CHRONICLES

The following appointments have been made for 1960 - 1961

Head Boy: C. Newman.

Head Girl: Gillian Bevan.

Prefects (Boys): Jackson (Deputy Head Boy), Bond, Chapman, Crowe, Ferris, Gibson, Hine, Jennings, Jupp, Newman, R., Robertson, Stone, Stuart, Swayne.

Prefects (Girls): Susan Vaughan (Deputy Head Girl) Janet Brooks, Gillian Brown, Edna Chadwick, Lynda Hann, Anne Jennings, Barbara Jennison, Sylvia Oakes, Eve Perry, Lima St. John Jones, Gillian Stiling, Elizabeth Thompson, Janet Till, Julia Vickery.

Captain of Rugby: C. Stuart.

Captain of Hockey: Gillian Bevan.

House Captains (Boys): Athenians, C. Newman; Corinthians, Robertson; Spartans, Bond; Trojans, Ferris.

House Captains (Girls): Athenians, Anne jennings, Elizabeth Thompson; Corinthians, Janet Brooks; Spartans, Barbara Jennison; Trojans, Lynda Hann.

We offer our congratulations and best wishes to Mr. Luxton, our groundsman, who was married on September 24th.

For our School Play this year we have chosen a nativity play “TheTrue Mistery of the Nativity”, a modern version by James Kirkup of a medieval play. It will be performed on December 13th and 14th at Holy Trinity, and on December 15th at St. Peter's, Budleigh Salterton.

Many followers of first class cricket in the school will be aware that this year for the first time a Staff cricket team was formed. An almost complete report of its activities is given elsewhere in this issue.

We have now taken possession of our two new classrooms, the English Room and the Geography Room.

National Savings for the Spring and Autumn Terms amounted to £56 15s.

School honey is on sale daily at 4 p.m. in the Domestic Science Room - price 3/6 per lb.

With regret we announce that the School Magazine will appear only once a year in future. A glance at the statement of accounts of the School Club which follows will reveal the reason for this.

EXMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL CLUB

Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for Year ending 31.12.59

J.C.

As we go to press, clearing up operations are going on after the disastrous floods of the first two weeks of October. £20 has been sent by the Social Services Committee to the local relief fund.

It is never easy at the end of the summer term to cope with the fifth and sixth formers, who have finished work, when the rest of the school is plunged deep in examinations. This year it was fortunate that the G.C.E. exams continued well into July, and the time remaining at the end of term was so short that the ingenuity of the staff when called upon to devise post-examination amusements was remarkable even in the last days of the term. Geographers and historians completed much useful work, some making a local land utilization survey, others examining features of local history and church architecture. The. Dartmoor camp was so successful last year that it was repeated, in less satisfactory weather, but with the same high spirits. Many other useful end-of-term jobs were performed by teams of seniors: hurdles were repaired and repainted, stage equipment was overhauled, flower troughs were made for the local library, and even the tuck shop was partially reconstructed. The co-operation of the seniors in making this scheme work was particularly commendable; it is to be hoped that, next July, the present school session will close equally successfully.