Old Alleynian Database – or ‘Not known at this address, return to sender’ In partnership with the Development Office, we are constantly working to ensure that the College alumni database is up-to-date. Those of you contactable by email will have received a request recently for you to check the details we have for you. If you have not responded so far, or if you do not have an email address, I should be most grateful if you would please complete the enclosed form and return it to the Development Office in the pre-paid envelope provided. Development News Increasingly, the Alleyn Club and the Development Office are working in tandem for the greater benefit of OAs and the College. I am therefore pleased to draw your attention to the report by the Director of Development on page 22. Lieutenant Colonel H R (Bill) Hall (30-34), Benefactor and OA Scout Extraordinaire ‘Bill’ Hall, who died, aged 95, in November (see obituary on page 52), joined the Curlew Patrol in the 25th Camberwell (1st Dulwich College) Scout Group in 1930. On Founder’s Day 2012, he opened the new College Scout Headquarters at the Trevor Bailey Sports Ground on Dulwich Common, a facility largely made possible by a very generous benefaction he had made. In the intervening 82 years, Bill’s belief in Scouting’s ability to give boys (and now girls) of all backgrounds the chance to learn how to become self-reliant and useful citizens, led him to share his enthusiasm for Scouting with young people far and wide – from South London to post-Cold-War eastern Europe to poverty-stricken African townships – and to give generously wherever he saw a need and felt able to help. For an OA who, in his own words, ‘left school without any qualifications’, he had an extraordinary effect on the lives of numerous young people. Edward Alleyn would have been proud of him. Chris Field (51-59)
but there are at least twenty OAs in each of 15 countries with USA (236), Hong Kong (199) and Australia (108) closely followed by Canada (76). If you are part of the Dulwich Diaspora and would be interested in attending an OA event locally, please me know so that I can put you in touch with other like-minded OAs with a view to including your part of the world in a presidential schedule, possibly in conjunction with a visit by the Master. Founder’s Day, Saturday 29 June After three years of generously funding lunch for OAs in the marquee, the College has taken the understandable decision that we should once again pay for our lunch. I call the decision understandable because the College is about to embark on a major development programme in the run-up to the 400th anniversary celebrations in 2019 and needs to watch every penny carefully. Full details of the Founder’s Day programme and an application form for lunch tickets will be found on pages 31 and 63. 35th OA Reunion, Saturday 14 September This year, the OA Reunion will primarily be for those of you who left school between 1980 and 2000, though others will, of course, be most welcome. If you do decide to attend, may I encourage you to include attendance at the service in Chapel at 11.00am? Although the setting has a religious significance with which you may feel uneasy, the Chapel was the first part of Edward Alleyn’s remarkable philanthropic venture to be completed, the very cradle of his College, where OAs and current Alleynians of all faiths or none are always welcome. It is at this service that the Master traditionally gives an address – a keynote speech for the day, if you like – with the College Chapel Choir present to lead the singing. The text of the Master’s address at last year’s Reunion service is printed on page 32.
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