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JANUARY 2007
HM Headmaster's letter Chairman's
letter John Perfect 149 Dr Ali Hussein
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ANNUAL MAGAZINE
The annual magazine for members of the OW Club will now be posted in January or February with articles and news of OWs. If you are not a member of the Club, and would like to become one, either complete the application form to be found on the website, (please click here), or contact me and ask me to send you one. You will then be able to receive this years magazine. Life Membership for £30 must be regarded as very good value!
OLD WYCOMBIENSIANS SPORTING REUNIONS,
A.G.M. AND ANNUAL DINNER 2007
SATURDAY 28th APRIL 2007
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Hockey, Fencing, or Shooting
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A tour of the School for those who
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Our Guest of Honour is John Roebuck. John taught History at the RGS since 1970, and was Head of History since 1991 until his retirement last summer. He introduced fencing to the RGS and 20 of his fencers have represented England, Wales or Great Britain. He has organised History trips, helped to initiate the American Exchange, run Cross-Country and participated in the Staff Revue. So if you were one of Johns history or fencing students, you may want to come to bid him farewell. It is great to welcome him to the OW Dinner.
The Headmaster, Roy Page, who will have taught many of you over the last 34 years, will talk about the RGS present and future. A number of teachers and ex-teachers will also be there.
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 p.m., so that there will be plenty of time for conversation. It should be a really enjoyable occasion.
How about contacting old friends that you have not perhaps seen for some time to arrange for a group to come together? If you would like us to advertise a group reunion on the website, please email Ian Clark. This year the cost of the Dinner 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 21st at the very latest. You will receive the confirmation of your application and the Agenda of the A.G.M, by email or by letter but not before April 1st. If you would like a reply through the post, please send sae with your application.
Apart from the fencing, hockey and shooting on 28th April, we are arranging golf, cricket and tennis matches in the Summer Term. 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 28th.
Crispin White (Chairman)
Ticket application form for the OW Dinner
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I would like a vegetarian meal. Please either delete or tick.
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Names of people I am booking tickets for. Dates at school.
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I enclose a cheque for £29.00 per person, payable to the Old Wycombiensians Club, together with a DL sae.
Please return this form to: Ian Clark, 5 Foxhill Close, High Wycombe, HP13 5BL by Saturday 21 April.
SPORTS REUNIONS
If you are a hockey player, David Stone is organising a hockey match for Old Boys (OWs) on Saturday April 28nd. If you were a fencer at school, it is hoped that there will be the opportunity of taking part in a fencing match for OWs on the same day. 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 28nd. 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 June 26th, when those of you who are at University have probably returned, and on July 18th starting at 2.00pm, there will be the Annual cricket match between the OWs and the School Team for the Duncan Moore Trophy, and a Tennis match against the Boys. 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 29th. If you would like to play in any of those events please complete the reply slip below.
Booking form for Sports Reunion Days
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Where these sports are on at the same time, please EITHER tick one sport, OR in the case of over subscription, put your choice in order, eg 1, 2 etc.
Please return this form to: Ian Clark, 5 Foxhill Close, High Wycombe, HP13 5BL by Saturday 21 April for the April events, and June 1 for the June and July events.
MUSICAL
The RGS musical is usually of very high quality. This year it is Anything Goes If any OW would like a ticket or tickets for it, please complete the reply slip below.
Reply slip for the School Musical Anything Goes, on Friday 16 March 2007
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I would like . .. tickets. The approximate cost is £8.00 per ticket you will hear cost and timings by 5 March. I will arrange for a block booking, and hopefully a glass of wine at the interval.
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Please send to: Ian Clark, 5 Foxhill Close, High Wycombe, HP13 5BL by 1 March 2007.
ANNUAL LETTERS FROM THE HEADMASTER AND THE OW CHAIRMAN
I have been really pleased to meet a good number of you in the last year since I became the Headmaster of the RGS, either at the OW Dinner or at an OW cricket match or when you come back to the RGS to look round your old school. It is certainly one of my aims to forge closer links between the RGS and its Old Boys. I do have the advantage of knowing a number of you over the last 35 years, through our contact in the classroom, games or trips, or as your Head of Year in the 6th form.
Crispin White writes in his letter in this magazine about the Shaping Our Destiny campaign. It is part of my vision to improve the facilities of the school considerably and to provide the finest education possible for those boys who come to the RGS. I am very grateful to those OWs who are helping with the campaign and, as Crispin has said, if you would like to find out more please do not hesitate to contact me or him.
I am delighted to confirm that the RGS continues to provide an all-round education that is not only appreciated by boys and parents, but recently Ofsted reported that the RGS was one of the top 24 schools in the country. This followed our Ofsted inspection in May 2006 grading the school as outstanding. We were all thrilled with this and I pay tribute to the hard work and professional approach to all the staff working at RGS. Our examination results were once again excellent with the A level results exceeding all previous years.
We continue to provide a range of extra curricular activities that many independent schools would be envious of and I give you a snapshot of what the modern day RGS pupil has the opportunity to take part in, and this is just what happened in the Autumn Term.
On the sporting side rugby, cross-country and fencing all continued to flourish, while on the river there was success for all the rowers who entered the Boston Marathon 50k from Lincoln to Boston. The J15 crew took an early bath at Henley, capsizing in splendid fashion! (Does any OW rower remember capsizing?) One young man has done very well in the modern Triathlon and Biathlon, and is going to the Tetrathlon (Swim, Run, Shoot and Fence) National and European Championships. (Did any OW enter for any of these while still at school?)
Those of you who enjoyed the CCF at school will no doubt be pleased that all the sections are thriving with all the usual activities. In other areas, musicians did very well in the Marlow Festival, recorded a DVD, and performed in concerts and recitals. Indeed over 200 were involved in the November concert. Artists went on a trip to Florence. Well over 100 Mathematicians have entered various mathematical competitions, while over 230 have entered a Student Investor Challenge competition, in the hopes of winning a trip to New York.
Finally I mention something which most OWs did not experience. 14 Year 12 boys delivered a Drugs Awareness Programme to all Year 8 boys. This was followed by a performance of Wasted by a South London Theatre Group on the same theme.
This is, as I have said, just a snapshot of what goes on at the RGS. If you want a fuller picture, do look at the Schools website.
Later this term we shall be putting on the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes from 14 - 17 March at RGS. We also look forward to the visit of Lawrence Power (O.W. he left in 1995), one of the top viola players in the world, who will give a recital with Simon Crawford Phillips (piano and brother of Jonathan, also an O.W.) on Thursday, 8 February, in the Queens Hall, 7.30pm. If you would like to come to these or other school events, you will of course be very welcome. I would also like to encourage you to come to the O.W. Dinner, and/or participate in one the OW Sporting Reunions. I hope to see you there. Finally if you feel you can help the RGS in any way, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Roy Page
Headmaster
January 2007
Dear Fellow Old Wycombiensian,
A number of educational news items caught my eye in the weeks before Christmas. The first of these was a report in the Sunday Times listing RGS amongst the top five state schools for Oxbridge entrants - a tremendous achievement and testimony to the quality of both the pupils and teaching the school enjoys.
Recognition of RGSs teaching quality was reinforced by the news that as well as re-designating the School as a Specialist Language College the DfES have awarded the School a second specialism in Mathematics and Computing.
More concerning was the news that despite the governments (re-)announcements of additional funds for education, it is unlikely that Bucks schools will be given any funds for capital expenditure for some time to come.
As you will read elsewhere, to enable the School to tackle the challenges of providing the facilities for effective teaching in the 21st Century, the Shaping Our Destiny Campaign has been launched to raise funds to provide a new Sixth Form Centre, to improve sports changing facilities and to provide modern maths teaching facilities commensurate with the Schools new specialist status by demolishing and rebuilding the current Gym Block.
I remember having my form room in the Gym Block over thirty years ago, when the building was already past its best before date. Indeed when the classrooms were subsequently used for the filming of the Channel 4 series Thatll Teach Em the producers found it necessary to carry out some refurbishment before they could use it as the setting for a 1950s school.
The Campaign is intended to ensure that pupils at the RGS can continue to receive the superb standard of education we enjoyed when we were at the School and I hope that all Old Boys who are in a position to do so will support the Schools fund-raising efforts. Apart from me, two other Old Boys, David Merriman and Matthew Appleton, are part of the Campaign Board. If you would like any further information about the Campaign please do look at the Schools website or feel free to contact me at my e-mail address shown below.
Turning to the Annual Dinner, we are again running a number of sports events in the afternoon before the Dinner. These have proved popular, so please do give them your support, either as a player or spectator.
Our guest of honour this year is John Roebuck, who retired from the RGS staff last summer. I hope those of you who were taught by John or were involved with fencing and his other activities on behalf of the School will join us to celebrate his contribution to the School over more than thirty years.
Those of you who read the electronic Club newsletters on the Old Boys' section of the School website will appreciate Ian Clark's hard work in producing both news and recollections, and in helping Old Boys keep in touch with the School and each other. On your behalf, I would like to thank Ian for all his hard work as Secretary and in particular for producing the electronic newsletters.
My thanks also go to Simon Molden for his work as editor of this magazine. As always, I am grateful for the support and hard work in its physical production given by Steph Russell and her team in the School Resources Centre. I should like to thank my brother Danny for his hard work as Club Treasurer. Finally my thanks go to my fellow committee members for their support and efforts on behalf of the Club, particularly in relation to the Annual Dinner and the associated Sports Reunions.
My best wishes for 2007.
Crispin White
Crispin White (1968 1975)
e-mail: crispinmwhite@aol.com
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Can you recognize the boys and the member of Staff?
It is sad to record that John Perfect, who taught at the RGS from 1951-1988, died in November. We extend our deepest sympathy to his widow, Patricia, and the rest of his family. These are extracts from Roger Files talk at his funeral.
I first encountered John in 1951 when he came to Wycombe to teach English at the RGS when I was a sixth-former and he a new master who did not teach me, so we merely passed like ships in the night in the corridors of the RGS.
It was only when I returned to join the Staff that I really began to know John who had become the Russian teacher. John had taught himself Russian so he could mine Russian literature,-one of the richer seams of world literature. During this time John had gained such a mastery in his spare time that he was able to teach a whole class in each of the O Level Years to do Russian and he had a stream of A Level candidates, many of whom went on to enormous distinction. They, I am sure, have a deep sense of gratitude to him.
As I too had some interest in Russian literature and had learned a little of the history and political structures of the Soviet Union, I was drawn to the second of four school trips he organized to Russia in the 60s and 70s. These must have involved John in some enormous organizational headaches and frustrations, but were wonderful eye-openers for all who participated.
As a colleague, John was always a quiet, rather retiring member of the Staff Common room, but was widely respected, ending his career as chairman of the SCR, and I remember him making a remarkably fresh and witty leaving speech. As the Russian master he was something of a one-man band and a little isolated from the more collegiate activities of the larger departments, and with the decline and ultimate fall of the Soviet Empire, Russian studies became less immediate and fashionable.
Not that fashion ever had much impact on John. He was most at home with family and friends and in his lovely garden with his plants or researching horticultural matters. He published several papers.
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The 2nd World War broke out just as John was leaving
school. He volunteered for the army as soon as he reached 18, and
trained as a glider pilot, which led in turn to his very active service at
Arnhem and in Northern Europe in the last stages of the war. He went
back recently to Holland for the 60th anniversary commemorations of the
Arnhem operations, in the company of another person with an interesting war
service record, whom I believe he met in a pub, namely Patricia. John had seriously damaged his leg falling down a mountain-side one summer holiday. Typically he resolved to walk the leg with renewed vigour, albeit with a limp, to keep it well exercised. He often politely declined lifts from colleagues driving to and from school from nearer locations. |
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John enjoyed a long and fruitful life in which I find it impossible to believe he ever did anyone a serious mischief and he will be greatly missed by Patricia.
Ed: Have you any memories of John?
At some time in the 1950s, the number 149 became a joke at the RGS. It was all very odd. If anyone came out with that number, everyone would roar with laughter. Maths: The answer is 149 (Ho, ho, ho!) Geography: 149,000 tons of copper were exported (Ho, ho, ho!) Any lesson you like: Turn to page 149 (Ho, ho, ho).
Some people said it was connected with a rather weak joke about an old woman on Wycombe Station. She was seen to chuckle now and again. When asked, she said that she had read that one person in 149 was a lunatic. She sat there, counting up to 149 and identifying them as they passed her. That was one theory. Another linked the number with a Geography master, one Mr T.V.Shepherd - known as Tuss - and it was said to be his car number. Certainly if anyone drew a car, it usually had TUS 149 as its number. Some people thought it had started in a Maths lesson that went wrong and it was connected with one squared, two squared, three squared.
The fact was that 149 infected the whole School. If Boss Tucker had ever announced that as the hymn number in daily prayers, the roof would have collapsed under the cheers - yes, even Mr Tucker was not proof against the power of those figures. As it happened, the hymn with that number in the school book - Hymns of the Kingdom - was a one that was never chosen. I seem to remember it was one of the two or three in Latin, O Quanta Qualia, whatever that was. Certainly from time to time people tried to get it announced by altering the hymn number on the list published on the Headmasters notice board. There was only the one list in those days of manual typing, and they thought they might get away with it. They never did. Tucker must have been aware.
The number remained funny into the 1960s. In 1965 the staff put on the play The Happiest Days of Your Life which ran to packed houses for three performances (and resulted in two marriages between members of the RGS common room and fellow thespians from Wycombe High School). Tim Newling, the Art Master, played the caretaker Rainbow. In the last act, he had to do a calculation:
Rainbow: Theres eight compartments to a carriage (He takes a scrap of paper and a stub of pencil and works it out as he speaks) Four a side in each. Thats sixty four. A hundred and ninety two in all.
But Tim, with careless disregard for Maths, came to the dramatic conclusion. Thats one four nine - and the Hall erupted in delighted hysteria, the biggest roar of the show.
A month or so later at the end of term, the CCF Army section went to Stanage Edge in Derbyshire. The junior officers - Neil Cooper, Rex Jones and I - arrived in a Landrover and a 3 tonner at the campsite. We read the mileage on the speedometers as we had to record it on the vehicles work tickets. It was 149. I remember the momentary silence as this registered. We decided we couldnt enter that figure as people would think it was a joke, so we added a mile and made it 150. That looked sensible.
Some time between 1966 (when I left the staff), and 1983 (when my sons entered the School) the number disappeared from the RGS culture. One-four-nine returned to being as normal as one-four-eight or any other number. Is one-four-nine still funny at the RGS? I asked them. They looked at me oddly One four what? What do you mean funny? I tried to explain, and lost.
When I was at university, I remember the lecturer giving us all a substance to taste - phenyl-something or other. Two thirds of us curled up as we found it fiendishly bitter. The rest were totally blank; they could taste nothing. And so it will be with you. If you were in the 149 generation, you will have had a strong reaction to this little memory. If you were not, you will be blank too. And please dont expect anyone to be able to explain any more than I have done. It was just a dropped stitch in the warp and weft of the RGS fabric - probably the 149th.
Andrew MacTavish
Ed: Has any other OW got any memories of 149?
Basketball
Can you name the basketball players?
Letters/Emails to the Editor
Dear Ian
When I saw this I thought that you may be interested. It was in our newspaper, The Globe & Mail, on May 8, 2006.
The Globe claims to be Canada's national newspaper. "Died this day" is a regular item in the newspaper.
DIED THIS DAY
Christopher Widmer, 1858 Doctor born in High Wycombe, England, on May 15,1780.
A British army surgeon who saw action in the Peninsula war under the Duke of Wellington, he was sent to Upper Canada at the end of the War of 1812. He liked what he saw and stayed on in York (Toronto) after he retired in 1817. At that time, many unqualified men claimed to be doctors, so he set about exposing charlatans. He set up his own practice and, in 1819, established the Medical Board of Upper Canada. He also had a hand in founding Canada's first medical schools. In 1829, he realized a dream and was on hand to open what is now Toronto General Hospital and to admit its first patients. Although he was at times somewhat rough-spoken in the manner of the army, he was a kind hearted doctor known by the locals "for his bad language and good surgery." He accumulated a large fortune and served on the Legislative Council for 15 years.
Dates may not exactly coincide.
Are there records of pupils going back that far?
Nick Avery ('57 - '64)
Ed. Anybody got any similar stories?
Dear Ian
I thought it might make a line for the web site. There are two OWs broadcasting the Asian Games here in Doha for television. Martin Gillingham is doing the Athletics commentary and yours truly introducing the world wide highlights shows - think he was in the year below me. Appropriately the Qatari national colour is RGS maroon. Good wishes
Philip Barker
Dear ex-RGS men,
Just a quick note to let you know that the RGS school photos for 1964 and 1967 have just been updated with some more identifications, kindly supplied by David Moore. David has ID'ed D Morton, Ian Fairley, Chris Barnard, Steve Mayo, Malcolm Pitcher and Philip Robinson.
We nearly have the full set of form 5Y (1967) identifications. The only person not identified (who was in 5Y according to the Grey Book) was GD Singleton (who was new to the school in 1967). Also, I need confirmation of tentative identifications for CJ Chamberlain (section 5), MK Miller (section 6), CJ Tipney (section 4) and SL Wright (section 7).
If you'd prefer to receive, or not to receive my (very) occasional emails, please let me know.
Season's greetings,
John Saunders
I believe you would wish to know, if you have not received the sad news from other sources, that Dr. Ali Hussein (late of 56 rue de Lausanne, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland) died on Thursday, 30th November, at the age of 72. We had remained friends since first meeting in Oxford in 1953.
I recall Ali speaking with affection of his old school in High Wycombe. I attended the funeral service on Tuesday, 5th December, and burial the next day at the Centre Funeraire de Saint-Georges, near Geneva, and attach a short tribute I gave at the service at the request of his wife, Zahra, and two children, Ayesha and Faisal.
Yours faithfully,
Andrew DakynsIn
Memoriam Mohamed Ali Faisal Hussein, 09.07.1934 - 30.11.2006
Ali and I first met as undergraduates at Balliol College, Oxford, in October 53 he to study Medicine, I to read Classics.
When we had time and could afford it, we used to eat out of an evening in a hostelry in Iffley village, often joined by a third friend, Julian Jourdain. Given how abstemious, not to say ascetic, Ali later became, you might be surprised to learn how boisterous we could be in those far-off days, dining on steak washed down by Morrels College Ale, sometimes followed by Madeira in Alis lodgings, where he kept a ready supply of fortified wine and, after such an evening, could occasionally be seen dabbing his fevered brow with eau-de-cologne.
I mustnt give the impression that Ali neglected his medical studies: quite the reverse. He had come up to Balliol as an Exhibitioner from the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and continued to do very well academically, despite his first love being music, not medicine. He had been directed toward medicine from an early age and not allowed to touch the piano at home in Colombo, though he dearly wished to, as it was thought to be something more suitable for girls. However, he more than made up for that later, teaching himself both piano and cello, and taking a year off from Oxford to study music in Vienna.
One day, when Ali was on duty in accident and emergency at Oxfords Radcliffe Infirmary, a woman was admitted after a nasty car accident. Her face was severely lacerated and Ali took the greatest pains to make good the damage. It turned out she was an actress and, after recovering, she visited a well-known plastic surgeon and asked him for his opinion. He told her he could not have done a better job himself, and she wrote Ali a letter of thanks to that effect, of which he was justly very proud. But the real point is that he did not know she was an actress, and would have taken just as much trouble, whatever the patients background.
Years later Ali and I met again when we were both working in Switzerland he at the WHO in Geneva and I in Basle at the BIS Bank. Even when I returned to work in London in 1974, we remained in close contact and I had the pleasure of seeing Ali, Zahra and their two children, whenever I visited Geneva on business.
A final anecdote to end on: throughout all the time I knew Ali he took just as much, perhaps more, interest in philosophical questions than in physiological matters. As Editor of the WHO Chronicle, he once addressed a letter to the periodical under a nom-de-plume, using my address in England, in order to take the Organisation to task for laying too much emphasis on bodily health and not enough on spiritual well-being. He was a staunch adherent of the old Roman adage: Mens sana in corpore sano.
Ali was a man of extraordinary breadth of culture and vision, stemming from deep knowledge and appreciation of both Eastern and Western philosophy and traditions. He combined it with unfailing kindness, generosity, steadfastness and modesty. My wife and I are just two of the many fortunate enough to encounter Ali, enjoy his friendship and have our lives greatly enriched thereby.
Andrew Dakyns 5th December 2006
Dear Ian,
I regret to inform you of the death of my brother and former pupil of RGS, Paul Darrington. He was at RGS from 1968 1973, I believe.
Best wishes,
Steve Darrington (1960-1967)
News has also just reached us of the deaths of Des Sheiham (1987-1993) in the Spring of 2005, and of Jerry Cook (1966-1971). Jerry had remained in Wycombe all his life working in a local solicitors, playing rugby for High Wycombe and being an RGS Governor. A fuller tribute will appear in the next newsletter.
Ed: We extend our deepest sympathy to Alis, Pauls, Jerrys and Des family and friends.
USELESS INFORMATION
There was an article appearing on the BBC website recently about useless information, written by Ian Whitham, OW, extracts of which appear below.
Ian Whitham
Most things Ive been taught have sunk without trace. But a few were so invincibly irrelevant, so hauntingly pointless as to be indelible. Ive always known when they might come in handy. Never. They concern Survival and Defence. Be Prepared for Things Out There I was taught - usually by the transparently unhinged.
After Cubs I was taught to be a soldier. I was 14. It was the School CCF. The lessons got grimmer. The Things Out There more menacing.
We were taught how to murder a sack. This sack stood, again, for any Hun, Mau Mau or Martians then advancing on the Royal Grammar School High Wycombe. A visiting psychopath barked at us as we shivered and itched in our uniforms. We carried guns bigger than us with bayonets on the end. We were urged to zoom off towards the sack in a berserk manner.
After the Murdering I had a spell on the ocean waves in the school Navy. They taught me how to steer a Minesweeper up the Firth of Forth. After the high seas, it was Armageddon. Two ladies in tweed taught us what to do in the event of Thermonuclear Destruction. You hide under the kitchen table. Then you put a paper bag over your head. The Flash could make your eyes fall out - and you had to catch them in something. Mother wasnt convinced by any of it. Shed seen what the Doodlebugs had done to Gerrards Cross Golf Course.
I have never had recourse to Sheepshanks, the Noose, Twigs, Bayonets, or Paper Bags. I have never had to pick things up with my toes. And I have never ever called up one single Peewit. I have never yet been attacked by the Mau Mau, elephants, the Viet Cong, a sack, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - or The Brownies. Theyre always Not Out There Somewhere. Maybe it works.
What's the most useless thing you were ever taught? Do let us know....
Ed: Anybody remember Ian Whitham? Anybody got any other examples of similar useless information?
Hi Ian,
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You may want to add in the next OWs' newsletter a note to
say that on December 9th 2006 I ran for the RGS in the annual Thames Hare and
Hounds' Old Boys' Cross-Country Race over 5 miles on Wimbledon Common. I
finished 12th in 29 minutes 19 seconds. It would be good also to say if any
OW fancies joining me in an OW team next year, they should get in touch (scmolden@yahoo.co.uk). To score in
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Thanks,
Simon Molden
Ed: Well done, Simon. Are there any OW runners out there?
THE EDITOR writes:
Now it is time to ask some questions. What do OWs want from the Club? Would you be more/less likely to come to the Annual Dinner, if you could bring their partners? Would you be more/less likely to come if it was a Lunch rather a Dinner? Are there other activities that you would like to suggest for the OW Club? Do let us know what you think on the reply-slip below. Also on the reply you might like to write about yourself for including on the website.
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Any news about yourself, OW friends or memories of the RGS that could be put on the OW website, or any thoughts suggestions raised in the Secretarys letter about OW activities?
NEXT NEWSLETTER
This will be published on March 26th. Please send in your contribution, your memories, and your photographs to me, Ian Clark ianrclarkuk@yahoo.co.uk.
Ian edits the Newsletter, Judy De Gelas embellishes it and Martin Berry ensures that it appears on the website.