T. W.Beckett(57-62), now a leading Eastern Province athlete, swept the boards at the Grootfontein Agricultural College athletics championships. He ran the 880 yards in 1 min. 55.2 sees,(record), the 440 yards in 52.5; the 220 yards in 23.3 and the 100 yards in 10.4 sees. All this on a slow and crumbling track. He has since reduced his half-mile to 1 min.53.8 sees. P.Bland van den Berg(60-63)has been studying veterinary work at Onderstepoort since the beginning of this year. D. W.Barker (40-46) wrote in January on the eve of a world Jersey tour, in a party which included R.G.Foss(39-47). A world Jersey Cattle Conference was to be held in New Zealand,and a world tour was due to embrace Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A.and U.K. D.M.Barnard (61-64) at the age of 15 obtained seven Distinctions in the 1964 Senior Certificate examination. He has been awarded the Jan Hofmeyr Scholarship of R600 per year for four years' study at Wits. Dr. J. S. Bertram (26-32), who is a Fellow of the English Association of Secretaries and Accountants, has been awarded his Ph.D. by Taylor University (U.S.A.) for a Thesis on 'Bio-psycho-dynamics'. This is a twenty-monograph study on the strains and stresses upon individuals by industrial or personal tensions, and took two and a half years to write. We pay tribute to the energy of a man who, under the guise of a Zululand sugar farmer, has found the drive to study privately for nearly 20 years since the War,and achieves a doctorate at the age of50.This is a tremendous challenge to others who think their student days are finished on leaving school. D.L.Blake(36-42) was sales representative for the new Sales Force Africa Ltd., Johannesburg. These are marketing specialists who undertake to promote new products for other firms. While 'pushing' a Dunlop product in Durban,he was able to come up to the school for Sports Day. We have learned later that he has returned to his former job with Parke Davis, selling medical products to doctors, hospitals and mission stations. N.J.Blackburn(57-60)is, we hear,working for a shipping firm in Johannes burg and doing some part-time motor-racing at Kyalami. P. J. Baynash (51-56) achieved the Bachelor of Laws Degree at University College, London, last year. Congratulations. He was married in Durban last August. He is now associated with the Mobiloil Company,and he and his wife are living in a flat in London. M.H.Beckett(25-28) has now retired, after 30 years with Barclays Bank, and interests himself part-time with business interests in Durban. M.A. Barnard (60-63) is doing second-year B.Sc. at Wits. C.F.(52-55), L.H.(56-59) and N.R.(58-59)Bauer are all well-established on the land in central Natal.The oldest brother qualified first as a motor-mecha nic; the other two took their Matric at Mooi River Agricultural School. Two farm near Nottingham Road,and the youngest at Greytown. All are countrylovers, and all refer nostalgically to their happy days at Kearsney. K.Balcomb(24-31)has had a lifetime in African education,the last 15 years being in N. Rhodesia(now Zambia). Now,within three years of retirement, he has decided to come south,and probably to Natal. The reasons for this decision are given elsewhere. With a son now at Kearsney he finds his old ties growing stronger, and writes "Perhaps I shall get a job as groundsman at Kearsney, or Keeper of the Archives." D.Beatty(51-54), printer of this Magazine, has been to Paris to study latest methods of printing. Dr.E.J. R.Caney(44-47) has set up practice at Botha's Hill. P.B. Chaplin (39-45) is a Chartered Accountant at Umhlali and cheerfully faces the prospect of sending four sons to Kearsney. 44
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