From: Michael Kemp
Date: 2001-08-04
Time: 18:26:12 -0400
Brazenose sounded wrong; I thought it was Wadham.
Sure enough, following Old Joe's retirement in August 1961, Biff Smith (who was acquainted with so many of our fathers) recorded these details in The Scarborian (no. 47, November 1961):
"As a boy he was at Preston Grammar School and in 1913 the award of the Harris Scholarship for Classics took him to Wadham College, Oxford. The war came and he was commissioned in the South Lancashire Regiment, taking part in the battles of the Somme and Messines Ridge, where he was wounded and mentioned in despatches. In 1919 he returned to Oxford spending a year of his course at the Collège de la Sorbonne. He took a Second Class in Modern Languages followed by the Diploma in Education. He taught for two years at the Royal Masonic School, Bushey and for four years under Hamilton-Fyfe at Christ's Hospital, which he described as 'one great family with a depth of affection for the school among old boys and pupils alike.' For the next three years he was Head of the Modern Sixth at Manchester Grammar School under Douglas Miller and there he joined in the famous trekking camps of that school. Then in 1930 at the age of 33 he was appointed Head of our school . . ."