Former Master, Professor William ('Willie') Jones - at large in Sapporo, Japan, with an OSH Visitor

Former master (1959-77) and OSH Member, Professor Willie Jones, reports that he has now been living in Sapporo, Japan for 35 years.

Retired from his post as Professor of English Rhetoric at Sapporo University, aged 83 and 'in rather good general health, thanks to some excellent medical care', Willie has been engaged in writing a memoir of his life (and his mother's).   He has sent copies to Eric Anderson and Nick Rankin (M 1962-68) for safe keeping, but 'as it is a work in progress, it is changing all the time.'

Willie recently received a visit from OSH member, Ian Kirkpatrick Young (S 1961-65), who was in Tokyo for a conference, and took a quick trip up to Sapporo.  Willie says,  'The trees were were just coming into leaf, but spring never lasts long, and everything comes into blossom at once. Last week the temperature was 12º; today it is 32º, quite unprecedented and rather horrible, and reminds me of the weather we used sometimes to 'enjoy' when Speech Days were held at the beginning of June.'

Ian and Willie are pictured, left, walking in a nearby park. Sapporo has no Japanese-style gardens apart for the one in this park.