I joined 615 Gliding School at Kenley (no pretentious Squadrons in those days!) as a staff cadet in 1960. George Nunn was CO and Alex Watson was CFI.
Plenty of "can do" attitude in those days until the elf & safety brigade moved in.
Worked my way up from winch driver extraordinaire, through the grades/categories to A2* and CFI.
My first gliding experiences as a staff cadet were night flying in Cadet Mk IIIs. As the end of the day arrived the instructors looked around, pointed to me and said "Are you on the course, lad? Have you flown?" - I replied that I was a new staff cadet and had been winching (single drum winches) all day. "Oh well we have finished gliding, jump in for a hangar flight!"
It was dark and the only light was coming from the hangar doors, but it was flying, which is the reason I was there.
After that we had to go back to the winches and do a cable DI using the light from the one ton Austin headlights!!
Great days and great memories.