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- Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Favourite teacher
- Replies: 240
- Views: 129606
Re: Favourite teacher
Ditto: re: the cowpat poster. My overriding memory of Uncle is the Sunday morning session in his lab - ostensibly to practice morse code - where he had us calculate the full wave aerial length for a particular ham radio frequency, then measure out copper wire to be about 3x wavelength and string it ...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:35 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Vikki Askew
- Replies: 58
- Views: 46693
Re: Vikki Askew
In his book 'A Fire To Be Kindled' which is a professional memoir, Gordon Van Praagh only mentions a first trip to Sarawak in 1960, returning 'many times since'.
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:21 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Science teaching in the 50's
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26642
Re: Science teaching in the 50's
...being well taught Chemistry by Van Praagh... The question to address now is regarding Science Teaching in the 2020's and beyond - building on what might be viewed as a golden age of science teaching in the mid 20thC. Gordon Van Praagh summed up his experience in a book he wrote which was publish...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Vikki Askew
- Replies: 58
- Views: 46693
Re: Vikki Askew
michael scuffil wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:57 pmI only meant that many months had elapsed between 1957 and 1960 when I decided music was missing in my education...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:02 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Vikki Askew
- Replies: 58
- Views: 46693
Re: Vikki Askew
From my point of view there was absolutely no 'pop' music whatsoever (except from grecians who had 78/45 record players in their tiny day-room studies - 2 in Pe A at the time). Radio was restricted to the BBC Light programme which ran the gamut of 'Worker's Playtime' to Jimmy Young covers of Frankie...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:09 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Vikki Askew
- Replies: 58
- Views: 46693
Re: Vikki Askew
With subjects where I underperformed there was virtually no help from the teachers. With subjects I was adequate in, the teaching was 'adequate'. Only where I had an aptitude (science) did the teaching staff go out of their way to help me develop more fully. And when I had (personal) problems Van Pr...
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Matrons
- Replies: 27
- Views: 40210
Re: Matrons
He was one of the original participants in Voluntary Service Overseas, in fact I think he was a bit of a guinea-pig in this regard. Two of my year in Peele A went off to do VSO in 1960 - one to Sarawak, and the other to India, where he ended up more or less in charge of a huge refugee camp for Tibe...
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Management knowledge of the Husband/Dobbie cases
- Replies: 75
- Views: 29491
Re: Management knowledge of the Husband/Dobbie cases
Copied from where it is buried in another long thread in the CH General Chat forum: Hi All Thank you for your support. It was a difficult day for me - the address was 35 minutes long and I have no idea how I got through it - I only broke down three times and just for a moment or two. If you would li...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:37 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Teaching staff
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12032
Re: Teaching staff
I was shown round the Cambridge Mathematical Lab in the holidays during my LE year, about 1955, where EDSAC was installed in about three rooms. A relation was one of the professors who supervised its use, all punched tape and mystery. And air-conditioning ;-). I stayed a few days with my relation, a...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
- Replies: 293
- Views: 155356
Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Then Ignatius Loyola - and the Jesuits.
Then Bill Gates
Then Bill Gates
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:38 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Wendy Fryer
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8772
Re: Wendy Fryer
There was also an Assistant Music Master/Organist who married in the late 1950s - name escapes me... ********** EDIT********** Today's CHOBA News carries this obit info which fits the circumstances (John) David Swale Staff 53-61 who went on to be an organist at Adelaide cathedral. Also google tells ...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:00 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Corporal Punishment by CH Teaching staff
- Replies: 104
- Views: 40107
Re: Corporal Punishment by CH Teaching staff
Downside and/or Ampleforth had/have an equally bad if not worse reputation for brutality and abuse than CH.
- Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Attitudes to sports
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15650
Re: Attitudes to sports
Peele A had a full size snooker table, although billiards was the game of choice. Table tennis was played on the metre-wide dayroom tables, which resulted in players acquiring deadly accuracy on a proper table-tennis table. Not by me, though, as I was not a participant. Lack of cricketing skills mea...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:44 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: All this is incredibly sad
- Replies: 163
- Views: 69597
Re: All this is incredibly sad
Freemasonry? Perhaps, but much more as well. This is a link to a potted history of the way The City of London regards itself as 'above the law' (of rest of the land):
https://youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8?t=579
Specifically the section 9.40-13.12. The rest concerns wider matters...
https://youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8?t=579
Specifically the section 9.40-13.12. The rest concerns wider matters...
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 10:15 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: All this is incredibly sad
- Replies: 163
- Views: 69597
Re: All this is incredibly sad
I'm aghast reading some of this stuff. I was at CH from 1952 to 1960 and I fondly imagined that the worst of bullying and abuse was being consigned to history after I left, especially when the school went co-ed. But I find that no, some things seem to have got worse for some people. I never had my ...