TOM Edition 43

The Old Mancunian

March 2014 EDITION 43

Keeping old boys in touch with MGS throughout the world

• 2015 – Save the Date • Old Boys’ Dinner Speeches • MGS and the Great War • Forthcoming Events

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– Save the Date The School’s 500th anniversary year will run from January to December 2015. Tickets will be available for the events below via mgsglobal.org from September 2014.

Friday 13 March: Biennial London Music Concert at the Royal Overseas League, London

Friday 22 May: MGS v MCC followed by MGS Cricket Dinner

Thursday 26 March: the Easter Concert at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

Sunday 12 July: Annual Hugh Oldham Commemorative Service at Exeter Cathedral

Friday 27 March: Annual Phil Wade OM Rugby Match and Rugby Club Dinner

Thursday 17 September: Annual London & South East Dinner in the Great Hall at Lincoln’s Inn

Thursday 16 April: Premiere of Tariq O’Regan’s MGS 2015 commissioned piece ‘Celestial Map of the Sky’, performed by the Hallé Orchestra and conducted by Sir Mark Elder at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Friday 16 October: Founders’ Day Services at Manchester Cathedral

Friday 17 April: Annual Stuart Dale Football Matches and Football Club Dinner

Saturday 21 November: Old Boys’ Dinner at ‘The Point’, Lancashire County Cricket Ground

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Friday 20 November: Old Mancunians teach at MGS day

Thursday 10 December: Carol Concert at Holy Trinity Platt, Rusholme

Old Mancunians are welcome to attend a series of academic lectures that will take place throughout the year, as well as Open Days at the School and to visit school camps.

There will be the opportunity for Old Mancunians to join in legs of the 2015 treks.

It is also hoped that many OMs will join the final leg of the Route March from the Manchester Cathedral to Exeter Cathedral on Sunday 12 July.

Welcome to this issue of TOM! Preparations are now well under way for the different ways in which we will mark the 500th Anniversary of the School.

There is a strong desire both on the part of the School and the OMA that as many as possible have the opportunity to share in these celebrations.

So we are looking for your help in locating as many Old Boys as possible and undertaking a major update of our database.

A list of Lost Owls can be found at mgsglobal.org I hope you might take a little time to scour your own address books and contact lists and send the relevant details, with the person’s consent, to Laura Rooney at school. l.l.rooney@mgs.org David Walton 67-74 & Chairman of the OMA

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From the Archive MGS and the Great War As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, interest has been renewed in the MGS memorial boards, and in records stored in the school archives relating to the role of Old Mancunians in the Great War. Statistical research was recently undertaken in the archive to ascertain the number of Old Mancunians serving in WWI and the statistics are reproduced below: Number of Old Mancunians who served in WWI – 3506 Number of Old Mancunians killed serving in WWI – 534 Number of MGS staff who served in WWI – 53 Number of MGS staff killed serving in WWI – 9 Number of decorations awarded to Old Mancunians – 119 The statistics were gathered using contemporary editions of Ulula and the biographical registers – both list service records and names of the fallen. We are almost certain that these statistics are

incomplete. Ulula reported details of service and deaths as and when information became available to the editors at the time. The biographical registers were compiled by contacting Old Mancunians individually and were reliant on the return of complete and accurate forms. Many OMs were not even contactable, having changed address since leaving school – no Development Office back then! Such individuals are listed in the biographical registers with no information alongside and yet many of these individuals were of an age to be eligible for active service. It would therefore seem likely that many of these “no return” individuals would have engaged in active service of some sort, which would increase the totals.

Further, names of the fallen are listed in the editions of Ulula from the 1914 – 1918 period and yet a small but significant number of these individuals are not listed in the biographical register or on the memorial boards.

These individuals have now

been added to the memorial boards, and are included in the statistics above. More unusually, we discovered recently that two of the names on the boards were included in error. The niece of one individual contacted the school to inform us that her uncle survived the war and went on to have two sons and eight grandchildren before his death in 1958.

Another point to note is that the number of serving individuals does not include OMs who were involved in non-combative war work, such as Ambulance Units, fire watching and air-raid wardening.

Despite the incompleteness of the records, the number of serving Old Mancunians and individuals who subsequently fell seems fairly consistent with numbers reported by other schools, with a tragic attrition rate of c. 15% - 20% fairly standard across public schools. The raw statistics only give us a partial and sometimes inaccurate picture of the school’s involvement in WWI. However, they still shed some light on the sacrifice

and service of a generation – the picture repeated in most schools and other organisations across the UK – and serve to place the school into a wider national and international context.

Rachel Kneale, School Archivist

Top: Extract from the MGS Memorial Board Below top: The British War Medal, the 1914-15 Star and the Victory Medal Bottom: The Memorial Plaque ‘Death Penny‘

Top: ‘The new technology‘ in 1982. Photo taken

by A. E. McDonald

Events

Bottom: Book cover, Wilfrid Owen, A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd

1980s and 90s Double Decade Reunion – Saturday 10 May If you have never played football in the Sports Hall, if you helped to feed the world with Bob Geldof whilst playing with a Rubik’s cube or read Harry Potter before the film then you must be from the 1980s and 90s generation.

Dominic Hibberd Memorial Event Old Mancunians played a major part in the memorial event to Dominic Hibberd (former MGS teacher 65-70 and Vice President of the Wilfred Owen Association) held in Oxford at the Association’s autumn AGM.

The North Manchester School 1905 – 40 The North Manchester Association which is one of the oldest groups of OMs who regularly meet will hold their Annual Reunion lunch on Tuesday 21 October at Cheetham Hill Cricket Club, Manchester.

If you are and would like a trip down memory lane then why not give the forthcoming Reunion Dinner a try this year. The day promises to be a nostalgic look back at your time at MGS but with the opportunity to see how the school continues to evolve. The new High Master, Dr Martin Boulton, will be pleased to welcome you to school as we prepare for our quincentenary in 2015. Formal invitations have been sent out and you should have received yours by now but if not please contact Jane Graham at school.

For fur ther details please contact Nor man Davies on 0161 740 7654

Poems by Owen and Harold Monro were read by Geoff Fox (OM and ex-staff), Philip Bartle and Graham Holliday (OMs); and an interview between Dominic and critic Michael Benton (ex-staff) about the writing of Owen’s biography was re-enacted. Dominic’s partner, Tom Coulthard (OM) thanked all of them for arranging the event, in which Dominic’s friend Anne Harvey also took part. Ian Thorpe attended to represent MGS.

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SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2013

Old Boys’ 209th Dinner Senior Steward: Dr Martin Stephen Junior Steward: Steven Whitehead Recorder: Paul Rose

Dr Martin Stephen High Master 94-04

Steven Whitehead 91-98

(extract) “And I tell you tonight with every shred of sincerity I can muster I have never in all that time seen anywhere to match The Manchester Grammar School. It is the best school in the world.

It is unique and extraordinarily special and I have to say that I shall count this as one of the greatest honours anybody has done me to come back and speak to you here tonight.”

(extract) “MGS boys, what are we? We are probably almost every man in the pub.

We can dip on a wealth of experience and personas from the melting pot of the catchment, every race, every religion, genuine wealth, genuine poverty. Probably borne out by the fact that some of the boys in 1B, Mr Burin’s class, some of them had a real TAG watch, some of us bought one for £20 from the ice cream van, a fake, (laughter) and the rest of us could never afford 20 quid.”

Dr Martin Boulton 84-86 & Current High Master

Bottom right: From L to R; The Recorder; Paul Rose, The Junior Steward; Steven Whitehead, The Senior Steward; Dr Martin Stephen, The High Master; Dr Martin Boulton

(extract) “It would be wrong to say that I want to return the School to the way it was in the 1980s. It would not be possible even if it were desirable and flared trousers were never very attractive. But what I do want to do is ensure that the eighteen year olds leaving MGS have hopefully come across a teacher in their time here who, probably unknowingly, will change their life.”

The full version of the speeches can be read at mgsglobal.org If you would like a printed copy please contact Julie Wright in the Development Office.

© Sefton Samuels 42-47

Below: The Mike Atherton Sports hall in the process of demolition

old mancunians’ stories are always about the staff that influenced them, the teacher who, probably unknowingly, changed the course of their life

From the High Master Mantras for Education One of the mantras I have often used when writing about education is that good schools are not about the buildings, they are about their ethos and the people who have passed through their doors.

My view was put to the test in a very stark way last month as hurricane force winds hit Manchester. I watched in despair as the roof of the sports hall was blown away like a scene from a disaster movie. The ease with which the wind tore off the aluminium roofing and then the wooden frame was frightening. The scene of devastation we arrived to the following morning made my heart sink, but things could have been so much worse, the storm hit during the hiatus between our boys finishing in the sports hall and a local cricket club arriving to start their nets. This was perhaps the only point in the day where the building was completely deserted, and whilst the damage to the structure was severe, miraculously nobody was injured.

Dr Martin Boulton 84-86 High Master

The following day when walking round the site with a structural engineer it became clear that the building had suffered more than just damage to the roof. The back wall of the wooden structure had detached from the other walls and its integrity had been severely compromised. The building has been cordoned off and will need to be demolished. It is at times like these that a community comes together and this time was no exception. The School’s porters and grounds staff immediately got to work clearing the site, messages of support and offers of help flooded in.

And so I come back to my mantra. The building housed our cricket nets, but it is Mark Chilton, David Moss and the other cricket staff who make the difference to a boy’s batting. When I think back to my own time at MGS what is it I remember – the teachers who influenced me, Neil Sheldon who introduced me to Ford Madox Ford, Adrian Dobson who taught me folk songs, Ray Davies who took me on my first climbing trip and the large group of staff who whisked me away to the Alps each summer.

When I talk to Old Mancunians the stories they tell are always about the staff that influenced them, the teacher who, probably unknowingly, changed the course of their life.

In an age when independent schools have entered an arms race to build ever more impressive facilities, when the key selling point of a new academy is whether or not it has won an architectural prize, we should ask one question – is it the buildings or the people that matter? We will in the course of the next twelve months rebuild the sports hall, but my main priority will still be to ensure that we recruit the very best staff and then equip and encourage them to inspire the next generation of Old Mancunians.

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The School Today For more stories like these visit mgs.org

James selected for Greater Manchester Team

Oxbridge Success

Junior School pupil James Smart has been selected to run for the U11 Greater Manchester Athletics team at the Sportshall FIA Regional finals.

These include eight offers for Medicine and Human Sciences, four places on language courses as well as offers for Philosophy, History, Chemistry, Engineering and English.

His passion for running started when he won the 600m title at a Northern Schools Championship, and selection for the U11s comes after successfully competing as part of his local team, Oldham and Royton Harriers.

MGS Sixth Formers have secured coveted Oxbridge places.

Dean makes an historic discovery

Google Glass: Fast Forward to the Future Year 8 student Olly Sharp has begun work on a hands free app that will help students of the future; a web-based version of which he hopes to have completed in eighteen months’ time.

His skills mean that he’s also tailoring his app for use on the forthcoming Google Glass system, being one of a select few in the UK to have access to the wearable computer.

Dean Whaley in the Lower School has unearthed a letter from King George V, which has been lurking in the School archives for more than 100 years.

Dean found the letter in an unassuming historical volume on the MGS archive bookshelves. The Royal Archives at Windsor have confirmed that the ’thank you’ letter was penned by George at the age of thirteen.

Ross raises £6K for The Christie Sixth Former Ross Hook has been recognised by The Christie at a charity dinner following a year-long effort that has seen him raise more than £6,000 for the charity.

Ross was so impressed with the facilities after experiencing them for himself when his father received treatment there for two years that he decided to start raising money for the centre.

Top: Oxbridge-bound Far left: James Smart Middle: Joanna Badrock and Dean Whaley Above: Olly Sharp Ross Hook

Top: The Chess Section celebrate victory

OM Sections London & South East The High Master, Dr Martin Boulton, made his debut at the Annual Supper at the Cheshire Cheese in November and Ian Thorpe joined old boys for a pub evening at Leadenhall Market later the same month. Both events were well attended and marked the beginning of closer ties between the Development Office and the London and South East Section.

The High Master will be speaking more formally at the Annual Dinner which will be held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Thursday 24 April. He will be joined by Daniel Rosenfield, who was the former Private Secretary in the Treasury. Tickets for the event are now on sale at mgsglobal.org The annual golf tournament for the ‘Owl Trophy’ will take place on Tuesday 24 June at Woking Golf Club.

Contact Mike Richardson audreymiker@hotmail.com or 01483 76146 for more information.

Chairman, Lee Gabbie lee.gabbie@bracherrawlins. co.uk , hands over the reins to Jimmy Campbell from September.

Midlands At the Annual Lunch we were delighted to welcome Dr Boulton, who as an OM himself, communicated his

background and beliefs with an invigorating empathy after lunch. James Wills provided us with an equally enjoyable insight into the mind of the modern student.

The AGM agreed on fundamental changes to the Section. The Committee has been disbanded and replaced by a ‘contact group’, currently of three ‘willing members’ without formal status. They will be responsible for the regular reports to TOM and Ulula, and for identifying locations for the Section’s annual events. Administration, and communications with OMs in the region, now rest with the Development Office.

The willing three, who are available for a chat, are John Wilson 0121 475 3700, Michael Kennedy 0121 605 4048 and Chris Diggines 01527 458730.

South West Our autumn social event, on Saturday 19 October 2013, took us to Buckfastleigh, where we enjoyed a steamhauled trip on the South Devon Railway, along the Dart valley to Totnes. Lunch at Riverford Organics Field Kitchen provided generous portions of imaginatively presented, locally sourced food for our group of OMs and their guests.

The South West Section is now finalising plans for the 48th Commemoration Service in Exeter Cathedral, held annually in pious

memory of Hugh Oldham.

The service will be on Sunday 22 June, followed by lunch at the Mercure Southgate Hotel.

All OMs and their partners and guests are very welcome to join us on these occasions.

Please contact Paul Gelling, for more details tel. 01291 626951 or email p.gelling@ btinternet.com

Chess Section Thursday 3 April from 3:00 pm at the School is now set as the date for the 25th Old Mancunians chess encounter with the current School team.

The date is exactly 30 years since the first in the current series. The School won the 1984 match 4-2 and the 2013 match 4½-3½, but the OMs have enjoyed a good measure of success in between.

In the “noughties” the format of the event varied to allow OMs of different eras to compete against each other as well as against the School team. That decade saw the emergence of the “Older Mancs” (1980-89 starters at MGS) and “Oldest Mancs” (pre-1980 starters) teams, with the tag “Old Mancs” reserved for post-1989 starters. This was in the spirit of the original events in the 1980s, which pitted recent leavers against their former team-mates.

Now that there are a fair number of OMs who joined MGS in 2000 or later, we have thought about starting

another series of team names, perhaps Antique, Ancient, and Antediluvian Mancs. Whatever we decide to call the teams, however, (and we have stuck to OMs with a reference to their decade at the School for engraving on the base of the Clements Cup) we would like to keep one that has players who have been team-mates with the School players. So we are particularly keen for OMs who left MGS in the last three or four years to join us on 3 April.

Whatever time you were at MGS, though, if you would like to be part of this event, please drop me a line on peter@thea.ltd.uk Peter Webster.

OM 20/30 Club If you live in the north-west of England, or visit the area, please consider coming to one (or more) of our lunch meetings usually held on the 3rd Friday of the month at the Freemasons Hall, Bridge Street, Manchester at 12:30 for 1:00 pm.

Other dates: Wednesday 23 April: MGS Supper evening with Guests, at 6:30 pm.

Friday 6 June: Lunch at MGS. Friday 17 October: Ladies Luncheon at Stanneylands, Wilmslow.

Contact me if you would like more information.

Alex Wells, 01298 812886.

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Owl drop ins Once more, the biscuit barrel has been in for some serious action as the Development Office has entertained a host of Old Mancunians over the last few months, some coming just to catch up on old times and others to share their wisdom.

David Hibbitt 55-62, one of our pre-eminent Old Mancunian engineers, delivered a series of lectures to the boys about his career in the US.

lines, hopping from trench to trench avoiding the military police and sending his reports back to London via soldiers returning home.

Harry Stopes and Jack Levy 97-04 came in during November. Harry delivered a talk to the Senior History Society summarising his PHD

Likewise Adrian Bull 73-80 returned “talking, not listening, this time round” about the Nuclear Energy Industry.

P upil Ja m com mented es Moran “Dr Hibbi us to contt ch allenged the most sider m athem ati difficult and we le cal problems Lecture T ft the deter mine heatre do so.” d to research during his visit. Jack is now a documentary filmmaker who is hoping to produce a short film about Basil Clarke, OM 44-50. Clarke was a reporter for the Daily Mail who made for Europe in 1914, disobeying a law insisting that all reports came through the Press Bureau where they could be edited and censored, before being distributed to the public. He lived as an outlaw on the front

Barry Hobson and Andrew Brown 48-54 came in together and joined us for a tour both commenting on what great memories it brought back and how well they were looked after.

Simon Jacobs 65-72 found his memories “good and otherwise”!

Stewart Peet 46-51 remarked on the warm welcome he received from Simon Jones and Mark Chilton and also the fact that it was over sixty years since he had attended MGS. Luckily he didn’t comment that we might have got round to repainting in the intervening years.

As ever we welcome you to come and join us, whether for a tour or to contribute to daily life and learning in school. Please contact Jane Graham to make arrangements, though perhaps you shouldn’t all leave it as long as John Odell 58-64, “First time back in 49 years”.

We really do appreciate Old Mancunians offering time to share either academic or work life knowledge with the boys, either in school or through any exposure to work experience or job shadowing. Please contact Simon Jones at s.jones@mgs.org if you could assist us with this further.

© Paul Wolfgang Webster

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Pub Evening in Manchester Though we are not yet in the realms of creating a Northern Old Mancunian Section, during October we hosted a second successful event at The Albert Square Chop House, bringing together over 100 former pupils of MGS and MHSG, for drinks and the chance to catch up.

This time we were able to welcome the new High Master Dr Martin Boulton to the evening, a great opportunity for both him and Old Mancunians to get to know each other.

Former school band, Barnabus Rex, offered a backdrop to the evening, performing hot on the heels to their recent American tour. For those who enjoyed them, look no further than SoundCloud.

Those of you signed up to MGS Global should have been made aware by email that, amongst other events, a further Manchester Pub Evening is planned for Wednesday 18 June at the same venue. It is a casual event so please feel free to just drop in from 6:00 pm onwards. For those of you not signed up to MGS Global, this is where you can find us – mgsglobal.org John Whitfield 76 – 83 johnny.whit@hotmail.com

Left: Barnabus Rex from L to R: Ethan James, Andrew Goddard and Joe Ward 03-10, Billy Ward 06-13, Dan Mizrahi 06-11

OM Letters When August Suns are Shining Paul Thompson – Staff since 1989 It has been very interesting to read letters and emails about MGS’s school songs. When I was invited to write an updated version of ‘the School song’, I was apprehensive for two reasons.

Firstly, school songs command affection and loyalty: would I be committing hubris? Secondly, MGS has at least two school songs: ‘Hugh of the Owl’ and ‘When August Suns are Shining’. Which should I choose? The fact that both songs are now, sadly, relatively unfamiliar reduced somewhat my anxiety.

You can watch the recorded performance of the song from Speech Day at mgsglobal.org

I chose ‘When August Suns are Shining’ and realised that its alternate title (‘The Holiday Song’) is very apt: it depicts the lonely MGS owl pining in August, whilst boys are on holiday in such exotic spots as Blackpool, Snowdon and the Isle of Man. How times have changed! Rather than update the holiday destinations I chose to change the focus to celebrate MGS life today. Some of the references will be familiar to OMs (e.g. Sivori’s), others will not (e.g. Proctors).

I wrote a new melody, which our Director of Music, Robert Carey, gave some professional polish: new and old meet in his arrangement, as references to the old melody are incorporated into the accompaniment.

The new ‘When August Suns are Shining’ was sung twice last July: at Speech Day, and at an evening where

Year 7 boys sang to Year 6 boys joining MGS (very apt, given the new words).

The reception was positive, but it remains to be seen whether this song has life beyond these two events.

I cannot claim to have written ‘the School song’ (hubris indeed!), but I have enjoyed the task, and have learned a little about school songs in the process.

When August suns are shining Or August raindrops fall, The owl is standing, lonely, Upon the old school wall.

No laughter and no voices Are there to warm his heart.

He’s longing for September And for the year to start.

Chorus (After each verse) Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Hurrah for the wise old owl!

Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Hurrah for the wise old owl!

Hurrah for the wise old owl!

The corridors are filling, The classrooms buzz once more, The energy and chatter Pour out of ev’ry door.

The butty bar is bulging With pizza that’s divine; And for Sivori’s ice-cream We queue, come rain or shine.

The Proctors always help us, And share their wise advice: They have us tuck our shirts in And tidy up our ties.

With all the clubs on offer The lunchtimes fairly fly, And then comes Friday football: The time to do or die!

Whatever sports we play in The fields, the pool, the gym, We are Hugh Oldham’s boys, so We’ll do our best for him.

In camping and in trekking The Paton dream lives on; Community in action: By serving all grow strong.

In all we do in lessons, Wherever we perform, We’ll prove what we can do when Our best becomes our norm.

And so ‘sapere aude’, A challenge to us all: To dare to be as wise as The owl who watches all.

Bob Heys 40-46 writes: The playing fields of MGS have been the scene of many epic recorded conflicts; this is one hitherto unreported encounter.

It concerns possibly the last clash with swords to occur in England – I refer to the confrontation between myself and my great friend and class-mate Frank Parrot for the hand of a young lady attending a girl’s school in Prestwich, now Frank’s home. The meeting in 1944 proved inconclusive due to the intervention of the bell announcing afternoon classes. It had attracted considerable attention however and news of the incident reached Mr Sutton, then school porter, who to our great concern (as they were genuine antiques belonging to Frank’s father who was unaware of them having been ‘borrowed’), confiscated the weapons.

It took much pleading to secure their release and the young lady remained in ignorance of our feelings for her!

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Dare to be Wise Ian Thorpe 62-69 Development Adviser & current editor of the OM Letters page Martin Allinson’s suggestion that it was time for MGS to abandon Sapere Aude as its motto produced an unprecedented number of responses from readers of TOM. Thank you all for taking the trouble to respond. Particular thanks to John Reddish and others who documented the many and varied organisations and individuals linked to this motto.

Martin has only one declared and unconditional supporter: Neil Snowise.

Derek Murphy started from Martin’s position but has moved on: ‘Like Martin, as a lad I was never inspired by ‘sapere aude’ but, having met many, many

people who take the easy way out – let someone else do the thinking, don’t make a wave, keep your head down or you’ll find yourself carrying the can, and so on – I have come to realise the real meaning of the motto and should not like to see it changed. Yessir, dare to be wise!

regardless of his background, and I would like to hope that this tradition dating back almost five hundred years will continue into the next. What better way is there to join all these generations together than a common motto in a language which has endured the passing of time?’

Most correspondents supported the sense of continuity created by the motto as well as liking its sense. Perhaps this was best expressed by Holly Eckhart, our current Head of Classics: ‘Aside from the obliteration of the audible pun in aude and the owls of Hugh Oldham’s crest and the pronunciation of his family name, my main objection reaches far beyond getting lost in translation. When a boy steps through the doors of this school, he becomes an MGS boy

Colin Jevons 68-75: I enjoyed Adrian Dobson’s discussion of the apostrophe in ‘Owl’s Nest’ (Ed. 42).

Since alumni are known as “sons of the Owl”, and no group of individuals ever nest for long at the Disley site, the nest is surely that of the generic Owl of whom all alumni are sons. Therefore, the nest is of a singular, legendary, representative Owl and so should be referred to as the Owl’s Nest, not the Owls’ Nest.

In memoriam Since the last TOM we have been advised of the recent deaths of the following OMs: We would welcome offers to supply brief obituaries or memories for Ulula.

Norman Bailey 63-71 Michael J Barber 49-56 & 63-67* Keith P Bentley 52-58 John R Billington 41-47 James R Broadhurst 42-47 Eric B Brogan 32-37 Roger H Buckley 49-55 James M Buie 39-46 Michael S Burgoyne 54-61 Edward Cattan 26-28 John B Chadwick 32-37 Paul H Clark 61-68 John G Clarke 38-43 G Angus Coutie 40-47 Frank A Crompton 57-64 Neville B Cryer 35-42

John K Darbyshire 40-45 Kenneth J Davison 41-48 Fred Dearnaly 40-44 Eric H Dodson 34-38 Frederick R Estcourt 32-37 David Evans 48-55 Julian Flacks 40-44 Albert E Fletcher 31-34 Michael Hall 37-44 Philip Hellawell 55-62 Arthur M Hinsley 46-53 J Douglas Hudson 30-32 Kenneth A Hunt 55-62 David A Jackson 51-57 Robert A Jones 67-74 John Kemp 31-34 Peter R Langford 38-44 Michael F Lees 57-64 Charles D Lloyd 33-37 John S Marr 89-96 Geoffrey D Marshall 50-57 Christopher B Marsland 53-60

Phillip G Mason 72-79 Keith G Mather 33-41 John McCulloch 32-39 James W McDonald 38-44 Robert B Mycock 39-45 Colin W Murray 37-44 Kamran Pattoo 93-00 David K Powell 42-49 David Riley 66-73 Sidney S Rose 29-35 Geoffrey H Sansome 40-48 Derek Sowter 43-50 Roy Statham 45-51 Eric V Stevens 30-34 John D Turner 39-45 John E Twinn 38-39 Barry H Watson 44-46 Daniel L Williams 82-89 Donald A Wilson 44-51 John C Wilson 53-60 Staff Michael J Barber 63-67*

Events

Music events 2 April Easter Concert, Memorial Hall, 6:30 pm.

30th Anniversary Chess Match. Thursday 3 April please contact Peter Webster at peter@thea.ltd.uk

24 April Guitar Concert, The Theatre, 6:30 pm.

Philip Wade Memorial Rugby Match & Dinner.

Friday 4 April, kick off time 2:30 pm. Please contact Giles Heagerty at g.heagerty@mgs.org

Drama events

Annual London & South East Dinner. Thursday 24 April at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. For further details and to book your place go to mgsglobal.org Stuart Dale Memorial Football Match. Friday 2 May if you are interested in playing or supporting contact Mike Strother at m.strother@mgs.org 1980s and 90s Double Decade Reunion. Saturday 10 May for further details contact Jane Graham at j.graham@mgs.org

30 April Summer Concert, Memorial Hall, 6:30 pm.

27, 28 & 29 March The Last Laugh by Daniel Dockery.

The Theatre, 7:00 pm.

1 May Star Crossed an evening of Shakespearean Magic. A Junior School production. Drama Studio 1.

6:00 pm.

9, 10, 11, 12 & 16,19 June Shakespeare festival. Drama Studio 1. 6:00 pm.

Dates and times of events are subject to change.

For confirmation and ticket reservations please see mgs.org

Manchester Pub Evening.

Wednesday 18 June at The Albert Square Chop House from 6:00 pm for further details contact Simon Jones at s.jones@mgs.org Hugh Oldham Commemoration Service in Exeter Cathedral and lunch. Sunday 22 June for further details contact Paul Gelling at p.gelling@ btinternet.com Golf Day at Woking Golf Club. Tuesday 24 June tee off time 1:00 pm for further details please contact Michael Richardson at audreymiker@hotmail. co.uk Annual Old Boys’ Dinner.

Saturday 22 November at MGS please contact Paul Rose at paulrose6395@ gmail.com Details of all OM events can be found at mgsglobal.org

Gift Aid

Get in touch ...

We are grateful to the significant number of Old Boys who donate regularly to the Bursary Fund. We are obliged to remind you that Gift Aid regulations require you to let us know if you no longer pay sufficient tax on income and/or capital gains.

Please notify any changes to the Development Office.

Correspondence to Julie Wright at MGS, Old Hall Lane, Manchester, M13 0XT or 0161 224 7201.

OM publications Sefton Samuels, 42-47, text & his own photography, Jazz Legends: Up Close, www.blurb.co.uk John Withington, 58-65, Flood: Nature and Culture, published

by Reaktion Books.

L to R: Jane Graham, ext 243, j.graham@mgs.org Julie Wright, ext 241, j.wright@mgs.org Laura Rooney, ext 571, l.l.rooney@mgs.org

David Pearson, 60-67, The 20 Ps of Marketing, www.koganpage.com/20Ps

Where is Hugh going?

Noteworthy Old Mancunian Ties Old Mancunian silk ties are available at the cost of £20 in the UK or £22 overseas including p&p.

Find out in our next edition.

L to R: Simon Jones 88-95, Director of Development, ext 240, s.jones@mgs.org Ian Thorpe 62-69 Development Adviser, ext 570, i.thorpe@mgs.org

Please contact Julie Wright.

Amazon.co.uk Many of us are regular shoppers on the internet, and by accessing the Amazon.co.uk website through the icon link on the School’s own website (mgs.org ) up to 10% of the value of any purchase made is automatically given for the direct benefit of the Bursary Fund.

Rachel Kneale School Archivist, ext 361, r.a.kneale@mgs.org