[2] After service as an officer with the Seaforth Highlanders during the Second World War and completing his time at university, McComish was appointed as Art Master and Housemaster at Gordonstoun in 1949 by innovative German educator Kurt Hahn who was then the school's headmaster.

[2][3] In 1953 an earthquake struck Greece, a disaster which caused the death of thousands of people and the destruction of many buildings.

[citation needed] In 1959 McComish discovered a small school that was for sale in Mickleham, Surrey.

[5] Gordonstoun, Salem, Anavryta and Box Hill were 'taken for granted' as the already established and pre-eminent Hahnian schools.

[5] Gordonstoun, Salem, Anavryta and Box Hill were 'taken for granted' as the already established and pre-eminent Hahnian schools.

(Round Square International Service) was created to promote and organise overseas voluntary service projects in much the same way as the project in Cephalonia[2] Roy McComish retired as headmaster of Box Hill School in 1987 and was replaced by Dr Rodney Atwood.

[citation needed] Founder of the Round Square Jocelin Winthrop Young noted the importance of Roy McComish and Box Hill School. "

To explain why, I must go back to a serious miscalculation in my original plan for the conference the administration and organisation were to be undertaken by different schools and thus infrastructure would fall away.

Throughout these years Box Hill was the centre of the association and Roy’s team of David Larg as treasurer, and Kay Holland as secretary to R.S.I.S.