TERRACE SCHOOL OLD BOYS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 87, 11 October 1915, Page 2

TERRACE SCHOOL OLD BOYS

«. DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT. "The Nipper" writes as follows to The Post :—' 'Sergeant W. A. Cross,* D CM., was the first clergyman to obtain the Distinguished Conduct Medal at the Dardanelles," so runs a paragraph in Saturday's Post. How many Terrace School old boys read that paragraph — how many will read it with extra joy when they know that Sergeant Cross is one of "MacMorran's Own" ! How will the old boy stationed at Singapore, at Kobe, at Flanders, and the Dardanelles — and any other place where you will find a Terrace boy — smack his chest and remember the' good old days when Fairbrother ruled the football field, when the Myers, theßichardsons, the Holmeses, the Blairs, the Tripes took their gruelling under Mons. de May d'Alkemade, and ■watched old' Bruno doing his peregrinations round the school yard. How many more will remember the old clay bank behind Shannon's, and, then, if they will cast their memories back, probably they will remember a stumpy, wiry boy, called Chingy Le Brun: "Chingy," who could do a double somersault before you winked your eye, who made you feel dizzy watching his evolutions on the parallel bar, with both hands in his pockets twirling like a whirlwind. You will remember his yarns — he kept me awake many sleepless nights — about the crematorium (we thought it was a new kind of chocolate) — but it turned oat to be the new art of cremation just coming into vogue. "Chingy" is Cross under another name. I haven't seen him for twenty or twenty-five yrare or more, but "Chingy" has never once been out of my memory. Probably, I was seven — but no more — but such a fine fellow was he that I have never forgotten my schoolmate. "Chingy" has --made good, and in making good he will hold pride of place on the honours board of the old school. I'm a-s proud now — although the father of a family— of "Chingy" as the hundreds of other old boys will be. He won his D.C.M. with the Australians, but he won it for his old school on the hill, that has turned out so many men. Here's to "Chingy," schoolmate, sky pilot, and soldier. May his D.C.M. be but a prelude to the honours that other old boys may get. My, won't Mac be pleased! the strap Bhould not get the five finger exercise for weeks.