INTERLINKING IN INTERLAKEN

Tim Hinton (OW 1965) has been keeping himself busy since retiring in 2007. He has learned to play the saxophone, joining not one, but three bands; attends ballroom dances weekly with his wife; and has travelled the world via cruise ship, with a world trip in 2009 and almost bi-annual trips since.

Tim has been in contact recently with a touching anecdote of how a school trip changed his life:

"Around Easter of 1962, I embarked on the School trip abroad. All travel was by train, first to Southampton where we got a ferry to Le Havre and subsequently moved on to Paris. After this, we went to Venice for four days and then on to Interlaken, Switzerland, for another four days. The trip was led by Mr Noel, accompanied by his wife, and Mr Anderson.

Whilst in Interlaken, we embarked on a trip up to the Jungfraujoch, the highest railway station in Europe, where we met a group of girls from Doncaster. We got talking and met up again in Interlaken later on that day. We agreed to correspond once we got home and I ended up writing to Gillian.

Fast forward to 1965 when Gillian started at a teacher training college in Walsall. As they say, the rest is history! We married in 1971 and are celebrating our Golden Anniversary this year. So yes, without WGS my life would have been totally different."

AARON’S OUR CUP OF TEE

Congratulations are in order for Aaron Rai (OW 2013), by now a familiar face in Wulfrunian, for finishing joint 19th in this year’s Open Championship, alongside the likes of Sergio Garcia and Brandt Snedeker. He was the second-highest placed English player in the tournament and finished ahead of well-known golfing greats such as; Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Bryson DeChambeau.