Introduction by Doug Murgatroyd Having only just got a handle on how to access the Old Cicestrians Website and learnt only recently how to “upload” information onto it, I thought that an appropriate area of interest would be Teacher Memories. To this end, I have begun the process of collating articles we have previously published in past newsletters and, hopefully, …
George Hersee (1935 – 1941)
Hersee was a television engineer. He was born on December 29, 1924 at Loxwood near Wisborough Green. He was educated first at the Elm Grove School, Littlehampton before obtaining a bursary to Chichester High School for Boys; he later read physics from 1942 at University College, Southampton. After five years at EMI he joined the BBC studio installation and planning …
Roger Wardale 1947-1955
By Nancy Blackett 4 January, 2016 Hugh Brogan (Arthur Ransome’s biographer), Roger Wardale and Christina Hardyment outside the Butt and Oyster at Pin Mill at Mike Rines’ 1989 lunch to mark Nancy Blackett’s restoration. Photograph (below) by Martin Lewis. We regret that we must report the passing of Roger Wardale on 28th December, after a short illness, at the age …
S Barry Cooper 1955-1962
Sad early death of one of our most prestigious Old Boys; a mathematician who championed the cause of Alan Turing, the disgraced wartime codebreaker who has since been acclaimed as a hero. Without the tireless efforts of the mathematician S Barry Cooper, the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant but ill-starred computer pioneer and wartime codebreaker, might never have re-emerged, …
Martyn Vesey 1958 -1965
Martyn Vesey (1958-65) may be remembered for athletics and rugby during his school days. He led the school athletics team to victory in Chartres and represented Sussex schools at the English schools national athletics championships for three years. But it was while training with the Young Olympic Athletics squad in the winter of 1964 that he incurred an injury that …
Michael Elphick 1946-2002
Elphick grew up in Chichester, Sussex, where his family had a butcher’s shop. He was educated at Lancastrian Secondary Modern Boys School in Chichester where he took leading parts in several school productions including Noah and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. According to his mother, he had hankered to be an actor since the age of 10, but, on leaving school …
Alan Arnell (CHSB 1944-1950)
Alan Arnell attended Chichester High School for Boys between 1944 and 1950. He was an outstanding schoolboy footballer and on leaving school played first for Chichester City and then for Worthing FC where he was noticed by a Liverpool scout. Centre-forward Arnell moved from Sussex amateur side Worthing to Liverpool when he was 20-years-old. As Arnell was doing his National …
Douglas Bunn
Douglas Henry David Bunn 1928-2009 Douglas Henry David Bunn was born on February 29 1928, the son of a wholesale fruiterer in Sussex. He was educated at Chichester High School from 1939 and 1946 and Trinity, Cambridge, where he played rugby for the varsity but was disappointed not to have got his “blue”. After leaving Trinity he was called to …
Chris Parr
Chris Parr attended Chichester High School for Boys from 1953 through 1961. He won a State Scholarship and an Open Scholarship in Classics to Queen’s College Oxford. Chris had few peers at school in the cerebral department, usually winning the “Form Prize” in the lower school. He had also taken an interest in Drama, taking parts in the annual school …