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The Old Cryptian Magazine 2004
Extracts from The Cryptian 2004
Below are just a few extracts from this year's issue of The Cryptian :

The Headmaster's Foreword & School Report : A full 57-pages reviewing the past school year, news of staff & pupils, photographs of staff, sixth-form & prefects, the School Council, Aina Paterson, many pages of creative writing from pupils, sports review, full prize winners list and further education now undertaken by last year's sixth form leavers.

Old Cryptian Events Reports, 2003 - the Old Cryptians' Reunion Weekend, the 102nd Anniversary Dinner, the 7th Annual Golf Tournament, Founders' Day Celebrations and the London Section Annual Meeting & Dinner.

The President : Howard Allen recalls his earliest Old Cryptian memories and pens a separate article on the Old Cryptians' Club work in the reorganisation of Gloucester Secondary Schools.

Old Cryptians' Centenary Bursary Fund, 2001 : the latest progress of this bursary.

Horace Edwards : Howard Allen, MJ (Bill) Smith contribute articles celebrating the life of Horace Edwards.

Colin Ewan : is remembered in several articles, including a tribute reprinted from The Citizen of 1961.

Letters to the Editor : are included from Bill Howell, EW Powell Chandler, Bob Griffiths, Bob George, Gerald Rudge, Paul Williams, John Tiley, Canon Marilyn Sharland, Margaret Pither, Peter (PD) Roberts, Michael Nuth, John Simmons, Charles Lepper, W Roy Mills & Philip Ewan.

John Hooper : recounts the '5B Reunion' in September, 2003.

The Boiling Pool : is the second instalment following last year's "More Fragments from the life of a Cryptian". The third and final instalment is promised for next year's magazine.

My Year As Sheriff Of Gloucester : Paul James recounts his year in office.

Photographs from the Archives : Prefects of 1948, 'Fishy' Walton's Upper 6th Classical & Modern of 1956/7, the Cricket 1st XI of 1948, the Colts XV of 1949/50, the Cricket 1st XI of 1972, the Under14's XV of 1975/6 and Crypt Althletics of 1938.