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and photographs collected during my thirty‐
odd years as secretary. I understand you have
an arrangement with the Reference Library to
store such items on a long term basis.
Editor: Frank’s article appears on page 52.
Now we know that it was you who penned
the name Summer Times, Frank, there will be
no name change for the foreseeable future.
John Rice writes from
Surbiton (1947-56)
I had just been reading the
item about The Mandrakes
in the proof of Summer
Times when I happened to
notice in The Times an
obituary of Robert Palmer,
who apparently died on
Friday in Paris after a heart
attack. Pop music not being among my inter‐
ests, I admit I had never heard of him until I
read about The Mandrakes, and I would not
have guessed from the obituary that he was an
Old Scarborian.
Editor: Robert Palmer’s Obituary appears
on page 19
Mike Elvy writes from Malton
(1946-51)
Volume 44. Another bumper
edition. We think the un‐
named girl in the St
Columba’s Youth Club photo
could be Anne! (Elvy)
(Page 14 Volume 44)
Alan Bridgewater writes from
Pocklington (1933-40)
You will have seen that I put a query on the
web‐site asking for info regarding ʺSnaffʺ Ruds‐
dale and ʺTaffyʺ Walsh. Apart from Bill Pottsʹ
suggestion re ʺTaffyʺ there has been no reply.
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Perhaps this is due to me being the only octoge‐
narian who has Internet access. I wonder, there‐
fore, if you could include my query in the next
edition of Summer Times and then, perhaps, one
of the older generation will pass on the answer.
Norman Overfield writes from
from Bardsey, Leeds
(1948-56)
This evening, on the web site
I am viewing colleagues at
the recent Christmas Dinner
2003. Two unknowns are:‐
Unknown 2, David Brown ;
Unknown 3 John Bowes.
I seem to remember John
Bowes was an ʺunknownʺ
last year.
Hopefully you can enter their names ‐ before I
encourage them to visit the site.
Did the photograph of Pete Robson, David
Merriweather, and self, proudly supporting the
Hospital Cup, reproduce OK?
Editor: The Hospital Cup photos now appear
on the OSA web site, and also on pages 27 &
28 of this issue.
John Hall writes from Notre
Dame de Cenilly, France
Just got my copy: good read.
Nice to see the photo of
Binder: I organised his re‐
tirement present from the
pupils and wrote something
for The Scarborian including
a line to please him as he
was into alliteration, ʺNo
longer from those lyrical lips
the lingering lilt of long Vergilian linesʺ. Itʹs the
only copy of the school mag I canʹt find, but I
think Iʹve remembered it correctly.
Bernard Jones writes from
Shrewsbury (1949-54)
I was talking to Stan Sedman the other day and