2019 Reunion Video, and...

The STHS 50th Year Reunion video is now available for viewing on YouTube at:


School Captain Jonathan Page has included a special message for us all.

Don't forget to click the Full Screen icon and enjoy the entertainment in Cinemascope.

Note: if you lose this YouTube address, you won’t find the video again by searching. The video is unlisted due to the melody of our School Song now being owned by Sony, who claimed a copyright violation on the soundtrack of the 2014 Reunion video.

You’ll always find a link to the 2019 video on this page of our website:



But wait, there’s more.

The STHS 1969 Website has been tweaked, polished, amended and sensitively renovated in accordance with heritage guidelines issued by responsible authorities.


Videos and slide-shows have been restored. Their original hosting site changed its free-storage policy. 
Most of that material has now been uploaded to YouTube, which at present charges no fee...

The principal change is in the Address Book. These pages now include only:

a. Those who attended the recent reunion;

OR

b. Those who sent an apology;

OR

c. Those who have been keeping their contact details up date.

Others have been removed for the sake of accuracy but will be replaced if we hear from them.

Some pages which were rarely visited except by Russian porn sites have been deleted. The images there are all available in the STHS Journals:


Another Note: if the website pages don’t seem to have updated, super-refresh your browser, i.e. hold down the shift key while you click the refresh icon. This forces your web browser to reload the page from the internet server, not from your browser’s cache.
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The Boys of '72


This just in from Garry Jennings:

I've heard glowing reviews of the recent Class of 69 reunion from reunion junkie Mark Johnston.

Class of 72 had a more sedate lunch gathering on 16 November. Sadly we were there in part to toast the passing away in recent months of three of our cohort: Alan Lambert, Peter Kite and Jim Burnett.

The attached photo, had it been published in the 1971 School Journal, would have been captioned 'Academic Group'. No blazers available for this photo opp. From left to right: 
Glenn Leembruggen, Bryan Payne, Richard Urquhart, Colin Jamieson, Stephen Frost



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STHS School Sony


Gard recently uploaded his STHS Class of 1969 2014 Reunion video to YouTube.

You can see it here:

http://www.users.on.net/~sdgard/STHS/PhotoAlbums/2014Reunion.html

Shortly after this, the video received a copyright claim notice. About the music.
Gard did not steal the music. It was all created by himself, variations on the theme of 'Men of Harlech', an ancient march tune dating from at least 1408, which we know as our school song. 'Men of Harlech' has been in the public domain for centuries.

The digital analysis software used by YouTube to detect copyright violations is efficient. Upload a video of your daughter's wedding with 'Going to the Chapel of Love' by the Dixie Cups on the soundtrack, and you'll receive a copyright violation notice, literally in minutes.

Gard's music was oblique, he being a modern composer and all, but YouTube's software was able to detect the 'Men of Harlech' melody amid the harmonic undergrowth, and he received a copyright violation notice. It seems Sony now owns 'Men of Harlech'.

Gard does not have to delete the video, but he is not permitted to 'monetize' (horrid word) it.

The problems this must create...

Does STHS now have to pay a fee each time they sing the school song at assemblies? Or only at public performances like Speech Nights? Or have they obtained a licence for it to be sung only in school hours, but not on weekends or public holidays? And never by paid performers? Is the school band allowed to play it? What about recording The School Song for the K-Tel Album 'Golden Oldies of Tech, Latin Style?'


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