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Nick Casey
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Can I - at the risk of appearing to fawn - congratulate you for having created a most inspiring website ? The various subsites are carefully worked out and in terms of style , the background of the home page depicting the pattern of perhaps the most embarrassing school blazer in the world is a masterstroke .Didn't we all at one time or another beg our parents to buy us a plain blue blazer as soon as they could ? That way the Sharston lot stopped calling us 'pyjama boys'.
I vaguely recall you , sir , three years my senior , but we didn't know one another . I did know a few of your peers , including Tav , John Gill and Simon Bailey , aka 'Baz' .
I didn't have any acquaintance with your brother born 62/3 , but when I moved to Xaverian VI Form College , I met your sibling born 59/60, on a biology field trip in Easter 78 and thought he was a very affable person .But I did associate alot with Paul , whom I invited to my eighteenth birthday party and I found him to be kind , cultured and witty .My parents thought he was a regular guy , as they did with several of my other pals. Please send him my warmest regards .
As to the school itself , I found my final three years to be most enjoyable with Messrs Scrowston , Moore ,Addis ,Kearney and Leonard to be caring form-masters . And Mr Mc Cabe , Mr Brennan and Mr Thorpe were ideal templates for any fledgeling , aspiring teachers , the profession that I chose for 26 years.A couple of masters , who shall remain nameless, were very nice people , but they couldn't control the seething masses and , bless them , their techniques left alot to be desired - the compendium of what not to do, to avoid discord in classroom management .Nevertheless , I have fond memories of them as compassionate , albeit misplaced people .
However , my first two years at St Augs were horrendous , being the subject of peer-derision - and between 72-4 I got into several physical altercations with my classmates and occasionally received what 18th- century mariners termed 'The Cat' , especially from the top . Thank God I grew out of all that.
So , to summarise , it was like a borstal at first - then I began to feel like a human-being.
Webmaster - keep up the excellent work .
Can I - at the risk of appearing to fawn - congratulate you for having created a most inspiring website ? The various subsites are carefully worked out and in terms of style , the background of the home page depicting the pattern of perhaps the most embarrassing school blazer in the world is a masterstroke .Didn't we all at one time or another beg our parents to buy us a plain blue blazer as soon as they could ? That way the Sharston lot stopped calling us 'pyjama boys'.
I vaguely recall you , sir , three years my senior , but we didn't know one another . I did know a few of your peers , including Tav , John Gill and Simon Bailey , aka 'Baz' .
I didn't have any acquaintance with your brother born 62/3 , but when I moved to Xaverian VI Form College , I met your sibling born 59/60, on a biology field trip in Easter 78 and thought he was a very affable person .But I did associate alot with Paul , whom I invited to my eighteenth birthday party and I found him to be kind , cultured and witty .My parents thought he was a regular guy , as they did with several of my other pals. Please send him my warmest regards .
As to the school itself , I found my final three years to be most enjoyable with Messrs Scrowston , Moore ,Addis ,Kearney and Leonard to be caring form-masters . And Mr Mc Cabe , Mr Brennan and Mr Thorpe were ideal templates for any fledgeling , aspiring teachers , the profession that I chose for 26 years.A couple of masters , who shall remain nameless, were very nice people , but they couldn't control the seething masses and , bless them , their techniques left alot to be desired - the compendium of what not to do, to avoid discord in classroom management .Nevertheless , I have fond memories of them as compassionate , albeit misplaced people .
However , my first two years at St Augs were horrendous , being the subject of peer-derision - and between 72-4 I got into several physical altercations with my classmates and occasionally received what 18th- century mariners termed 'The Cat' , especially from the top . Thank God I grew out of all that.
So , to summarise , it was like a borstal at first - then I began to feel like a human-being.
Webmaster - keep up the excellent work .