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  A HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL, 1870-1932
Sir William Fettes was devoted to his son, and after his death, having no children of his own to succeed him, he decided to leave the bulk of his fortune, gained by his industry and ability, for the purposes of assisting children with their education.
Fettes was fortunate in having in her a gracious and gifted hostess with a sympathetic understanding of youthful aspirations and ambitions.
Fettes had been a boys' school for the first hundred years of its existence, but though its ethos had been so distinctively masculine, there had always been doubt that Sir William Fettes had really wanted his school to be single-sex.
www.fettes.co.uk /ofa/Hist270s.htm   (15407 words)

  
 Short Stories: The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fettes was far through his third tumbler, stupidly fuddled, now nodding over, now staring mazily around him; but at the last word he seemed to awaken, and repeated the name 'Macfarlane' twice, quietly enough the first time, but with sudden emotion at the second.
Fettes walked steadily to the spot, and we, who were hanging behind, beheld the two men meet, as one of them had phrased it, face to face.
With Fettes he was on terms of intimacy; indeed, their relative positions called for some community of life; and when subjects were scarce the pair would drive far into the country in Macfarlane's gig, visit and desecrate some lonely graveyard, and return before dawn with their booty to the door of the dissecting-room.
www.eastoftheweb.com /short-stories/UBooks/BodySnat.shtml   (6562 words)

  
 Mark Fettes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fettes is the principal investigator in the project Building culturally inclusive schools through imaginative education.
Fettes is developing an education model to help B.C. aboriginal people attain greater academic, social and economic success.
Fettes hopes his project will demonstrate that imaginative education encourages learners to re-imagine their communities’ future and their place in the world.
www.sfu.ca /mediapr/news_releases/fettes.html   (260 words)

  
 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fettes, a drunk on his second glass of scotch, sits in a fog, minding the events of the pub out of the corner of his eye.
Fettes wakes suddenly from his drunken stupor, rushing to confirm the face of this golden clad man. Fettes short dialogue is mysterious, and ends abruptly with a question, "Have you seen it again?" Doctor Macfarlane, now an esteemed doctor, worked with Fettes, studying medicine together under a famous unnamed professor of anatomy.
Fettes attitude was one of forced and inevitable assent.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/80/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers.html   (671 words)

  
 SFU News - Leading edge research triggers new masters program in education - June 23, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fettes and other researchers in the education faculty’s Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) are studying the application of education professor Kieran Egan’s imaginative learning theory in schools with a high First Nations student population.
Fettes and his collaborators are working with First Nations education leaders, and 26 aboriginal and non-aboriginal teachers in three B.C. school districts to integrate Egan’s theory in classroom practice.
Fettes’ team is trying to integrate aboriginal knowledge, values, perspectives and history into a mainstream, imagination-based curriculum.
www.sfu.ca /mediapr/print/sfu_news/archives/sfunews06230509.htm   (470 words)

  
 Examine the ways in which the author, creates suspense and tension in ‘The Speckled Band’ by Sir Arthur Conan ...
We are later told that Fettes has 'medical knowledge', may therefore have been a doctor, but what had happened to make him in the state he is now, the reader slightly may think it had something to do with his career.
Fettes talks about the 'rum and sin', which shows, on his face, the reader does not understand what he means and become intrigued.
Fettes is at the bottom of the stars when Macfarlane is at the top, this symbolically gives the idea to the reader that Macfarlane is at a higher class and status and Fettes is at the bottom.
www.coursework.info /i/34608.html   (994 words)

  
 The Voice Ledger - News - 03/20/2003 - Fettes receives national conservation award
Fettes has represented the Dutchess County Legislature as the district director since 1976.
According to Fettes, the board must have a representative from the bureau, the Grange, two legislators and three others, preferably engineers or compost professionals.
Conserving land and soil is a priority for Fettes since she was born on a dairy farm on Verbank Road in Millbrook.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=7423782&BRD=1721&PAG=461&dept_id=72149&rfi=6   (443 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Fettes shooting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A PUPIL at Edinburgh’s Fettes College shot a classmate in the playground with an airgun.
Although the Fettes College pupil has been suspended for two weeks, there is concern police should be asked to take further action.
Fettes College, which is based in East Fettes Avenue, has its own rifle range as part of the school’s Combined Cadet Force.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=469432002   (565 words)

  
 Leelanau Enterprise // Editorial Archive
Fettes was quickly sworn-in by Clerk Patricia Zoyhofski and sat in for the rest of the council meeting.
Fettes and Taghon were joined by Edwin "Tim" Simpson in applying for the council vacancy.
Fettes is probably best known outside of Empire for her work as a glass artist.
www.leelanaunews.com /archive.php?id=329   (383 words)

  
 Dr. Ivy Fettes - Diabetes Speaker Biography
Ivy Fettes is Acting Director of the Division of Endocrinology at Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Univeristy of Toronto.
Fettes does a combination of clinical practice, teaching and clinical research.
Fettes is the Bioethics representative for Endocrinology at the University of Toronto and plays a major role in integrating ethics into the postgraduate endocrine teaching curriculum.
www.cmeondiabetes.com /pub/dr..ivy.fettes.php   (299 words)

  
 The Body Snatcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The earnest medical student, Donald Fettes (Russell Wade), is on the verge of abandoning medicine, but MacFarlane notices his good bedside skills with the little girl, makes him his special assistant, and initiates him into the business of grave-robbing.
Fettes is unaware that Gray and MacFarlane narrowly missed conviction for murder in the Burke and Hare affair of 1823.
MacFarlane forces Fettes to remain silent and they begin their research, but they are overheard by the servant, Joseph (Bela Lugosi), who then tries to flmail Gray only to be "burked" himself.
endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/body.snatcher46-film-.html   (425 words)

  
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Could you please tell the Art Department and the careers adviser that Fettes has achieved more than it realises with its Ruskin students.\rdblquote \par }{\i\fs20 \par }{\b\fs20 Tori McCusker, n\'e9e Wickes, (CE85) }{\fs20 was awarded a Distinction in her postgraduate marketing degree at Strathclyde, the first to be awarded since the course started.
After leaving \~Fettes \~he completed his Engineering apprenticeship with a firm in Leith and was a regular player for Dunfermline both at rugby and cricket.
At Fettes his quicksilv er mind was turbo-charged with a sense of the absurd which made his surreal essays and wild cartoons the best around.
www.fettes.co.uk /ofa/ofnl02ju.rtf   (17760 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Scotland - Fettes College for hire as venue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
FETTES College, the 133-year-old alma mater of the Prime Minister, is to embrace the world of corporate events by touting itself as a venue that can be hired out for conferences and weddings.
Earlier in the year, Fettes College put on a Harry Potter theme day in an attempt to cash in on the success of JK Rowling’s books.
Fettes College was founded in 1870 under the will of Sir William Fettes, twice lord provost of Edinburgh.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=758592003   (482 words)

  
 Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Body Snatcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fettes regularly received and paid for corpses late at night from the men who robbed graves for them.
One night, the body of a woman he knew was brought to his door; he was certain that she had been murdered but he said nothing.
Later, Fettes and Macfarlane were sent to a country church yard to exhume a recently buried woman.
endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/stevenson296-des-.html   (313 words)

  
 Margaret Fettes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The 2002 Special Service Award was presented by the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) to Margaret Fettes, an official with the Dutchess County Soil and Water Conservation District in Millbrook, New York.
Fettes was appointed a district director representing the Dutchess County Legislature in 1976 and continues in that role today, having served for two years as district chair.
Fettes was reared on a dairy farm that is still in the family.
www.nacdnet.org /2003/NEWS/Margaret.htm   (300 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - Fettes teacher sacked over leukaemia lie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
ONE of Scotland’s leading private schools was thrown into fresh controversy yesterday after a respected teacher was suspended for falsely telling her colleagues she was suffering from cancer.
Catherine Cecil deceived staff and pupils at Edinburgh’s Fettes College with "an elaborate and extraordinarily well-constructed fantasy", according to the headmaster, Michael Spens.
The revelation has shocked parents, pupils and staff at the Edinburgh establishment and is the latest controversy to strike Fettes in recent weeks.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=188022002   (918 words)

  
 Spectator, The: public school smarm of Blair, The
His style is unusually hard to fathom: at the same time honest and open, with an attractive laugh, yet ingratiating and secretive, with a marked unwillingness to give straight replies.
Sir John Simon and Selwyn Lloyd went to Fettes, but the most interesting Old Fettesian politician before Mr Blair was lain Macleod, who once protested in these pages at the way in which a magic circle of Old Etonians had decided the succession from Macmillan to Home.
Fettes is remote enough for its sons and daughters to seem, if they choose, to have no connection with privilege.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200105/ai_n8928986   (1447 words)

  
 Fettes launches marketing offensive - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
FETTES College, the Edinburgh private school that counts Tony Blair among its former pupils, has become the first Scottish school to hire an advertising agency to turn it into a brand.
Earlier this year, Fettes signed a one-year contract with the agency 1576 to develop a marketing strategy.
If schools like Fettes lose this status, margins will be squeezed from lost tax relief.
www.sundayherald.com /44940   (473 words)

  
 Millbrook Round Table - News - 12/23/2004 - Infirmary construction to begin next year
Fettes said reconstruction, demolition and asbestos abatement must be undertaken with the nearly $6 million in bonds approved by the Legislature in the fall.
The $6 million passed for the construction comes from the property tax, which Fettes said she doesn't want to see go any higher, but she noted that providing handicap accessibility is one of the big ticket costs for renovating the infirmary buildings.
When the center is operating, residents of the eastern side of the county will not have to drive into Poughkeepsie to conduct government business.
www.midhudsoncentral.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13605531&BRD=1705&PAG=461&dept_id=71853&rfi=6   (304 words)

  
 Grace L. Fettes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fettes was an assembler for Packard Research Corp in Andover, Mass.
She attended the South Congregational Church in Lawrence, where she was active in the Friendly Circle Service Club, Neighbors in Need, Couples Club and the Senior Group.
The widow of James Fettes, she leaves son James, and daughter and son-in-law Nancy and Richard Lacasse, all of Hampstead; four grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20020419/OB_002.htm   (178 words)

  
 Overview of Sir William Fettes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Fettes had grown wealthy trading tea and wine during the Napoleonic Wars and bought the estate of Comely Bank in the north-west of Edinburgh.
Thus, unable to pass his money on to the next generation, Fettes left the extraordinary sum of £166,000 to enable the foundation of Fettes College for the education of poor and orphaned boys.
Portraits of Fettes and his son hang either side of the door to the Old Library in the school which he founded.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst139.html   (173 words)

  
 InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Thursday, February 24, 2005
Fettes says 24-7 INtouch, which partners with Seattle-based InstantService Inc. to provide live chat technology, had no revenue from live chat just eight months ago.
Fettes says he expects live chat to grow among the retail industry in stages.
That is in addition to standard live chat costs that range from about 30 to 70 cents per minute, Fettes says.
www.internetretailer.com /dailyNews.asp?id=14232   (340 words)

  
 Blair school Fetted to work wirelessly - vnunet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Tony Blair's former school, Fettes College, is going one step beyond its counterparts by setting up a wireless Lan and providing all pupils with their own web-enabled laptop.
Network manager for the project, Dr Asaad Noori, believes that Fettes College is leading the way in providing its pupils with this technology.
"As far as I know, Fettes is the first school in the UK to have a wireless Lan," he said.
www.vnunet.com /networkitweek/news/2055895/blair-school-fetted-work-wirelessly   (551 words)

  
 JS Online: Driver feels stuck without his sticker
Aaron Fettes found that out when he tried to renew his registration.
Most law enforcement officers take that into account and give people a break, but if you're ticketed because your renewal hasn't been processed yet, the DMV will give you proof of renewal to take to court, she said.
Fettes adds: "I would have renewed online, but they charge you an extra $2.50 to do so.
www.jsonline.com /traffic/news/apr05/315167.asp?format=print   (898 words)

  
 MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - Madder Lake
Also, Mick Fettes recently revealed that French and the band were under pressure from Gudinski to save money and work as quickly as possible, and that as a result they were never entirely happy with the final sound!
While on a trip to Sydney, Mick Fettes, who was very much the voice and face of Madder Lake, decided he had had enough, and one night before a gig at the Bondi Lifesaver he quit the group.
Mick Fettes has confirmed us that there is indeed 12-track Madder Lake album of all-new material "in the can" but that it has been "on hold", pending additional funds to complete production.
www.geocities.com /soho/square/8216/madder.htm   (3724 words)

  
 Fettes College Edinburgh
Music is a major part of life at Fettes, and the school is well-known both for the quality and quantity of music on offer.
During the course of a working week more than three-quarters of the school will be involved in a musical activity of some kind.
We pride ourselves in the opportunities that are available for musicians at Fettes, and we now rank as one of the premier independent schools for music in Scotland.
www.fettes.com /departments/music.htm   (716 words)

  
 FETTES COLLEGE
At Fettes College we provide a broad based education that produces well-rounded, successful people and not simply successful students.
Academically our students perform very well with over 80% achieving Grades A or B at A Level; Fettes is the leading A Level school in Scotland.
Fettes students can take part in a widely varying range of extra-curricular activities and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme is strongly supported at all levels.
www.isbi.com /isbi-viewschool/2831-FETTES_COLLEGE.html   (723 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - UK - Young Bond author uses his poetic licence to kill era at Fettes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A NEW book about James Bond’s childhood downplays the importance of his schooling at Fettes and emphasises the influence of Eton in moulding the character of the world’s most famous fictional spy, The Scotsman can reveal.
In what is planned to be a five-book series, his Bond will only head north in the closing chapters of the final book.
He has not yet, however, been to Fettes and didn’t even know that it was in Edinburgh.
news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=221702005   (581 words)

  
 Florida Tech vs Eckerd (Mar 20, 2004)
Fettes advanced to third on a passed ball.
Fettes reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; Darden scored.
Fettes reached on an error by 2b; Anderson advanced to second.
www.fit.edu /athletics/softball/2004/fts30.htm   (980 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Sport - Rugby - Buckhaven face 'huge challenge' in Fettes tie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This afternoon (3pm) in Edinburgh, Buckhaven will take on Fettes College in a qualifying round of the Bell Lawrie White Scottish Cup, and the visitors' coach, Willie Allan, likens the tie "to Cowdenbeath playing Rangers".
He added: "I see that Fettes beat Merchiston Castle last week, a few days after Merchiston had beaten Dollar Academy, so it's going to be a huge challenge for my boys."
It will be Buckhaven's first venture in the cup for some years, and they could hardly have asked for tougher opposition.
sport.scotsman.com /rugby.cfm?id=2035402005   (475 words)

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