Walters (54-62) and Joe Crow (62-70). Guests of honour though were Ron’s niece, Sophie and nephew Neil. They were present both for the unveiling and also to hear Master of the College Dr Joe Spence speak warmly about Ron’s long association with both the school and the OA Club. The plaque can be seen on the balcony on the south side of the Pavilion under that of his great friend David Destefano (49–57).
John Freeman (57-64) won Wales Book of the Year for poetry for his collection What Possessed Me (Worple Press) which explores childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour, poignancy, and preternatural clarity. Graham Kahn (57-66) received the award as Northern Radio Personality of the year 2017 for the Graham Douglas Radio Show (his stage name). Peter Thompson (57–65) was honoured with a lifetime award for urology by Zenith Healthcare. Graham Swift (60- 66) won the 2017 Hawthornden Prize for Literature for his novel Mothering Sunday. OAs 1970s Ian Goodhew (74–79) was recognised along with his wife Sally Donaldson (Head of Kindergarten at DUCKS) at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards for their tremendous voluntary work with grassroots rugby. They were thanked by four members of the GB Rugby Sevens team. TimHitchens CGM LVO (72 -79) has been appointed President of Wolfson College Oxford. Tim is Director-General, Economic and Consular at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and has over thirty years of experience as a diplomat, which have taken him to parts of the world as diverse as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and France. He has spent three years as Foreign and Commonwealth Office director for Africa, and most recently four years as British Ambassador to Tokyo. He will take up the Presidency of Wolfson College in early summer 2018.
Peter King (71-76) is to take up a senior role at the Treasury. Peter, who has been at Weil Gotshal &Manges for almost 10 years after joining from Shearman & Sterling (where he was London Head of Corporate), will leave the US firm to join the Treasury as Legal Director. Peter will join Sir Tom Scholar (79-86) who is the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury.
OAs 1960’s John Richards (56–63) visited the College in May and gave a comprehensive and provocative talk to boys in Year 10 and Year 13 on Intellectual Property in the 21st Century, exploring the interrelationship between patents, copyright and trade secrets. John is a New York Super Lawyer and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham University School of Law, with more than four decades of patent experience. Ivor Warburton (57-65) sent us greetings from South Georgia in November where he visited the grave of Sir Ernest Shackleton (1887-1890)
Alastair Fairley (71-76) spent six years working with the South East of England Heritage Lottery Fund. He was then invited by the Sussex Wildlife Trust to chair the Appeal Board to raise funds for a new £3.5m Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in East Sussex. Peter Andrews (64-71) has been living and working in Rwanda, Central Africa (on and off) for the past 36 years. Having gone there to teach in 1981 he then lived there with his family, although he was evacuated during the genocide of 1994. He now regularly visits and is involved in orphan community care, skills training, church building and translation and production of Bible teaching material. OA 1980’s Carne Ross (75–82) writes and appears regularly in the media, commenting on world affairs and alternate systems of organising our affairs, in particular anarchism.
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