The Alleynian 703 2015

W elcome to this year’s edition of The Alleynian . We hope you enjoy the diverse range of news, features and reports detailing the thoughts and actions of Dulwich College. This year has seen some important moments, with the opening of Phase One of the new Laboratory, the enormous success of the first Dulwich Creative Week and the fifth appearance of the fabulous Upper School Symposium all proving to be particular highlights, and all featured in these pages. The second of these, Dulwich Creative, gave rise to the leading focus of this issue – creativity. The creative instincts and abilities of boys at Dulwich permeate throughout, from collaborations with the sculptor Conrad Shawcross to thoughts on the landscape of Iceland to an account of our first Music Composition Competition. Other features reflect on what Dulwich’s pupils are thinking about or have been up to – School Captain Anamay Viswanathan considers what leadership at Dulwich looks like; Marko Marsenic – and me – think about the impact the internet and mobile devices are having on our lives. Dramatic, musical and sporting achievements have been typically outstanding this year, with the success of the Dulwich Olympiad, another unbelievable cup run from the 1st XV, productions of The Caucasian Chalk Circle , The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Hiawatha , and concerts at Dulwich and further afield all exemplifying the exciting successes of students outside the classroom. This edition of The Alleynian is also the first since the re-establishment of a student editorial committee, a group we have created with the intention of handing ownership and responsibility of this vital school institution back to those who started it more than a hundred years ago: the students. We wanted to involve those who were interested in more of the commissioning, editing and writing of articles, and in this debut year we hope you will enjoy what we have produced. Only in our infancy, we are constantly on the lookout for new members of the team and, as I hand over to next year’s Senior Prefects for the Creative Arts, I hope many of you will take an interest in joining this body and getting involved with another exciting and thought-provoking edition.

Student Editor Ollie Norton-Smith

Staff Editor Mr Rory Fisher

Editorial Committee Ollie Norton-Smith

Keesje ’t Hooft Shehzore Adil Miles Dee (Art) Theo Forbes Ben Higlett (Sport) Hamish Lloyd Barnes (Drama) Marcus Kottering Edward Reid Edmund Stutter Staff Section Editors Art : Mrs Mary Jo Doherty Drama : Mrs Kathryn Norton-Smith

Music : Miss Jemima Lofts Sport : Mr Phil Greenaway

Photography Miss Maggie Jarman (Drama, Valete, Iceland, Symposium and many others) Ms Deborah Field (Symposium, Music and others) Mr Nobby Clark, Ed Reid, Marko Marsenic, Will Reid (Drama) Mr Andrew Waugh, Mr David Lee (Sport) Mr Daniel Shearing (The Laboratory)

Design and Layout Mr Nicholas Wood

Proofreader Miss Rebecca Smith

Printing Cantate

With thanks to: Mr Simon Northcote-Green, Miss Maggie Jarman, Ms Deborah Field, Ms Emily Hughes, Mrs Sally Gatley, Mrs Victoria Joseph, and all our contributors. The front and rear cover show images from the notebook of Oscar Maguire (Year 13), which depict creativity in action. The inside covers show drawings produced as part of Dulwich Creative.

Ollie Norton-Smith Student Editor

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