One very welcome visitor was Canon Austin Owen Pozzi from Llandudno. This was his first visit to the School since he left over sixty years ago. This July he is celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of his Priesthood. Ad Multos Annos.

Dr Cyril Unsworth has been adopted as the prospective Tory candidate for Westhoughton in Lancashire. Ho has to contend with a large Labour majority but does not regard this as insuperable. When he came to lunch one day he seemed to think that since a large proportion of the. electorate put their lives in his hands they might as well entrust their vote to him.

John Davies has been out in Australia for four years and is now an authorised operator on the Melbourne Stock Exchange. His mother wrote, at his request, for an Old Boys' tie. She told us that Peter and Timothy are now happily married.

Justin Grealy is now Headmaster of St Bernadette's bilateral School in Nottingham. This is a new school with 550 children in it and we wish Justin every success.

Ernie Turner has now become the new marketing manager of Johnson Bros, the dry cleaning firm which has more than 200 branches. Up till now he has been the firm's advertising and publicity executive. He used to be very keen on car racing and has driven an Elva Climax at Silverstone, Oulton Park, Brands Hatch and Aintree. He is married, with two daughters.

On 19 June Onslow Bein and his wife Joyce, together with two of their friends in the Bournemouth area, came to visit the School, and for a few minutes Onslow tried out the Chapel organ. Onslow and the Headmaster first met when Onslow was playing the organ at a wedding at Branksome when the Headmaster was saying the Nuptial Mass.

Raymond Green was not very well in May but is now improving and able to get up. He has presented the School with a lovely oak chair which he had newly upholstered in dark red. it now looks very well in the redecorated Reception Room.

John Forrest is shortly moving from Reading to the Nottingham area and he is looking forward, as we are, to his having more to do with Cotton affairs as he will only be an hour away in the car.

Gerard Downes continues to do well at Wayland Baptist College, Plainview, Texas, where he is reading Sociology. This involves some travelling and he has been inside some State penitentiaries as part of his work. He has also given some lectures on the English educational system, He had a lucky escape from a bear which had the temerity to chase him when 12,000 feet up a mountain in Colorado. He flew back to Ireland for the national championships and won the All-Ireland Shot Putt with a putt of about 50 feet. Apparently there was some wrangle because he took his first two putts with his middle fingers bound together with elastoplast. Se he tore it off and putt the shot even farther than he had already. His mother and father are flying out to see him this summer.

Tony O'Dowd, who is now one of our Governors and a very active Trustee of the Endowment Fund, has formed a private company called 'The Voice of Birmingham' to

carry en the business of radio broadcasting. Together with his legal colleague Councillor John Silk, he is shortly to appoint the first directors.

Michael Hodgetts was married on Wednesday 6 August to Miss Barbara Winifred Sanders at the Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent. All the Staff send their best wishes for their happiness together and I am sure that all the boys who were taught by Michael during his years here would like to join with us in this message.

Former members of the 1st XV will be sorry to hear of the sudden death on Whit Sunday of Mr George Lamb. RIP. Mr Lamb was for many years the rugger coach of the Newcastle 1st XV and he loved more than anything else to give us a whacking at rugger, but at the same time he had a great respect and liking for Cotton. A tribute from this writer has been printed in the current issue of the Newcastle magazine, 'The Firefly'.

His Lordship Bishop David Cashman paid us a flying visit last term and we were very pleased to see him, even if only for a few minutes. tie met H W A Le Fevre at Weybridge lately, and the latter has written for the latest 'Cottonian'. Another episcopal visitor, who is an honorary Old Boy of many years standing, is His Lordship Bishop Cleary, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham. He comes to see us each term and has had some interesting discussions with the Sixth Form over coffee in their Common-Room.

We should like to congratulate Father David Cousins on securing his Licentiate in Canon Law in Rome. David

is going to teach at Oscott and also to act as Procurator.

Mr Francis Maher has written from Chorley to give us the sad news that his son Terence died on 7 May in hospital. We said the Dc Profundis at Visit for the repose of his soul and said Mass the next day for him. We can remember Terence as a cheerful, chubby young boy and our sympathy gees out to his parents at his untimely death. May he rest in peace.

Jon Hieatt-Smith suddenly sprang into life this July and sent us a copy of his recent poems, for the School Library. The book was printed by the Armageddon Press, which is the name of Jon's own firm. He is employed by the Pergamon Press and hopes to come up next Whitsuntide.

Dr J Christopher Gallagher is now working in Leeds where he is Registrar at St James's Hospital, after

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