NO.119
Please come to Winchester Match
on 20th June
This is the main opportunity for OWs of
all ages to visit the School and to be
royally welcomed, fed and watered, with a
heavily-subsidised lunch in the Win Coll
Soc marquee next to Hunter Tent.
This year we are encouraging all the OW
Sporting Societies to gather their
members together on special tables: great
entertainment is guaranteed.
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
In March Suzanne put out a small display
for XVs – including an OTH pussy nametaped HA Jackson. The Jacker came to
the School in 1898 and left in 1903, so
the scarf must date from the very first few
years of the 20th century. It was proudly
modelled in March 1973 by RH Purser (F,
68-73) in the winning OTH VI (52:12 v
Coll and 32:16 v Commoners).
Glimpses of Winchester College
1934-38
The family of HM Cairns-Terry (B, 31-36)
have very kindly donated a box of Win
Coll memorabilia to the Archives,
including a length of pre-WW2 cine film
recording cricket, soccer, rowing and a
Corps march past.
This has been edited with the background
of the Symphony in G by George Dyson,
Master of Music at the time, and can be
found on the Win Coll Soc website or at
http://wincollsoc.org/new-design/pages/news/
ww2-cine-film-1934--1938
If you have not already replied, you will
find a Reply Form enclosed with this issue,
giving full details about the day;
alternatively, please register and pay on the
Win Coll Soc website: www.wincollsoc.org
TS118 Caption Competition
Annual OW Drinks Reception
One of the outcomes of the success of the
Years-on reunion dinners and lunches,
together with the growth of the Goddard
Legacy Society and Wykeham Patrons, is
that the November Drinks Reception is
increasingly poorly attended –
understandably there is a preference to
socialise mainly with one’s contemporaries,
and this particular event is the natural
victim of good attendance elsewhere.
After some consultation, we have decided
not to hold a Reception in November
2015 – we are as ever chary of running
loss-making events – but I am very happy
to discuss this and also to consider ideas of
other ways of bringing OWs together
across the years’ divide (apart of course
from everything else for this purpose that
we do already!).
Commoner Dog v OTH Pussy
The College Archivist would like to
thank JDFM Thornton (D, 43-48) who
kindly dated the Commoner Mascot, a
photograph of which appeared in TS118,
to 1946. Michael’s photographs of
Commoner VI and XV from 1945 and
1946 provided conclusive proof that the
mascot had first appeared in 1946. He also
thought that JRM Millar (D, 43-48),
Commoner captain, had introduced it.
[standing L to R] Goodrich, Dawson, Holtby
[sitting L to R] Disney, Purser, Lewin.
Visiting Win Coll security
arrangements
OWs are always most welcome, but we
have been asked by the Security
Committee to remind OWs who might
visit the School (other than for an event,
when the instructions issued might be
different) that they must arrive at the
Porters’ Lodge and not enter by any other
gate. They will be