Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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Governing Body Hcreward Watlington, Esq. John W. Cox, Esq., C.B.E. E. H. Trimingham, Esq. T. W. P. Vcscy, Esq. B. T. Gosling, Esq. Headmaster R. E. E. Booker, Esq., M.A., M.R.S.T., F.R.S.A. Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Janet Moore Staff H. J. Hallett, M.A. J. H. Kerry, M.A. F. B. Rogers, M.A. S. Gascoigne, B.A. F. L. Stephenson E. W. Allen, B.A. S. A. Applegate, B.A. FL A. Leseur, B.A. Mrs. Edith W. Trott Miss Edith M. Smith J. R. Bridge (Choir) until Easter Rev. H. F. Ross (Choir) after Easter F. X. Mahoney (P.T., Games) School Officials Head Prefect D. A. Goslirg Captain of Football D. A. Gosling Captain of Cricket D. A. Gcsling Captain of Athletics D. A. Gosling House Captains: Butterfield House (before Christmas) N. H. Richardson (after Christmas) J. D. Stubbs Darrell House (before Christmas) J. T. Critchley (after Christmas) A. V. Little Watlington House T. Dunch Saltus House D. A. Gosling Additional Prefects: C. T. M. Collis D. E. DeSilva D. S. R. Smith W. B. Gray D. R. Bray D. P. Lines P. W. Lyon H. C. Anfossi Librarians H. A. G. Skiffington, A. V. Little

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The Saltus Year Book, for 1948 Editor — F. B. Rogers Contents Page Governing Body, Etc 2 Editorial 3 Valete by R. E. E. Booker 4 Royal Wedding Celebration 5 Empire Day Celebration 5 Tribute to R. E. E. Booker by J. W. Cox 8 Carol Booker by J. H. Kerry 10 F.B.R. by R. E. E. Booker 11 Old Boys ' News 12 School Notes 15 Debating Society 16 World Today Club and Cult A 18 Cadets 18 Athletics 19 Football Results 20 Cricket 21 Athletic Sports 21 Boxing 23 Swimming 25 Tennis 26

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Editorial On the very eve of going to press this year we were startled, lo say the least of it, by the news that our Headmaster, Mr. R. E. E. Booker, is leaving us at the end of the term. For a year or two now he has been suggesting that this was coming, so that, perhaps, we ought not to have found his departure so unexpected. But we had imagined that it was merely the cry of Wolf! Wolf! and were quite unprepared for the event. An appreciation of his work at Saltus appears elsewhere in this issue; here we would be content with say- ing that it was under his administration that the school grew up. As many of the older men in Bermuda know, the school in its earlier days was a very small affair, comparable in many ways to the village schools which are described in the English authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Such a school, with a headmaster who is a character , may frequently produce great men; but education for this modern world is, perhaps unfortunately, a much more com- plicated business, and Mr. Booker, by his organizational ability, by his acquisition of a more numerous staff, by his insistence on the need for more adequate buildings and equipment and by his encour- agement of an actively interested Old Boys ' Association, has laid the foundations of an institution which can, as some of our Old Boys ' successes have already shown, compete educationally with anything of its sort this side of the Atlantic. He leaves with our thanks for the past and our good wishes for the future. His place is to be taken by Mr. H. J. Hallett, who needs no introduction to Saltus Old Boys. He has had an active part in all the recent development of the School and we are glad to welcome him in the complete assurance that he is the man to preside over its future progress. THE EDITOR.