No. 141 The Trusty Servant
Vox Senum
David Dannreuther( F, 66-71) praises the Editor’ s article in TS 140.
I was so thrilled to read your excellent and refreshing article Raising Books that I felt impelled to give you my observations.
I am very grateful that a Winchester education went beyond the narrow confines of the exam syllabus. Indeed, in my time it treated O level exams with such contempt that I had to cover English Literature O level Chaucer and Henry V outside of normal lessons, notwithstanding it was a requirement for Oxbridge entrance. Also we were not allowed to do History O level as that would pollute our way of thinking for History A level.
You can’ t keep some people away …
At the beginning of Common Time two members of staff marked their arrival together exactly 50 years before, as new
One of my English teachers made us read next year’ s set books in the holidays so we could go straight into analysis at the first lesson.
David White’ s( F, 57-62) memory was jogged by Brian Cranwell’ s note in TS 140:
While I was in the school, about 1959, Field Marshal Montgomery came to give a lecture in Chapel, after he had retired from the Army and Politics.
He mentioned that, during the War, he had visited the school( I think more than once) and divulged quite sensitive, classified, information about his immediate future operations, knowing that it would not be passed on
men in the school: David Hurley( E, 76-80) and Christopher Normand( F, 76-81) joined to anybody else. I wonder if Rev. Brian Cranwell’ s lack of memory was caused because secrecy was so ingrained after five years of War, that people tended to forget secrets in case anyone tried to torture them out of them?- knowing how the Gestapo behaved.
He spoke almost non-stop for oneand-a-half hours; on several occasions, Chapel resounded with‘ And I was Right __’. The only pause was when he said‘ I always knew that war was a dirty business, but Politics!!____’. He could not find a word bad enough to describe his opinion of European politics.
Win Coll on Monday 12 January 1976. After a variety of absences both are here again full time.
Pilgrims’ Leavers 1975. DPH and AJCN are in the middle row. Can anyone identify all seven future Wykehamists in this picture?
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