Headmaster's Notes 05
(1959-60)

WHEN in the last issue of this magazine I welcomed the new Senior Master, Mr. D. L. Owen, I little thought that he would be with us for less than a year. An obituary notice appears elsewhere in this issue. He is succeeded as Senior Master by Mr. P. L. P. Clarke, while Mr. J. Jefford has become Head of the Mathematics Department.

The following members of the Staff left in July, 1961 : Mr. E. Charlton, to be Head of the Handicraft Department at Weymouth Grammar School; Mr. J. Richardson, to be Deputy Headmaster of Roundhill High School, Thurmaston, Leicester; and Mr. W. J. Thomas, to be Head of the Chemistry Department at Kingsbury School, Meadway, Dunstable ; Mr. J. S. Roe, to a post in Sweden. The School wishes them every success in their new appointments.

The School welcomes the following, who joined the Staff in September, 1961: Mr. D. J. King, M.A., Jesus College, Oxford, from Watford Grammar School, who succeeds Mr. Richardson ; Mr. I. Coleman, B.Sc., Queen Mary College, London, to teach Physics ; Mr. C. Chalmers, B.Sc., King's College, London, to teach Mathematics; Dr. J. Dewar, B.Sc., Glasgow, Ph.D., St. Andrews, to teach Chemistry-Dr. Dewar comes to us after experience at the University of St. Andrews and with I.C.I. ; Mr. M. Kennedy, B.A., King's College, London, to teach English, and Mr. H. J. Thompson, Shoreditch Training College, to teach Metalwork. We also welcome M. Yves Baudrier, French Assistant, and Herr HansPeter Oehl, German Assistant.

By July last almost all the boys who began their secondary education in 1954 at the Bourne School, and who became IIA and IIB in 1955, had left. Over twenty of them are continuing full-time education, mostly at universities. We congratulate Barry Maddams, first captain of the School, on being the first boy to gain a place at King's College, Cambridge, and A. J. Etheridge on being awarded a State Scholarship.

For the building project, last year was mainly one of frustrations, but by July all difficulties in the planning had been overcome and a contract was placed with Messrs. Panel-Lastik to erect a building in red cedar approximately seventy feet by thirty-two feet. As I write these lines in March it is nearing completion.