events. I have moved schools and am now in a Deputy role at Pittwater House School in Collaroy. It’s a great school and has a very strong community, which it identifies as the ‘School Family’. I still trot out and play a bit of rugby and am very much involved with Surf Life Saving at our local beach.
possible and to have started a family after being hopelessly broody for so long! I think of Frensham with a smile, so many wonderful memories... and hope to visit for the 90th anniversary next year and catch up with old faces! Lara Karmali 1996-1998 I am living in Kenya with my husband Kush Ratna and 2 children Kayan age 5 and Kiara age 2.
We keep in contact with a number of staff and students from the 90s and had Gerry Holden to stay in June. The previous year we met up with Pat and John Bayston for dinner and relived many fond memories. Like many, we were terrible saddened by the passing of our dear friend Lynne Elgy. She leaves a huge hole in all our lives but an amazing legacy. (A tribute to Lynne appears on page 21.) Peter de Voil 1993-2003 Peter and Anne de Voil met Erik Szabo for lunch in Cambridge, Massachusetts in August. Erik was an HMC Projects scholar at Frensham Heights from 2000 to 2001, when he returned to Slovakia to finish his schooling. Having been among the top 50 students in the 2001 Chemistry Olympiad while at Frensham, Erik continued to take part in the Chemistry Olympiad in Slovakia. In 2002 and 2003, Erik represented his country at International Chemistry Olympiads in the Netherlands and in Greece. In competition with over 200 students from more than 50 countries, he won two Olympic silver medals for Slovakia. In 2005, he was chosen by the British Council to represent Slovakia at the London Youth Science Forum, to which he returned for several summers as a member of staff,
I have been back to the UK a few times in the last five years, unfortunately never at the same time as Founders’ Day. I look forward to being able to attend one in the near future with my family. Esme Lee (née Fellowes) 19962003 (photo) Baby Evie has arrived 7lb 8oz. We are being well looked after by Jamie and Maisie! at the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road in London, my first job back after having my beautiful daughter, Mabel, who is now a whopping 18 months old! I live in Brighton with my boyfriend who is a health food fanatic and very much enjoy the life/work balance at the moment, despite being very tired most of the time!
eventually serving as chief of staff until 2010. Erik studied physical chemistry and obtained his doctorate at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was appointed assistant professor in 2012. Earlier this year he won a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in the USA, where he is currently researching applications for oscillating reactions in designing artificial living systems at the Rowland Institute, in a project with Harvard’s Origins of Life Initiative.
I have been lucky enough to be working fairly consistently in theatre since graduation from Guildford School of Music and Drama in 2006 and Royal Academy of Music in 2008 and have loved every minute. I have no idea where the next few years will take me and where I want to go; just happy to be living in the moment whenever
Florence Andrews 19952002 I am currently standby to the lead role in ‘Once The Musical’
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