Social Events – Annual Dinner

In other news, two of our players, Helen Bruce and Sheila Reid, were again selected to play for Scotland in Masters Teams in Four Nations events this summer. Sheila has in fact been able to add to her honours by playing for Scotland in the World Masters event in Barcelona this summer too. Well done to them both!

Finally, many, many thanks are due Murray Bissett, the girls’ coach! Sincere thanks also to all this season’s umpires, in particular to Gillian Graham and Rob Parfitt among many others for all their efforts in this regard, the teams are very, very grateful.

As ever, if you are keen to take up hockey again or have never played before you are very welcome to come along to training to see how you get on. Training is on Tuesday evenings at Rubislaw from 7.00pm – 8.30pm and starts on the second Tuesday in August. This coming season we are delighted to be offering P7/S1 and S2 the chance to play in another weekly session from 6-7pm on Tuesdays before senior training time.

For further information, contact: Emma Mair, Secretary - emma.mair14@gmail.com

Annual Dinner

The Annual Dinner was once again held in the grand atmosphere of the Royal Northern & University Club on Friday 23 March 2018. The attendance was once again disappointing. As is the usual practice there were representatives from other Former Pupils’ Clubs both local and from further afield. Our own Edinburgh and Glasgow Centres were represented by their Presidents.

We were delighted to welcome Alison Murison, the Head Teacher accompanied by Laurel Renton, Depute Head Girl and Jonathan Bell the Depute Head Boy. Also present were seven of the Club’s Honorary Vice-Presidents.

The President of the Club, Gillian Thomas, took charge of the evening’s proceedings in a firm but calm manner and the company enjoyed an excellent meal in keeping with the standards for which the RNUC is celebrated and we enjoyed wines from their high class cellar. Following the meal raffle prizes were distributed to the successful winners.

The traditional toast to “The School and the Club” was proposed by Professor Margaret Ross, a Vice-Principal of Aberdeen University. She recalled that she had had close contact with Aberdeen Grammar FPs since her time in practice with Campbell Connon & Co where she had to fight her corner with no fewer than four of her colleagues from that background. She and some of her family had been long associated with the Club Centre and had happy memories of social functions there. She was full of admiration for the current supportive ethos of the School from what she had observed of the educational, sporting and extra-mural 74