Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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Duke of Edinburgh ' s Award Scheme (S i ......... - 5 November Trek — The winter rains didn ' t dampen the enthusiasm of these seven die-hards The Duke of F.clinburyh Award Scheme once more aUiaclcd a large number of boys in the Third Form this year. Most of them have perse ered very well despite some bad luck with the weather on trek weekends. Their spirit was excellent and they enjoyed all the activities of the Scheme. 22 of these bo s will be receiving their Bronze Award in the autumn, together with perhaps 10 older boys. The disheartening factor is that many of the boys fuilher up the ' school who should have been completing Bron c and Silver Awards seem to have lost interest. They appear unwilling to organise themsehes and there is all too often the cr of well, I can ' t make it iliis weekend . . . John I horne is the onl boy ready to receive his Silver, having incorporated an Outward Bound course in Wales into his programme of activities. It is to be hoped that those who lui e done so well at Bronze this year will not let their enthusiasm flag and will put in the hard work nccessar for the Silver Award in the coming year. The Fire

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THE CAST Ian Bickley Andrew Blaney Michael Burke Mary-Jane Buschlen Tracy Dilks Charles Dunstan Boyd Gatton Dianne Hall Craig Harris Sid Harris Hans Jorstad Dag Jorstad David Judah Reid Kempe Joe Klement Matthew Lorentzen Jane McFadzean Dave Morrison OUT OF SIGHT Jackie Bacon Jim Bagen Kathy Bean Hope Berg Derrick Binns Peter Blaney Dorothy Broadhurst Kay Buschlen Billy Jack CoUn Jeavons Dorothy Jorstad Jimmy Madeiros Robert Mason Steven Masters Angela Mocklow Andrew Parsons Chris Popper Dave Roberts Tim Smith Susan Swift Rene Vermeulen Gill Walker THE MUSICIANS Michael Bishop Graham Redford Jay Riihiluoma Woodstock Northcott Karen Raskin Charlie Scott Steven Shepperd James Smith Craig Tucker Cristina Woods Jayne Young Henry Ziegler Snippets the cast may remember The unpredictabiHty of rifle drill. Le B.E.F. I ' m stupid. Scotty stirring up the front row. Those Welsh Mike Burke ' s knock on the head. Blankety-blank Tracing Tracy at KEMH. He ' s ' ,0 weedy. The sound tape. The naughty French lines

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(Jeavons photo) THE At 7 a.m. on Sunday, June 26, fire engines wailed into the senior school playground. This was not an elaborate finale to the Duke of Edinburgh Fire Prevention course but the real thing. Smoke was pouring from most of the upper level of the school, particularly the assembly hall. The fire- men, some wearing breathing apparatus, were quickly inside, while the small crowd of onlookers were fearful that a large part of the school was about to be destroyed. It soon became apparent, however, that the huge clouds of smoke were misleading and that the actual fire was in only one part of the building. Mr. Stephenson proved this by emerging from the main door carrying the Geography O-Level papers. The firemen had succeeded, thanks to their prompt arrival, in containing the blaze to the assembly hall. They soon had this under control and the way was open for several teachers and parents to help move files and papers from the smoky office to the library. The upper corridor was black and reeking of smoke; inside the hall, there was a scene of devastation. Everything which could burn had done so. The stage, cedar table, school desks, chairs, the irreplaceable portraits of former headmasters — all gone with hardly a trace, leaving desk frames littering the blackened floor. A sad sight, not least for the firemen, many of whom were Saltus old boys. During the day, cleaning operations were carried out so that school could open the following day with the minimum of discomfort. By Monday morning, a temporary office had been set up in the library and room arrangements altered so that the school was able to begin examinations on time. It is fair to say that the boys responded sensibly to the situation. Many of them wrote exams in unlit rooms on a very dark morning, with the smell of stale smoke always present. The school managed to recover remarkably quickly from the initial blow. At time of writing the problem is to rebuild the destroyed facilities as soon as possible.