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achievements of Alleynians, current and past, who have done and are doing great work in their chosen fields, be they sport, law, drama, technology, medicine or writing. Alleynians are multi-faceted. In thinking about the OAs I knew as boys, those I have to come to know well as men, and those I meet at events for the first time, I am reminded of a moment in Winter, the new novel of a new friend of Dulwich College, the prize-winning author, Ali Smith. In 2017 we again hosted, with Dulwich Books, the Dulwich Literary Festival, and Ali Smith launched the Festival by judging a short-story competition for local pupils. In Winter, a character admires a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, saying: “It makes you walk round it, it makes you look through it from different sides, see different things from different positions.” I think the same is true of Dulwich College and its alumni: they are worth looking at from all angles.
2017 was particularly poignant, because together with his family, we commemorated a paving stone in honour of Major Alexander Lafone (1881-1889), VC, 1/1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars). This edition of the Yearbook contains an article by the College Archivist, Calista Lucy, about the three Old Alleynians who have been commemorated at the College in 2017.
The service at the War Memorial was led by the College Chaplain and attended by President of the Alleyn Club, Professor Andrew Tomkins OBE (54- 62), as well as the outgoing President Sir Colin Rimer, and Past Presidents and Fellows of the College.
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