{"id":578,"date":"2024-10-01T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=578"},"modified":"2024-10-01T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:19:46","slug":"578-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Helen Shapiro Name has Just been Included In the Hall of Fame Due to…!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helen Shapiro signs autographs backstage at the New Theatre, Oxford, in 1962 for David Lobban, 16, of Witney, left, Howard Booker, 17, of Freeland, and Susan Abott, 15, of Headington<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THE headmaster wasn\u2019t the only one bowled over by Helen Shapiro \u2013 the chairman and secretary of the parent-teacher association were impressed too.<\/p>\n

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The teenage singing sensation was invited to the summer fete at Bayswater School, Headington, Oxford, in 1962.<\/p>\n

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    Headmaster Mr K M Gallop, although admitting he wasn\u2019t \u2018with it\u2019, praised her for her good manners. And PTA chairman Henry Harris and secretary Audrey Baughan agreed.<\/p>\n

    It was Mr Harris\u2019s idea to invite the singer to visit the school in Bayswater Road.<\/p>\n

    He recalls: \u201cWe were looking for someone to open our fete and I remembered reading that she was due to appear in Oxford.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe contacted the\u00a0New Theatre, who gave us the name of her agent, and that\u2019s how it was arranged.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe then contacted the mayor as we thought it would be good to have someone important to meet her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Contrary to what was reported at the time, Miss Shapiro opened the fete, not the mayor, Alderman Evan Roberts.<\/p>\n

    The teenager had become the youngest female chart topper in the UK with You Don\u2019t Know and Walkin\u2019 Back to Happiness in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

    She was so popular that nearly 2,000 people flocked to see her when she arrived at the school.<\/p>\n

    Mr Harris tells me: \u201cThe fete made \u00a32,400 for school funds that day. I remember we spent some of it on table tennis tables.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Mrs Baughan, of Pound Way, Templars Square, Cowley, recalls: \u201cI and a fellow PTA committee member were taken by taxi to pick up Helen from the Mitre Hotel.<\/p>\n

    \u201cLike Mr Gallop, I was immediately impressed by her poise and friendly demeanour, and her eagerness to be fully involved in the afternoon\u2019s celebrations.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt was my pleasure to chaperone Miss Shapiro for the majority of the afternoon, then take her back to her hotel when the festivities finished.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cShe took a great interest in all the afternoon\u2019s activities and was very happy to sign autographs and continued to do so long after the half-hour set aside for this, in fact whenever she was approached by excited children and parents.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI have extremely happy memories of this lovely, successful event. \u201c As we recalled (Memory Lane<\/em>, June 9), Mr Gallop used Miss Shapiro\u2019s visit to drive home a message to pupils \u2013 the importance of good behaviour.<\/p>\n

    He told parents and pupils at the school\u2019s prizegiving a week later: \u201cHer manners impressed all those who were present.<\/p>\n

    \u201cHer complete naturalness and poise were an excellent example to our teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Mr Harris agreed, describing her as a \u201cgreat girl\u201d \u2013 and he was even more impressed when he met her again three years later.<\/p>\n

    \u201cShe appeared in concert at the Playhouse and afterwards, I went to the stage door and asked to see her. She came out and remembered me from the fete.\u201d<\/p>\n

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