impression of irrepressible cheerfulness has remained, and we shall always remember him as a boy and man who loved his fellow men. After leaving school he served for a spell as sapper with the S.A.E.C., and also put in a few years of study at Cape Town and Rhodes Universities. But farming was essentially his love, and for some ten years he managed estates in Natal and Tanganyika before finally getting his own farm in the latter country, near Morogoro. Here he lived with wife and family for some years, under tropical conditions, and in spite of the change in status of the country, and the less attractive outlook for white residents, he decided to stay on. Ths was not to be, however. A severe heart condition meant transference to Johannesburg by plane; there he was in hospital for six months, recovered sufficiently to come down to Durban to recuperate, had a further setback, and died in a Durban hospital. He leaves a wife and four children, all under the age often,and to them we extend our sincerest sympathies. Later News: Allan Piper (23-25) passed away just before the New Year. Fuller reference will be made in the next Magazine. OLD BOYS' NEWS At the Methodist Synod, Natal District, held in Pietermaritzburg in July, 1965, the following Old Boys represented their various Circuits; D. Clark (Empangeni), Rev, D. J. Crankshaw (Stanger), H. G. Hackland (Ixopo),E.A.Etagemann(Stanger),J.H.Hopkins(Kearsney),T.A.Polkinghorne (Verulam), Rev. P. R. Young (Pietermaritzburg), C. W.Theunissen (Durban South), as well as Messrs. R. H. Matterson, J. F. Reeee(Durban County)and Rev. A. R. Jennings (Youth Department). The following took part in the Zululand Building Operations at Nongoma in July; C. M. Biggs, C. Hemson, J. Hemson, as well as Mr. C. E. Jeannot, D.F. Reeee and D. Robinson (present scholars). L.A. Allen (53-58) has gone to London to work with the Grolier Book Co. in Farringdon Street. A.O,R.Askew(34-36)is, we understand,teaching photography in Durban. J.H,Scott-Ayres(42-46) is with Stanley Motors,Durban. He continues to take the interest in running he showed in his school days, and ran in this year's Comrades Marathon. He also succeeded, with the blind runner Ian Jardine, in the ambitious project of running from Johannesburg to Durban (400 miles) at the rate of 50 miles a day. On the fifth day,at Ladysmith,he pulled a tendon and had to receive pain-killing injections thereafter, but courageously completed the course. The run began in heatwave conditions and ended in a thunderstorm; for the last section they chose to run through the night. D.J.Brothers(58-63) was awarded the Alfred Beit Scholarship at Rhodes University for the most outstanding examination results for the year 1964. Firsts in Botany,Zoology and Chemistry,and a Second in Physics. The Alfred 115
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