Clubs & Societies
Currently, the 1st XV is playing in London 2 SW; we regularly field five full adult XVs on a Saturday, and the junior side of the Club now has sides from u7 right up to u17 and a Colts Academy. On the playing front, the Club is in very healthy position with plenty to look forward to in the future.
Society but expanded golf meetings by introducing ‘summer sizzlers’ and ‘winter warmers’ at some of the finest courses in the southeast. He has quite properly been made a Vice President of the Society and we owe him huge thanks for all his hard work over the years. Duncan Anderson (64-71) has taken over this role and would like to hear from anyone interested in the Society on the new designated email address of oags2013sec @ gmail.com. Alistair Defriez was ever present with his irrepressible good humour and his support was essential to the success of all the year’s meetings and matches. He is a great raconteur and his speech at the annual dinner was memorably amusing. The 2014 Captain is Will Lewis (54-65) and we wish him good luck. 2013 started well with our annual dinner in early March at the East India Club, where Nigel Farage (74-82), the leader of UKIP, spoke amusingly about his memories of playing for the Society, among other things, and led the full house singing the school song while standing on his chair. At the 2014 annual dinner, we will be honouring Bob Deakin (42-45), our guest speaker who, at 86, still plays to single figures and has represented us in the scratch Halford Hewitt competition 111 times, playing over 52 years from 1950 to 2001. In addition, he played many times in the Grafton Morrish and Cyril Gray competitions, was a regular in the Kent county team and played for UK Seniors in the triangular match with USA and Canada. The 1983 Halford Hewitt team in which Bob and Nigel appeared is below. This year, Mike Kirby (51-58) hopes to break Bob’s record as he has played 110 matches to date; David Somerville (63-69) has played 96 matches. 2013 was, however, not as successful a year for the Society, as we were knocked out in the first round of the Halford Hewitt even though our team had travelled from all over the world to represent us. Our Cyril Gray team could not defend the plate we won in 2012 because, having made it through to the second round of the main competition, they were knocked out by the eventual winners.
Owen McEntee Hon Secretary
OAFC is fortunate to have had many recent successes, but to continue to succeed it will need all the support it can muster from traditional and new Old Alleynian sources, as well as accessing grants for ground improvement projects. We need to improve our pitches and facilities to meet the demands of increasing youth and adult membership, and in response to demand for rugby in local schools. In particular, we need to: upgrade our pitches and improve drainage; provide more mini/midi rugby places; upgrade the driveway and enlarge our car-parking facilities; and install floodlighting. An appeal will be launched within the coming months and will include a fundraising dinner at the College on Friday 4 July. A booking form can be found on page 87 and details are available from Siva Pillay (73-81) - siva.pillay @ oceanpartners.com – and online at www.dulwich.org.uk/OAFC.
Old Alleynian Golf Society
Captain 2013-14: Will Lewis (54-65) Hon Secretary: Duncan Anderson (64-71)
Email: oags2013sec @ gmail.com Web: www.dulwich.org.uk/OAGS
2013 was another eventful year for the Golf Society, with meetings and matches every month led by our Captain, Alistair Defriez (61-69), and organised by our outgoing Secretary, Graham Curtis (56-64). Graham has been Secretary for seven years and during that time he has not only managed the affairs of the
The 1983 Halford Hewitt team: Back row (l to r) - George Melio (55-63), Chris Litterick (60-68), David Rutnam (70-77), Malcolm Mapp (51-59), Geoffrey Eclair-Heath (58-67), David Somerville (62-69), Nigel Farage (74-82), Richard Andrade (59-68); front row (l to r) – A Smith, Barry Lane (45-52), Bob Deakin (42-45), ‘Hooky’ Howe (46-53) (Captain), Mike Kirby (51-58), Nick Owen (72-81), Jack Blanch (1911-17)
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