The President JAMES THORNTON
The College’s 400th anniversary celebrations in 2019 must make this the best year ever to be an OA and to reunite at the College and in gatherings worldwide. The Alleyn Club represents all 10,000+ OA members. Young or old, UK or internationally based, diverse in background, we are enabled by our education to get on successfully with everybody from all walks of life, anywhere and at any time. The 400th anniversary year is the very best and most exciting time to re-engage with the College and our fellow OAs. With your involvement, 2019 could achieve twin notable goals: bringing record numbers of OAs to a sensational roster of social, cultural and sporting events; and creating a legacy by contributing to the New Dulwich Experiment, which is striving to build a needs- blind institution for gifted boys from all backgrounds. As an eternally grateful beneficiary of the original Dulwich Experiment, I am delighted that 2019 prompted the Alleyn Club’s first grant of £100,000 towards the Bursary Appeal Fund, hopefully inspiring individual OAs to give back and extend the opportunity we benefitted from to a new generation. Through the great help of the Master and the Development Office, we are now in regular contact with approximately 3,500 OAs, via the OA
section of the website, termly joint e-bulletins and social platforms. And so, we can more readily achieve our objectives: to further professional development and recreational, social and sporting activities for members and to strengthen links between
the Club and the College, including support of the College’s educational purposes. The diagram opposite outlines the basic structure.
In recent years, while sustaining our support for ten active OA sporting and
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