Form IIIa
SAYER, P. - Joined 1965; KOSB; Trenchard; Pipe Band (drummer); Drama Society; 2nd, 3rd Year Rugby Teams, 2nd Year Cricket; House Prefect, Commandant's Orderly; continuing education. Home address: 93 Mays Way, Potterspury, Tow-cester, Northants.

Form IIIb
ROSS, K. T. - Joined 1964; RAF; Trenchard; 1st, 2nd, 3rd Year Rugby Teams; Chapel Orderly; continuing education. Home address: c/o Chief Technician P. Ross (579486) TASF, RAF Akrotiri, BFPO 53.

Form IIIc
GILROY, S. G. R. - Joined 1965; RAF; Trenchard; Model Railway Club, Drama Society; Home address: 23/3 Calder Grove, Sighthill, Edinburgh, 11.

Form IIa
STEAR, G. C. - Joined 1966; Royal Signals; Cunningham; continuing education. Home address: 34 Muirfield Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Form IIc
MacKAY, A. M. - Joined 1966; Trenchard; Pipe Band (drummer). Home address: 29 Tay Court, Glenrothes, Fife.

Form Ib
RANKIN, J. R. M. - Joined 1967; Trenchard; School Choir. Home Address: 4 Barry Avenue, Bicester, Oxford.

Form Ic
CARMICHAEL, T. - Joined 1967; RAF; Trenchard ; continuing education.

Our best wishes to those who are leaving or have left.

Retirals
Mr HUGH  BROWN, M.A. (Cantab)
Mr A. H. ROBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc.

At the end of this session the School loses to retirement two very important members of the academic staff - Mr Hugh Brown, Senior Master and Principal English Master, and Mr A. H. Robertson, Principal Mathematics Master.
Mr Brown has been on the staff since 1955 when he succeeded Mr Bowen as Principal English Master.

At this time the "winds of change" were blowing strongly through the School and Mr Brown brought to us a wealth of boarding school experience and a remarkable ability to grasp at the roots of a problem. He also possessed a determination never to be too surprised, pleased or disappointed at a boy's reaction to any given situation - even when the boy in question may have been led to believe otherwise.
No school could have wished for a more devoted and talented teacher of English. Not only do a great many Old Victorians have cause to be greatful for having passed through his hands but quite a number of Staff children too can look on his ministrations with equal gratitude.
In 1962 he succeeded Mr Stewart as Senior Master and since that time has been the most constant means of steadily improving the academic and domestic welfare of the boys, giving of himself unsparingly in the process.
Writing about him is not an easy task because he has always had scant respect for overpraise, and rightly so. He also has a liking for precise English.
I hope he will forgive this writer's failures in the latter and accept that so far as his work for this school is concerned overpraise would be very difficult.
Our sincere best wishes go, too, with Mr A. H. Robertson who terminates his very successful teaching career here.
He succeeded Mr Stewart as Principal Mathematics Master in 1962, bringing with him wisdom and experience in full measure - and fitness and energy more usual in someone much younger!
His unfailing good humour, combined with good discipline, and his infectious zest for living are things both staff and boys are going to miss very much indeed.
We understand that Mr and Mrs Robertson are visiting New Zealand for a spell before deciding where to settle. We wish them a most enjoyable trip and a long and happy retirement.

Obituary
Mr E.  BLAKE
In the last week of the year Mr Edward Blake died peacefully in his own armchair in his home in Dunblane. It was, somehow, typical of him to die as he had lived, calmly, quietly, without fuss or bother. Although he was no longer on the staff of the School, he was often to be seen about the place, for the Commandant and others used his craftsman's skill as a draughtsman and sign writer for numerous odd jobs about the School. Indeed, the handsome badges which are attached to the walls of the Band and CCF Buildings remain his visible memorial. He was a meticulous craftsman and would release no