THE Alumni Magazine of Exeter School
Foundations of
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Issue 3 Summer 2015
Contents Feature: Back to School Alumni in focus School news Feature: Foundations of Music News of Exonians The OE Club Noticeboard
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Photo credits and captions: Front cover: Lucy Bray (2012) at Exeter Cathedral, www.richardlappasimages.com
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Careers Feature: Back to School
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Contents: Top: Sara Orchard (2000) BBC's first ever female rugby commentator in the run up to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Middle: Charlie Alder (nĂŠe Ellis 1987) with Junior School pupils. Bottom: Harriet Davies (2009), Mike Wilcock (staff), Amelia Davies (2007) and Leela Arshi (2009) at the London Spring Buffet & Drinks Reception in March 2015.
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Welcome
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e hope you will enjoy reading this summer issue of The 1633, which features our musical alumni and developing alumni careers network. Many thanks to all of you who have sent in your feedback, ideas and stories, especially your memories of School ties and your recent news updates. Do find time to look at the news section on the alumni pages of the School website and also our Facebook page where you will find alumni news items posted every week. We would also encourage you to join our LinkedIn group where we post regular updates. It has been wonderful to see so many of you at our various reunions around the country. As always we would love to see you back at School to attend an event or to enjoy a coffee and a tour. Please do come and see us if you are in Exeter. Best wishes, John Davidson, Director of Alumni Relations
John Davidson, Director of Alumni Relations, with Exonian Katy Petherick (2004).
Welcome from the Headmaster
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Headmaster Bob Griffin with the new Chairman of Governors, Andrew King (1965).
s our Alumni Office approaches its second anniversary, we now send The 1633 to over 5,000 alumni and former staff. I have enjoyed meeting many of you and hearing your news at recent social events. In September, alongside the traditional day and dinner for Old Exonians from all years, we will welcome back alumni from the 1950s and 1940s six decades or more after they left! I would like to thank the many past pupils who have kindly provided work experience and careers advice for our current pupils and thanks must also go to the many Exonians who have sent in photographs and memorabilia for our expanding archive, expertly curated by Kevin White. Items will be displayed at various Exeter events in the coming year. With best wishes, Bob Griffin
We are sending this issue of The 1633 by post to all Exonians whose addresses we have except those who have specifically requested to receive copies of publications electronically. If you would like to receive future issues electronically, then please visit the ‘update your details’ page on the alumni pages of the School website, tick the drop box and ensure your email details are correct. Alternatively, telephone Karen Dart, the Alumni Secretary, on 01392 458941. This magazine and two other school publications, the annual Exonian and bi-annual Exeter School Life can be read on the alumni news section of the School website. www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 3
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The important role alumni play at Exeter School…
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he academic year 2014 - 2015 has seen exciting developments in the School’s careers provision with the development of the Exeter School Alumni Careers Network. The School’s Careers Adviser, Ruth Cheesman, is working closely with the Alumni Office to expand our careers network for the benefit of pupils across the whole age range from 7 to 18.
org.uk/alumni to update your details and add the career areas in which you can offer support or email alumnisec@exeterschool.org.uk.
If you would like to be added to the list of those who have offered help, please go to www.exeterschool.
Please take a look at the Alumni section of the School website for careers profiles of alumni.
Over the next few months we will be running career events aimed at our alumni in London and Exeter, beginning with a land, property and construction event at Exeter School in the early Autumn.
Charlie Alder (née Ellis, 1985-1987), who Giles Ashman (1982-1987) provided pupil studied Drama A Level at Exeter School, Alasdair Stroud with work experience visited the Junior School on World Book Day opportunities in the busy teaching in March and ran a workshop on illustration environment of Exeter Junior School. for Form One pupils. Charlie worked for a graphic Alasdair assisted with Giles’s classroom activities, design agency in London after studying Art and Design the Junior School play and sports during his week in at university before moving into publishing, where she the Junior School. was a designer and art editor. She now runs her own design company in Exeter specialising in branding and illustration. www.alderandalder.co.uk www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 5
Feature Jasper Westaway (1983 - 1990) gave a keynote talk for Careers Week to a packed Andrews Hall showing how he had developed a very successful software company as an entrepreneur. He also explained many of the risks involved and his views on what makes a successful entrepreneurial company. Jasper stressed the importance of believing in yourself and also using your own skills to their best advantage.
Head Girl Katy Petherick (1997-2004) addressed a combined audience of Medical Society and Crossing Club members on her PhD and Post-Doctoral medical research into cancer research and treatments, entitled “The Only Way Is Science: understanding cancer through research”. After showing how important it was to achieve a thorough grounding in Science at school and university, she explained how her work as a professional research scientist, looking at finding and treating cancer cells, developed from her degree in Human Biology at Birmingham University. She also ran a seminar about working in science research for girls.
Jasper Westaway (1990) (left) with Ruth Cheesman, Careers Adviser (right) and two Sixth Formers.
Dr Richard Mitchell (1983-1990) is a professional geographer working in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He addressed an audience of over one hundred Sixth Form pupils from three schools on making our cities more sustainable places to live in. He drew on his research work designing future cityscapes at Glasgow University and showed how pursuing a university career had enabled him to continue the love of Geography that he developed at School. Professor Richard Mitchell (1990) (centre), with John Allen, retired Chemistry teacher and former Head of Crossing House, Helen Sail (née Bird), Head of Geography and Sixth Form pupils.
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Kirsten Berggren (2007 - 2011) who spent a year in industry in 2014 and Fiona Mabin (2004-2010) from Sheffield University worked with GCSE and Sixth Form DT pupils in lessons, and then gave an inspiring talk on career pathways in Engineering to the newly formed Engineering Society. Barrister Sarah Hornblower QC (nÊe Butler 1998 - 2000) and tax law solicitor Susannah Bower (1995 - 1997) who attended Sixth Form Science lessons from Mount St Mary’s School presented a 'Careers in Law' seminar addressing over forty pupils from the Lower Fifth to Sixth Form in Careers Week.
Kris Sum (1994 - 2000) was one of several alumni who provided stands about their career sector at the annual Careers Convention held in November. Kris is the owner and director of Switch Systems Ltd, an Exeter-based IT company that specialises in professional software development and IT services. Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer (19891990) Associate Professor in Ethno-Politics at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, was one of eight past pupils who took part in the 2014 Sixth Form Interview Scheme, giving practice interviews to Upper Sixth pupils.
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Alumni in focus The 8,000 mile journey
island. His first goal was to create a stimulating, safe and welcoming environment to ensure pupils have the same or better level of opportunity for their future as others elsewhere in Indonesia, without it costing a single dollar. His dream is to have a fully fitted training and demonstration kitchen along with a school restaurant to support the school by generating income as well as providing excellent work experience. Anton feels lucky to have attended school, college and university and believes everyone on this planet deserves the same chance. www.lifestyleretreats.com www.essentialeducation.asia
Anton Ventslav (centre) pictured with his team in Bali.
Adventure in South East Asia
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nton Ventslav’s (2003) passion for food started after finishing Exeter School, when he quickly realised that being in a kitchen was far more satisfying and stimulating than International Relations with Arabic. He studied for four years at the University of West of London’s hospitality management school, while working eighty-hour weeks in fine dining, with a day off to attend lectures. It was very arduous but once he had completed the International Culinary Arts Diploma, it was time to move on and see some of the world. His first stop was Australia, where he continued to work as a chef including a placement at Attica restaurant in Melbourne, one of the best rated restaurants in the Will Harnden (second right) in North West Thailand. world.
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Anton was lucky to explore much of South East Asia ill Harnden's (2005) first experience of including Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong fundraising was in Pete Scott’s Canoe Club Kong, but it was on the island of Bali where he felt which left him with a thirst for adventure really at home. Here were some of the poorest yet but also with experience of making a good case for happiest people he had ever met where food is at the support. very centre of every ceremony. As a Sixth Form pupil he had managed to find the After three years living on the island, Anton currently resources to pay for his kit and travel down the oversees three restaurants within two hotels. He white-waters of Norway, and he used precisely the is working on new kitchen design, menu design, same skills to fund a volunteer placement in remote restaurant openings and the culinary team’s personal Northwest Thailand as a Cambridge undergraduate. and professional development for the Lifestyle Retreats group, a management company with a new The Karen Hilltribes Trust was the charity he way of thinking. They only work with handpicked volunteered with and is the same organisation he hotel owners, whose main objective is the well being has been running as director for the past two years. of the staff, which in return brings satisfied guests. After university, Will took on an internship in Anton looks after a team of twenty chefs and fifteen Timor-Leste which again required fundraising and apprentices each year, and has started a small project worked at the United Nations with no salary. This “Essential Education” in the local hospitality school in opportunity developed into a job working with the the North West of Bali, one of the poorest parts of the government to improve immigration procedures 8 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
and conduct training. After taking a Masters to reflect on these ideas he contacted the Karen Hilltribes Trust and was told that the founder has just turned 70, was retiring as director and that he must apply! The rest is history. Their long-term vision is to see the Karen people empowered to help themselves in a sustainable way and develop the skills required to build a better future. Will’s job is to make sure the organisation can raise the finances for all this work, so the fundraising skills he first learned at Exeter School have proved to be very useful. Will visits Thailand twice per year to check that all the work is going to plan. It’s quite an adventure, taking planes, buses and 4x4 vehicles through the mountains to stay in houses on stilts. The culture is welcoming, the food incredible and the community atmosphere in a Karen village is something rarely experienced in our fast-paced lives dominated by technology. www.karenhilltribes.org.uk
Eye witness in Nepal
decidedly flat and many tourists left Nepal. However, a group of paragliding organisations halted their business and began sending jeep-loads of supplies and volunteer doctors to rural villages close to the epicentre, which had received no official aid. I was put in charge of medical supplies, together with two friends from Bristol. People were incredibly generous with their donations, which they used to buy stocks of bandages, painkillers and antibiotics. We were able to fill one of the paragliding shops with crates of supplies and were kept busy sorting medications and packing them into first aid kits. The whole organisation was designed to be a temporary measure until official aid arrived. None of us had experienced such a disaster previously, but the camaraderie and generosity was astounding, from both foreigners and the Nepali people. In the aftermath of such a devastating event, it is hard to be positive. This was such an awful thing to happen to a wonderful but desperately poor country, whose main industry is tourism. I did not appreciate until now the huge long term consequences for countries following a natural disaster and it is so frustrating to feel like only a drop in the ocean in the relief effort. Nepal will take a long time to rebuild but it is such an incredible place with incredible people that I have no doubt that I will return.
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It turned out to be an entirely different trip from what hen my friend Natasha and I landed in Nepal we had planned, and though parts of it were very hard in April 2015 for our medical elective prior to deal with, I am so glad we were able to help out. to graduation from Medicine at Bristol University, we were unsure what to expect. We had Katie Clarke (2010) starts work as a Junior arrived for an eight-week hospital placement to Doctor in the A&E department in Carmarthen, experience an entirely different healthcare system West Wales in August 2015. She received in a country we had never visited. We started in the financial support from the Old Exonian Club emergency department in a hospital in Kathmandu. towards her travel costs in Nepal. Although most patients don’t speak English, the hospital doctors work in English so we could understand their written medical notes and ask questions. Our first impression of the hospital was very different from the UK. Patients keep their medical notes and X-rays at home, and they have to buy their own medicine, so after initial assessments, relatives are sent to do this. Hygiene protocols are limited and sterilising equipment is minimal, involving a bowl of chlorine water into which all used equipment is placed for a few hours. This is not to paint the healthcare system in a bad light; but it shows the limited resources and contrast we experienced. On 25 April at 11.56am when the earthquake struck, we were very lucky to be in Pokhara and not Kathmandu. We had travelled there the day before, and felt a very strong, prolonged tremor, followed by lots of arguably worse aftershocks on the following days. The buildings in Pokhara are much more stable than in Kathmandu, but it was a terrifying experience, particularly with the nightly aftershocks. The mood in Pokhara became Katie packing emergency supplies in Nepal. www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 9
School news Best in the West
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xeter School has been ranked 67th nationally for A-Level results in the Department for Education League Tables announced in January 2015. Exeter School was the only school in Devon, Cornwall and South Somerset to make this top 100 list.
Oxbridge success
Award for senior RAF cadet
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he senior cadet of the Royal Air Force Section has been awarded the Jack Sadler Award for outstanding contribution to the Combined Cadet Force contingent (CCF). Flight Sergeant James Krafft was presented with the brass trophy of an artillery shell case and an engraved medal by Contingent Commander, Lieutenant Commander (RN) Geoff Chapman. James is also recipient of a sought-after Arkwright Engineering Scholarship that identifies him as one of the country’s future leaders in engineering and related areas of design. Congratulations to Sixth Formers Katie Olding, Amanda Herring and Alex Newman who are recipients of Army Scholarships.
Before They Were Famous Three musical alumni.
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ight Exeter School pupils have been offered places at Oxbridge colleges with 31 offers made in the last five years. This has been a bumper year for the Music Department; 2014 alumni Freddie Crowley and Richard Douglas have offers to read Music at Merton College and Magdalen College respectively, and 2015 leaver Fionn Connolly has an offer for Sidney Sussex, Cambridge. 2014 alumnus Mike Twomey has an unconditional offer for Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge and 2013 leaver Peter Doane is to read PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford. Head Boy Marcus Hoddinott has an offer to read Engineering at Hertford College and Upper Sixth Former Seb Wright to read Physics and Philosophy at Brasenose College. David W. Smith Memorial Essay Prize for 2014 winner, Will Nicolle, has an offer to read Geography at Jesus College, Oxford.
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rtwork by seven Exeter School pupils featured in the ‘Before They Were Famous’ exhibition held at the Marle Gallery in Axminster. Upper Sixth pupils Daniel Hambly and Clara Finnigan have been offered degree places for September 2015 at The Architecture Association and the London College of Fashion to study Architecture and Fashion Media Practice and Criticism respectively. We look forward to seeing their work in the future.
Ten Tors Challenge
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hirty pupils took part in the Ten Tors expedition this year. Almost exactly as predicted, Exeter School’s teams arrived within a three-hour window, the first coming in just before noon. A number of other pupils took part with a variety of youth group teams and also completed successfully. This was the conclusion of six months' training with staff, parents and friends of the School.
National Squash Finals
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he U15 squash team competed in the National Schools Finals at the National Squash Centre in Manchester, coming fifth in the country. Tom Lammonby, Simon Priddle, Ben Ford, Rohan White and Tom Watkinson (with coach George Aplin) played their matches with spirit. Squash teacher Ben Kirsch said the boys beat Harrow and Ecclesbourne easily and were unlucky not to have come second or third, following a close match with the eventual finalists.
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Olde Timers strike it lucky
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xeter School’s Young Enterprise team won the Devon and Somerset round of the national YE competition and are now through to the South West Finals. The Olde Timers, made up of Lower Sixth pupils who sell clocks from recycled materials such as cheese boxes and records, also took the prize for Best Trade Stand at a Devon & Somerset event held at Asda supermarket. The team generated the highest revenue of the teams there and repeated their success at the Guildhall Christmas event, selling out of stock.
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wo Exeter School teams made it into the National Indoor Hockey Finals which took place in January 2015. For the U18 boys, this was the third time in the Finals and they succeeded in taking Silver, narrowly beaten by Whitgift School. The U18 girls showed spirit as they played against the country’s finest players. The first XI boys’ hockey team reached the National Hockey Finals in April, finishing in second place against Repton, at the Olympic stadium.
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xeter School has been producing music of the highest quality for over seventy years, under the leadership of Musical Directors including Ivan Cole, Godfrey Slater, Simon Foxall and Peter Tamblyn. Past pupils are working professionally as conductors, singers, orchestral players, composers, lecturers and teachers, while others have continued the love of music they developed at School through their involvement in choirs, bands and orchestras alongside their day jobs. We feature a selection of alumni who have taken their music to new heights beyond the creative heart of our Music School. 12 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
After graduating with a degree in Music in 2003 from Royal Holloway College where Jamie Hutchings (1994 - 1999) was an organ scholar, he went to Chichester Cathedral as a postgraduate organ scholar combining this with teaching at Portsmouth Grammar School. He moved to Lincoln Cathedral as assistant organist and Assistant Director of Music at Framlingham College in 2005. In 2013, Jamie was appointed Director of Music at Headington School, Oxford. Recent events include visits to sing at Windsor Castle, St Paul’s Cathedral, San Paolo fuori le mure (Rome) and St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, along with a busy school-based music programme and annual commissioning of major composers.
In 2015, Exeter School Choral Society performed Bernstein’ MASS, Handel’s Zadok the Priest and The King Shall Rejoice and Upper Sixth Form pupil Fionn Connolly’s composition Ring on Ring to a packed Exeter Cathedral. The Bernstein MASS featured guest solos from two Exonians, soprano Lucy Bray and tenor Jonathan Schranz and seven current pupils. Photo credit: www.richardlappasimages.com
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Lucy Bray (2010 - 2012) sang the stunning introductory solo Kyrie at the start of the Bernstein MASS from the cathedral pulpit. She was winner of the Two Moors Festival in association with Classic FM in 2012 and is currently training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and developing her repertoire as an opera singer.
“My time at Exeter School made me sure that I wanted to be a musician. Peter Tamblyn inspired me to strive to achieve what I dreamed of doing, as well as giving me fantastic performance opportunities throughout my time there. I strongly believe that it is thanks to his unwavering encouragement, as well as that of Julian Sutton and Andrew Daldorph, that I am now studying with an internationally-renowned teacher at the conservatoire. I am very grateful for my two years at Exeter School."
“I owe my musical career, both academic and performing, to Exeter School and to the standards and expectations set by Foxall, Sutton and the team, with the opportunities presented in performing the best music to the highest standards regardless of our age; I blame them entirely. Sharing in their ability to bring this to young people today is utterly intoxicating.” Photo credit: www.richardlappasimages.com
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Feature “In the late 1950s/early 1960s, Exeter School provided a good range of opportunities for participation in musical activity. Under the stern, sometimes fiery, baton of Ivan Cole, Head of Music, much was expected of the School's talented singers and instrumentalists. I can clearly remember the huge pleasure and satisfaction I gained, as an 11-year old treble in 1958, from singing in Haydn's Nelson Mass which was a musical awakening for me.” Adrian Rickard (1958 - 1964) decided to focus on writing music when he retired from his management career in the international oil, banking and insurance industries, where latterly he had run his own consultancy company. His latest work Bach at St David's, a setting of a beautiful poem by Gillian Clarke, the national poet of Wales, has been recently performed in Wales, while another recent work, A Ring of Islands, will be performed in London in September. Robin Stowell (1956 - 1967), Emeritus Professor of the School of Music, University of Cardiff, has been honoured for his outstanding contribution to international musical life. He was conferred with a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music (FRCM) by HRH The Prince of Wales. Professor Stowell, an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, was recognised for both his academic work and his achievements as a performer.
“Music was not considered an 'academic subject' so I had to undertake my music studies with parental and external support. However, I benefited greatly from the encouragement of many members of staff, particularly Ivan Cole, who succeeded in creating a stimulating musical environment, fostered my musical studies and offered me many performing opportunities and experiences.” 14 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
“Julian Sutton and Simon Foxall were inspirational in encouraging my love of music and facilitating my early attempts at composition, and I owe them – and the School – a debt of gratitude.” Ian Stephens (1985 - 1992) has been composing music for choirs and orchestras since graduating from Bristol University and has also taught music at Liverpool and Liverpool Hope Universities and gives adult education lectures, at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Highlights include a performance of his orchestral piece We’re Going on a Bear Hunt at the 2013 BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, chamber works including an Oboe Quintet for Jonathan Small and the world-famous Brodsky Quartet, and choral music including an anthem for the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. www.composersedition. com www.ianstephens.net
Hugh Collins (2005 - 2010) created the Godwine Choir in April 2014 with friends from Cambridge with the aim of bringing the atmosphere of chamber music they had experienced at university to London. The choir, including soprano Sophie Hopkins (2002 - 2010), specialises in cappella music from the 20th and 21st century. The choir was chosen to perform the World Premiere of the new carol Christmas Bells composed by Roderick Williams and commissioned by The Financial Times in 2014. In May they gave an enthralling concert at Buckfast Abbey whose packed audience included their retired music teacher Julian Sutton (right). www.godwinechoir.org
Sophie: “I really enjoyed music at School, both lessons and participating in all the choirs and orchestras. It was great to have As a choral scholar at Trinity College the opportunity to perform in concerts from Cambridge, Beth Partridge (2006 - 2011) sang evensong three times a week and toured a young age. Singing is something I continue America, Canada and Germany, recording to enjoy doing; regular rehearsals and seven critically acclaimed CDs on the Gramophone performances offer a nice change from being label, as well as performing live on radio. She was in the office all day.” awarded a senior scholarship and awards and bursaries Hugh: "Every year Exeter School gave me and my friends fantastic opportunities outside the curriculum. We had permanent access to great facilities during break times and after lessons. The friendly atmosphere quickly made me feel at ease in the first few days at School.” Jonathan Schranz (2005 - 2012) has been reading Music at Cambridge University and getting involved with music leadership, especially choral conducting. He is Musical Director at the University Catholic Chaplaincy, and has founded two of his own choirs, FourFour and The Fisher Consort. Music outreach is also central to his musical career, and he regularly leads choral singing workshops in prisons with a small team of student singers. In September he will begin a master’s degree in Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, in London.
“Exeter School’s approach to music-making is eclectic, inclusive, and ambitious.”
to take residential courses with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and singing lessons at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. While at Cambridge Beth took part in a number of opera productions including Mozart Die. Since graduating, Beth has sung with professional London-based choirs, Polyphony and Amici Voices, and performed as a soloist with Ensemble Vocal de Pontoise and Musicanti while working in Paris. From September 2015, Beth will be taking part in a prestigious new fellowship scheme with the National Youth Chamber Choir which includes a tour to China and hopes to continue her vocal studies at a music conservatoire in the future.
“I feel very privileged to have been a part of the varied and high quality music making at Exeter School. It was the best preparation for professional music making I could have hoped for.” www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 15
Memory lane
The other Hut - the Music Room from 1940s-1955 S ometime in the 1940s, a large wooden hut was erected behind the main Butterfield Buildings in the area now occupied by the Piazza.
It is difficult to be precise about exactly when or indeed why it was built as no records have been found. It is not visible in the 1933 air photo of the School taken after the Andrews Wing was built, but does appear in photos taken after 1945. In the 1940s and 1950s, it provided accommodation for the Music Department at the Butterfield Hall end, with a locker room in the middle, and the Prefects Common Room at the Art Room end. Music was taught here by Ivan Cole, until the department moved into the old Sanatorium building alongside Barrack Road in 1955 where it remained until the present Music School opened in September 1975.
So what happened in this other Hut?
After Music moved out, the classroom was taken over for History lessons with Dick Snailham, and later for French and English lessons, when it was called Room 17. However, the Prefects Common Room remained in this Hut until the Sixth Form Common Room was completed in summer 1972. The Hut took on a new role in the late 1970s and 1980s as the base for the Clerk of Works and the Maintenance team, finally being demolished in 1991 when it was suffering from damp and rot. The site was developed into the Piazza, adorned with the School crest in stonework, which has provided a social area ever since. A short article on the many uses of the Sanatorium building (now called Gateways) over the last 120 years will feature in a future issue of The 1633.
The Music Room in 1951. If anything on these pages interests you and you would like to visit the School, take a look at our archive or provide any information about the mystery objects, please get in touch via alumnisec@ exeterschool.org.uk or 01392 458941. 16 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
Mystery Objects
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n the November issue we asked about the black notice board pictured, and we are grateful to Simon Williams (1955) and David Hough (1956) for the following insights. It travelled with the CCF cadets' luggage by train to annual camps, which took place in the Aldershot and Salisbury areas in the 1950s attended by many schools. Every school had a notice board in a prominent place so that cadets could read the daily orders and instructions. The wooden doors enabled vital notices to be protected against the elements. It was last used for this purpose in the 1960s. The School has recently acquired a polished Malacca cane stick. Its association with the School dates from the late 1930s. It measures twenty-seven inches from tip to crest and is half an inch diameter and is in remarkably good condition for its age. We would be interested in hearing more about its connection with the School and who used it.
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any thanks to all readers who wrote in about the School ties. As we thought, some ties were only used for short periods, and some were awarded for different purposes over the years. The following information has emerged from your replies. • Tie 1 is the Old Exonian tie from the 1940s to 1960s. In the 1980s it was awarded as a colours tie for Hockey. • Tie 2 is the Old Exonian tie with the Crossing Crest and was introduced in the 1960s. New stocks are now available in the School shop. • Tie 3 was for members of the Crossing Club in the 1950s and 1960s. • Tie 4 has only had a short history, being recently awarded as a colours tie. • Tie 5 was for Crossing Club members in the 1950s, and was the Prefects tie in the 1980s and 1990s. • Tie 6 is another colours tie, awarded for various sports. • Tie 7 was the Prefects tie from the 1950s until the 1980s, and tie 8 was given to deputy prefects over the same period. Giles Ashman (1987) has designed a new Exonian tie based on the Crossing Crest and School colours which is available to buy from the School shop.
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or many older Exonians, the establishment of Music as a key part of Arts education goes back to the tenure of Ivan Cole from 1953 to 1970. However, the Bugle and Drum Band of the CCF also provided opportunities to create and perform music. The Corps of Drums was built up by its Bandmaster, John Ramsden, who joined the School staff in 1939. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Corps of Drums would lead the parade around the School fields during annual inspection, and march through Exeter on important occasions. John trained the Band for nearly thirty years, instilling a sense of pride and encouraging pupils to aspire to the highest quality. Peter Head (1947), circled in this 1946 photo, was awarded the Silver Bugle, which conferred the honour of playing solo parts and wearing white gauntlet gloves when on parade. www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 17
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1. Lizzie Richards (née Cloke) (2005), Governor Tim Hawkins (1965) and retired Geography teacher Sue Cloke at the WaterAid Concert reception, April 2015. 2. Nigel Annereau (1976) and Mike Watson (1979) at Artigiano in March 2015. 3. Exonians from 2005 and 2006 at the Spring Buffet Reception at Artigiano in March 2015. 4. Brothers Phil Waggett (1985) and Colin Waggett (1987) with Ian Gardner (1965) at the Royal Thames Yacht Club London Dinner in May. 5. Ali Marsh (Head of Sixth Form), Harriet Davies (2009), Amelia Davies (2007), Alice Hulbert (2009) and John Davidson at Artigiano in March 2015 6. Present staff and Governors join Exonians from the 1950s to 2011 at the Exonian Oxford Dinner at St Hugh’s College, February 2015. 7. Exonians spanning six decades at the Cambridge Dinner at Clare College in February 2015. 8. Richard Robbins (2008), Olivia Hampsher-Monk (2009), Alice Hulbert (2006) and Rachel Saunders (2006) at the Artigiano Buffet Reception in St Paul’s, London in March 2015. 9. Governor Tim Hawkins (1965) with Beth Partridge (2011), Governor Helen Clark and John Davidson at the WaterAid reception with Richard Fryer in background. 10. Hockey players from 1st XI and U14 teams from 1996 to 2007 joined coach Manoj Chitnavis at the London Dinner at Royal Thames Yacht Club, in May 2015. 11. Exonian students currently studying at Cardiff, Cardiff Met and Swansea Universities join the Headmaster Bob Griffin and present staff for a buffet reception in Cardiff in November 2014. Photo galleries with a selection of images from alumni events can be found on the School website and Facebook page. Details of forthcoming events are on the back page. www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 19
News of Exonians
Phil Waggett (1979 - 1985) recently spent a weekend visiting the home of Matthew Ambrose (1978-1985) in Portugal, along with seven other 1985 OEs. In this informal reunion, Phil and Matthew enjoyed surfing with Steve Owen (1978-1985), Richard Brackstone (1978-1985), Richard Wallace (1979-1985), Russ Armstrong (1978-1985), Mark Snell (1978-1985), Trevor Harreld (1979-1985) and Richard Mattison (1978-1985). Chris Hewat (1961 - 1967) left School House and joined the RAF. He enjoyed service life so much that he took evening classes to gain the additional GCEs necessary to apply for a commission and completed officer training in 1979. He served at RAF Chivenor, RAF Lyneham, and RAFC Cranwell as an instructor, and also overseas at HQ RAF Rheindahlen, RAF Wildenrath and RAF Bruggen. He retired from his final post in Belgium, with the rank of Wing Commander. During the first Gulf War he served in Saudi Arabia and was awarded the MBE in the operational honours list. Chris is now enjoying retirement in Scotland just outside Dundee where he is a JP and the Regional Treasurer for Air Cadets (Scotland & Northern Ireland). He would be pleased to hear from any alumni in the area especially from the 1960s.
Damien Mansell (1997- 2003) is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter and has launched a new international humanitarian aid mapping project. The “missing maps” project produces digital maps of remote areas identified by the Red Cross using information provided by Exeter University students, staff and the public. The maps will enable charities and aid agencies to accurately track the spread of disease, provide more local detail on crisis-prone areas, and allow faster access for emergency teams when natural disasters or conflicts occur. Damien received the Exeter University Award for Innovative Teaching in April 2015.
Alan Matlock (1962 - 1972) spent a gap year teaching English in Paris before four years at University of East Anglia with another year in Paris. Both he and his wife have had careers as English teachers, living Robert Perry (1959 - 1966) graduated from Warwick in Southampton since the late 1970s. University in 1969 with a degree in Engineering Science, joined Arthur Andersen & Co and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He later moved into Ian Lisle (1955 – 1965) emigrated to Australia investment banking in 1976 and became a Director after leaving School and now lives in Queensland. He of N M Rothschild & Sons, specialising in corporate travelled widely around Australia before settling down finance, before retiring in 1999. He has travelled in Sydney and moving into the then emerging field of the world as part of his career, including living in information technology spending 35 years in this area. Malaysia. He is enjoying retirement, and he and his He is now retired and enjoying life immensely. Having wife still have the travel bug although unfortunately been married twice, he is blessed with four children now at his own expense. and seven grandchildren (collectively).
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Tim Wybrow (1993 - 2000) has moved from Southampton to Derbyshire. He is currently managing a large engineering team responsible for application engineering relating to the high volume automotive market, with customers ranging from Jaguar Land Rover to Ferrari. Brian Canniford (staff 1975 - 1979) left his teaching position at Exeter School in 1979 to become a lecturer for the Royal Army Education Corps, with the Brigade of Guards, at Pirbright, and then the Junior Leaders’ Regiment, Bovington, Dorset. In 1993, he went to Aldershot as a Senior Lecturer at the Tri-Service Resettlement Centre, where he gained a Master’s Degree He retired as Principal Lecturer from the MoD in 1998. Over the years he has also been heavily involved with cricket holding posts with the ICC, MCC, Combined Services and Army organisations and still continues with the sport as an umpire. He and his wife Geraldine are enjoying their retirement in Dorset. Sara Orchard (1998 - 2000) has been working since 2005 as a sports commentator reporting many different sporting events including rugby matches, the Champions league, and the 2012 Olympics. She also covered the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for the Olympic News Channel. She has recently become BBC's first ever female rugby commentator, in the run up to the Rugby World Cup in autumn 2015. She commentated on Women’s 2014 Rugby World Cup Final in Paris for 5Live and will be covering hockey and tennis for them during the summer.
Alan Thorpe (1980 – 1986) has been working with advertising and marketing agencies as a career, persuading people to buy things they never knew they needed. He recently developed an interest in blogging to keep up with social media, choosing gardening as a topic. BBC2 picked up the blog and asked him to be a competitor on 'Big Allotment Challenge 2014', and he found he was signed up to grow vegetables, grow and arrange flowers and cook produce for the UK audience! He had a lot of fun making the programme, which was transmitted during prime time on Friday evenings, and made an honourable exit having reached the semi-final. His blogging however has carried on and he does a live gardening Q and A phone-in for BBC Radio Berkshire. Neville Pughe (1949-1954) published his autobiography in 2006 Elusive Glory which includes reminiscences of life in School House in the 1950s, along with many memories of Plymouth and Exmouth in World War Two. Neville spent 35 years in the army, retiring as a Brigadier; one of his duties in the 1980s was inspecting the Exeter School CCF on annual inspection day. He is enjoying retirement and living in Dorset. Proceeds from the sale of his book go to Multiple Sclerosis Charities. Neville’s father Morris joined the Army in 1914 at the age of 14 as a Bugler Boy. He was 'The Youngest Old Contemptible', and his story featured in recent BBC coverage of World War One. Read more on the Alumni website.
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Claire Bolton (1997 - 2004) spent a gap year travelling, including time in Rome learning Italian, and then studied Dentistry at Birmingham University, qualifying in 2010. She joined the Professionally Qualified Officers Course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and was commissioned in to the Royal Army Dental Corps. After four years of green fingered dentistry and travelling around the world, she has returned to Devon to settle with her fiancé and two dogs, as a civilian dental practitioner at Life Dental & Wellbeing in Exeter. Ian Norman (1964 - 1971) has been Professor of Mental Health at King's College London since 1997, and is now Deputy Dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing, a qualified mental health nurse, social worker and cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. He is the author of around 150 journal articles, conference papers (national and international), books, book chapters and reports.
Robin Davis (1993 - 2000) studied Maths at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and was very active in the Cambridge music scene, working with several choirs and orchestras. After university, he studied the piano in Germany and London before starting work in the opera house at Dortmund where he developed his interest in conducting. He moved on to Oldenburg to gain more experience, and has recently been appointed as 'first Kapellmeister' at the opera house in Lüneburg, where he will be conducting everything from musicals and operettas to family concerts and the big 'serious' operas. Robin is married to Angela, an opera singer, and they have two daughters, Mae and Ella.
Since leaving university, Lizzie Walker (2004 2011) has been working in Indonesian Borneo with the research organisation OuTrop: the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project. The Sabangau Forest is a jungle world of orangutans, gibbons, macaques, wild pigs and snakes and Lizzie’s main work has been following and recording the behaviour of an endearing but much less well-known primate, the Red Langur monkey. When she was at School Fred (Alistair) Ruddick (1992-1997) worked Lizzie went on an expedition to the Peruvian for seven years as a trader on the London Stock Amazon with the British Exploring Society and, as Exchange. He then gained a 1st class degree in Music her degree was drawing to an end, she wanted to get as a mature student from the Liverpool Institution of out of the library and back to seeing conservation Performing Arts and, whilst there, began recording and research in practice. and producing albums. Work included arrangements for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for the opening of the European Capital of Culture Lawrence Sail (staff 1982 - 1991) taught French and in 2008 and producing the anthem for the world’s German for nine years and now works as a freelance largest trade Expo in Shanghai in 2010 with Sir writer. He has published eleven collections of poems Paul McCartney. Since 2013, he has been living on and compiled and edited a number of anthologies. the Faroe Islands where he is building a recording A number of his poems, including a sequence on studio, curates for an award winning festival, has the theme of silence, have been set to music. He regular radio slots, and continues to produce music appeared at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in with his long term partner, Grammy nominee Greta conversation with author Helen Dunmore in May at Svabo Bech. an event attended by present staff, pupils and OEs. Emma Solley (née Chatterjee 1997-1999) who was Head Girl in her Upper Sixth year, gained a BSc in Criminology/Anthropology at Southampton University. During this time she discovered her love of imagery and film making, principally from anthropological documentaries. She landed a year’s post graduate training at Channel 4 where she learnt her trade and spent a further nine years making factual entertainment shows such as The Hotel Inspector series and Life Begins as a producer/director for a variety of channels from BBC to Channel 5 whilst based at award-winning Indie Twofour. She is now back in Devon with her husband and daughter where she works as a freelance photographer shooting anything from cookery books to front cover fashion. 22 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
Mark Tyler (1975 - 1982) is Vice Patron of Exeter-based charity Families for Children. Mark was adopted as an only child into a loving family who lived on Topsham Road, traced his birth parents successfully and has nothing but praise for the adoption system. He left Exeter School to pursue a career in broadcasting and is currently Senior Communications Manager for the Police Commissioner of Devon and Cornwall, a role which enables him to combine his journalistic experience and practical knowledge of broadcasting. Matthew Owen (1980 - 1987) graduated from Oxford with a degree in Geography and worked as an investment banker until 2007. He is now Director of Cool Earth, a charity that sets out to protect native rain forest areas around the world. Through a unique approach that funds indigenous tribes to protect their environment and sustain their way of life by improving their local sources of income, the charity has protected a larger area of forest than any government or other NGO. Matthew co-founded Cool Earth with MP Frank Field and Johan Eliasch, who owns the Head sportswear company. Mike Keough (2000 - 2007) is the Operations Manager for Artigiano, an independently owned Expresso and Wine Bar company with branches in London, Exeter, Reading and Cardiff. Mike hosted the Exeter School Buffet and Drinks reception at their branch in St Paul’s, London in March 2015, and a future event is planned for their new branch in Cardiff. Herbert Macgregor (1947 – 1951) is a retired Professor of Biosciences from the Universities of St Andrews, Leicester and Exeter. He is currently running a programme entitled 'What's New in 21st Century Biology' for University of the Third Age groups.
Ian Williams (1990 - 1995) was honoured in March 2015 by the Exe Sailing Club for his fifth World Match Racing title which he secured in Malaysia in 2014. The eighty members and guests at the prize giving event included Olympic sailors, alumni Ben Rhodes (1994-1999) and Stevie Morrison (19901997). Ian has won several Youth Championships, the Bermuda Gold Cup, and race wins in the Vice Admirals Cup, US East Coast Championships, and the Swan US Nationals. He has been shortlisted twice for the ISAF World Sailor of the Year and twice for the British YJA Yachtsman of the Year awards. Dr Dunstan Lowe (1990 – 1999) gained a BA and an MPhil in Classics at Birmingham University, then a PhD at St John's College, Cambridge. He has published over twenty articles on classical topics. His book Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry was published by the University of Michigan Press in May 2015.
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OE Club
Old Exonians v School Football Match
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n December 2014, the School’s 1st XI played the Old Exonians in their annual fixture under lights on the School astroturf. In recent years, the OEs have dominated the games although the School’s 1st XI has managed a couple of draws. However, the 2014 fixture was particularly competitive, with a young 1st XI squad proving more than a match for their more experienced opponents! The OE squad spanned ten years and contained some very capable footballers several of whom play for local clubs. The bench was so strong that record 1st XI goal scorer, Ben Stone (2014), was named as one of the subs! The 1st XI followed the game plan to the letter and kept a really sound defensive shape, keeping the OEs down to a few long range shots in the first half; Sam Elstub’s (2004) attacking efforts were particularly noteworthy. OE Captain, Graeme Martin (2004), broke the deadlock by scoring a fine goal midway through the second half from close range, when a great run
Are you in this picture? Calling all OEs who went to Hildesheim! If you took part in the Hildesheim exchange in years past, please join us for the 50th anniversary of the German Exchange. Staff and pupils from the Scharnhorst Gymnasium will join present and past pupils from Exeter in the Music School on Sunday 8 November. Many of you have already sent in photos and memories and we would love to receive more. If you would like to receive further details and register your interest, please get in touch with the Alumni Office. 24 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
took him into a space at the far post. To their credit, the 1st XI players kept plugging away, with Jack Thomas ‘pulling the strings’ in an advanced midfield role which created a couple of excellent opportunities. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to follow through and the exciting game concluded 1 - 0 to the Old Exonians. OE Sports Secretary Giles Ashman (1987) said: “Both sides can take great credit for ‘serving up’ an excellent game which was very pleasing on the eye!” After the game, both teams enjoyed festive food and drinks in the Andrews Hall, and the chance to catch up on news of OEs and the School. The 2014 OE Football squad were Graeme Martin (2204), Jack Hunter (2012), Harry Ody (2011), Ollie Ody (2004), Matt Booth (2004), Josh Barlow (2010), Sam Elstub (2004), Tom Boother (2012), Luke Stitson (2013), Harrison Thorne (2010), Duncan Ward (2006), Richard Middleton (2004), Freddie Crowley (2014), Dan Armstrong (2014) and Ben Stone (2014).
OE Grant supports South America trip After her A Levels, Alice Brookes (2011) travelled to South America to spend six weeks with Med Force in Ecuador, supported by a grant from the Old Exonian Club. Alice worked in a Red Cross hospital treating wounds and carrying out medical tests, and visited remote villages and communities with the mobile clinic giving medical support to people who could not otherwise access it. After her voluntary work, Alice backpacked through Peru and Chile experiencing the Andean culture away from the tourist honeypots. The money Alice received from the OE Club helped pay for essential Spanish lessons, and her travel costs. After completing her degree in Human Biology at Birmingham University, Alice hopes to surf the Atlantic Coast in Europe, before spending the winter in Slovakia as a snowboard guide. Her long-term aim is to train as a teacher and she plans to observe lessons at School in the Autumn.
Francis Kinnier Paul – a short memoir The illustrated memoir of Headmaster FK Paul written by his son Marcus will be published in Summer 2015. A free copy will be given to everyone who attends OE Day in September and sent to those who have requested one but are unable to come. If you are not coming to OE Day and have not yet requested a copy, please contact Karen Dart at alumnisec@exeterschool. org.uk.
Fifty five at fifty five!
Photo credit: Corporal Daniel Wiepen
Nine OEs from the 1970s reunited in May to attempt the 55-mile Ten Tors route which had eluded them at School. They were joined by four friends and an exSt Margaret’s pupil. Team 55, aged 55-60, walked the 55-mile route over two days to mark the 55th year of the Challenge. The two groups of seven finished after 26 hours’ walking, raising over £8,000 for four charities. They are (left to right) Keith Down, Bob Barnes, Keith Briggs, Jo Mason (team manager), Bill Foster, Andy Briggs, John Farbrother (back row) Mike Shere, Andrew Mason, Steve Hodder, Bunny Briggs, Geoff Briggs, Peter Rider, Rich Sharman and Stuart Eyles.“More aches and pains than in our teens, but most rewarding to be back on the moor, reliving compass bearings and recalling oatmeal block etc,” commented Bill Foster after the event. www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 25
Profile of Peter German, OE Secretary
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eter (1972) has been a member of the OE Committee since the early 1980s and took over as Games Secretary from Geoff Briggs (1973), continuing in that role and participating in many of the hockey, rugby and cricket fixtures until the mid 1990s when Giles Ashman (1987) undertook this role. Peter became Club Secretary in 2012 when James Brown (1999) became Chair. His current role includes preparing agendas for meetings with James, keeping the minutes, and reporting to the AGM each September. Peter also deals with various items of correspondence and helps run the bar on OE Day. He is an active supporter of School events and his daughter Rebecca, currently in the Lower Sixth, is a talented musician. Peter is a regular attendee at the annual Golf Day.
Old Exonian Day 2015 OE merchandise for sale e are now pleased to offer Old Exonians the and 1950s reunion opportunity to purchase, through the School
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shop on the website, OE cufflinks and the Crossing Crest tie, among other items. These will also be available to purchase at OE Day in September.
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e are looking forward to welcoming many OEs back to School for OE Day on Saturday 12 September. The programme will include a buffet lunch, Chapel concert, tours of the School and the annual dinner, as well as displays of photos and archives from the last 70 years. This year we will also welcome back OEs from the 1940s and 1950s for their reunion weekend, which includes a reception on Friday 11 September. The booking form for the OE Day is enclosed with this magazine; please contact us if you wish to come to the 1950s reunion and have not yet received your separate booking form.
Please visit the alumni pages of the School website for more photos and news www. exeterschool.org.uk/alumni
In memoriam It is with deep regret that we note the passing of the Colin Shears, (1952), Alastair Peter Michael Young following Old Exonians. The date shown is the year of (1954), John E Rowland (1954), Reverend Canon Francis leaving Exeter School. (Frank) John Hawkins (1954), Russell Wendover (1956), Michael Tozer (1957) and Keith Lethbridge (1974). John F Hatton (1938), Ian Oswald Wilson (1945), Philip Please visit www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni/obituaries Murray Milton (1947), Douglas P Wilkinson (1950), for more in-depth tributes to former pupils and staff. 26 | The 1633 - Summer 2015
Annual Old Exonian Golf Day
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n Thursday 30 April, nearly twenty OEs gathered at the Exeter Golf and Country Club for the annual OE Golf day organised by Eddie Trick (1972). The sun shone, and the greens looked beautiful, but as always the course provided challenges for some, especially in areas with trees! OEs from the 1950s to recent leavers attended, with some travelling from the Home Counties to take part.
no pupils were able to attend on this occasion, but the School was represented by Mike Wilcock (staff), who in his own words “had one of my better rounds�. He was a member of the overall winning team with John Osborne and Eddie Trick.
The OEs were joined at the Nineteenth Hole by John Davidson, and the players then enjoyed a convivial three-course meal in the evening. Thanks go to Eddie In the morning, the Nigel Hook trophy was won by Tim for his time and effort organising this popular annual Davies (1971), with his brother Martin (1980) coming event. OEs playing golf were: second. Chris Bird (1981) won the prize for the nearest pin on the 4th and Greg Crosse (1994) won the longest Chris Taylor (1984), Greg Crosse, Richard Cousins drive on the 18th. The John Jago trophy for the over (1987), Peter German (1972), Joe Mullins (1955), John 55s went to John Osborne (1968) with Martin Davies Billett (1960), Martin Davies, Tim Davies, Nigel Hook in second place, and John also secured the Demouville (1971), Mark Bonning-Snook (1986), Mark Hunt Trophy with his 34 points. (1972), Rupert Pratt (1984), Chris Bryant (1986), Tim Lee (2005), Chris Bird, Eddie Trick, John Osborne and Unfortunately due to GCSE and A Level examinations, Mike Wilcock (staff).
OE Committee 2014 - 2015 President Robin Thomas (1964-1971) Chairman James Brown (1994-1999) Secretary Peter German (1964-1972) Treasurer Chris Bush (1963-1974) Sports Secretary Giles Ashman (1982-1987) Archivist Kevin White (1953-1961)
Other committee members are: Paul Cann (1987-1994), Mary Davis (1990-1992), David Leon (1954-1961), Joanne Mortimore (19951997), Tom Petrilli, (1996-2001), Richard Sharman (1970-1978), Tony Smith (1952-1957) and John Davidson (staff).
Would you like to be part of the Old Exonian Committee? Volunteers are sought to join the committee, especially OEs who have left the School since 1990. The Committee meets three times a year, and if you are interested, please contact the secretary Peter German, at peter@green-dale.co.uk. www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni | 27
Alumni noticeboard Vinyl request
Calling all ex-pats!
Do you still have your old vinyl LPs? Several OEs have asked if the School has copies of recordings made by Ivan Cole of School productions and concerts. If you have any in your possession, we now have the ability to produce digital versions and would love to hear from you.
Are you an Exonian who lives or works abroad? We know there are Exonians working or retired in all seven continents. We plan to build up our network of overseas alumni over the next few months and would love to hear your news!
Exeter School in 100 objects
Competition
The British Museum’s ‘History of the World in 100 Objects’ captured the imagination of many people. At Exeter School we are looking for suggestions for our own list of objects, buildings or memories which have helped define the School over the years and capture the experience of your time. Pupils from different year groups have already offered their ideas, and we would now like yours. Please email or post your list of five or more ‘objects’ that you remember from your time at School. We hope to publish the list in a future issue and provide a photo gallery on the website.
Emma Bradbury (née Green 1996) accurately pinpointed the vintage lamp over the front door of Emsleigh, the Victorian Junior School building. If you can identify exactly where this plaque can be found at School, send in your answer to win a bottle of wine.
Forthcoming events The full list of alumni events is updated regularly and can be found on the School website or via the Alumni Secretary, Karen Dart. Tickets are available on the School box office: www.exeterschool.org.uk/box-office Friday 4 September
Drinks Reception for 2014 and 2015 leavers, 5-7.30pm, School Pavilion
Friday 11 September
Reception for OEs from 1940s and 1950s, Music School Hall
Saturday 12 September
Old Exonian Day and Annual Dinner
Thursday 17 September
Speech Day: Guest of Honour, Monty Halls, TV presenter and explorer
Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 November
Senior School Play: Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Tuesday 8 December
National Trust Concert, Exeter Cathedral
Tuesday 15 December
Old Exonians v School Football Match
Tuesday 15 December
Christmas Concert in the School Hall
The Autumn programme will also include careers networking events for alumni in Exeter and London, and social evenings in the Midlands and Exeter. The full programme will be published and distributed via email in July.
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We would like to keep in touch with past pupils and staff. You can update your details on the School website by visiting the alumni pages and completing the on-line form under ‘Contact Us’ or via the Alumni Secretary. 01392 458941 alumnisec@exeterschool.org.uk Exeter School Alumni Office Victoria Park Road Exeter EX2 4NS www.exeterschool.org.uk/alumni Twitter: @ExeterSchoolUK Facebook: Exeter School Alumni Alumni Magazine of Exeter School LinkedIn: Exeter School Alumni (Old Exonians)