During the present year we have regretfully said good-bye to the Chairman of the Governors, Canon J. P. W. Lovett, who has left Prescot to take over a new parish—Sherborne, Dorset. On behalf of our readers we express our gratitude for many years kindly interest in the School, and add ours to the many expressions of goodwill that accompany him.

The Board of Governors has suffered another loss by the death, on July 7th, 1939, of Col. J. T. Hopgood, of Rainford. Col. Hopgood's interests were many and varied, but he managed to find time to render a good deal of quiet service to the School, and we wish to be associated with the widespread expressions of sympathy with his family.

We were interested to learn that Dr. John Oldershaw, for many years a notable public figure in Wallasey, who died on November 7th, 1938, was educated at Prescot Grammar School. Dr. Oldershaw went from Prescot to Rugby and Cambridge, and studied medicine at Edinburgh and Brussels before practising in Liverpool.

In this year's Birthday Honours we were pleased to note the name of an Old Boy of the School. Mr. Frederick Haigh, who received the M.B.E., Civil Division, for public services, is a Staff Officer of the Board of Inland Revenue. He was at the School about 35 years ago.

We have this year welcomed to the Staff, Mr. J. R. Smith, B.A., of Liverpool University.

We again appeal for a closer contact with Old Boys, who could lighten the editorial task by keeping us posted of their activities and results. It would help us considerably if Old Boys who are not members of the Association would guarantee to take the School magazine regularly.

H. CHANT & G. DIXON.