Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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5 SCHOOL NOTES. Early this year His Excellency the Governor-in-Council appointed the Headmaster to be an associate member of the Cadet Committee. We offer our congraltulations. It S ' hould prove of great assistance to the committee to have the advice of someone who is well acquainted not only with the military part of the organisation but also with the scholastic issues. In September we lost the services of Mr. D. C. A. Goolden and Mr. E. R. Ilott. Mr. Goolden joined the Navy, and in these days when we are warned that any careless word that we utter may cause the loss of livesi, it is as well, perhaps, to say nothing about his activities. Suf- fice it to say that he is missed here. Mr. Ilott was in England when war broke out, and found himself unable to return here. News of him 1 as been very scanty since then, and, at the moment, we have not the least idea what he is doing. This term, particularly he is being missed for his interest in the school ' s cricket. To fill one of the gaps thus created Miss Steacey returned tn the fold. We welcomed her back, but it was not to be for long, and now we have to offer her our felicitations ' on the occasion of her marriage to Lieut. M. P. Pollock, R.N. The ceremony took place in England last month. We have now with us Miss Edith Smith and Mrs. Howard Trott, Jr. We extend a very hearty welcome to them, and express the hope that to their feminine eyes our masculine establishment has not seem- ed too utterly uncivilised during the last few months ' . Next, our congratulations are offered to Mr. and Mrs . R. E. Frewen on the birth of a son. This is an important occasion; not only are we looking forward to the day when the name Frewen appears on the First Form list, but never before, we believe, has the happy event occurred in the family of an assistant master actually on the staff of the school at the time. We also congratulate Mrs. Booker on her appointment as Hon. Secretary of the Committee of the Empire Fete for War Charities re- cently held at Government House. The job involved a great amount of work iand the show was thoroughly successful both financially and otherwisie. Mrs. Booker is Vice-chairman of the Ladies ' Hospitality Organisation, which entertains naval ratings at the Recreation Rooms In the Bermudiana Hotel.

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EDITORIAL. At this time last year we suggested that it would be a good thing if members of the school could b© articulate (a bont their own aativities, that others could only be interested in us, if we were sufficiently interes ' ted in ourselves to tell them all about us. Our voice is still raised in the same complaint, buU:, at least, the wilderness is not q uite so barren this year as it has been. We have, (after much persuasion, obtained two articles by boys in the school about their own acltivities. H. R. Outerbridge has written on the Sailors ' Home; he is on the committee which is in charge of our concerns in that quarter, so that he should know some- thing about it. And A. C. H. Halleitt has written about the gramo- phone concerts in the lunch-hour. This was a more spontianeous contribution than the other, and, as Hallett is himself the moving spirilt of the whole show, it is exactly the sort of thing that we want. The truth of our contention that interest in our own activi- ties arouses interest in others i£ admirably borne ou!t by the Governor ' s gift of books to the Library. His Excellency was im- pressed by the Librarian ' s knowledge of his job, by the fact that he knew what booksi were popular and what were the gaps that needed filling. When, however, we began this article, we had already des- paired of persuading either of the Librarians to venture into print on the subject of their charge. We ' are now glad to be able to say that, as usual, pessimism was a mistake, and to the two articles mentioned above a third must be ' added, an article on the Library by a Librarian. There is finally one other contribution iby a member of the school. It must be classed in a differenlt category from the others. The author is a very junior member of the school, and, so far as we know, the appear ' ance of his composition in the Year Book will be his first intimation that publication wast even being con- sidered. But, in spite of the fact tliat it was composed a a punish- ment, in spite of the fact, that the author has had little success in the pursuit of the virtue that he professes to praise, yet there is ap- parent a simple directness of vision that approximates to genius. So far, we have studiously avoided any reference to the change in the situation of the world since our last issue. This is deliberate. In a quiet w ' ay we have been doing our very little bit to help. For the rest, the best thing that we can do is not to be a nuisance to those wlio have other jobs, in other words, to carry on as nearly in a normal w ay as is possible in the circumstances.

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6 We are glad to be able to announce that a Bermuda Scholarship has been awarded to T. I. Crawford. He has made arrangements to go to Cheltenham College in England. Our best wi shes will go with him. H. P. Malloy will also be leaving us at the end of the term. He has been admitted into Harvard, where he proposes, we understand, to study medicine. The School has been doing what it can to help in the work of en- tertaining sailors. Later in this Year Book there is an article by one of the committee set up to direct our efforts, which have mainly con- sisted in the loan of the field and the arrangement of dances . Speci- ally worth mention was the concert given by the Laconia Loonies. On another occasion there were some French ' submariners ' . At first the language provided rather a hanaicap, but Mr. Goolden lent his services as master of ceremonies and under his direction everyone soon began to dance and to forget to be awkward. Perhaps as a result of these activities, the School had what must be considered the immense privilege of visiting a cruiser a ' t tht Dock- yard during war-time. We were asked not to mention names in this article, and we must be content to thank all those concerned in an im- personal way. But we can assure them that we are none the less grate- ful on that account. Very nearly a hundred boys took advantage of the opportunity. When we reached the ship the party was dividod into groups of about a dozen, each of which was conducted round by one of: the crew. Through the good offices of Mr. Hartley Watlington trans- port to and from the Dockyard was provided gratis by the Trans por- tation Company. In February we heard an interesting lecture by Professor C, T. Currelli, Director of the Ontario Museum of Archaeology. He choie as his subject ' Developments in Civilisation ' , and showed what far-reach- ing results could follo.w apparently insignificant events and discoveries. The whole lecture was enlivened by a series of anecdotes that kept one and all rapt in attention until the very end. Once again the results of the School Certificate examination were very satisfactory. In the senior examination the following were suc- cessful: Adams, Benevides, Biggs, Crawford, Duffey, Malloy, Motyer i, Thompson. In the junior both candidates ' , Motyer ii and Rutherford, passed.