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Orchard, a Benedictine monk and Miss T. Dawson, a lay member of the Ealing Council of Churches. The chair was taken by Mr. Greenwood and Mr. L. James introduced the meeting. About eighty people were present and appeared to enjoy the meeting which provoked both laughter and quite heated discussion.
Other meetings this year have included talks by our local Baptist minister, Mr. F. M. Forwood, on "Christianity. 1962, Not Out!" and a missionary from the Wycliffe Institute, London, who talked about his work of translating the Bible in Nigeria. At the following open meeting a film on his work was shown.
Although this has been an active year, we have fears for the following one, as a number of Senior members are leaving this Summer. G.N.A.
JUNIOR S.C.M.
Although few of last year's form members returned this year, attendance has been fairly good at most of the Friday lunchtime meetings. These have taken the form of film strips, Bible studies, and quizzes, many of which have been run by the members themselves. Every first Wednesday in the month we have had after-school meetings to which either visiting speakers have been invited or films have been shown. These have generally been very successful. Just before Christmas, about eighteen members sang carols and read passages from the Bible at an old people's home in Ealing. The elderly ladies were also presented with sweets that had been made by the girls and all went off very successfully. Several pupils now take Scripture Union Bible Reading Notes and we hope that even more pupils will do so in the future. K.S.
SCIENCE SOCIETY
At the Society's Annual General Meeting held near the beginning of the Autumn Term, the following new officials were elected for this school year: B. Mortimer and S. Colmer as treasurer and secretary respectively, with P. West and K. Gardner as the other committee members.
Mr. H. T. Gardiner, who had enthusiastically filled the office of chairman since the present society's inception in 1959, then tendered his resignation in favour of Mr. K. B. Simpson, the Society's present chairman. Grateful thanks were extended to Mr. Gardiner for his many services to the Society while in office.
The Society now meets every fortnight on a Wednesday evening, the extra meeting of each month being devoted to the presentation of films which are generally of a high standard. The other monthly meeting comprises the business of the Society and a talk presented by a member. So far this year, five talks have been given "Measuring the Universe", by Mr. F. Sheldrake; a talk by Mr. Harrington, an old scholar of the school and now a research
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