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Article Title:	Glory Revealed
Author of reported comment:	Steve Johnson.
Comment Date:	14:13 on Feb 15 2010
Comment:	I was glad to discover these comments about the Cathedral School. I was a pupil there from 1962, leaving in July 1970. My memories of the place are largely happy, mainly due to the inspirational music teaching and choral directing of Mr East. I still, at the age of fifty-five, thank him mentally for the fact that I became a musician and teacher. We were also fortunate with many of our other teachers. Mr Lowther and Miss O'Reilly remain fond memories. Both, I believe, died many years ago. Like another contributor, I, too, visited what had been the school on a trip to Newcastle. It was a strange and somewhat depressing experience to pick my way through the wreckage and weeds of what had once been the lower school yard. I was glad that, after all her kindness to us boys and her touching faith in the school, Miss O'Reilly never saw the wretched decline the place had undergone. I recall well the ideals she used to utter in her long monologues; values that came from a world now, it seems sadly, gone forever. Sic transit gloria mundi! I spent two years in the cathedral choir; one as a probationer and one without ever gaining the award of a surplice! I can, thus, be classed as a failed chorister. Mr Ross saw no musical worth in me whatsoever and made it all too plain. He was right in his assessment at the time, though it was ironically he who was the Associated Board examiner who marked me as a merit in my grade 8 piano exam eight years later. I doubt he remembered me and I didn't feel inclined to remind him who I was. He was, by all accounts, a remarkable musician. Happy memories! If any of my old teachers should come across this, please accept my thanks for the help you gave me at the time. I wasn't easy!

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