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Old Packwoodian Cricket Match - the 60’s v. the 70’s
After days and days of bright sunshine, the morning dawned in a haze of chilly drizzle – reminiscent, I’m sure, of many afternoons of Packwood cricket for the brave 22 (or was it 23 or 24!) who had dared to drag their cricket whites, (or faded yellows) out of the trunks they had been residing in for the last 30 years. No-one was quite sure what to expect but Peter Draper (60’s) and James Clarke (70’s) had each gathered together a team of willing volunteers as well as a few who hadn’t quite volunteered … While some settled down to a morning of reminiscing, checking out their old dormitories and looking through old school photographs, the real action began…. The professional cricketers (James Clarke’s team of 70’s Packwoodians) were put in to bat. As their total rocketed thanks to James Clarke and James Jones Perrott the 1960’s “Golden Oldies” decided that they would need to call for reinforcements and rope in Richard Draper (2002) as an eleventh man to save the day, when they came in to bat. Some fine bowling by Tim Roe (not officially of the right generation!) did however lessen the damage and after a wonderful lunch and fortified by some of the Bursar’s fine wine and beer the 60’s team creaked out to bat. Henry Curteis and Peter Clayton made a great start but anyone who could face James Jones Perrott’s bowling deserves mention. Tim Roe and Nick Jenkins put up a fine stand, (both having to retire) and slowly the score crept up towards the 70’s total. Finally, two runs behind, all rested on Wolverhampton policeman, Dickie Dale who, quivering and quaking in his boots, faced the demon bowler in the second last over. With a superhuman effort he swung his bat and connected for a four! Match over – and a great day’s cricket! The quote of the day from one of the 70’s brigade was “God help us if we look like that in 10 years time!” Fiona Bridge Dinner for 2001 Leavers
Once again, we were delighted to welcome back a large proportion of the 2001 Leavers for an evening of dining, catching up with old friends and reminiscing. The Leavers present were: Lydia Thurston, Gemma Cap, Lydia Tay, Rhiannon Evans, Edward Jones, Alice Malin, Grace Eardley, Nicko Field, Ted Hewett, Oliver Thompson, Harriet Fisher, Holly Kennedy, Fergus MacLeod, Jonathan Suckley, Tomo Hirono, Mtizuko Nakajima, Alice Davies, Henry Johnson, Alita Bovill, Alexandra Bennett, Sophie Manners, and Tom Newman. We look forward to welcoming the 2002 Leavers on 1st July 2007 |
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BirthsTo Archie Graham-Palmer and Philippa – A daughter, Elsa R Lloyd of Bridgnorth – former Chairman of the Governors T P Mannix 1929 – 1934 A F Wallace Hadrill 1923 - 1929 Miles Whitehead (né Hoare) 1968 - 1971 ObituaryChristopher Simon was at Packwood from 1924 to 1928 and went on to Gresham’s in Norfolk. He then studies Economics under Maynard Keynes at King’s College Cambridge. After service with the British Council (and war service in the Intelligence Corps, rising from Private to Major, ending with the Control Commission in post-war Germany), he returned to the North West in 1948 to join the family business, the Simon Engineering Group of companies. He was for many years a magistrate on the Manchester City bench on the Regional Hospital Board for Lancashire, the Stockport and Buxton Hospital Management Committee, the Council of Manchester University, the governing body of Cheadle Hulme School and a General Commissioner of Income Tax. One of his memories of Packwood was the food – which he
said was “terrible”. One day the fishmonger’s boy fell of his bike and it
was the best thing that ever happened to the food as the fish fell off too,
and it was declared unfit! Anthony Forster is living in France and recently kindly donated to the school a copy of Horace that he was awarded when at Packwood. He writes warmly of the teaching of John Wingate-Saul and Eric Herd. Alexander Hopkinson-Woolley
and Margaret have moved to 31 Foreland Road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight PO35
5XN Edward Woolley is an accountant. He plans to retire to Ireland Francis Woolley
is Priest in Charge at Balsham, Cambridgeshire. David Brooke has just retired from Medbury School in Christchurch, New Zealand, arguably the best prep school in the country, after a wonderfully long and successful 28 years as Headmaster. He then fell into the surgeon’s hands twice, but is now recovering and settling into their new home in Christchurch. David Lamb is selling his house in Twickenham and building another on the site of the family bungalow in Pembrokeshire. Andrew Wright has developed additional work for his practice in Australia, floating 5 companies on the English AIM as well as bringing Highland Gold to the market from Moscow, which was then the second largest float in the country. He remains a Governor at Packwood as well as being a Senior Partner in his Manchester Solicitors’ firm. Andrew Killick is still teaching Classics and Chess at Yarm and had the privilege this year of being coached in the latter by Grandmaster, Daniel King.
Revd. Toddy Hoare is on sabbatical leave this summer to do a sculpture project (he trained as a sculptor) on the Stations of the Cross, 8 panels 7’ x 4’, for which he received an Arts Council grant to pay for casting. Should do a tour of several cathedrals in the next two years. He has also featured in The Field magazine lately. Patrick Lunt can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 2 reading the news. In addition, he voices corporate videos and DVDs, as well as commercials. He has his own sound recording studio at home in Buckinghamshire, and a vast motorbike on which to travel to other studios! Peter King obtained a Doctorate in Economic
History from Wolverhampton University in 2003 based on his thesis in the
Economic History of the Charcoal Iron Industry. He has published many
academic articles on this and other historical subjects. He is currently
writing a book on transport and economy in the Severn Valley before the
Industrial Revolution. Latin (which he learnt at Packwood) has proved
useful in his researches. Stephen Rigby has been appointed to the Headmastership of Dulwich College Preparatory School. Tim Lamb has made a good recovery from a nasty operation and is now Chief Executive of the Central Council of Physical Education. Joe Millington still keeps the Classical flag flying in Lincolnshire, one of his pupils having just gone to Gonville & Caius to read Classics.
Richard Montagu still travels to and fro from Algeria in the oil business Hugh Millington has launched the franchise of hid business this year and he has two operations up and running already.Alan Montagu had another bank fold on him and finds that while his new post pays well enough, it is not so rewarding in achievement. Francis Salway
has been appointed chief executive-designate of Land Securities. He has
published a book “Depreciation of Commerical Property”. He is married to
Sarah and has two children. Richard Bampfield has seen a useful improvement in the wines market. He is rashly considering running the Medoc Marathon in France. It sounds more fun than most – it is known as the longest marathon in the world because of the frequent wine tasting stops which gradually impede the runners’ ability to run in a straight line. John Roe
drove 5000 miles this summer from Pennsylvania to Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming. He published another book: “Lectures on Coarse Geometry” and led
several rock climbing expeditions. He is currently teaching a course on
Relativity and has been granted a term’s sabbatical, which he will spend
with his family in Edinburgh. Sarah Davies now has two children but still does some work for the BBC. They are having massive interior work done to their house. Charles John Hickman is alive and well living in Wolverhampton, his ancestral home town, with his wife of 13 years Sarah, and sons James (12) and Aidan (7). Lucy (20), his daughter from a previous marriage, is living in Brighton and is mother to a 3 month old baby boy. Charlie is Emergency Planning Manager for Wolverhampton City Council, and an established government advisor on civil contingences And business continuity and was part of the expert group which drafted the Civil Contingencies Act 2005. He no longer plays football owing to his 'dodgy knee', but is a continued season ticket holder for the men in gold and black at the Molineux. Aidan is his footballing 'phoenix', and one of Charlie's missions in life is to ensure he is always home at the end of the school day to nurture, encourage and participate in his childrens' school lives. Would love to hear from Peter Hughes, Tom and Hugh Davies, John Chaplin, Tim Justice, Howard Bowell, Andrew Carter and Peter Moss. Rory O’Conor seems to do more gliding than medicine! Sophie Jebb and her family are settled at King’s Yard in Little Shelford. Her daughter, Alice is 4. Richard Jebb is engaged with a colleague in picking up the pieces of “Pigs Can Fly”, the firm for which he has worked for the last 10 years. Anthony Barnett joined a new architectural engineering practice as an associate. In his first few weeks, he designed a 26 office tower, which won a design competition for the joint practice in China. In August he spent 2 weeks there meeting staff and clients, returning with another contact for a 66 hectare resort in the Chinese version of Hawaii. In between, he is masterminding a large new city centre project in Bradford. He has, at last, sold his house in Bristol and moved to Ilkley. For recreation, he is a mountain biker. Charles Darby is a partner in a Leicester law firm. He has three children. Penelope Davies spent some time in Siena this summer teaching at a University Summer School. Kirsty Stanley-Hughes (Née Heap) had another baby in February Andrew Darby
is married with a young son and is a financial controller for Unysis Plc.
After spending some years in the U.S.A. and Luxembourg, he is now based on
London. Nick Barnett has moved house to be nearer his work at Warwick University. His guide to ‘Information Representation for Technology Transfer’ is planned for testing in the New Year. David Bickerton is still a partner in Clifford Chance and is about to go to South Africa with his family of three girls. William Cotton still works with Lehmann Brothers, but has found time to travel recently to Vietnam, Slovenia, Spain and will soon be visiting Guatemala and Honduras to see the Mayan sites and colonial towns there, while improving his Spanish.. Janet McKay (Née Pease-Watkin) who lives in New Zealand, took part in two huge challenges to raise money for charity this year: The Great Lake relay which she completed on her own and in which she won the 100km women’s individual section (with a time of 11 hours, 18 minutes and 48 seconds), and the Oxfam Trailwalker – a course equivalent of four marathons ascending Mount Cook – to raise money for some of the world’s poorest people. John O’Conor is still with Allen & Overy. Bridget Stone (Née O’Conor) is teaching at Wimbledon High, a very high class girls’ school. John Barker is now a Partner in his London firm Peter Brown is still very busy building boats in Hazelgrove with several new projects also on hand. He also finds the time to take a dancing class. Verity Kerfoot is flourishing in New Zealand and is looking forward to the family reunion out there in February. Ben Kerfoot is making sound progress with his boat building company in Liverpool. He sailed in the Caribbean at Christmas. James Pitt
James
Pitt married Bianca Gerlinger in Peter Brown continues to be very busy building boats and dancing. Alistair Darby is Managing Director of Wolverhampton & Dudley, the regional brewer, which has recently published some very strong seasonal trading figures. He is married with three daughters. Andy Jebb has a full case load booked well ahead. Ben Mowll is continuing with the Law as a partner in Furley Page Solicitors in Canterbury and is also producing pictures in several different mediums. Another picture has been accepted by the Royal Society of Marine Artists in a show at the Gallery in the Mall, and he also had a gallery in Salcombe major on his pictures for their Summer Exhibition. Justin Roberts has just completed his law qualification in London. He is to be married in July. James Skelton, his wife Lucy, and family have returned home from Thailand. He is still working for Tesco and is living in Buckinghamshire.
Christopher Darby is in London and is Financial Director of a small recruitment company. Sam Dewhurst
is much enjoying life on the teaching staff at Uppingham including one pupil
from Packwood this year. He is now the Commanding Officer of the C.C.F. Guy Anstiss is busy building 2 large liquefied natural gas silos for Centrica on the Isle of Grains Richard Barker now manages the second largest Casino in London. James Cotton works in London as a recruitment consultant, and continues to take and pass further professional exams. Joel Hagan went to Eton and New College, Oxford, where he reads Greats. He spent his gap year teaching at Packwood. He joined Arthur Andersen in 1992, making partner 2000. Following Arthur Andersen's demise post-Enron, Joel became Head of Consulting at BBC Technology. In 2005, Joel became Chief Executive of Landmark, a barristers' chambers specialising in planning, property, and public law. Joel is married to Laura and they have three children: Isabella, Theo and Maxim. They live in Gloucestershire. Josh Mowll had his book “Operation Red Jericho” published worldwide in hard back in September 05 and it is going into paper back in May 2006. It has also been translated recently into Russian as well as Croation. The next episode of “Operation Typhoon Shore” will also be published in 2006.
Ruth Hagan works for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. She lives in London with her husband, Shayne and their two sons Joseph and Patrick. Andrew Pitt works for U.B.S. Wealth Management. He has had enormous success with his horse Supreme Rock ridden by Pippa Funnell, a familiar name to anyone interested in Show Jumping. With Pippa Funnell riding, they have won 2 successive European Gold medals in 1999 and 2001, an Olympic Silver medal in Sydney 2000 and a World Bronze in Jerez, Spain in 2002, and had 2 successive wins in 2002 and 2003. Through her win there, and her success at Burghley Horse Trials in September, she went on to win the $250,000 United States Rolex Grand Slam. Supreme Rock could now claim to have been the best 3 day event horse of all time. Andrew and Emma were expecting their second child in December. Their first, Poppy was born in March 2002. James Pargeter stayed with Genevieve O’Brien (1983), and her husband in Sydney Australia, where he was lucky enough to see the final rounds of the World Cup. James Lewis lives in Wandsworth with his wife, Nadine, and 3 children (Taisie, Freddie and Charlie). Headhunter within the Financial Officer Practice at Hoggett Bowers, London.
Genevieve Thompson
(née O’Brien) is a Pilates instructor in Sydney and has a son, George, who
is 11 months. She is expecting a second child in February. Richard Barker is Deputy General Manager of the Bournemouth Casino Nicholas Brown is busy with his new business and expanding family as well as being a governor of his local Church Primary School. Justin Fletcher and Vitoria have moved into their house after a prolonged period of renovation. They have two sons. Adam Fletcher and Amanda now have three daughters. The last one was delivered by Adam as neither the midwife or ambulance arrived in time. They live just outside Cirencester. Gavin Fraser joined the Army Air Corps in 1989 and served in quite a lot of countries: Germany, France, Norway, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia and, of course, England. He left the Army in 1998 and now works as a civil servant. he is married to Victoria (2000) and has a 3 year old daughter, Heidi. His interests are biking, rugby and spending time with his family. William Lee is still with the army in Andover. Georgiana Woolley
is leaving Danes Hill Preparatory School after many years. She is
temporarily renting accommodation in Surbiton. Robin Bennett is moving to Cheshire to develop the buildings at a family farm, a huge undertaking. Andrew Hannay has now left Sunsail after running their largest club in Turkey and is working for a ski company in Val Thorens whilst considering what his next career step should be. Nicolas Heard works at the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies in Abu Dhabi. James O’Brien runs a successful personal training business. He has just moved back to London after four years in Sydney. Jonathan Pitt
set up his own P.R. company “Launch”. This specialises in launching new
companies for major companies and was due to be married to Rebecca Caradine
May 2004 . Madeleine Allman (née O’Brien) married in 1999 and has two sons Jack and Finn. She leived in Cape Town for 5 years and moved to Sydney 3 years ago. Roos Allsop and Emma now have 2 daughters of 3 and 10 months. Roos went to Iraq in January for three months to work in a hospital in Basra Stephen Brown is still busy writing and editing. He recently went to New York where he saw his name in lights for his play “Taster” in a theatre festival there. Julie Bowdler completed her teacher training in Toronto and began teaching 8 year-olds in September at a school in the Caribbean run from the UK by an English Parson. Fiona McDonald had her tonsils removed and 6 days later suffered a severe haemorrhage, fortunately both her father and husband were doctors and knew what to do but it was a very nasty experience for all concerned. David Makinson is still at the Home Office leading a small team, which occasionally has arduous tasks such as preparing briefs for the Home Secretary. He often travels to Brussels and sometimes to Paris. James Morris has settled in very smoothly to the family business. He lives in Shrewsbury with his wife and family. Sally Roper now has twins, making 3 girls in all. Emily Taylor was married in May 2005 Robert Barker now has two children. Mark Cassell’s father has been very ill and the whole family suffered severe damage to their boat during Hurricane Wilma. It left a trail of utter devastation behind it and their boat bore the brunt of the storm. William Heap and his wife had their third child last year. Mary Robinsonm now Mary Beeton, having married James Beeton in June 06. Went to Downe House (Newbury), then Queen Mary's College in London where she read English. Now living in the Wandsworth Common area of London, refurbishing a new house and working in Wimbledon Village as an associate Director for Hamptons International.
Myles Allsop and Anna had their first baby in January. They still live in London and Myles is working in the City. Michael Barker and his wife have recently had their first child. Emma Hawksley is still in Welshpool but she is now making a career change and is training as a nurse at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Philip Makinson has changed jobs and is now involved with mobile phones, the media and advising companies. Emily Morris left a most demanding marketing job in London and took time out for a ski season at Verbier while she considered her next move.
Oliver Dew is married to Hannah Dew and has two children; Johnathan and Jessica. He presently works for chorus and is planning to study for an MBA. Kirsty McDonald was married at Drumtochby Castle, the last of her family of 6. Their honeymoon was spent in Malaysia. Robert O’Brien is a freelance journalist for several publications in SydneyAndrew Barker is managing The Armoury in Shrewsbury as well as The Cornmill in Llangollen Kate Edwards is doing a Law Conversion Course and is finding her knowledge of Latin very helpful. Olivia McCall has changed jobs and is now helping to organise London Fashion Week. James Roper has just completed his MBA at Manchester Business School.
Simon Beazley is currently living in Fulham, sharing a flat with his brother (Nick) and working in Equity Sales for ING in the City David Chappell worked and travelled around the world for 6 years after leaving Shrewsbury. He spent time in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, The Cook Islands, Tahiti, Western Samoa, Ecuador, Zimbabwe and Italy generally working in the hospitality industry. He also spent a couple of years in the travel industry in the UK working at Trailfinders and Ebookers.com. He is now living in Fulham and is Sales and Marketing Executive for Londonlaunch which specialises in events and promotion to the events industry. His Managing Director is Will Broome – another OP! Gareth Lee is in Texas with K.P.M.G. and has now been asked to go to New York for two years. Iona McCall has moved from The MoD to the Treasury and is enjoying the challenge. Thomas Rowley has recently become engaged. He and his fiancée, Kate, are now back in Sydney for at least a year. He enjoyed the Lions Rugby Tour although their lack of success was disappointing.
Mark Anstiss is now a Chief Inspector in the H.K. Police and was extremely busy with the policing of the W.T.O. meeting which was held recently in Hong Kong. James Bourne has gained a place on the Psychology Doctorate course at the University of East London, commencing in October 2006. There were 21 places, and in excess of 500 applicants! Emma Fanning did teacher training on leaving Oxford, taught in a comprehensive for two years and then went out to Rwanda with VSO as an English Teacher. She left that to set up and run “Streets Ahead Children’s Centre” and came back to the UK a year ago. She is now doing a Masters at Sussex in anthropology of Development and Social Transformation. Tim Humphreys has been living and working in Fund Management for 9 years, and in May decided to take a year off and go travelling. He has spent the last 4 months in Central and South America, including 7 weeks in Belize doing his PADI Divemaster course. He heads to South East Asia in October, and hope to arrive in Sydney in February, where he will look for a job in the finance industry.
Alexander Dew worked as a PADI Dive Master S.E. Asia for 6 months in 2005. In 2006 he completed an MSc in Management at the University of Bath. He now works for IBM. Charlotte Hawksley is now qualified as a Doctor and is spending the first year of her junior Housemanship at the Maritime Hospital. She has also become engaged to Martin Beake with the intention of marrying in 2007. Tom Jenks studied Robotics and Automated Systems at Plymouth University and then travelled around South East Asia for three months. He is now working as a technical writer in Hitchin. Andrew Rowley is continuing to work at BBC Radio Stoke, sometimes starting with the early breakfast show at 5.00 am and finishing with a match commentary at 10 pm. Fleur Watson has been in Paris for 3 years working for a fashion institute as Overseas Development Officer and an English Teacher. She is looking for a job in the Auctioneering world and intends to take Chartered Surveyors exams once the job is in place.
Lorna Campbell has been working at Packwood this term helping out with activities as diverse as girls’ games and senior economics. After several years of working in the wine trade she is changing direction and going into teaching. Sara Fanning is a management consultant in South West London. Argy Taylor is working for Savill’s and much enjoying it.
Simon Rowley has recently started work with G O A Grimley, having completed his Master’s Degree in Real Estate at Reading last summer. Charlie Watson is now living in Sydney after leaving Bristol University. Farid Bakri graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA (Hons) in Economics and is now working in the City for an investment bank as a Corporate Finance Analyst. Sarah Evans is in her 4th year of Medicine (MBBS Bsc degree) and has another 2 years to go. Louisa Rhodes is in her final year of a Combined Social Sciences Degree at Durham University. She Captained the University Women’s 3rd team this year. Since July she has been in London doing a Law Conversion Course and is hoping to work as a psychology assistant before doing a clinical psychology PHD. She was also on the exec for Durham University Poker society! Lucy Sharp is currently working as PR
manager at The Trafford Centre in Jason Tyler has just returned to Australia after travelling in Europe and Asia. He has just started studying Environmental Engineering and a course in Traditional Chinese Massage. He plays the didgeridoo and trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Sean Tyler has been travelling in Europe and Asia and has just started Mining Surveying at University in Australia.
Oscar Godfrey did AS and A2 levels in home
town of Northwich at Sir John Deane's College. Studied Art, Maths and
Physics. Then moved to London in 2003 with a friend he met at John Deanes
and began training to be a fire fighter. While doing this, managed to get a
job as a fashion model to help support himself. Became a fully qualified
Fire Fighter in March this year and has been working in the Department since
then. Lucy Barlow moved from Rugby to Stowe for ‘A’ Levels and then did an art foundation degree at the London College of Fashion. She is now taking a gap year. Annabel Graham-Wood, Harry Fildes and Alex Wright are all currently enjoying Newcastle University Gabby Haigh is studying medicine at Liverpool University. During her gap year she worked in a hospital in Ghana and is now organising the building of an orphanage in Ghana. Richard Hughes is studying Geology and Geophysics at Edinburgh and has played for the Univeristy of Edinburgh Hockey Team. Oliver Leach is at the University of Sheffield studying Philosophy. He is also working as a Sports Editor for Sure Radio. Charles Staniforth-Endsor spent a gap year working on a fruit farm in South Africa and then travelled to Australia, Thailand, Beijing and Hong Kong (where he now lives). He is now studying Biological Sciences at Exeter and is hoping to go on to do medicine. Claire Smith spent her gap year travelling to Australia and Thailand and teaching windsurfing and sailing in Greece. She is now studying Sports Science and Physiology at Leeds and after university she is hoping to either train as a physiotherapist or go back to do medicine. Rebecca Trant played first team hockey and tennis at Moreton Hall. Following a gap year when she did a cookery course and travelled to Australia she is now at Leeds University studying Sociology. Annabel Taylor moved from Moreton Hall to
Uppingham for her ‘A’ Levels and then spent a gap year travelling. She is
also now studying Sociology at Moreton Hall. Kim Harfitt has just finished her gap year in Sydney working at a large girls’ school and travelling around Australia. She is going to Edinburgh University in September to read French and Linguistics. Lydia Thurston has just left Shrewsbury High School and is going on to Bristol University to study Medicine in October. In 2005 she was a semi-finalist in a competition to represent the UK at Science School in Sydney and in 2006 she was Highly Commended in the British Biology Olympiad and Chemistry Olympiad. She achieved 5 A grades at AS Level.
Stephen Jones is going to Peterborough for a year’s placement to work for British Sugar as part of his course at Harper Adams. Dominique Caudwell was Head of Upper Collete at Cheltenham Ladies’ College last year. Sam Davies has thoroughly enjoyed his first year of Medicine at Cardiff.
Zara Humphreys after starting
at Rowan Lovegrove-Fielden is currently in Australia taking a gap year and working in the Australian Ski Resorts. She spent some time working at the House of Commons which she thoroughly enjoyed. Ruth Newton spent three months in Malaysia on a Raleigh International Environment Project. The project was to complete a hanging suspension bridge to access a very remote conservation area for scientists to carry out research into a variety of plants and endangered species including the Sumatran rhino, elephant, clouded leopard, orang-utan and proboscis monkey. Jenny Sampson is reading Civil Engineering at Edinburgh University. Harry Trevor-Jones captained the Shrewsbury Team at the 18th International Young Physicists Tournament in Switzerland having won the nationals. Nick Trowbridge is taking a gap year in travelling diverse places such as Chile and Singapore and is going to Durham in October. David Wood is studying Natural Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge where he plays Rugby for both his college and the University U20’s. Ian Woodward is currently studying Computer Systems Engineering at the University of East Anglia, and is an Officer in the Royal Navy Reserve. He spends much of his free time teaching Sea Cadets, and onboard HMS Raider Alexandra Bennett has just left Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is planning to spend her gap year as a chalet girl and wing walking! She was a school prefect and has secured an Army Scholarship to University. She has done her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award , captained the 1st netball team and is in the skiing team. Gemma Cap has left Moreton where she did Geography, Business Studies and English Literature for ‘A’ Levels and is starting at Bath University in September. She was a school prefect and did her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award as well as a Leith’s Cookery Course. She was in the 1st X1 hockey and swimming teams. Alice Davies did French, Spanish, Geography and Latin ‘A’ Levels at Moreton Hall and is now taking a gap year working at a school in Chile and then travelling around South America. She is then hoping to go to Bristol University to do Hispanic Studies. She has done her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award and a Leith’s Cookery Course at Moreton and was a school prefect. Grace Eardley has just left Moreton where she did her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award and a Leith’s Cookery Course. She has been in the first teams for Badminton, Football, Hockey, Tennis, swimming and cross country. Harriet Fisher has just left Mill Hill where she played county hockey for Middlesex and was in the 1st X1 hockey team as well as being a sergeant in the CCF Rhiannon Evans was Deputy Head Girl at Moreton and was in the 1st teams for hockey, lacrosse and cricket. She did a Leith’s Cookery course and the Gold Dukie of Edinburgh Award. She is now spending a gap year teaching English to mentally handicapped children in Paraguay and then going on to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Tomo Hirono has left Moreton Hall and studied French, Maths and Biology for her ‘A’ Levels. She is now returning to Japan to study International Economics and Politics. She did her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award and was Finance Director of Moreton Enterprises. Alicia Houlker was a House Prefect at Rugby and is now planning to study Accountancy and Finance at Manchester. At Rugby she played County Hockey and was in the 1st Polo Team. Sasha Johnson was among the top 20 GCSE performers at Harrow last year. Holly Kennedy has left Moreton Hall and is hoping to study Architecture at Newcastle University in September. She has been working during the holidays for the last 3 years for a software ecommerce/ consulting firm. She was deputy Head Girl of Moreton Hall and Managing Director of Moreton Enterprise. Alice Malin has really enjoyed Shrewsbury Sixth orm College and is now spending a gap year in Senegal and Chile before taking up an offer to read English at Corpus Christi, Cambridge. She was one of the Foyle Young Poets of the year 2005. Tom Holloway has had a very successful acting career at Radley. Lauren Wellings has just left Moreton Hall and is starting an 8 month course at Leith’s Cookery School in London in September. She has done her Gold Duke of Edinburgh award and was vice captain of the 1st Lacrosse Team.
Alys Brooks is thoroughly enjoying life at Moreton Hall and plays hockey for Midlands, Shropshire and Cannock. Thomas Hanmer will be taking GCSE’s next year at Shrewsbury where he is very happy and particularly enjoys the rowing. His team recently won Gold at the nationals. Ned Paterson is thoroughly enjoying Shrewsbury – particularly the drama and debating. He is playing a lot of rugby and tennis.
Phillipa
Tudor
is enjoying her time here at
Malvern Girls and has recently been made a house prefect. She is taken
her GCSE's and is enjoying English, Art and Drama. She have recently
been in ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream' which was performed at Malvern
Theatre for the Shakespeare Festival. She had a great time doing it
although she says it was tremendously tiring. Caroline Anson is playing 1st Team Lacrosse at Tudor Hall. She is spending the summer trekking in Mongolia. Joseph Bennett represented Shrewsbury School in the National Schools Regatta and has received a Silver Medal for rowing. Rhys Bevan is playing Football, Rugby and Tennis for Shrewsbury School. Luke Gerrard has been playing Tennis, Rugby and Football at Shrewsbury School and was in the U17 Physics Team. He has also played District Golf. Tom Clowes has played Football and Cricket for Shrewsbury School. Matthew Crewe has just taken GCSE’s at Denstone. Charlotte Dinwall-Fordyce received a Sports Scholarship to Oswestry School and has been playing County Hockey and Cricket and has played U19 Rounders. Tristan Dougan has just left Sedbergh where he was did very well to qualify for the Wilson Run (a 10 mile fell run). He has completed his Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award and played Rugby for the A2 team. He was also in the winning House Tug-of-War team. Hannah-May Elmasri is thoroughly enjoying Rugby. She has taken Grade 8 Violin and Grade 6 Singing. She has been in several plays and played 1st team Rounders. Catrin Evans has been chosen to play Midlands Hockey at Moreton Hall. William Jones has just done GCSEs and is awaiting results. He is going to do Latin, Geography, Biology & Chemistry in the 6th Form. He is still mad-keen on his natural history and is going to do species counting in Honduras next year. Katie Lehmann is playing 1st Team Lacrosse at Casterton. Freddie Manners came top in the UK in the National Physics Challenge and was selected to represent the UK at the 38th Chemistry Olympiad in Korea in July. Freddie is two years under the normal age to qualify and the youngest ever qualifier. Emile Perkins has been chosen for the National Youth Choir Emma Powell has done her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is playing Netball for the school. Georgina Ramsbottom has done her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is playing Lacrosse for the school. Nathan Wright is in the sailing team at Worksop
College. Camilla Austerberry has taken her French GCSE a year early at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is going on the Lacrosse Tour to the USA. She has been in Lacrosse, Athletics and Tennis teams. Camilla Barlow has been appointed Head of the Junior House at Moreton Hall. She was in ‘My Fair Lady’ and went to Venice on a choir tour. She has played for U14 and U15 Lacrosse, Hockey, Rounders and Tennis. Olivia Brine has taken her Divinity GCSE a year early and has done her bronze Duke of Edinburgh award at Rugby. She has been in two house plays “A Murder is Announced” and “Dick Whittington” and has played in various Netball, Hockey and Rounders teams. Emma Carr is very happy at Repton and is in the athletics and hockey teams Adam Cartwright is in the J15 Rowing Squad at Shrewsbury and came 3rd in the National Schools Regatta. Zands Conway has become Head Organist at Uppingham School. He is now playing a lot of gigs and in a professional jazz band. Iona Dixey has taken French and Latin GCSE’s a year early at Moreton Hall. She is playing County Hockey for Shropshire and is training for England Lacrosse. Louenna Edwards is enjoying Millfield and is doing particularly well at athletics. She has been chosen to go on an athletics tour to Portugal. Hamish Findlay is loving Shrewsbury and is coxing for the J15 Rowing Team. They recently came 3rd in the National Schools Regatta. He is also playing Hockey for the school. Jodi Foster is taking Latin and French GCSE a year early at Moreton Hall and is in the swimming squad. Michael Harrap is in the Rugby, Rowing and Water Polo teams at Cheltenham College. He dislocated his leg while break dancing (which he has given up!). He also managed to get lost for two days in the Forest of Dean on a Duke of Edinburgh excursion. Francesca Haszard has taken her Divinity GCSE a year early at Rugby and has been in House plays and the Junior School Play. She has played in Hockey and Netball tams and been in the Athletics team. Todd Langford-Archer is rowing and playing rugby for Shrewsbury School Camilla Lea is in the athletics team at Moreton Hall and has been doing particularly well at the 100 metres. Katie Hewett has been made a house prefect at Moreton Hall Miho Kanekawa has settled in very well at Moreton Hall and will be taking GCSE’s next year. Ben Lee Has played for U15A Cricket and U15B Rugby teams at Shrewsbury. Andrew Mackereth is Captain of Powys U15 Rugby and top try scorer for Shrewsbury Rugby Club. Anna Matthews is taking her Welsh GCSE a year early at Moreton Hall and is playing in the Lacrosse team. Charlie Marshall joined Shrewsbury Rugby Club with Andrew Mackereth and Ollie Chantler and has been part of a very successful team. Tom McAlpine is enjoying life at Shrewsbury and playing Cricket and Fives for the school. Erica Midwood is doing very well in her sport at Millfield. She has played for the Netball and Tennis teams. Arabella Munro is doing very well academically at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and is in the Lacrosse Team. Lucy Prosser is happy at Queen Margaret’s York and will be doing GCSE’s next year. Guy Newton is playing flanker for the U15B Rugby team at Millfield and is in the Tennis Squad. He also played Football for the B team and is throwing the Javelin. He is doing 50% of my Music GCSE in 2006 as most of it is practical and he has just started playing grade 8. Maths and Geography seem to be his strongest subjects even though (he says) “they seemed to be my worst at Packwood”. Nicola Ramsbottom has taken her maths GCSE a year early at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and has been on a Lacrosse tour to the USA. Ed Parry-Smith has taken Latin and French GCSE’s a year early at Eton. He has captained his house Field Game Team and coxed the house bumping four. He has also played Fives for his house. Sarah Wood is at Moreton Hall and is playing cricket for Shropshire. She is playing in the hockey team and taking her Latin GCSE a year early. Tom Wordie is Captain of the U15 Tennis Team and
has also played Football and Fives for Shrewsbury School.
Retired Staff NewsMajor J R A Bampfield has been doing sterling work for the Cheshire Homes at Chirk as Chairman. Pat Barker had to have an emergency operation to her back but has now recovered. Bill Barnett, Centenary Fund organiser, and Felicity his wife, sent a photo of their beautiful garden which she had developed in France from nothing. They had no rain from the end of April to early September. Bill had a nasty accident, when his mower ran away with him. In jumping off he badly dislocated his arm, which ruined their planned holidays. He is also to have a plastic knee fitted as he is presently immobile. Joyce McFerran has at last had to give up racing, but she still finds much to interest her with bridge and politics. She is living in Tetbury. Ginny Lunn (1987) is working for The Prince’s Trust in London and was recently received by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales for her work with the Trust. Gwyn Nicholas has moved to Baschurch, not far from the house in which he and his family lived when he was on the staff. Roger Overend is Headmaster of King’s School, Rochester Preparatory School. His daughter, Alice, was born on 3rd November 2003. Geraldine Roberts, widow of Danny, teacher of French and Art and Author of French Story books for schools, wrote to say that she now has two grandchildren.
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