I{)~e
ltalTOwl)' 1\1 51. Mary's W;U11:1gC. hut won :tIl the irnt her matches
e;t~ily, Sophie Aliell :lnd Leo Pe:lrl made:l strung contributi on
I' ~ the s\lc..:e s~ of th c team. ;md all th e girb h:ll'c ., Iu.wn
commitment and enlhusiaMn over Ihe lerm. Nicole Liddell and
J ;t~ m in Fur,1were rdiable an d ehecrflll Tesen'e players who
h;L\'c more lltan he ld !heirown whe n c:llkd upon tn play.
' 1l1C 2nd VI only hall two gmncs but promL- ing lennis was
playcd b)' J:llnic Chapman.Andrcws. D;tll Court, lD. :md
Charles Von "'lell.
Thanh;tre owed 10 our ,,:o:lch. 1';lul Ueltuell. IInder whose
guidance the girL- have grown in l'on fidcnee and ~ki ll . :md \\ho
ha~ euntributed much tO;t1l enjoyahle anti Mlccessfllileml .
pl;,}cr. and my th:l1Iks gnlLl her for Il uie! but etli..c lh e leader:.hip.
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Tennis Boys Junior Colts
tI Te(/III - Ployu/ 6, WOII 5. Orait'll I, Lo,w 0
IJ Telllll - Played 2.
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Con~i$te n c)' ;md dctcrrninaliun provcd to bc thc Iwllnwrk
of Ihis year's Junio r Colts' A' te:llll. Thcir contro llcd and
imelligem play en:.urcd that they ended the seas.Ul with:l
deserved unbc;tlen record. Thc ' 13' team we re Ic:.s .~ lIccL'Ssfu l
bill some promising tc nnis was di.' plaYL'd which might be built
upon in future )C;trs.
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Tennis Boys Yearlings
Ye{/rlill ~p'
Is/ \11- Played 4. WO/l O.
l'earlill g.f 2m! 1// - Playell3. lit')/( I.
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O. /..os/-i
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O. /..0.1'/2
The Yearling:. tennis ca!l1p:lign began wi th a convincing
\'iclory o\er Clifton. In Ihe following fixtureJ; :Igain:-t
Wellington. Sherboume :!nd Bryanstoll elm,e re~u lt :. were
posted but no \'ictories fonhcollling.
II :\. - Playnl 7. \I fill';.
/)r(Hl'Il
O. Los/3
IJ \' - PlaY1'l16. 11'1 111 6.
/)1'1111'1/
O. LOJ / 0
WIl:lt a won derful sea..()n '96 h;t~ been! This ye:lr's Shell
gi rb ha\'c an eX Ir.u~rd inary deplh o ft ale11l. The tOp 13 gi rls have
been invol\'et! in malches. sometime., playing in the B"s. olhe r
li me~ Ihe Ir s. ~ Udl was Ihe competi tion between thcm. The y
\wre \ cry hard work ing :ulIl lhe iflll'rul'clllel1l in the StIUild \\,;L~
lrcmcndIJu:-.
'1l1 C matches pl:lyed de lllonstmtcd J;u pelb t e\ln i ~: most
g:ulles wenl tn nail.biting deuee.~! The B le;[ m was undcfe;[lcd:
Ihe ,\'s after 3 clo:-e but ull:-uccessful nw!ches came Ihrollgh to
\\ ill !he la'''1 -I. Special honou rs h;1\'C to be give n to Emilia
d·ErI.mger (MM) :uld Kalherine i\·liddlctoll (E L ) who were \'ery
do~e rullllcr~· u p in !he COUllty Champion~hips: al:.o III H:m llah
Gillingham (EL ) ;uld C'lIriulla Lough (MM) who m we ha ve
:leknllwledged as th e most im)lrovedl}]arer~ Ill' lite scason.
Wlm! :-Iruck me most wa~ Ihe chilrrn :Uld friendliness of the
It WiI:- a rlca~ure to be in \'o h 'L'(1 wit h them. ,\ s one ufthe
I~t VI Gi rl ~ Open Tcam commenled. "'The)' ;Ire a forcc 10 be
rcckoned \\ ilh:" So. Ihe next four YC;lrs - \\c ll. walch this space!
g n~up.
In the R'ldlc)' fiXl ure (i n whic h Ye:lrlin{s Crid:elers were
:l\'ailablc) ;111 Pllir.. perfurmed admirably .1Ild Marlboroug h won
the d;ty by a n;t rmw m;trgin. which was encouraging.
Unfortllnately. the Yearlings were 1101 til reeorti anuther vic tory
all ye:tr.
[n a team Jacking depth. Ihe Ye:t rlin p e"p t a ill ~ ilild lir~ t pair
_ Monlrec YOllngsak ul ami Max Filhi c - w od ueetl eon~blenlly
excellent rcsult~. ~ I o and 1\1a.'I: only lost two ~t, for the enlire
1>Ca...on ;lluJ performed well al re prese ntative fiXl ure:..
Paul Bermel desc(\'e~ a big lhank you for hi ~ in~lrucliun
during :llli mcult year. a~ do the bo)'s who tried eonsbterul y.
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Boys Swimming
SI'llior - IJ/o,red 7, II'()II 3. /..0.1'/';
JUllior - Played 7. 11'0115. UJ.I/l
At Cry~ta l P:tl;tce (i n which 64 llublic schoo ls took pan) \\'e
g;lined 91h pl:tco: in Ihe Fronl Crawl Relay aud 12th placc in Ihe
t-.ktllcy Rclay. Genrge Yam (IUa lifi etl for N:ltiollal Age Gruups
:lIId \\as -.elected to ~w im for Wiltshire.
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Girls Swimming
SI'lIior - P/ayed 7. 11\11/ 5, 01"1111'1/ I. Los/ I.
Tennis Girls U15
II - l'loycd 7. mm 5, IJrawn O. LB.W 1
11 - I'IIl.l'cd 5. Ilhn 3. IJrml'll O.
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Tennis Girls U14
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The ,\ Temn \11ade ,I:.trong stan to Ihe ~e;I~Oll wilh two
convincing win~ O\'er Clifton Co llege ;lIId 51. "" Ill ry's C:thll'.
The match al!a in't Dean C lose was a d i:';lppointing 1 (Y.i~ a~ the
girls dill not ill:1Y \0 their usu:11st:tndllrd. !-Io\\·e\·er. ag;lin~t
Br\":l1I~ton thc Icam pl'lred wel l hili were bC:IICll hy a ~uperior
opPo~i t ion. The la~t th rce l11;ttches saw II rc tun! ((I previuus
form and comfortable victori es wcre see urcd. Speei:l] mention
~ hould he nwde of S:lmh Follell for her improVelnCnt O\'er lhe
term, ami uf Gemma 1):lrley and An nabcl 1')[I(lsu n w ho~e grill)'
determinat ion enab led the m to tie rC;[ t ~ t nJllger pl;lyef.,. Lw.;y
MneF'ldyan proved;1 reliable eaplain as we ll a.' an untlapP;lblc
ill/liur - [>1(1.\'('(/7. II'UII 5. O/'{/II'II O. 1..1).1'/2
,\1 Cr)'~ta l Palace. a 16 ~ChOLlls eUIIIlletiliou. we won 41h
pl'1<:c in the I\ledle)' Relay :lnd5th pbcc inlhe Front Crawl
Ikl:tr. Shel ly 1\1c I\'or qualified flJr N:t!ional ,\ ge Groups and
w:ls.-.cleetell tu swim for Wi ltshire.
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Water Polo
Plflyed 5. mm 3. f)rlll nt O. lo.n 2
We callie 2nd in th e U 16 Wilt ~ hire S cl1t I\J I ~ Compe tilion.
(h:lrleJ; H:l:.kel l. Nick Llmllnd. Andy Sle\'C n ~ll1l. John Grey :lIld
Ti nl Haskcll were "lI seleelcd 10 play for Will s hir~ .
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Golf
MicllllelllllU Teml
Playetl 7. n'tm 0, /Jr(lll'll /. LosI6
The Gu lfTea nl were :lbly led by Romi ll y E\'ans bu t only
r11<Ul;lgctllo hal \'e the lIl,neil with Wi nchester. while losing all
the others! ' n tC tcarn is:l youu g one ami ho~s are high for
beUef lUl;l: nc.~1 term when there arc four school m,uehes. prior
to the West of Engl'lnd Tourna ment all3urn h,lIu y Berrow C.C .
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Le m term
Played 3, WO/l 2, Los/I, Droll'/! I
The G"lfli!al11 has pl'l)'ed WC lilhis term wil h CUI1\'illcil1g
wins over a strong Marlbomugh Golf Club learn ;Uld L1TislOl
GS. We narro w)y los t to L3r:nUicld:l1 Hu nlcrcomhc.
The \Vest of En gland Publi c Schools Tou ma rm:nt
Competitioll look p1:I(C in the second week of the Eliste r
Holidays and com peting Schools were BlutH.k lts. Canford.
Chcltcnh'lIll. Down ~ iJe.1\h rlborn u g h.1'.'l onl11oUl h. Rmi1c y
011111 Shcrbourn\).
I was gm tefult o the tea m for tT:t\'elling ConsitieT:l bk
tii5tarK.'CS to play in this Tournamem - Billy l yon new in from
!l.brbd la in SJXlin srl\:cificall y to Illay. The Competition hlS
bee n going many yCi1rs now i1llti W, l~ sti1rtcd by an 0 ~1 . John
I-lill. We wcre fort umd e enough 10 be acco mmodalcd at
Ant hony 1-liI l's magni fice nt horne. Ball Copse 1·10111 :11 ncarby
Ilrcnt Knoll and wcre lookcd aflcr superbly by Mrs Susan Boss.
I\nthony's sister.
The pruct ice fOu nd ovcr this wondcrful LI NKS course was
played in Ilouring r.Jin b UI it gave the Ill:lyers a fee l for the
co urse and wa... a helpful cJ(cn::isc. Marl boroug h WilS the fin;1
match uff the tee an d our oppo nents were Downside. The
weillhef WilS kin der ,lIld this pro \'cd a good match. [ ViIilS. l yon
;lI1d Dunca n all won their encou nters convinci ngly bu t Hopper
ami Huward bOlh lusl. M:l rlborou gh therefore won 3f2 .
In thc afternoon we we re pl;lying last year 's winm:rs.
Mon nmuth. :llld Jaco mb rClllaced Hopper in the lin..: Ul). This
pru ved Hn excellent matdl wi th E V;IIIS and Lyo n winning ag'lin
hut HOW;lf(1and J;lcomb lo~ ing. [1 11 11 depe nded oli lhe las t
match, wi lh Dunca n losing un the IS lh Green to:l Ilwsterly
Mo nl11ou th Ilutl. S:ld l),. th at pu t an end 10 ou r Tourn:Hn ellt hopes
butll'c had reach..: d the .~e m i fi nals and losl wi lh honour.
Blu ndells were 1111: ellc nlLl:ll winners.
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Sailing
P/ayt!(/6, HVII 5. W.\"I I
An unforlUn:lle dc fc:lt by Radley spoilt our ot herwise
un bealen loC:tSOn.
We llinglon wcrc sal i.~f)' ingly o\'ertaken for the first time in
sc\'cr:al YC;lrs. e\'cn after our c;lpt:lin rcnmined capsized for
about ten miuUlcs during the second r.Jcc!
We hall a very mi~ed :lgc-grolll' te:ll11. wilh only ]-Ie k na
Slone ha vi ng s<lilcd for the whool before. Ou r SUct'csses were
chi efl y du e 10 our fa irl y unifurm level of ability. wh ich is
e ~Se ntial fo r tea m racing. l-l:i mish Lai ng ami Alex Kaula made
a good cmubin:uiun. anti wcre very t'onsiste nt with Ih tir
positions. NOI:11 ,III PUI off by bei ng cO llsidembl y younger thall
the rest of our tCWIl :lnd our op]lollellts. Alex Am ies and Rohc11
SWIIC ~;li lcd We ll toge th er. S:lra h Bourg hardt :md Beeea Aithns
1 }l996 llll11l1l1t
c:lch s:li lcd with Helena Ston.:: for scparah,: matches. sa tisfilclori ly l1laint:lini ng our tea llllaClics. (U llforlUnatd y. having heard
;toout ou r ~k i ll s through Ihe gmpc\'inc. Chellenh:l1l1 swiftly losl
confid ence. ;md failed to turn lip !).
Thimk.<. 1ll Dr. Ycar~lcy for giv ing us many hours of his lillie.
:111.1 for he lping to cx tract \':llu:lble sailors from the m;ljur ~ 1)()rt S!
Gymnastics
Gc ncrall y. th is 11:I.~ been an eJ(citing year. with o\'er 30
pupils participating e;lch wce k - a con.~ i derJblc illC reusc un the
5 two )'e:l rs ilgO! A 1)Ic:l~i n g devclop mem has been the growi ng
interc~1 frOtlllhe boys' house.~. TrJm polining has fruity .... Ikcn
ufr' and helped hy Diane She!t\ln seVcT:11 pupils havc al1 i1 ined
aW:lrd~. incl uding Slephen POllingcr (C3) who is cu rrcnt lv
\\orking tOW<lrd ~ ga ining his elementary Gold aW:lrds. .
On .he lUl lib li ng. a ncw sl:lr emcrgeu. namely Clair.:
BOIwri1;111 (Mt-. I) whose ;'ITival from Switzerland prompled
considemble eutnpe liti on in se,"sions. Fiona Worm ll (EL) and
Jess:uny Smyth (El ) st ilt m;liutain their lOp positions bul
~e\'eT:l I S hcl1 gi rls inelu,ling Jcssica Ib y (EL) ;mtl Hannah
Gi llingham eEL):lre w:l i,ing in the wing.,. The future looks
bright! On .he Rhyth mi c Gyn llluMics fmm. Claire Thud er
(t-. lo)ct)ll1i nucs to perform tu OJ hi gh st:mdard anti wi lh the hoop
exerci~e is worki ng towards a full ro utine which. when fin ish.:d,
should prol'e to be im]lfe.~s i l'c. Wi,h the hoys. Ned J-\1-A,tr:lbadi
(Tu ) ~h()l1'~ cI)n., idcr:lhle prombe and J:ulIes Cl:iph:llll (C2)
deserves the Il ri~.e fur grc:ltcst improvcment.
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creative
writing
Then
And in that uay the wind
And in that morning the min
And on thaI coast the waves
And among those fields and here and then.: the grey
And among those field s ,U1d here and here, lhe COU:l!;C
And in thaI instant she dropped
And in that bucket the chicken feed
And 011 her ftel th e spilt chick en feed
And in that inslallllhc telephone r;lllg
And she klll::w him back from Ihejoy again.
The Fire Next Time
In Ihe bu u ling scarlet skies
From bene.nh the blinding stars
Familiar foreign vo ices rise
Across the rnilrblc. stone and bars.
P:l~sing lips. the harnessed cry
Has driven flesh so far <lp,II'1,
And the born-dead rainbow repri se
R'li scs;1new God called Mars.
Aspir:lI1l.~ ascend like rain
The weI defin ing differen t robes
Fmclures olher windows sl;,incd
By the diny wax-flame strobe.
Our Hy pcrion flinches
While Harlequin danccs dcad.
Strange crops appear in eastern ficids
Like chisellcd angles on beach heads.
W hen nonna l limes too close to sin.
To onothcr b.'l.~tard birth
Ot her children arc under skin.
Or else celcbrated by ean h.
An itchy finger's fast erosion
And they're wailing on we ighty bones.
Where gongs arc as thoughtfu l explosions.
Bass prayers are finished moans.
1llis. my ci\'ilization's ciOlh
Exchanged for the scorch lmd sab re.
Uuni edl y he will strip off
To beat and bum his neighbour.
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