50+ Years Lunch – 12th May 2022

Twenty-seven of us OBs who had left School more than fifty years ago met at Berkhamsted Golf Club on 12th May for our regular get-together. There was much reminiscing at the bar and over a very good lunch, and we then all had a chance to relive our schooldays with an inspection of the House Books from the 50s and 60s which had been kindly lent to us by the School

Archivist, Lesley Koulouris. The membership of this informal group is slowly changing as the years roll by, and we now have a number of participants who left in the 1960s. School leaving dates for those attending this year range from 1945 to 1969 and the average is around 1958. Conversation is always lively and friendly and comparisons between the generations are always interesting. Photographs, expertly taken by Jonathan Culverhouse, are attached.

Those present were (in alphabetical order):

John Berry (Fr ’67), Giles Clark (Be ’72), Jonathan Culverhouse (Ad ’63), John Douglas (Sw ’69), Courtney Edenborough (Up ’45), Anthony Flack (Be ’58), John Fry (Sw ’56), Gilbert Grace (Sw ’52), Roger Hill (Be ’45), John Hilsden (Ad ’62), Mike Horton (Sw ’64), Peter Humphries (Ad ’51), Lance Kent (SJ ’57), Peter King (Co ’60), Michael Levitton (Sw ’56), John Linton (Ad ’57), Tony Lloyd (Ad ’53), Sam Mainds (Ad ’64), Paul Mainds (Ad ’68), John Prior (Ad ’57), John Rush (Sw ’59), Ivan Schatz (Ad ’57), Richard Smellie (In ’61), John Stevens (Ad ’53), Derek Whitehead (Ad ’49), Tony Wolstenholme (Be ’57), Chris Wynn (Co ’64)

Table One: Edenborough, Hill, Humphries, Paul Mainds, San Mainds, Wynne, Culverhouse

Table Two: Rush, Prior, Schatz, Smellie, Stevens, Whitehead, Levitton

Table Three: Berry, Clark, Grace, King, Lloyd, Douglas

Table Four: Flack, Fry, Hilsden, Horton, Kent, Linton, Wolstenholme

By the time this report is read in The Old Berkhamstedian it will be 2023, and any readers who left School in 1973 or earlier are invited to join us for 2023 events. If you are interested please contact me at jrhilsden@btinternet.com

John Hilsden (Ad ’62)