Patrick Moore Patrick Moore left at the end of1964,aftertwo years at Kearsney. He was a quiet and gentlemanly boy who chose his friends well, never seeking the limelight, and left the school a better place for having lived here. He had made a good start at Pretoria University when tragedy struck. A minor accident between his scooter and a car found him no more than dirty and a little shaken; against his will he was taken to hospital, where he suddenly collapsed and died. He was an only son, and to his grieving parents and sistewre offer our deepest sympathy,in that one just on the threshold of life should have so cruelly been snatched away. Raymond Metcalf Raymond Metcalf was at Kearsney from 1933 to 1938: a quiet and rather withdrawn boy, who did not easily 'open up' or make intimate friends. However, he had the distinction of ending up as Dux of the School. During his later years he has maintained no contact with us, and we are indebted to a relation of his for the following memo: A.R.W.Metcalfspent a short time in an office on leaving school and on the outbreak of World War II immediatelyjoined the South African Air Force, where he soon became a pilot and was attached to Bomber Squadron 21, with whom he had an exceptionally long period ofservice in North Africa. After the War hejoined the South African Airways as a pilot and remained until he resigned a little over three years ago. Photographic and radio equipment of all kinds, expensive and well-kept tools and a model ocean liner of his own making all revealed his enjoyment in the simple pleasure of "do-it-yourself" during the three years of his retirement; a well preserved Kearsney Honours blazer (Rugby and Athletics, 1937-38) hanging in his wardrobe showed that he still retained an affection for his old school, although letter-writing was never his line, and even to his parents would prefer to make a long-distance telephone call rather than write a letter. He passed away after a short illness on the 27th February. Ross Nightingale Ross Walter Lionel Nightingale died suddenly in May at Eshowe where in the course of a year or two he had built up a prospering connection as the Zululand Representative of a Durban tyre com pany. Before returning to his home Province of Natal he had owned a motor business in Pretoria, and earlier still, he had been for many 42
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