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| Once more we
have to review a school year under the shadow of
war with its inevitable effects on all that we
have come to associate with school life. True it
is that we no longer have to spend whole periods
in the shelters : equally true is it that no more
masters have left to join the Forces, though the
School clerk, Miss Bowley, has recently taken up
nursing at Ormskirk Hospital. Yet we feel that
school is not what it would be if the shadow had
vanished : detail is unnecessary to illustrate
this, but perhaps the outstanding fact is that,
had there been no war, we should by now have had
more room for our ever-increasing numbers. Each
year we are becoming more congested : this year
we have removed our Woodwork to Derby Street and
converted the " Manual Room " into
Classroom 16. Before many weeks we may see this
divided into two, for during the school year just
closing new boys reached the century, making 393
in all, and there are nearly as many admissions
for next term. We are indeed crowded! Changes there have been. Miss Greenwood left last September to take up a post in her home town, and we welcome to our midst Miss A. Barton, M.A., formerly Senior Mistress at Sir John Leman School, Beccles : Mrs. G. C. Russell, late of Bootle Secondary School, and Miss M. E. Beresford, of Buxton. Meanwhile, we have news of Mr. Drewry, now in Italy, Mr. Smith, recently promoted Major, Mr. Scott in India, Mr. Turner, Mr. Fennell and Mr. W. J. Bailey, to whom we wish a speedy return. Two events have, however, held our attention during the year : the Shield Competition, with its double struggle at Goodison Park and that ever-to-be-remembered second-half of the replay, and the coming Quater-centenary, of which more presently. The School prefects this year have been W. E. W. Smith (Head Prefect) J. D. Wood, K. F. Court, R. A. Boulter, J. R. Hawthorne, P. F. Knight, J. W. Mercer, T. B. Parry, E. C. Reid, A. Rimmer, C. S. Fayle, J. S. Fowles and J. V. Williams. J. R. Hawthorne is Chief Librarian and J. V. Williams leading pianist. |