 Jim Corbett, the famous naturalist and story teller from Nainital, attended Oak Openings School.Some of the Jim's biographers speak of the school being operated and co-owned by a ruthless and cruel ex-Indian Army Officer who was known to his 70 pupils as 'Dead Eye Dick' "for his aim both with a rifle and a bamboo cane was exceedingly accurate".It became a favourite memory of Jim's, in his later years, to remark how Oak Openings was the site of the shooting of the last mountain quail ("Ophrysia supercilosa") in 1876, driving it into extinction.