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- i Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, January 9th, 1997, 3 Clitheroe 1,2232b (Editorial), 122323 (Advertising), Burnley 122331 ( Classified) Fully co-ed Stonyhurst by 1999 (Merchants) LTD E. DUGDALE by Tim Procter


W H A T the headmaster frankly admits are “some­ what male-orientated atti­ tudes” will have to change


at Stonyhurst College. The world famous 400-year-old


Jesuit boy^ boarding school is to make a start on going fully co­ educational from September, 1999 — and it is quick to deny that the move is for financial rea­ sons. In common with many other


boys’ schools, Stonyhurst has taken girls in the sixth form for some years, and this has proved a popular and successful move. Now it is to open its preparatory unit, St Mary’s Hall, to girls next


year, and they will join the main school in September 1999,


together with other successful applicants from elsewhere.


Headmaster M r Adrian Ayl-


ward feels to be moving with the times, especially since indepen­ dent Catholic secondary schools for girls have all but vanished from the region in the past 20


years. In a letter to parents he refers to


the great community strength of the school and says: “ The idea of parents being able to send their daughters as well as their sons to Stonyhurst struck us as funda­ mentally good, since it reinforced within the college this sense of community and family.”


Mr Aylward, who has been at the school for a term, looks for­


ward to the benefits and the change of s tyle and attitude which co-education confers.


I t will mean that Stonyhurst will


be able to offer a Catholic family boarding and day education from the ages of seven to 18, and Mr Aylward’s letter touches on both its ideals and its realities. .


He expresses excitement at a


development which is a key strand in his plans to ensure that the Stonyhurst schools remain at the forefront of education, offer­ ing regional, national and inter­ national appeal. They will keep true to the Jesuit foundation, and prepare young people for the world and a life of service to oth­


ers. But the letter also pledges to make the major effort and full


commitment which will be need­ ed, and says that co-education will not in itself make Stonyhurst. a better school. I t will only con­ tinue to succeed by striving for, and achieving, excellence in aca­ demic, cultural, pastoral and spiritual aspects.


j- ■ Well knowing that boarding


school finances are under a gener­ al challenge, Mr Aylward makes it clear that there was no finan­ cial imperative to make the move. The college roll has been steady at 395 for several years and the 175 figure at St Mary’s Hall has encouraging prospects, he says.


Various alterations will be need­


ed to provide the necessary accommodation for girls, and plans are well under way.


St o n y h u r s t headmaster Mr Adrian Aylward


Helen and Skye are called in to search for missing teenager


by Max Gardner


WHEN Chester youngster Kayleigh Ward van­ ished days before Christmas, a teacher from Clitheroe was called to use her specialist qualifi­


cations in the search. Miss Helen Morton (28), who teaches physical education


and geography at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, is a fully-qualified volunteer search and rescue dog handler. As part of the Rossendale Search and Rescue Team, Miss Morton and her dog, Skye, were called out at 5 a.m. on Christmas Eve to assist in the search for Kayleigh (9), who on December 19th went out to buy some chips and never returned. One hundred police officers, divers, volunteers, mountain


rescue teams and a spotter plane were employed in the first few days of the search for the girl, who has been described as a friend of travellers and vagrants. After no success, specialist dog handlers like Miss Morton were then called in to help. When Miss Morton’s pager went off at 5 a.m. she rang


the search coordinator and made her way to Chester where she was given the task of exploring an area of dykes


and fields around the city. N o success was recorded and later in the day she was


allowed to go home. Speaking of her part in the search for the missing child,


which received national television and newspaper news coverage, Miss Morton said: “ The police seemed to be very grateful for our contribution to the search. The dogs are brought in to re-check the areas where people have already been. Unfortunately, we were not successful, but the leads we did make are now being chased all over the


country.’,’ The search for Kayleigh was Miss Morton’s sixth call-out


in two weeks, though since Christmas her rescue team has hardly been out, despite the Arctic conditions. The search for Kayleigh is continuing and her disappear­


ance still commands headlines in the national Press. Miss Morton is pictured with her dog, Skye.


Pioneering woman bids farewell to her school


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Has to move memorial bench to


, safer place by Theresa Robson


A BENCH in memory of a Clitheroe police­ man has been moved from a vandalism


blackspot. Widow Mrs Moira Thwaites, of Parker Avenue, has


removed the bench she placed in Standen Hall Lane in memory of her late husband to a safer place. Last year, vandals ripped three struts from the bench,


A T E A C H E R with an


armament of strings to her vocational bow has described her career as “ something really worth­


while.” Mrs Joan Leeming, who


retired from teaching at Ribblesdale High School in December, after 19 years at the Clitheroe school, gained a great deal from her vari­ ety of jobs during her 30- year career, and it is clear th a t she put a great deal


into them. i As a pioneering teacher of


English as a second lan­ guage at Ribblesdale in the 1970s, Mrs Leeming taught Pakistani, Vietnamese and Chinese children. She has remained in contact with


many of them. A recent letter from one of


the ex-Vietnamese boat children she taught reads: “Wherever I go in the world you are still my num­ ber one teacher and I would not be able to adopt Eng­


land as my second country if you had not taught me." As a peripatetic teacher in


the Ribble Valley during the early 1970s she visited the homes of very sick chil­ dren to help them in their


studies. She has stayed in touch


with one boy who, she said, was very sick, indeed. “He is a big strong fellow now, married with children, and it gives me great pleasure to keep in touch with him,” she said. Mrs Leeming went to


school in Bolton, and after finishing her studies at Manchester University returned there to teach her subject of classics. In 1961, she married and


moved to Clitheroe, where she began work at St Michael and St John’s RC School when it was an all­ age school, before the exis­ tence of St Augustine’s RC High School. When the latter was built, Mrs Leeming moved there


as a senior teacher with general responsibilites, but she left soon afterwards to bring up her own family. She taught at the former


Whiteacre girls’ boarding school, in Barrow, before joining the staff at R ib ­ blesdale as a teacher of English as a second lan­ guage. For the past 14 years she has specialised in French. Mrs Leeming (58), who


lives in Buccleuch Close, Clitheroe, has made a close friendship with a French teacher, with whom she exchanged visits to Per- onne, in Northern France, and she intends to visit her during her retirement. She says she is sorry to


leave her job, where she was very happy, but she is now looking forward to spending more time with the four grandchildren her three children have given her, travelling more and doing a little more garden­ ing. (CAT 6013)


which bears an inscription on a brass plaque honouring popular Clitheroe PC Jim Thwaites. PC Thwaites, who died eight.years ago aged 45, served


with the force for 28 years and was the holder of a bravery award for disarming a drug-crazed man wielding a knife in Clitheroe town centre. He arid his wife used to


walk their dog along Standen Hall Lane every Sunday, so his wife thought the spot ideal for the memorial. In November, Mrs


Thwaites visited the bench to plant some bulbs around it only to discover that ini­ tials had been carved on it. She commented: “We


finally decided to move the bench, rather than subject it to continued vandalism. Who the vandals are, we just do not know. Ribble Valley Council has very kindly sanded out the ini­ tials and re-stained the bench, and it is now in a safer place.” Mrs Thwaites said people


had stopped her in the street and remarked that the bench was missing. “ I would like to thank them for their concern,” she said.


£1,500 d am ag e


VANDALS hurled a stone through a Clitheroe shop window, causing damage valued at £1,500. They threw the stone


through a 12ft. by 7ft. win d ow at Kaine and Rawson T V and Radio Renting, in Lowergate, between 9-30 and 11-30 p.m. on Monday. Besides the window, the


stone damaged a display cabinet and a nest of tables.


T h e f t a t tem p t


A WINDOW on a Mazda car parked on the Edisford Road car park in Clitheroe


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FRIENDS and rela­ tives paid their final respects on. Friday to retired plumber Mr Ronald Breaks, who collapsed on Clitheroe Market on the Satur­


day after Christmas. Mr Breaks (73), of Rade-


c lyffe Street, Clitheroe, who died in the ambulance while being taken to hospi­ tal, v isited the market every Tuesday and Satur­ day to collect waste card­ board for charity. I t was while he was carrying out this work that he was taken ill. Since retiring as a self-


employed plumber at the end of 1995, he had devot­ ed much of his spare time to collecting waste paper and cardboard for a swim­ ming pool charity fund in Settle, supported by his daughter, Mrs Linda Campbell, and grand- childen. His wife, Marjorie, said. ‘He never missed visiting


the market to collect the cardboard from stallhold­ ers and loved chatting to them. He had sufferd from angina recently but refused to let that stop him leading an active life.” M r Breaks was born in


Gisbum and started work in the building trade at the age of 14 with Holker’s, of Clitheroe. After the Second World War he worked as a plumber for Pollard and Foster, of Whalley, before .setting up his own business, working from home, first in Gisburn, and then in Clitheroe after moving to the town some 25 years ago. During the 12 years before his retirement he worked on contract for No rth West Water to repair burst pipes. The funeral service was


held at Gisburn Parish Church, where his family had worshipped for many years. He leaves a wife, daughter, and three grand­ children.


£500 damage


VANDALS caused damage valued at £500 to a car parked in a Clitheroe car


park. They scratched the side


and bonnet of a Vauxhall Corsa, which was parked in Wellgate car park over New Year’s Eve night.


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