Events
10 March – Shanghai Dinner Held in El Efante’s private wine bar with 14 attendees. 4 April – Hollywood Lunch The Annual OA Hollywood Dinner was hosted by Richard Evans OA (87-95) and his wife, Sara, at their home. A small party of 9 attended. 7 April – Auckland Lunch Co-ordinated by Peter Krafft OA (55-63) and held in ‘de Fontaine’; 7 attended. 10 April – Perth Dinner Co-ordinated by Robert Simpson OA (63-70); 12 attended. 13 April – Hong Kong Dinner Co-ordinated by Roger Houghton OA (54-62) on the 1st floor of the Hong Kong Club. 21 guests attended the dinner. 14 April – Bangkok Dinner Hosted by Michael Smith (Honorary Member of the Alleyn Club) and held at the Dusit Thani Hotel; 5 OA’s were in attendance. 16 April – Singapore Dinner Hosted by Anil Scott OA (86-91) at Stumps Bar, Singapore Cricket Club; 17 guests attended. 19 April – Melbourne Lunch The Lunch was hosted by Anthony Gage OA (54-62) at The Strand Restaurant; 18 guests attended. 20 April – Dubai Dinner Dinner was hosted by Aston Benjamin-Taylor OA (90-00) with 4 OA’s attending. 22 May – Vancouver Lunch Hosted by Michael Atterton OA (53-58) at The Boat House Restaurant, Kits Beach; 6 guests attended. 27 May – Toronto Dinner David Hicks OA (51-59) organised dinner at the Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto with 28 guests in attendance. 28 May - New York Cocktail Reception The Cornell Club in Manhatten 29 May – New York Dinner The Annual New York Dinner was organised by Michael Lynfield OA (69-74) at Keens Steakhouse; 26 attended.
shame that two of the guests missed their ferry and the event! On to Denver and tea in Boulder, Colorado where attendance was reduced as it was Memorial Day weekend. An apocalyptic hailstorm was good preparation for Dallas (with visitors from Houston on a night of record rain there) before reverting to the more normal Presidential circuit joining the Master for final events in Toronto and New York. So almost sixty years since first reading those reports, I now wonder whether there will be a young Alleynian who reads this and in sixty years’ time will be President of the Alleyn Club with a similar theme and motivation to visit OAs and Dulwich Colleges around the world. I do hope so, for we are increasingly spread worldwide and all have our school heritage in common. For anyone who has read this far there may be one lingering question. The answer is ‘Yes!’ The tradition of singing the school song was maintained almost everywhere – even in public venues where phlegmatic locals seem to take it as quite normal for grown men to rise and sing in Latin concluding, as I do this article, with ‘Detur Soli Deo Gloria.’
The details of everyone who attended the various events throughout the year can be found on our website https://oa.dulwich.org.uk/2015eventslists
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