Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

Text from Pages 1 - 92 of the 1985 volume:

TRUSTEES H.C. Butterfield, Esq. — Chairman (retired Nov. 1985) D. Anfossi, Esq. - Chairman J. Amos, Esq. J. Burland, Esq. Dr. D.E. Campbell H.C.D. Cox, Esq. N.B. Dill, Jr., Esq. F.J. Gosling, M.B.E. C.E. Pearman, Esq. Dr. E.S.D. Ratteray D.C. Selley, Esq. L. Simmons, Esq. D. Tolaram, Esq. G. Titterton, Esq. Sakus Grammar School Bursar: Mr. G. Rosser FROM THE HEADMASTER As we move through life we wi ll, from time to time and if we are very fortunate, meet men and women who are very special - who are, in fact, men and women of true stature. I feel very privileged to have met more than my share of such individuals here in Bermuda and they include among their numbers Mr. H.C. Butterfield, who announced his retirement from the Trus- tee Body at the Senior Department Prize Giving last November when in his 27th year as a Trustee and his 20th as Chairman. During his tenure, he guided this school with certainty and honesty through fair weather and foul, helping preserve what was best in our heritage, discarding what was clearly outmoded or unjust, and showing clearly that he had, at all times, a true respect for his fellowman. He had served and been served in his turn by three Headmasters and although I have known him for only six years, during that time I have never failed to be impressed by his devotion to us, by his constant endeavours on our behalf, by his integrity and by his basic humanity. To this school he has been as Chaucer said of Triolus. ' As true as Steel ' and I cannot let him pass from our midst without acknowledging our debt to one of the greatest servants that Saltus has had in recent times. If there is a single individual who more than any other has contributed to the success of the Centenery Fund Raising Campaign it is Chet Butterfield, and it is a fitting climax for a man who has devoted over a quarter of a century to our service. 1 Cavendish Preparatory Preparatory School Staff Mr. R. Meredith, B.A. Mrs. M. Hopkins (Head of Department) Miss W. Thompson Mrs. B. Jennings Mrs. S. Bacon, B.A. Mrs. K. Walker Mrs. J. Beard, B.Ed. Mrs. P. Sampson Mrs. M. Draycott FAREWELL AND THANK YOU: if !-. After fifteen years at Saltus Rod Meredith is returning to England. He will be remembered particularly for his witty commentaries at the Cavendish Sports Days, and his help with our teething troubles as we introduced computers for use by our young children. His loyal service is appreciated and we wish him well. Good luck. Rod. We shall all miss you. WELCOME We would like to extend a warm welcome to Mrs. Stephanie Davidge. Mrs. Davidge trained at York University (Toronto) and University of Toronto, graduating with a B.A. and B.Ed, respectively. She taught at West Pembroke for 4 years and was carrying out supply teaching before joining us in September. 2 THE NEW EQUIPMENT BY JIMMY HOLDER NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, THIS IS THE THING WE LIKE THE BEST . Judging by IB ' s graph of ' My Favourite Thing On the Field it has already proved a great success. An enormous Thank You to the anonymous designer builder donor of our wonderful new play equipment. Thanks once again to this year ' s group of class mothers. (From left to right) Mrs. Charron (Group Co-Ordinator). Mrs. David- son (2D), Mrs. Marley (IB) Mrs. Collins (IS). Mrs. Smith (3T), Mrs. Hawthorne {3M), and Mrs. Dallas (28). We really appreciate all your support and hard work ladies... THANK YOU . May we take this opportunity to thank also, Mr. Peter Green, for his generous donation of a video, and to extend a general vote of appreciation to everybody who has helped this year by giving their time and effort to the school. THANK YOU S-S-S-Saltus S-S-S-Sillies A Bermuda style version of Dick Whittinglon was heard in 1 B this year with the following rendition ... and the bells said, go back to Lindo ' s...! Did you know that ... we do P.E. to get extrasizem!? At a concert gi on by The Menuhin Foundation a piece entitled Ostinato from St. Paul ' s Suite by G. Hoist was announced. Christopher proudly exclaimed I used to go to St. Paul ' s . Nathan: People don ' t live in castles anymore do they . ' Mrs. S.: Well actually there are a couple of castles in England where the families still live . Mohamed: Gee! Those people must be ever so old ! People wished they couldfly like the birds. -Nicholas Pewter Some men tried to fly like the birds. - Michael Pimental Leonardo Da Vinci designed flying machines. - Graeme Hen- derson The Montgolfler brothers built a hot-air balloon. - Richard Wallington. MRS. BACON ' S IB Our project ' How Flying Began ' generated much discussion about the famous men who designed or flew the early flying machines. Here are some of the boys ' stories. Their original spelling has been kept. I would like to be Louis Bleriot. I wun lots uv muni becus I flu over the inglish chanul. - Colin Jones I would like to be Mr. Brown. I wus the first man to fly over the Atlantic Ocean with my fren Alcock. - Stephen Notman I would like to be Henri Giffard. I made an air ship that cude be sitrd. - Ben Davie s I would like to be Louis Bleriot. I flew ovre the sea. - Tedros Robinson I would like to be Charles Lindbergh. I am the furst to fly over the Atlantic Ocean bi myself and it tok 33 hours. - Daniel Hirn I would like to be Mr Montgolfler who was the first man to mak a hot air balloon, the balloon carid peppul. - Christopher Watson I would like to be Louis Bleriot and I will fly ovr the sea. I will win a lot ov mone. - Darin Cassidy I would like to be Charles Lindbergh, he was the first man to fly ovre the Atlantic Ocine by himself. - Jason Marley I would like to be Mr Montgolfler. I flew a hot ir ballon. - Waheed Brown I would like to be Mr Montgolfler. my balloon went up with hot air in it with men in it. - Brendan Stones I would like to be Mr Wright, becos he flew in a glider, he put an engen on it. - Paul Arnold I would like to be Leonardo Da Vinci becus I like to make pictures of flying things. - Roderick Ferguson I would like to be Leonardo Da Vinci. I design mini flying things. - Guy Armitage I would like to be Mr Brown. With my friend Mr Alcock we wir the first men to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. - Christopher Doree I would like to be Mr Wright. I mad a glider and I put a engin on it. - Roman Kane I would like to be Henri Giffard. bekus he fluw ovr the land in an airship. - Richard Nettleton I would like to be Louis Bleriot. I would fly over the sea. - William Massey 1 would like to be Charles Lindbergh. I was the frst to fly over the Atlantic Ocean by my self. - Adrian Beasley 1 would like to be Louis Bleriot. he flew over the sea. - Christopher Dawson I would like to be Sir George Cayley becuz he wuz the frst man to fli the gliders. - Neil Cattell 1 would like to be Mr Montgolfler be cus I made a balloon., it had hot air in it. it went up with pepl. - Jefferx Cameron. Class IB listening to Captain Robert Bowker. On Friday, 10th May 1985 Captain Robert Bowker, a retired airline pilot, came to talk to IB boys about his flying experi- ence. These are some of the stories that were written after his visit. Captain Bowker came to owr class, he shood us the difrint planes. - Adrian Beasley Wen Cpatin Bowker cem to are clars he told us haw he flew his aeroplaines. - Richard Nettleton Captain Bowker is a pilot, he cam to are scool becus he cam to tell us how to fly. - Jason Mar ley Captain Bowker kam today. I askt him did you fly to Michugin. he sed yes. - Daniel Him Captain Bowker is a pilto. he kam to are clrs. he told us abwt flying. He flew air Canada. - Ben Davies Captain Bowker came to ar clas. he cam to tel us how to fly a aeroplane. - Stephen Notman Captain Bowker cam to auwr class today. He flew 50 yiurs. He wre a pilot yooniform. - Colin Jones All of IB sewed a picture of a hot-air balloon. We all thank the mothers who helped us -Mrs. Marley, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Notman, Mrs. Cattell, Mrs. Pewter and Mrs. Kane. Henry Giffard made an airship that could be steered. -Darin Cassidy Louis Bleriot was the first man to fly over the sea. - Tedros Robinson Colin Mello Nicholas Van De Weg MRS. SAMPSON ' S All About Castles The boys ' phonic spelling has been left in. mot and baly castles wur mad ov wud at farst. -Kevinn Munro they bilt a maund and the bit that was on top was calld a mot and the baley was the fensd bit at the botom. - Christopher Hardy wen the castles got bilt ov wod they got bomt. -Ryan Gaglio The bilt ston castles becos they wur strongr than wodin castles. - Nathan Loomis Cings and queens livd in the castle with frends and sorvants. - Andrew Holmes the cep was vere strong ther was a lot ov roms in the cep. - Charles Rawlins the wolls wus vere strong in the cep and the gret hall wus the bigest room. - John Harrison The pepil insid cud not get awt of the castle becose ther wur enimis awt sid. - Ian Taylor Knights by Christopher Noyes and Derek Wheeler. wen they dug undr the castle wols the wols clapst. - Nicholas West they dug tunels undr the wolls they lit firs and then the wolls colapst. - Andrew Rego The dug undr the walls then they lit a fir to mec the walls claps. - Erik Pedro The trebuckets and mangonels wur throing rocs. - Daniel Smith they usd trcbuchets and mangonels to bash down the walls by throing roks at the castle. - Philip Wills trcbuchets and mangonels thru stons at the castle. - Jonathan Starling IS We all made soldiers ' helmets. Each boy made a piece of the castles. they led sej to the castle and the pepl insid ran out of food and wutr. - Dominique Medland The batting ram knoct the door down and then the sawjrs got in the castle. - Patrick Graham they got up in to the castle with seige towers they climd sters in sid the seige tower. - Ross Templeton The men dug undr the castles and lit firs in the tunels to mec the wuls colaps. - Mohamed Hamza Knights by Shaun Martin and Lucas Addams. night in Creepy CastU I went to Creepy castle and I went in to the dungen and I saw a monstr. - Jonathan Starling I went to Creepy castle and some bats scerd me away and I fel down a deep deep hoi . - Philip Wills I went to Creepy castle and something pulld me undr grand in to a dujin ther I saw a scaltin liying on the grand then I saw a cot of umr I stept on a chrap dor and I fel in to a dujin. - Christopher Hardy I went to Creepy castle and I saw a bat in the dunjin. - Ian Taylor I went to Creepy Castle and saw a gost. I was scerd I wopt him with a stic and he was gon. - Nathan Loomis I went to Creepy Castle and a scelton scerd me. -Ryan Gaglio I went to Creepy Castle and I went dan sum sters and I went in the dunjim and I sor a gost. - Nicholas West I went to Creepy castle and I saw sum bats and I saw gosts and I saw a dragin and I poosht him in to the ditch. - Ross Templeton I went to Creepy castle and I went dawn the steps and I saw a bat and a gost. - John Harrison I went to Creepy castle and a gost jumpt ot at me. - Richard Gould I went to Creepy castle and I saw sum bats and I wus scird. - Danie l Smith I went to Creepy castle and I sow a sceltn I went down and I saw a lion. - Charles Rawlins 1 he Class made a knight collage A soldier by Nathan Loomis V A motte and bailey castle ' b William Evans A soldier by Mohamed Hamza A soldier by Jonathan Starling A castle h William Soares A castle by Stephen DeCouto MRS. BEARD ' S 2B Kings for a day wearing the double crown of Egypt. ANCIENT EGYPT The Egyptians were very good inventers. they invented the water clock and the sundiyul. They had neat king ' s with cruck ' s and flail ' s and neat hat ' s and they had funny mask ' s - Brian Center Ancient Egypt is in North Africa and a long long long long time ago there was a boy named king Tut. He was kind and he died when he was 19 and he was found in the Valley of the Kings. - Wolde Place King Tut lived in ancient egypt. He became king when he was eighteen or nineteen. He spent along time working on his tomb he put his dager in his coffin when he died, and his deth mask on. - Kevin DeSilva I learnt a lot about Egypt. I have sin a film about Tut and we have ritid about Tut to and we have learnt about how egyptians bilded the great pyramid. It took 100,000 men. - Andrew Greetham An Early Egyptian - by Kevin DeSilva 8 We, have been learning about Egypt and the part I like best is all of it, because it is very interesting and the River Nile was the main road and heavy things like sonte were transported on it. - Andre Frith Egyptian Masks - modelled by guess who? WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN ANCIENT EGYPT? I wod not like to live in Egypt because it wod be to hot and we wod not get much rain and I don ' t think that we wod be abel to live near the River Nile because pepol wod all ready be living there. The other thing wod be because there wod be cobras. - Hywel Brown I wish that I was King Tut so I can go hunting for birds and I will give the bird to my wife. Then abowt ten years later I will give all my things that I dont like to the poor people. I will die in my mummy case. - Alexander Green I wud like to live in Egypt be cus I wud want to be a pharoah and if I would change my mind then I wud be a kid looking out for cors and crocidyls. - Justin Browne I would like to live in Egypt and be a Pharoah. and go in the chariot with my bow and arrow. - Damian Simmons I would not like to live in Ancient Egypt. It is a dangerous place. It has dangerous cobra snayk. It is hard to fight the tuff snayk. It is hard to get the hipapotmis. - Marc Daniels. I wud like to live in Ancient Egypt because it is hot in Egypt and I wisht that I was a boy to woch out for cobras and tell the farmrs to kill the cobras and chuck the cobras all a way. - Stephen Oughton Pharoah in his Chariot - by Mark Jones. We made flowers for Mother ' s Day ... MORE THOUGHTS ... No, because of the cobras. - Sam Fraser-Smith No, there is nothing to do, noT.V., no toys. ' -Craig Brown I would not like to have gone to Egypt because there were no computers . - Alexander De Campos Guerra Yes I would and I would be Tut and I would go ostrich and hippo hunting and work on the pyramids. -yM.srm De Costa Yes I would because there is a sphinx there and Gods. - Jon Legere I wud, I rile wud like to go to Ancient Egypt. - Nicholas Ranee No, because you have to build pimids. -L eweZ yn Peniston Yes because I will like to be King Tut and I will wear the dubul crown and the whip and the crook. ' -Charles Andrew-Ho Yes, because I was a pharoah in my chair and I am rich and I go hunting. - Kevin Dallas No because if you disturb the pharoah you would have to die or be whipped. - Jonathan Andrew Yes, becasue they have lots of rings and neklises and gold . - Kurt Madeiros No I wud not because it wud be so hot I wud need loads of water. - Maxim Alkon One day at lunch at school I played with my friend ' s Stephen, Jon, James, and Craig on the new equipment. Suddenly it took off, soon we were in space then we saw a space station. In a few minute ' s it started to talk, it told us its name LAZER BLADE then it said that the space station belong ' s to the Aelien ' s then it took us to another station that belong ' s to the star gard ' s. Then it landed in the base and we all made plan ' s for a war then the time came, and then it ended and we won. The LAZER BLADE took us back, soon we were playing again. - Mark Jones One day I was taking a walk and I turned a corner and there I saw a huge space ship and I decided to go on the ship so I saw a ramp and walked up it and in the space ship there were all kinds of buttons. I was all by myself and I pressed a button and I went back in time to England and the wars were going on so I made my way to the space ship and went inside and pressed a diffrent button and I went to space. When I got there I was caught and that night I escaped and got to the space ship and when I got on 1 found a button saying Earth so 1 pressed it and when I got to Earth 1 ran all the way home and after I told my story my mom and dad didn ' t believe me. - Stephen Fahy King Tut - by Kevin DeSilva One day I was walking and then in a big spot of mud 1 saw a UFO and there was a ramp going inside so I went up the ramp and I saw the control center and then 1 saw some aliens. I felt that I was in the air then I saw a button that said beam and I pushed it and then I saw a man in the ship. He went away and I felt a bump and then I found out that I was on the planet pluto and the aliens talked like gigale gogole and thay wanted me to stay there. I said yes and then I saw that the aliens had four eyes four legs and four arms and 1 saed thair for ever. - Brian Dodwell My name is Daryl it all happened when I was walking down the street and I turned the comer and right in front of me there was a space ship. I was curious I found some buttons I pushed one and the stairs came open. I went up the stairs and I saw a crew of creatures and guns. They captured me and put me in a dungeon and locked me up. I karated the door down and I killed the creatures, and threw them out in space and flew back to Earth and my mom asked me. where I was and sent me to my bed. - Daryl F abler One day I was walking on the side u alk and 1 turned the comer and just then a space ship landed. The door opened. Some creatures came out and they took me into the ship. We blasted off and then we landed on the moon and they took me around to explore. There were other creatures, they were all friendly, they took me back to the ship. The took me back to earth. When I told my mom she said you should be on T. ' . - Simon Faries Musketeers Once upon a time there were three musketeers called John and Francis and George. They had a cmcial swordfight and sud- denly the musketeers sliced off the bad guys head. .After the musketeer sliced off the bad guys head, he had to fight anoher guy and chop his head off too. And then the three musketeers went back to the kings headquarters. Afterwards they built a big large ship and they sailed off to sea and hit a large sea stomi and the crashed on the reefs. They got the row boats out and then they rowed to shore. Then they made huts and caught the wild pigs and birds. They chopped the heads off the birds and pigs and had a big wild feast and li e happily ever after. - Robbie Tindall MRS. DRAYCOTT ' S 2D We were invaded by pirates this year Welcome aboard by the crew The pirates came to bury their treasure Pirates wer sea robbers. When they saw treasure ships they would throw water on their sailes and then the would put sand on the floor, and then load the cannons. Then they would fire the cannons at the mast of the treasure ship so that they would not get away. When they were close enought they jumpt on bord the treasure ship. When they were dead the pirates would get the treasure from it and the pirates would burie their treasure. After words they would eat outside and sing the Jolly Roger Song. - Justin Hamill Pirates wood attack the treasure ship and shoot the saild and shoot the mask and then they wood swing on to the ship and use cutlasses and pistols and they wood burie the treasure. - Spencer Chape lie. Pirates were sea robbers and they were fierce and this is wot they did before they attacked. They splashed the sails with water and they sprinkled sand on the deck and they loded the cannons and they will fire the cannons and they broke masts. - Marco Bortoli We made fierce pirates One day I went to sea and I jumpt over the siyd ov the ship and I saw a big treasure box and I went to get it and I sor a ship and I went to each up with it. I swam and swam until I reached it. They let me abord. They let me have sum food and then they blindfolded me and let me down to the bottom of the ship and chained me, and then I knew they were pirates and then I saw a ship. It was my Daddy. - William Farge A pirate battle - WiUiam Farge I was a pirate so I went to sea and then an english ship captured are ship but before anybody could each me I jumpt over board. In the morning I found myself in a cave so I got sand and placed it all over the walls. - Colin Evans 10 Pirate Poems If you meet a gang of pirate men You will run and hide in a pen. Old Captain Andrew found some treasure Andrew said - treasure, my pleasure. Daniel Frith We made pirate ships A pirate ship - Spencer Chapelle One day I was left on an island by myself. I was marooned by some pirate s and I had nuthing to eat so I choped down some trees and made fire to make some smoock and then I chopd down some more trees and made a boat beekus nowon sor the smoock thats why . I made a boat and then I sor the polls coming in a speed boat and they took me back on ther boat and they took me to the polls stashen and I told them whod dun it. Treadwell Tucker Of course we do other subjects at school A game of learn place value I like football, playing on the apparatus, play- ing leggo, and drawing and making picutres. - John I like doing sums and getting them all right. - Robert I like recess and lunch. - Sean I like everything at school. - Scott I like making models and painting them. - Matthew I like to handwrite because I can write stories. - Colin Place value dominoes A treasure map - Colin Evans Our imagination soars I went into a rocket and the rocket biased off. The driver said going to the planet Saturn and when we go there we saw a monster, and he had four arms and also he had three eyes so me and the driver ran into the rocket and we blasted off and we went home. - Andrew Shailer I went in a rocket and when I was in space I undone my seat belt and I started to float and I went out of the rocket and I saw a alien and I went back to my home. -Scott Baron I went to the planet Mars. I went in a rocket I was an astronaut. I saw a space monster. He had 3 eyes, 3 feet, 3 eres. I ran away back in the rocket and went home and I was glad becus the monster wold not get me. I was glad to see my mummy. - Scott Pedro George ' s marvelous medicine - John Dunford George was a little boy and he was eight years old and he had a yukky Grandma and she had brown teeth and she was so mean to him unless George ' s mummy or daddy was there. One day George made some medicine out of powders and liquids and he gave ti to Grandma and she went owee and then she grew and grew and she went threw Geroge ' s room, then the attic and then the roof. The George gave some to a hen and it grew intil it was as big as a horse. When Mr. Crank saw the hen he wanted the others to get big too but George forgot how to make it. -James Spearing Once I was captured and I was left on an island but lhats not ail there was tresher on that island. I pict c(x:anuts and then I bill a boat and sailed back home with the tresher and then I cached the pirates and then I left those pirates on that same iland that they left me on. - Sean Correia Last night I dremt that [ was a sun ov a gwxl piret. The bad pircts capchrd my farthr becos my father w(K;dent give them muny. I grcxjw up I bort a boat I set off to gel the pircts then the pirets came. We shot and shot and then one shot ov the canen the pirets were ded. Before the boat sank I savd my falhr. - Rayo Rahul The Taj Mahal - Ray Rahu We love our mothers... 1 lo e m mom because she cares for me and she is a very good cook so 1 love her very much. - Daniel M mum is a nice mum and myu mym dus the woshin so my clos are clen and I ned them thae are rede. - Taran My mother gives me lots of umbrella players tapes to atch and my mother invites trends over niv house to paly wiv me. - Roherr mother takes me to school so that I can lem to spell and read. - Marco 1 love you Mummy because you give me toys and vou gi e me peanut butter sandwiches. - Ricky Despite everything 1 hate u hen m mother gives me mince meat and cooked potatoes and when m mother and father go a a . - Timothy It drives me nuts when my mother gives me sumding disgusting like duck with a pancake and with onion and curr sauce. - Matthew MISS THOMPSON ' S 3T Our visit to the Deliverance Our Trip We went to the Aquarium yesterday and learned that some flowers and some trees are found here and no where else in the world. Before 1609 people would go to Bermuda drop off a few hogs and sail away. So when they ever got short of food they ' d just stop at Bermuda pick up a few fresh hogs and sail away. The cahow birds were good food for the first settlers and so were the green turtle. Then there were laws to protect the cahow birds and the green turtle. Then we went to St. George ' s and went on the Deliverance and we saw the ducking stool and we heard a cannon fire and then we saw a man in the pillory and other people threw rotten tomatoes at him. Then we saw the statue of Sir George Somers. - Nigel Swain The First Settlets arriving on the Sea Venture My Adventure in a Computer I was trying to break into the tron video game. I pressed something wrong and I go sucked in the computer. As I tried to stop myself from falling further to the flame pit of fire I saw a line of electricity. I grabbed the line. I became electric. The longer I held on the more electricity went through my body. Finally I let go but I had let too much electricity in my body. As I was falling I changed in to a mighty robot. A door opened in the wall, I turned on my jet pods and I went in the door. I woke up. I was in a strange world. I stood up. As I looked around some thing pushed me down. A robeast was behind me. The robeast came in for the kill. I put my foot up and stopped the robeast. Turbo missies shot out from my feet into the robeasts chest. The robeast fell back. I jumped to my feet with my jet pods roaring. The robeast started to get back up. I shot an eye blast and knocked him back down. I shouted. Blazing Axe came in and destroyed him. - Kenneth Robinson Portraits of our friends 12 When I Grow Up When I grow up I want to be an artist because I will l now how to paint. When I get my car I am going to paint it. When I get my bii c I am going to paint it. I am going to paint cars and bikes and trucks. - Jason Whitecross The Red Bird When I was on my holiday I saw a red bird. Every day it came in to the house. One day I caught it. then I made a cage and the bird likes me. - Jason Hollis A Witch - Jeremy Loomis A Dragon - Trevor Hedges The Accident I was in my car and an accident occurred. My sister was in the car too and something awful happened. The brakes broke and we zoomed and smashed the car. We bought a new car. It cost $200 and we were hurt bad. We had casts on our arms. - Kevin Young The Robbery In the New York museum is a million dollar diamond. By the door there are two policemen. There are four expert robers. One robber was in the car. The other two shot the policemen. The last robber got the diamond. They got in the car and they hid in a garage. They hid the diamond in a vault. - George Swan A Story About Myself I am a mountain climber. I climb moutains and I drive a racing car. I can climb the biggest mountain that ever existed, I was racing one day and I saw a fast car. I said that I can beat that car. I did and I got a gold medal. I never forgot that day. - Daniel Graham Why I like to Live I like to live because I can do so many nice things, i can plya with my dog and I have nice friends. I can play with my toys. I can play with my teddy bears and play with my friends and brother. I like to swim fish row skate and check the mail. - Grant Smith My Easter Holiday One Saturday Daniel came to spend the night. We went to the woods then we went back to my house to get ready for bed. The next day we went down to the woods played there and after lunch Danield had to go home. On Easter I had a big choclate bunny and I ate it all up before the Air Show. My father took me down to the US Navy and I saw a Blue Angel. When the Air Show was on I had a cotton candy and I saw all the Blue Angels. After the Blue Angels 1 went to my car and we went home. - Jimmy Holder The Robber On a bright sunny day Charlie and I were playing at my house, when a big black car came up and took us and our money. Then he went to the bank and stole a forty ton diamond. While he was out Charlie and I had four nails. He did not know that we had nails. He tried to kill us but we did karate on him. We drove the car back to the bank and back home. There were lots of robbers but 1 let Aran loose, while Aran was taking care of them we went in side and called the police. When the police came they took the robbers away. - Cameron Snaith by Miles Capewell, Mark Moran, Jeremy Loomis rl — -1 i MR. MEREDITH ' S 3M: Sea Venture by Ricky Maybury The Gold With a crunch the boat hit the rocks. There was a man up at the bow and when we hit the rocks all of us got pulled forwards and when I got pulled I hit the door. The man up at the bow practically fell off the boat but the sides held him back. We were all O.K. but some of us got bruised. I didn ' t and so we took almost everything out and put it ashore. Then we set up a camp and fixed up supper. Then we ate supper and went to bed. Next morning we made spears and went hunting and caught lots of hogs and took them home, and we ate them for lunch. After lunch we went hunting again and caught some more. And we caught lots of cahows and took them home to eat but then we stopped eating the cahows because practically all of them were killed. - Ryan Sommerville 3M Adventure! One day on Wednesday I was riding my bike and I came home at night, went to bed and next morning when I woke up I was in jungle. So I got dressed and took my rifle and took my axe and went off. I went downstairs and got a torch and went to a goblin ' s cave. The goblin came after me so I got out of it and went to a hole. I saw a sword and wnet back to the goblin ' s cave and killed the goblin and got the treasure and went home. - Kevin Whitecross 3M The Hobbit Once there was a hobbit named Mr. Bilbo Baggins. One morning he was sitting on his front door step puffing smoke rings when he met Gandalf the wizard and invited him to tea. The next day there was a knocking on his door. He went to open it and in walked thirteen dwarves and Gandalf. The dwarves all sat down at the table to have tea and poor Bilbo had to run round baking cakes and coming back for the dishes while the dwarves talked to each other and puffed smoke rings, so Bilbo said I need some help. O.K. said the dwarves and while they took the dishes in to be washed and dried they did it so fast the Bilbo did not have time to help them. So all the dwarves introduced themselves and here are their names : Fili, Kili, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Balin, Dwalin, Difur, Bofur, Fombur. By then Bilbo was fast asleep. That was the partlliked best. -ErikJensenSM Sea Venture by James Collieson The Adventure! I opened the door and there was a tank, then I fainted in front of it. Then I woke up and there were some Indians. I shot them with my gun and then dragons came out of the wall. I went up the ladder then I was in space and some creatures came and they said Peep peep! and I said Peep peep and they hit me on the head with a hammer it was 100 pounds, I got knocked out and then I woke up. I was just dreaming. - Gavin Howarth 3M I landed on the island and looked at the map and before 1 said a word I saw a little baby monkey and a lotmor of them and I saw a chimpanzee an then I saw the treasure and I took aut my sword and a skeleton jumped on me and I broke all of his bons and I opend the treasure door and I got all the treasure The End. - Daniel Greenslade 3M Crocodile Once there was an air force it was called alligator air force and it had lots of helicopters. One helicopter was called Air Wolf. It was a very powerful helicopter. One day two bad jets came and started shooting at the helicopters. Quickly two alligators got into Air Wolf and took off and blew one jet up with the cannon and the other one with the guns and then came down and landed. - Lars Simmons 3M A Weird Day I opened the door and a big monster jumped out on me. What am I to do? they were having a cocktail party. I ran screaming! I opened another door and there were aliens, and a bulldozer was coming towards my house so I just dropped down and he stopped his bulldozer and said Get out of the way! I lay there. He said This house must be knocked down. I said very loudly Not in my whole life! The man in the bulldozer went ahead and the monsters ate him up and the ship from space came down. The people from space were really wierd and an army came out of the ships. I went to school and first a teacher shouted at me then the other boys started it so I had to start it and then I was going to go home. When I opened the door we were falling through space and we landed on top of the other houses on Mars. They really blew up the Earth! Well I did get used to Mars, boy was it weird, man was it ever! - Noel Ashford 3M The Storm by Jereni x Unniinond 14 Sea Figher by Ryan Sommerville Mr. and Mrs. Fish! Snoopy by Ricky Maybury Adventureland by Adam Mayo Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fish, Thank you for your show on Friday afternoon. I really liked the part when Mr. Fish said Tough Noogies . How long have you been putting this show on? If I saw a starfish sticking out its tummy it would be gross. Those costumes were super! If you didn ' t have those hats on you couldn ' t tell us about the ocean. If you stepped on the moonsnail ' s tongue you would jump right to the moon! One more thing, how can a moonsnail carry acid? it would eat him right up. Now I know how the sea anminals around Bermuda take care of themselves in a storm. - Niel Jones 3M Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fish Thank you for the show at our school, it was really funny. I liked the part where Mr. Fish sang I want to be a macho snail . I also liked it when Mrs. Fish stuck the feathers in Paulfishes hair for spikes. The seaweed looked like it was made from a garabge bag. I like it when Mr. Fish said that under the crab shell it was soft. - Jeremy Hammond 3M The Adventure I was alone in the forest. To the East I could see a meadow and a lake, so to the east in the meadow there are lots of trees and a sleeping dragon. There is a little tree, a baby jelly bean jumps out and says I- m im W I ! i Hi : ,y (J - ' V Mr. and Mrs. Fish bv Niel Jones ' ' mummy ' . I run, he runs too. He chases me to a river. A sea dragon jumps out, I am in a real mess. I punch the dragon, it works! It goes flying back into the river. I go west I am in a chamber. I go west, I am in a cavern WILD WOLVES you run. They catch up. You ' re dead. - Jean-Paul D er 3M The Other World CAUTION! Do not read this story from beginning to end. 1 . I was alone in an African jungle. There are trees and stampeding elephants. I can go north or west. If you choose west, go to 2. If you choose north, go to 4. 2. I am at a spooky swamp. There is a hut that says D.ANGER on it and a can of gas. Get gas - go to 3. open hut door go to 6. 3. I get gas. Should I crack it open or open it with hands? Open, go 5. Crack go 7. 4. I am in an African village. A woman invites me into her house I fall down a trap door and I fall into the Other World. Go 9. 5. I open it. There is a bang, a puff of smoke and I ' m in the Other World. Go 9. 6. I open the door. Some robot guards grab me and take me to the Other Worid. Go 9. 7. I crack the can and powerful magic winds pick me up and take me to the Other World. Go 9. 8. You carry on walking in the Other World. You come to a forest and walk through it but you keep having nightmares. Go to 10. 9. The other world seems to be a strange place there are palaces that look like ones from a book of ancient Greece, maybe this world is ancient Greece. Will you ever find out? If you decide to finish your adventure here, go to 13. If you decide to find out more about this other an exciting world, go to 8. 10. One day when you are walking in the forest you suddenly step out into sunlight. You look up on a hill and see a Go 12 to find out what you see. 1 1 . You hide up a tree as the king and his knights go by. You see that he would commit murder... Go 15. 12. ... gold castle with rubies, diamonds and silver spikes. Then you hear a pattering of hi.xnes. Go 14. 13. THE END. 14. ... and the king comes. If you want to go and meet him. go 16. If you hide in the woods, go 11. 15. ... because he has a fmwn on his face. Go 13. 16. You step out of the wtxxls and the king sees you What do you mean b standing on Ro al ground?. The guards capture ou and the kini: savs i ll hant; vou at 1.30 this afternoon. Go 13 15 THE HALLOWEEN FAIR On Wednesday I went to Sal- tus Cavendish Fair and I was a bumblebee I had antennas and my brother was an Indian and he had a dagger I did not win the parade. - David Outerbridge 3T The Fun Castle by Michael DaCosta I was a soldier and I went to the Fun Castle and I bounced so high I landed on the ground then I went to the grill and I got myself a hot dog then I went trick or treating. -Jimmy Holder 3T I went to the Saltus Halloween Fair and I was an Indian and my brother was a bumblebee I went on the Fun Castle and I did a fishing game and I got a spider it was fun my friend was tricked and he had fun I did a weighing game. - Adam Outerbridge 3T Bumble Bee by David Outerbridge Clown by Jeremy Loomis For halloween I was Thriller I went on the Fun Castle and I won lots of prizes at the Saltus Cavendish Fair. George Swan my friend was an armyman it was embarassing. I liked the jacko lantern I saw Cameron he was Dracula. I played the foot ball game. - Charlie Judd 3T Dracula by Cameron Snaith a punk rocker. My friend was a dog. I had to give him two tickets for the fun castle. His dad did not give him any tickets Ian Smith 3T so I gave him some. Last night it was Halloween. I dressed up as an alien. We had to walk around. I had two turns on the Fun Castle. Mark was 16 I went to the Halloween Fair first I had some cotton candy then I went to the Fun Castle you can jump and jump it is fun that is why they call it the fun castle and then I saw some cookies and I had three of those good cookies and then I went trick or treating. - Gerren Daniels 3T THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT Watching the Dress Rehearsal Three plays about Santa Claus, a slide show, settlers landing on the isles of Devils, a touching Nativity scene and some riotous singing. All packed into the space of one hour to put everybody into the mood for Christmas. There was a man called Santa, he got stuck in a chimney. The boys and girls pulled and pulled and then they got him out. He said you boys and girls will get more toys this year. This was Class IS play, don ' t you think it was good? Santa is still alive, he is all around the place, he is in chimneys with his bag of toys all around the world. - Adam Outer- bridge ' When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney Once upon a time there lived some birds. The red cardinal, the sparrow, the bluebird and the longtails, they were all different colours. Red, white and brown and blue, The red cardinal flew to Bethlehem and saw a great sight, he flew back as fast as he could. He told all the other birds, he told them to make a pil- low. They made the pillow and they dropped it to the Father Joseph and he caught it. - Ian Smith Class IB performed The Birds ' Christmas Santa ' s reindeer were finally able to deliver his gifts in Class 2D ' s amusing play. Christmas Weather One Christmas Eve it was warm in the North Pole and Santa said, Boy it ' s hot there ' s not even a drop of snow on the ground and I cant get the sleigh in the air with no snow, would you try, reindeer please? No Santa we cant pull the sleigh into the air without any snow. Please try. No, Santa, we cant go. Get the weather man Santa said to his elves, and they got the weather man and he tried twice. The first time he tried he got sun, but the next time he got snow . - Britten West r Devils, cahows, wild hogs and ship- wreck all featured in Class 2B ' s action packed drama, The First Settlers I thought the play was very nice. It was called The Firt Settlers. There were dvils on the island. They had wild animals and fish for food. There were many people aboard the boat. - Kevin Young 3M ' s play was about a man that hated Christmas so much he went around the world climbing trees and taking the Christmas lights off and putting them in his car and taking them to the dock and throwing them overboard. One time he drove off the dock and some children got lots of Christmas decorations and tied them together and said, Hold on. And now that he was saved he liked Christmas again. - Jeremy Loomis Mrs. Bacon ' s choir sang a Christmas medley, including All I want for Christ- mas is my Two Front Teeth Once upon a time there was an old wizard named Wizard Willikins he hated Christ- mas. Then one year his servants ran away, they were goblins. They siad that they would stand by the road and call out to Father CVhristmas because they wanted to work for him instead. So they waited and waited until suddenly they heard Father Christmas. They all shouted out to him, he stopped by saying this to his reindeers, whoa my beauties, whoa. - Mark Moran 3M narrated an original story by Jeremy Hammond, illustrated with slides made from their own art work The wizard (two actors who changed at half time), carol singers and goblins in The Wizard Who Hated Christmas , by Class 3T SPORTS DAY Photographs by Peter Green Has anyone seen my beanbag. ' I had it jus! a minute ago Whose silly idea was this? Did someone say the water was this way? Concentration! Congratulations to Gerren Daniels, w in- ner of the third year highjump. The Boston Two Step ' ' ' I ' ve heard of skateboards but this is ridiculous! Congratulations to Stephen Fahy (above) and Ryan Summerville, winners of the 2nd and third year long distance race ' Ooh mums! You don ' t ' arf cheat! Dads getting hot under the collar Little brothers.. Finger lie kin gi ' i ' 1 Mr. Meredith presents the winners shield to yellow team on this, his last sports day A Vote of Thanks. OUR THANKS YET AGAIN TO ALL THE PARENTS VHOGA E THEIR TIME SO GENEROL SLV. BOTH ON AND BEFORE SPORTS DAY. MAKING RIBBONS. PREPARING REFRESHMENTS AND ACTING AS STARTER AND JUDGES. Well, yet another scintillating sports da over ...as can be seen by the enthusiasm of the spectators! 23 CLUBS Outdoor Club , ■ i leaders A highlight of this year ' s activities was a visit to the House of Assembly where the Premier graciously found time to explain some points of Government Outdoor Club I have enjoyed all the places we have visited so far. I enjoyed Bermuda Press the most. They asked us our names and then they printed them on a metal strip, then they printed it on paper. Then we went to the computers and they typed in a little story about me and someone else, then we saw them making thousands of calendars. And then they gave us a calendar and a metal strip with our name on it. - Nigel Swain I especially liked the trip to Gosling ' s Warehouse. The part I really liked was the strong smell of rum in there. - Jeremy Hammond I was really interested in the things that Mrs. Wiggins and Mrs. Farmer said at the Aquarium and I learned a lot. 1 see that man has had a lot of impact on Bermuda since 1609 when the Sea Venture was wrecked. The cahows. longtails. skinks, heons, turtles, bluebirds and crabs are all Bermuda animals. Cedar, palmetto and bcrmudiana are all Bermuda plants. I would like to know how much people it takes to run the Aquarium and it must take a lot. If a skink got into a coke can and tries to get out it could cut itself on the joining of the leg and the body. The Natural Habitat Room has really good displays. How did they picture those slides from long ago? I have learned a lot from two terrific people. - Niel Jones We were able to offer the Class 3 boys a wide variety of activities, thanks to the Volunteer Parents who ran the following Clubs: Outdoor: Mrs. West, Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Swain Craft: Mrs. Vivienne Smith, Mrs. Loomis, Mrs. Bernard Cookery: Mrs. Dyer, Mrs. Snaith Sports: Mr. Massey, Mr. Addams Swimming: Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Collier (and thanks for the use of the Collier Pool) General Reserve: Mrs. Hedges Gardening Club 24 (The Gardening Club again won many awards for vegetables and endemic trees at the Agricultural Show) Gardening Club One time we went to Verdmont to plant some cedar trees with the gardener Charles Outerbridge and we planted our own trees that we had grown at school. After that Charles showed us around the garden and then we went into a big house and a lady showed us around. - Scott Wheeler Miss Thompson let us take our cabbage home, and our lettuce and they all were delicious and the carrot was the best of all and it was so nice that 1 felt like taking all of them. 1 loved gardening a lot. - Gerren Daniels Cookery Club Woodwork Club Cookery Club It was very very fun. I liked the cupcakes best and when I got home I ate all of them. I liked the Easter eggs, I ate one and my brother had onne too. The next Thursday we made stuffed tomateos and I put tuna fish in mine. - Kevin Whitecross I enjoyed making the pizza and the scones and devilled eggs. Also I liked the Chef hats and I still have mine. I thank Mrs. Dyer and Mrs. Snaith for taking cookery, and I also liked washing dishes and drying them and using the chopper to chop green pepper. - Erik Jensen Art and Craft Club I though it was fun and I liked the things we made, specially the pot holder, it is very nice, my mom uses it for cookies, she uses it for pots too. - Adam Mayo What I liked best with Mrs. Bernard was when we made plates where we can put pots and things like that and the ball that I use to play ball with my dog. When Mrs. Hedges took us we made a Valentines card and with Mrs. Smith I made a super elephant. - Grant Smith Woodwork Club I enjoyed using the tools like hammer, saw, pliers and plane. I also enjoyed Mr. Meredith ' s suggestions on what we ought to bang a nail into or not. But one thing 1 hated in Woodwork was the NOISE! I enjoyed when someone would bang their finger with the hammer then they would drop the hammer on the table and then 1 would grab it and use it. Sometimes we made a really good thing like a tow truck or a boat. Woodwork was like a hammer and nail club, but 1 enjoyed it. -NielJones Sports Club I enjoyed playing football, it was most worth while and I learned a lot. I liked the exercise too. I ' m a lot slimmer now than before. I remember when I scored a goal off the wing. Scott went out and I went in. - Mark Lomas I liked playing wing or centre forward. I scored against Jean- Paul. He threw the ball out and 1 headed it in the goal. I thank Mr. Addams and Mr. Massey for coming to teach us. - Ian Smith MUSIC and KEEN READERS Cameron Snaith and Thomas Steinhojfwere amoni; this year ' s Menuhin Foundation Phixers 25 Mark Lomas. Brian Smack. Jeremy Hammond. Trevor Hedi:es. Treadwell Tucker. Brian Dodu ell and Ross Templeton all w on aw ards in the Junior Library ' s Book Report Contest SATURDAY SOCCER by Mike Sommerville Patrick Graham c? oO OOO Q ooo o nn Michael DaCosta Saturday soccer at Saltus Cavendish continued for the fourth successive season, receiving enthusiastic support from both the boys and their parents. The 1984 85 season began in October with a coaches ' clinic conducted by Jon Beard, senior school athletic director, emphasizing the continuity of the soccer prog- ram throughout the school. The league schedule, consisted of 24 games (somewhat rain diluted) running through until March. Approximately sixty boys participated. The league games were very exciting. Although the Blue team pipped the Yellow team as the ultimate winner, it should be noted that all of the boys who participated were in fact the winners. The greatest reward for the coaches and parents was in seeing the progress the boys made from week to week. As in the previous three years, the emphasis was placed on partici- pation, team work, and development of skills. The enthusiastic and progressively accomplished play throughout the season gave evidence to the fact that these objectives were achieved. On December 29th after much turkey and Christmas pudding, the mums once again took to the field in the annual mums VS boys game. Both sides were extremely enthusiastic with the mothers powering into and early lead. One or two fathers assisted the boys in the second half, and the only loser at the end of the day was Jennifer Hedges who retired with a cut eye. Special thanks go to Penny Carruthers and her catering gang who provided refreshments after a most enjoyable game. One of the highlighs of the year for Cavendish was the third annual match between a team composed of second and third year Cavendish boys and a team of fourth year Junior School players. It was a hard-fought match resulting in a Nil-Nil draw. The game again underscored the important link between the Cavendish and Junior School football programs, with the result alleviating any concerns the third year boys might have had regarding the transition to the Junior School league. The 1984 85 season was brought to a close with the annual presentation of medals by Mrs. Hopkins along with exhibition matches in which the boys were able to demonstrate for their parents their accomplished skills. The traditional Fathers versus Coaches match also took place, with the coaches emerging victorious?? All in all it was a great family day. One final note; the involvement of parents in Saturday soccer at Cavendish is fundamental to is continued success. Parental support this year was excellent. Many thanks go to all of you who assisted with coaching, organizing functions, fund raising and equipment maintenance. Let ' s keep it up. m. 9 Daniel Graham Grant Smith 26 Saltus JUNIOR SCHOOL Junior School Staff 1984-85 Mr. M. Beasley, Mrs. K. Latter, Mr. S. Adams, B.A., Mr. P. Lever, Mrs. L. Williams, Miss M. Armstrong, Mrs. K. Walker, Mrs. M. Pettit Dip.Mus.Ed., R.S.A.M., L.R.S.M., Mr. G. Sutherland, (First Assistant), Mrs. J. Zuill, Miss E. Wilkie, (Head of Department) A day in the life of a teacher As I entered the quadrangle with a stem look on my face, five pupils greeted me as I passed by and went into my home-sweet- home ' staff room. I hung my helmet up on a peg and threw my class math books on my desk. Mr. Adams asked, What ' s gotten into you all of a sudden George? I answered, I just finished marking my math books and Burchall, Pratt and York wrote absolute Garbage! Then the bell rang and we all marched off to our classrooms. I walked towards my noisy class and Young ' s head popped out of the doorway and then he turned around and said. He ' s coming! He ' s Coming!! Then there was silence. I entered the class room and told York. Pratt and Burchall to come out to the front and said harshly. I want all three of you to repeat this garbage you handed in on Friday! Then they all ambled back to their seats. For the rest of the morning there wasn ' t any trouble except for a few rude remarks from Titterton and Moss. Then at lunch I was unfortunately on field duty. I broke up seven fights and banned one penknife from Semos. In the afternoon I took the fours ' for games. AW they did was giggle for an hour, so the only thing that got done was that I lost my voice. Then I exasperatingly cycled home and slept like a log for the rest of the day. - William Young J7S 27 School Officers 1984 1985 Monitors who have served during this year. DUTY MONITORS: Christopher Mutch, David Jenkinson, Robert Rego, Benjamin Lucas, Michael Batista, Richard Todd, Marcus Kermode. Dwayne Trott, Christopher Smith, Sloan Wakefield, Geoffrey Redmond, Gregory Tit- ter ton, William Young CLASS MONITORS: Adam Tufts, Keith de Silva, Stephen McCul- loch. Spencer Moss, Bobby Pratt, Christoper Harkness, Zenji Ingham, Chip Popper SUBJECT MONITORS: Reid Robinson, Michael Davidson, Michael Ashton, Jonathan Young, Guy Hamshere , Christian Dunleavy , {Head Teacher ' s Monitors), David Morgan, Joel Froomkin, Christopher Madeiros House Officers BUTTERFIELD Capt: Rcid Robinson Vice Capt: William Young DARRELL Capt: Christopher Madeiros Vice Capt: Chip Popper SALTUS Capt: Bobby Pratt Vice Capt: Gregory Titterton WATLINGTON Capt: Spencer Moss Vice Capt: David Morgan 28 Mystery Photographs Throughout the Junior section of the yearbook you will find several mystery photographs. These photographs were taken in and around the Junior Department. Try to identify the photographs - what they show - where they were taken. Be careful, they may not all be the right way up. For answers see page 5 1 . Mystery Photo 1 Comments on Science Lessons Dealing with the misuse of Tobacco, Drugs and Alcohol (1985) - as submitted to the Royal Commission In their Science lessons since September, classes J7A and J7S, of Saltus Grammar School (Junior Department) have been studying Human Biology, with particular emphasis on the importance of dev ;loping healthy habits to ensure long, happy lives, e.g. the importance of good nutrition, regular exercise etc. Recently, after learning about the heart, transplants, heart attacks, lungs, respiration etc. - a natural progression of work led to detailed discussions of the dangers of smoking, alcohol and drugs. It was obvious, from the boys questions and comments that they were well aware that all society is affected by the excessive use of these dangerous substances. Their thoughts and feelings, expressed after our lessons to- gether, are most encouraging, my aim, at this level (11 and 12 yrs.) is to demonstrate dearly and scientifically, the dangers of acquiring bad habits and to encourage the boys to make their future decisions on these matters, the right ones. Lilian Williams Science Department Saltus Grammar School It is most encouraging to see that the students are learning about and clearly very aware of the inherent dangers of abusing alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. They were obviously very impressed with the fact that Your lungs go from a heal thy pink to a sickening black . Your approach to integrating discussions on the misuse of drugs and alcohol into the total science programme, rather than singling them out. is most appropriate. Dr. David Archibald Royal Commissioner 29 Bad Habits Smoking, Alcoholism. Drugs... that ' s all I hear in the world today . What ' s so great about them. They don ' t do people any good. I turn on the television set... Play it Kool... Click. If I played it Kool I wouldn ' t play it at all! If you smoke. Stop! You are destroying your- self by puffing at that cigarette, cigar or pipe. By smoking you are giving youself cancer, lung disease and you take ten years off your life not to mention being a nuisance and danger to other people. - Lyle Douglas J7S Come on man, take a whiff. If someone says it to you you should have the brain to say No you are out of your mind . Some people think that it ' s great fun to go around taking drugs. These people are not fit to be human beings. - Marcus Kermode J7S Smoking is not a very good habit to start. When teenagers start to smoke they think they look cool and macho, but if you take my opinion they don ' t look ver cool they look and act ver ' silly. They are killing them- selves with the slowest torture possible. If someone comes up and says. Take a puff, ' you must reject say. no. and leave in the other direction. Smoking is ven. bad for your health and other people ' s health. If you don ' t smoke your lungs will be a light pink but if you do smoke your lungs will be a disgusting black. If you smoke it will destor other people ' s health too, because when they breath in they will breath in your disgusting filthy smoke. So do what you can help people quit smoking, anyone in the family or friends. HELP PUT A STOP TO SMOKING ' - Keith DeSilva J7S Smoking is a ver bad habit. I thmk that it makes your breath disgusting. When my mother and close friends kiss on the cheek I smell it so bad I feel sick and have to get fresh air. Smoking takes 10 years off your life and when you do not smoke your lungs are pink but when you start they go an ugly black colour. - Geoffrey Redmond J7S Smoking causes lung cancer and em- physemia. makes your teeth ba wn and if a pregnant woman smokes her baby ' s life is in danger. If you have staned there are a lot of programmes to help you stop, don ' t give up hope! - Michael Davidson J7A Congratulations The K.G.B. - Or Is It? I slowly wandered throught Mr. Kage ' s back yard, making sure he didn ' t see or hear me. When I came to the edge of it, I saw again the high wooden fence which I saw every day after school. But today it seemed more mysterious than ever. Why was it there ? Was somebody trying to hide something? I was deteremined to find out. Seeing a small, metal, ladder by the side of the fence, I climbed up and looked over, my heart beating, my legs and hands shaking. There was nothing! Just a few, boring, dull, ordinary trees! But there might be something behind those trees, if I was lucky - slim chance though. I heaved myself over the plunged to the ground. Calmly, I walked over and looked through the trees, and peeking out of the ground stood a funnel. This was a bunker?! I slowly became tense. What could this be? Creeping up to the funnel, I heard voices, All you do is knock off (kill) our President, then the head of Russia, President Chemenko!! Got it? a gruff voice said. But why? asked another. Because, the countries will blame each other, starting a war. That ' s when the boss starts his plan to take over the world! he answered. This was enough for me. I ran to the fence, jumped up on it and clambered over; next stop the police station. As I started to slow down into a jog, for I had been running, I began to think how stupid I would look. Maybe that whole thing was somebody playing a joke. Maybe I had met up with a couple of quacks. Come to think of it the police aren ' t going to believe me, ever. Deciding to make sure of my facts first, 1 rounded up some of the gang, Mike, Brian and Courtland. We again climbed over the fence, more quietly though this time. Sneaking along the dry grass, we reached the trees. What do we do now? asked Brian. Congratulations to this year ' s Scholarship Winners :- 1st Place: Guy Hamshere Music: Marcus Kermode ■■■■ Mystery Photo 2 Find a way in , I answered. Mike walked forward towards the funnel and plunged into the ground! Mike, I shouted in a whisper, are you all right? Sure, came the reply, come down, but do it quietly. We each jumped down in turn and landed on a soft but old mattress. Next to it was a door. Slowly, hearing no voices, we opened the door and walked in. It was filled with guns and bombs! Everything, M-16s, grenades, terrorist bombs, even an anti- tank weapon! They must be starting a war! Brian remarked, terrified. Are you sure you know what you ' re doing? Is this illegal? Courtland asked. I didn ' t answer. My mind was working on a brainstorm. I ' ve had an idea, I said. We could get some of the weapons and capture the gang! They agreed, but you could see they were terrified. Their faces had turned white and their legs were shaking. But don ' t get the idea I wasn ' t frightened. I was out of my wits. So scared, I almost didn ' t want to try it, but I know it had to be done. I took a revolver and pushed off the safety lock. We crept into the hallway on the other side and heard voices at the other end. Suddenly the door opened and out came burly man. He reached for his revolver as he saw me, but I shot first. He fell, with a bullet wound in his side. I turned green with nausea, but had not ime to think before a bullet ripped through the air into my right shoulder. I fell to the ground screaming in pain - my arm was dyed red with blood. Soon I blacked out. I awoke to find myself in hospital. I was told that a neighbour had heard the commotion and phoned the police but Brian, Mike and Courtland had finished them off already, although Mike suffered bullet wounds in the arm. We all received medals from the President! We appeared in newspapers across the world. The leader of the gang. Boss, turned out to be Nico Shacararo, a notorious terrorist who once headed the I. R. A. So that wrapped up the greatest adventure ever, that made us rich and famous, but it was not that I liked the most, but the fact I had helped my country. - Guy Hamshere J7A 30 Axe by Zenji Ingham A Jungle Adventure Then we heard a hissing sound. I whirled around to see an anaconda silently making tracks towards us. I froze! I tried to move but it was no use. The mightly snake moved closer and closer. I felt as if I was being hypnotized. The great snake ' s tongue swished viciously back and forth. Dad ran quickly for shelter but I was too late. My only hope was a prayer. The silent snake wrapped round my legs. I could feel the slippery scales on my legs and could feel this was a cold-blooded animal by the way the blood circulate inside him. This creature was deadly! When it got to my head, it went on. It must have thought of me as a tree because there was a branch above. It ' s head slightered up the branch but it was such a big creature there was still its tail to go. That was still two feet away from me. Then, the body tensed. I felt as if I were being strangled. By this time the tail was at my chest and the choking went on. I was ready to die. When it let go, I fell to the ground unconscious. The next thing I knew, I was laying in bed. I woke up and in the next few days I got better. When I was well again, we went to explore the part that we had been supposed to see two days before. But this time, we didn ' t meet our old friend, again, the ananconda! - Patrick Singleton J6W Guy Hamshere and Ben i.u. , Escape from Colditz It was the 17th of November and Colwyn and I were patching up our uniforms which we would wear when we escaped from this dull wet prison cell. We heard the warden scraping his slouchy shoes up the steps. Immediately we hurriedly put our Jerry uniforms underneath our beds which were made with cheap veneer. Bang! Bang! Bang! Grubs ready, you English men. With hesitation, for we were hungry, we sprinted wildly down the steps to the so called grub house. Hello Charly, we said. How are you feeling today Fine thanks, he said politely. Did you get our badges? 1 asked. Yes they ' re in your soup at the moment and the date you escape is tomorrow at noon, the sentries will be having their coffee break, and won ' t pay much attention to you guys if your uniform is correct. It will be once we put our badges on . Good luck and goodbye you two. Personally 1 think you are absolutely crazy . Move on Englishmen, you hold up the line. When we got back we ate our soup and attached our badges to our uniform. There, now it ' s complete with badges and all. I said. Morning came rather quickly that time which made a difference. After breakfast we checked and double check our uniform then we put it on. Then we set of through the dark and dimly lit tunnel. When we reached the end we saw, in the distance, a truck which would get us home. - Stephen McCulloch Mystery Photo 3 A Large Purple Elephant A large puq)le elephant named Hugo started to fly. He flew over his cage in the zoo. He flew over the giraffes heads and over the cage, he kept on flying until he was out of the city and onto the beach where he found a boat. I wonder who it belongs to? wondered Hugo looking around. But there was no one to be seen for miles. Hugo tried to fly again, but all in vain. Hugo tried and tried. At last Hugo fell asleep in the boat. When Hugo woke up he found himself floating on the ocean near a desert island. When Hugo got there he found out why he could fly and why he had been falling down at the beach. Hugo had grown wings and one had fallen off at his heavy landing! I wonder why that was? wondered Hugo. Just then he saw another purple elephant coming out of the trees. Wondering how you got here young fellow? Hurt your wings, eh? he said Y-y-y-yes sir, stammered Hugo. Well, said the othe elephant. All we purple elephants grow wings you know? So that ' s how you come to have wings. - Simon Jackson Julian Wheddon Dragon Last week I was playing baseball and I was up to bat. The pitcher pitched the ball but when I hit the ball it cracked open and a baby dragon crawled out of it. Everyone ran away except me. I bent down and the dragon ran onto my hand. He purred like a kitten and ran up my arm and licked my ear. I took him home and when my mom came to see what I was soing I hid him in my closet and pretended to be reading. On Monday I took him to school and showed him to the class when the teacher wasn ' t looking. One day I dropped him on the field and couldn ' t find him. I looked all over for him. After I found him I left him at home and mother found him. END. - Nicholas Fagundo J4Z Avoiding Confusion To avoid confusion you must think that other people think what you think. So you can think what they think, if you think that they think and when you think what they think they ' ll think what you think and if you think what they think, they ' ll think what you didn ' t think. Do you understand! Hmm, I think so . See how easy it is to ... Keep it Simple! - Theodore Francis Jeremy Wright ONE BRIGHT MORNING I DID HEAR, A SOUND SO STRANGE AND LOUD AND CLEAR. MY EYES WERE GLUED TO THE WINDOW PANE, BUT MY EAGER SERACH WAS IN VAIN. I CREPT OUTSIDE AND RAISED MY EYES, AND DID I GET A BIG SURPRISE. TWO LARGE GREEN PARROTS SAT IN THE TREES, WITH THEIR FEATHERS BLOWING IN THE BREEZE. THEIR BEAUTY NEARLY TOOK MY BREATH, BUT THEIR NOISE FREIGHTENED ME TO DEATH. - Michael Parsons 5B Mystery Photo 4 32 The Time Machine Whirr, click, bank went the dials on my newly invented time machine. I had been working on it for two months now, and it was almost completed. Right now I am working on the time of day value and the speed lever. Suddenly, I heard my mother shoud, David, dinner-time . I mumbled to myself Oh drat! I ' ll have to come back to the shed again to-morrow , and went inside for my dinner. Next day, after an exciting day at school, I ran inside, quickly did my homework then rushed back out to our garden shed, (my workshop) to put the finishing touches on my time machine. When inside I tightened a few bolts and twisted a screw on the main dial and finally it was finished. Now the big moment! The test! I jumped into the cushiony seat and fastened my seatbelt. After a deep breath I set the time dail to 1 837 then the destination dial to London, England. I pressed the time-stayed buttons for two days and I set another time dial for 12.00 p.m. on a Saturday, September 20th. Now the big moment. I depressed the activate button and I spun around and around for twenty seconds watching the dials go back to 1975, 50, 10, 1875, 50 then to 1837! And the machine jerked to a stop. I looked about to remember this place then pressed the invis- ible button and hid the time machine behind a bush and set off to see what I could find. As I was going along I saw a girl drowning in a river, so quickly I dived in, lifted her head out of the water and dragged her on shore and gave her mouth to mouth resuscitation. While doing this I was being watched by a man in a very expensive looking coach. After the girl came to, the man, who was tall, dark haired and had a small moustache, came up to me and said, I saw that great deed you just did. My name is Peel, one of Queen Victoria ' s minis- ters, and I wondered if you would like to join in as our honoured guest at her Coronation? Oh, yes, and maybe you will get a reward for this deed . I enthusiastically accepted. I had for- gotton this was the time of Queen Victoria ' s Coronation. I climbed into Peel ' s coach and we rode off to Queen Vic- toria ' s palace, after taking the girl home. When there, I was shown to a room in the palace. It was very nice, very old- fashioned. Red curtains, red carpet, red bed sheets and on the door in nice letters was painted The Red Room . I started to yawn and was very tired, so I p it on the pyjamas that were left on the bed and settled down for a good night ' s sleep. In the morning I woke up with the birds chirping outside my window to find some very smart clothes at the bottom of my bed. I got up and put those on. As I was doing this someone knocked on the door. I told them to come in and he then said that it was the day of the Coronation and that I had missed the rehearsals, but it didn ' t really matter. So I followed the man to the main Hall where I was shown to a seat. Now the Coro- nation began. It was great. The Archbishop gave a speech then Queen Vicotira said hers, and then she was crowned by the Archbishop. After the Coronation Peel gave a small speech. He told about my deed and I was later awarded with a beautiful medal. Soon I noticed it was time to go home so I made an excuse that I had to go the bathroom, but I really ran off to my time machine. I turned off the invisible button and turned the dials back to our time, pressed the activate button and again I was spun about then jerked to a stop. When I got out of the shed I noticed my medal was gone! I just imagined anything from the past could not be brought into the future. Just then my mum called. David, dinner-time . I quickly ran inside for a hearty dinner and told nobody about my incident. Later the next day at school I went up to the music room and we had a history test which straight away I got 100 ' 7r because I had experienced everything. - David Morgan J7A Mishka Frith Fire in the Forest The hunters are coming! cried a deer running through the bracken. Every deer quickly froze against the ground, the hun- ters and dogs chased a fox into a comer and quickly the men let the dogs loose. Then they left, and every deer shifted uneasily, and checked for more men, and got up. Suddenly two male deer broke out fighting. They fought and fought and fought. Then a fawn walked between them and they both stopped fighting and looked up. Suddenly the deer broke into a run. All the other deer soon saw why. It was a forest fire! Nearly every deer was killed or injured. The few that were left were put in game reserves, the fawn was not with them, though. He had stayed with the dead bodies. He too was nearly killed by the firest fire. He wandered about looking for something to eat. He wan- dered into the game reserve and fell asleep. When he woke up he was with the other deer. So he stayed there and played for a long time. - Simon Jackson Awesome Power! Brothers: Brothers are nice, small people Who do as they are told! Messy, active friends Playing with tracks and yoyos. Pesky, bullying people To wrestle or argue with. Targets for black eves and bruises! (Bartley. Davidson. Hcnagiilph. Pettit. Tucker, West. Young -J6W) 33 Sisters: Sisters are trouble! They are moaning, screaming tell tales Noisy little nagging brats. Boring things that pla with dolls. Sticker collectors. Wearers of ballet shoes. Lovers of horses. Organisers of sleep-over parties. .And trouble! (Bronco. Corday. Harxcy. Mewett. Singleton, Sommer ille - J6Wt A banana A piece of chalk A marble A hula-hoop A face-mask A piece of glass My brothers face Definitions It has yellow skin which you don ' t eat and can peel off. The inside is also yellow and eatable . A white kind of rock which makes a white mark when you scrape it. A sphere to hit other spheres. A round hoop used in an obstacle course. Is round and you use it over your waste and let it spin round. Is a round object which could be used to roll or to swing round your body. It is not filled in at the middle. Is a fake thing that you wear over your normal face. It has another face on the mask. Is a clear, sometimes hard object except if someone throws something hard at it. My face x 2 Teachers Comments You can only eat them two at a time. So thats how I was born. I see what he means in a round about way. I think he ' s describing a wedding ring. Tell that to P.W.D. I know a few people who could fill it nicely. Will the real snorkeller please stand up. Refer to Mrs. Thatcher. At least he knows his tables. CONTRIBUTED BY: Andrew Riker Jason Leman Anthony Wright Adam Booth Marc Boden Mark Outerbridge Canned People Food cost so much that the Clipman family bought a boat and went out to sea on it every da ., to catch sardines. Each time they went out they caught too many fish, which went badwheh they couldn ' t eat them all. When God saw the Clipman family wasting the sardines ' lives and just letting them rot, he became angry and decided to teach them a lesson. While God was thinking, the Clipman family grew to like sardines and after that to love them. While God was thinking they started to crave for them. This God noticed. Suddenly God had an idea, and went right to work at planning it out. When He had finished His planning. He held and almighty hand down to Earth and picked up the family on one little finger. Then he picked up a shiny metal box, put them in, and put the lid back on. The box he put them in was a sardine can! God then flung the arm that was holding the can behind Him and threw the can back into Giant World. It so happened that a giant with a craving for human flesh was wandering by the place where the can was going to drop just when God threw away the canned family. The zooming can whizzed through space and came into contact with Giant World gravity, when it started to descend. ' Smack, ' the can hit the green soil of Giant World ' s ground, leaving a crater ten human feet long and five human feet wide. The giant slammed to a halt, turned around and walked as noisily as a hundred and fifty thousand trucks thundering up a hill at the same time, toward the tiny crater. He picked up the tin, opened it with an enormous hand, and smiled with glee when he gazed at what he had found to eat. Humans! - John Harvey J6W - Mm% 1 Cedar Bird Box by Chip Popper Wayne Jones Night Fright No light came through the window pane And darkness signalled that night came. The gang came together like a football team Planning out an incredible scheme. Then we sped wildly into the night And people in our paths screamed with fright. Suddenly a startling notice came out. And everyone in wonder looked about, And to my surprise my tire had popped, And I stepped on my brakes trying to stop This was impossible so I cried for help. But the bike turned over and the ground I soon felt. The pain I felt was so extreme. That I couldn ' t seem to help but scream. My friends picked me up and calmed me down, As people watched from all around. This is a lesson I will never forget And all the wrongs I ' ve done I regret. - Lyle Douglas Atlantic Adventure The coloured lights on my deck (winkled merrily. [ was so excited because the next day would be my lirst Christmas in Bermuda. I was docked at the moment and my sign was being painted, so people could read the words The Atlantic on my body. People were bustling around making me look spruced up and tidy. Tourists were on the dock with their cameras flashing. I was so excited! As I looked over Hamilton a waiter slipped and his tray went Hying. A piece of ice hit me squarely on my back. Ow! Hey mister, next time be more careful, I thought. One of the crew was tickling me with one of his soft brushes. As night fell the lights in Hamilton were lit and I even saw a string of lights on Bclco Tower. Just then the bell in the House of Assembly struck midnight. Everyone would be asleep now, I was sure. At that moment, I heard a tinkling of sleigh bells preceeded by a faint red glow. The sound of the bells grew louder and the glow stood out against the black sky. Then, I felt a thump on my deck and a pracing of hooves. Santa Claus had landed on my deck! I was immensely proud, but he seemed to be worried. He walked around and looked at three of the reindeer. Oh dear, he sighed, Without these three I ' ll never make my route. I was startled. Not make his route? Why? They have reindeer ' s foot too badly to continue, he said as if he had read my thoughts. Then, he spied my lifeboat No. 6 (which was a speedboat) and said, That ' ll do. I just hope I have enough time to finish my route around Bermuda. The reindeer will be recovered by then. He snapped his fingers and pinched his nose and at once the boat descended. As Santa was checking the boat he noticed the sign on my bow, The Atlantic . He pondered over why a ship was in Bermuda in the middle of the winter. Oh yes. It was brought here for a celebration, he said. Without saying another word he checked and rechecked the small craft. She looks O.K., he said at last. I heaved a sigh of relief. Now he might be able to complete his delivering service. Suddenly he gave three piercing whistles, and hoppedinto the boat. Strangely, the boat seemed to grow legs! I blinked to see if I were dreaming, but I wasn ' t. The boat had grown legs and was preparing to jump over the stern! Then as quick as a wink the craft jumped. The boat landed with a huge splash. Santa, at the last moment remembering his toys, nodded his head and the bag flew down like a swan. Hardly waiting for the immense sack to land, he chugged slowly out of the harbour. Dong, Dong, Dong! chimed the bell. Just then I heard an oncoming boat zooming into the harbour and whiz pas my starboard. Santa was back at last but ha d he completed his route? I looked lor the sack. Only a limp piece of cloth was there the sack had been. He had made it! He gave two whistles and the next second the boat was back where it belonged and Santa was flying off to another country. As he tlew away I heard him cry, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! The next morning people were on my body extremely early. They decked me with flags from bow to stern. But I was the only one that noticed Santa ' s sack hung on a deck chair. The pools were being cleared and, in the kitchen. Cookie was making all kinds of delightful foods, in about an hour there were people running about below. Then a big man climbed up onto my funnel and brandished a huge bottle of champagne. To the Atlantic! he yelled and the cork flew off the bottle! A great cheer arose as I tooted joyfully. This was the happiest day of my life and one I will never forget! The man clambered down shouting, May the Atlantic never sink! That night, when all was still and quite, I remembered all the activities of the past day. Just then I heard a voice whispering Thank you Atlantic, thank you. At that I wished so much to have the gift of speech. I was so weary that without know ing it I fell in to a heavy slumber dreaming of myself, one ship in this world of millions, that had helped Santa Claus deliver his toys! - Justin Freiscnbruch J6 V The Big Race Bang! The race was off. I was trying out for the Bermudian Olympic Team. I took the lead about one hundred meters from the finish when suddenly I tripped and fell to the ground. When everybody had finished I spoke to the man in charge of the race. He said that I could r out once more, so the next week I tried again but I tripped again. Suddenly. Ginger, my cat, came out of the stands and on to the track. She then started to run and passed some runners! Suddenly she as in second place and the finish was only fifty meters away. She passed the leader and won! I had made it. The next year I thought i would be able to run but I couldn ' t so Ginger had to run. Finall) the day came and the gun went bang! She was off. She caught up with Carl Lewis and then she passed him. How the crowd cheered as she came to the finish. She had won! When she got her medal I took her home and said. You re the greatest cat I have e er see n! - Colm Siniileton J4Z 35 Richard Todd The Kremlin Change On March 11th, 1985, a grim-faced newscaster stepped onto Soviet television and grimly announced to the world the death of Konstantin Chemenko, general secretary and president of the Soviet Union. This announcement came as a surprise to the Soviet people, who knew nothing of his illness, which was kept from them. The Western world though, expected it because the press had long speculated his illness because when he made his few appearances he was obviously sick. Another surprise was how quickly Mikhail Gorbachev was elected head of the Soviet Communist Party, only five hours after Chemenko ' s death! Gorbachev will begin a new era in Soviet ruling. He is only 54 years old, young compared to past leaders, but maybe he will last longer! In December of 1984, before his promotion, Gorbachev paid a visit to Britain with his wife. He got on extremely well with the British press and Mrs. Thatcher, Britain ' s Prime Minister, described him as a man she could definitely do business with. Gorbachev is described to be strong and dynamic and has a loyal wife and daughter whom he is often seen with. Although he joked with the press, he is said to have quite a temper. After Chemenko ' s funeral, Gorbachev met with the world leaders who attended it. They described him as calm and relaxed and willing to tackle any problem. In a recent speech, Gorbachev said he would follow his predeces- sors, taking a firm line in foreign affairs. He also stated he would try considerably to stop the production of star wars, one of U.S. President Reagan ' s new space weapons under consideration. George Bush, vice-president of the United States, attended the funeral, representing President Ronald Reagan. He brought a letter inviting the new General Secretary to Washington, to visit him. Gor- bachev didn ' t say yes or no; it was to be considered. There is no doubt that the new Kremlin boss will be smoother and probably more formidable than the late president, but he does have a few problems to attend to. Probably the number one problem is the Soviet Union ' s Crippling economy. Every year the Soviets have to import more and more wheat because their harvest are so bad. The Soviet Union is also behind in technology. A lot of the Soviet Union is still living in the 19th Century. Gorbachev also has to deal with the western world and the arms talks, but many western leaders speculate that Gorbachev, who is so young (they think 54 is young!) will pump new energy into the talks and we may even get some rapid results. I pray we do. - Guy Hamshere J7 A Ten dollars, I said, how much do you have Colm? Eleven fifty. Colm replied. How much do you have Tom? I have ten ninety-five. answered Tommy. I wonder if we ' ll ever have enough money to buy a little boat and a motor, I said. I guess we ' ll just have to keep on selling cookies and lemonade. Colm said. And earn some more allowance. Tommy put in. The next morning when I got up I walked over to Tommy ' s house, I had a great idea. When I went into his house he was still in bed reading. Hey Tom, I said, Hi. he replied. I ' ve got a great idea. I said. Tommy straightened up. What is it, he said in surprise. Why don ' t we sell all the toys we don ' t like anymore? I answered, Great idea! said Tommy. We rushed over to Colm ' s house and we told Colm. (He thought it was a great idea too.) In a few weeks we had enough money to buy a boat and motor, we went down to the Marine Centre and got one. The next afternoon we went out in our boat to go fishing. We caught wahoo and grouper. Every weekend after that we went out on our boat.- David Charron J4Z The Bermuda Moped Zooming up hills. Crashing into window sills, Going round a bend, Hoping it ' s not the end. Pushing on the brake, But it doesn ' t want to take. Tourists squealing. When they go reeling. — Andrew Riker J5B Summer Sumertime is coming, Vacation time is near. Beaches are getting crowded, The sea ' s becoming clear. People on their boats all day, Sunbathing and swimming, To pass the time away. Fun and games all day long, Children sing their summer song. - Marc Boden J5B Zenji Ingham 36 Patchwork Poetry by J6W Kittens Kittens are soft fluffy blobs of sleek hair, Sleeping in the sun, Balls of fur on legs, chasing balls of wool Jumping to great heights And killing the yam! They are lovers of warmth. Cuddling up to their cat mothers. - Davidson, Harvey, Henagulph, Mewett, Pettit, Sommerville, Thompson, Young (J6W) Halloween Halloween is a night of parties, And painted faces. Scary, horrifying, blood sucking faces. Glaring at you. Ugly faces that watch As witches and bats Fly by in the moonlight. - Freisenbruch, Harrison, Henagulph, Tucker (J6W) The Wind The wind is gently blowing through the windows. Opening and closing doors. Now it is moving quietly amongst the cedars And dancing with the trees. Sometimes it is seen sliding over sand dunes. Or heard whistling in and out of wires. Through the treetops it is howling And stinging the leaves. With its force it is buffeting bodies Of lonely walkers. Beating on their flesh with icy blasts. - Bartley, Branco, Davidson, Harvey, Legere, Leighton, Mewett, Singleton {J6W} Stars Stars are lonely lights surrounded by darkness. Far away light bulbs flashing on and off, Heavenly bodies shining in a navy blue universe. Glistening balls of light, hanging in the night. Hollows and holes to unknown heavens. Filling the dark sky. But pushed away by daylight. - Bartley, Cook, Drew, Freisenbruch, Harvey, Henagulph, Madeiros, Pettit, Randall, Singleton, Sommerville, Thompson, West (J6W) The Moon Landing Today my partner, Neil Armstonr, and I wiii lace the adventure of a lifetime we will be the first people to walk on the moon. Neil turned the latch and threw open the door. There in front of us was what nnany people have dreamed about... THE MOON! Grey and dull and not made of green cheese as my mother use to tell me it was. Neil took the first step down the ladder and I followed him with extreme caution. The historic moment had finally arrived, as Neil took the final step onto the surface, he turned and said, That ' s one small step for a man. One giant step for mankind . As we moved along the suface, we noticed we were almost weightless. Instead of jumping up one foot, here you could jump up five feel with no effort at all. We decided to do a bit of exploring. Hey! said Neil, Let ' s go up on that ridge and see what we can find on the other side . With a few hops we landed on the ridge. We looked around and saw many craters and mountains. Then suddenly Neil grabbed my arm and said, Look over there, it ' s the earth ! Sure enought. there it was looking like a great glass marble. It was truly an awesome sight. Hey mate, it ' s time we head back to the ship , I remarked. As we slowly descended the rige, we bent down to gather up samples of grey, rugged stones and dust. On arrving back at the ship, we had one more historical event to perform before our departure back to good ol ' earth and home. With great pride we carefully placed the American flag onto the barren surface of the moon. It was the only thing of real beauty and colour in many, many empty miles of space. At last we climbed up the ladder of the space ship. The Apollo II. 1 turned and took my last glimpse of the moon. I will always, always remember this day. July 20, 1969. - Bobby Pratt J7S Mystery Photo 6 Mystery Photo 5 Family Portraits Mothers: Mothers are loving and kind. Creative and sweet. Always by your side. Helpers in need. Gentle and understanding. Servants of the house. People to hold on to whenever you ' re lost or scared. - Davidson, Drew. Harrison, Henagulph, Freisenbruch. fewert. Morris. West iJ6 V) Fathers: Fathers are helpful, handy people. Muscular working men. Lovable, vulnerable Kings of the House. Snorine in recliners. now and then! Jason Brummett 37 - Davidson. Drew. Haney. Morris (J6W) Madeiros. A Fascinating Machine For years Dr. Zeb and his famous assis- tant Dr. Yeb had been working behind huge steel doors in Washington, D.C. They had begun the project on November 3rd and it was now August several years later. The only time they were ever seen was once when they had a brief interview with the President, asking for more money. They quickly got it. Six months later, the unveiling was about to happen. A crowd of about one million people were gathered, shouting and screaming, Let ' s see it, let ' s see it! ; not saying they didn ' t deserve to after all their tax money had paid for it. Suddenly a door opened and a mightly machine rolled out. It was 20 feet long and had two floors on top that were at least 8 feet each. It was armed with two deathly looking claws used to drill into rock un- dersea. Its walls could withstand any amount of water pressure. It was a great step in underwater exploration. Man could now go farther, and deeper into the world ' s oceans. A roar of approval went up from the crowd - they liked it. Many security guards mingled with the crowd. With this machine, a crook could do anything. He could control the world. From far away a helicopter could be heard. At first no-one took any notice, but as it got closer the security men began to worry. As it came overhead, it let out a thick toxic gas. The people started to choke and cry as they fell to the ground, out cold. The helicopter landed and some masked men got out, meeting little op- position. A few minutes later, feeling sick and nauseated, the crowd got it its feet. No-one was very badly hurt, but a bad smell hung in the air. They looked up. The machine was gone! Stolen! - Guy Hamshere J7A Magnus Henagulph The Charge of the Light Brigade The sun climbed over the horizon to mark the start of the day. Almost simultaneously a bugle sounded. Wearily, the soldiers rose from their beds. There seemed to be an atmosphere of impending dang er as I pulled myelf to attention. Although it was all routine, something about the captain ' s face told us this was different. Was it a look of anxiety or excitement? Even so, I could hardly believe my ears that as we stood to attention, we received our command that we were to attack the Russians and capture their weapons. No-one complained, no-one resisted, no-one wanted to be executed, the usual consequence for cowards. Our silhouettes stood against the morning rays, like red ink on blotting paper. Riders and horses reached the summit of our last hill and halted. Below us stood the canyon where we believed the Russians were encamped. The signal was made and our famous brigade charged to a hopeful victory. The Russians stared in disbelief as we charged straight into the muzzles of their artillery. We were in a deadly trap and there was no escape. Most of us who survived never forgot the tragic defeat of the last charge of the light brigade. - Michael Ashton. The Accident There ' s a good turn - out here on the Sunny Side race track said the reporter yelling into his microphone to get over the wild roars of the people in the stands, as the two most famous funny cars pulled out of the pit. It was the Blue Max and the Army Snake with their thundering engines. I sat feeling very small in the Army Snake with its 12 cylinder V8 Cheveolet engine which at first sight you would mistake for an aeroplane engine. We drove tentatively to the starting line and waited motionless for the green light. Impatiently we had to stay alert. The light flashed red and red again, yellow twice and finally green. Both cars sped at great accelleration down the straight reaching speeds of 220 to 240 m.p.h. Suddenly the engine seized and the front axel froze sending the back of the car flying up. It flew through the air and flipped over. I made a violent attempt to get out of the car but couldn ' t because my arm was broken and my legs were trapped. The car burst into flames which were geUing closer and beads of sweat rolled down my face. 1 remember men rushing to help me but it was too late. The flames had reached me and were burning so severely that I slipped into unconsciousness with shock. When I woke up in hospital the reporters and lapscorers were all their with their cameras, etc. when suddenly a man rushed in. It was my sponsor yelling with excitement. You won, You ' ve won the international championship world wide funny car race. Your car flipped over the finish line before the Blue Max crossed it . At these words I no longer felt pain but o nly glory and joy. - Trann Simpson 38 How to Ride a Horse 1 . First you have to get a saddle. 2. Then find a horse. 3. Put the saddle on the horse. 4. Get the strap on the bottom of the saddle and tighten it around the horse. 5. Then get the reins and put the metal bar in the horse ' s mouth. 6. Then you get the leather strap and put it over the head. 7. Get a ladder, prop it against the horse and climb on. 8. Sit on the saddle and kick the horse on the rear. 9. No, No, turn around quick. 10. Pull on the reins to slow down. 1 1 . Pull on the right rein to turn right. 12. Pull on the left rein to turn left. 13. Afterwards do everything backwards. Key:- Horse: furry and big no horns: Saddle: leather hard. The Mystery That Never Was Henry was going to go fishing. His little brother had got Henry ' glasses mistaken for tracing-paper and had drawn two fish on them. When Henry reached the pier with his nxl, he put on his glasses. At once he saw two fish, one saying, Hi. the other singing a jazz song. • ' Aaarrgh! bawled Henry, and raced up the pier at sixty nriiles an hour, taking his glasses with him. When he got back home, he put on his glasses. At once he saw two laughing fish staring at him. Henry was about to scream the house down when he noticed those ' ghost-fish ' were not moving. He took off his glasses. The fish vanished immediately. He put them on and the fish appeared. Henry realised it was only a doodle. When the news spread over the house, Alex, (the culprit), confessed that he had drawn the doodle. Henry forgave him and Alex promised never to do it again. Isn ' t it amazing what a drawing of two fish can do? Kieran Campbell Derek Davis My Holiday to South Africa After a twenty-eight hour journey, due to a seven hour delay I reached Durban, South Africa. In the airport I was welcomed by my relatives whom I ' d never met before. In Bermuda it was summer but seeing that South Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere it was quite cool as it was their winter. On the way to my uncle ' s house I noticed how modem Durban really was with its huge buildings, factories and hotels. Like other countries South Africa has its own military forces and it is compulsory for all males from the age of eighteen to join a branch of these forces. In Durban I visited the Natal Province Snake Park which was very interesting. Here the warden was in an enclosed ring with foliage in and all around it. With a long, hooked pole he lured the snakes into view of the spectators. With one of the snakes the warden demonstrated the venom of these reptiles by making it spit onto his special glasses. At the end of this exciting demonstation, we wandered round the park to see the many snakes and reptiles of Africa. On the subject of animals we also visited the Lion Park. This was a memorable experience. Weatherwise this was not the best day to pick as it was raining. Seeing that it was such a large park we had to drive our car over the dusty tracks. For the first fifteen minutes we didn ' t see much, but soon we began seeing some bucks, ostriches, tiny monkeys, zebras and hippos. Later the best part came. We were told to roll up our car windows as we were entering the lions ' enclosure. Most of the lions were shading from the rain but a female lion was stalking and chasing after another one. Unfortunately. I had run out of film for my camera to capture these few moments in the presence of lions. On the way back from the park we went to see the beautiful ' A ' alley of a Thousand Hills . Here we were pestered by a horde of ladies from the Zulu tribes tr ing to seel us their heads and necklaces. Soon we gave in and my sister bought a necklace of heads. The Zulus were going to a restaurant of some sort to get their pa . which was not much. It was awful to see a poor. little boy come up to us begging for money. In school students would have to learn Afrikaans, the language of South Africa. Schools in Durban area are ver strict about dress, courtesy and behaviour. There bo s our age have to wear caps and have to cut their hair a certain length! During our holidays we didn ' t notice tw much apartheid, but we were aware of certain things. For example, there are different buses for black and white people, there were separate schoc- ls and universities for the different races and separate districts for the different kinds of people. Another giant race of people in Durban were the Indians. The also had their own district which we dane through. I was also ver aware of the fact that policemen carried guns in South .Africa. I enjoNcd my visit to South .Africa ver much and hope to be able to return some day. - David Morgan J7A Halloween Tonight was the night no-one came home. Tony was just getting dressed in his Batman costume, when the phone rang, he picked it up, a feminine voice was on the other end. Oh, Hi Judy he said, How are you? Fine, she said, look, you had better come over, we ' re starting it soon . Tony put down the phone, put on his mask and grabbed a plastic bag from the coffee table. His mum and dad were away and his guardian was visiting so he was alone in the house, so to cheer himself up he decided to go trick or treating with Judy, his girlfriend. He arrived at her house at about nine o ' clock. She was dressed as a with and, despite her long fake plasticine nose, she still looked attractive. Her mother bade farewell to them and they left for the goodies, unsuspectingly. Their bags were about half full when the decided to turn back. Suddenly they heard footsteps behind them, they whirled round, a dark shadow was following them. Tony grabbed hold of Judy ' s arm and ran. Everyone seemed to be staring at him. He glimpsed back, the road was full of werewolves stealthily stalking them. Panting and wiping perspiration from his face they ran down a subway. He screamed with horror. Human corpses were hanging from the ceiling, reaching for them. They could hear the howling of the werewolves outside. They ran under the corpses and sprinted away. They came out of the subway and were relieved to see no more evil spirits and the howling had stopped. He turned to tell Judy but she was not there. He turned around again and with horror gaped at her. she was reaching for his throat. She was a werewolf! - Mark McCarthy J4L went places this year... Into the Sky... ... I loved flying weightless and trouble free, but I did not like being pointed at, so I zoomed off on a breeze. ...I zoomed through the air, and then boom, nose down I went and stuck in the ground. Next try I got caught on the power line and burnt my nose. When I got home after an unsuccessful day I had a nose burnt to the roots and a hole in my tummy! To the Dump... ... In the dump, underneath the junk, are spiders, and rats and mats. ... In the dump are the smallest things you can imagine, and the biggest. ... There were gulls pecking at sacks of garbage, heaps of junk everywhere, and car frames here and there. To the Moon... ...I found myself speeding across the dust and sand of the moon. Straight ahead of me was an enormous city, encased in glass. ...I got out of the spacecraft and said, Here ' s a great leap for the first boy on the Moon . Crash! I fell right on top of a moon car. ... Our first lesson was science. We went outside and looked at the footprints and talked about them. At recess we put on jet packs and fly around. ... My homework is usually learning to do doggy paddle through the air, or eating a banana without it floating away. ...In the wildlife preserve a fish could live in a floating puddle of water, and not care a bit until a cat drifts by. David Morgan Tripp West In the Woods at Night... ... All around me were shadowy, gnarled trees. . . . When I got to my destination I joined my ghoulish friends in the flickering light of the dead wood. Underwater... . . . There were giant caves in the rocks where eels and king crabs live. ... Fish darted in and out of nooks and crannies. ... You feel like a fish yourself, just gliding through the cool waters, with the sun shining on your back. ...I was looking down into a world of wonders. ... Then all that disappeared, and we saw strange luminous creatures, one was like a light bulb. ... As I swim throught the gardens of coral and schools of fish I came upon a wrecked Spanish Galley with a hoard of gold, and bones of sailors long gone. Excerpts from stories by:— Alexander Rollin, Robin Simmons, Jay Avery, Matthew Davis, Peter Johnson, Trevor Ferguson, Robert Melotti, Steven Cardwell (J4L) Mishka Frith ' s Mysterious World During my many years of sailing around the Atlantic I ' ve seen many strange things. But never have I seen such a strange thing as I saw in mid- Atlantic. I was fourteen days out at sea, just about 185 miles away from a place in the Azores named Flores. It was about 5.00 a.m. when I saw the sunrise. Just as it was half way out of the water, you may say, I saw a big object silhouetted against the sun. The object started moving towards me. I assumed it was a ship, but when it came closer I saw it was some monster of the deep. It came very close. I turned on the engine so he or she would be scared and would not attack me, but instead of being frightened it attacked me! It tore the mast out of the boat. I quickly pulled the cord that activated the life raft. The life raft inflated and I cast off. . Before I know it my boat was sinking. Then the creature, seeing that I was gone, followed me. I was sure my fate was sealed, but just as the creature was about to attack a giant tentacle pulled the big creature under water. So now, without the fear of the monster, I had the fear of never being found. But my luck was good. Two days later a Russian whaler picked me up and took me back to land. So here lies a mystery that will never be solved. - Mishica Frith J6A Mystery Photo 7 JUNIOR CLUB ACTIVITIES 1984-1985 ' A Gardening Club - A Prize-Winning Performance Club News: FIRST AID: The following boys received their Red Cross Junior First Aid Certificates this year:- Michael Harris, Zenji Ingham, Marcus Kermode, James Legere, James Lotherington, Sean Patterson, Alexander Spearing, Jonathan Young Winners All! (Standing L-R) C. Popper, K. Campbell, D. Davis, R. Todd, Z. Ingham, J. Harvey (Seated L-R) J. Rewalt, C. Dunleavy, D. Morgan, M. Batista, C. Madeiros MONDAY: Orchestra Table Games TUESDAY: Gardening Squash Senior Games WEDNESDAY: Pottery First Aid Tai Kwon Do THURSDAY: Drama FRIDAY: Martial Arts Senior Match Games SATURDAY: Saturday Soccer Club Mrs. Pettit Miss Wilkie Mis ' - ' ■ ■ ini. ' Mr Bermuda Squash Club Mr r,-- T Mr. Beasley.Mrs.Zuill Mr. Dunleavy, Mrs. Wright Mrs. Avery Mr. Adams with Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Latter Mr. Skipper Ingham Mr. Lever Mr. V. Ingham parents Thank You, Bermuda Pottery Helpful Adults 41 Visit to A.S. Cooper ' s Weekend Workers Weekend Workers (L-R) ' Skipper ' Ingham - Karate - R. Smith, V. Ingham, W. Pratt and A. McCarthy - Football - Saturday Soccer: In this first year tliat the club has been open to all ages it has run 2 leagues catering to the older and younger members. The year ' s programme culminated in a fun day of play -offs and activities on Saturday 30th, March, with cups for all teams, and medals for all participants. Our thanks foir the tremendous parental support. A programme of Softball and cricket followed in the summer term. Team tour: A new venture for the Saturday Soccer Club was the organisation of a team tour of Stamford, Connecticut, to take part in a football tour- nament there. The following players chosen to play:- Terrence Corday, Dennis Fagundo, Justin Freisenbruch, Nicholas Ingham, David Jenkinson, Christopher Merritt, Tafari Outerbridge , Robert Pratt, Geoffrey Redmond, Robert Rego, Matthew Ringer, Timothy Shadrach, Patrick Singleton, Barton Sommerville , Robert Steinhoff, Alasdair Younie. Accompanying the team:- Messrs Corday, Shadrach, Summerville and Mr. Jon Beard. Congratulations and best wishes to the boys. Thanks for the idea and organisation to Mr. Ingham parents. Mystery Photo 8 42 International Team Community Service Just before Easter several Junior School boys, assisted by parents and brothers, did a clean up of the Gilbert Nature Reserve in Somerset. In just one hour they collected forty three bags of garbage and a huge pile of other trash including a washing machine, two sewing machines, a bed and assorted bike parts! During the last two terms many other boys have been keeping their neighbourhoods clean by collecting trash in their free time. We hope that shortly we will be forming a Junior Arm of KBB, so that Saltus can do more useful and important community service. - Kay Latter Michael Fahy Mystery Photo 9 Bermuda As We See It Authors and artists of ' Bermuda As We See It ' pn with copic ing tour rount Looking on .. Adams and Mr. Photo: Tony Cordeiro Mid Ocean News .Mr. Robert Stigwcxxl ' h)(Kjk, after an cxtil- his yacht, ' Jezebel. Mrs. Williams. Mr Beasley. COMMENTS ON A SPECIAL FUND RAISING PROJECT BY THE SALTUS JUNIOR ARM OF THE COMMITTEE OF 25 FOR HAND- ICAPPED CHILDREN, TO CELEBRATE BERMUDA ' S 375TH ANNIVERSARY (1984) AND INTERNATIONAL YOUTH YEAR (1985) They Like The Way We See It! Bermuda As We See Itm This book of illustrated stories and poems about Bermuda has been prepared by young people and describes their perceptions of our island, its origins, its development, its problems. . . The contents of the articles clearly demonstrate that our young people do have a sensitivity towards the community. The students have decided that the total proceeds from the sale of this book, will be donated to the Committee of 25, for the special needs of handicapped children. . . I commend this book to the entire community because it captures the spirit of youth and their vision of Bermuda. -Hon. J. Irving Pearman, M. P., Minister of Tourism. I ' m impressed that these bright, healthy youngsters have taken time to serve the cause of those who are less fortunte than they are. They are beginning to understand the principles of doing good, which I hope will always remain with them. - Robert Stigwood I like the combination of imagination and interpretation in the stories and pictures, and the clear environmental concern these boys express. Buy the book... It ' s for a good cause, this kind of activity can only fertilise young, creative minds. — Stuart Hayward REASONS WHY WE ARE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE SALTUS JUNIOR ARM OF THE COMMITTEE OF 25. (1) 1 wanted to experience how blind people feel so I shut my eyes and tried to walk up 32 stairs. Sometimes I fell and when I reached the top I collided with the gate. Imagine if you were deaf or dumb. If you were de f you wouldn ' t know the tone of your own voice. You wouldn ' t hear a single note of the spring song of the cardinal. Life would be forever silent. If you were dumb, you would never be able to express clearly how you felt. Whenever I think of these things I feel sad. - Jonathan Bell (2) As a friend of a handicapped person, I know all of the disturbing things that can happen to them. We members of the community must help them to leam to help themselves, but to do that we need to raise money for the system. - Geri Mewett (3) Handicapped people are not ignored in Bemiuda. They are helped greatly - especially by our Junior Ami. Just recently we have raised over $23 ,000.00 for them by publishing and selling our book. - Barton Sommerville (4) The best thing we can give handicapped children is our time. We should stretch our sincerity to the limit to help them, because they cannot enjoy the privileges of life undisturbed by problems. - Justin Freisenbruch (5) Helping the handicapped children has given me joy. I hope other people will also help, so that they will have a chance to live a life of happiness and contentment. The money we ' ve made will give them things that will make their lives much easier. - Ronnie Terceira (6) It makes me extremely sad to think that they can ' t do things that you and I can do. I have a few handicapped friends. I sold 19 copies of our book and I was proud when 3 of m pictures were printed in it. I also gave a lot of my toys for the children at Christmas. - Tripp West (7) We can help children by treating them like normal persons and letting them know that they are never alone. - Michael Harris (8) There are many handicapped children and I often think why did it have to happen to them? We should be friendly and co-operative because I think that makes a big difference to them. - Jason Brommet (9) We are raising money frantically because we want to help all the handicapped children in Bermuda. - Nicholas Pettit (10) It gives you a thrill to say you ' ve helped children who are disabled. It ' s wonderful! - Patrick Singleton (11) The handicapped child needs love, the same as we do. but extra special love! - Brenton Tucker (12) By raising money we can help to buy things for them to enjoy. The best gift we can give them is love. Mark Randall 43 Facts and Figures 1984-1985 In Phase I of the project, 4.500 copies ol the book were sold through- out the island. We paid our printing hdl of SI 1,318.(X and made a profit of $13,000.00. At Christmas for their outstanding efforts the following boys were presented with prizes for selling the most copies. 1st Gavin McGregor. 2nd Chip Popper. 3rd Guy Hamshere. In Phase II, 214 Junior Ami members participated in a special International Youth Year Project, by preparing and copying 4.000 letters of friendship and photograjihs. to send with 2. (.XXI copies of Bermuda As We See It , maps and boi klets of the island, to children in other countries. These gift packages were delivered by guests staying in Bemiuda ' s hotels. Phase II was supp .- rted by the Queen s Jubilee Tmst. the Department of Tourism and Bemiuda ' s hotels. Total profits from Phase I II = $23,000.00. All this mone will be used to purchase special equipment and to pay medical bills of Bermuda ' s handicapped children. Thank you boys, teachers, parents and sponsors for making this project our biggest ever success. - L.W. Junior Sports Report 1984-85 As soon as school settled down to routine in September boys were trying out for places on the swim team. Those selected then competed in the two inter school meets - the individual competition and, a week later, the relay meet. In the individual competition our boys again dominated the event with first place finishes from Butterworth, Cook, Mewett, Moss and Maranzana. Cook and Moss set new records in their events. In addition we had 4 second places and one third. At the relay meet the boys ' combined efforts resulted in 9 first places out of the 10 events ensuring that we kept the championship trophy. It is notable that Saltus has won this trophy each year since the event was started. Each year our best swimmers improve and qualify for competition abroad. Geri Mewett joins 3 other Saltus students who will represent Bermuda in the Central Caribbean, Central American Nations cham- pionships to be held in Mexico in July. Inter school soccer at primary level seems to be most exciting in the 6-a-side competition. The zone qualifying games, held at Saltus, resulted in some closely fought games. Eventually our B team won the right to participate in the finals at Shelly Bay field. There they beat East End Primary, drew with Purvis but lost 1-0 to both Somerset Primary and Prospect. Our A and B teams combined to form a squad for the 9-a-side inter school competition. Games against Dellwood, West Pembroke and Mount St. Agnes resulted in 3 wines, 1 draw and 2 losses. Through the winter months many boys participated in junior road races on weekends with creditable performances. The same boys were the nucleus of the school teams which competed in the inter school cross country championships around Fort Scaur in February. The races wre probably the best lesson any boy could have to realise why forts are built on hills! The Under 10 team placed 6th out of 19 schools and in the Over 10 race Merritt placed 5th in a field of 200 runners, leading our team to 8th place among 19 schools. In track and field our team competed in the zone meet where Younie, M. Henagulph, Mewett, Moss and Merritt qualified for the finals. In the final meet all five performed well and Younie placed 2nd in the High Jump with a performance which beat the previous 44 Primary Schools ' record. Unfortunately our participation in the inter school cricket compet- ition was not possible due to time commitments by boys involved in the school play. Inter House competitions have kept many boys busy. Six-a-side soccer inolved Junior and Senior teams with each category having A and B teams. AFter 24 games were completed Watlington emerged as overall champions. Eleven-a-side soccer resulted in Darrell beating Saltus 1-0 in the final. Inter House floor hockey was not possible this year because repairs were being carried out on the gym floor. Inter House cross country involves every boy (except a few who are excused for medical reasons). Both races were very exciting with Steinhoff winning the Junior event just one second ahead of Younie, follwed by Wheddon, M. Henagulph and Woolridge. The Senior race was just as close with Moss outsprinting Merritt, follwed by Mewett, R. Henagulph and W. Young. Moss ' winning time of 5 min. 44 sec. is a new course record. Butterfield house dominated the team compet- ition winning both titles. Sports Day is undoubtedly the highlight of the school ' s sporting year. For many weeks the boys run, jump and throw to determine in which events they will compete. With help from parent volunteers the day proceeded very smoothly and the weather was perfect. Com- petition in triple jump and 800 metres is held the previous day then 45 other events are decided on Sports Day along with the popular Tug of War events. Again Watlington house dominated and they retained the shiled ahead of Darrell, Butterfield and Saltus. Year champions were M. Wallace in J4, T. Outerbridge in J5, G. Mewett, J6, and S. Moss, J7. The Junior champion was Outerbridge and Mewett and Victor Ludorum. Relief from exams is provided by the Inter House Softball compet- ition. The Junior final resulted in Butterfield beating Darrell 5-4. The Senior final saw some exciting and skilful play and Watlington came from behind to beat Darrell 7-6. Based on the results of all inter house competitions Watliiigton house are champions after narrowly losing the title to Darrell last year. Saltus Junior Department (Music Report) Music Is Fun - Most of the Time Music - Al Fresco As usual this has been a very busy year for the music depart- ment. Although the major production Smike had to be post- poned until April, the Christmas term was spent preparing substantial programmes of carols and instrumental music for Hamilton Rotary Club and Triminghams. Much of our school choir ' s impetus this year has certainly been due to the expertise which we enjoy in the form of musical accompaniment provided by Mr. Adams (guitar), Mr. Evans (oboe), Mr. Bishop (percussion) and Mr. Drummond (nearly everything else!). Mr. Drummond must be one of the most versatile musicians I have ever encountered. An outstanding clarinettist, he is able to play almost any woodwind instrument with consummate ease, adapting effortlessly to any musical form or style required. We are certainly very grateful for all his endeavours in the junior department. Not only is he a first-rate performer, but as his results in the Associated Board examinations show, he is also a dedicated and inspiring teacher. Much to my personal consternation, the syllabus of the Royal Schools of Music theory examinations suddenly changed this year. Little information was available as to the new format. However, sixty boys still managed to pass Grade 1 - Grade 4, and I was very happy with the results generally. The Menuhin foundation teachers still flourish, and string teaching in the school has expanded recently. It has been of great benefit to the junior department to have violin lessons - very much a long term commitment for student and teacher - begun in the prep, school, with great encouragement from Mrs. Hopkins and her staff. The generous donation of a new electric piano by the parents has made it possible for the choir to perform at a greater number of concerts outside the school, while lending variety to our activities within the school itself - a very valuable asset. Fifteen boys passed the practical examinations of the Royal Schools of Music, the result of dedicated and consistent effort - congratulations to all successful candidates. The Cathedral Choir , so called because the choirboys sing at the Cathedral at least twice a year, as well as at many other important musical functions, has completed a very strenuous term. Not only have they had Smike to contend with, but also five other engagements with varied repertoire, within the space of a few weeks. Members of the Cathedral Choir practise at lunch-time and frequently give up their precious free time. I am extremely proud of these boys, as they have successfully completed a record number of very demanding performances, and have been a great credit to the school in their contact with the community in general. Recorder playing in the lower part of the school (J4 and J5) is progressing very well, and I am very impressed with the number of boys who have managed to accompany our assembly hymn singing. It would be impossible to function as we do without the marvellous parental support which we enjoy at Saltus, and I am particularly indebted to Mrs. Donna Froomkin and Mrs. Eva Morgan for their unceasing efforts in support of the school ' s musical life. I wish Eva, David and Susan well in their life in Scodand, and hope to see them in the not too distant future. They will be much missed. Thank you all very much indeed. - Marjorie Pettit 1 he Associated Board of Music (Practical Kxamin Piano ((jradc I ) Nicholas Fu undo Piano (Grade 2) Dennis Fa undo Guy Hamshere - Merit Trumpet (Grade 3) Justin Freisenhruch Keith de Silva Trombone (Grade 3) lien Lucas - Merit Saxophone (Grade 3) Zenji Ingham - Merit Charles Popper - Distinction The Royal Schools of ations) Violin (Grade 2) ' uhola Fellil Flute (Grade 3) . dam Hooth Gil) Hamshere - Merit James Hithhard - Merit Jason l.emun Clarinet (Grade 3) Rupert Henagulph - Merit Bohhy Pratt - Merit Clarinet (Grade 5) Marcus Kermode - Merit THE MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP THIS YEAR WAS AWARDED TO MARCUS KERMODE. The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music (Theory Examinations) Grade 1 James Barrow Jonathon Bell Marc Boden Adam Booth Terence Corday Nicholas Fagundo Mishka Frith Daniel Gresham Steven Hardy Christopher Heinike Magnus Henagulph James Hubbard Robin Lang James Legene George Masters Jay Rewalt Andrew Riker Mark Semos Geovanni Simon Robert Steinhojf Dwayne Trott Gary Ward Alistair Younie Grade 2 Mark Bartley Robert Bray Colwyn Burchall James Davidson Lyle Douglas Dennis Fagundo Justin Freisenhruch John Harvey Jason leseur Christian Luntzen Scottie Ma Christopher Maderios Geri Mewett Christopher Mutch Nicholas Pettit Robert Rego Patrick Singleton Barton Somerville Brenton Tucker Tripp West Jeremy Wright William Young - 6W William Youn - 7S Grade 3 Michael Ashton Keith de Silva Christian Dunleavy Christopher Harkness Ben Lucas Robert Pratt Grade 4 Joel Froomkin Guy Hamshere Zenji Ingham Marcus Kermode David Morgan String Players 47 S queers and Co. This musical which is based on Charles Dickens ' book NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is really an offspring of that novel. In SMIKE a young man named Nicholas Nickleby is sent after his father dies, to work in a horrible school run by a rought schoolmaster by the name of Squeers. Dotheboys Hall is more of a dumping-ground for children than a school. Squeers beats the boys and his nasty wife feeds them Brimstone and Treacle . - Kamathi Warner 6 A Children in those days were fed little, wore rags and were treated very badly. The boys could not think for themselves and so they didn ' t know how to behave. When they did things wrong they were beaten by the dreadful headmaster. He sometimes beat children to death! It would have been horrible to live in that day and age. - Jay Rewalt 6 A It ' s a scary play if you put yourself in Smike ' s position because he is treated terribly by Mr. and Mrs. Squeers. -C jr 5 a77 Luntzer6A On the first night I will probably feel that my heart is going to sprout wings and fly out of my mouth at any second! My knees will be knocking together. But when the play is over I ' ll feel sad. - David DeCosta 6A The Cast Smeeton - Smike Nicholls - Nicholas Nickleby Headmaster - Mr. Squeers Mrs. Squeers Miss Grant - Miss Fanny Squeers Tubby - Wackford Squeers Brown - Bolder Coates - Cobbey Marsh - Graymarsh Plank - Belling Mr. Ralph Nickleby Mr. Snawley Richard (landlord) Tilda Mark Adams James Adderley Mark Bartley Thaddeus Branco Marc Drew Michael Fahy Alain Gordon-Seymour Magnus Henagulph Rupert Henagulph Michael Kane Ryan Kromer Timothy Lee James Legere Simone Maranzana Nicholas Hirn Guy Hamshere Jeremy Wright Lyle Douglas Joel Froomkin Mark McCarthy Michael Ashton Geri Mewett David Morgan Zenji Ingham Christian Dunleavy Tripp West Jay Rewalt Ronnie York Ryan Marley Spencer Moss Peter Rans Robert Rego Patrick Singleton Barton Sommerville Kristopher Taft Gregory Titterton Kamathi Warner Anthony Wright Johnathan Young William Young Alasdair Younie A Friendship Develops As I See It Easter Competition Easter Competition 1985 We are grateful to the J7 Class Mothers for organising this year ' s Easter Competition, the de- monstrators and the judges, to the several parents who offered help in the workshops, and to the many visitors who came to see the exhibits. Andrew Smith Floral Art: Judges: Mrs. P. Butterfield; Mrs. J. Davidson . Workshop: Mrs. P. Butterfield; Mrs. A. Cox Year Awards: J4 Andrew Smith J5 Adam Booth J6 Kristopher Taft J7 Patricli Murdoch Miniature: J6W Geri Mewitt The Kite Competition: Judge: Mr. N . Dias Workshop: Mr. A. Cooper Best Traditional Kite: Mark Adatns JOA Best Round Kite: Keid Kohtnson J7A Most Original Kite: Michael A.shlon J7S Class Award: . 7.S Nicholas Ingham JOW Marc Drew .I5B Marc lioden J4l. Matthew Davies J7A Richard Todd J6A Daniel Gresham J5L Sean Collier J4Z David Smith First Kite to be AirlK rne: Nathan Browne J5L (with Richard Daisley Tafari Oulerhridiic) Highest Flier: Sean White J5L Cake Decorating: Judge: Mr. A. Ashby, of Sonesta Beach 1st Prize: James Barrow J7A 2nd Prize: Jidilan Wheddtm J5L 3rd Prize: Brian Yidle ML Highly Commended: David de Costa J6A Ryan Marley J5L Easter Eggs: Judges: Mrs.S. James: Mrs. A. Tompkins 1st Prize: J5B James Hubbard Giant 2nd Prize: 76 VV Nicholas Rett it Stahat Mater ( His Mother was standing ) 3rd Prize; J4L Richard Lines Eggs Ga- lore Highly Commended: Steven Whitecross J5B John Harvey J6W Ashley Finnii an J4Z Egg Rolling Winner: Jonathan Yoiatg J7A Easter Cards: Judges: Mrs. S. Janu ' s; Mrs. A. Tompkins Most Beautiful: - David Mor( an J7A Most Original: — Doui las de Couio J5Ji Most Commendable Workmanship for Age: Nicholas Him J5L 49 Class Mothers ' Report Thanks to the efforts of the Class Mothers and the continual support of our parents we have had a very successful year. In addition to our regular activities of organizing various school functions, running the kitchen and having the Flea Market, we undertook the publication of the first Saltus calendar which was well received by the entire school. Our profit for the 1984-85 academic year is approximately $7,100.00. Having earned around $5,000 profit last year, we began the year with assets rather than empty pockets. An anxiously awaited photocopier was purchased in September along with a colour monitor to augment the computer won by the boys in last years Fund Run. A $1 ,700.00 comprehensive Math computer program was also obtained. In December we contributed toward the purchase of an electric piano for the hall and currently we are in the process of supplying drapes for the art room so as to enable it to be used for the purpose of film projection. For once we still have money in the kitty and several ideas are presently under consideration including the purhcase of a television and video recorder. On behalf of the Class Mothers and the staff I would like to express our sincere appreciation for your ongoing assistance and co-operation. Many thanks to you all! Parent Information Class Mothers ' Committee Co-ordinator: Mrs. D. Froomkin; Assistant: Mrs. C. Popper with Mrs. M. Adderley, Mr. C. Ashton, Mrs. J. Benevides, (Mrs. D. Booth), Mrs. M. Branco, Mrs. F . Davidson, Mrs. B. Dodwell, Mrs. T. Drew, Mrs. G. Frith, Mrs. A. Harris, Mrs. D. Hindess, Mrs. M. Marley, Mrs. H. Mutch, Mrs. M. Parsons, Mrs. L. Thatcher. Class Mothers ' Treasurer: Mrs. F. Bluck. Reading Mothers: Mrs. A. Allen, Mrs. K. Bell, Mrs. L. Burns, Mrs. M. Collier, Mrs. R. Collins, Mrs. H. Denni, Mrs. F . Davidson, Mrs. S. Fagundo, Mrs. D. Freisenbruch, Mrs. V. Hamshere, Mrs. A. Harkness, Mrs. A. Harris, Mrs. L. Harrison, Mrs. D. Hindess, Mrs. P. Lang, Mr. Mrs. B. Leman, Mrs. R. Lotherington, Mrs. S. Mewett, Mrs. M. Parsons, Mrs. J. Patterson, Mrs. R. Sainsbury, Mrs. V. Smith, Mrs. B. Thomson, Mrs. J. Tufts, Mrs. B. Young. Lunch Mothers: Mrs. J. Benevides and Mrs. M. Adderley, with Mrs. L. Charron, Mrs. F. Davidson, Mrs. T. Drew, Mrs. S. Fagundo, Mrs. D. Gordon-Seymour, Mrs. P. Lang, Mrs. S. Maranzana, Mrs. E. Morgan, Mrs. E. Parker, Mrs. S. Taft. i Do ' nuts: (Mrs. D. Booth) Mrs. L. Thatcher. I Field Supervision: Mrs. M. Alkon, Mrs. S. Fagundo, Mrs. G. Fahy, I Mrs. S. Harvey, Mrs. D. Leonard, Mrs. D. Kane, Mrs. S. McCarthy, Mrs. J. Riker, Mrs. S. Semos, Mrs. B. Spearing, Mrs. C. Trott, Mrs. S. Younie. Voluntary Club Leaders: Mrs. W. Avery, Mr. J. Dunleavy and Mrs. J. Wright, Mr. F . (Skipper) Ingham, Mr. V. Ingham with (Mr. D. Bray), Mr. T. Corday, Mr. J. Hindess, Mr. R. Lee, Mr. G. Leonard, Mr. A. McCarthy, Mr. P. Marley, Mr. Mrs. W. Pratt, Mt. R. sherratt, Mr. R. Smith, Mr. R. Steinhoft . Flea Market Committee: Mrs. D. Froomkin, Mrs. C. Popper, Mrs. G. Redmond, with Mrs. C. Ashton, Mrs. F. Bluck, Mrs. M. Branco, Mrs. F. Davison, Mrs. M. Marley. Saltus Calendar: Mrs. D. Froomkin, Mrs. C. Popper. Junior Parents on the Saltus Association: Mr. Robin Henagulph i (Pres.). Mr. M. Sommerville (Vice Pres.), Mr. P. Hubbard (Treas.), Mrs. F. Bluck, Mrs. P. Daisley, Mrs. B. Dodwell, Mr. M. Fahy, Mrs. S. Jackson, Mrs. M. Marley, Mr. W. Pratt, Mr. R. York. Welcome and Farewell To Mr. Kieron Peacock Who will take a J5 class, and be in charge of the Physical Education programme in the Junior Department. Mr. Peacock is married, and comes originally from Nottingham, En- gland. He attended the Madeley College of Education in Staffordshire. A keen all-round sportsman, he represented Nottinghamshire in both rugby and cricket as a schoolboy, and played rugby for the college and county as an adult. He is a qualified coach in rugby, soccer, tennis, volleyball, and has attended two American Summer camps as tennis coach and athletics director. He skis, and is a parachute jumper. To Mr. Frank Allen A Bermudian, who will become the Junior Department ' s full time Remedial teacher, taking boys in both English and Mathematics. Hailing originally from Darlington in Eng- land, he was trained initially at the Sunder- land Training College, and later received an Advanced Diploma in Special Education from the University of Liverpool. He has been a Special Programme teacher in Ber- muda since 1970. Mr. Allen ' s interests are Children ' s Literature and Computers. Graduating Parents Our boys graduate and go on to realms of higher learning, and we are glad. Unfortu- nately they take their parents with them, and we are sad, for in the few years that we know these mothers and fathers, there develops quite a personal rapport between thetii and the staff, each parent being remembered lor his or her unique qualities and contribution to the school. This is particularly true ol the large team of helpers who come into the school week after week, and year after year, to perform invaluable services for both boys and staff. After four years of such help one is inclined to forget that they too must pass on with their sons, and this year we are sadly aware of losing several of our long-time volunteer hel- pers :- From the Reading scene - Mrs. A. Hark- ness, Mrs. J. Patterson, Mrs. J. Tufts. From Club activities - Mr. J. Dunleavy, Mr. F. Ingham, Mr. Mrs. W. Pratt. From Kitchen service - (Mrs. D. Booth). Mrs. T. Drew, Mrs. E. Morgan, Mrs. L. Thatcher. From Field supervision - Mrs. B. Spear- ing. To all of these parents, and the many leav- ing who have ' been on call ' for so many years, we offer our heartfelt thanks. Particularly shall we miss the long-stand- ing members of the Class Mothers ' Associa- tion who are leaving this year - Mrs. C. Ashton, Mrs. E. Morgan, Mrs. H. Mutch, Mrs. C. Popper, Mrs. G. Redmond, Mrs. L. Thatcher, and with them the Orgnaiser of the Junior Parent Activities, Mrs. Donna Froom- kin. Two years ago, when Mrs. Froomkin made the mistake of asking what was involved in the Co-ordinator ' s job, she was told Nothing much, and was voted in. Bringing to the task her own imagination, her sensitivity and her seemingly boundless energy, she turned the nothing much into almost everything to staff and school. Whether the request was for typing, copying, music, scripts, elec- tronic equipment, gifts, furniture, furnish- ings, even celebrity guests, Mrs. Froomkin was only too pleased to research, to offer suggestions, to liaise, to search or to purchase on our behalf. Nothing was too much trouble, even when she was attending classes of her 51 (left to rif hi) L. I hatcher, C. Ashton. G. Redmond. D. Froomkin own, and for two years, through her own tact, friendliness and personal example, she has moulded the Class Mothers ' AsscKiation into an organisation of dedicated volunteer workers, now vital to the school ' s an. ! ' -. and extra curricular programmes. We thank them all for their enthusla nl ariu their tireless efforts, and we thank Mrs. Froomkin especially for her inspired leader- ship and her personal interest in us all Answers to mystery photographs p.29 no. 1 - Part of Geodome on field, p. 30 no. 2 - At the back of the gym near the remedial room. p. 31 no. 3 - Ventilation cover in Miss Armstrong ' s garden. p. 32 no. 4 - Steps from field towards old headmaster ' s house. p. 37 no. 5 - Under the steps leading from the ramp to the field. p. 37 no 6 - Light fixture on the ramp. p. 40 no 7 - Gate near Saltus shop. p. 40 no 8 - Door to gas cyclinders outside the Science Lab. p. 42 no. 9 - Ramp wall. Farewells It seems ages since we have had to say Good- bye to any of the Junior School Staff, but this year w e are losing two of our long-stand- ing teachers. In an extension of the Remedial Prog- ramme in both the Preparatory and the Junior departments. MRS. W .ALKER will ser e as the full time Resource teacher in Cavendish. For her this is a return to the age group she first taught in Saltus - way back ! before she married. For those of us uho have only known her as a Junior Schix l Remedial teacher, since her return in 1973. it will be strange to think of the department without her. e kxik forward to keeping in touch through her P. 3 graduates, and on periixJic staff get-togethers. MR. LEVFR. who has K ' on with us since 1979, is also branchmg out mto new fields. There w ill be no saying Goodb e to him. as several boys, and all the staff, will see him regularly in marathon events, either pumping the streets behind him. or cheerin g him on in from the side-lines. Have the Last Dance w ith Me. ' SENIOR SCHOOL STAFF Front row (1 to r) Mr. W. Hanlon, B.A. {London Queens) Mr. D. Harrison, BSc.Hons. (Manchester) Mr. W. Duncan, LRSM. Mr. N. Kermode, B.A. Hons. (East Anglia).Dip.Ed., Senior Master The Headmaster, Mr. J.K. McPhee, B.A.Dip Ed., M.Ed. Mr. M. Durrant, M.A. (Oxon) Mr. C. Williams Mrs. M. Gregorson, M.A.Hons. Cert.Ed. Mr. T. Pettit, M.A. (Dublin) Back Row (1 to r) Mr. J. Beard, B.Ed. Hons. (Keele) Mr. B. Shore, B.A. Hons. (Notts), Dip.Ed. Mr. J. Solliss, B.Sc. Mr. D. Hermann-Smith, B.Sc. Hons. Mr. D. Ross, B.Sc. Hons. Mr. R.M. Raistrick, B.A.Hons (Cardijf), Dip.Ed. Mr. K. Sleeman, B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Mr. I. Drummond, ARC M. FTC L Mr. D. Janes, B.A. Hons. Dip.Ed. Mr. V. Evans, B.A. (Queens), M.Ed. Missing: Mr. B. Dilar, B.Sc, B.Ed. 52 DRAMA 1984 ' Tandemonium at Saltus! It was really a fun show to he involved in. Yeah! Drama took yet another turn at Saltus this year when we decided to em- bark upon our very own home grown pantomime. Written by a highly trained duo of Hollywood screen- writers and with its own musical score (!) It burst onto the stage at Christmas. Yes folks Pan ruled O.K. Jonathan Paradine played the little boy who never grew up, though it was remarked that he showed much more maturity than the directors who have never grown up! Cathy McCoy played the long-suffering Mrs. Darling and she had to contend with Mr. Raistrick ' s demented Mr. D. complete with whiskers that gave him the appearance of a slightly crazed racoon. Sundee Whitehead was a particularly charming Wendy and she even managed to keep patience with the inevitable Wendy jokes ( Whendi burd stop flappin its vings, it fall out de sky! ). The Darling family was completed by a suitably officious David Kendall as John and a lunatic Noel Capewell in pink furry jump suit! What of the lost boys? Well, for some time we though that they really were lost - or that they should get lost! But they rallied round and got most of the words in the right order. At least they didn ' t have to contend with the difficulties which the Indian band experienced, i.e. how does one sit down, fold one ' s arms, speak in unison and look ferocious all in near darkness? The Redskins were lead by our very own Tiger Lil - can we ever forget Miss Pemberton ' s characterization? The Pirate band did a steling job of terrorizing both the Indians and the rest of the cast: Yusef even frightened himself! They were ably lead by Scott Amos ' idiotic Smee and by the Senior Master, type cast we think as the noxious Captain Jasper Hook. (Boo! Hiss!) Obviously we would like to thank all who helped to make the show a real success but space doesn ' t permit us to do so. Here is a general thank you to all who were involved and who supported us: GENERAL THANK YOU! One small final point: Why was there a French pirate who wore silk trousers and who looked re- markably ill-at-ease with a bicycle festooned with onions? If we could have understood what he was saying it would have helped. As it was, we would have given anything: to Brek is poor ed and av sum ov is buns... ! Next year? Well, who can tell what will spring from the fertile (?) brains of our resident directors? Tune in next year for another thrilling instalment. MUSIC REPORT 1984-1985 The Music Department is extremely grateful to the Saltus As- sociation for its donation of $5,000 towards the purchase of instruments. At the time of writing eight violins, three cellos, a picolo, a bassoon and twenty new music stands have been acquired. The Band played at Prizegiving and other functions through- out the year. Again much hard work went into the preparation for the Annual Concert in March and it was decided to donate the proceeds of this to an International Rotary Club project that is building a water pipe line and medical facility in northern Kenya. Almost $1 ,200 was given to this very worthwhile cause. Other smaller instrumental groups have flourished through- out the year too. Mr. Drummond ' s Clarinet Choir and larger wind Ensemble plus the Brass Group have performed at various events both in and out of sc hool. Some 120 singers took part in Carols for All, over half of whom came from the School. This continues to be a popular event judging by the amount raised for St. John ' s Restoration Fund. Particularly encouraging was the participation of a much larger Senior Choir at Founder ' s Day in June. Many boys from the 3rd and 4th year attended practices. I can only hope that this enthusiasm will exist in September. We continue to send boys to the Lions convention Band in New York. This year Scott Amos was selected and was also given a solo to play in which I gather he acquitted himself extremely well. The examination results were quite respectable this year and reflect a sense of commitment by a good many students, par- ticularly at the Grade five level. To Mr. Drummond a word of thanks for his efforts throughout the year. Also thanks to Lyle van Wie and the staff of the Menuhin Foundation. - Willioin Duncan five in New York. Mr. DruniDiond ' s cUiriiicl (juarlci. All 7 of ihcni! 54 RESULTS OF THE ASOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC - PRACTICAL Grade 7 Grade 6 Grade 5 Grade 4 Grade 3 Grade 2 Grade 1 J. Mason Piano G.Maule Trombone with Merit I Walker Flute with Merit J. Young Horn S. Draycott Clarinet C. Davis Oboe with Merit C. Dunn Viola with Merit A Stonp s Clarinet with Merit S. Henagulph Clarinet with Merit J. Paradine Flute M. Azaro Flute S. Pedro Flute J. Semes Saxophone C. Garrod Clarinet M. Booth Clarinet F Allpn . Alien T ' ri 1 TTinpt 1 1 UlliUCl G. Cave Horn IVl . OlIvlWClo 1 1 UIllUCl A. Scaife Clarinet with Distinction N. Scaife Saxophone with Merit J. Howard Piano with Merit J. Howard Piano with Merit A. McKittrick Trumpet with Merit S. Van de Weg Flute with Merit P. Hernandez Violin D. Thomas Viola A. Zanol Piano T. Tetlow Piano with distinction L. Fisher Piano with distinction Patrick Cooper and Laiirion Bun hall, our budding bassoonist! RESULTS OF THE ASOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC - THEORY Grade 8 T . Dunstan . J . Mason Grade 7 C. Bryan, C. Dunn. K. Mayall Grade6 S. Amos, N. Hodson Grades S. Draycott. M. Azaro, S. Henagulph, A. Stones J. Young, F. Allen, J. Paradine, G. Maule Grade 4 A. Zanol. J. Leman.M. Booth. J. Cooper. D. Oliviera. D. Bray. N. Capewell, C. Garrod Grade 3 S. Pedro, P. Hernandez, G. MacPherson. A. Hubbard Grade 2 N. Scaife, F. Darling. A. McKittrick. B. Keayes, S. Pringlc. J. Burchall. T. Tetlow Grade 1 B. McGregor, .1. Howard. J. Brann Junior players in the Senior Band. 55 The Intrepid explorers! ism- ■« jsm .tr- Award recipients at Government House. Back row: E. Cheyne (Bronze), S. Simons (Bronze), D. Douglas (Bronze), T. Chasser (Bronze), C. Dunn (Bronze), J. Rego (Silver), S. Amos (Silver), A Pettit (Bronze). Front row: S. Simmons (Silver), B. Paterson (Silver), A. Clarke (Silver), The Governor, Viscount Dunrossil, J. Cooper (Silver). There are three Awards: — Silver for those over 15 Bronze for those over 14 Gold for those over 16 Each Award is separate, and young people may either progress through all three, or start where they wish, depending on their age. Those who achieve an Award receive the appropriate badge and certificate. For each Award young people have to complete the requirements of each of the four different sections outlined below. The qualifying standards are variously defined in terms of progress, proficiency or sustained effort. SERVICE Aim: To encourage service to others. Participants choose one form of service and undertake training and or give practical service to others. Examples: Community Service, Child Care, First Aid, Police or Fire Service, Care for Animals, Conservation, and many others... EXPEDITIONS Aim: To encourage a spirit of adventure and discovery. Participants plan, train for and then undertake a journey in the countryside or on the water, either on foot, by cycle, in a canoe or boat or on horseback. Both theoretical and practical training is required before the qualifying Expedition, which is undertaken in groups nor- mally unaccompanied, though supervised, by adults. At Bronze level, all participants undertake an expedition lasting 2 days, with a night away from home in tents or youth hostels. At Silver and Gold levels, Expeditions last 3 and 4 days respectively in unfamiliar and challenging surroundings. Some of the time may be spent on approved investigations or explorations. The Duke of Edinburgh ' s Award Scheme An enthusiastic band of self-motivated boys continue to succeed in completing the scheme at Saltus. The fact that some boys never manage to complete all sections of the scheme to gain an award shows that one needs a great deal of determination to succeed. Six boys gained a Bronze Award this year, whilst another six gained Silver Awards which were presented to them by Viscount Dunrossil, the Governor. A course to cover the service section of the scheme, organised by the Fire Department, culminated in an exciting demonstration in the use of various types of fire extinguisher on gasoline fires. The only problem encountered here was lighting the gasoline when the fireman ran out of matches! Expeditions proved ever popular, though the heat took its toll on the Silver expedition. An unexpectedly hot weekend was chosen and the exhausted party was more than pleased to complete the 30 mile walk. One of the Bronze expeditions emphasised the need for careful planning when a stove was forgotten . The bad memory of cold hot-dogs and baked beans will reduce the chance of a similar occurance in the future! My thanks to the many people who have helped wit h the various aspects of the Award Scheme but my thanks go especially to Jon Beard, Bill Duncan and Mike Doige, who all gave of their free time to share their skills with younger people. -JeffSolliss, Award Scheme Orf aniser The Scheme was introduced in 1956, on the initiative of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburi h, as a means by which facilities could be provided to help the young people throughout the Commonwealth to broaden their interests and range of activities. It is believed that, by this means, young people, through the acceptance of a challenge and the development of an enhanced sense of self discipline , will find greater fulfilment and make a more useful contribution to society. It is a popular misconception that the Scheme is concerned only with ' adventure ' type activities. In fact, participation in all kinds of interests from community to archaeology, is encouraged. An Award is given, not because an examination or a test of skill and proficiency is passed, (important as they might be), but because the participant has dis- plaved. over a period of time, characteristics of perseverance, initia- tive and application in his or her chosen activities. SKILLS Aim: To encourage the discovery and development of personal in- terests and social and practical skills. Participants may choose one of well over 200 activities and are required to show perseverance and progress. The time to be spent on this section depends on the Award for which the participant is working. At Bronze level it is 6 months, at Silver, 12 and at Gold, 18. Examples: Agriculture, Collections, Music, Arts Crafts, Driving and motor-cycling, Social and home skills. PHYSICAL RECREATION Aim: To encourage participation in physical activities and improve- ment in performance. Participants are required to take part in some form of organ ised physical recreation and achieve individual progress. Examples: Athletics, Orienteering, Team Games, Swimming, Danc- ing, Yoga. RESIDENTIAL PROJECT (for the Gold Award only) Aim: To broaden experience through involvement with others in a residential setting. Examples: Work Camps, Coaching Courses, Outward Bound Courses, Service Projects, Leadership Training Courses, Sail Train- ing Voyages. INSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT Instruction, supervision and assessment is undertaken by adults suit- ably qualified or experienced in the chosen activity. D of E campfire, techniques? THE NEW ADMINISTRATION CENTRE Here is an architect ' s impression of our new administrative centre which is to be built over the existing main hall. Building will proceed throughout the summer vacation and, who knows, as you read this - we may just be moving in. Let ' s hope so! CHESS CLUB This year the Chess Club got off to a slow start but in the Easter and Summer terms interest picked up greatly. I am very happy to note the improvement in the standard of skill involved in the matches which I have been able to watch between ad- vanced players, along with a few very promising newcomers to the club. The latter from the second and third forms will, I am quite sure, very quickly achieve mastery of the game by refinement of the basic skills and no doubt will fill the gap left by the departure of last year ' s talented senior players. Next season we will benefit from having Mr. Robert Wakely . one of the Menuhin string players, to help us with our simul- taneous chess games. - Gregory Cave 3S A VOTE OF THANKS! A particular thank you to all parents and friends of the school who work so tirelesslv and enthusiastically for our benefit. Our thanks to all the members of our .Association for all their support throughout the year. Thank you to the ladies who run our shop and our lunch facility. .A special thank you to Mrs. Penny Harvey - the power behind the pizza! 57 Back row: Martin Morris, Mark Booth, Sean Moran, Simon Biggs, Brian Bennett, Luke Fisher. Middle row: Laurion Burchall, Kevin Manuel, Chris Garrod, Dale Mines, Tim Tetlow, Mark Campbell, Simon Draycott. Front row: Aiden Stones, Brian McGregor, Michael Tavares, Steven Spencer- Arscott, David Oliveira, Mark Wheddon, Christian Kelsey, Ian Menzies, Jason Semos. Class 1 J were asked for their opinion of their first year in the Senior School. Here are some replies :- At the beginning of the school year, most, if not all of the new students were taken aback by the sudden transition from the pampered, more easy going life of the junior school, to the harder, more pressing demands, that now faced them. However, by the third week of term, things had settled down and we began to fit into the new routine. The Senior School had a wide variety of options for the willing student from computer studies to soccer. In the be- ginning it was difficult to choose and staff were very strict about our commitments, especially homework. Eventually we became organized and were largely on our own. The first year has been extremely enjoyable and we hope to have many more like it. - Simon Draycott Here are some others... Terrible... Awful... Can ' t wait for the holidays. Urrghh!!! I liked the Senior Year girls... Guess who? FORM IJ 58 IB: AS THEY SEE THEMSELVES! Back row: Foster Darling, Nicholas Swan, Stanley Harris, Peter Hind, Monty Hamill, Christopher Brito, Derek Baylay Middle row: Joshua Howard, Andrew Scaife , Jamie Leman, Jonathan Brann, Andrew Decosta, Nicholas Scaife. Front row: Myles Orchard, Simon Van de Weg, Yusef Outerbridge , Sebastian Pedro. Christopher Ingham. Nicknames: Derek - I.Q. Scott - dee Gee Andrew D. - raunie Monty - n.i.n. Christopher I. - Mr. Contortion Jamie - Scooby Douglas - Buckwheat Simon - Flamethrower John - Dalglish Russell - Teef Peter - Studley Remember when: Andrew S. - tried to breakdance in the hall. Yusef - fell asleep in English AND remember when Mr. K. saw him! Nicholas Sw. - split ice cream on the stairs Nicholas Sc. - pole vaulted Sebastian - sat on a chair properly Presents we would get for: Myles - some stilts Stanley - a new hairstyle Joshua - a wall to spray paint Christopher 5. - a girlfriend John - a football Forster - pictures of the twins Sayings: Sir, would they have synthetic trees? - Scott After you shoot a basket, you finish in the gay position ' A flock of cows . - !!?? from a few IB exams. Mr. B. ' Turn hfr round and htad for the amusemenl arcaJe. ' 59 m I!! Giovanni Ah shad ap all of you! Back row: Geoffrey Parker, Mark Riihiluoma, Paul Johnson, Charles Gumming, Richard Lwry. Middle row: Giovanni Astarita, Diallo Rabain, Neil Dixon, Dominic Harvey, Alex Davidson. Front row: Hugh McPhee, Paul Undo, Aran McKittrick, Sherwin Jones, Bryan Adams, Alec Bourne. Bryan I wonna ro ck! Geoff Well,... ' Dominic In rock I trust! Mrs. Greggerson Teachers are either sadists or masochists ' Hugh It ' s Gay! Richard I wonder what happend to Superman today? Paul L. You are offi- cially dead! Sherwin Don ' t even worry wiff it! Marc Gimme some food! Paul J. Just (BLEEP) ' n glory! ' Niel um um, well um um... Charles an it ' snot an intercooled tur- bocharger... Michael MURDAH! Alex mumble. ?! £%$fi, mumble... Diallo no? ' Aran whaaaaaa! Alex Pyromaniac at work Back row : Jason Curr, Mark Nash. Marco Azaro. Paul Undo. Fraser Allen. Matthew Brewer. William Davidson. Middle row: Geoffrey Stone, Sean Dunleavy, Noel Capewell, Charles Cooper. Sean Mor- ris, Pedriio Hcnuituh-, Stephen Caton. Hufih Notman Front row: Ian Walker, Timothy Ma. Robbie McRonald, Jonathan Parudine. Seamus Pringle, David Mutch, Blair Simmons, Ben Keayes. FORM 2P EVEBfiox s v;j af 1- ?) C, V iro Recess! jHEy 6r eujer UT) 1 j Cop?u;dL ' Ho DruM ner Boy Back row (I to r): Anthony Smith, James Davis, Marc Harrison, Drew Douglas, Tom Chasser, Norman Hodson. Middle row (I to r): Graham Maule, Malik Showers, Gregory Cave, Craig Maclntyre, Andrew Munro. Front row (I to r): Robin Mar irea, Christopher Klein, JohnBuchanan, Andrew Pettit. Three S Dunn and Miranda missed the form photo, so Buchanan came up with these: W - - What will the shy unassuming members of 3S be doing in the 21st century? This is how each other in the year 2000: Buchanan Cave Chasser Davis Douglas Dunn Harrison Hodson Klein Mclntyre Marirea Maule Miranda Munro Pettit Showers Smith Living the life of leisure as a wealthy playboy. Male model Gold Medallist swimmer Mimic for Porky pig and other cartoon characters Ex-pro baseball player turned film star First millionaire baby-sitter Hovering in diplomatic circles Rabbi Movie critic God ' s gift to women Florist Nine to five man with wife and two kids Miami beach bum Mowing lawns and pruning hedges Latin teacher Manager ofaG.Q. boutique in New York, Paris or Court Street Dead or Just coolin ' out Drawing by Craig Maclntyre 62 3H AT LARGE Front row: Shorn Youn , MarkGlusing, Myles Gibbons, Mark North, Shawn Bleeker, Andrew Bissell. Middle row: Keith Rowntree, Raschid Omar Alami-Merrouni, Gregory Summers, Stuart Old, Ashley Redmond, Ewan Cheyne. Back row: John liun luill, Andre Hubbard. What ' s in a Name? Omar Alami-Merrouni Rash Andrew Kissell - S(xlium Shawn Bleeker - Ninja Kid John Burchall - Burch Ewan f hi yne - J.R. Myles (ritibons - Gibbyranking Mark diusin} - Glucose David Holi.v The Hustler Andre Hubbard - Gold Nuggets Mark North - Crasher Stuart Old - Jah Andrew Ranee - Hulk Ashley Redmond Picker Keith Rowntree Squarebush Sean Simons - Yello Greg Summers - Camelman Shorn Young - Captain Hof k Andre Zanol Zcppc Sport At Saltus Sport at Saltus continues to thrive. Every possible physical activity is offered to the boys and these are reflected, briefly, in the following pages. Mr. Beard, athletics director, chief coach, administrator of physical edu- cation, B.Ed. Hons, Tour organizer, male model, full F.A. badge and head groundsman, is largely responsible for the programme, assisted by many members of staff. This is the Saltus Sports Year:- In addition to this Saltus participated in the following inter school leagues and toumaments:- Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Cricket, Rugby, Badminton, Swimming, Track and Field, Tennis, Waterpolo, Softball and Cross Country. We therefore participated in some form, in every inter school competition. Only one other school can match that achievement. There are 201 boys in the Senior Department. 179 of these participated in the sports programme in some way. That is, of course, outside normal P.E. lessons. This represents 89% of the total number. Sports offered and the numbers involved are listed below. Soccer 53 Basketball 24 Volleyball 25 Cricket 27 Softball 10 Rugby 42 Archery 7 Swimming 26 Track Field 23 Road Running 8 Water Polo 12 Badminton 24 Tennis 12 Hockey 23 House Soccer 108 House Cricket 84 House Volleyball 51 House Rugby 80 House Basketball 47 House Swimming 80 Sports Day 110 Christmas Term .V XI Soccer games on Wednesdays Inter XI Soccer games on Mondays Jnr. XI Soccer games on Fridays 26th Sept. 10.00 - 12.00 BCBC cricket clinic at Saltus 2nd Oct. Inter-House swim meet 3.30 4th Oct. Inter-Schooi 6-a-side Shelly Bay 12.00 9th Oct. Secondary Schools swim meet at War. Acad. 1 p.m. ) Oct. Saltus v Darrcll Junior House Match (12.45) soccer 12th Oct. Saltus v Diirrcli Senior House Match (3.45) soccer 26th Oct. Secondary Schools swim relay meet 64 1st Nov. Butterfield v Watlington Junior House Match - soccer 2nd Nov. Butterfield v Watlington Senior House Match - soccer 3rd Nov. (SAT) Secondary Schools All-Star swim meet 6.00 6th Nov. Inter-House water polo 15th Nov. Darrell v Butterfield Junior House Match - soccer 16th Nov. Darrell v Buttefield Senior House Match - soccer 19th Nov. Darrell v Butterfield Junior House Match - basketball 26th Nov. Darrell v Butterfield Senior House Match - basketball 29th Nov. Saltus v Watlington Junior House Match - soccer 30th Nov. Saltus v Butterfield Senior House Match - soccer 3rd Dec. Saltus v Watlington Junior House Match - basketball 6th Dec. Saltus v Butterfield Junior House Match - soccer 7th Dec. Saltus v Butterfield Senior House Match - soccer 10th Dec. Saltus v Watlington Senior House Match - basketball 13th Dec. Darrell v Watlington Junior House Match - soccer 14th Dec. Darrell v Watlington Senior Match - soccer 17th Dec. Darrell v Watlington Junior House Match - basketball Spring Term 1st XV rugby games will be on Wednesdays Junior Senior basketball games will vary 5th Jan. (SAT) Senior running clock basketball tournament 9.30 at Saltus 12th Jan. (SAT) Junior running clock basketball tournament 9.30 at Saltus 1 4th Jan . Darrell v Watlington Senior House Match - basketball ( 1 2 .45) 21 St Jan. Saltus V B utterf ield Junior House Match - basketball ( 1 2 . 45) 25th Jan. Bermuda Schools All-Star soccer 6.00 P.H.C. 28th Jan. Saltus v Butterfield Senior House Match - basketball 29th Jan. Inter-house cross meet 1 1 .00 4th Feb. Saltus v Darrell Junior House Match - basketball 8th Feb. Inter-House rugby VII ' s 11th Feb. Saltus v Darrell Senior House Match - basketball 11th Feb. Saltus v Butterfield Senior House Match - rugby (3.50) 12th Feb. Secondary Inter-School cross-country meet 13th Feb. Darrell v Watlington Senior House Match 15th Feb. Senior rugby final 18th Feb. Watlington v Butterfield Junior House Match - basketball 19th Feb. Watlington v Butterfield Senior House Match - basketball 25th Feb. Secondary School basketball tournament - ALL WEEK 8th Mar. All-Star basketball game 6.00 M.S. A. 28th Mar. Secondary track and field finals 10.00 29th Mar. Secondary track and field finals 10.00 31st Mar. (SUN) Tour party leaves for England 11th April (THURS) Tour party returns Summer Term School cricket volleyball matches will be played on varying days 19th Apr. Saltus v Darrell Senior House Match - cricket (3.50) volleyball (12.50) 23rd Apr. Butterfield v Watlington Senior House Match - cricket (3.50) volleyball (12.50) 30th Apr. Saltus v Butterfield Senior House Match - cricket volleyball 7th May Watlington v Darrell Senior House Match - cricket volleyball 14th May Saltus v Watlington Senior House Match - cricket volleyball 17th May Senior School Sports Day 2 1st May Butterfield v Darrell Senior House March - cricket volleyball 22nd May Inter-School Senior volleyball tournament 12.00 23rd May Inter-School Junior volleyball tournament 12.00 27th May Saltus v Darrell Junior House Match - cricket volleyball 28th May Butterfield v Watlington Junior House Match - cricket volleyball 30th May Secondary School Softball tournament 5th June Saltus v Butterfield Junior House Match - cricket volleyball 7th June Watlington v Darrell Junior House Match - cricket volleyball 13th June Founders Day Cricket Match School v Old Boys 14th June Secondary Schools All-Star cricket 7th June Saltus v Watlington Junior House Match - cricket volleyball 1 8th June Butterfield v Darrell Junior House Match - cricket volleyball 1st XI Soccer A young inexperienced 1st XI had a very commendable season this academic year. With only four of last year ' s 1st XI remain- ing the team worked exceptionally well to produce some good football. Berkeley Institute, Warwick Academy, Mount St. Agnes, St. George ' s and the Staff were all beaten, the Police Cadets and Robert Crawford were drawn with, and defeats were suf- fered at the hands of Sandys Sec. , Warwick Sec. and Whitney. Devrae Noel-Simmons had another superb season in goal and was rightly judged MVP for the East team in this year ' s All-Star game. Marco Assasin Zanol and Keith Hodgkins quickly struck up an understanding in the middle of the defence and played real stalwart roles for the team. Marco was in fact awarded the Paul Handsley Memorial Trophy as the teams ' MVP. They were ably assisted by such players as Norman Timmins, Scott Amos, Anthony Francis and Jonathan Cooper, all of whom did excellent jobs. The mid-field was well-controlled by the team character and captain Brian Morris. Brian has played in just about every Saltus team and has also produced excellent performances with a marvellously cheery disposition; he has been an excellent motivator and we will miss him next year. Brian was ably assisted by Jonathon Rego and James Mason. Jonathon matured game by game; and looks to be a very competent player. James has again given us excellent servicf throughout his time here, and worked tirelessly in the mid-field. His knack for scoring goals was not really revealed until we went on tour! Derek Joker Joaquin, Andrew Clarke, Craig Morbey and Barry King were all used at some time as our front runners. Derek ' s distain for easy chance is now well known, but his acrobatics to score the most difficult ones were certainly amaz- ing; he looks to be a promising player. Clarkeys pace may not be all we would wish (!), but his effort, skill on the ball and attitude more than make up for this. Barry only really discovered soccer this year, and it is to his credit that he gave us some excellent performances. Craig, on his day, is one of our best players. He matured as the season went on and 1 am sure we are going to see some very impressive play from him next season. The lessons of this season, and the team spirit shown on the tour all point towards a good season again next year - with the right application this should be so. Colours: Re-awarded: Brian MoiTis. James Mason, Devrae Noel-Simmons. Marco Zanol. New: Norman Timmins, Scott Amos, Keith Hodgkins, Jonathon Rego, Jonathon Cooper. Barry King, Andrew Clarke, Anthony Francis, Craig Morbey. Inter-House soccer was dominated by Watlington, w ho w ore always well prepared and worked well as a team, at both Junior and Senior level to win the championships. Junior Soccer This was rather a disappointing season for the Junior Soccer squad in terms of results of matches (often against more exp)erienced opposition) but a very impressive one in terms of real commit- ment to training, improving skills and developing teamwork. A number of skilful and talented players including John Richmond, Simon Van de Weg. Steven Spencer- Arscott and Martin Morris, entered the senior school in September and all made a significant contribution to the development of a most enthusiastic, coachable and competitive squad. With continued hard work they are sure to make an in aluable contribution to the Saltus soccer programme in years to come. The team was most ably captained by Charles Cooper who led by example both on and off the field and is to be congratulated on an excellent job. Squad: Goalkeeper: Swan Defenders: DeCosta, S., Oliveira. Cooper. C Kcayes. Pringle, Semos, Pedro. Capewell. Midfield: Manuel, Morris. Spencer- Arscott. McKittrick. Forwards: Van de Weg. Richmond. Rabain. Booth. - Dave Ross (Coach) The Magnificent Eleven! The pirates of Pen ance... where?., just before iho crushed the Senior ' car team b two goals to nil. Both goals being scored by the ever youthful and dsnamic John Connolly... who?.. There were outstanding performances by Crusher Wendes. Jon male model Beard, and T ' ve got the ball and I ni keeping it Evans. Captain Horatio Homblower Sleeman had a fine came in coal. 6 INTERMEDIATE SOCCER 1984 Both as coaches and as partisan spectators, the performances of the Intermediate Soccer XI gave Mr. Durrant and myself a great deal of pleasure this year. It was a season of exceptional Saltus success: a runners-up spot in the League and an appear- ance as Cup semi-finalists. In my view the success stemmed from a willing and enthusiastic squad of players who were prepared to listen to advice and act upon it, keen to work for not only themselves but for the good of the team, and whose team spirit and morale were high from first kick to last. And this in turn was due to a large extent to Sean Simons who, as captain, was a great example throughout. Many of the victories were based on a sound defence. Burchall in goal has improved dramatically inside twelve months and had an almost flawless season. The back four of Douglas, Ranee, Zanol and Bissell was a solid unit with the right balance of flair and brawn. Their performance in the home game versus the eventual champions Whitney was the platform for an excellent win. The midfield, compo sed of Curington, Smith, Young and Simons, worked hard, providing extra defensive cover and, in the person of Young especially, contributing valuable goals. Roaming forwards Marshall and Showers were always dangerous to opponents, unselfish and enterprising. When required, reserves Alami-Merrouni, Bento, Mello and Miranda all performed well. Perhaps the most memorable moments of the season came in the latter stages of the thrilling Cup quarter- final against St. George ' s. With the tie deadlocked at 2-2, extra time was necessary. The visitors stole an early goal to lead for the first time in the match. Then, with the light fading fast, Saltus ' final surge was rewarded with a stunning curving shot from Marshall which rocketed in off the post, and in the dying minutes Simons hit a wickedly dipping cross-shot from twenty yards to claim a marvellous and well-deserved captain ' s winning goal. Results: League :- V. Mount St. Agnes - won 6-1 V. Robert Crawford - drew 2-2 V. Warwick Sec. - won 4-3 V. Warwick Acad. - won 3-0 V. Northlands - won 3-2 V. Sandys - lost 0-2 V. Whitney - won 2-1 V. St. George ' s - won 2-1 Cup:- V. Robert Crawford - won 5-1 V. St. George ' s - won 4-3 V. Whitney (SEMI) - lost 1-4 Played 11, Won 8, Drew 1, Lost 2. Goals for 32, against 20. 66 Basketball The senior team this year were a very young side, with lour of the starting 5 in the fourth year. In theory this would be ealied ' our year of building ' as results were not spectacular. We beat Robert Crawford, Whitney and Berkeley and lost to M.S. A. Warwick and Chaffee, but for the most part the players were learning to play as a team. On tour this began to pay off, and wc were defeated only once in England in our first game. Jon Rego and Jon Cooper must develop their defensive, ensuring safety under our own ' hoop ' . Devrae must learn to build more quickly and not ' telegraph ' his passes and Craig Morbey, who played All Star this year, must realise he has the potential to be a great player and take on the opposition. There is good back up on the bench. Norman Timmins, Keith Hodgekins, Barrie King, Michael Davis, Scott Amos, Damian Payne and Anthony Francis all give us strength in depth. If the team stays together and practises hard we could have an outstanding season next year. N.B. James Mason was the only senior year player on the team and will be the only one to leave, so we have considerable continuity. Craig Morbey was voted M. V.P. by the other players and received the Hamill Trophy for one year. Junior Basketball The effort put in by this team is perhaps shown best by the fact that when they started the season, only team captain John Burchall had played for the school before, and yet they managed to finish as runners- up to a very strong Chaffee side. Coming in for training on weekends really helped this side progress, so that they changed from depending on Burchall to producing a fine team effort. Shorn Young developed into a fine guard whilst Drew Douglas, and Andrew Ranee dominated the forward positions. The players were well served by such utility players as David Holly, Monty Hamill, Stanley Harris, Peter Hind, Andrew Bissell and Ashley Red- mond. They defeated Mount St. Agnes, Warwick Academy, Robert Craw- ford, Whitney and Berkeley in the league, and lost to Chaffee. In the tournament they were knocked out in the semi-final, in a very exciting game against Warwick Academy. - Jon Beard SKI TRIP ' 85 New Hampshire was the destination for this year ' s ski trip. Twenty-two students, five adults and myself flew to Boston, loaded our gear into two vans and as station wagon and headed up to the Waterville Valley area for three days of great skiing. We stayed at the Kings Court Hotel in Campton, where we enjoyed the mdoor pool, sauria. and pool tables, as well as hearty breakfasts and dinners. The first day skiing at Waterville Valley was perfect: clear blue skies, 35 F, ideal snow conditions and plenty of enthusiasm! It was remarkable how well most of the students skied, some for the first time. The next day, half the group went to Loon Mountain skiing, while the rest of us went to Manchester shopping. TTiat evening we enjoyed a moonlit sleigh ride and snowball fight. The last day. we all went back to Loon Mountain, as that was the preferred area. Unfortunately, it rained all day, but most of the students kept on skiing until they were soaked and chilled to the bone! With very little sleep the last night, we were all packed and ready to head back to Boston by 4.30 a.m. Sunday. It was a most memorable trip and thoroughly enjoyed by all. It might be noted that upon our return to Bermuda, we received a letter from the tour organizers in New Hampshire confirming my belief that our students behaviour had been outstanding. Members of the part were:- Katie Comes Susan Williams Julie McLean Bill Gringley Joe DeSilva Tom Dunstan Chris Br an Andrew McPhee Greg Love 11 Stephen Johnson Mr. Mrs. Brent Shore Kate and Hannah Sleeman Esther Thomas Dawn Kemp Nick New Brian Morris David Kendell Lawrence White Robert Petty Keith Hodgkins Jamie Comes Roland Lines Mr. (S: Mrs. Ken Sleeman Mr. Mrs. Brian Dilar - Brian Dilar 67 Rugby Senior Rugby 16th Jan. v. Whitney (cancelled) we were given the points 23rd Jan. v. Warwick - won 30-0 30th Jan. v. M.S. A. (withdrawn from league) 6th Feb. v. Warwick - won 22-0 13th Feb. v. Warwick - won 18-6 20th Feb.) 28th Feb.) v. Whitney sevens 6th Mar. v. M.S. A. cancelled as M.S. A. withdrawn from league Saltus Senior XV retained its Rugby League title by winning all of its games against the other three schools involved. The Schools senior team was made up on a well balanced mixture of Senior Year students as well as 5th, 4ths and some very promising 3rd years. We had a good solid front five in the pack drawn from Barboza, Davis, Cooper, Munro, New and Rowse and an able and speedy back row of Amos, to the attacking backline of Captain Corin Smith, Harrison and Speedy Simons and Petty on the wings. Maclntyre although still a third year played a useful and intelligent role as a full back. As a team on the field Saltus Senior team had one major weakness. This was the predictibility of their passing game. Excellent possession won by our hardworking forwards all too often was wasted by our talented backline. Half backs and centres would gradually drift across the field using up valuable space and time as passes were often slow in coming so that our speed merchants on the wings had no room to move. On one occasion Simons looped all the way back across the field in order to give himself a chance of scoring! Not exactly text book rugby but certainly spirited. All too often players attempted the impossible by trying to run through both packs of forwards when good team mates were outside of them waiting in vain for that pass which never came. In fairness the ability to utilize all of the space available on a rugby field and when to run and when to pass take years to develop. It is to the credit of all of these boys that their enthusiasm more than makes up for the lack of some of rugby ' s finer skills. What is particularly worrying as schools coaches is the lack of opposition for our players. Old rival M.S. A. did not raise a rugby fifteen this year greatly weakening our very fragile league. Only Saltus, Whitney and Warwick Academy had Senior XV teams this year. With the evergrowing popularity of basketball and the increasing strength of cross country and road running one wonders how long can schoolboy rugby keep going. It would be a great pity if lack of opposition caused such a great game as rugby football to die in Bermuda Secon- dary Schools. With 4 substitutes a team, schoolboy rugby games can involve up to 38 boys in one game and we can play in nearly any conditions. In the 25th Annual Whitney sevens Saltus had a team in the finals of all of the three age groups but were unfortunately runners up in each final. We, as coaches, will endeavour to encourage schoolboy rugby in Bermuda wherever we can. House competitions will be maintained and all boys should be aware that two healthy leagues run at a senior level all season based at Nationals Sports Club. Here ' s hoping for a fuller season next year! - V. Evans, R.M. Rais trick Mr. V. Evans Mr. R. Rais trick Junior Rugby Once again this was a frustrating year for junior Rugby, with such a small number of school games available for such a large number of enthusiastic players. The early season practices were very well attended and on one occasion four coaches were required to put the boys through their paces. Apart from enthusiasm, there was a group of players possessing experience and ability who made up a very competent ' A ' team, and were expected to perform well against other schools. Unfortunately, owing to organisational problems, Whitney Institute were only available on one occasion and both our ' A ' and ' B ' teams lost to talented opposition. As last year, Warwick Academy could only field one team, but unfortunately for Saltus a very able one, and our promising ' A ' team lost both encounters. Fortunately, the Whitney 7 ' s provided an outlet for the enthusiasm and spirit of our rugby squad and a great deal of experience was gained which will be useful next season. Both U13 teams reached the semi-finals, with the ' A ' team losing to Whitney in the final. It is sad to witness the gradual decline of interest in school rugby, particularly at the junior level, when the game at club level on the island appears to be gaining in popularity. Hopefully, next .season will provide more opposition and our teams will achieve more success- ful results. - Dave Harrison Tennis A number of promising tennis players entered the Senior school last September and should be well pleased with their important contribution to the school ' s tennis programme. Particularly impressive at number one seed in the Junior side was Steven Spencer- Arscott. The school had teams in both the under 14 and over 14 division of the newly formed B.S.S.F. summer tennis league this year and at time of writing looked likely to finish the season as runners-up to a very strong Warwick Academy team in the under 14 division. Under 14 Squad: Steven Spencer- Arscott, Charles Cooper, Monty Hamill, Mark Riihiluoma, Joshua Howard, Jason Semos. Over 14 Squad: Chris Bryan, Dirk Scheland, Ewan Cheyne, Michael A. Davis, Tim Leach. - Dave Ross ( Coach ) Badminton 1985 This season the club met on Monday afternoons in Saltus Gym, the B. A.A. premises being unavailable unfortunately. As a result the three courts were very well used, but not too congested, and an enthusiastic nucleus of players practiced regularly. An inter-school game was played Berkerley, but the highlight of the year in terms of competition came in the well organized Schools ' Championship at B.A.A. Saltus players were well represented in the Final rounds, and the most notable performances came from Roland Lines and Norman Timmins, who won the Senior Doubles Champion- ship, beating the top-ranked Whitney pairing 15-11, 15-11 in an ex- citing final. Sea Tigers... Claws not sharp enough! The Saltus Sea Tigers played two games this season against their old rivals Warwick Academy. The first game was played at home against a ven. variable and often young W.A. side. The seven players on the W.A. team were selected and rotated from a side of thirty-six individuals. The Sea Tigers completed the first quarter against a strong selection with a one goal draw but as the game progressed and many of the younger W.A. players were fielded the Sea Tigers showed their claws and despite an advanced state of fatigue, stretched their eventual advantage to a resounding 8 goals to 1 victory. The euphoric Sea Tigers then froliced in the water with all thirty-six of the opposition in a ten minute free for all I The return match at W.A. proved to be a far harder affair against a smal ler but more determined and skilled W.A. side. The Sea Tigers were trailing at half-time by 2 goals to 0 but after some excellent play and many shots at goal scored their single goal of the game. The final score remained at 2 goals to 1 . with both teams feeling the strain and looking very tired in the closing minutes. Perhaps the Sea Tigers will learn that failure to attend practice sessions and over robust play, which results in out of play time penal- ties, will dull their claws! All of the players must be congratulated on their determination but special thanks should go to Patrick Cooper for his excellent job as team captain. Whatever happened to Octopush . ' Sea Tigers Squad Patrick (I ' m in charge) Cooper Craig (Splasher) Davis Norman (Never say die) Timmins Scott (the actor) Amos Drew (stand on the bottom) Douglas Tom (Webfoot) Chasser Sean (the cat) Simons Ashley (the silent) Redmond Fraser (tight lipped) .Mien Matthew (the maimer) Brewer Donald (can 1 pla in goal ?) Bra Stanle (where are my trunks. ' ) Harris Senior Volleyball Last year ' s successful volleyball team continued their winning ways and those of the senior team by finishing the season undefeated, making this the third successive year they have done so. The team was well captained by Jonathon Rego who domi- nated the play in all the games. He led the team to league victories against: Warwick Ac, Noithlands, Mount St. Agnes, and again in the tournament against the same teams plus Whit- ney Institute Chaffee. Jonathan was ably assisted by the spiking of Michael G. Davis, and Jonathan Cooper; the setting of Anthony Francis and Andrew Clarke; and the all round play of Norman Timmins, Barry King and Keith Hodgkins. Our B team also won their section of the tournament. This was an excellent performance by a team that included: Patrick Cooper, Brian Morris, Devrae Noel-Simmons, Barry King, Jason Jones and Craig Morbey. Colours: Re-awarded: Barry King New: Jonathon Rego, Jonathan Cooper, Michael G. Davis, Anthony Francis, Andrew Clarke, Norman Timmins, Keith Hodgkins, Patrick Cooper. Junior VoUeball The boys concerned with the Junior Volleyball teams can be well pleased with their efforts. None of the boys concerned had represented the school in volleyball before, and so had to work hard on their game in the early weeks. Narrow defeats by Northlands and M.S. A. were followed by a resounding win against Warwick Academy. The hard- work they had put in really showed itself in tournament as the A side reached the final. They narrowly lost 2 games to 2 to M.S A. who also finished as league champions. Our B side dominated their tournament games to finish champions. Players included: Shorn Young (Capt.), Andrew Ranee, John Burchall, David Holly, Drew Douglas, Andrew Bissell, Ewan Cheyne, Craig Maclntyre, Brian Mello, Andrew Hubbard, Frazer Allen, Ashley Redmond, Monty Hammill and Sean Simons. Cross Country We were not able to compete in the inter school meet this year and so the inter house compeition was the show piece for our runners. In keeping with previous years all the boys ran well and produced some very close competition. Barry King showed what a promising runner he is turning out to be as he set a new course record, winning by almost a minute and a half from second place Marco Zanol. Sean Sim- mons and Andre Zanol continued their tremendous battles at intermediate level, where Sean just pipped Andre for first place, and set a new course record. In the junior competition Sebastian Hcna gulph ran an excellent race to finish first, beating Luke Fisher by ten seconds, and equalling the junior record. Good runs by all the Watlington runners gave their house a convincing overall win. Inter-School Track and Field Despite the fact that the meet is so soon after the Easter break many of our athletes performed extremely well and show great promise for the future. A group of our boys are now training regularly in the national programme and we hope they will go from strength to strength. Successes this year were: Barry King, Sean Simmons, Craig Mor- bey. Andrew Ranee, Craig Maclntyre, Sebastian Henagulph. Andrew McPhee, Anthony Francis. Barry King, Sean Simmons, Andrew Ranee and Andrew Bis- sell. . . All have competed successfully in road races in Bermuda. Cricket This year has seen an all round improvement of the standard of crici et at Saltus. Both sides have generally been much more competitive and with the laying of a new wicket where the boundaries will be larger it is hoped that standards will improve further. A full schedule of House Matches was also played allowing many non-team players the opportunity to display their skills. First XI The First XI has ben the most competitive all round team for a number of years. Brian Morris as captain was an excellent example. The first match against Berkeley was won by five bowling from Morris, Joaquin and Burchall, backed up by good fielding and sound batting. Against Robert Crawford, having reduced them to 66 for 8, the school let the game step out of control allowing 30 runs to be scored in the last 4 overs which proved a total beyond the reach of the schools batsmen . The Cup Match against Robert Crawford was the only time where the First XI became despondant and many of the basics of cricket seemed to have been forgotten. It might have been a very different story as Crawford were 25-3 after 8 overs, but then a succession of vital catches were missed. Results Won V Berkeley (Cup) Berkeley 1 03-9 (30 Overs) Morris 3-11 Joaquin 3- 14 Saltus 107-6 (23.5 Overs) Lost v Robert Crawford (League) R. Crawford 1 14-9 (20 Overs) Bissell 4-22 Saltus 94-8 (20 Overs) Lost v Robert Crawford (Cup) R. Crawford 225-8 (27 Overs) Saltus 1 1 5-4 (30 Overs) Noel-Simmons 30, Burchall 36 not out Won V St. George ' s (League) St. George ' s 47 (15. 5 Overs) Morris 6- 13 Saltus 51-1 (5.6 Overs) Lost V Warwick Sec (League) Warwick Sec 2 1 8-6 (30 Overs) Joaquin 3-33 Saltus 48-6 Dec (20 Overs) Draw V Old Boys (Founders Day fixture) Old Boys 237 D.Smith 116 Bissell 4-46 Saltus 192-9 Morris 57 not out, Noel-Simmons 39 The following boys represented the First XI: Morris (Capt.) Noel-Sim- mons, Joaquin, Burchall, Marshall, Showers, Young, Davies, Bissell, Ranee, Harrison, Francis, Amos, Rabain. A remarkable bowling performance by Morris destroyed St. George ' s to give the school its easiest victory for many years. Morris was ably backed up by Noel-Simmons, for once forsaking the gloves, Joaquin and Burchall. Tight bowling was not a feature of the League Semi-Final at Warwick Secondary where the home side punished much loose bowling to leave an impossible total. In the final game versus the Old Boys the First XI nearly pulled of a surprise when having allowed the Old Boys to score 237, despite Bissell ' s 4 for 46, reached 192 before time ran out. The Most Improved Cricketer this year was Andrew Bissell. IXI Reading Averages Bowling: Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ava Morris 28. 4 135 13 10.4 Bissell 13.4 1 106 8 13.3 Joaquin 28.5 3 169 22 25.4 Burchall 24 3 135 5 27.0 Harrison 18 2 154 2 77.0 Batting: Innings Not Out Runs High Score Avg Morris 4 2 95 57 47.5 Bissell 3 2 34 27 34.0 Noel-Simmons 6 1 125 39 31.3 Burchall 6 2 89 36 22.3 Joaquin 5 1 54 18 13.5 Junior XI The Junior XI this year proved to be both enthusiastic and courageous in face of some heavy defeats. The game against St. George ' s unfor- tunately proved to be a rout but in the defeats against Berkeley and 71 Paul Undo (batting) and Mr. Hermann Smith during u iiuusc tnuu ii . Whitney considerable application in the batting department was much more in evidence than in previous years. Against Robert Crawford the team ably led by Rabain who was assisted by good performances from Lindo and Morris produced a most pleasing result. Results Lost V Whitney (Cup) Saltus 52-7 (15 Overs) Rabain 22 not out Whitney 53-2 (10 Overs) Lost V Berkeley (League) Saltus 27 ( 1 1 .3 overs) Berkeley 33-1 (5 Overs) Won V Robert Crawford (League) Saltus 1 29-4 (20 Overs Lindo 46, Rabain 28 not out Robert Crawford 70 ( 1 8 . 3 Overs) Morris 3-8 Lost V St. George ' s (League) Saltus 43-9 (15 Overs) Morris 22 St. George ' s 44-1 (5.4 Overs) The following boys represented the Junior XI: Rabain (Capt). Lindo. Jones, Cooper, Morris, Van de Weg, Manuel. McKittrick. Dixon, Hamill, Capewell, McPhee, Richmond, Harris. Pringle. House Matches Senior Results: Butterfield 65-8 (13.4 Overs) lost to Saltus 67-4 (8.4 Overs) Darrell 94-7 ( 16 Overs) lost to Watlington 98-3 (12.2 Overs) Darrell 135-6 (16 Overs) lost to Saltus 139-3 (12.1 Overs) Butterfield 33-5 (5 Overs) lost to Watlington 34-2 (4.1 Overs) Watlington 75-9 ( 12.4 Overs) lost to Saltus 79-0(8.4 Overs) Final Standing: I st Saltus; 2nd Watlington; 3rd Darrell and Butterfield Best Performances: Batting Davies 61 Darrell Noel-Simmons 60 Watlington Bowling Morris 4-S Watlington Junior Results: Butterfield 97.8 (16 Overs) lost to Watlington 98-4 (14.3 Overs) Darrell 50-9 ( 1 2 Overs) lost to Saltus 51-1(5.4 Overs) Saltus 143-3 (16 Overs) beat Watlington 81-9 (16 Overs) Darrell 77-4 ( 16 Overs) lost to Butterfield 78-1 ( 1 1 .4 Overs) Saltus 57-9 (9 Overs) lost to Butterfield 5S-4 (9.3 Overs) Darrell 16-7 (6.2 Overs) lost to Watlington 17-1 (1.3 Overs) Final Standings: 1st Watlington. Saltus .S: Butterfield 4th Darrell Best Performances: Batting Rabain 51 Butterfield Lindo 95 v Watlington Bowling Rabain 4 for 4 v Darrell Richmond 3 for 7 v Saltus Smith 3 for 6 v Saltus - D. Hennonn-Smilh Sports Day Winners SENIORS INTERS. JUNIORS lOOM. Morbey Burchall Azaro 200M. Joaquin Burchall Fisher 400M. Morbey Burchall Fisher 800M. Noel-Simmons Simmons Henagulph 1500M. King Simmons Henagulph 3000M. King Simmons - 4xl00M. Butterfield Darrell Saltus 4x400M. Darrell Saltus Watlington SHOT Barboza Brewer Azaro JAVELIN Noel-Simmons Marshall Harris DISCUS Davis Ranee Bennett LONG J. Morbey Showers Cooper TRIPLE J. Morbey Smith Cooper HIGH J. Davis Zanol Azaro POLE VAULT McPhee Maclntyre Van de Weg TUG-O-WAR Darrell The Victor Ludorum Trophy this year went to Craig Morbey. The Senior Year Trophy went to Marco Zanol. Softball In this year ' s Softball Tournament, Saltus played with skill and great determination. They won games against St. George ' s 6-5, Whitney 7-6 and M.S. A. 1-0, losing only to Chaffee by a score of 2- 1 . Saltus met Chaffee again in the final series and won the first game 6- 1 , but lost the final game of the tournament by a score of 4-0 enabling Chaffee to win the championship. Team members were:- David Holly, Andrew Clarke, Drew Douglas, Devrae Noel-Simmons, Norman Timmins, Raul Miranda, Ashley Redmond, Barrie King, Anthony Francis. Staff V The School The staff have met with mixed success against the students in a variety of activities throughout the year. Two keenly contested soccer games were played during the Christmas term. In one, the School 1st XI battled to an impressive 3-1 victory; in the other, against Senior Year, the Staff managed to salvage some- thing of their reputation, winning 2-0. On Sports Day, the annual tug-of-war contest was fought out between the Staff and the 5th Form. Tactical positional changes by the Staff paid dividends as they triumphed by 2 pulls to none. Although the result meant that Staff pride was not hurt, the same cannot be said for certain parts of their anatomy when, realising that defeat was inevitable, the students decided to let go of the rope! Perhaps the most evenly-matched encounter was in vol- leyball - a mammoth battle which stretched over two lunch hours. The students won the first game fairly easily but, having familiarised themselves with the rules, the Staff fought back strongly to win the second, the twenty-four hour delay before the deciding game obviously took its toll on the Staff as muscles previously unknown had stiffened overnight. The students got off to an early lead and, although the Staff fought valiantly, victory went to the ' youngsters ' . The Staff v School annual golf tournament was played at Riddells Bay and, despite bring- ing back Mr. Stephenson at enormous expense, the Staff were again defeated by lOVi points to 15V2. The result was not important since the weather was beautiful, the company good and the refreshments at the end - provided by mothers - most welcome! The Staff did, however, suggest that we loan one of our mathematicians to the Junior Golf Association to assist in the calculation of handicaps which seemed to be overly generous! At the time of writing, only one fixture remains to be completed - a tennis tournament. We hear that the headmas- ter is trying to employ two new teachers, one named Lendl and the other Connors, before next week, but even then there is some doubt as to whether they would be good enough to make the team. Swimming We again dominated the inter school swim meet, winning the boys section for the eighth successive year. The competition is getting better and better, but our swimmers continue to find that extra bit of effort when it matters. The following boys represented the school:- Scott Amos, Craig Morbey, Michael Davis, David Shadbolt, Fraser Allen, Matthew Brewer, Sebastian Pedro, Stanley Harris, Nicholas Rowse and Nicholas Swan. Inter-House Swimming The inter-house meet was once again an enjoyable, well con- tested meet, with Butterfield emerging as champions to win the Amos cup. It was a similar story in the water polo. Players like Craig Morbey, Patrick Cooper and Nick Rowse at Senior level and Matthew Brewer at junior level all helped Butterfield to dominate the proceedings. Ethiopian relief Sponsored Marathon A marvellous response from Saltus students Having entered most of the road races run in Bermuda over the past couple of years, the obvious Final Ambition was to go the 26 -f- miles distance in the January International Marathon. Pounding the roads in the months prior to the event, the thought occurred to me that this masochistic effort might well be used to raise money through sponsorship, apart from simply offering me a personal sense of achievement. With so much media coverage devoted to the famine in Ethiopia, a cause presented itself immediately. I had a special vest printed, pestered Saltus students and staff for pledges of cash, and then ran. I suppose I had a figure of one thousand dollars at the back of my mind. As a result, the ultimate total of $1,409 was tremendously gratifying, and I take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed - in fact almost every member of the Senior Department. My thanks were echoed by the Account- ant General on behalf of the Bermuda Government, Oxfam UK, and no doubt by a good number of anonymous young Africans. - B. Shore Tour Diary (extracts) No sooner had everyone checked into the airport, on Sunday, March 31st, than Barrie strucic, first he forgot his keys and was paged, he then set off the metal detector with his calculator, and last, but not least, he had to change his socks in the terminal in front of all the passengers. Well after all this excitement, everyone settled down for the long flight. The tour group consisted of 17 students and 3 teachers. Mon. Day 1 The flight was smooth with no incidents, except when Devrae Derek donned their scullies, and attracted a crowd of onlookers. After the 6 and a half hour flight, we waited for 2 hours in the airport with all our bags, waiting for the teachers to get our buses. After our long wait we rode for 3 and a half hours to Millfield School in Street in Avon, where we were staying. We then played or should I say tried to play football and eventually lost to Strode College 4-0. After the football game the Basketball game was played, our team consisted of football players and we lost the game 34-24. After a quick shower we were off to dinner, which was typical English school meal. Again when all was silent... Barrie struck. After finishing dinner we put our plates on a belt, Barrie was unfamiliar with the procedure, and made a mess of things by breaking two plates and spreading food all over the floor. That evening we settled in and terrorized the dormitories, Derek became BANANA MAN, in his orange suit, and there was a conference in Brian ' s room, all night long. Tue. Day 2 After breakfast, we drove to Longleat safari park, and saw the animals. The monkeys were the most enjoyable as they scampered and played on the cars, ripping and tearing off aerials. we named a bunch the Tree Trunk Possie , as they posed on a tree trunk. After the hour drive back we played Crispin School at football, and drew a game we should have won l-l, with Brian (Bulla!) scoring. That evening after our 34-13 win in basketball, we drove to Bristol for some Ice-Skating. CIVILISATION! At last people, and shops, as we had been out in the sticks. The ice rink was complete with a D.J. and decent music. After exper- imenting on skates, we played Roxanne, and began Break dancing on skates in the middle of the rink, attracting girls. Barrie, the best skater, asked a girl to teach him to skate, and kept falling, on her purposely. Wed. Day 3 We drove to Hereford in the morning, and played soccer against Haywood High School, on a pitch resembling Warwick pond. After a fine team performance, we won 3-0, perhaps our best game as a team. After soccer we played the county champions in basketball, and after a sluggish start won 38-32. After the basketball we mingled with the students and got some addres- .ses. That evening after a hearty dinner at McDonalds, we watched Hereford play Rochdale. We had a lottery to predict the first goal which was scored in the 13th minute and so 2 people won the jackpot, as one said 13 and the other 14th minute. After the match we drove 10 miles to Bromyard. Mr. Beard ' s home town, and we met our hosts and went our separate ways. Thurs. Day 4 After breakfast we met at Bromyard Cricket club, and went to pla Queen 75 Elizabeth School, on a mucky, muddy pitch. We won 8-1. After the game we had lunch at Mrs. Beard ' s and then drove lo a Falconry to check some birds. The lady at the Falconry did not know where Bermuda was, so we told her to go to Wales, turn left, and go 3000 miles South. When Bulla presented her with a school pennant she was so surprised she kissed him, and even more surprised when he almost fell in the mud! After a brief social evening at the cricket club, our hosts entertained us for the evening. Fri. Day 5 - Good Friday After breakfast we drove to Leicester and discovered English people do not fly kites, how boring. A football match was played against Uppingham Community College. We won 5-0. Remember the car that tried to join us in the back? After all this excitement we went to a roller rink in Leicester for the evening. Apart from the bumps and bruises we also got fmstrated as the girls were unsociable and didn ' t even say hello, bye cha! Remember Devrae tried to skate on his chin? or was he trying to breakdance? Well he ended up with stitches on his chin. And what about the bouncer... boy that guy was BIG and UGLY, and he threw the boys for fun. After skating, we drove back to Billesdon for tea and biscuits, and then a good night ' s rest. Sat. Day 6 After breakfast, our proposed run was called of due to injuries. Our blue white army invaded Leicester in the morning for shopping. We met at noon at the Clocktower and then we were informed by the Police guard that we were wearing Leicester colours. We entered Leices- ter ' s Filbert Street amid stares and frowns as we were in our tracksuits. We received boos and hisses as we entered the ground. As the game got underway everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and an 80 minute rocket from Whelan settled a fairly even match. After the match we saw the Red Army moving to the train station under armed escort. It is amazing what the authorities have to do Just to have a soccer game, close roads, the extra policemen and so on. After dinner we drove to Uppingham again to play basketball, against Mr. Janes ' old school. To our astonishment and pleasure there was a girl on the team, not bad eh? Mr. Janes. Well we marked her tight . Unfortunately Scott sprained his ankle going for a loose ball, and had to be rushed to hospital. .After which he received V.I. P. treatment, for the rest of the tour. After a hoth contested 3 periods, we broke away in the fonh peritxl and won 58-3 ). Craig had 24 points and an outstanding game overall. We returned to Billesdon and enturcd into the village for the evening. Sun. Day 7 - Easter Sunday After breakfast the Easter Bunnies had arranged an egg each, and then we let our for our football game against Royce Rangers. When we arri ed we all had to change in a shack and then proceed to • play football in wind. RAIN. AND COLD. Despite the conditions in which it was so cold our hands were numb, we won 5-1 (Bulla 3. Chris2) and Bulla had a fine game. After the game we washed, ate. and went to Leicester X ' elodame. and saw British .American Ftxuball. and then we saw Beverly Hills Cop with Eddie Mui-phy ! IN PAINT AND Photogram of animal skull Ransacked The record player lay smashed on the floor. The records were broken and cracked. The Sharp ' s audio cassette recorder was left on the bed in pieces. Books were tossed carelessly but purposely all over the room. Along with wrinkled, clean clothes, there were unwound and crushed tapes flung onto the star system dresser and scattered on the floor. Posters and pictures of great sentimental value were torn. Suits from the closet were shredded and ripped. Slashed pillows and bed mat- tresses released the stuffing and feathers. The ceiling lamp was shattered and fan blades were broken off. My desks had been upturned and had had all their contents shaken out and spilled all over the floor. - Jason Semos IJ A Batsman Drapped in white trousers and shirt and a V neck cotton sweater bearing the team ' s crest, Greg Cavelle anxiously waits for his turn to bat. His team mates chalk up run after run, hitting the bowlers to the far comers of the field. He jokes and laughs as yet again John Williams, ' Jacks ' a spin bowler to the boundary for six-runs. Yet he is still tense and inspects his bat as a craftsman would inspect his tools. His pads are adjusted and he walks around so that his legs become accustomed to the cumbersome pads. His helmet is clasped in his hand in a vice-like tense grip. The crowds ' cheers echo around the ground and the hearty rhythmic claps of the fans was intermingled with their cries of praise. The batsman jerked upright as Howzat ! was shouted as the ball rapped William ' s pad, yet he again relaxed as the umpire waved on play. The batsman intently watches the bowlers and their style, and approach. He then demontrates a serve to his team mates and points to the tall pace bowler. Suddenly the pace bowler increases his run up. He bounds forward and leaps into the air, ready to project the ball like a human cannon, the ball skids of the astro-turf and thud! The stumps are nipped out of the ground and the bails are flung into the air. The fielding team rejoices and praise the bowler as the dejected Williams heads for the pavillion. The loud speaker crackles to life. John Williams dismissed by bowler Dale Bantan for 33 runs with the score now 157 for 2 , the announcer continues amidst applause for the batsman. Next up Greg Cavelle . The batsman emerges from the pavillion like a gladiator clad in helmet and pads ready to duel with his bat. - Jonathan Rego Puma Yellow eyes peer out from the night, A venomous snarl is heard. The mighty puma steps out into the moonlight, Its world recoils in ultimate horror. The rabbit pricks up its ears, Listening, its glass eyes watching; No movement is allowed as the hunter draws near. Architectural studies by the Senior Year Photography Students liSi A Day at the lieach I lay on the inflated mat with icct dangling in the t x)l, refreshing water. The tourists were on the beach, most of them walking about with their suntan l()tif)n spread in thick white globs all over them. Some lay like red crabs on the white sand. I flapped my feet to move to a different angle where, for a split second, the glare of sun on the water caught my eye before I moved again. In front of me was a tourist floating along with his red. hot-kxjking. shiny, bald head. I wanted to poke it ;in ' ! -c if it left ;i v. hite mark but decided not to. From down on the beach came scream. ■ l Ki cr und Inghl. so 1 turned to see what it was. I saw a tourist bouncing down the steps leading down to the beach, on a red Maxi Fuch. He was hanging off the back squeezing the brakes frantically. When he hit the sand at the bottom he swayed and fell off. I started to laugh for this was greal entertainment. He was lost in a crowd of interested, helpful people. I turned to face the open sea and was swallowed by a huge, over- hanging wave. When I surfaced and opened my eyes, still clinging to the mat, I was lying in a white, foamy, bubbly water which tickled my legs. When I stood up I realised that I also had caught the sun uk much. I walked up to the beach house as normally as I could. - Hugh McPhee S2H Cat (scraper-board) by Mark Mullaly 5D A Loving Home I scratched on the screen Hardly able to stand On my weary feet, All was dark, no movement; A light came on. The curtain pulled back, A sleepy face peered out There was a shout, Go away! ' The door was thrown open. Then an old, ripped shoe was thrown, Hitting me on my side Making me yelp in sharp agony. The owner of the boat Watched me limp away, Laughing, not caring. I plodded on Not wanted, not loved. My last few steps. Brought me to another home, Another family. With a final effort, I gave a plaintive cry Then collapsed. Not seeing the door open, Not hearing the sorrowful exclaimation, Not feeling myself being carried. I awoke in front of a fire. Wrapped in a warm blanket. With four sets of eyes Focused upon me. A warm bowl of milk, Was pushed under my nose I lapped it quickly. Feeling the warm liquid run down my throat. Giving me renewed energy. I lay there. Enjoying the attention. Unable to grasp the fact I had finally found, A loving home. Summer Lane by Greg Lovell 5H - Chris Dunn 3S 11 Alone The rain fell onto cold, Twisted metal. Searing tongues licked away Beloved... memories. The scream pierced the night. Glasses on the mantelpiece, new Jagged shrapnel. The muffled choke of a delirious man. Tears and sobs mingle with the Mourning whistles of the she-dove. The cat placid, licking its paws, cleaning its face. Wondering when Mistress would come And feed him. The man walks through the cobblestone park Despondent, aimless. Fear and loss in his heart and mind. Liquid courage and solitude in his hand. The sun rose without him the next morn- ing, They found him in a lonely alley. His now-cold sap mingled with frag- ments of Glass, his fortress now shattered, its sup- ply run Dry. Surrounded in sleep by his reproduced memories. His family. Mask (scraper-board) by Greg Lovell 5H Crocodile by Janine Advice. Senior Year Defeat Arms thrashed Legs pounded, Releasing a current of white foam. Only twenty metres to go. Our arms reaching desperately, For the finish. We were neck and neck. I struck the touch pad. But who was victor? We gasped for air, Both awaiting the times. He jumped. I sank. He had won. All sense of accomplishment, Dissolved into the water. My eyes flooded. My muscles ached. And my stomach turned. All hope left me. I was paralysed with shock. All that training for nothing. My body tightened and Felt as though it were Shrivelling up. My mind spinning uncontrollably With confusion. I had been defeated. - T. Chasser 3S With a dove vainly struggling to keep Warm. _ Harrison 3S 78 One On One I look dismally at the paper. Heave in and sigh out resignedly, The nightmare has become reality, The moment of truth has come. The hours wasted playing around. Have finally caught up with me, The books that were never opened, Are haunting me on the desk. The loud music at the parties. Is just a jumbled series of echoes. The people dancing and laughing, Are laughing and screaming at me. And what a fool I ' ve been. To think I didn ' t need to study. For the parties and music Just can ' t help me now... The innocent little paper is still there. Like some terrifying creature. And now it ' s time to do battle, And only the fool shall fail... - C. Maclntyre 3S Self Portrait by Derek Bay lay IB Nervousness and Pain The small boy stood, perfectly still Except for his fingers figiting. His head stared toward the feet of the principal, Following every step without fail. His body stood rigid, Beads of sweat tracking down his face. His mind searched for lost words But could only think of the master ' s stroke . The principal paced back and forth. Spitting out words, rehearsed constantly. The cane cracked up and down on his hand. With the rhythm of a drummer. The boy slowly arched his back over the chair, And placed each hand, individually, down. His bottom lip slipped in between his teeth. And his buttocks tensed sensing pain already. The executioner ' s arm came down, One, two, three, four, five. The boy stood and pressed his eyelids together. Try to stop his drenched eyes from leaking. The crime was punished and forgotten. The principal waved him off and turned. The boy ' s face flushed, eyes full, legs shaking. Walked out much more nervous than hurt. Photoponrait by Helen Outer bridge. Senior Year - Drew Douglas 3S 79 Help us fight our losimg brttle... National Trust logo by Derek Joaquin 4 ' A The Teacher Can you please be quiet! I am trying to mark this test, and if you continue to talk then the whole class can stay in here afterschool ' . The teacher ' s eyes scour the room like a hawk hungry for food. All is silent and the students continue with their work. He continues marking the papers, his thoughts in deep concentra- tion. The expression on his pale tan face changes regularly. His eyebrows dark and thick are sometimes puzzled over the answers. Muttered words echo throughout the classroom but they do not arouse his attention. The pen he holds stops working. He looks up wearily. His hands cover his face and a mild yawn can scarcely be heard. This is a break; too much pressure day in day out; he can ' t take much more and soon he ' ll explode; fatigue becomes the main factor. He tries to fight it but knows he cannot win. His eyes a fiery dark brown, look bloodshot from too much stress. Gradually they start to close, he tries to resist but resistance is impossible. Sleep! Yes that ' s the answer to his problem, sleep. Ten minutes left in the lesson he tries to continue marking, he can ' t, so he tries standing up but his legs seem like they ' ll give way at any time. There is a faint cry in the wilderness, Sir, the boy clears his throat, sir... sir... sir . The teacher simply ignores him for awhile then finally he goes over to the boy, the floor-boards creaking with every step. They talk and at the end both parties smile in appreciation. Ring! The lesson is over. The door is open quickly. The scraping of the chairs occur all at once. There is a mad scury to escape the clutching jaws of the class-room. The teacher returns to his seat. Again he tries to finish mark- ing but the fatigue and aggravation hang over his head like a dark cloud. Later. He leaves and closes the door behind him. - Devrae Noel-Simmons S4 Only One Leg The maddening frustration. I scream in Grips me again. Emotional agony. I can ' t walk, but To break the silence, I can still think Create a sound... any thin And feel To my dismay. I brood. I brood in vengence I am allowed to mix To him that did With no one. This to me. For fear of worsening Fraser Allen ! ! ! My injury. All forms of self-entertainment - C. Klein 3S vv iiiiiii Illy ihjujC Become obsolete, And I crave for freshness, Real light and Warmth on my face. I lash out with My one true leg, Knocking a shelf And shortly disturbing The solid air, causing It to vibrate in New life before slowly Becoming dormant again. 80 ' What all this ' ere? G. Lovell and friend! Senior Year Report The Senior Year Class of 1984 85 was, on paper, the best qualified since the inception of the Programme. Much was expected of the students, therefore, and I am pleased to say that we have not been disappointed. All of those seeking to continue their education in colleges and universities abroad have received offers of admission, and included in the list of prestigious institutions which have accepted our graduates for September are Yale, Princeton and Brown. Yet Senior Year is not concerned merely with university entrance. We aim to educate our students in the broadest sense of the word, and creating a Senior Year ' spirit ' is a vital ingredient of that process. In this respect, this year ' s Class has undoubtedly achieved much success. In addition to the many valuable con- tributions they have made to the life of both schools, they have also raised - through such methods as bake sales, the sale of Valentine carnations, and a sponsored quiz - over $1,000 to- wards the cost of their graduation dinner. It certainly promises to be a night they will long remember! With the publication of the Advanced Placement results in July, I am sure that the majority of students will receive due reward for their efforts throughout the year. Much of the credit for that success will belong to the teaching staff of both schools who give freely of their time and expertise in helping to ease the transition to university life. I thank them, as well as all those whose involvement, in whatever capacity, allows the Programme to function smoothly. As for the future, the demand for places continues to exceed those available. We shall be judged, however, not by numbers but by the calibre of students we produced. Next year ' s Class has a difficult example to follow yet. if they enter into the Programme in the right spirit, they too will soon realise that Senior Year can be both a rewarding and enjoyable experience. - Mak ' om Dwrant Remember When... ... The girls re-arranged the furniture . . . Ray had a haircut. . . (is Ray ' s hair supposed to be like that) ... Lawrence went in the girls bathroom ... The magazine fights and the paper planes ... The girls re-arranged the furniture again ... Someone glued Ray ' s locker shut ... The xmas decoration s appeared at Halloween ... The fire extinguisher ... When Thomas forgot what he did at 40... which time. ... Chris tried to pick the flowers but they weren ' t there ... Chris ' s shoes ended up in Nin ' s toilet ... The girls re-arranged the furniture again and again... and AGAIN. ... Lawrence messed up Susan ' s hair... major crime! 1 1 ... Paul got his hair cut... and cut., and cut and became Pasquale ... Ray wasn ' t vexed... (when) . . . Goggles took up plumbing in the dark room . . . with her head. ... Francine laughed... (hee... hee) ... Thomas stole Katie ' s skirt ... Cathy kicked the door ... Jake wore his rain jacket... on his legs . . . Susan Hawkes threw the dark and stonny out the window ... Peter forgot to go to U.S. Histor ... Christopher put baby oil in Gina ' s hair ... Katie sewed up her hem... finally . . . Daw n aw ned ... Marina beat up Robert (with a wet napkin) ... Someone put vaseline all over Susan ' s locker ... The perfume Brigade (Lawrence ou smell lovely) Janine Advice Mt. Alison Fine Arts A.K.A House Karen Amis Townsend State Gina Cardell Mt. Allison Commerce Beckey Came St. Mary ' s Commerce THE GRADUATES OF ' 85 Kathie Comes Guelph Hotel Technology A.K.A Corny Marina Curtis-Evans St. Clare ' s Hall, U.K. A.K.A Nin Susan Hawkes Harcum Junior Equine Studies A.K.A Hocks Susan Hodson Pace University Business Administration 82 Julie McLean Faith Outerbridge Rotary Exchange Japan Western A.K.A Jules Biology A.K.A Hell Bells Helen Outerbridge Fiona Ross Western Dalhousie Biolory Science A.K.A. Hells Bells A.K.A Fifi Susan Williams Western Biology Adam Barboza Mt. Allison Commerce A.K.A Adumb ' Christopher Bryan Dalhousie Science Patrick Caton Toronto Engineering Science No photograph supplied Raymond De Silva Thomas Dunstan Peter Garrod Steven Johnson Western Daniel Webster Brown Queens Economics Aviation History Medical Science A.K.A Captain Maturity A.K.A Dunce Robert Jones Western Science A.K.A Bobby Mark Judson Bermuda College David Kendell Aberdeen Science Paul Kennedy Mt. Allison Biology A.K.A Pasquale ' Roland Lines Yale Biology Gary McPherson York College, Penn. Art A.K.A Mac James Mason Rollins Business A.K.A Jake Nicholas Rowse Mt. Allison Computer Science A.K.A Scum 84 Corin Smith Dalhousie Business Administration A.K.A Smitty Lawrence White Mt. Allison Business Administration A.K.A Shaggy Marco Zanol Western Economics A.K.A Zep Woolard ' Special Thanks go to: Nick... without whose computer homework our class would never have passed the year, Esther... for being a big inspiration to all the girls. Mark... for being someone we can look up to. Jake... for giving us an insight to Bob Marley... our graduation guest speaker. The three Musketeers (Robbie, Patrick and Steven)... for teaching us the TRUE meaning of innocence. Who Said What?.?.? Where ' s free? Where ' s the party? Chill out, man! What happened to all you girls? Who is goggles? Lawrence, you geek... My water ' s wet. I come from Derbyshire Esther, you ' ve matured. ENORMOUSLY! Flippin ek I don ' t know what I am My name is not HOCKS! It ' s HAWKES. It fell off! My ears! Chris, put my ears on! Me and my Thingwingies Three is three, right? No, no. The type of fairy that flutters around in the sky. Let ' s do a Burton. Righty ho! Cheesed off! I am too mature. Much more than thee, to partake in such frivolous verbular games. No one talk to the opposite sex, mainly feniciles! You ' re pushing it now. lads. You don ' t need underpants to see in the dark only ride BIG horses. Do you have a brother nanuul. Ralph? One reaches greater heights of spiritual awareness through celibacy. You want to couk ' with inc to the darkroom to develop something? 85 OPINION Students ' rights IT iS5 a sad fact of Bermuda life that even our school children are safe from scourge of drugs. So much so that Sa Grammar School has felt it necessan Students roll up their sleeves Students and staff of a local secondary school will rolling up their sleeves to donate blood, to the Red C: Clinic next Wednesday. The clinic will be conducting the blood drive for sij form students and staff at Saltus Grammar school. Mrs. Julia Sleeman, area clinic organiser for the ] Cross, said that students had to be at least 18, or 17 ' they had parental consent. She said that she would like to see the parents of students also get involved. The idea was put to Mr. Keith McHiee, principal Saltus, by one of his teachers. The idea went over o well with the staff and stude that we decided to host the project, - aaid Mr. McPhee. THE JUNIOR ARM of the Committee ( Bermuda As We See It to children aroun Donations of $4,000 each from the Dep Association as well as $2,000 from the Qi donated to the Committee of 25 for handicc CHTLDREN in the IslaiaVs primary and secoiiddrj ' scli olis will benefit fr«tn Saltus School ' s 375«h annivergfuy pi oje.ct a cotnptitei Who ' s Who of Bermuda history. YouiiKtstete at the school collected inforniatiun on Ilka island ' s history Keith McPhee, Salt ' G r a mm a r S c h o ( principal: My answer has be food to the people Ethiopia. How can we, our affluence, at this time supposed good will to men, not feel for those inn cent people whose sufferii is so great? As the Englii poet John Donne wrote, ai this quotation is particular appropriate to Bermud ' No man is an island, enti of itself; every man is a pie of the continent, a part the main; if a clod be wash- ed away by the sea, that continent is the less; any man ' s death diminishes me because I am involved mankind. ' Kids get a history lesson by computer siti table for use on an Apple coi puter. The disc, which will be prestiuted to ail schools which own Apple coiuputers, gives a potted history of some of the characters, presented in a quit format. It is our hope that it will prove an informative learning bid when used by Other students in Bemtuda, Bald€idtt r . . . , lister to Novelist dy school - I plan taught at Saltus In our picture, Bermuda Hotel Association finance committee chairman, Mr. Oil Popper, left, and Tourism Minister the Hon. J. Irving Pearman receive copies of Bert as We See It, while Saltus headmaster Mr. Keith McPhee, right, looks on launched its dri ' with the aid of the American fur ising company Ketchum bic, £ altus Centenary Campaign has more than doubled its original tarn t of $750 000, with dona- tions and - ' amounting to $1,655,000. On Monds tne school begins its fu t large proiect vith the donated funds, pour- area. The original plan when we started the effort was to raise enough money to make the school viable enough to carry us through into the next century and I think weVe done that, said headmaster Keith McPhee. Ck n8truction crews are expected to e nd the entire summer on school property Grammar tough policy drug users is by Education Minister Dr. George Thomas. Dr. Thomas (photo), whose department is draw- ing up a disciplinary code of Qonduct for schools, said he would be examining the way Saltus Grammar Schoors new anti-drug system works. Headmaster Kei h McPhee revealed ex- clusively in the Mid-Ocean News last week that any pupil suspected of using Money will also 1 drugs would face choice renovations repairi of taking a detection test and adding new taciiteie ' . ' ' ' ifi 1986, the school celebrates its 100th birthday. The money that makes up the $1.6 million figure represents money that will be coming in ever the next four or five years, •aid Mr. Mcl ee. ' It won ' t be a case of us being able to do everything this year. copies of its publici ourists staying at h( and the Bermuda 1 ' lelped out. Profits wi week ' s Saltus pri2egi EDITORIAL STAFF: For the Senior School: , General Editor: N.J.ri, Kermode Sports Section Co-ordinator Layout: D. Janes Literature Editor: Mr. R. Raistrick School Artwork: Mr. V. Evans Senior Year Liason: David Kendell Our thanks to all our contributing photographers BOOK 000103665 For the Junior Department: Editor: G. Sutherland For Cavendish Preparatory Department: Cavendish Liason: Mrs. Penny Sampson And everyone else!