The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 36

THE AGE TUESDAY 3 JUNE 1997 METROFYI A squadron Laurence Henry Hicks Retired Squadron Leader, former (director of music of RAAF Central Band 4 February 1912 Died: 21 April 1997, aged 85 IN 1926, when he was 14, Laurie Hicks Joined the Cameronian Scottish Rifles as a bandboy. His father, a clarinet player in cuthe British Army, had always heen keen music. In 1927, his regiment went and 15-year-old Laurie was sent to Kneller Hall, the Royal Military of Music regarded as the mecca of bandsmen and the foremost school of its type in the Commonwealth! studied the cello and clarinet. In 1938, he graduated as bandmaster; he won the top award as a clarinet player a bronze medal for his Jubilee March, voted the best quick march of the Not long after, he earned the distinction of being appointed conductor of renowned Black Watch Band and served in Palestine until the outbreak of 1 World War II. He was then attached to the Royal Army to form the band of the Armored Corps and went to France with soon after D- before serving in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Two years or after re-forming the Black Watch Band he took it on a six-month tour of India visited Denmark, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Later in 1951, during its Australian Laurie was invited to become RAAF director of music and form a band. In he took it up and formed the RAAF Central Band, a concert band that became second to none in the Southern Hemisphere. He remained in control of it until his retirement in 1968. Within years of its foundation, it was chosen for leading role at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

Laurie was responsible for the scoring and recording of 70 national anthems to be played during medal presentations. In 1958 it toured NZ to help celebrate in fitting style the 21st anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. In 1963 Squadron Leader Hicks was awarded the OBE for his services to music, received personally from Queen Elizabeth. A year before his retirement, the Central Band was honored by being chosen as part of the Australian contribution to Expo '67 in Montreal. Laurie was also responsible for composing the national Obituaries leader of anthem of Nauru and for many marches for the Central Band, his most famous being Pt.

Cook, Tattoo Brigadier, Air Chief Marshall and The Apprentice. After his retirment in 1968 he became conductor the Sandringham Choral Society. He then became conductor of the Hawthorn City Band, winning a national band competition. He then took the Hawthorn City Band overseas to international success. In 1984 he formed the ANZ.

Australian Ladies Concert Band, which performed at the Melbourne Concert Hall and other venues. Laurie was actively involved in music until the early 1990s when he was arranging music for Avila College and still teaching the clarinet. He is survived by his two daughters Josephine and Philippa and five grandchildren. His wife Dorothy died in 1994 and his son Trevor disappeared in 1966. Philippa Geurens Susan Yorke Writer and teacher Born: Germany, 1915 Died: Sydney, 4 May 1997, aged 82 SUSAN YORKE lived in many countries, wrote nine novels and some 500 short stories, and married at least three times.

For years she was also an indefatigable the bands teacher with the Workers' Educational Association Sydney. Born Susan Telenga in Germany of a Belgian mother and a Dutch father, she was there on 9 November 1938, the Kristallnacht, when Nazis rampaged in German streets, smashing windows of Jewish shops, leaving streets glittering in hatred. Her family spirited her away shortly after; it was the start of a life of much travel, first with her diplomat father in China and India, later in America where she was educated at a New York public school and that prestigious college for young ladies After Vassar there were several jobs including a fling in advertising with J. Walter Thompson, turning out copy for babies' nappies and dog food. Her first marriage was to a prominent US diplomat who died before he could follow his father's career footsteps as US ambassador to Brazil.

She then married a British career diplomat named Ellinger who was posted to Buenos Aires. There she lived well in what the New York Times described as "a cool, spacious house set in a garden with flowers, near a swimming pool, an ivycovered bathhouse, a tennis court and a In such a house lived the central character in her first novel, The Widow, for which she adopted a nom de plume that would stick, Yorke. Writing apart, she became fascinated by the lost civilisations of Latin America, on which she subsequently lectured for the WEA in Sydney for 15 years and for the Australian Fellowship of Writers. After the South American years, she lived for a time, apparently with her third husband, a Yorkshire planter named Edgar Shuttleworth, in Malaya during the last stages of the Emergency. She seldom saw another white woman and lived in a fortified bungalow on a rubber plantation in the jungle; again, plenty of time for writing and appeared, The Agency House in hardback, The Girl in the Cheong-sam in paperback.

Yorke spoke several languages fluently, loved classical music and was known for her cool head and impeccable manners. Although she leaves no children, she is survived by a 10th work of fiction, described by one who has read it as "a potentially controversial, blockbuster Lorraine Hallam Lucas Obituaries are edited by Peter Schumpeter. Phone: (03) 9601 2595. Crosswords Cryptic No. 15,007 2 Across 7 Train a horse for a spot of burglary (5,2) 10 8 Unfit parent runs like a spouse (7) 10 Bolt from the blue blitzes the underworld (9) 12 13 11 Conjuring up three wise men at the beginning of Christmas (5) 15 The American is a jerk (4) 13 Undeliverable mail for a 16 18 deceased tenant, perhaps (4,6) 16 Puts off painting newcomer (7) 17 Get the better of a newly licensed minister and feel sick (7) 19 20 21 19 Ms Stubbs spanned the whole works (10) 22 21 Find a toilet in the street (4) 23 24 23 A crop derived from the coconut (5), '24 Outlaw speared bucks party (9) 25 Are each a source of otalgia? (7) 25 26 26 One exacting repayment for a Siemens product (7) DS 1 Finish the HSC ranking with a Solution Cryptic No.

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Tuck calico bag in your pocket when you go shopping or take a basket. Rod Quantock, a Melbourne comedian, has joined the Worldwide Home Environmentalists' Network campaign for a 20-cent charge on plastic carry bags to discourage their use. He spoke to Fiona Whitlock. Comics For Better or Worse by Lynn Johnston JUST LOOK AT YOU! ALL THERE'S NOTHING LIKE COVERED IN GRASS STAINS A GOOD ROMP WITH YOUR AND TRACKING DIRT INTO DOG TO MAKE YOU FEEL THE XE A KID CAN Un by The Phantom by Lee Falk COUNT, HOW I'M GOING TO AMERICA, BUT YOU'RE RUBBISH. TO TRAVEL PROPERLY, 1 CAN YOU SEE PRINCE FEAR FOR THE LAD'S NOT I'M BROKE.

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Evans, killing 74 Americans. 1989: Chinese troops storm Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of prodemocracy demonstrators. 1991: Paul Keating fails in ALP leadership bid then resigns as Treasurer. Curlosities THE AUTHOR of the exclamation God! which Muriel Balfour (Benalla) asked about yesterday, was the English writer Samuel Butler (1835- 1902). In a poetic tirade against philistinism observed during a visit to Canada, Butler wrote A Psalm of Montreal, where he had seen, in a museum, a classical Greek statue shut away in a room used by a taxidermist.

This man is made to say the figure is vulgar because "he hath neither vest nor pants to cover his lower The poem laments: "Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; Dusty, cobwebcovered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: 0 God! 0 Montreal!" Gary Dean Parliament Federal: Not sitting State: Not sitting Muslim prayer times Prayer times for today, the 27th Muharram 1418 Hijri: am, pm, pm, pm, 1:6.36 pm. Text for today May the Lord make your love to grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love does towards you. This will result in your hearts being made strong, sinless and holy by God our Father, so that you may stand before Him guiltless on that day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns wih all those who belong to Him. 1 Thessalonians 3:12,13 (The Living Bible) Word a day An isogloss is a line on a map marking differences in Wealth? Language? Intelligence? Answer below. Lotteries Keno: Winning numbers in last night's draw: 3, 6, 9, 15, 22, 29, 35, 41, 43, 47, 51, 55, 58, 63, 66, 68, 69, 71, 76 and 78.

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9 10 11 13 17 22 Solution Quick No. 16,363 Across: 7 Author; 8 Joyful; 10 Abridge; 11 Smear; 12 Lull; 13 Wrong; 17 Tease; 18 Keen; 22 Agent; 23 Measure; 24 Accord 25 Starve. 12 15 16 18 19 Down: 1 Capable; 2 Startle; Wordy; 4 Consent; 5 Offer; 6 Glory; 9 Wearisome; 14 Feature; 15 Require; 16 Integer; 19 Pagan; 20 Teach; 21 Nasty. Metro pass The Barefoot Diva DESCRIBED by The Washington Post as a cross between Edith Piaf and Billie Holliday, diva Cesaria Evora and her band perform in the Melbourne Concert Hall on Friday at 8pm. Originally from Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the coast of Senegal, her "morna" style is a mix of Creole -Portuguese songs of love and longing in a Latin blues vein.

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