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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