Headmaster Stresses Importance Of Home

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30575, 19 October 1964, Page 8

Headmaster Stresses Importance Of Home

•The home Influence in a boy’s life is of the greatest importance,’* said the headmaster of Christ’s College (Mr N. A. a Creese) at the annual dinner of the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association. “Parents cannot expect us to do the dirty work, their part is so much more important,” he said. Mr Creese said he had also asked parents he had met not to over-indulge their sons. People got everything much younger today, but this made their school days more difficult.

The assembly hall is going forward, he said. Planning this was not easy and plans had not been completed, but the result would be worth the effort

In proptsing the toast to the college, the president Mr J. G. Reeves, congratulated Mr Creese on what he had achieved during his first year as headmaster.

He said work was nearly up to schedule on the assembly hall and the administration block should be ready by the end of the year. As soon as this was done the old wooden office duilding would be pulled down and work on the hall would begin at once. He said £155,000 bad been promised and £54,000 was in hand. “The boys of the school have agreed to contribute £5OOO in five years and the first year has been oversubscribed already.” Place Of School Outlining some of the functions the school should fulfil in the modern world, Mr Reeves said: “The crisis of our time is not in international politics, but in the disintegration of men’s minds. This is a world of turmoil and what we call civilisation has moved so fast that men’s minds have not been able to keep up.

“We must learn to use modern ideas without cutting

adrift from proven basic concepts. “Boys in this day are torn between the need for individuality and conformity,” said Mr Reeves. “If we do not ask the most of young people they will not make the most of their talents.” Mr Reeves said men must be aware of their own responsibilities if a decent way of life was to survive. The toast to kindred associations was proposed by the president-elect of the old boys’ association (Mr E. G. Pidgeon). Mr L Lash, from the Nelson College Old Boys* Association, replied. More than 200 old boys, attended the dinner.