Administrator General for South West Africa; and, if you please, Springbok forward Theuns Stoffberg! W.N.(Wyn)Rock (46-51) got front page news in Natal through winning the Daily News Gold Pot of R23,000. We wish we knew the secret. His own comment: "With the way things are at the moment, I'll pay my electricity bill, fill up with petrol, and if there is anything left I'll buy myself an ice-cream." He has moved from his home down the South Coast and now lives in Glendale, near the old Kearsney, doing agricultural contract work with the Glenmill sugar mill. He couldn't have found a hotter spot. W.L.S.(Wally) Robinson (31-37), who is on the Kxecutive of the Kearsney Board, is our financial expert! Treasurer to the funds of the Methodist Church, Treasurer to the Zululand Mission, Treasurer of the Old Boys' Club, and goodness knows what else, he is a much-prized asset, and always a cheerful supporter at all Kearsney services and other functions. Or S.G.M. (Stan) Ridge (Staff 64-67) has gained his D.Litt for a the.sis on an aspect of Mark Twain's Philo sophy. He wrote "My external examiner. Prof. W.R. McNaughton of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, was very gratifyingly appreciative of what 1 have achieved on this thesis and strongly recommends that 1 should submit the work to an American university press for publication. He is a Mark Twain specialist himself of some repute, so I am hoping his comments will ease the way for me". Stan has been lecturer in English at Stellenbosch since 1969. D.M.("Tiny")Sinclair(21-23), Foundation Scholar and Kearsney's oldest Old Boy, is still very active in East London. He formed a company to build Kenneway, a nine-storey complex, with lower floors owned by hotel groups and upper floors used as flats, with himself in a penthouse on top, with a small garden. In similar vein (he is by profession a Quantity Surveyor) he brought East London Medical Centre into being and developed five Barclays Bank Buildings in various towns. He acts as Managing Director for these properties and is lucky to be fit enough to cope with it all. His son is having a dis tinguished career as a doctor, at present on an Award in Chicago. "Tiny's" memories of the early days of Kearsney are very vivid, and will be of great value in a future History. Dr. G.W.(Graeme) Shuker (41-48) is Chairman of the Executive of the Kearsney Board of Governors, and a very active and enthusiastic man. He is Executive Direc tor of Huletts' Timber plantations, and a soil expert. A very staunch supporter of Kearsney sporting functions where both his sons have done well. Dr P.W. (Paul) Slayen (41-44) is Medical Director, Students' Health Service, U.C.T. E.G. (Eatle) Smith (27-34), one-time DuJc, has steadily passed up through the Natal Education Department's Grades as teacher, inspector, chief subject inspector (Latin and Maths), and is now Chief Inspector for Schools for Natal. His incisive mind carries an air of real efficiency. It is his intention to retire at the end of 1978. B.(Barry) Smith (66-70), son of the above, is doing his articles with a firm of attorneys in Cape Town. He has now gained his International Umpiring Certificate and has umpired in Currie Cup matches. Dr M.G. (Martin) Shelton (45-49), who already has a B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., and M.R.O.C.G., was honoured recently during a visit to England by being formally accepted into the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Apart from teaching at Grootte Schuur, and a private practice, he is also in charge of a cancer clinic. J.A.(John)Smith (44-48)is a very proud cricket father. At his son's matches he is to be seen in deck chair, with hamper basket and flask, oblivious to everything but the events on the field. His elder son Bruce is one of Natal's most promising batsmen, and his younger son, Robin, had, I believe, an average of nearly 200 at Northlands at one stage. Barry Richards used him as his photographic model for stroke play in his book on cricket coaching. H.H. (Hilton) Shuttleworth (4549) has held various high offices in the Methodist Church in Pinetown, including that of Circuit Steward (following on, 1 believe, in the footsteps of Messrs Matterson and Reece when Botha's Hill was withdrawn from the Circuit). He has now moved to Westville. Throughout he has been an active member of church choirs and pays tribute to the drill in part-singing he acquired at school. J.O.N. (John) Schofield (31-34) still has the crooked arm that was so useful at school for carrying baskets at picnics. He has his own Insurnaee Company,and though now 6(Thas no intention of retiring yet. Dr H.H. (Halley) Stott (22-27), whose father gave Kearsney its present property at Botha's Hill, and who featured prominently in "Panorama" earlier this year, continues with his dedicated efforts with the Valley Trust (begun in 1951) to educate the African people into right methods of nutrition. He deplores their swing away from the basic foodstuffs of protein, vegetables, amasi, fibre and fruit to the "civilised" concept of a diet of refined sugar, white bread and soft drinks. This is leading to serious malnutrition and deficiency diseases. He has established communal gardens, explained the proper use of compost even on the most unlikely soil, and has installed a grinding mill for maize. Now he has the satisfaction of knowing that extra truckloads of fruit and vegetables have to be brought to the local trading stores to cope with their wants. He says he cannot overstress the harmful effects of refined sugar, glucose, white bread, white rice and soft drinks in our eating patterns. During the course of the year he travelled overseas to be awarded an M.D. (Edinburgh) on a thesis "The Valley Trust Socio-Medical Project for the promotion of Health in less developed rural areas". He also attended a symposium at Oxford. He was awarded his F.R.C.P. at Edinburgh in 1975. He is ready to give up his work now. but must find the right man to replace him, a man interested not so much in medicines as in people. A.B. (Albert) Theunissen (29-31), Kearsney's Big Business man par excellence, has now been appointed Director of Scottish Cables (S.A.) Ltd. The list ofcom panies of which he has been director or chairman would list a page in Who's Who, and we are very proud. Yet we can think back on the time when he took an M.A. and started life as a humble schoolmaster. H.K. (Howard) Timm (51-56) continues as VicePrincipal of Weston Agricultural College, Natal. It was interesting to watch him being interviewed on the TV. W.J.(Winston) Travis (56-60) is flourishing in a Record Store of his own in Church St, Cape Town, the city's only pedestrian mall. D.V. (Dudley) Thompson (52-57) is President of the S.A. Federation of Meat Traders, and Chairman of the Durban and District Meat Traders Association. Early this year he was guest-speaker at the annual Staff Con ference of Stock Owners, and his pertinent comments were of great interest to the 127 staff members and directors present, and to all the 7000 and more others who read them in the Stockowners' News of January 1977. In a delightful letter he writes "the main reason why Kearsney boys do end up in positions ofleadership is primarily because of the calibre of teacher our school has known. In stopping and examining the forces which have driven me on my little way, 1 recognise that you, and someofyour colleagues, created in us the traditional school spirit which is such that it does not create snobbish, exclusive tendencies, but a strong desire to enter the mainstream of life and accept the challenges therein. I am ashamed that it has taken me so long to say thank you for all that being associated with you at Kearsney has meant to me. 1 shall cherish the memories all my days." 82
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