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concert near Karlsruhe featuring arias from his new opera. He was hoping to raise money to help with the production of the opera, ‘Nyanga’, in Nairobi (Kenya) next year, for which some of the players from Germany will add support in the orchestra pit. His first opera (‘Ondieki the Fisherman’) Kenya’s very first opera, revised and revived in 2012, seems now to be regarded as something of a national treasure. 1956 David Dew now lives in Henley-on-Thames with his wife Diana and lists his interests as church activities, dog walking and visiting his three sons in Sydney, Los Angeles and Edinburgh respectively. ‘A clear conspiracy, it may be deduced, to live as far away from their parents as possible!’ 1957 Don Bak er has been awarded the American Antitrust Institute’s Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement. A former Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice and a founding partner of Baker & Miller PLLC, his work was described as ‘an inspiration to current and prospective practitioners, enforcers, scholars and policymakers’. 1957 Geoffr ey M addr ell was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to Business, Industry and to charity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. 1957 Ian Mills Emeritus Professor of Chemical Spectroscopy, University of Reading and Emeritus President, Comité Consultatif des Unités was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to Chemistry and Metrology in the New Year Honours. 1958 R ichar d Hudson Dick retired in 2004 from a career in linguistics at UCL, but is still actively building bridges between linguistics and schools (which badly need each other). His main focus is the UK Linguistics Olympiad (uklo.org), which brings linguistics to thousands of school children via a competition. Domestically, he enjoys the company of his wife Gaynor and (occasionally) of his two daughters and his grandson. You can find him at dickhudson.com. He would like to hear from any Corpuscles with an interest in linguistics and education. 1959 John Duff is trying to visit every sovereign country in the world since retiring as a head-master. At the time of writing, there were ten more countries to go with South Sudan being lined up for a visit in January. 1961 Roger Samways went to Bristol University to acquire a PGCE following his graduation, then spent twenty years at the chalk face teaching English and Drama in Bristol and Dorset schools. Not surprisingly with this wealth of experience he spent the next twelve years as Senior Inspector for English in Dorset LEA. For the last seventeen years he has been an Education Consultant working privately – this has included being a team member in over seventy-five 107