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Back to School
See who has visited and played an integral part in School life this year
SEPTEMBER 2017
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Thanks to Harry Curtis (Capel 2010) and Ismail Laher (Blathwayt 1994) for giving up their time to join us at our FutureCareers Seminar on Engineering.
Good to see John Wimbleton (Blathwayt 1959) and his wife, Glenda, making a visit whilst ‘down south’!
A former Swim Squad Captain, Finn Campbell (Bristowe 2017) popped in to try on the new Reed’s trunks!
Great to see three 2012 leavers back at School: Gurjot Thind (Bristowe 2012), Ben Stokes (Bristowe 2012) and Aleks Rula (Capel 2012) who were joined by Grayson Stuckey (Capel 2012), who now teaches at Reed’s. The staff thoroughly enjoyed catching up with the ORs over lunch and Mr Waller was even able to show Gurjot the leaving card he had given him six years previously. Considering a change of career to teaching, Chris Macdonald (Mullens 2011) visited to sit in on some classes.
Invaluable advice, grilling interviews and constructive criticism were once again on offer from our ORs helping to prepare our Oxbridge and Medic pupils. Thanks to Ed Hutton (Mullens 2015), Dylan Price (Capel 2016), Cam Fleming (Blathwayt 2017), Jess Houlgrave (Mullens 2007, Simeon Smith (Mullens 2009) and Ethan Kelly (Bristowe 2013).
OCTOBER 2017
Toby Esser (Mullens 1982) returned to give a powerful and motivating address at our weekly assembly, advising our pupils to not hold back in voicing what they want
to achieve in life.
DECEMBER 2017
Jack Revell (Mullens 2008) and his partner, Fran, returned for a visit, after spending most of the year in South Africa. It was good to hear all about Jack’s plans to combine his modelling with a new food venture. James Cobb (Mullens 2017) popped in to say hello and thank you to the staff, especially in the Music Department. Good to see Annie Chan (Mullens 2016) back visiting with her parents and sister. Delighted that Jeremy Lo (Bristowe 2014) and Josh Southern (Capel 2014), both at Imperial College London, came back for a visit. Another fabulous Film for the Foundation evening (see OR Event section) with a charity screening of Dirty Dancing this year. Huge thanks again to Charlotte Mocatta (Mullens 1988) for her commitment and passion.
NOVEMBER 2017
Great to see ORs Kirsten Blom (Mullens 2012), Matt Armstrong (Capel 2007), William Reynolds (Capel 2008) and Nick Gray (Blathwayt 1993) back at School for our FutureCareers Seminar on Business Management. Gareth Yoxall (Capel 1995) booked in a tour and lunch, and we were joined by legendary Paul Davies. Paul was able to hand back to Gareth one of his named history textbooks and coursework
exams – awesome!
Edward Ault (Mullens 2017) came in to catch up with the inspirational members
of our Music Department.
JANUARY 2018
Our first OR visitors for 2018: after seeing his brothers’ names in our ‘Lost ORs’ feature in the last edition of the Reeder, Stephen Want (Capel 1972) managed to gather Tim Want (Capel 1969) and Terence Want (Capel 1967), and make it back for a tour of the School
and lunch.
They may have only left three years ago, but Calum McDermott (Blathwayt 2015) and Callum Thomson (Capel 2015) were feeling a bit nostalgic and so phoned up to ask for a tour around the old place which we were delighted to do!
It was lovely to see Rose Crosby (Bristowe 2010) back at School for a visit with Tim Silk. Now a teacher herself, Rose was finding out more about the EPQ for her school in Horsham.
It was wonderful to see David, Anne and Delphi Jarrett back at School for the opening of our new Cricket Centre, named in his honour (see OR News & Events
section). FEBRUARY 2018
From architecture to retailing, we had it all covered at our FutureCareers Evening with so many ORs returning to their ‘alma mater’ to share their advice and expertise with our pupils!
Our huge thanks go to: Michael Peacock, Camilla Wormal, Claudia Adolphus, Raj Kanwal, Michael Loizias, Andrew Myers, Ian Deans, Marc Sage, Andrew Sage, Peter Wood, Guy Bracewell, Rupert Bryan, Matthew Macpherson, Robert Beaton, Jonty Oldreive, Mark Marijnen, James McManus, Marcus Baker, Portia Whiffin, Henry Forder, Ty Tyson, Jordan Cox, David Biu, Nick Richmond-Smith, Robert Pearson, Charles Broadbent and Sam Brandon.
Couldn’t have done it without you and, of course, our legendary Events Manager and fellow OR, Ed Whiffin!
Really grateful to professional golfer James Morrison (Mullens 2003) for spending a very ‘cool’ afternoon with our Reed’s School Golf Academy pupils yesterday; they picked up some great tips.
See James’ latest update in the OR
News & Events section.
Nick Lees (Blathwayt 2009) was en route to taking up a research post at Yale University and wanted to pop in to say hello as well as visit Emma Crook’s (Capel 2009) memorial tree. Pete Burrow (Blathwayt 2003) kindly accompanied Sharmaine to visit former master Richard Nicholson whom we found to be in good spirits, despite his ill health.
MARCH 2018
It was wonderful to welcome back ORs who left in the early 1960s for a tour and lunch with the Headmaster. Trevor Devon (Blathwayt 1962), Geoffrey Levy (Mullens 1964), Ian Chate (Bristowe 1962), Chris Hawkins (Blathwayt 1962), Nick Hawkins (Blathwayt 1965), John Hill (Bristowe 1962), Charles Hoseason (Blathwayt 1962), Trevor Jeanes (Mullens 1964), David Pafford (Capel 1965), Anthony Turnbull (Bristowe 1964) and Peter Verstage (Capel 1965).
It was wonderful to be joined by a few of our lovely lady ORs at the School’s annual Sports Dinner. Left to right: Josie Inverdale (Bristowe 2010), Lucy Pidgeon (Blathwayt 2013), special guest and British Winter Olympian, Amy Williams MBE, Laura Johnson (Mullens 2010), Sophie Thomas (Bristowe 2006) and Rosie Pidgeon (Blathwayt 2015). Michael Harrison (Mullens, class of 1980 but left in 1978) visited for the first time since leaving! Former Estates Bursar, John Tatham, just managed to fit in his tour of School before the snow arrived and it was delightful to see him back.
Even though it was on the spur of the moment, Rob Davis’s (Capel 2010) visit was a roaring success, meeting up with a whole host of his former teachers and
cricket coach, Medders!
Christopher Russenberger (Capel 2013) popped in to help fellow 2013 cohorts Fiona Roberts (Blathwayt 2013) and Alex Truelove (Blathwayt 2013) with the lighting for The Close production! Christopher is managing to juggle his army career with some acting, focusing on immersive theatre.
APRIL 2018
Great to see Henry Thorpe (Mullens 2015) back at School helping Medders, Simon Sweeney (Capel 2011) & Jenny Gluckman (Mullens 2015) with a busy coaching week in the new Jarrett Cricket Centre.
Our thanks to ORs Seyi Bamgbaiye (Bristowe 2016), Luke Wheeler (Capel 2016), Lucy Green (Bristowe 2016), Flossie Wilson-Gunn (Capel 2016) and Oliver Matthews (Capel 2016) for giving up their time to help tutor some great GCSE children from Oasis Academy in Coulsdon.
What better way to spend a drizzly Thursday afternoon than having tea and cake back at your old school! That’s what some of our 2017 leavers did, whilst collecting their copy of the 2017 Reedonian bumper edition. A short but sweet (and unexpected) visit from John Ng (Mullens 2013) all the way from Hong Kong.
Good to see Joe Griffiths (Blathwayt 2016) back but sad to see his great piece of artwork, that adorned the walls of our waiting room, go.
MAY 2018
Nick Gray (Blathwayt 1993) chose a rather lovely day to visit in the May sunshine, seeing the School looking at its best!
It was great that Theo Vukasinovic (Blathwayt 2014) found time to pop in to see his former tutor, Tracy Millington, in particular, but everyone else too, just before
signing for London Scottish RFC!
At the special Leavers’ Lunch, we were delighted to be joined by Harvey McMillan (Capel 2014) who gave a brilliant address that reinforced just how special the OR community is and how it has helped him.
Thanks to Louis Newman (Capel 2017) who kindly spent time coaching our current tennis scholars.
Good to see Toby Dabell (Capel 2016) who was en route to the airport to fly out to Georgia as part of the England Counties rugby squad. It’s never too soon to come back to visit after you’ve left and these lovely ORs prove it. We were delighted to see Alex Lillywhite (Blathwayt 2017) and Dave Diaper (Capel 2017).
Two of our wonderful 2016 hockey ladies, Georgina Hurford (Mullens 2016) and Meg Dowthwaite (Capel 2016), took advantage of being home from uni to pop in to say hello.
JUNE 2018
After his first year of uni, George Robbins (Mullens 2016) is already thinking about a teaching career and came in to pick up some tips. He also awarded colours to this year’s Mullens’ House Captains.
JULY 2018
Bill Colbran (Blathwayt 1971) with his partner made it all the way from California to visit, just missing Reunion Day!
What better than having an OR as guest speaker on Speech Day! We were incredibly grateful to Jeremy Ovenden (Bristowe 1989) for delivering a witty, reflective and emotional address which
the pupils loved!
