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This message was updated on 3/15/2008 1:26:31 PM by suzard

Heanor Grammar School
replied on: 3/15/2008 1:23:39 PM

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R & H 11 jan 1974
"... Morning assembly in the new hall set the tone for the days activities. The begowned members of the teaching staff in order of seniority stood on the platform on either side of the headmaster's table. There was the bearded Mr W.T. Clarke (chemistry and senior master) immediately on the headmaster's right and Miss L Baguley (English and senior mistress) on the left. At the time the masters included Mr A.J. White (affectionately known as "Pinkey"), Mr Rodway Barnes, the art master with the bristly moustache; Mr A. J. Dorn, much addicted to writing mnemonic verse as an aid to geometry; Mr S.E.House, who dwellt in the power regions teaching woodwork to boys with a passion for making boats rather than the set models which called for drawing to scale...
When the school had assembled, form by form, the headmaster would emerge from his room at the back of the hall and move to his place on the platform By the time I left the school some of the teachers who stood on the platform on that September morning of 1912 had long departed to join the forces and others had become familiar personalities before they too changed their gowns for uniforms. By that time too, some of the giants of the fifth and sixth forms who stood at the rear of the hall had also joined up. And sadly the roll of honour of people killed on active service was lengthening.

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