Newsletter Autumn 2006

Opening of the Beveridge Centre by Lord Butler

In welcoming Lord Butler of Brockwell, the Headmaster said that he was exactly the right person to formally open the Beveridge Centre for the Social Sciences. Like Lord Beveridge, Lord Butler has had a long and distinguished career in politics – and on the Sir Humphrey Appleby rather than the Jim Hacker side of Whitehall.

He has been Private Secretary to three prime ministers: Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. He reached the top of his tree as Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service. And, like Lord Beveridge, he has crowned his career by being elected Master of University College, Oxford. Lord Butler replied, praising Lord Beveridge for his own outstanding academic and political career.

He left Charterhouse in 1897 and went up as a Scholar to Balliol where he achieved a Triple First. Lord Butler explained how, as Master of University College, Oxford, Beveridge had worked closely with a young don, Harold Wilson, in writing the report which laid the foundations of the modern Welfare State. Lord Butler hoped that future Carthusians, trained and inspired in the new Beveridge Centre, will share something of Lord Beveridge’s vision of a fairer society.

 
Rowing Success

After restarting rowing at Charterhouse four years ago, the squad has moved from messing about in boats at Guildford to serious training at Walton, culminating in their first win for a very long time (over twenty years?) at the Bedford Heads Race.

Those who want to learn to row begin by mastering sculling (two blades) then progress on to rowing, although some of us would suggest that moving to rowing is not a progression! The girls’ Quad raced well at Kingston last year over 5km with the best performance by the boys being a very good second at Richmond Regatta, auguring well for this year. This promise was fulfilled by the 1st four winning the J18 race at Bedford, beating some ‘proper’ rowing schools and a large number of senior men from good clubs!

 
Royal Albert Hall Exhibition

Montage by George Robinson (H), one of seven Carthusians invited to exhibit at the Royal Albert Hall on Remembrance Day. Charterhouse was one of eight school selected to exhibit, given the subject 'hope and remembrance'. The exhibition is on until December when it will go on a national tour.


Members of Wind Music Society at Chichester
Cathedral before the lunchtime concert
by Carthusian musicians in October


Maths Success

The primary publication of the the Mathematical Association is The Mathematical Gazzette. In each edition, demanding problems for students are posed. In the July edition 12 students from an international field solved the problems and three of these were Carthusians. By coincidence they are all wearing the ties awarded for successful completion of the 50 mile walk in the summer.

Sailing

George and Jack Yeoman (L) will compete in the Open World Championship in the 420 class in New Zealand during the Christmas holidays. Jack is the youngest helmsman ever to compete at this level in this class. Olivia Pettit (V) was one of four girls chosen to represent Britain in the European Optimist Sailing Championships in Gydinia, Poland in 2005. After GCSEs this summer she was part of the British squad who sailed in the 29th European Championships in Denia, Spain. Olivia and her partner won the ladies event and are currently European ladies champions (2006).

 


Daviesites solving problems set by the World Challenge at the induction day for new boys in August

Brooke Hall Profile

John Troy joins Brooke Hall as head of Economics. After graduating from LSE in 1981 he joined the Royal Navy on a short service commission. This led to his being involved in the Falklands campaign in HMS Coventry and subsequent deployments to the West Indies and the Arctic. After leaving the Navy, John became a city solicitor specialising in commercial litigation. On marrying Maggie, a private client lawyer, he reached the conclusion that one lawyer in a family is quite enough and so went to teach Economics at Westminster, where he became a housemaster in 1997. On the birth of his son in 2003 he decided to leave London and moved to teach at King’s Canterbury. John has coached rugby, cricket, fives and golf, and has organised various yachting expeditions, as well as encouraging pupils at Westminster and King’s to undertake charity work. He is a senior A level examiner for Edexcel covering development economics and the management of the UK Economy.

The Park House Award

Thanks to a generous gift from an Old Carthusian, the School has a new award, known as the Park House Award, for an outstanding sportsman. The intention is that the holder will be highly talented in one of the School’s major sports, and will go on to earn representative honours. The first winner of the award certainly looks to fit the criteria. Jack Ryder-Smith stood out as an excellent footballer and cricketer on the Prep School circuit and has continued to impress since he arrived here. As one might expect, he is a very influential member of the U14A team which has made a good start to its season, winning four and drawing two of its first six matches.



The choir, directed by Mark Shepherd singing Mark Blatchly's anthem 'For the Fallen - September 1914' at the Remembrance Ceremony in Trafalgar Square.