Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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8 Peter Bridge is serving at sea with the Royal Navy, as also is James Cochrane, who is on H.M.S. Berwick. F. C. Dale joined the Merchant Navy last December and is now Fourth Engineer on S.S. Comedian. T. N. Shaw has been in the U.S. Army for about eighteen months and is now in the Engineers. He writes that he is taking up journalism after the war, and has already made a start at writ- ing for the press. N. R. Nugent is now in the army in England. Howard Malloy graduated from Harvard University with a B.S. degree and is now at an Officer Candidate School. His brother Edwin, is now a Cadet Midshipman in the U.S. Merchant Marine, Cadet Corps. He writes that he has made several trips to England, and has seen David Montague, who, we are very sorry to hear, has been crippled for life in an accident. M. C. Misick has won an Open Scholarship in History at Brasenose College, Oxford. A. C. H. Hallett has won the Duke of Wellington Scholarship in Mathematics and the Pat Strathy Memorial Scholarship in Physics at Toronto University. Brian Tovey has won an Exhibition to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rows for his College. Arthur Motyer has graduated from Mount Allison University with a B.A. degree. He obtained First Class Honours. Peter Brooks has now left Epsom College, where he gained the Higher Certificate and his School Colours for Hurdling. He is training for the army. Seymour Greenman is now at McGill University where he is studying Medicine. But his letters seem to be chiefly concerned with advanced courses in English Literature. Letters have also been received from D. L. Spurling, at Mount Allison, Hugh Smith, at St. Andrew ' s College, Peter Goldsmith and David Stokes, at Charterhouse School, Peter Bishop, at Winchester School, and E. B. Crichton at Andover. They all seem to be doing well and enjoying life, and they maintain a flat- tering interest in the S.G.S. F. Lieut. Jack Pitt, F. Lieut. J. H. Watlington, F. O. H. F. Watlington, P. O. Percy Roach, P 0.. Fred Adderley, P. O. James McLay, P. O. E. Benevides, F. Sgt. T. J. Wadson have all been in Bermuda on leave in the last few months and have visited the School. At the moment of going to press, we have heard that Lieut. D. C. A. Goolden, formerly French Master here and later A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor, is engaged to be married to Miss Rosemary Lowther, of Forest Row, Sussex, England. We extend to him our warmest congratulations.

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7 were becoming soft, has since proved its value, and we believe that, terse as it is, little better could be offered to those whose character is now being formed. If the School continues to produce men of such vigour, it will indeed be serving the Colony well. Marriages F 0 J. R. Gibbons to Joan Hawes, in England. Lieut. Robert Burrows to Nancy Dennis, in Vermont, U.S.A. F. Lieut. J. H. Watlington to Isabel Johnson, in Canada. Cpl. Lee Browne to Jean Guthrie, in England. Lieut. John Misick to Jean Thomson, in Scotland. Stanley Floyd to Lila Hamilton, in Canada. H. L. Williams to Hilda Jean Johnson, of Paget, Bermuda. P. O. Percy Roach, F. O. J. R. Gibbons, F. Lieut. Alan Win- good and Capt. R. M. Gorham, R.A., have all been awarded the D.F.C., and Major Glyn Gilbert has been awarded an M.C. He has also recently become the father of a son. Congratulations to all of them. Sgt. Walter Pruden, formerly French Master at S.G.S., who was recently with General Patton ' s U.S. Third Army in Europe, has been awarded a Bronze Star. Sgt. George Fisher was reported missing, but later was rescued from a German prison camp. Lieut. Kimball Frith wa s wounded in action and, almost as soon as he had recovered, broke his leg in an accident in England. P. O. Lyall Mayor has been promoted Flying Officer. John Burland has passed out of H.M.S. St. Vincent, a Fleet Air Arm Training Ship. 0 S John Booker is now serving on H.M.S. Ravager, a train- ing Aircraft Carrier. While in England he met Lieut. Goolden, Mr. Gorton and Maurice Taylor on several occasions. K. G. R. Hallam last summer passed the exam, for Special Entry into the Royal Navy, and is now serving on the Training Cruiser H.M.S. Frobisher. Henry C. Beardsley, when last heard from, was taking a course in Aviation Ordnance at the Naval Air Technical Training Centre, Memphis, Tennessee. Ernest Petty is serving in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, and his brother, George, is in the Royal Canadian Navy.

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9 Early Days of Saltus Rev. E. A. Annett It has been suggested that I might set down a few facts co n- cerning the earliest years of the Saltus Grammar School. My chief qualification for this is that I have been away from the Islands for fifty-two years, after having spent some three years as a scholar of the School. Coming back among old places and old faces, it is easier for me to recall things as they were just at that period of time than for those to whom those particular years were merely a part of a long and continuous experience. And then, too, I have made it my aim to talk it over with all I could find who were my school-fellows in 1889-1892; and thus I have secured a composite view including information regarding the School before I joined it in 1889. It is a fact worth noticing that out of the sixty or seventy boys of the School in its first years, no less than twenty are at present alive and well in these Islands. Their names may be of interest: F. Goodwin Gosling, Harry Dunkley, Reginald Triming- ham, William M. Conyers, Reginald Conyers, Stanley S. Spurling, Edward H. Tucker, Harry Lockward, George Gorham, A. Hutch- ings Frith, Archie Talbot, Ernest Astwood, Thomas Doe, Reginald Ingham, Cobham Peniston, Spencer Joel, Ashley Watlington, Ernest Darrell and Edward A. Annett. Beside these whom I have found to be in Bermuda just now, there are several who are living overseas — Oliver C. Spurling, Charles Graham, H. Outerbridge, Daniel Hinson, Clarence Hutchings and Clifford Peniston. The Saltus Grammar School began its course in the year 1887. It was not the first attempt made in Bermuda at regular secondary education. The first school of the kind was, I believe, Devonshire College, which was built with Government assistance in the early part of the nineteenth century. The college had a chequered history and eventually went on the rocks. The proper ty was sold at the instruction of the Government, and the Mental Hospital is housed today in the original buildings, which have been much en- larged. The money realised by the sale was divided into two parts, one being placed in the hands of trustees for the provision of a new school for boys of white families, and the other half for a school or college for coloured boys. The trustees who were to found a school for white boys purchased the Woodlands estate for the purpose. Meanwhile, two other schools were doing good work; Whitney Institute and Warwick Academy, though, so far as I can ascertain, with little to offer those seeking a High School education. It is probably true that, except for sporadic coaching given to individu- als at the schools run by Messrs. Clay, Oudney and Henry Hallett, there was little opportunity for either boys or girls to get advanced teach ing.