CHRIST’S COLLEGE OLD BOYS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24389, 16 October 1944, Page 3

CHRIST’S COLLEGE OLD BOYS

. ♦ ANNUAL REUNION HELD Mr C.' W. D. Bell presided over a good attendance at the annual reunion of the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association, held in the Memorial Hall on Saturday evening. There were present also delegates representing old boys’ associations of several other New ■ Zealand schools. "It is my duty' first to propose the toast ‘Christ’s College.’ and I am- very proud of Christ's College," said Mr Bell when he gave his address. “But we know and appreciate the worth of other schools in New Zealand, some of which are represented here this evening, and one of the things that is dearest to us is the spirit of rivalry that exists among us. It is a rivalry in which, win or lose, there is neither rancour nor animosity." Mr Bell referred to the deaths during the last year of three former' presidents of the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association, Mr H. Cotterill, who was president in 1905, Mr T. H. Lowry (1916), and Mr Charles M. Turrell (1937). They were men of whom the school could feel justifiably . proud, he said. Congratulating Dr. L. C. L. Averill on his election as the new president of the association, Mr Bell said there could not have been a happier choice for the position. He knew of few men who were more respected or better liked. He also extended congratulations to the headmaster (Mr R. J. Richards) on the manner in which the athletic sports had been conducted. "The "boys showed good spirit and sportsmanship, and we feel that you and yoilr staff are doing a great job, he said- ..... si. The ever-increasing war casualty list of the school could be surveyed sadly, but proudly, said Mr Bell. Those men who had died and their comrades still in ary tlon in the front line would always Tie remembered by succeeding generations, and he felt there could be no more suitable memorial to their service than that decided upon at the annual meeting of the association the evening before, the extension of the Memorial Hall to form an arched gateway at the main entrance of the school. Mr R. J. Richards complimented the retiring president on his speech, which he described as being admirably suited to the occasion. He thanked the president and the old boys for their support to the school during the year. The toast, "Kindred Associations,” was proposed ■by Dr. Averill, and the representative of the Christchurch Boys’ High School (Mr E. B. E. Taylor) replied. Representatives of other schools were Messrs F. R. Meredith (Nelson College), J. Ainger (St. Bede’s College), F. H. G. Johnstone (Waitaki High School), E. A. Cleland (Timaru Boys' High School), W. A. Hammett (Wellington College), H. Hobbs (Cathedral Grammar School), Dr. J. Leslie Will (Otago Boys’ High School), and Captain J. A. C. Shand (St. Andrew’s College). ■