The obituary notice of Harry GUREVITCH

He told my siblings and I he was the secretary. Difficult to know if he went by the title Secretary because it suited his egalitarian nature of if he told my siblings and I that having inherited his wit he'd have never heard the end of it.

Teacher: "Hand your homework in please"

Me: I had the president check it last night, he said its OK

Teacher [eyerolls]

Me: The president says teachers should get a pay rise and improved working conditions

Teacher [smiles approvingly]

Me: The president says everyone should get a pay rise and improved working and living conditions, that women shouldn't be oppressed and children shouldn't have to go to school

Teacher: "Are you sure about that last one?

Harry's obituary in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/may/22/schools.uk

His father had many jobs, I was told he sold ice creams from a dynamo powered pack on back of his bicycle, he was called up during ww2 to serve with the RAF on the homefront, he was a bus conductor with East Yorkshire Motors where he was also union rep, and then was a clerical worker.

Harry was a thoughtful intellectual who tended to avoid labels. I'm not sure he'd have called himself an anti zionist but he and his immediate family were definitely critical of oppressive policies and regimes, against the brutalisation of Palestinian's, and supporters of the two state solution. Whilst appreciating diversity he was secular, or as one of my siblings humorously noted, he was a devout atheist.

Harry had been a claimant on legal action case, having been brought up in and spent most of his life in West Hull

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/22489/capper-pass-claims-rio-tinto-plc-and-bnfl

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1782318.stm