Alumni Newsletter June 2015

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Alumni Newsletter June 2015

We hope that you enjoy following the stories of Belfast Royal Academy alumni; your contributions and feedback are always welcomed. For more School news and to read The Owl magazine, The Academy newsletter and the Old Boys’ Association newsletter, please visit the ‘Our School’ section of our website at belfastroyalacademy.com You can also follow the School on social media:twitter.com/belfastroyalac

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ALUMNI NEWS REUNIONS Reunion of Girls 1st XI Hockey team - 1974 Schools’ Cup Winners The 41st year reunion of the 1974 Ulster Schools’ Hockey Cup winning team took place on Saturday 2nd May 2015 at Malone Golf Club. Attended by 10 of the 11 players and coach, Mrs Shirley Haslett, it was a most successful and enjoyable lunch. Team members brought along photos, match reports, team sheets and diary entries - all of which told the story of the build-up to that momentous day in March 1974 when BRA 1st XI beat Ballymena Academy 1st XI, 1-0 to lift the Schools’ Cup, after a wait of some 16 years. This success has not been repeated since! During lunch, there was great discussion on team tactics played, the saving of the penalty flick and the stoic play by all team members until the final whistle – it was indeed amazing just how clear our memories are from that special day! As one of us remarked, it is a very special friendship that lets us take up where we left off 41 years ago, but then that is what is so unique about former pupils of BRA!

1974 1st XI Clair Metcalfe – Captain, Patricia Gorman, Mandy McDonald, Eileen Sherrard, Margot Roberts, Kathy Martin, Lesley Kearney, Jane Phillips, Libby Palmer, Erica Henry, Anne Gault, Coach – Shirley Haslett

Thanks must go to Shirley Haslett for co-organizing the day, Trish Neely (Gorman) for arranging the venue and baking a special ‘Owl’ cake and to everyone who came along. A ‘team’ photograph was taken with 8 members proudly wearing their Red Blazers as a memento of the day. Plans are already under way for our 50th year reunion in 2024! Eileen Sherrard

ALUMNI NEWSLETTER – June 2015

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