Founder's Day
Founder's Day takes place on the Saturday closest to 7 July, to honour the founder and other school benefactors. Attendance is compulsory and the next Monday is taken as a lieu day. The day begins with a service in Rochester Cathedral, followed by inter-house sports in the afternoon.
The Rochester Math School Association (RMSA) puts on a variety of stalls at the school and a cricket game is played between the schools first XI, and Old Williamsonians' first XI.
Read more about this topic: Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
Famous quotes containing the words founder and/or day:
“Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer—a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.”
—William Ayers, U.S. author. To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, ch. 7 (1993)
“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if the town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)