THE OLD SUTTONIAN
SPORT
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Squash Team Reunion by John McCormick (Staff 1964-2005)
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oon after the photo of the 1977/8 Squash team (below) appeared in the 2014 Old Suttonian Newsletter, I was mailed by Alan Reeve, Captain of the team, whom I had lost contact with many years ago and we exchanged several messages. When the ‘Middle-aged Spread’ reunion was announced for 28 November last year Alan discovered, that, on an extremely rare visit to the UK, he would be arriving at Heathrow that very morning and decided to head straight for Sutton Valence to attend. He contacted me suggesting we meet there. I had not otherwise intended to go, but having agreed, we then proposed that we try to persuade the other members of the team to come. The picture shows the Shaw brothers, Nick and Alistair, Richard Bedford and Alan, all of whom were Captains of Squash during that Golden Age of late Seventies/early Eighties, with me. I had met Nick and Alistair on several occasions over the intervening years, but I had not seen Richard or Alan since they left school and neither had visited Sutton Valence since then. This was a memorable, delightful reunion, filled with happy reminiscence and catching-up. Unfortunately, Shahid Adamjee (1978 L) , who lives in Pakistan, could not attend and attempts to trace Duncan Clark (1978 F) and Wade Kirkaldie (1979 C), both committed 1st V players of that era, were unsuccessful.
Banner Image: Alistair Shaw (1982 L), John McCormick (Staff 1964-2005), Nicholas Shaw (1979 L), Richard Bedford (1980 M) and Alan Reeve (1978 M) Left: Shahid Adamjee (1978 L), John McCormick (Staff 1964-2005), Alistair Shaw (1982 L), Abdelfattah Abou Taleb, Nicholas Shaw (1979 L), Richard Bedford (1980 M) and Alan Reeve (1978 M)