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| 6 Feb 2025 | |
| Visitors to The Mitre |
Today Thursday 06 February 2025, Mr John John Rawsthorne visited The Mitre to share some important Bishops sport history.
His father-in-law was Vernon Staegmann, who did Post Matric at Bishops in 1950 as an U17, and who as a 16-year-old, set the school record for long jump which was broken last year (74 years later).
The record was set in February 1950 at 6m 68cm; and at Sports Day in 2024 a new record was set by Daniel von der Heyden (Grade 11, WH), at 6.71cm; thus improving on the previous record by 3cm.
Vernon always said how he would have liked the record to be broken and religiously came to spectate at the annual sports event, but alas he passed on only a short while before this was to happen.
Sitting talking at The Mitre, John traced Vernon's athlectic history, with the ODA Paul Murray. The history would be written up by John, for curating in the school archives.
They will be the memories of a 75 year old (John Rawsthorne) about his beloved late father-in-law, whom he talked so fondly about.
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