Extract from the School Magazine Vol LII iii July 1960 No 169 Captain: P V Strongitharm; Vice Captain: K Moore; Hon Sec: R Weaver.
Tag: History/School Magazine
The School Play
1949 A production of “Journey’s End” by R C Sherriff, produced by Mr George Wright, was performed with the following cast:
School Curiosities
Article from the school magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171. The photos are more recent.
Lord Salter (1890-99)
From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LIII, ii MARCH 1961 No. 171 Lord Salter, after whom Salter House was named, was at the School from 1890-99, and was the first Treasurer of the Old Boys Club between 1903 and 1906.
Professor A E Jolliffe (1882-1891)
From the School Magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171 Professor A E Jolliffe, after whom Jolliffe House was named, was a distinguished mathematician, having been an Open Scholar at Balliol.
Jack Halliday (1923-33)
From The School Magazine Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126 December 1945 We regret to report the death in an aircraft crash near Rochefort in France of Wing Commander Jack Halliday on his return home to be demobbed after service in India.
A H G Kerry (1896-1908)
From the School Magazine Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126 December 1945 A H G Kerry (1896-1908), after whom Kerry House took his name, has retired from Eton where he has been House Master for many years.
The Winter of 1946/7 part 1
April 1947 – EditorialLovers of statistics will probably find some subtle and abstruse connection between the date 1881, 1895 and 1947. These were all hard winters.
Collecting and Digging for Victory
From wartime magazine no 3 January 1942Almost everyone seems to be busy collectinq something or other these days to help the war effort, and the members of the School have proved themselves no exception to the rule.
A Limerick by “Mayhunto”
March 1908 “There was a young fellow from Perth,Who was born on the day of his birth.He was married, they say,On his wife’s wedding day,And he died on his last day on earth.” Was this the original limerick on this topic?