OA NEWS OAs 1900’s
OAs 1950s Professor David Greer (52-55) was awarded the C.B.Oldman Prize 2017 by the International Association of Music Libraries for his Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music . Sadly, David died in November, aged 80. Ronnie Moos (49-51) on a visit to Montreal in the summer attended a Service at the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde for Reinberger's Requiem Mass in the Roman Rite, sung by the Choir of King’s College, London. Ronnie was delighted to learn two of the choir were also OAs James Orford (03-14) and Joshua Kader (13-15). Congratulations to David Wales (49- 56), who celebrated both his Golden Wedding Anniversary and his 80th birthday at the College in July. David Mason (51-59) made the Gold Coronet for Prince Charles used at his Investiture in 1969. The Coronet was made in the Research and Development Chemical Laboratories where he was Head of Research and its story was featured in a Channel 4 programme with Dame Penelope Keith. At the wedding of Martin Cardwell (58-65) to Katherine Hevezi on 20 October the happy couple were joined by seven members of the same Junior form that started at Dulwich in 1957.
Shown in the photograph, from left to right, are: Martin Ross, Richard Whiffin (58-65), John McCaul (57-66), Martin Cardwell (58-66), John Wagstaff (58- 66), Christopher Bazalgette (58-66) and Paul Smith (58-66).
Stanley Douglas Selby Sumner 1897-1903 was commemorated at All Saints Church, Banstead, in January 2017, the 100th anniversary of his death during the Great War. A memorial service took place during which a bell was tolled 100 times in memory of Stanley. Stanley and his brother, Horace, entered Dulwich College on 18 December 1897. Stanley was in Blew House and left Dulwich College in 1903. He served with the 12th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment and was killed in the south of the British sector on the Somme on 20 January 1917. Stanley is not currently in the Dulwich College War Record or on the War Memorial, but he is one of our missing who will be added in 2018. OAs 1930s Ian G G Smith (31–35) celebrated his 100th birthday on 7 April. OAs 1940s The 17th Thwaites Bach Competition took place in the Old Library in September in the company of the competition’s benefactor, Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites (36-40), and was won by Lucas Miller for his performance of the Sarabande, Bourrées I & II & Gigue from Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009. The adjudicator was Mr Mark Williams, Informator Choristarum, Organist & Tutorial Fellow in Music, Magdalen College.
Earlier this year, Robert Bembridge (45- 53) and Peter Dorey (44-51) toured the heights of the Barry Building restoration project with Robert’s daughter, Fiona. Fiona has two sons at the College now, and won this opportunity at the Gala Auction in May. They tried their hand at masonry; affixing two finials to the roof of Centre Block.
The Very Revd Alan Warren (43-50) and Silvia (JAGS 45-54) celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in August with a communion service and reception at Old Hunstanton church in West Norfolk, following a weekend family gathering of four generations. In June a plaque commemorating the life of Ron Branscombe (46-51) was unveiled at a lunch held in his honour. In attendance were a number of Ron’s closest friends including Senior Fellow Terry Walsh, Ron Blythe (47-54), John
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