There
are
one or
two
interesting items
in
this
issue,
one
in
particular
being the
date of Ezra's
arrival,
after the
Christmas
break - January 1956,
and the
departure of
Jack
Adams
and
Bomber
Jones at the
end of the
Summer
term.
Horace Pitchford
said
in
his
address on
Speech
Day " ----
he
felt
he should
warn
parents
who
permitted their
sons to undertake
paid
employment
before or
after
school or at
weekends,
that
they
might
be
putting
them
under
a handicap
that
would affect their
performance
in
School
and their
qualification
in
later
life."!
As
well as the
usual
contributions
by
numerous 1st
and 2nd
formers
and
Society
notes etc., the
sporting
notes
and especially the
cricket contained
a
(for
those
days)
vicious
attack on the
cricket
first team
players,
who
in
losing
only 2 of 8
played
would
be
considered to
have
done
reasonably
well
these
days. The
writer
does
not
reveal
his
name (Ron
I
presume) but
he certainly
pulled
no
punches.
In the section
devoted to the OBA
it
will
be
noted
that the
late
Norman Binns
was the Hon.
Secretary.
The
pages at the
front
and
back of the magazine display
advertisements
for
well
known establishments
in the
fifties, but
I
fear
very
few
remain
today. From Les
Simpson
