Two Timers
Shepherds in the Very Same Lea
Many foggy creatures yearned to be teachers
Passing all the teaching exams
But who planned to be shepherds in the very same lea
Where, once, they gambolled as lambs?
Which of the shaken preferred to be Sirred?
From returning, who didn't recoil?
Which poachers had eyes on the gamekeeper's prize?
Who thought it no soil to re-toil?
Which prefects thought teaching was perfect?
Which Ducketeers were staff room bound?
Those who once hassled, now returned, duly tasselled?
Caprians, black capped and gowned
Jon Bratton 2011
Until recently it was thought that Mr Rimer was the top two timer in that not only did he return to be a teacher at GGS but he stayed for the duration of his career and it was felt that that wouldn't be equalled but the recently acquired Apple Cart magazines reveal one who did equal it and did it earller
Ralph Younger Welch,
pupil, returned and stayed until he retired in 1944
Eric Rimer,
pupil, returned and stayed until he retired at Christmas 1964. Eric Rimer knew the previous example setter
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Norman Hepple,
pupil, then returned as teacher in 1904 and retired in the early 1940's
Passing all the teaching exams
But who planned to be shepherds in the very same lea
Where, once, they gambolled as lambs?
Which of the shaken preferred to be Sirred?
From returning, who didn't recoil?
Which poachers had eyes on the gamekeeper's prize?
Who thought it no soil to re-toil?
Which prefects thought teaching was perfect?
Which Ducketeers were staff room bound?
Those who once hassled, now returned, duly tasselled?
Caprians, black capped and gowned
Jon Bratton 2011
Until recently it was thought that Mr Rimer was the top two timer in that not only did he return to be a teacher at GGS but he stayed for the duration of his career and it was felt that that wouldn't be equalled but the recently acquired Apple Cart magazines reveal one who did equal it and did it earller
Ralph Younger Welch,
pupil, returned and stayed until he retired in 1944
Eric Rimer,
pupil, returned and stayed until he retired at Christmas 1964. Eric Rimer knew the previous example setter
***
Norman Hepple,
pupil, then returned as teacher in 1904 and retired in the early 1940's
Leslie Ure,
pupil, then returned as teacher. He went to Heathfield Grammar School in 1961
Ralph Cleasby,
returned 1946 and stayed at least until the school ceased to be a Grammar in 1967
J. R. Brown,
returned 1946 and left in 1961 to go to the newly built Heathfield Grammar School
Miss Kitchen, later Mrs Betty Nichols
returned 1946, left to go to the newly built Girls Grammar in 1957 (but also taught 6th form girls who were allowed to finish their secondary education at the Boys school)
John Hawkins
pupil, then returned as teacher. He went to Heathfield Grammar School in 1961
Ralph Cleasby,
returned 1946 and stayed at least until the school ceased to be a Grammar in 1967
J. R. Brown,
returned 1946 and left in 1961 to go to the newly built Heathfield Grammar School
Miss Kitchen, later Mrs Betty Nichols
returned 1946, left to go to the newly built Girls Grammar in 1957 (but also taught 6th form girls who were allowed to finish their secondary education at the Boys school)
John Hawkins
David Walker,
pupil 1949-56, returned 1961, went to Heaton Grammar 1965
Colin Noble-Nesbitt
Malcolm S G Armstrong
was a pupil 1949-1956 and returned in the early Sixties