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Dulwich College 400
The Master recently convened a committee to oversee the College’s plans to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its foundation in 1619. The overall plan is for the College to mark a number of significant anniversaries over the period 2014 to 2021, including: the centenary of the start of the Great War (in which 508 Alleynians and four members of staff fell) and of the Shackleton Antarctic expedition involving the James Caird rescue; the 150th anniversary of the Barry Buildings (1866-70); the 400th anniversary of the consecration of the Chapel (1616), the foundation of the College (1619) and the first recorded play at the College (1621). The committee is looking at a number of ways in which we can commemorate these events, including exhibitions (actual and online), concerts, sporting events and plays. The theme of Founder’s Day in 2014, falling on 28 June, the very day of Franz Ferdinand’s visit to Sarajevo, will be ‘the spirit of 1914’. We are also starting to develop an oral history project about the College and are looking for OAs who might like to get involved. Please contact the College Archivist, Calista Lucy (lucycm @ dulwich.org.uk), if you would like to be interviewed, and suggest a topic as this will help with our planning. For example, we are keen to meet anyone involved with the painting of the hammer and sickle on the side of the North Block in the 1960s! More details will follow, but if you have any ideas or views about these commemorations, please email Dr Nick Black on blacknd @ dulwich.org.uk.
Dr N D Black Head of Middle School and Chair of the Dulwich College 400 Committee
In May 2013, Colin Barrow CBE (63-70) visited the College to address an audience of Upper School pupils on careers in finance and politics, drawing on his experience as a banker in the City and on Wall Street, and subsequent career in politics with Westminster Council. Philip Battley (87-92) appeared as Maurice in Bill Kenwright’s production of Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels . The show, which also starred Jenny Seagrove and Sara Crowe, opened in August at the Theatre Royal Windsor, subsequently went on tour throughout the southwest and southeast of England. For more on Philip’s work, visit www.philipbattley.com. Kit Bennett (95-02) coached the USA women’s sculling group at the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships. Among the results, the USA quad won a silver medal and the double finished 13th. Giles Block (53-60), ‘Master of the Words’ at Shakespeare’s Globe, published Speaking the Speech: An Actor’s Guide to Shakespeare (Nick Hern Books) in May, in which he addresses why Shakespeare wrote in the way that he did, and how both actors and directors can get the most out of their performances of Shakespeare’s works.
The following pages contain a roundup of news from Old Alleynians received in 2013. Many OA news stories are also carried on the College’s website throughout the year. If you would like to share your own news with the OA community then please contact us via alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk. Shahab Ahmad (94-99) married Deborah Marchant at the College on Saturday 8 June 2013, with the service taking place in the Old Library. Professor Ewan Anderson (49-56) will be exhibiting some 30 of his botanical drawings, including the 12 heritage trees he was commissioned to draw for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, in Durham Cathedral between 5 and 26 May 2014. Lionel Barber (66-73), Editor of The Financial Times , returned to the College in October 2013 to address the Sixth Form and distribute prizes for academic and co- curricular achievements in 2012-13. In the same month, he generously hosted the first meeting of the OAs in The City professional interest group at the Southwark Bridge offices of The Financial Times (see page 49 for details). Billy Barron (05-10), who is studying at the University of Pennsylvania, is fly-half and co-captain of the university rugby team.
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