in hospital but ultimately died on 20 February 2012 with his family at his side. He is survived by his widow, Jean, three children and three grandchildren. An obituary was published on the Imperial Engineer website on which this is based.
Dearly loved by many, he died peacefully in hospital before a lung donor could be found. Friend and fellow OA, Andrew Wolffsohn, and the Reverend Cath Spence contributed to this obituary. James William Richards Twyman (1936-40) 22.07.1922 – 20.02.2012 Jim Twyman came to Dulwich from Bassets School in Farnborough, Kent, and was in the school shooting team in 1938. After leaving the College in 1940, he studied Civil Engineering at the City & Guilds College within Imperial College, London. As this was during the Second World War, he also manned an anti-aircraft gun in Thornet Wood, in parallel with his studies and later had other roles within the Home Guard. When he graduated in 1943, he went to work for the Bristol Aeroplane Company and was soon seconded to Vickers to do analysis on airframes. In 1946 Jim was able to start pursuing his love of sailing by joining the Gravesend Sailing Club, catching a bus there from Petts Wood at weekends. Jim met his future wife, Jean, at the Young Conservatives Club and they married in the summer of 1949 and together had three children. In 1950, Jim became a lecturer at Northampton Polytechnic in London, specialising in fluid dynamics. Shortly after he retired from City University, as Northampton Polytechnic had become, in 1980, he took on a part-time job with the Engineering Council, assisting with the implementation of new accreditation standards for chartered engineers. Jim and Jean both loved sailing, and they passed this love on to their children and later their grandchildren. He was a natural teacher and, in addition to lecturing about fluid dynamics by day, he was the main influence in establishing training courses at Gravesend Sailing Club in the 1960s. Latterly he taught shore-based seamanship courses until only a few years before his death. Outside sailing he had wide-ranging other interests, including listening to classical music, and his early years had left him with a keen interest in aeronautical engineering and in wartime history. He had a strong practical streak, and enjoyed boat maintenance and repair, as well as DIY and home improvements with Jean. For the past few years, Jim had spent part of his time looking after Jean who has poor eyesight and restricted mobility. Jim himself enjoyed good health all his life until suffering from bowel cancer in recent years, which was thought to have been successfully treated, but it reappeared in December 2011. He had a series of operations
Jack Arthur Waller (1938-44) 01.04.1927 – 25.06.2012 Jack Waller came to Dulwich on a LCC
scholarship from Dalmain Road School in Forest Hill. After leaving the College, he studied Civil Engineering at City & Guilds College (within Imperial College, London), graduating in 1947. After National Service in the Royal Engineers he joined Sandford Fawcett & Partners. In 1955-56 he returned to City & Guilds College and obtained a DIC in Concrete Technology. He then worked at Ove Arup & Partners, starting as a junior engineer and becoming an associate partner. He was in charge of the office set up for the design of the Barbican Redevelopment Scheme. In 1969 he joined the Oscar Faber Partnership in St Albans where he was involved in many projects both in the UK and in the Middle East, often acting as an expert witness. Jack became a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1974 and was their President in 1992. He was a Freeman of the City of London and a Fellow of both the City & Guilds Institute and the Institution of Civil Engineers. He met Nancy Dalziel while a student at Imperial College and they married in 1950, celebrating their Diamond Wedding in 2010. Jack was especially proud of his four children and ten grandchildren. John Watson came to Dulwich from West Hill Hall School in Sydenham, was on the Modern side at the College and won the Doughty Memorial Prize. He was at the College for much of the Second World War but almost immediately joined the RAF when he left in the summer of 1943. His health prevented him from flying but he served with radar units in France after D Day. After demobilisation, he went to study at the London School of Economics and, after graduating, he entered the Local Authority Youth Employment Service (later the Careers Service). He spent 35 years here, initially managing the service in East Sussex and latterly in Kent. In 1954 he married Lorna, who is a niece of another OA, the late B A J Woodland, and they had three children together. Poor eyesight forced his early retirement, but this gave him more time to be a churchwarden at his parish church, John Charles Watson (1938-43) 09.05.1925 – 27.03.2012
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