MARCH 2006 NEWSLETTER
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1984 Rugby tour Matt Dawson on Millionaire Prince Oleg Valentinovitch Volkonsky Staff Revues part 2 Tom C.T. Knowles Winter of 1963
EDITOR'S NOTES
If you are a life member of the Old Wycombiensians, you should have received by now either the OW magazine or a letter with details of the Annual Dinner and the Sporting Reunions. If you did not, it may be that you have moved house or you were one of the OWs whose details were lost in the upgrading of the School Computer System. Please contact me, and I will send you one. We have now updated the Missing OWs list. Please look at this list and if you recognise your name or that of another OW, whose contact address you know, please contact me. Quite a few OWs have contacted us in recent months with new or updated details of themselves, so do have a look at this section on the website. It is great when we do receive photos, or articles about the RGS in past years, and we seek to publish them, as they come in. If you are having a clear-out of the loft, and find some old photos of the RGS, please send them in, and I will return them when we have made a copy. If you find that there is a mistake in your entry, or you would like it updated, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Ian Clark email: ianrclarkuk@yahoo.co.uk
DINNER AND SPORTING REUNIONS
We have received a number of applications for the Dinner, and a number of people have indicated that they want to play in one of the Sporting Reunions. Just in case you missed the details in the January Newsletter, they are printed below. If you are a hockey player, or were a hockey player at school, you may want to come to hear Jon Wyatt, who captained England at hockey. Equally you may want to take part in one of the sports either on April 22nd or in the summer. The more the merrier!
OLD WYCOMBIENSIANS SPORTING REUNIONS,
AGM AND ANNUAL DINNER 2006
SATURDAY 22nd APRIL 2006
From 2.30 p.m An opportunity to play hockey, fence, or shoot and meet old friends. Application form on attached sheet.
6.00 p.m. A tour of the School for those who are interested. The bar to open.
6.30 p.m. AGM in the School Library.
7.30 p.m. Annual Dinner in the Queens Hall.
Our Guest of Honour is Jon Wyatt (1987-1991), who captained the GB hockey side in the Sydney Olympics, and played in more than 190 International matches. It is great to welcome him to the OW Dinner
The new Head, Roy Page, whom many of you will remember as he joined the RGS Staff in 1972, will talk about how the school is doing. A number of former and current staff will be attending and we hope that John Mitchell, the school archivist will be present.
There will be a four-course meal, and it should be a very good one. A bar will be organised by the RGS Parents Association and all profits go to school projects. As in past years we are reserving tables for those who play in the various sporting events in the afternoon. For everybody else, we will try to arrange the seating to suit you. We hope that the formal part of the evening will be over by 9.45 pm, so that there will be plenty of time for conversation. It should be a really enjoyable occasion, and I hope that you will be able to be there.
Peter Gillard is organising a reunion of OWs who were in the Sixth Form in the years 1950-52 approximately. If that applies to you, do contact Peter. His phone number is 01785 822343 and his email address is hoji@supanet.com. Similarly, Otto Decker, who was in the 6th Form from 1948-1950, is coming across from the USA for the Dinner, and hopes that he might see at the Dinner others who knew him. If you are a member of Friends Reunited, how about contacting old friends that you have not perhaps seen for some time, to arrange for a group to come together? Please do make contact with your friends and make a special effort to come to this occasion to show support for the School as the new Head takes office.
This year the cost will be £29.00. If you would like to come, please complete the enclosed form, and send it to Ian Clark as soon as possible, and by SATURDAY APRIL 15th at the very latest. You will receive the confirmation of your application and the Agenda of the AGM, but not before March 19th. Please send a DL envelope with your application.
Apart from the fencing, hockey and shooting on 22nd April, we are arranging golf, cricket and tennis matches in the Summer. Dates are given on the attached reply slip. If you want to participate in either or both of the Sporting Reunions, please complete and send in the reply-slip. If you want further information, please contact Ian Clark on 01494 530782, or e-mail him. (ianrclarkuk@yahoo.co.uk).
We look forward to seeing you on April 22nd.
Crispin White
(Chairman)
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Please return this form to: Ian Clark, 5 Foxhill Close, High Wycombe, HP13 5BL by Saturday 15 April.
SPORTS REUNIONS
If you are a hockey player, David Stone is organising a hockey match for Old Boys (OWs) on Saturday April 22nd. If you were a fencer a school at school, there will be the opportunity of taking part in a fencing match for OWs on the same day. John Roebuck is retiring next summer, and you may well wish to come back and say farewell to him on that occasion. If you used to shoot as part of the CCF programme, there is an OW match against the present school team scheduled again for April 22nd. All these activities will take place in the afternoon and in the evening is the Annual OW Dinner.
In the Summer Term, there are cricket matches with the OWs playing the Teachers in an evening match on July 4th, when those of you who are at University should have returned, and on July 19th starting at 2.00pm, there will be the Annual cricket match between the OWs and the School Team for the Duncan Moore Trophy. If you play golf, and you do not have to be good, as it is based on handicap, there is a golf match against the teachers, played at Weston Turville near Aylesbury, starting about 4.00pm on Friday June 23rd. If you would like to play in any of those events please complete the reply slip below.
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Please return this form to: Ian Clark, 5 Foxhill Close, High Wycombe, HP13 5BL by Saturday 15 April for the April events, and June 1 for the June and July events.
THE RGS JAZZ BAND IS 27 YEARS OLD!
The RGS Jazz Band was formed in April 1979 and should have celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 2004. However, as with Jazz, things are rarely done by the book and so we will celebrate the Bands anniversary in July 2006.
We are looking to invite all ex members of the RGS Jazz Band to join us on the 9th July 2006 at the Music Departments Open Air Extravaganza in the Quad. We would like to join forces with ex members who are still playing to form literally a BIG Band, and we would like to form an Independent Big Band of Old Boys to play a couple of Numbers.
Please email Bigbandreunion@yahoo.com with your name and address, dates as member of the band, instrument and whether you would like to play on the day.
Ed: CAN YOU HELP?
If you have been a member of the Jazz Band, and cannot join in on July 3rd, but you know of other members of the Band, please tell them about the reunion, or preferably email their contact address or phone number, so that as many people know about this as possible. It would be great to have a really BIG Band
CAN YOU HELP?
Janet Philpott (HOD Careers) is organising the RGS biennial Careers Fair on Monday July 3rd 7-9pm in the Queens Hall. She would be delighted to hear from any old boy who would be willing to participate in this event, particularly those in banking, or in any medical profession since this is an area of great interest to our lads and it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to secure places at Uni. If you are interested & would like more info please contact me at janet.philpott@btinternet.com
Ed: If you know of any OW who is a banker or Doctor, please tell him about this, or email his contact address.
Many thanks for any help you can give!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear 1960s vintage ex-RGS Men,
Just to let you know that the 1967 RGS School Photo website (http://www.btinternet.com/~john.saunders14/rgs/) has been updated with 38 new identifications contributed by Mike Saunders (no relation). If your name is on it and you would prefer to have it removed from it, please let me know. I intend to put up pages with the 1957 (junior), 1960 (senior) and 1962 (senior) school photos in due course.
Regards
John Saunders
I hope you are well, and had a good Christmas and New Year,
I thought that this tale might be of interest to the newsletter, as some of your readers may not have seen the Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire? on New Year's Eve. This was noteworthy not only for the appearance of an Old Boy, but the mention of a well-known member of staff,
Matt Dawson, former RGS, England rugby International, and Team Captain of a Question of Sport, appeared along with Martin Bell. His experience living in High Wycombe meant he knew the M40 linked London and Birmingham but it got interesting at the £32,000 question which was:
Which of the following is NOT a letter of the Greek Alphabet?
A. Gamma B. Epsilon. C. Meta. D. Chi
At this point Matt recalled his schooldays. Mr Wilson will be shouting at the screen. Chris Tarrant confirmed that Mr Wilson would want to know if young Dawson was paying attention. I too learnt the Greek alphabet in on of Mr. Wilson's lessons. (That and Caecilius est pater, are the only things I remember). So I knew the answer. Like Matt I went through the zeta-eta-theta trilogy to get to the answer meta. Martin Bell did not know, and so Matt was all prepared to go for c-Meta before opting out and taking the 16 grand for charity.
It would be interesting to know if Mr Wilson was indeed shouting at the screen. I remember Mr Wilson is a keen Sunderland fan and all Sunderland fans are not having a good time this season, so I hope that he is the first RGS member of staff to get their name on Who Wants to be a Millionaire is some consolation.
Yours sincerely
Keith Nevols
Ed: No, he was not watching, and by the time some relatives who were watching had phoned him up, the programme had moved on. Incidentally Matt was on another programme recently involving school reports, and apparently one of the comments on one of his school reports contained a spelling mistake!
My mother was doing some searches on the internet and found my name listed on the January 2006 RGS Old Boys Newsletter. She passed this information onto me because the 1984 Rugby Tour to California was mentioned. As you correctly list I went on this tour. You asked for some information about the people. I have attached two pictures. One of the tour party itself on the day that we left for California [you will note the 'tour shirts']. I think the picture was taken by the Bucks Free Press? The other is of the 2nd XV that I Captained during 1984. I recall the tour as being a lot of fun. We played five 15-a-side matches against High School Teams. Many of the people we played against were big and tough [quite a few 'ringers' we found out later]. The Americans either played American Football, many had Samoan or New Zealand or Australian family origin. We stayed mainly in host family houses. We won all 5 games and had two teams in an 'International Sevens' tournament in the main park in San Francisco. Our two teams met in the Semi-Final.
The A team won that game [probably the toughest of the competition] and eventually won the final game against a side from Canada. I recall Graham MacGregor running the whole length of the pitch in sweltering conditions in the last minute of that game to score the winning try and later effectively collapsing with near exhaustion. Ironically, I am currently working for a Biotech Company that is based in California [Thousand Oaks]. My home for the last 2 and a half years has been the State of Rhode Island where they [Amgen] have a huge Manufacturing Plant [recombinant protein manufacturing for a Rheumatoid Arthritis product].
If there is any more information [that I can remember] that you would like to know about the tour, you can contact me at my work e-mail, or my personal e-mail stephen_podesta@hotmail.com.
Regards
Stephen Podesta
Ed: If anyone else has any stories of the Tour or any photos of any other sporting tour, cricket hockey or rugby, please send them to me.
Whilst browsing the internet, I discovered an RGS OB who is descended from a saint. Prince Oleg Valentinovitch Volkonsky (b 1939) came to the school in 1952, joining form 4x. He went on to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1958 to study Russian and French. His picture can be found in the 1956 School Photo on Tony Hare's website (http://www.ajhweb.co.uk/rgs/RGS2.htm).
I discovered a short biography and interview with him at http://www.vor.ru/English/People/programm.phtml?act=15 where it reveals that he is descended from a 13th century prince of Kiev who was martyred by the Tartars and subsequently became a Russian orthodox saint.
There is more about his family at http://www.vgd.ru/VLKNSK/english.htm
If he can be contacted, it might be interesting to have him contribute something to the website.
Regards
John Saunders
Ed: Anyone know where he might be? Anybody know of any other OW who is descended from a saint or is related to some famous person in mediaeval times or before?:
Dear Ian,
With regard to the query mentioned in an earlier newsletter about a Head-Boy called Smith,when I started at the RGS in 1949 the Head Boy was G.R.Smith. In the Grey Book he was entered as Youens House, D.O.B. 19.8.31 and he had entered School in 1941, and was living in Princes Risborough in 1949.
C.F. Hussey (1949-1955)
I am writing on 25th January 2006. This icy blast has just reminded me of the first year at the RGS. The infamous winter of'63 had well and truly dug its heels in by now. Remember those temporary huts anyone? I bet you do! I can recall the constant thumping of one's feet against the classroom floor as a counter-measure against icy blasts coming through those pesky cracks (feeling like rift valleys at the time) and the rush like wasps to jam for the nearest available radiator. All good character building stuff I hear you say. Of course, but evaluated as such at the time in that winter of discontent- I do not think so! By the way, has anyone ever seen the playground foot-slide bettered? You know the one I mean.
Peter Lance.
Ed.
Who remembers the winter of 1963?
Dear Ian,
Here is some news of Old Boys: Dr. John Ward, (1962) lecturer in Economic History at Edinburgh University, retires in the summer.
Jim Tomlinson (c.1970) left his Chair at Brunel to take up another Chair in Modern British History at Dundee.
Dr. Marcus Bull (c1981) is Senior Lecturer in Mediaeval History at Bristol. He sent me a copy of his most recent book, Thinking Mediaeval, a vade mecum to Mediaeval History.
Graham Smith (c1970) is a partner in Clifford Turner, one of the really big London Law firms.
Dr Michael Phipps (c1973) teaches A Level History and Politics at a London Crammer. He is in touch with Paul Burnham.
Michael Horrex (c1962) runs an English Language School in the south of Spain. He is in touch with Peter Uppard, the pianist, and Sir Ian Johnston, Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonia University. He retires in the summer.
An Old Boy, Geoffrey Cunnick, ex St Barts, came up to speak to me in town last year. He is the breast cancer specialist in Wycombe.
On a sadder note you may have read the obituary of Jonathan Clark (1966) in the Guardian and Independent at the end of last year. Jonathan was Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at Southampton.
I wonder if anyone might know where Maurice Cavey (1960s) and David Keen (1970s) might be now.
With best wishes to you and all,
David Jones
Ed: David Jones was Head of History at the RGS in the '60s, 70s and 80s. He still lives in Wycombe, and we send him his very best wishes.
Dear Ian,
I would love to hear from members of the Junior Colts, Colts, 2nd XV, and 1st XV rugby teams of my era. Chris Sweeting was our captain and scrum half. I was a spindly character who deservedly never made it to the 1st XV, although I captained the 2nd. Some names I remember include Steve Thomas (later Head Boy), Davies (son of Taffy), Redrup, Pete Reddican, Douglas (a boarder), George Cutler (second row, went on to Oxford), Russell, Mick O'Hanlon (hooker), Malcolm Priestley.
All the best
Bill Laws
william.laws@tatatechnologies.com
THE FIRST STAFF REVUES at the RGS (Part 2)
NOS or Son of Loohcs was planned at the bleary-eyed celebration party held incognito after the unlikely success of the first Revue.
One can do no better than quote from the Official Programme of 2-3 April 1971 about its embryo:
Early one morning, not so many prayers ago, ifaith, a giggling wreck was seen making its way across the hallowed, plantain-covered lawns of the main quadrangle, clutching a bloated manuscript to its breast. Jabbering away to itself in pre-Freudian imagery, it leapt into the sinister (being socialistically or left inclined and not at all dexterous) lily pond whereupon lily leapt out and collapsed amongst the coke bottles and sodden detention essays. A thousand eye-balls swivelled from their hymn-book orientated fixes to gaze on the scene oblivious to the staged cries of Watch the mortar boards! Was it? Could it be? Yes. The monster infant of those semi-detached minds (the Staff Revue authors) had finally been breached.
Oft had those Jekyllantine fiends peddled around the staff cloak room on a nearby ethereally doctored bicycle; oft had they scratched their academic tomes in despair; oft had they scoured Matrons office for lost jokes. What could follow 1970s catharsis? Quaffing their loohcsade, they cogitated, even masticated, on a title Loohcs Back in Anger ?; Malice Through the Loohcsing Glass ? Loohcs and Learn ? Perhaps all this was too NOStalgic; but filthy loohcs notwithstanding, Son of Loohcs was born and here it is, a three month offspring (and in Spring) for your perusal. So sit back and enjoy it the doors wont be unlocked until 9.15 anyway.
There will be a short Interval after each of Mr. M. W. Cooks jokes (three in all, allegedly) for the purpose of appreciative applause.
The assembled (in more ways than one) cast included old hands as well as some virgin thesps: Bob Brown, David Chamberlain, Malcolm Cook, Chris Embrey, Steve Goldthorpe, Mike Moffatt, Brian Ward, Erik Westrup, chivvied along by the producers Ian Blyth and Ken Hillier, and ubiquitously supported by Derek Culture Vulture White-Taylor, who appeared by kind permission of the Senior and Junior Christian Fellowship Societies, the Osnabruck Exchange package deal, the Badminton Club, the Language Laboratory Brigade, Uplyme Boarding House and the makers of Pussy Galore boots.
The first half was entirely given over to Ill Be Furry A Dramatic Cantata in One Act, which proved to be another masterpiece from the pen of Sixth Former Adam Hardy, ably supported by Arthur Sullivans melodies. Very loosely based on Gilbert & Sullivans Trial By Jury, the setting was the Hall of the Headmaster (played by none else but White-Taylor [the Head that is, not the Hall]), where at the start of another year, September 1984, at the Arcadia School for Young Gentlemen, young Normal has been summoned to appear before the court of the Staff. His offence? His hair exceeds the stated length as laid down in the Arcadian rules. The staff are determined to cut short his revolt.
Played to a packed Queens Hall on both nights, it was a howling success. David Flinders was in fine voice as Normal and the supporting roles were varicosely tuned in. Once again, flamboyant laughter off was considerately provided by the real Headmaster, Malcolm Smith. Only those staff and boys who were at school during the late 1960s and early 1970s know how the issue of the length of a pupils hair threatened to undermine the whole of Western Society, the equilibrium of the Headmasters cerebellum and the sustainability of male barber shops.
The second half struggled to live up to the standard of the first. Malcolm Cooks accent was ideally programmed to deliver a pastiche of Blakes Tiger, Tiger with his
Pylon, pylon, gleaming bright,
Source of our electric light .
Some sketches missed their target. Other got intermittent applause, the best being an extended list of Assembly Notices, which poked gentle fun at some colleagues inability to deliver the simplest messages adequately or with the slightest degree of enthusiasm. David Chamberlain, dressed in perfect MCC whites, mimed a series of double-meaning catch phrases from the commentator John Arlott in Life.
The evening ended with new verses of The RGS School Song, including such immortal stanzas as:
There was an air-raid shelter but they lately took it down.
The edifice beside it is the sweetest in the town.
There is a little alleyway to which it lends a name;
The odour all our sense appals,
Yet we must go when nature calls,
To smoke, or decorate the walls,
And when this wondrous building falls
Twill never be the same.
So with pulchritudinous panache another pulsating performance pranced its way into RGS folklore and there was yet more to come! Nemo malus felix as they say in Terriers.
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Many thanks to Ken Hillier, who has sent in this article about the Staff Review. See an earlier article in the January newsletter. Of all the Staff names mentioned above, Malcolm Smith has died, David Chamberlain, Malcolm Cook, Mike Moffatt, Derek White-Taylor, Steve Goldthorpe, and David Flinders have all retired from teaching, and still live in the area. Ian Blyth is still teaching part-time at the RGS. Bob Brown is around, and obviously Ken Hillier is in contact, but I have no news of Eric Westrup, Chris Embury and Brian Ward. Where are they now?
OBITUARIES
Tom C.T. Knowles 1920-1926
Bill, Tom's son has sent in the following account of his life:
Tom's father was a butcher in Haddenham, where Tom went to the church school. In the normal course he would have left school at 14 and gone to work full time in his fathers shop. But an enlightened teacher had a word and arranged for Toms name to go forward for a free place at the Royal Grammar School.
A matter of only three weeks before Tom died he recalled for the first time how he had been taken to the School, stood before the awe inspiring Headmaster Mr. Arnison resplendent in gown and mortar board, and made to read a passage from a book unseen. He read it well and gained his free place. So until he was 16 he would be a scholarship boy in a paying school, travelling each day on the train from Haddenham, walking to the station at Haddenham and then up the hill to School. Walking up Amersham Hill sometimes involved helping to push the buses up the hill. But well before Tom had run his time at School he had the shock of one day looking out of an upper window into the courtyard. There stood a familiar pony and trap. His father had driven all the way from Haddenham to ask Mr. Arnison to end Toms schooling and send him back to the shop. Mr. Arnison declined to do so.
After representing the school at Rugby and soccer and cricket he left in 1926 without any academic distinction. He was heading for a career in his fathers shop. Eventually he broke away and spent a dozen years or so trying journalism and insurance. But Toms main sporting focus from its very earliest days was on the Old Wycombiensians Rugby Club. He played, too, for the Old Boys soccer club, encouraged by Mr. Arnison, as was the playing of soccer at School, so frowned on by his successor.
Then came the War. He gained a Commission and went into The Royal Scots, where he commanded a platoon of Glaswegians. He understood little of what they said to him nor they of what he said to them.
After demob he went for emergency Teacher training. His first post was at Prestwood. A primary school teachers pay was very poor in those post-war days. So in the early years, whatever the weather, he cycled from Amersham to Prestwood in the early morning, the carrier laden with marked books, and back after school with a fresh load for the evenings marking. Later he retrained for secondary education and went on to Lowndes School at Chesham as Head of Mathematics. In 1951 he was pleased to see his son W.A.C. Knowles follow him to the RGS. No suggestion that he should leave early.
On retirement Tom and his wife, Olive, spent their remaining busy, happy and fulfilling years first in Wiltshire.
Eric Janes (1916-2004)
Eric Janes, who attended High Wycombe RGS from about 1926 to 1930, died on 17th October 2004. Eric designed the RGS cricket pavilion and the school chapel. The youngest of seven children, he was educated at Christ Church Choir School, Oxford and High Wycombe Royal Grammar School. He left the RGS at 17 and started to work as a trainee architect at Brocklehursts, in Crendon Street, High Wycombe. From there he moved to London and worked for nearly five years in the office of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), one of the foremost British architects of the 20th century. Eric then moved on to the Chiswick office of another distinguished architect, P.D.Hepworth, where he worked for another four years.
During the war, he was unable to join the armed forces due to a shoulder injury sustained as a 10 year-old. He therefore joined the Home Guard, and was drafted in to run the factory of the family's furniture manufacturing company, Nicholls and Janes. After the war he joined the High Wycombe architects practice of Thurlow and Lucas and soon became the senior partner. Among the most notable of the buildings he designed is the porte cochere for the Savoy Hotel in London. Built in 1957 on the Embankment side of the world-famous hotel, the imposing waved canopy in concrete and glass protects the entrance used by royalty and other VIPs.
Eric also undertook many commissions for community projects for no fee, including the cricket pavilions at High Wycombe RGS and Bledlow CC, both built in the early 1960s.
Eric was a keen sportsman, and captained the High Wycombe club's 'A' Team for several years.
He had many other interests, from music, particularly choral music, to golf, and countryside pursuits like fly fishing and shooting.
Eric is survived by his widow Noel and three sons.
John Why
Dennis Smith writes as follows:
John was at the RGS in the years 1942-1949. He was a talented musician and after a nine year spell teaching in Malta became Head of a Primary School in Alsager. He leaves a wife, Dorothy and two children, Stephen and Caroline.
Ed. We extend our sympathy to the families of these OWs.
REQUEST
Somebody has asked if anybody knows where James Isaac (1985-1991) might be now.
THANKS
Thanks to Chris Andrew and Dan Thomas for sending in the photographs below.
Can you name the members of the team and the CCF? Which years were the photos taken?
THANKS!
Many thanks to those OWs who have contacted me with the names of those who appeared in photographs in earlier newsletters:
Stephen Goldthorpe, who recognised the Woodbridge brothers, and Kevin Titcombe as members of an Under 14 team he ran:
Christopher Hortin recognised Keith James, J.L Fellows, Carpenter, and Dick Ludlam in the Cross-Country Team, he recognised Dan and Dick Keith on the Prefects photo, and almost all the players in the rugby photograph kindly sent in by Dan Thomas:
David Wiltshire recognised Peter (PCS) Hall as captain of the 1952 rugby team, and Eric Macfarlane in the 1950 cricket team.
Peter Gillard recognised a number in the 1950 Cricket Team, and 1952 Prefects Photograph.
Many thanks to those who have named the individuals. Where are they now?
TV PROGRAMME
Michael Bennett's mother tells us that Michael was going to appear in a TV programme about a replica Viking Ship in the North Sea, where he was drenched by 10 foot waves while rowing the boat. Did anybody see it?
REMEMBER TO SEND IN YOUR REPLY SLIPS FOR THE DINNER AND THE 22nd APRIL SPORTING REUNIONS BY APRIL 15th
NEXT NEWSLETTER
This will be published on May 22nd. Please send in your contribution, your memories, your photographs to me, Ian Clark ianrclarkuk@yahoo.co.uk
In the next newsletter Ken Garrett (1929-1935) has written an account of OWs he has met after leaving school. Stanley Hoffman ha written about life at the RGS in the thirties, and Geoff Sherlock (1947-54) has written about some OW friends. Richard Whiting has sent in some photographs of the 1940s.
Ian edits the Newsletter, Judy De Gelas embellishes it and Martin Berry ensures that it appears on the website.
