Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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The School Year, 1956-1957 Examination Successes University of Cambridge Higher School Certificate: G. L. Cook, R. A. G. Lines, J. E. Smith, University of Cambridge General School Certificate: Grade il: I. W. Macky, J. Durrell Grade III: C. E. Cassidy, S. H. Dallas, S. Grayston, B. R. Hall, H. B. Hallett, R. W. Kempe, P. A. Leseur, D. MacPherson, J. F. McGill, F. H. P. Patterson, H. G. F, Pierce. P, S. Scupham. In the examinations held by the Royal Drawing Society in May 1956, 48 Saltus Boys passed with Honours, and 31 reached the Pass Standard. Scholarships. The Crad dock Scholarship was awarded to A. H. Cooper. The Bermuda Scholarship was awarded to J. R. Talbot, an Old Boy. The Rhodes Scholarship was awarded to J. Stubbs, an Old Boy. 1956. June 13th: A framed map of Bermuda was presented to the School Library by Mr. Owen Darrell, the President of the Old Boys ' Association. June 14th: Founder ' s Day was commemorated by a service conducted by the Rev. E. N. B. Chapman, Rector of St. John ' s Parish, and with an address by Sir Trounsell Gilbert, Chief Jus- tice of Bermuda. In the afternoon the 1st. and 2nd. Cricket Elevens played the Olid Boys, after the teams had enjoyed luncheon at the Bermudiana Hotel. Nov. 11th: The Cadet Pipe and Drum Band made their first public parade during the Remembrance (Day ceremony. Dec. 7th: Mr. Harry Cox gave an illustrated talk on Bermuda history. Dec. 13th: The annual prize giving and carol concert held in the School Assembly Hall. Brigadier Rice-Evans presented the prizes.

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6 ' Au Revoir ' Alt the end of this Term, the School will be losing through retire- ment the services of two members of the Staff. Miss E. M. Smith joined the Staff at the outbreak of World War 1]I as Form Mistress of Form II. Since that time she has been in charge of this Form and has guided these young pupils with firm but kindly control through their second year of Saltus School life. In after school duties(, ,Miss Smith has ' conscientiously taken a fehare, and twice a week has presided over Detention classes — often not the most congenial and inspiring of tasks. Mr. J. H. Kerry came to Siailtus from Somers College in 1934. He has been responsible for the History syllabus throughout the School and has done a major portion of the teaching of this subject as well as that of Book-keeping. Also, the meticulous care with which he has performed office work has relieved two successive Headmasters of a considerable burden. In extra-curricular activities he has presided over the Debating Sociefty throughout his career, and many present and Old Boys will remember with enjoyment the interesting subjects, the Mock Trials, Hat and Balloon debates, which have taken place un- der his guidance. It is also pleasing to note that several of the most fluent and promising amongst the younger public speakers in the Colony no doubt had their initiation into this art in Ithe Debating Society. I am sure that we all wish these two valued members of the Staff a happy retirement and, in bidding them ' Au Revoir ' , we trust that they will have pleasant memories of Saltus.

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8 1957. Jan. 24th: Two cedar tables were presented to the School Library by Sir John Cox and Mr. W. M. Cox. Feb. 10th: A group of senior boys visited the Z.B.M. studios and heard a talk given by Mir. Harry Cox. March 27th: Mr. Park Breck of the Health Department addressed the senior school. April 4th: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Godet presented a cup to be award- ed yearly to the athlete in Group C winning the moat points in the Inter House Sports. Empire Day Celebration 1957 Empire Day was celebrated by the traditional service in Hall, after which Commander W. G. Jack, R.N spoke to the boys. Among the audience were Mrs. Edmund Gibbons, representing the I.O.D.E., Mr. Thomas Vesey, representing the Trustees of the School, and Mr. Charles Wilson, representing the Old Boys Association. Commander Jack spoke of the Empire as a monument to capacity and patience. There had been many empires in the course of the world ' s history. The old empires had been acquired by conquest, as had parts of the British Empire; but there had also been an element of haphazardness about its acquisition. It had been said that the Em- pire had been acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness. Their own little island of Bermuda had been colonised as the result of an accident: Ad- miral Sommers had just hit the place; it wasn ' t a case of conquest, for it was in fact uninhabited at that time. Australia, too, was the result of a peaceful colonisation. Singapore was a malarial swamp when Sir Stamford Raffles took it over. Malta had simply begged them to come. These were but a very few of th e many and diverse ways in which the Empire had been pieced together. A most remarkable thing about the Emipire was how it had con- tinued. It had experienced growing pains, and the old conception of empire had been exploded by the American War of Independence, which had taught England a lesson leading to a changed attitude towards the peoples of the Empire. Yet still they would come up against the word Colonialism used as a term of reproach by their enemies to imply that in the past they had grabbed these territories and had continued to use them; merely to exploit them. Let them study the record. Before the first World War