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Dear <<First Name>>
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2015 packed full of news and updates. Our key goal this year is to try and make Founder's Day a more social gathering - not in terms of formal reunions but a time (and place) where alumni can return to the school, visit old haunts, chat to teachers and current students, and even enjoy lunch and a drink. So during the course of this year we will be making suggestions and asking all our alumni for ideas.
The Editor - please e-mail news and comments here.
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Alumni Update - and e-mail us your own news!
Anthony Skillicorn who taught at the school in the 80s is now retired and living in Berlin - where he met Klaus Binko, who was at the Peter Droller Gymnasium and was an exchange student with us.
After LWS, Anthony went to Singapore where he held various posts at the United World College of South East Asia. He is now very active in youth initiated peace projects.
Updates on recent leavers: Sadie Kemper (Politics, Durham), Atilla Kromer (Economics, Edinburgh), Jessica Lampit (Textiles, Manchester),Yolande Lomas (English, Birmingham), Octavia Ludlum (Sports, Winchester), Charlie Messenger (Nursing, Manchester), Holly Miles (Psychology, Bournemouth), Emma Pearce (Biology, Lancaster), Jessica Pearson (Computer Science, Coventry), Amy Ring (Midwifery), Natalie Schmidt (Geography, Cardiff), Madelin Shoh (Geography, Oxford.) More in the next newsletter.
Tom Munday who was at the school in the 1980s now lives in Leeds, works in IT, and is recently engaged. His brother Peter lives in Sydenham and is a builder.
Steve Bingham writes 'looking ahead to the new year there are several concerts and courses with the Quartet, quite a few solo concert appearances, a trip to South America to perform "Touchable Dreams" with Jeremy Harmer and conducting with Ely Sinfonia and the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, including several premieres and a performance of Carmina Burana in Ely Cathedral in October!
http://www.binghamquartet.net
http://www.elysinfonia.co.uk
http://cpso.org.uk
I'm also already working on a couple of CD collaborative projects (more on these soon), and I'l be launching a new online music service with my son Chris in February: This will offer digital music services and we hope will be a useful tool for independent musicians of all ages and in all genres.
Congratulations to Ken Batley, one of elder OTs, who was made an MBE in the New Year Honours.
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10 Jan Committee Meeting
This was held at the School. The main items for discussion were:
1. Arrangements for the sports fixture at Founder's Day...with the difficulty in getting OT matches off the ground, we will now see whether we can get the School's 1st XV to play another school's XV.
2. Everyone had only good things to say about the Founder's Day lunch but at the same time we don't want to continue increasing the price. It was agreed to fix it at £12 and if the caterers do want to charge more then we will absorb the cost.
3. We will donate £250 towards the repair of the archive room.
4. Founder's Day and the excellent lunch provides a great opportunity for alumni to have informal reunions, meet some of the staff, see the School, and enjoy lunch and a bar. We will publicise this more this year.
We also agreed that a third Roll of Honour board should be displayed in the School, recording the names omitted from the current two. These names are:
Boer War
Michael Bond - died of illness while serving in South Africa
H Reynolds - severely wounded and who died prematurely from his wounds
Charles Plim - killed while serving with the Imperial Yeomanry near Steinkop
1st World War
James Arthur Greenhalgh - killed in action on the Western Front
Bertram Wheeler Mason - drowned at sea on HMS McNaughton
2nd World War
Howard Marples Stockwell Wagner - died three years after the end of the War as a result of spending three years as a PoW in Singapore.
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