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to be mercenary, invite them, and all who read these Notes, when considering how their estate, property, and memorabilia are to be left, to remember their old School. The connection between this and what I have written above will be obvious, although I hasten to add that I am not making an appeal for funds to save the School, or anything like that. Nevertheless we now spend approximately £12,000 per annum of our invested funds to maintain the standards we have come to expect here, and in the past two years expenditure has exceeded income. My appeal, at this stage anyway, has more to do with historical legacy. The exhibition of memorabilia on Grand Day will show the kind of thing I have in mind, relics of the past of all kinds. Recently I was delighted to receive as a gift to the School the second Primus Medal which was awarded to W. L. Crichton in 1911. He was killed in action in 1916. I duly record my sincere appreciation to the donor, his half brother Lieutenant J. M. S. Lenton DSC RN (Retd) (Old Victorian: School number 459). If others would like to do likewise, papers, documents, certificates, scrap books, photographs, as well as medals and honours gained in later life, these will be added to our archives. to become the tangible evidence of, as I say, a unique establishment.
I have written at some length but these are important matters, and we have reached a significant milestone in.
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our history..! will leave it to the Headmaster and others to Chronicle the events of another busy and successful school year. May I thank everyone for their support. boys, parents, staff, old boys and friends, and we look forward with confidence to our Centenary in 2008.
Chapel Notes
After twenty years in the Parish Ministry, I thought that the years passed with increasing rapidity but the Academic year has a pace about it that can only be described as hectic! Instead of moving from Advent through Christmas to Easter and beyond, now it is Carol Services practices, end of term reports. Confirmation classes, examination setting and marking. Grand Day preparation through to Harvest Festival and Half-Term. Adjustment has been difficult but made much easier to bear by the friendly co-operation of staff and cheery response of the boys.
To be a Chaplain in a school these days is no easy furrow to plough yet it is that very difficulty that makes it such a challenge. My task here is not to cajole boys into the Kingdom but rather to encourage a questing after those truths that are not bounded by their
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