BHS Prefects 1952

No matter what anyone says to the contrary, we, the 1952 Prefects, firmly believe that we are the finest crowd of kids we’ve ever come across. Naturally with the Leaving exactly eight weeks and three days away we haven’t had a great deal of time to look around, and everyone may not agree with us, but nevertheless we are convinced and no one is going to change our minds for us.

We have tackled manfully and with success the many great tasks which have been set before us, the most important of which (Hostel boys agree heartily) are the Pre.’s Teas. These marvellous inventions occur once a month and consist of two loaded tables, one bottle pickled onions and large cups of steaming coffee, which are enjoyed by everyone but Gibby and Jimmy “Dear,” who consume quantities of tea.

To conclude these exciting functions we bravely climb aboard Joe’s- er-truck! ! ! Well, that is all except Bunny who is quite independent with his bicycle built for TWO! ! Then there is Rex who also somehow seems to drift away after these social gatherings—Where to, you ask?— Well I just can’t imagine. Maybe he goes up to the Hostel to study! !

The rest of our clan very trustfully allow Joe to drive them to a definitely educational film namely, “Roy Rogers Daring Escape from the Injuns,” starring Alan Ladd.
Obtaining seats in the crowded theatre is no difficulty. We extend our thanks to the bottle of pickled onions.

Dancing practices are another of our very notable successes. We must extend our gratitude to Jean W. for her great assistance every Wednesday afternoon—also the Hostel boys! Despite these hindrances it is with great pleasure we are able to see so many budding Fred Astaires —well— with great pleasure we see everyone gallantly mastering the art of the Barn Dance. And boy! Have you seen us Upper School kids do the Modern Waltz? We would like to thank Mr. Bennett, Miss Wale and Miss Kudrnac for conducting these classes and making them such a success.

Pre.’s meetings are also conducted in the best possible manner. Apart from Win looking out to see if—er— er—has gone or is still waiting, and all the boys fighting about whether we shall have “tooters” at the next school dance or not. Judy, Ricky and Adrian attentively listen to Paul’s continual suggestions for another Pre.’s Tea.

We also think we ran the swimming and athletics carnivals jolly well, and we could spend many hours and pages enlarging on our successes (?) but as all those silly Kingia committee mob are on our backs to get these notes in we are unable to tell
you all we could wish.

Still we would like to welcome all those members who are new to the staff this year and hope their stay with us will be long and enjoyable.

In closing, we would wish all our Leaving stu.’s all the best of luck and we hope we all pass with distinctions. We also wish the Junior candidates all the best. But they don’t really need it because Junior is a walk-over (sez us wots parsed that herdle).

'Prefect Notes' from the 1952 edition of the Kingia magazine.