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.of course Peter Scotland. I'll be on good ground there. It won't be a matter of collecting but of selecting material about them . . . towel rail . . . that is an R.E. job. I can't fix it properly. Where was I now? Yes the boys and staff that will give me plenty to write about. I must ask haw long an article Emrys wants. I recall with nostalgia the last Sunday of term and the hymn "God be with you till we meet again." I'm sure the last verse could be heard in Kinbuck.
. "Thank you, dear, that lawn looks much better now, the grass does grow quickly these days" —towel rail, the shelf. Some of the seventy-nine jobs any wife can ask any husband to do any time.
I could put a paragraph about "Drummie" Hetherington and John the Bun and Tubby Blackwood and about Nurse Kelt and the time when Dr Lindsay had to rush up to School the evening Big Farqubarson fell through the glass on the flat roof into the Central Hall below, and it was in 1921-22 when the electric lights were installed. There are ten miles of flex in the School and it was in '22 that the organ was built in the Chapel.
Yes I think I'll have enough material for an .article even though the mists of time have obliterated much in the years between. Just as a Commander maintains contact with his base no matter how extended his lines of communication may be, so everyone consciously or sub-consciously retains that link with the past down through the arches of the years and in many a reverie I see "old faces look upon me, old forms go trooping past" and I raise a humble hand in salute as a tattered battalion of ghosts goes by-
J.R.C.
Valete
To Services — 2565 M. Burrows (R.A.P. Boy Entrant).
To Civilian Life—2535 R. McKenzie (Apprentice Draughtsman); 2585 A. McKinnon (Apprentice Fitter); 2637 J. F. Lorimer (Apprentice Joiner). .
Salvete
2776 P. K. O'Connor (Royal Scots), 2787 R. A. Watt (Seaforth Highlanders), 2788 S. J. Donaldson (R.A.)
House Notes
CUNNINGHAM
Early this term we shook off our cross-country "jinx" by coming second instead of third. “match” Marshall and “Fido” Finley did very well well by coming first and third respectively in the individual championships.
At the A.C.F. County Sports we had our share of firsts and seconds, despite the rain and wind. Later in the term some of our boys represented Perthshire at Edinburgh. Unfortunately, none of us managed to qualify for the A.C.F. National Sports in London.
The next inter-House event In our very crammed time-table was the shooting, in which we came second to Haig by 2 points. "Baffl"
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Blackie brought Cunningham back into the limelight by being the second-best Shot in the School.
Inter-House Competitions still to be run off are Cricket, Drill and Swimming. If we do not come first in any of these sports it will not be for want of trying.
Unfortunately, we are losing some of our members at the end of this term, namely, Joe McKillop, Jock Airnes, Pat McColl, "Slasher" Kerr, Keith Amers, and "Simple" McDonald. On behalf of the rest of the boys I wish them all the best of luck in the future.
As this is the last time I shall have the pleasure of writing these notes, I should like to thank Mr Bruce and Miss Chalmers for all the help they have given to me and to all the boys in the House. I should also like to thank all the boys sincerely for the enthusiastic co-operation which they have given to me during my apell as House Monitor.
J. K. SIM.
HAIG
In the past year we have been very successful in the various House competitions.
Early in the year we won the Rugby Shield with both our teams winning all their matches. Then, although we had many enthusiastic competitors, Trenchard collected the boxing trophy, while we came second. Victory was ours again, however, in the cross-country race, in which both our teams won.
This term Haig again won the athletic sports, after a hard fight with Cunningham, who were leading till near the end. Special mention must be made of R. Watson, G. Ferrier, R. Chessar, and D. Mclnnes, who all created new School records, and of Charlie Ross, who was chiefly responsible for the junior relay win, and the turn of the competition in our favour, in the past week we have won both the shooting and cricket trophies, thus making sure of the House Championship, whatever may be the results of the drill competition and the possible swimming sports, still to come.
The Haig A.C.P. Platoon was also successful in winning the platoon competition at the County Sports in Perth, with the result that several of our boys competed in the national event in Edinburgh and helped to keep the trophy for Perthshire.
Russell Logan is to be congratulated on passing into Welbeck College, which he will enter in September. We wish the best of luck to David Pooke, who is emigrating with his family to Australia, and to all who are leaving us this term—Monitor G. H. Welsh, B. J. Carcary, W. R. Culbard, J. A. Dunbar, E. G. Lawson, R. J. V. C. Logan, A. J. McDonald, J. Murphy, D. T. Nisbet, D. Pooke, D. M. Sheach.
Finaily"we thank Miss Johnstone, our House Matron, for her tireless work in looking after the boys of the House.
G. H. W.
We congratulate, too. Monitor Welsh, the writer of these notes, on his success in the Higher Leaving examinations, and we hope he will gain his place at Edinburgh University. Under his leadership the House has had a most successful year.
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