Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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Comments This is really nothing more than a gloss on what I wrote this time last year! Once again my highest expectations in every branch of school life have been far exceeded and the third year of the war will in time to come be legarded as one of the most successful in the history of this school. The Examination results have provided a record which we shall be fortunate, in the changing circum- stances of these times, if we can maintain; they reflect the greatest possible credit on all concerned. Games, Clubs and Societies, Activities in general have all flourished, and the morale of the school, lead by a particularly able and loyal set of Prefects, has steadily gained in strength. The New Building, which last year was merely a rumour, is now finished and. in full use. We still lack accommodation in many departments, but this addition has made it possible to carry on comfortably and efficiently even with an increased number of boys in the school. The most severe worry of a Headmaster in war is the main- tenance of a staff sufficiently quaUfied and active to undertake the many and arduous duties that have to be performed by a school- master in a boy ' s school. So far I have been extraordinarily lucky in this respect and I earnestly hope that this good fortune will hold. But if it does not, it will be our duty to try to do what we can to maintain a standard and efficiency sufficiently high to make the work of post-war rehabilitation swift and easy. Something beyond doubt will have to suffer but one can only hope that it will not be the essential work or the morale of the school. I have sufficient faith in the strength and spirit of Saltus bovs to believe that they will make it possible for the school to survive whatever difficulties may arise and to proceed and progress in a manner worthy of the traditions of the school. Mr. Gorton. You will learn with regret that Mr. Gorton is leaving us at the end of this term. He is returning to England to take up war work. He joined the staff in the September term of 1934, just as the work of reorganisation was beginning, and from the start was very active; he, indeed, reinstituted science in the school and under conditions of amazing difficulty. . . for example his first benches and forms were made out of the packing cases in which the Head- master ' s books had arrived from England and his scientific appar- atus was virtulally non-existent. Under his enthusiastic and able management the Science-room was soon transferred to its present and proper site in the Main Building of the school and, with the

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Governing Body H. D. Butterfield, Esq., M.C.P. Hereward Watlington, Esq. Eldon Trimingham, Esa., John W. Cox, EvSq., M.C.P. C.B.E., M.C.P. • .:N. payard Dill, Esq., M.C.P. itH rAjm Headmaster R. E: E. Booker, Esq., M.A., M.R.S.T., F.R.S.A. ' t « C ' ' Secretary-Treasurer John J. Bushell, Esq., M.B.E. - Staff i H. J. Hallett, M.A. y H. Richardson, B.Sc. (EconJ, F.R.G.S.. ci U f J. H. Kerry, M.A. ffftl R. T. Gorton, B.A., RSc. ft . F. B. Rogers, M.A. I O i R. E. Frewen t Hv • L • « W. B. Welch, M.A. . W. R. Pruden, M.A. 5? . i ff Miss Edith Smith y glJ ' .Mrs. W. J. H. Trott P. S. Welch , ' J. R. Bridge (Music) School Bursar J. H. Kerry, M.A.. School Officials Captain of the School U. E. Campbell Captain of Football H. A. LeseUr Captain of Cricket.... D. E. Campbell Captain of Athletics P. N. SpUrhng House Captains: . . Butterfield ...... P. N. Brooks f - ' Darrell Qkv fe.u .. ,..Si !? .. ' ...A. J. Motyer Saltus.. J. D. E, Gibbons Watlington.... D. E. Campbell Additional Prefects: - G. D. PhilHps C. D. D. Burland H. A. Leseur R. H. Motyer J. B. Trimingham R. L. Barnard P. N. Spurling Librarians: M. C. Misick R. H. Motyer

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5 help of the Shop of which he also has had charge earned its way to more adequate equipment and very sound scholastic success. All who have been taught by him have gained imrreasurably from contact with his inciiive and scientific mind; alt lOUgh he is in- tolerant of bogus learning and feeble scholarship he has shown himself a patient, tl.orough and sympathetic teacher. The Board- ing School, too, was begun by him and ran most successfully until the war compelled its closure. In the coachiag of c icket and foot- ball as well as in the loss of the example of his profic iency he will be immensely missed and w ill leave a gap difficult, if not impossible, to fill. The good wishes and thanks of all at Saltus go with him. Mr. Pruden. Was the first American to join the Staff since the reorgan- isation of the school, and I adm.it that I went to engage him in fear and trembling. I had, I suppose, vsome fear that an American schoolmaster might find our ways tiresome and old-fashioned and that his ideas of discipline might not quite coincide with ours. In both these prognostications I could not have been more mis- taken. From the first Mr. Pruden showed himself an excellent schoolmaster, a first-class disciplinarian and a most competent teacher of French. He has thrown himself into the- activities of the school; and the Choir and the Musical Society, which latter he founded, testify to the thoroughness of his application. He now is leaving us to join the armed forces of the U.S.A., as he feels that he ought to do. We are all most attached to him and exceedingly sorry that he is going, and we earnestly hope that when the war is over ' ' our first American master will wish to come straight back to Saltus. Mr. Welch. Mr. Peter Welch has been with us as a member of the Staff for two terms and the thoroughness of his work and his attention to detail, coupled with his particularly correct attitude and manly bearing have endeared him to us all. He made the bold and diffi- cult experiment of jumping from the position of Head Prefect to that of a member of the Staff. His keenness and sound sense have enabled him to profit by this opportunity and to place all of us here very much in his debt. He must leave us now but when the war is over, I very much hope to see him once again a member of the Saltus Staff. The Staff. The remainder of the Staff are, I am glad to say, able to re- main with us and I should like to take this chan ce to assure them that all at Saltus ,and particularly the Headmaster, are fully aware of the incalculable debt that is owed to them for their sound work and loyalty to the School. R. E. E. B.