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stories relating to war, adventure, insolvency or drama in the City of London. Before taking up writing, James’s first career was in law. A partner in commercial law firm Norton Rose, he served as chairman of both the banking law and insolvency law sub-committees of the City of London Law Society. All three short stories are available from Amazon. Lewis Lloyd (07-12), a member of Herne Hill Harriers, represented Great Britain in the men’s junior category at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in March, completing the course in a creditable 24m:17s. Lewis also represented Cambridge in the Varsity cross country race against Oxford in December, finishing first and leading Cambridge to overall victory. Will Löfberg (85-90) is now Vice President International, Government and Environment Affairs for the Dubai airline, Emirates. Will MacVicar (05-10) made his first-class cricket debut for Loughborough University against Sussex at Hove in April 2013. An all-rounder, he took two wickets and made 61 runs in the three-day match. Facing him in the Sussex side was fellow Old Alleynian, Chris Jordan (06-07). Conrad Manning (09-11) had a busy 2013 both on the water and on the dance floor. He finished second in the U25 category of the Cowes Week Regatta, ninth in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s double handed series and 30th in Fastnet double handed category. In addition, he and his dance partner were named champions in the beginner waltz category of the university dancing championships. David Mifsud (98-09) joined the cast of Channel 4’s reality television series, Made in Chelsea , for its sixth series. Peter Nyeko (98-00) is Secretary to the Board of Directors at Kampala Diplomatic School in Uganda. In May 2013, he arranged for four pupils and two members of school staff to visit the College. Composer Anthony Payne (47-55) produced an orchestration of Vaughan Williams’s Four Last Songs which received its world premiere in September 2013 at a BBC Prom concert entitled Górecki , Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky. In February 2014, Luke MacDonald, the grandson of Emeric Pressburger, unveiled an English Heritage blue plaque in honour of the film-making duo of Michael Powell (20-22) and Pressburger. The plaque has been put on Dorset House, Gloucester Place NW1, where they rented flat 120 and edited their very influential films in the 1940s. Christopher Frayling of English Heritage spoke at the unveiling and was followed by Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Powell’s widow, and Martin Scorsese, whose own film-making has been much influenced by Powell and Pressburger.
Chris Jordan (06-07) and Eoin Morgan (99) represented England in the one-day international (ODI) matches against Ireland and Australia in September. Eoin, who came to Dulwich on a student exchange programme from Catholic University School in Dublin, plays his county cricket for Middlesex and captained England for all six matches. Chris, an all-rounder who came to the College from Barbados, was called up to the senior England squad for the first time. He began his professional career at Surrey and moved to Sussex earlier in 2013. He made his full England debut in the one-day international against Australia at Southampton on 16 September, taking three wickets for 51 runs in ten overs. Architect and designer Asif Khan (88-98) created the MegaFon project for the Sochi Olympic park. Spectators were able to visit a special booth to have five images taken of their faces. A 3D projection of their face would then be displayed as an eight metre image on a large ‘pin screen ’ that incorporated 10,000 telescopic cylinders. Asif is also noted for deigning the Coca-Cola Beatbox Pavilion for London’s 2012 Olympic Games, among many other works. Details of his work can be found at www.asif-khan.com. In November, Andrew Kojima (87-97), the runner up in the 2012 series of MasterChef , became Head of Food at Humble by Nature, a catering, events and rural skills company owned by BBC presenter Kate Humble.
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Robert Lamb (01-13) and Theo Rutherford-Browne (04-11) were presented with their Queen’s Scout awards at a special ceremony in November and were subsequently invited to a reception hosted by HM The Queen at Windsor Castle. James Lingard (46-53) has published three short stories: Escape from Iran Israeli Style is a fact-based story inspired by the adventures of Israeli engineers supervising construction works on a military base for the Shah’s army in Iran who found themselves caught up in the Iranian revolution of February 1979; The Dead Man Strikes Back blends recent history with the fictional adventures of a British spy and was inspired by Russia’s problems with Chechnya and the war between Russia and Georgia over Abkhazia; In Defiance of Danger is a miscellany of fact-based
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