Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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12 In a school il a man genuinely has character his jjlace can never really be filled . Frank Rogers, already a lieqiienl topic of con- versation amongst Old Boys ol his time, will soon become part ol the Saltus Grammar School legend. He will be very much missed: our very best wishes go with him. R.E.E.B Old Boys News At the Annual General Meeting ol the Saltus Old Boys ' Association, held early in the year, the following officers were elected: President T. W. P. Vesey Vice President 1. S. Outerbridge Secretary-Treasurer Duncan A. Gosling Assistant Secretary Colin Young COMMITTEE J. U. Christensen, LI. Vorley, LI. Gibbons, Jr., Ralph Patterson, H. A. Leseur. Among other business discussed at the meeting, Old Boys will be interested to know that a set of plans for the proposed Gymnasium was offered for preliminary consideration. Since the first estimate was made, however, the costs of building have risen to such an extent that the original fund of £5,000 is now less than a third of the estimated cost. The Annual Celebration of Founder ' s Day took place last year on June 19th. In the morning there was a Commemoration Service in Hall, at which Dr. W. E. Talbot was the Orator. After the ser- vice the Headmaster, Staff, Prefects and the Senior School proceeded to St. John ' s Churchyard, where a wreath was laid on the tomb of the founder, Samuel Saltus. After luncheon the usual Cricket Matches took place against Old Boys ' teams and the School celebrations closed with the Cadet Band Beating the Retreat on the Field. In the evening the Saltus Old Boys ' Association Dinner was held in the New Windsor Hotel, at which function Mr. N. H. P. Vesey was the chief speaker. Marriages: Ernest Young to Dorothy Andison in Bermuda. John Adams to Mary Ellen Noonan in the United States. H. R. Evans to Dorothy Ann Outerbridge in Bermuda. J. W. Kempe Jr., to Mary Elizabeth Reid in Canada. R. H. Mullin to Phyllis Ann Smith in Bermuda. Ormond C. Zuill to Katharine Wainwright Church in the United States. T. J. Wadson to Judith Cecilia Moore.

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11 F. B. R. Frank Barrier Rogers joined the Staff of the Sakus Gram- mar School in the Xmas Term of 1936, as a result of a personal interview in England with the Headmaster. He took up resi- dence in what was then the Masters ' Lodge and at once made his presence felt amongst his colleagues by his cheerful nature and by his feats of derring-do — it is reputed that he once, for a wager, rode a bicycle from the back of the Lodge all the way ilown to Hamilton without touching the handlebars— an under- taking not as easy as it may sound when the nature of the ter- rain to be covered at the school end is considered. Again in the 1947 hurricane the roof of the old Boarding School building was only saved from destruction through the energies of F.B.R., two boys and an axe, at the height of the storm when a falling tree threatened its safety. Buck , as we have all affectionately called him (a nickname shows character in a school), has always been a real schoolmaster: his every waking thought and act has been on behalf of the school and he has lavishly spent what to others would be spare time upon tutoring those of his Latin pupils who have found that admittedly difficult subject more than usually hard. A man of strong views bluntly and quite frequently expressed, his opinions have, for all that, never been selfish but always, as it were, in favour of the interests of his pupils. At all times ready to protect the position of his House or his Form, it was, nevertheless, as a Duty-master that he really excelled and more than a decade of Saltus boys will carry with them always memories of his voice (both the loud and the soft!) encouraging them in the way in which beyond doubt they should go. In the days of the Saltus Boarding School, too, his worth was apparent and the out-of-school pastimes of the Boarders, sailing, swimming and so on, owed much to his never-flagging interest and availability. For the last nine years he has organised the House Boxing Competition with such success that Admiral Sir Irvine Glennie, R.N., and Admiral Braisted, U.S.N., who attended the com- petition in 1946, agreed together afterwards that it was the best schoolboy boxing that they had seen. It has become, perhaps, the most popular of all the school functions. His subject , Latin, perhaps the hardest of all in a school not actually orientated towards Common Entrance, he has tackled with determination and shown clearly that he believed in its essen- tial as well as its scholastic value: a list of Bermuda and Rhodes Scholars of the last 12 years bears testimony to what they owe him.

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13 Deaths: Lieut. Lionel Hunter in November, 1947, aged 30. Dr. W. T. Conyers on February 25th, 1948, aged 68. R. W. Hayward on April 15th, 1948, aged 17. Mr. H. D. Butterfield has found it necessary to resign his seat on the Devonshire College, Body No. 1, the governing body of the Saltus Grammar School. In so doing he has severed a long family connection, for he succeeded his father on that body. He still, however, retains his place as a Trustee of the Saltus Fund. We are glad of the opportunity to welcome in his place on the governing body of the School, another Saltus Old Boy, Mr. Bernard T. Gosling. Major Glyn Gilbert, M.C., has left the War Office for a Staff appointment in Germany. R. L. Barnard has gained his B.Sc. degree at McGill University and has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for 1948. D. J. Williams has been selected to act as coach and trainer to the Bermuda Track and Field teams, which are going to England this summer for the Olympic Games. Saltus Old Boys formed a considerable part of the teams which visited Long Island Sound last summer to race the Luders 16 ' s against the Indian Harbour Yacht Club and the International 14 ' s against the Essex Yacht Club. M. A. Gibbons, Jr., is now the proud father of a son, M.A. Ill; he is now at Vero Beach, Florida. A. J. Motyer has had his Rhodes Scholarship extended for another term at Oxford, and has been appointed a Lecturer in English at the University of Manitoba as from January, 1949. John Gilbert and A. C. H. Hallett are in their last year at Toronto University and are expecting to take their B.A. degrees this summer. R. D. Butterfield has taken part in Toronto University ' s pro- duction of Shakespeare ' s Romeo and Juliet and other plays. J. F. Vivian, when last heard from, was touring England with a theatrical troupe. J. R. E. Booker has now obtained his discharge from the Royal Navy and is at Brasenose College, Oxford. Henry Beardsley has now completed an Arts Course at the University of Missouri and is intending to take a course in Journal- ism there in September. C. E. Woollard, who was awarded the Bermuda Teachers ' Training Scholarship in 1946, is now back here and is teaching at the Whitney Institute.