COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24748, 13 December 1945, Page 4

COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL

PROMISES OF £IO,OOO ALREADY

STATEMENT AT ANNUAL PRIZE-GIVING

Nearly £IO,OOO, or about one-third ol the sum it is hoped to raise, has so far been promised in an appeal being made by the Christ's College Old Boys' Association for funds to erect as a war memorial a tower and administration block to the north of the college dining h«l on Rolleston avenue. Mr R. J. Richards, headmaster of the college, made this announcement last evening during his address a «S, e annual prizegiving ceremony. The form that the memorial is to take was carefully and earnestly conSld i r t t d £ y th , e 9 ld B °y s ' Association and the Board of Governors," he said I am glad to say that the proposal has met with almost unanimous approval from old boys generally. Along with the dining hall, the tower and administration block will make a magnificent frontage to the college and will have a very great aesthetic appeal. • r Reference to the proposed memorial w«h^J SO w ina * d f„ b / th * e Warden (Archbishop West-Watson), who said that the scheme had received remarkable ffi ■5 9 u h< 2 ped " would not be iSSfjJrf said v b ?* ore the memorial was erected as a tribute to those who deserved so well of their country Archbishop. West-Watson spoke of the list of names of old boys of the college who had died during the final i=? °/ the .« war as " th e tart sad harvest of sacrifice." Boys who would be leaving the college fhis year, and in the years to come, would not be going out to missions of destruction, but would have to face the tasks of reconstruction, he said