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WHITTALL HOUSE i-f ti M ♦. f If At the first house meeting of the year it was decided that Whittall House would give up being third. It was also decided that Whittall House would be first! From that time each sports team under its appointed captain, organised its campaign with the help of various members of the staff and the result at the end of the year has been a decisive and most encouraging victory. Perhaps more important than the wins them- selves have been the binding effect of them and the tremendous house spirit that have resulted. The leaders of the house have been able to pull and have not found it necessary to push. It is good to note that the house has recorded success elsewhere than in sport. In the Grade 10 Drama Festival in June, six out of the seven awards went to Whittall boys. Some incidents and personalities spring to mind; A garbage man, persecuted beyond en- durance and hot on the trail of his tormentors, being invited to remove his shoes by a smiling duty prefect as he entered the door at speed; Andy being dragged from bed at 6 a.m. on his birthday and dumped unceremoniously (and probably still asleep) into the ocean; Harry and his guitar; Stuart ' s inimitable voice likened by one irate duty prefect to that of a female rook in an advanced stage of imminent motherhood; Dorm 17 ' s inex- haustible supply of chatter; Dorm 6 ' s inexhaust- ible supply of tea and cookies; Doug and Barry on their morning ' constitutional ' before breakfast and so on and so on. Everyone has made his contri- : . ' m bution to the whole and it has been a most happy unit. I cannot overemphasise the valuable influence that Jeff Allester as House-Captain and Andy Raphael as his assistant have had on the success of this year. Together with the house prefects they have given strong leadership and set the sort of happy tone that I hope will continue. My thanks to them all and to my assistant Mr. Hudson, whose enthusiasm and support have been appreciated by us all. J-L.Q. 17
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PRIVETT HOUSE The trouble with Privett House is that we are just too obviously successful for our own good. Our shattering victories in soccer, sailing, tennis, cross country, floor hockey and many others threw the less fortunate houses into complete panic. Finally they were forced into a cunning subterfuge, in itself a backhanded compliment, the removal of the first-eight from inter-house competition. Need I tell you which house dominated this event? Need I tell you what this did to our rowing team , to our track and field team? Even as we go to press I hear rumours of new rooms being built and assistant housemasters being evicted so that some other houses, whose names I will not mention, can seek to overcome us by sheer weight of numbers. For any Privett House member sitting watching our colour T.V., cooking a snack in our superbly equipped kitchen, selecting a volume from our well stocked house library, or enjoying a meal from our very own barbecue, the idea of transferring to another house is too absurd to be taken seriously. So build on gentlemen, build on. We wish you joy in filling your new rooms. Within the structure of the house itself we have had our ups and downs. It would be foolish of me to try and claim, in front of the members of this house, that we have been successful in reaching every boy who has lived in our midst. We have been remind.ed that this type of school is not for every boy. We have been shown that our ideals and standards will not be accepted by all who come here. This is very hard to accept sometimes but it has been a lesson in humility that I hope has been of benefit to us. What the house has achieved this year, and it has achieved a great deal, has been in large part due to the outstanding leadership and dynamic energy of our house captain, Jim Robson. He has been the moving force behind almost every single improve- ment that has taken place this year, and his departure will leave a great gap in our ranks. To him and to Jack Mussallem, Mickey Moran, Mike Thompson, Bill Ridley and Bill Vetleson, a tremen- dous team and a very fine body of young men, we all bid a sorrowful and sincere farewell. They have served their house and this school exceedingly well. We also bid farewell to Mr. Hunter who, despite all my warnings, advice, and dire predic- tions, insists on getting married. What a terrible predicament he is in, in this case of divided loyalties. I do not envy him this coming year as he lies awake at nights thinking nostalgically of Privett House and those peaceful duty evenings among the boys. R. V. Lironi 16
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