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Royal send-off for CRGS headmaster


AS the royal banners and red car­ pets are rolled away in Clitheroe Itoyal Grammar School tonight af te r the excitement of the Queen’s visit, another much more local figurehead will be quietly packing his briefcase for the last time and bidding a wistful fare­ well to the famous school.


have seen the school through the most important day in its centuries of his­ tory — on his very last day in educa­ tion, before his retirement on health grounds.


For headmaster Mr Clive Darley will


why Mr Darley’s doctors have ordered his early retirement at the age of 51, for he has steered the school through its most traumatic changes during his past six years in Clitheroe.


And it is quite easy to understand


uary, 1985, was a literal “baptism of fire,” for Mr Darley had no sooner opened his mouth to introduce himself during his first staff meeting than the fire hell rang for the first time in years!


Even his arrival at the school in Jan­


made good his escape during the ensu­ ing mass exodus of pupils and staff, because he was then to face:


Perhaps Mr Darley should have


girls’ schools, with the accompanying difficulties of marrying together their two identities, pupils and staff.


• The amalgamation of the boys’ and


teaching union which promptly went on strike, bringing the cancellation of par­ ents’ eveiiings, school reports and the refusal of other teachers to cover for their colleagues. 9 The start of a major five-year


9 The perfect timing of a national


later 1988 Education Acts, which have altered the whole concept of education and how a school should be run. “I have always thought that the


building programme, which the authority tried to defer halfway through, culminating in today’s royal opening. 9 The arrival of the 1986 and the


answer to any problem is communica­ tion,” said Mr Darley, “and that is the


Quartet on tour


CLITHEROE jazz pianist Stan Barker, who recently played in his home town, is currently touring the North West with his quartet. Mr Barker is being accompanied by trombon­


ist Roy Williams, a regular winner of tile British Jazz Awards trombone cate­ gory, who first came to prominence in the late Alex Welsh’s band, before jo in in g Hu m p h r e y Lyttelton. Completing the quartet


will be Paul Mitchell-Da- vidson (bass) and Dave Hassell (drums), who


all over the area and per­ formed at Lancashire, Polytechnic, Preston, last night. The nearest it ven­ tures to tlie Rihble Valley in the near future is the Worden Hall Arts Centre, Leyland, on Sunday.


played with Mr Barker at last month’s concert at Clitheroe Civic Hall. The quartet has played


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to Synod TWO Rihble Valley resi­ dents have been elected to represent the Diocese of Blackburn on the General Synod for a period of five years, commencing next month. Mr William Stables


Anderson, of Woodfield View, Whalley, and Mrs Catherine Mary Wall-


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TWO programmes of the popular television quiz show “Mastermind" will be recorded at Stonyhurst College on November 14th. The BBC accepted the


way we solved our problems. Of course we were helped


oundswell of support f talley, willin g tihi ■


school to succeed.” by the s very precious in the Ribble terrific


together, Mr Darley — himself a cred­ itable cook who can easily manage a four-course meal — remembers such highlights as the morning a young girl and boy brought him their freshly- made macaroons to try.


As boys and girls learned to work


some of our best computer boffins in the lower school were girls and that boys were doing well in textiles,” he added.


“I was also delighted to learn that


played host to several Her Majesty’s Inspectors visiting the school with the h ighe s t atten d an c e record in Lancashire.


Over the years, Mr Darley has


gent enough to be trusted to work on their own at lunchtime and I remember one HMI who bespied a 12-year-old boy working on a skateboard in the design technology room,” said Mr Darley.


art field and tried to put him right on the design, only to be met with a stream of applied physics offered with the utmost courtesy, which completely confounded the inspector and made him blush to his roots! His comment after­ wards was that he could not under­ stand why such schools were being phased out."


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calls “six years of neglect” to his farm at Preesall, where he breeds rare, ornamental pheasants — “just my little contribution towards world conserva­ tion,” he adds. There will also be time to relax with


his wife Jennifer and son Andrew (25), a systems engineer with IBM, who vin­ dicated Dad’s only exam failure in O-le- vel physics by getting a double first in the subject at Oxford!


Players aim to avert


cat-astrophe W H E N th e c a t ’ s


away . . . members of Whalley Church Players can relax! For they nave been experiencing at first hand the old maxim of never appearing with ani­ mals or children. Rehearsals for their


He’s tops in insurance


CLITHEROE man Ian Callaghan has


passed the Chartered Insurance Institute exams and is now an Associate of the Char- te re d In s u r a n c e Institute. Mr Callaghan (29),


forward to a life of freedom from school bells and regulations, he can spend more time on his favourite hobbies of mountaineering and gardening. He can also begin to undo what he


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IN the most terrible aviation disaster in history a Japanese plane containing over 500 was out of control for a full half-hour beforo.it touched one mountain top to land on another, killing almost everyone. For 30 minutes those passengers were anticipating imminent death. Many took the opportunity to write farewell notes to the loved ones who would soon


they knew could be the last minutes of their lives. What would you have thought? To whom would you have written and what would you have said? What would have been your chief regret? We all face, in a comparatively short time, the one


be mourning their loss. Consider the thoughts of those people during what


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great certainty of our existence, physical death. We are allotted a brief time slot in this world. As some of us grow older, we are apt to comment on the swift­ ness of the passage of time in our later years. Days pass into weeks and years so quickly for us. We are hurtling through the later years of our life with a rapidity that startles us. Some of us would be shocked to know how little


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called away from this life to face our own-personal judgement day. This calls for us to consider care­ fully, ih full awareness of our many shortcomings, what will be our reply to our Lord when, with one word, He .asks us a question . . . “Well?" JOE STANSFIELD


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