Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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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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6 Saltus Old Boys Association The following were elected as Officers and (Vjmmittee of Management of the Association at the Annual Cjeneral jVieeting held on January 26th, 1945:— President — T. W, P. Vesey. Vice-President — William Frith. Secretary-Treasurer — Duncan A. Gosling. Committee of Management — Stanley Gascoigne, R. H. MuUin, Arthur Butterfield, H. St. George Butterfield, Leon Barnes, Robert Thompson. During the year the deaths of the following Old Boys of the School have been recorded : — On Active Service: Pte. Allison W. B: Fowle, B.V.R.C. Flight-Lieut. William Warfield, R.A.F. The death of Lieut. -Col. Dill had a special significance for Saltus Grammar School. The full story of his greatness in the pub- lic life of the Colony has already been told in the Press, and we can add little or nothing to that. He was one of the early scholars and maintained a keen interest in the School and its affairs all his life. For some years he was a Trustee and delivered the first Founder ' s Day Oration when that institution was started in 1935. The text of his speech on that occasion was the advice to Work hard, Play hard, Live hard and Die hard. That advice, given in a time of peace, when some observers thought that the civilized countries Old Boys News OBITUARY H. R. Outerbridge Edward Murphie Lieutenant-Colonel T. M. Dill 18th June, 1944 20th Dec, 1944 7th March, 1945

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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.