From the President
12355 Jeremy Johnson
The past year will be remembered as a successful one for both College and the
Engagement with College Our excellent working relationship with College and Executive Principal Garth Wynne continued throughout 2017, as can be seen by: • the Association working with an Old Boy to purchase a further significant art work for College as part of our 10-year commitment to purchase contemporary art; • the award of a further Old Boys’ Association Scholarship; • our participation in the assembly at which a Senior Honours Tie was awarded to Old Boy and former Supreme Court Judge Sir Terence Arnold; • the Association creating visual displays of interesting Old Boys to raise the profile of our Old Boys around College; and • the Association arranging for an Honours Board of the Association’s Past Presidents to be installed next to the Dining Hall, thus creating a further permanent reminder of the Association and its Old Boys at College. Perhaps the best example of one of the new ways we engage with College is the request from College for the Association to assist with career planning for current boys. The idea is for the Association to help by arranging for current boys to meet and talk with Old Boys about careers they might be interested in, and for us to assist in supplying Old Boys for themed “career breakfasts.”
Association.The Association generally achieved its three priorities for 2017 - a new approach to signing up members, more active branches and greater contact with our younger Old Boys. That success has primarily been driven by a closer working relationship between the school and the Association as well as some fresh thinking on the part of the General Committee. Success and innovation can be seen across both the Association’s engagement with College and in the Association’s own activities. The challenge from here is to ensure that recent success does not become complacency and that the Association and its Old Boys work to ensure their continued relevance to College and to support College through its capital campaign.
Chronicle 2017
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