First principal for college

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr Bryan Snaiune on his appointment as Principal of the new Clapham Sixth Form College, which Mr C J Store, Director of Education for the Southwark Diocesan Schools' Commission informs me is inner London's first sixth form college and will be Catholic voluntary aided, and which is to open in 1985, "primarily to serve eight Catholic secondary schools in the Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth.
Bishop Howard Tripp, Vicar General, and Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, says this development of the first Catholic Sixth Form College at Clapham, and the appointment of the first Principal "are significant events in Catholic education and a sign that the Church remains in the van of educational development".
Bryan Snalune, 49, is head of Bishop Thomas Cliff school in Streatham. A Yorkshireman, he is a graduate of the University of Leeds, and also of the University of Michigan, and has taught in schools in Cyprus and Canada as well as in Britain.
Married, with three children, he lives in New Malden. A teacher of vision, he sees the college serving the whole of the Catholic community in south west London, and providing for the needs of all students, whatever their abilities or backgrounds. A keen amateur musician, he intends to see that the college has a rich cultural life alongside its academic activities.
The Southwark Diocesan Schools' Commission are taking steps to ensure that the college has the back-up of a strong chaplaincy.
I understand that the Archbishop of Southwark, who is taking a keen personal interest in the reorganisation, plans to establish a powerful governing body for the college. My information is that Dr Kevin Keohane, Rector of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is destined to play a leading role, and already approaches have been made to a number of prominent Catholic laity in the area. Chairman of the far-seeing Southwark Diocesan Schools' Commission is the Rt Rev Mgr Canon E Mahony and the Secretary is the Rev A M Logan.
Their latest move in Catholic education in the Southwark Diocese is of the greatest importance to the Catholic community of south west London as it must be seen as part of a larger scheme promoted by the Inner London Education Authority, the Diocese of Southwark, and four religious orders who will cooperate in rationalising secondary school provision in the light of falling rolls.