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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