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Email Contributions 1999
12-xi-99
I hope we will be able to visit outside the dinner this year. I love the dinner. Great fun. But like a wedding its so busy...
I have an idea for the website/newsletter. Talking with some of the younger OCs and after visiting the school last year, it was interesting to me to note how traditions and daily life had changed.
I remember Chadwick Beecher-Moore's father said that when he went to Clayesmore - Specials - a morning run followed by a cold shower - was not a punishment on Saturday Mornings, as it was in my day, but rather a daily event for the whole school, an early morning exercise session followed by a swim in the not heated pool... I hear now from the prefects, it would be classified today as bullying.
I think we all have in our memories the daily routines of Clayesmore life. I might be interesting to compare how these things have changed over the years. Maybe anthropologists will look back on our newsletter/website and come up with some valuable insight. From the above one would say either we are getting less barbaric or physically softer, depending on one's point of view.
Most of the stories told of former school days are embedded in this fabric of the background of daily school life. It would be nice to have a record of how it varied over the years.
Of course the great stories tend to have one constant trait which appears steady over the years... that of teenage stupidity. What were we thinking? Could it be called thinking?
Take Care,
Looking forward to seeing you in the new millennium.
I know this smacks of a new project. And it might be. It just seems like good newsletter fodder.
Randy (Bergerac) (69-74)
(Please send in memories of Clayesmore idiosyncrasies that have mellowed over the years. Ed)