October 12,2005

Dear Sir,

My wife and I are planning a brief trip to Bermuda during next April, 2006, to enable me to show her something of the idyllic surroundings in which I spent a part of my childhood when, between 1940 and 1943, my older brother and I attended Somers College. I believe the school closed then, although I understand the Rev. Walker continued as rector of St. Anne?s Church for some time thereafter.

A great deal was going at the time; cars first appeared on the road, the US Naval Base was being developed on Tuckers and Morgans islands under Lend Lease and, of course, the Royal Naval Dockyard, where my uncle was employed, was very busy with casualties of the Battle of the Atlantic.

It is apparent that a great deal has been going on in Bermuda during the decades since, but I would hope to reconnect with some of the memories of my time on the island as a schoolboy and, having said that, it would be most interesting to learn whether there are any folks around who remember or even attended Somers.