Alleyn Club Newsletter 2012

The Dulwich College Yearbook —107th Issue & Alleyn Club Newsletter —Number 52 2012

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Contents

From the President

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Alleyn Club Committee 2011-12 From The Secretary’s Desk 3 Welcome to the New Alleyn Club & Development Team 5

News OA News

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Clubs & Societies

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Clubs & Societies Contact Details

Alleyn Club 2011 AGM Minutes, rule changes & Accounts

Contact Us

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Notice of the 2012 Alleyn Club AGM

Alleyn Club Secretary: Mr Christopher Field (51-59)

Events Dates for Your Diary

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Director of Development: Mrs Sioban Whitney Low

Booking Forms

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Relationship Manager: Mr Guy Lawrenson

Notice of Founder’s Day, OA Reunion & Alleyn Club Dinner

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Overseas Events 2011

Development Data Manager: Mrs Joanne Whaley

Overseas Secretary Contact Details

Event Attendance 2011

Obituaries

Alleyn Club & Development Administrator: Mrs Phillipa Straker-Nesbit

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Presidents of the Alleyn Club

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Staff & Honorary Members of the Alleyn Club OA Governors

The Alleyn Club & Development Office, Dulwich College, London SE21 7LD 020 8299 9286 alleynclub@dulwich.org.uk www.dulwich.org.uk/old-alleynians twitter.com/Alleyn_Club

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Dulwich College Events Conferences Corporate Hospitality

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From the President: Dr Bruce Smith CBE (49-58) From Dulwich to the Moon in Seven Years

I am delighted to introduce myself as this year’s President, and I would like to congratulate my predecessor Bernard Battley (48-56) and thank him for his hard work and success.

team selecting the landing sites for the men on the Moon. I returned to the UK to establish my own consulting company in the design of advanced systems for space, radar, telecommunications and computing. I am currently the Chairman of IP Group plc, which spins high-tech companies out of universities, Chairman of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering, a director of several science-based companies, and a Domus Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. I am particularly pleased to be President at this very exciting time as we look forward to the 400th anniversary of the College in 2019. My particular aims for the Alleyn Club are to increase its appeal to younger OAs, develop professional networking opportunities and to encourage OAs to help boys still at the College with their choice of career. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible over the course of the year.

I was a pupil at Dulwich from 1949 to 1958 in Sidney and I remember with pleasure and gratitude my time at the College. I studied Science and received a splendid grounding for my later professional life. I went up to Oxford to read Experimental Physics at Christ Church followed by a doctorate in Theoretical Physics. I emigrated to the United States, worked at the University of Chicago and then took a job with Bellcomm Inc in Washington DC working on the Apollo Moon missions. Just seven years after leaving school I was in the

Alleyn Club Committee 2011–12

Trustees JDP Kendall MA FCCA (59-67) NA Tatman FSI (52-58)

Committee PS Bennett (95-00) [2014] RH Boultbee (66-75) RS Butterfield FCA (58-67) AN Capon (73-80) MRA Graham (90-98) [2014] SK Gupta (72-77) [2012] N Karia (79-86) [2013] WLS Keat BSc (93-00) PGR Lyon (52-60) [2014] JF Thornton (67-75) [2016] TJ Tidbury (93-00) [2013] DJA Trace FCA (54-63) CR Vernon (53-63) [2012] CM Wall BSc Immediate Past President B Battley Dip Ptg Mgt FRSA (48-86)

Secretary CW Field JP MA ARAM LRAM ARCM (51-59) Hon Assistant Secretaries NR Robinson FCIARb (62-71) TJ Walsh BA Hon Treasurer JDP Kendall MA FCCA (59-67)

President Dr BG Smith CBE (49-58)

Vice President Brigadier EJW Walker OBE DL (51-59)

PGR Lyon (52-60) ECJ Walsh (73-81)

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From the Secretary’s Desk

What has the Alleyn Club been up to over the past year? A glance at the following pages will reveal something of the varied activities of the Alleyn Club and affiliated OA clubs and societies. Many OAs have enjoyed the simple pleasures of meeting and eating together, remembering old times and keeping friendships alive. Others, of all ages, have enjoyed the competitive challenges and comradeship derived from membership of an OA sporting club or society. It is therefore good to record that, as in recent years, the Alleyn Club committee has been in a position to offer a small degree of financial support to, among others, the OA Boat Club for its annual regatta on the Thames for old boys’ rowing clubs competing for the Alleyn Club Trophy, to the Cricketer Cup team and the Golfing Society to pay for entry fees to national alumni competitions, and to subsidise the chartering of a sailing boat to enable the Alleynian Sailing Society to continue running its very popular and successful summer holiday sail training week for boys from the school. The highlight for many members of the Club may well have been the 129th Annual Dinner held in the Great Hall on Friday 28 October attended by 136 members and their guests. For those who have not attended an Annual Dinner in recent years and may have been put off by the thought of paying good money for ordinary ‘school food’, you don’t know what you have been missing! Under new management, the College catering department is able to conjure up food every bit as good as that enjoyed at the East India Club by the OA Golfing Society or the OA Football Club. Be assured that your committee is constantly reviewing how best to make its dinners and other events attractive to OAs of all ages. Don’t forget that the best way of ensuring that you will enjoy an event is to arrange to attend with a group of friends. Joanne Whaley, our Development Data Manager (whaleyje@dulwich.org.uk), is always happy to supply contact details of OAs for whom we have up-to-date information. The Annual Dinner this year will be held on Friday 2 November. The application form with further details is to be found in the centre insert.

Making the Alleyn Club relevant in the second decade of the 21st century Fanned by the boyish enthusiasm of the immediate Past President, Bernard Battley, and kept in purposeful motion by the clarity of vision of his successor, Dr Bruce Smith, the winds of change are blowing the dust from the 139 year old Alleyn Club. The aims of this dusting down are, as I wrote last year, to ensure that the Alleyn Club is both relevant to its members and supportive of the school. Relevant in what way? Over the past year the Alleyn Club committee has been considering ways in which the Club might provide increased benefit to Old Alleynians and, by extension, to younger Alleynians in their final years at school. To this end, Marcus Graham (90-98) and ‘Ditch’ Boultbee (66-75) are working up proposals for the setting up of a number of networks for OAs in particular professions or lines of business. Professional networks under consideration include: OAs in Arts and Media, OAs in the City, OAs in Defence, OAs in Education and Academia, OA Law Association and OA Medical Association. A typical annual programme might include: • an informal social evening at the end of the working week at a central London location with drinks and light refreshments • a talk by a leading OA member of the profession on a matter of topical relevance, followed by questions and answers • a dinner at Dulwich with invited members of the teaching staff • attendance by a group of members at a College careers convention Once up and running, it is anticipated that a professional network would be driven by the enthusiasm of its members, with ready support provided by the Alleyn Club and the College Alleyn Club & Development Office team (see pages 14- 15). This is very much a ‘watch-this-space’ item. Meanwhile, if you have any ideas you wish to throw into the melting pot, please send them to me at alleynclub@dulwich.org.uk.

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Strong support from the College Once again, the College was generous in its hospitality during the year. On Founder’s Day some 230 OAs and their guests were entertained for lunch in the marquee. (NB: To allow more OAs to enjoy the Founder’s Day lunch, which this year will be held on Saturday 30 June, tickets will be restricted to two per OA. See page 28 for further details.) On 17 September the College hosted the 33rd OA Reunion, which attracted some 158 OAs. For the first time former boarders were given pride of place and many were the expressions of surprise (and envy?) as they toured Blew House, Ivyholme and The Orchard and viewed the relative luxury in which today’s boarders live. They saw that communal baths (Carver House) were a thing of the past and that the en-suite facilities for all in Blew and Ivyholme were accepted by today’s boarders as de rigueur. The application form for the 34th Annual Reunion, to be held on Saturday 22 September, when the 1st XV will be taking on KCS Wimbledon, is in the centre insert. Earlier in the year the Master hosted a most enjoyable dinner in the Great Hall for OAs in Media and the Arts, which was preceded by Shakespearean extracts declaimed with rare panache by some of the leading thespians at the College. Changes in personnel Mrs Deirdre Young, the possessor of the friendly voice at the end of the phone in the Alleyn Club office for eight years, left the College at the end of the Michaelmas Term 2011. Deirdre is an office gem: a tireless worker, efficient, thoughtful, modest and uncomplaining. Her brief was large, including organising numerous College events, administering the fundraising for the bursary and development appeals as well being the constant point of contact in the Alleyn Club office. As those of you who organise regional dinners and lunches will know, Deidre was the source of lists of OAs, lapel badges and menu cards. But, that was only the practical side of her job. Just as important was her ability to make each and every one feel confident that their request for advice or help, however trivial, would be treated with speed and efficiency. Dulwich’s loss is Dulwich Prep London’s gain, as Deirdre has moved to 42 Alleyn Park as administrator of the Prep’s very new old boys’ club. As mentioned above, the new Development Office is up and running. As I write, we have just recruited to the department an Alleyn Club Administrator, a post which is to be funded jointly by the Alleyn Club and the College to ensure that we are able to provide a level of service appropriate to the needs of one of the largest school alumni associations in the country.

Changes to the Yearbook As part of the move to bring the Club fully into the 21st century this, the 107th issue of the Dulwich Yearbook and 52nd Alleyn Club Newsletter, has been re-designed with great skill by James Alexander (77-84). I am also grateful to Guy Lawrenson for his hard work in pulling the copy into shape, something beyond the skills of your editor... Please feel free to comment on the new format. Alleyn Club Honorary Obituarist For the past fifteen years the vast majority of obituaries appearing in the Yearbook have been composed by our Honorary Obituarist, David Webster OBE (41-48). His final offerings appear towards the back of the current edition. I know how grateful have been the many family members and friends of the late OAs with whom he has corresponded for the care and dedication David has brought to this much appreciated, if somewhat unglamorous, role over the years. I am sure that the Alleyn Club collectively will wish to thank him for his hard work. I am also sure that his wife, Ruth, will be pleased to recover full use of their dining room table because it has been there that David has written every single obituary in his characteristic longhand. Well done, thou good and faithful servant! I am pleased to say that David is being succeeded as Honorary Obituarist by Jim Bush (76-84), who has submitted several ‘prentice pieces’ to David for approval this year and emerged with flying colours. starting to graduate from the newly-established (and growing) Dulwich College International franchise schools, the then Master, Graham Able, announced that alumni (and alumnae, of course, as all the schools are co-educational) would be known as International Old Alleynians. On Saturday 21 January 2012 the first gathering of International OAs in London was held in the Pavilion Salle to mark the presence in the UK of a group of musicians from Dulwich College Beijing. Several of us from the College and the Alleyn Club were invited as guests and it was a great pleasure for the Master and me to welcome the IOAs to SE21. It is hoped that this will prove to be the first of many such joint events. Dulwich College International Old Alleynians In 2004, with the imminent prospect of alumni

Chris Field (51-59)

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From the Secretary’s Desk

Welcome to the New Alleyn Club & Development Team

Introduction I am delighted to introduce the new

Society, which goes from strength to strength as OAs pledge a gift in their will as an effective and enduring way of supporting the College. We have updated the literature and, if you would like to receive a brochure or to talk in confidence, about what a gift, large or small, in your will would mean to a boy at the College, please do get in touch. Development Team I took up my position as Director of Development on 1 September 2011 and am enjoying the opportunity to meet so many dynamic OAs. As some may know, my family have a long history at Dulwich. 100 years ago my grandfather, Ivan Owen Belgrave Shirley, came to the College from Kingston, Jamaica, and, like so many others before and since, Dulwich gave him a remarkable start in life. My particular responsibility is to lead on strategy.

Development team at Dulwich College and to have the chance to explain what we do. We are here to support the continued advancement of the College and to

foster relationships with the Alleyn Club and the wider Dulwich community, engaging with parents, former parents, OAs, Friends of Dulwich College, donors and former staff. We have an ambition to promote the wide variety of opportunities available from OA clubs and societies to mentoring young Alleynians and joining the College history of philanthropy. Within the Dulwich community there is such diversity of expertise and experience which we value and know can be of immense benefit to the College. We are here to encourage links between careers, Archives and all the other departments where the relationship can go both ways, as we support young Alleynians as they go out into the world and work with those who can give back to the College through talks, visits, work experience and so much more. We are responsible for organising and promoting events, which as many of you know, include class and professional reunions as well as concerts, theatre and cultural visits and one off celebrations of specific subjects and individuals. It is vital for us to communicate effectively and well with our wide community and, to this end, we are improving our print and online missives. We are developing our database and records to ensure that we have up-to-date contact details and can communicate with you in the way you prefer, whether by letter or using e-communications. We hope you will visit our new website pages, update your records on the online community forum and ring us to keep us in touch with changes of addresses as well as your news. We have a particular role to promote the College as a charity faithful to our Founder’s mission – to provide an excellent education for bright boys regardless of their parents’ means, so we are also responsible for fundraising. As well as our commitment to bursaries in order to provide support to able boys from less affluent backgrounds, we also need to raise funds to invest in our buildings. There is an urgent need to re-model the science building, which has a condemned wing and outdated facilities. The College has appointed Grimshaw Architects to design a building to place beside the historic Barry building and to be worthy of the pivotal place science holds at the College. Finally, we are working with the Canon Carver

Guy Lawrenson, our Relationship Manager, comes to us from a successful career in higher education, including St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and has worked at University College School too. He is responsible for alumni and parent engagement, including events and communications. Joanne Whaley, who holds the post of Development Data Manager, has been working at Emanuel School since she came to London from Newcastle University’s Development Office. Joanne will ensure that we maintain comprehensive records and are able to communicate effectively with all Old Alleynians, including those young, old and currently lost to us. Finally, with valued support from the Alleyn Club, we have also been able to recruit an Alleyn Club and Development Administrator, Phillipa Straker-Nesbit, to look after the Development Office and ensure that the Alleyn Club has the administrative support it needs all year round. I hope you will see her as your first port of call for any queries, information or advice. With such a team in place, we are ideally positioned to support, invest, fundraise, communicate and develop relationships across the whole Dulwich community. We look forward to being in touch soon.

Sioban Whitney Low Director of Development

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OA News

Jeremy Deller (77-84) Between 22 February and 13 May the Hayward

Andrew Kojima (87-97) Andrew Kojima reached the final of the 2012 series of the BBC’s MasterChef . Sadly, Andrew lost out in the final to Shelina Permalloo but his culinary abilities, passion and creativity received high praise from the regular hosts, Greg Wallace and John Torode, and guest judges throughout the series. In one of the later episodes the final four contestants travelled to Thailand, where Andrew was required to cook for the public in a Chang Mai food market, prepare a ceremonial banquet and cook for a member of the Thai royal family – and fellow Old Alleynian – His Serene Highness Prince Bhisadej Rajani (39-41). Andrew’s starter of ma haw, chive dumplings and stuffed beetle leaves was very well received by His Serene Highness and fellow diners. An intense three part final aired in March, with the finalists required to cook in some of Europe’s finest three Michelin starred restaurants, prepare a three course menu for a panel of some of the world’s best known chefs and, in the final episode, produce a final three courses to impress the judges. Since the end of the series Andrew has continued to enjoy cooking and has been working with the likes of Michel Roux Jr. He also completed the London Marathon in April, raising money for St John Ambulance.

Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre is displaying the first retrospective of the work of renowned contemporary artist Jeremy Deller (77- 84). Jeremy’s 2004

film, Memory Bucket , earned him the Turner Prize in that year, and the present exhibition, entitled Jeremy Deller: Joy in People , features many of his major works, including installations, photographs, videos, performance works and sound pieces. Jeremy was the subject of a BBC Culture Show special in February, entitled Jeremy Deller: Middle Class Hero, and in April he unveiled his latest work, an inflatable Stonehenge entitled S acrilege. was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2012 New Year Honours and has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Japan. This is not his first post to Tokyo, having held the post of Second Secretary in the late 1980s. ‘I am honoured and delighted to be given the opportunity to return to Japan. Britain’s relations with Japan are among our most important. Japanese investment is critical for the British economy, and Japan is one of the top markets both for British goods and services. I have watched with admiration the way in which the Japanese people are recovering from last year’s disasters, and want to broaden the United Kingdom/Japan partnership in areas such as higher education, science and the environment’, he said of his appointment. Mr Hitchens previously served as Director Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. During a distinguished career in HM Diplomatic Service his appointments have included postings to Islamabad and Paris, as well as four years as Assistant Private Secretary to HM The Queen. He was Head of the Africa Department (Equatorial) at the Foreign Office between 2003 and 2005, and also recently served as Director of European Political Affairs. Timothy Hitchens (72-79) Timothy Hitchens CMG LVO

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Sir Peter Bazalgette (62-71) Peter Bazalgette was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting. Having begun his career at the BBC in the late 1970s, where he created BBC2’s Food and Drink Programme , Sir Peter went on to establish his own production company, Bazal, which created many popular television programmes, including Ready Steady Cook , Ground Force and Changing Rooms . Between 1998 and 2007 he worked at production company Endemol, first as Creative Director and later as Chairman of Endemol UK, as well as Chief Creative Officer of Endemol Group. It was during this time that he was responsible for bringing Big Brother to the UK. Since 2009 Sir Peter has served as Chairman of Sony Music Television and Sony Pictures TV. He is a Fellow of BAFTA and the Royal Television Society, a non-executive director of both YouGov and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, and he has also written several books on the topics of cuisine, health and the broadcasting industry. In November 2011 he published a biography of food critic Egon Ronay, who died in 2010. The book, Egon Ronay: A Memoir of the Man who Taught Britain how to Eat , was published by a new company of Sir Peter’s, Newbaz Ltd.

Fl Lt Jonathan Tapper (76-83) In July 2011 an

independent inquiry, led by retired judge Lord Philip and set up by the then Secretary of Defence, Dr Liam Fox, absolved Fl Lt Jonathan Tapper and Fl Lt Richard Cook of blame for the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter which killed all 29 on board,

thereby setting aside the decision of the initial inquiry. Subsequently, Dr Fox made an apology in Parliament and wrote to the families of Fl Lts Tapper and Cook. Seventeen years after the accident, Dr Fox told MPs that the original conclusion by two RAF air marshals that Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook, the pilots of the Chinook, were ‘negligent to a gross degree’ was no longer sustainable and had to be set aside. Dr Fox told the Commons that the original inquiry had been given incorrect legal advice because such a finding of negligence could only have been made if there was ‘absolutely no doubt whatsoever’. Other ‘competent’ people did have doubts at the time, he added. As more evidence emerged about computer and mechanical problems, RAF pilots, senior MPs, aviation experts, engineers and lawyers raised questions about the cause of the crash on 2 June 1994 in which all on board were killed, including 25 senior security and intelligence officers based in Northern Ireland. Lord Philip was appointed to lead a review of the case which concluded that ‘since 1995 [the MoD] have rebuffed all public and private representations that the [original] finding should be reconsidered... We find it regrettable that the department should have taken such an intransigent stance on the basis of an inadequate understanding of the RAF’s own regulations in a matter which involved the reputation of men who died on active service’. Describing the deaths of those killed in the crash as a ‘huge blow to the security of this country’ as well as a tragedy for their families, Dr Fox said he hoped the Lord Philip review ‘will bring an end to this sad chapter by removing this stain on the reputations of the two pilots’. He also wrote to their families apologising for the distress the findings of negligence had caused them.

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OA News

Book of Remembrance The War Memorials at the front of the College display the names of 837 Old Alleynians who died in the two World Wars. Since 1945 21 Old Alleynians and one member of the teaching staff have died while serving in the armed forces of this country. The Alleyn Club committee felt that the names of these Old Alleynians should be properly commemorated. On Founder’s Day 2011, after the traditional laying of wreaths on the War Memorials, the Book of Remembrance was dedicated in the Lower Hall where it is now on permanent display. The handmade book, with superb calligraphy by Dr Nick de Somogyi (75-81), is based on research carried out by Calista Lucy, Keeper of the Archives, and Terry Walsh, Senior Fellow. Details of those OAs whose names appear in the Book of Remembrance are contained in a guide which is available on request from Mrs Lucy at Dulwich College – 020 8299 9201 or archives@ dulwich.org.uk. Members will be pleased to know that the Alleyn Club covered all expenditure involved in the production of this Book of Remembrance.

Blew House Reunion In July 2011 Hugh Clark (46-52) wrote to share news of the 25th annual reunion of a group of OAs who went through Blew House together more than 60 years ago. The annual gathering, which is organised by each member in turn, is also attended by wives and attracts attendees from far and wide; Jim Sloan travels from as far as Florida for these meetings. Pictured in the accompanying photograph (left to right) are Jim Sloan, Hugh Clark, Richard Booth, Jack May, Douglas Knowlden and Billy Bolton. Hugh writes that: ‘The long lasting friendship created at Dulwich is typified by the six past members of Blew House pictured here who meet up every year and have done so for the last 25 years’.

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OA News in Brief

Derek Akers, Peter Edgley, Alan Gregory, Peter Hart, Neville Jones, Charles Mansfield, Rupert Sutton and John Watson – all members of the Classical fourth form of 1939-40 – gathered at the College on Founder’s Day 2011 for their annual reunion, with a further six members sending their apologies. The reunion marked the 72nd anniversary of the form coming together at Tonbridge in September 1939, when the College was evacuated on the outbreak of the Second World War. Rear Admiral Martin Alabaster (67-76), Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland (FOSNNI) was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours. Professor Ewan Anderson (49-56) and his wife Sian celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 6 January 2012. He also had an exhibition of his tree drawings mounted in the new conservatory at the Royal Horticultural Society. Harry Bellenberg (04-11) and Felix Tran (03-10) attended a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award ceremony at St James’s Palace in March and were personally congratulated by HRH The Prince Philip. Following the completion of his MMath at Cambridge University, Matthew Burke (00-07) is now working on a research degree in the Centre of Australian Category Theory at Macquarie University in Sydney. Brigadier Alan Clacher (69-76) was promoted to Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours. Norman Dale (47-51) and his wife, Daphne, celebrated their golden wedding in 2011, having been married in the College chapel in on 17 June 1961. Ed Dolman (71-78) stepped down as chairman of auction house Christie’s International to join the board of the Qatar Museums Authority, where he sits on the board of trustees and is executive director in the office of Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani, the daughter of the emir of Qatar and a driving force in the country’s art collection. Mark Easter (96-01) moved from Northampton Saints to Sale Sharks, joining fellow OA Andrew Sheridan (90-98).

Nick Easter (91-96) and Andrew Sheridan (90-98) were selected to represent England at the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In February Nick also signed a new three year contract with his club, Harlequins, of the Aviva Premiership. Gordon Egwu (95-02), better known as rap artist G FrSH, signed a record deal with Parlophone/EMI in May 2011, with the signing taking place in the Masters’ Library at Dulwich College. In February 2012 Nigel Harman (86-89) won WhatsOnStage.com’s Best Supporting Actor in a Musical award in recognition of his performance as Lord Farquaad in Shrek The Musical , which is being staged at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London’s West End. Jonathan Head (74-78) reported from Libya for the BBC during the country’s uprising, including the siege of Sirte, birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi. Between 2000 and 2009 Jonathan served as BBC South East Asia Correspondent, and reported on the devastating 2005 tsunami. Bryan Hemming (42-48) writes from California of his experience of being diagnosed in 2001 with thyroid cancer and, following treatment at the California Pacific Medical Center, his decision to fund what is now the Bryan Hemming Cancer Care Cente. ‘When I was first diagnosed I didn’t know what to do – I needed to be guided. That inspired me to create a “haven” for all people with cancer.’ Stuart Hulse (50-57) has written Is it that bad? Reflections of a Grumpy Optimist , described by one reviewer as ‘the poems of Everyman’. Dr Yasir Kasmi (88-96) has been appointed Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist within Humberside and is Visiting Psychiatrist to HM Prison Hull and HM Prison Wakefield. He recently completed masters degrees in Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health Law. On Thursday 17 November 2011 international chess Grandaster Raymond Keene OBE (59-66) invited ten Dulwich College boys to play against him and fellow Grandmaster Jon Speelman in two pods of the London Eye on the south bank of the River Thames as part of an event organised by the UK Mind Sports Association. Another ten boys also played xiangqi against Chinese Grandmasters Dong Xizhong and Li Xiaoqiu, while a further four boys took part in a game of bridge against members of Richmond and Wimbledon bridge clubs.

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Concert pianist Rex Lawson (58-66) performed Gabriel Jackson’s Airplane Cantata , along with other works by Stravinsky, Nancarrow, Brahms, Grainger and Rachmaninov, in a concert with the BBC Singers, conducted by James Morgan, on Monday 24 October at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London. The concert was broadcast live on Radio 3. Richard Longley (50-58) and his wife Helen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 6 January 2012. Following a successful career at Lloyd’s of London as a marine underwriter, Colin Mander (51-56) had his first novel, A Foreign Affair , published in 2011 by Book Guild. The plot centres on the actions of a well-connected family which owns a multi-national pharmaceutical company, and deals with both the potential abuse of power by major EU nations and the Eurozone crisis. and Staff College, as well as warfare training onboard HMS York in the South Atlantic. He is now undertaking the year-long Principal Warfare Officers Course at HMS Collingwood, prior to returning to sea in 2013 as one of two ‘PWOs’ in a frigate or destroyer, where he will be responsible to the commanding officer for the ‘war fighting’ of the ship and management of the warfare department. Michael Ondaatje (54-62) published his latest novel, The Cat’s Table , which was shortlisted for Canada’s most distinguished literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Michael is the author of Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient, Anil’s Ghost, and Divisadero . Professor Chris Palmer (56-65) continues to teach Film and Media Arts at the American University in Washington, DC, and is writing another book. Lt Thomas McPhail RN (89-97) has completed the Initial Staff Course at the Joint Services Command Anthony Payne (47-55) won the chamber music category at the 2011 British Composer Awards at Stationers’ Hall in November 2011 for his composition, String Quartet No 2 , which was commissioned by the Allegri Quartet. Dr Laurence Raw (69-78) published his latest book, Exploring Turkish Culture: Interviews, Essays and Reviews (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) and was awarded University of Texas’s Fleur Cowles Memorial Fellowship to research the papers of Sir Donald Wolfit for another book he is writing, which will be the first of its kind on the actor.

The Rt Hon Peter Riddell (59-66), the former Times and Financial Times journalist, was appointed Director of the Institute for Government in January 2012, taking over from Lord Adonis. Dr Leon Rocha (95-00) has been appointed a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and will be based at the Needham Research Institute, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. John Shaw (35-40), a former senior lecturer in clinical neuroscience and child life and health at the University of Edinburgh and past president of the European Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery, has published a medical memoir, A Fortunate Apprentice (Memoir Club, 2010). The book recalls his childhood in India and life in medicine as a surgical neurologist. Professor Andrew Sherry (73-80), Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute at The University of Manchester, has been awarded Fellowship of The Royal Academy of Engineering for his research and development of advanced methods for nuclear safety and for his leadership of industrial-academic partnerships in research and skills development in the nuclear sector. In March 2011 he provided extensive media comment on the Fukushima nuclear accident and provided independent advice to industry and the nuclear regulator on the evolving situation. David Sibbald (42-50) and his wife, Heather, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 18 March 2011. They were married in St Margaret’s Chapel at Edinburgh Castle in 1961. Having been with the Honourable Artillery Company since 2005, Oliver Smiddy (89-98) was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in October 2011 and now holds the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. 6 . The first instalment was the Man Booker Prize- longlisted Child 44 , which Tom followed up with The Secret Speech . In March 2012 Tom was joined by the Master of Dulwich College, Dr Joseph Spence, at the Beijing & Shanghai International Literary Festivals, together with Kathryn Chua, author of Midnight Walking and current pupil of Dulwich College Beijing. Tom Rob Smith (87-97) published the final instalment of his critically acclaimed trilogy of spy thrillers, Agent

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In 2012 Neil Sorton (47-52) completed forty years as a councillor on Poole Borough Council. He is his party’s representative on the Council’s independently controlled standards (ethics) committee and the councillor member on Poole’s Adoption Panel. He is chairman of the Dorset County Pension Fund, responsible for the pensions of 49,000 present and retired local government employees in the county. He is also the honorary secretary to the board of directors of Lighthouse, Poole – the largest arts centre complex in the country outside London. He retired from his solicitor’s private client practice in 2004. In June 2011 the Man Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift (60-66) published his latest novel, Wish You Were Here . Last Orders won the Man Booker Prize in 1996. In September 2011 Tim Tookey (75-80) announced that he would leave Lloyds Banking Group in February 2012 to become Chief Financial Officer at Friends’ Life. He joined Lloyds in 2006 and became finance director in 2008. In November 2011 he served as Interim Chief Executive when António Horta-Osório took a health-related leave of absence. Wiley. Christopher, who co-authored the book with George Davidson, passed away in 2002. He was a Senior Lecturer in German at Aston University in Birmingham until his retirement in 1995. For many years he was a member of the committee of the Simplified Spelling Society and was also an Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language . John Walters (54-62) co-authored a critically acclaimed examination of the UK brewing industry following the Monopolies & mergers Commission’s report of 1989, entitled Intervention in the Modern UK Brewing Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Graham Ward CBE (63-70) was appointed an Ambassador of the International Integrated Reporting Committee, an initiative of HRH The Prince of Wales which is an international group of leaders from the corporate, investment, accounting, securities, regulatory, academic and standard-setting sectors, as well as civil society. The IIRC is developing and promoting ‘integrated reporting’, which demonstrates the linkages between an organisation’s strategy, governance and financial performance and the social, environmental and economic context within which it operates. In August 2011 Christopher Upward’s (49-57) The History of English Spelling was published by

Professor Michael Winterbottom FBA (46-52), Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and former Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford, published The Early Lives of St Dunstan (Oxford University Press, December 2011). with Michael Lapidge. The work contains new editions, together with translation and commentary, of the two earliest Lives of St Dunstan, who, as Archbishop of Canterbury between 960 and 988, was one of the principal figures of the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon church. Dr Silas Wollston (84-89) has been appointed Director of Music and Director of Studies in Music at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Anthony Woods (56-63) has published, under his nom de plume, Anthony Paul, a satirical novel about a missing lawyer, entitled John Doe (2011, Grosvenor House Publishing).

OA Memorabilia from The Commissariat The Commissariat at Dulwich College stocks a wide variety of memorabilia for Old Alleynians. Visit the website to view the entire range and buy online – shop.dulwich.org.uk. Opening Hours Contact Details The Commissariat,

Term Time: 8.00am – 4.30pm (Monday – Friday); 9.00am – 1.00pm (Saturday) School Holidays: 9.00am – 4.30pm (Monday – Friday)

Dulwich College, London SE21 7LD Tel: 020 8299 9222 Email: the. commissariat@ dulwich.org.uk Web: shop.dulwich. org.uk

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Clubs & Societies

There are many OA clubs and societies, some of which also accept non-OAs as members. Contact details may be found on p 19.

active or ‘retired’ oarsmen, whether they rowed at Dulwich or took up the sport later in life. We have the generous use of the College boathouse and regularly train together in the summer on land and on the water. We are also a very social club, and this year has already seen the return of our annual dinner and a Christmas reunion. We also plan to expand the regatta and incorporate an after-party into the event. There are also opportunities to volunteer with DCBC to support rowing at the school. If anyone is interested in learning more about our events and the Club, please visit us on Facebook at ‘Old Alleynian Boat Club’. The regatta also has its own page – ‘Alleynian Invitational Regatta’. Finally, the Secretary is always happy to give more information about the club, email tocsaunders@googlemail.com for information and membership requests. OAFC is currently going through an exciting phase of growth and improvement, both on and off the field. We have been steadily improving as a rugby club over the past few years and I now feel that the time and effort from all involved is starting to pay off. On the pitch we now run four senior sides in competitive leagues, a ‘veterans’ side (35+ years), an u21s and a thriving mini rugby section. Off the pitch we have a proactive committee under the ever watchful eye of chairman Roger Looker, while the clubhouse has never been so well stocked, so regularly used and well managed by grounds manager Phil Morgan. As I write, 2011-12 is going very well, with all teams performing competitively and all fixtures being fulfilled. The new coaching team of Fraser Gemmel and Paul Boullard have given the Club a real boost and competitive edge throughout the sides. This has resulted in the 1st XV currently sitting top of London SW3 and playing the confident and assured type of rugby that makes us all hopeful of promotion. Skipper Jonny Wright, now in his second season, has asked for and received greater commitment from all senior players, has always led by example and leaves little to chance. I must also mention Rick Wilson at this point and thank him for all his coaching efforts, as well as his numerous off the pitch efforts. After 25 years of coaching the OAs through thick and thin, he has stepped aside to let the younger generation take over, but does keep an eye on things and provide support from the sidelines. The 2nd XV, efficiently captained by Tim Wood, currently lie fourth in Kent Invicta1, which is a very Tom Saunders (01-06) OA Football Club

OA Boat Club

It has been a busy year for the OA Boat Club, in which we have seen more events, more funds raised and more members than ever before. A large group of OAs attended the DCBC annual dinner in the Great Hall in March. This was a hugely enjoyable event which has gone from strength to strength over the years. Thanks go to the Club for inviting us and being such gracious hosts. Several OAs made the trip to Henley Royal Regatta to cheer on the 1st VIII in July. Despite a promising start, Dulwich were rowed through just past Remenham and went on to narrowly lose, despite fighting back hard past the enclosures.

The Club runs the Alleynian Invitational Regatta, which is the largest public school alumni rowing event in the UK. This year we had record entries, with nine crews entering. OABC II was the first crew to take to the water and set the pace by beating a fancied Hampton crew in the first round. OABC I was not to be outdone, however, and comfortably beat Latymer in their opening heat. OABC I lined up against a fast Westminster crew in the final – which we later found out contained two of last year’s Cambridge Blue boat – and after a close race lost by half a length. Crews and their supporters then retired to the boathouse for a well earned drink. Thanks go to Simon Croucher and DCBC for helping with the organisation and for allowing us use of the boathouse, and to all members who helped make the day a success for everyone. This year also saw the departure of Matthew Gardiner as Secretary. Matt has been with the Club since its founding, and in that time always endeavoured to promote its best interests. Thanks were given for his service at the AGM in October and Tom Saunders was elected to replace him. The Club is always keen to hear from OAs who are

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competitive standard containing the 2nd XV and development squads for large town clubs such as Canterbury, Sidcup and Dover. Both the 3rd XV and 4th XV, under the stewardship of Sam Cross and Jon Gibson, are involved in the well managed Kent Metropolitan Leagues and are also performing admirably, fulfilling fixtures and enjoying their rugby. The veterans play Purley John Fisher in the semi-final of the Evergreen Cup and many thanks goes to Fabrice Bollet for all his efforts in persuading and rounding up senior current and past players in order to get a side out for these Sunday fixtures. On Boxing Day Charlie Southern gathered together an attractive young squad to continue the domination of this ancient regular fixture with Old Whitgiftians with a solid win. With an eye to the future, Roger Looker has been looking very closely at ensuring we fully benefit from our very close ties with the school and the hard work invested in growing the minis section. A large number of rugby players leave Dulwich every summer and we are keen to have as many as possible making their way up to Dulwich Common as senior players. Roger is planning to have more resource dedicated to supporting and communicating with the boys that leave the school and want to continue playing rugby. This starts with them as school leavers but also as they progress through university and then into their working lives. Much emphasis at the OAs is therefore being put upon having the right people involved specifically with the u18s section of the minis and the u21s section of the senior club. Recent successful products of the Club include Thomas Bellak (17) who was in the England u18 Squad to play Wales. The Northcote-Green brothers, Sam (19) and Max (17), have both played for the OAs and have been involved in the England Junior setup. Josh Elliot is another former England u18 who has played for both our u21s and the senior club. We are keen to not only remain a key introduction to senior rugby for first class players as they leave Dulwich – a long tradition of the OAs that in the past has included the development of both Easter brothers, Sam Blythe

and Nick Lloyd – but to continue to establish strong sporting links within the local community. Looking to the longer term, challenges do remain – in particular with regards to the drainage and potential relaying of the playing fields. This will require significant investment and is something that we can no longer ignore. Recent developments in how the Club is run have given an excellent basis for this type of organised fundraising and long- term planning. Siva Pillay has recently taken over as treasurer and is slowly but surely dragging us into the 21st century in terms of administration. Alongside this we have an active social committee, headed-up by Mark Moore, who very successfully organise major fundraising and charity events such as the biannual summer ball. The future is looking bright and hopefully promotion for the 1st XV into London 2 this season will be further proof of our progress. Please be aware that we do have pre-match buffets before every 1st XV home league fixture and all are welcome. 2011 was a mixed year. It became increasingly obvious that we needed more younger members, and that no longer did a number of middle aged OAs have their own boats which could be used, as in the past, for rallies and the Sail Training Week. This was the ‘down side’. On the ‘upside’ we enjoyed wonderful support from the Alleyn Club, Friends of Dulwich and the arrival of music teacher, Jemima Lofts. She is passionately interested in sailing and galvanised a number of boys and parents so that we were able to charter three boats in addition to two private boats and take twenty boys on the Sail Training Week. The two private boats were owned by our Commodore, Jerry Saville, and Tony Gaster, a recently retired OA who volunteered his boat – a great and welcome asset. All in all, it made the 2011 Sail Training Week a truly memorable one. Dates for 2012 are Sunday 15 to Friday 20 July. At our AGM and lunch we were able to welcome the Master, Dr Joseph Spence, and his wife, and their presence was much appreciated. In May Jerry Saville offered his boat for a Solent weekend cruise, and several younger OAs took advantage and enjoyed a reunion of their days at school when they participated in the Sail Training Week. This experiment will be repeated this year with two boats, the other being Tony Gaster’s, at the end of April. The social side continues, with our recent AGM and winter lunch, the Commodore’s Lunch on Saturday 16 June at Jonas Jaanimagi (83-90) Alleynian Sailing Society

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Chichester Yacht Club and a gathering at the RAF Yacht Club on the Hamble on Saturday 15 September. Our Arrow Trophy team again won silverware on the Solent in October. Skipper Alastair Capon and his crew deserve our heartiest congratulations. Please see the separate report. 2012 will see a number of changes to our committee. I shall be standing down as secretary and treasurer. My place as secretary will be taken by Anthony Frankford and treasurer by Jerry Saville. Both deserve great support from everyone. We also have two new members: Dr Alex Langley and Tom Tidbury – some much needed young blood. Arrow Trophy 2011 The Charterhouse Bowl is a splendid object but it speaks volumes when Dulwich are disappointed with only winning this particular trophy, won at October’s annual Arrow Trophy sailing regatta for independent schools in Cowes. The Charterhouse Bowl is awarded to the winner of the fleet racing conducted over the Saturday and Sunday. As holders of the actual Arrow Trophy our expectations are such that we feel we should be getting into the match racing every time. This year we sailed Sunsail F40s, specifically set up for racing with powerful mainsails and spinnakers of 128 square metres. They require a minimum crew of ten and as we were sailing in force six winds most of the weekend there were more thrills and spills than usual! Fortunately, we had the excellent Chris Savage on the helm, a guest appearance by Anthony Frankford – returning to the event he first organised for us in 1995 – and welcomed aboard for the first time Will Davidson and Rahim Kheraj. Our aim is to sail consistently and finish in the top ten – preferably in the top five – to assure a match racing place after Saturday’s racing. The first three races went well but with a fleet of 21 it is likely that there will always be at least one race where something goes wrong, and race four was our bête-noir. On the downwind leg we were considering when to drop the spinnaker, when Chris announced calmly that the helm had jammed! We yelled warnings at the boats gybing around the mark ahead of us and continued downwind at over ten knots, with the spinnaker and sheet trimmers controlling our direction. As we radioed in our retirement the helm freed itself, but by then we were more than half a mile beyond the mark. In the last race of the day we led the fleet but a simple navigation error took us to the wrong leeward mark – a reminder that complacency has no place in a winning crew. A fine dinner and marvellous hospitality at the Royal Corinthian, along with the formal presentation Geoffrey Dove (38-44)

of the Arrow Trophy for 2010’s win, tempered our disappointment at missing out on Sunday’s match racing. Sunday morning found us determined to do better and not allow Charterhouse to beat us by more than two places, as they started only one point behind. We sailed an excellent race one, putting Charterhouse under such pressure that they actually bumped the final downwind mark, giving themselves a penalty and allowing us to nip through inside and open up a four point lead. In race two we had a fantastic start and were leading when the Race Committee declared a general recall and suspension of racing after being rammed amidships by one of our competitors. A premature end to our morning left us clear winners of the Fleet Racing. This was another exciting Arrow campaign with great sailing, good company and marvellous hospitality from the Royal Corinthian and Oliver Light’s parents, who allowed us use of their house in Cowes. We take pride in representing the College in a very competitive regatta and beating more established sailing schools, enjoy meeting and sailing with an expanding and talented group of OAs, and much appreciate the continuing support of the Alleynian Sailing Society. Thanks go to our retiring Secretary, Geoff Dove, whose unfailing patience and support have been invaluable for so long. 2011 crew: Alastair Capon, Chris Savage, Anthony Lindley, Campbell Flynn, Anthony Frankford, Charlie Lowe, Jason Proctor, Tom Tidbury, Rahim Kheraj and Will Davidson. Dulwich College has produced consistently strong cricket sides in recent years under the expert guidance of former England batsman and Worcestershire CCC coach Bill Athey. These sides have been greatly strengthened by the Cricketing Scholars from Barbados as Dulwich has actively mined the rich seam of talent that extends back through Haynes, Garner and Sobers to Worrall, Weekes and Walcott. This means that for the first time since our only Final appearance in 1974, Old Alleynians now have the potential players to win the Cricketer Cup. We also reached the semi-finals in 1984, 1993, 1999 and 2008 without really having the depth of quality required to win the Cup. The most famous OA to have played has been Trevor Bailey (37-42) who appeared in the 1974 Final 15 years after the last of his 61 England Test Matches. Alastair Capon (73-80) Old Alleynians in the Cricketer Cup (1969–2011)

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