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Edition 14 - Autumn 2020
Obituaries
Graeme Preedy (Director of Art and Aesthetics at RHS) It was with great sadness that we heard in early September that Mr Graeme Preedy had died. He had been unwell for a short time; his death was not Covid related. Graeme had worked at Royal High School for twenty years and was a hugely popular and inspirational Head of Department as well as a much loved Sixth Form Tutor. There are so many students and staff who will remember him with fondness, and particularly those who kept in touch with the Art Department and attended the annual Art Shows each EHT summer. A small private funeral was held in late September at Haycombe Crematrium and a memorial for Graeme is planned for a later date.
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Catch up Corner
Susan Paterson (née May, BH 1957)
Charlotte Laurent (RHS 2018)
I still live with my husband Neil in Leicestershire where we have been in the same house for 47 years. Though long retired we are still active, travel widely and spend a lot of time gardening. We have 4 children and 8 grandchildren and last year we celebrated our Golden Wedding. I look back with gratitude and pleasure to my days at Bath High School. I have always regarded Miss Blackburn as a very fine woman. One of her legacies for which I have always been grateful is the sense that nothing was closed to me because I was a woman.
I’m just about to enter my final year of Biochemistry at Imperial College London and have been doing a remote summer internship at UCL looking at the mechanisms of gene expression during neuronal development in mice! I am applying for Masters degrees in Biochemistry and/or structural biology fields at Imperial and UCL and hope to do a PhD thereafter. I really miss Royal High and I still think of all my teachers often!
Anastasia Zakharova (RHS 2018)
Chloe Pinder (RHS 2015)
I am currently in my final year of a Law degree at the University of Leeds. I intend to start my postgraduate degree with a Corporate Law specialism in September 2021 and am hopeful about securing a training contract with an international city law firm this summer. This October I co-founded an online platform – Sustainability Speaks (sustainabilityspeaks.co.uk) – and in the space of 6-weeks we have grown to a team of eight content creators! On this platform we aim to spread awareness about sustainability through collaborations with university societies, other universities such as UCL and local SMEs.
I have been studying for an MSc in Human Nutrition since last September, up in Sheffield, which has been fantastic. This coming September I’m due to start on a placement/internship with the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association, who are based at the University of Bath - so I’ll be back down South then. I’m just working towards building my professional portfolio in order to apply for full registration as a nutritionist, hopefully specialising in the sports side THE of things as soon as possible.
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