Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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14 N. H. Richardson, wlu) left us ai Christmas, lias been teaching since then at Warwick Academy. A. A. Michielson, who passed the exam lor Special Entry to the Royal Navy, has been cruising round the West Indies as a Cadet in H.M.S. Devonshire, and was among those sent to Belize last March, when Guatemala was threatening British Honduras. David Gilbert is now at Stowe School in England. W. M. Cox and Neville Conyers have been playing Assf:ciation Football for Toronto University and have bo th been awarded their T ' s. D. H. Harrison, now at Dalhousie University, has been playing both Rugby and Association Football for the University and cap- tained the latter team. At Mount Allison University Clarence Tercena captained the Association Football team and Bill Hutt played both for that team and for the Rugby Football team. L. G. Pantry has been playing Association Football for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and has captained his team. He has also won the Bronze Medal for Life-Saving and passed the exam in Criminal Law top of his class. Peter Seymour, who went to Charterhouse School in England as the Berm-uda Scholar for 1945, was Captain of the Charterhouse Swimming Team in the Public Schools Sports Meeting, and was chosen as one of five Charterhouse boys to spend several months as an exchange student at the Lycee Pasteur in Paris. Kit Astwood, also at Charterhouse, has been awarded his Swim- ming Colours and took part in the Public Schools Sports Meeting. He won the Boxing Competition at his weight, under 16 years and under 126 lbs. Eldon Trimingham played water polo for Stowe School and Brian Burland swam for Aldenham School at the same sport meeting. Harry King appeared in a new role last summer, when he got through several rounds playing for Kindley Field in the U.S. Army Air Force Tennis Tournament. Lyall Mayor is a joint partner in the Bermuda Air Charter Service, formed to take tourists on sightseeing trips over the Islands. R. O. Walters, who won a Cradock Scholarship to H.M.S. Con- way, passed through Bermuda in November, 1947, as a cadet on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company ' s M.V. Sarmiento. Those Old Boys who remember him may be interested to know that Mr. R. E. Frewen is back in Bermuda, teaching at Warwick Academy.

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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.

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15 School Notes DEATHS:— We regret to announce the deaths of:— HENRY JAMES COX on March 6th, 1948, at the age of 90. Mr. Cox was the father of Mr. John W. Cox and the grand- father of Harry, William and Michael Cox, all Saltiis Old Boys, and was himself a Trustee of the School for many years. E. R. MASON, M.C., on June 23rd, 1947, at the age of 58. Mr. Mason was formerly an assistant master at the school. MARRIAGE — We offer our congratulations to Mr. F. L. Stephenson on his marriage to Audrey Evelyn Narbrugh. The ceremony took place in St. John ' s Church, Pembroke, . on Saturday, April 24th. There was a reception after the ceremony at the house of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hallett on Mount Hill. The Bermuda Scholarship for 1947 was awarded to D. H. Harri- son, to whom we offer hearty congratulations. W. Brownlow Gray was awarded the Cradock Scholarship for 1947, and is now training on H.M.S. Conway in England. The Cambridge Exam Results for 1947 have recently come to hand and are as follows:— Higher School Certificate— N. H. Richardson. School Certificate, Grade I— J. D. Stubbs. Grade K-T. W. Dunch, D. A. Gosling, D. E. DeSilva. Grade IH-H. C. Anfossi, A. V. Little, D. S. R. Smith. We offer a belated welcome to Messrs. S. A. Applegate, H. A. Leseur, F. X. Mahoney and the Rev. Frank Ross, who have joined the Staff here during the year. Mr. Applegate teaches Spanish and Economics in particular, and is form-master of Form IV S besides. Mr. Leseur was our Head Prefect not so many years ago, and came back to be form-master of the Lower Third. We are sorry to add that both Mr. Applegate and Mr. Leseur will be leaving us at the end of the term. Mr. Mahoney has taken over the gym and much of the work connected with the games, and the Rev. F. H. Ross has succeeded Mr. Bridge as Choirmaster. Mr. J. R. Bridge left us, to our regret, at the end of the Easter term. He had been our Choirmaster for just over ten years and had effected a very real improvement in the singing here. At the closing ceremony at the end of last term the Headmaster made a presenta- tion to him on behalf of the School. As usual at the end of the Christmas Term, the School Choir gave a Carol Concert in the Assembly Hall on Dec. 18th, for the