Alleyn Club News
The President: Ivor Warburton MA MSc (57-65) ..........................................................................................................
Ivor Warburton was at the College between 1957 and 1965, during which time he played bassoon in the orchestra, was a member of the Scouts and, in his final year, was School Captain and received an honours cap for playing 1st XV rugby. At Queens’ College, Cambridge, he read Mathematics and then Oriental Studies (Chinese). Graduating in 1968, he joined British Rail London Midland Region as a management trainee. In a career of more than 30 years (including a year doing a degree in Management and Business Studies at Warwick) his jobs included local operations, selling the rail passenger business around the world and senior positions such as Director of Passenger Marketing, principal negotiator with the trades unions and Director of Rail Operations. He went on to serve as General Manager of the London Midland region in 1990, a post held when he had joined 22 years earlier by Sir Robert Lawrence OA. Upon privatisation he served as both a director of Virgin Rail Group and Chairman of the rail passenger franchise trade association, ATOC. Ivor was a Fellow of the Chartered Institutes of Marketing, and Logistics and Transport, and a Liveryman of the Marketors’ Company. After several seasons as a tour manager, leading groups across North America, Europe and North Africa by train, he spent three years living in China as General Manager of a joint venture with part of the Ministry of Railways to develop luxury tourist trains. His current interests include walking, classical music and high speed rail developments in China, together with an insatiable appetite for world travel, particularly to Arctic and Antarctic regions. He became a trustee of the OA Endowment Fund in 2006 and is currently its Chairman. During 2015 Ivor will be travelling throughout the world to meet Old Alleynians and strengthen the bonds between the ‘Dulwich Diaspora’. He will be visiting Vancouver, Denver, Dallas, Toronto and New York in May, and plans to travel around Europe later in the summer. If you live in any of these regions and would like to meet Ivor, please contact Miss Katie Cullen in the Alleyn Club & Development Office: alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk or +44 (0)20 8299 8436.
It is a great honour to be your President this year. It is exactly 50 years since my last year at the College and it is interesting to see both how much has changed and how much is familiar. Our Club has three lasting objectives: • to provide activities for members and to keep them informed of OA matters • to make grants • to help strengthen links between the Club and the College I hope to be able to contribute in each of these areas: improving communication and contact with Old Alleynians everywhere; ensuring that the sporting and social clubs and societies are robust and receive appropriate support; and to continue to lead OAs in working with the College to assist in its evolution and development. When Alleynians leave the College they do not all live in southeast London! The ‘Dulwich Diaspora’ sees OAs in many corners of the world and I hope to visit many of the established groups in the UK and elsewhere during the coming year. I am preparing my schedule of events, so if you are away from SE21 and have a small group of Alleynians who already meet, or if you would like to arrange a small event for OAs locally in the UK, Europe or further afield, then do let the Alleyn Club & Development Office know. They will assist you; and I, as your President, will make every effort to join you!
Ivor Warburton (57-65)
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