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Going Stateside OPs across the pond We are lucky that The Perse is a truly global community, and earlier this year we enjoyed catching up with some of more than 200 OPs and friends of the School who live in North America. Here four OPs tell their story of how life after The Perse took them across the pond.
Hugh Davies (1966) My family left Oxford in January of 1956 and emigrated to America. My dad was part of the so-called “brain drain” to the Department of Religion at Princeton University in New Jersey. Four years later almost to the day we travelled back to England for my father’s first six month sabbatical which he elected to spend in Cambridge. I was placed in the Perse Prep School and vividly remember being introduced to the Headmaster, Mr Lindeman, on the first day.
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