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Thoughts from the Chair
Geoff Wright
We have recently held our AGM and with
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COVID appearing more containable this was done in person in the School,
although we were hard pressed to be quorate and had to bring reinforcements in on line!
There were few surprises and pretty well the same team will be running the Committee for the next twelve months. Nick Fitzpatrick will be stepping down as Treasurer. Andrea Madalena was keen to take over this role and had all but begun when personal circumstances held her back. She intends to return and in the meantime, Richard Leonard has offered his help.
There, I have mentioned COVID in my first sentence but not with the foreboding of previous recent articles although risk remains and care should be continued. It has not gone away. Sadly though, its dominance in the world news has been replaced by the war in Ukraine, now three weeks old as I write this. I am not going to say much other than that I am appalled, affronted and scared by what I see and hear. This is heightened by having relatives deaths of two pupils in January.
Tributes to both pupils will be published in The Chronicle but the Old Bristolians Society would like to record our sadness at these tragedies and extend our sincere condolences to all those affected.
I shall end by expressing my thanks to everyone on the Management Committee and in the OBs’ Office and to the Headmaster, Jaideep, the School and the Governors for their continuing support.
just over the border in Poland. Spanish Flu came just after the end of WW 1. Are we going backwards?
I was at the dinner on 12 March. It was well attended and most enjoyable – always good to be in the Great Hall – and my thanks go to the organising sub-committee.
Kate Redshaw was installed as President - the third woman but the first former pupil! I am very much looking forward to working with her during her year in Office. We are already planning a recruitment drive to engage more people in the running of the Society.
On a much sadder note the school community was devastated by the
Geoff Wright
(1956-1966) Chairman Bristolienses Editor
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