JRGS Alumni Meeting with Desmond May - July 2007

As Alan Wilson (JRGS 1957-62) recalls: "Des May, who was our form master for 2M, 3M, 4M and 5M, welcomed us to his home with a champagne reception, before repairing at high speed to The Chequers for lunch.
   "All former students were especially pleased to meet up again with Des, whom they credit with having a formative effect on their lives post-JRGS. His unconventional methods of motivation certainly worked well with a number of the students under his watchful eye over the four years 1956-60. Des was grateful that the students felt his methods were not quite as unconventional as one of the masters of Welsh extraction!
   "Several most enjoyable hours were spent relating events from those days. The day was completed with the presence of Derek Peasey, who taught Mathematics to the form for part of those four years, and who had started at Ruskin in his first appointment at a similar time to Des. We reviewed a number of photos and mementoes of those days, and attempts were made to name all of 4M and to locate them on the 1958 school photograph on the JRGS website."

From left-to-right: Derek Peasey, Roger "Wally" Walters, Alan Wilson, Mike Beaumont, Des May and Jonathan Sindall.

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