ROSETHE PORTCULLIS EMANUEL SCHOOL’S ALUMNI MAGAZINE ISSUE 4

INSIDE HISTORY INTERVIEW FEATURE THIS AIRBORNE ANTICS JEREMY TREVATHAN MUSICAL OEs : THE EMANUEL A PASSION FOR FROM SKIFFLE ISSUE GLIDER PUBLISHING TO INDIE CONTENTS

Welcome from the Headmaster 3 Events Round Up 24 Welcome from the Development FEATURE – Musical OEs: From Team & Upcoming Events 4 Skiffle to Indie 26 Campaign Update 5 Now and Then 29 WELCOME HISTORY – Airborne Antics: News of Old Emanuels 30 6 Dear OE The Glider Remembered 33 Farewell - Sara Williams-Ryan I sit at my desk having just completed my with local charities. Wider evidence of INTERVIEW – Jeremy Trevathan, 8 Old Emanuel Association 34 final assembly with this year’s leavers. They the great Emanuel spirit and desire to A Passion for Publishing have been a wonderful collection of boys support others has come through various Obituaries 36 24 HISTORY – Charles Cuddon 10 and girls, led by a fine team of prefects events in the school year. It was particularly 12 and a superb head boy and head girl, each meaningful to receive the Emanuel Parents’ Head Girl and Head Boy Round Up supported by their deputies. My farewell to Association donation of £18,000 for a child Co-Curricular Life 14 them focused on some of their memories to be fully-funded for a year at the school. INTERVIEW 18 from their time at school and my assurance This award will change the life of a bursary – Dr Andrew Polaszek that they have made an indelible difference pupil and sees our fully-funded campaign FEATURE – A Dose of OE Medicine 20 to the life and identity of Emanuel, just as reach 17 places towards our target of every OE before them has done. We read 20. Beyond this scheme, as this magazine Archive Matters 22 an extract from the Portcullis magazine shows, the enduring generosity of the 1918 and reflected on the great difference school’s supporters has seen our capacity in experience but also the similarity of to support bursaries and means‑tested sentiments expressed by the school leaver scholarships grow. I know that for many then and those who were sitting in front their time at Emanuel came about due of me today. The same ambitions, hopes to the assisted places scheme and it is and excitement emerged, some doubts important to me that we can sustain the and anxieties too and always a sense that school’s accessibility as we move forward. they will miss the friendships, the teachers and the familiarity of school life. It is wonderful to play my part in a school that 6 has evidently meant so much to so many young people and OEs; I hope that we can continue to ensure it is a school that you can all be proud of in the years to come. I concluded the assembly by asking the pupils to make the very best of their talents and to seek out ways that in doing so, they can improve the lives of others. This final point is very important to me 8 and a sense of altruism has always been evident in the boys and girls I have met at Emanuel since August last year. Indeed, I very much hope you enjoy reading this when I first came to the school last magazine and that you maintain your fond CONTACT summer, I spoke with a small number of memories of Emanuel over the years. The Development Office, sixth formers who told me about their Yours sincerely Emanuel School, desire to support more local charity Battersea Rise, London SW11 1HS initiatives. This aspiration has given rise to Email: [email protected] our outreach programme that will start Tel: 020 8875 6978 in September 2019 and will see our sixth www.emanuelalumni.org.uk formers coming off timetable every Friday EmanuelSchoolAlumni afternoon and teaching local primary Robert Milne @OldEmanuels 18 school pupils or working in partnership Headmaster

3 UPCOMING EVENTS CAMPAIGN School Open Day Saturday 15 September, 2018 UPDATE 9am – 12 noon Location: Emanuel School We are delighted with the progress of the Fully Funded Places Campaign. In the spring of 2016 there were 12 children in the school on completely free places. We are pleased to Open House London announce that there will be 17 pupils on completely free places in the Autumn term 2018. Saturday 22 September, 2018 We hope that with the help of the Emanuel community we will be able to reach our target of funding 20 pupils at the school by 2020. 2pm - 5pm Location: Emanuel School

St Cecilia’s Concert OUR AMBITIONS Friday 23 November, 2018 We have three main THE CAMPAIGN 7pm – 9pm Development aims: WELCOME FROM Location: Hampden Hall, 20 free places by 2020 IN NUMBERS Emanuel School Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Fully Funded Places Campaign. We Our target is to complete THE DEVELOPMENT 20 free places by 2020. Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral currently offer 16 free places and will extend 2015/16 – 12 pupils this to 17 places in September 2018. We TEAM 2016/17 – 16 pupils Monday 3 December, 2018 aim to achieve our target of providing 20 5pm – 6pm fully free places by 2020 and would be very 2017/18 – 16 pupils We really enjoy hearing from grateful for your support to achieve this goal. 17 pupils and meeting so many of you Location: St Paul’s Cathedral 2018/19 – during the year. It’s always Grow the Trust fund wonderful to hear your Young Leavers’ Christmas Drinks Our aim is to sustain funding for the 20 free memories and to share school places. To achieve this, we need to grow the Monday 10 December, 2018 FULLY and development news with Trust fund, which currently stands at £3.2 FUNDED you – a lot has changed but 6pm – 7.30pm million, to £9 million so that the income The Emanuel School PLACES General Charitable Trust much has remained enduringly Location: Library will fund the bursary places in perpetuity. Emanuel since your time here. Emily Symmons Support capital projects 3.2 million Development Manager Thank you to everyone who has Christmas Carol Service We aim to support the school’s capital kindly donated to the Fully Funded projects in part through fundraising. We The amount in the Places Campaign. With your help, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday are currently formulating a masterplan for Target: Trust currently stands our ambition is to fully fund 20 12 December, 2018 estates’ projects which will draw up buildings, 9 million at 3.2 million. Our places by 2020. You can find an 7.30pm – 8.45pm facilities and equipment designs. ambition is to grow this fund to 9 million update on the campaign and an The plan will give us a clear way forward Location: Chapel, Emanuel School in order fund 20 outline of our development aims which everyone in the school community on the next page. places in perpetuity can get behind and support at the right You are always welcome to visit School Musical time. We will share these projects with us and have a tour of the school Thursday 14 March – you as the plans are prepared. but please call or email to make Regular Donors Members Supporters Saturday 16 March, 2019 During the summer term, we will start arrangements in advance. in 2017–18 Anna Van Es Time: 7pm – 10pm work on a new multi-use games area. Development Assistant We hope you enjoy this year’s Location: Hampden Hall This astro‑turf facility will provide play edition of The Rose and space as well as enabling hockey, netball, Portcullis. basketball and football training. 1950s Reunion If you have any comments, Following this, we would very much suggestions, feedback or news April/May 2019 - date to be confirmed like to match the success of the Dacre to share, please email us at Building for the Arts and Humanities with 31 in 2014 136 in 2018 229 Benefactors’ Location: Emanuel School 154 Alumni supporters [email protected]. We’d another suitably-styled building focused on Society members love to hear from you. technology, coding, design and mathematics. 153 Parents, former Anna Van Es Dacre Day parents, staff, former staff, We will share further long-term plans governors and friends Editor Saturday 6 July, 2019 with you as they are agreed. Tony Jones Time: 1pm – 4pm Please contact us if you would like If you would like to view the full Donor Impact Report 2018, please go to the Archivist Location: Emanuel School further information or to be involved Publications section of the alumni website – www.emanuelalumni.org.uk in any of these projects. To make an online donation, please visit the Support Us section of the alumni website.

4 5 HISTORY AIRBORNE ANTICS The Emanuel glider has become the stuff of legend and stories abound amongst OEs of pranks and crash landings. It seems there were a few gliders used by the RAF Cadets between 1952 and the late 1980s. We asked a few thrill-seeking OEs for their memories of flying the ‘Grasshopper’.

Keith ‘Jock’ Mildenhall (There was an apocryphal story, I can’t will stall.’ So I pushed forward, wind noise (OE1962-70) confirm it, of one unfortunate soul who returned and I managed to put her down was setting down after a good ‘hop’, when gently in one piece without meeting the “The glider; now that does stir memories. a gust of wind bounced him over the wall rapidly oncoming wall. The whole thing had I think my first real sight of it was the onto the embankment). It seemed only lasted less than a minute and the decisions morning it was found assembled on the and cricket. His instructions were very Edward Foley (OE1981-85) once in a while that all the elements would had been made faster than I can articulate stage in Hampden Hall, which was before simple: keep it airborne long enough not come together to produce something them. There was general merriment and “It was 1981 and Emanuel CCF was great. my time in the CCF. to land on the cricket square but then get memorable. whoops of delight from all concerned. They had a hovercraft (another story) it back down before it lands on the Victoria which you could fly at speed over the The glider was housed in a prefabricated Personally, despite having done my gliding I never tried it again quite like that; the to Brighton main line. I have always had playing fields. They got to fire guns and hut and was occasionally dismantled and course, as a substantial second row mountain had been climbed.” “Suppose we the feeling that not landing on the square throw thunder flashes and smoke grenades reassembled in a new location, though forward in one of my other school guises, Andy Hodge (OE1978-85) was higher up his priority list. after school when others were leaving for my main recollection is of it being in the my chances of getting a decent flight put extra men the day. Plus, they had a glider which they Cobbled Yard as I think some old photos seemed slim... unless one got lucky, or “I joined the CCF in 1981 or 1982. The I think that it is also salient to point out that got to “fly” over the playing fields mainly confirm. The component parts had to be bent the rules... glider even then was a rather mythical on the bungee nobody present including George Cannon taken out and assembled elsewhere and thing supposedly built by the DT in the summer when there was less chance And so, one Tuesday afternoon, a plot was had ever seen the thing airborne. They had this process was reversed at the end of department. For a 13-year-old, it looked of damaging the cricket square! hatched. Other correspondents may feel only read what was supposed to happen; the day. a huge contraption. and really As one of the smaller and lighter lads I was free to incriminate themselves at this point; as you can imagine this didn’t fill me with often chosen to be put in the glider seat. There were, I think, two slightly different I shall keep my peace. Everybody in the CCF had the opportunity stretch it...” a huge amount of confidence On one occasion I remember we were gliders during my time at school, though to have a “slide” across the playing field. For ‘Suppose we put extra men on the bungee unsupervised and the spoilers that attached both shared the same basic four-part the slides there were big red baffles on the The actual flight was, inevitably, short. and really stretch it...’ to the front wings to prevent excess construction; two wings, a tail plane and a wings to stop the glider becoming airborne. I hopped over the square and then put lift were removed. It was a hot summer simple frame fuselage with the pilot’s seat ‘...and (pièce de résistance) if we left the the nose down. I didn’t break the plane or The process was quite extraordinary; the evening with no cricket being played, yet and controls (no instruments). wheels under the glider...‘ myself so everything was judged a success.” glider was positioned in the corner nearest a large group of lads had congregated on Not surprisingly, the longest path across the I have a memory of sitting strapped in the drive/Hampden Hall and pointed what were the tuck shop steps to watch field was favoured when flying, a line from on the kite while my co-conspirators led towards the fives courts. The rear was tied the Grasshopper in action. The bungee a spot towards the Wilderness, avoiding the boosted manpower to strain mightily. to a stake and at the front there were two was stretched and off I shot and managed any rugby posts (and Arthur’s wicket!) The release cable was as tight as a violin. very long elastic bands. to get a good twenty or so feet up flying The red ball indicator pinged off towards over the others on the bungee, before the and heading in the general direction The rest of the CCF split to pull back the car park. effects of a strong gusting crosswind took of the fives courts and Gag’s Corner. the rubber bands. This was done simply me drifting towards those tuck shop steps ‘That’s it, Jock! Let her go!’ by walking backwards across the field. full of spectators. I remember one of the I pulled the release and instead of the usual, When the correct tension was reached wings scraping along the steps just carving initial, gradual slide, the now wheeled craft the “pullers” stopped. The pilot then through sports bags as boys ran for cover! took off like a bullet. The wind roared in released the tie to the stake at the rear The Grasshopper came to rest intact but my ears; I was airborne almost instantly and and off you went. with one wing suffering some skin damage.” the gentlest pull back on the stick had me You had to complete a certain amount climbing rapidly skyward while the wheels If you have any more memories of the of slides, from memory ten, and then careered off to God knows where. I will glider you would like to share, please you could have a flight with the red swear to my dying day that I could see the email [email protected]. baffles removed. roof of Hampden Hall and the top floor of We’d love to hear your stories. main school...but now it was getting quieter I remember my flight very clearly. I had and training kicked in. We trained in open strict health and safety instructions from cockpits back then. ‘If it goes quiet, push the the master in charge of the CCF, George stick forward; you’re flying too slowly and Cannon. George had two loves: the RAF

6 7 INTERVIEW

with other publishers or producers from around the world to exploit the work of the author as subagent. I had to start at the bottom again and worked my way up to Rights Manager before I was headhunted first by Time-Life Books, to whom I had been selling rights, and then by Reader’s Digest Books. For both of these companies I was an acquiring editor, sourcing books and authors for their book club and direct mail businesses. I was headhunted once more by Pan You’ve worked with some very What is your advice to anyone Macmillan in the mid-90s to come and be famous authors. Can you share trying to get into publishing? their Subsidiary Rights Director. In 2000 any funny anecdotes? Don’t obsess about joining as an editor. I was asked to become the Publisher of Some of the funniest things have happened There are many roles and jobs in a Macmillan and I have remained in that role, while we were pitching for big books. Some publishing company and the best way is to A in one guise or another, ever since. years ago Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls just get any job, in any department. Once What have been the biggest was selling her autobiography. There had you’re in the building you’ll find out more changes in the industry since been a huge auction and the final top three about how it works and what roles suit Jeremy (back row: left) with Joe Wicks, Jeffrey Archer, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Axel Julia Donaldson and Archer, Jeffrey Wicks, left) with Joe Jeremy (back row: you became Publisher at Pan publishers were to go and meet Geri in her you. If you still want to be an editor, it will PASSION enormous house in the country, so that she be easier to be an internal candidate for an Macmillan in 2000? could decide who she wanted to go with. editorial role than an external one. And of That has to be the arrival and eventual As we arrived we could see a group of our course do as many work placements and dominance of Amazon as a retailer in competitors leaving in their van. Geri stood as much interning as you can. the UK and, as a corollary to that, the on the doorstep waving them goodbye and explosion of digital ebooks. Amazon has for Publishing beaming at us with her little lapdog under completely changed the business model her right arm. Suddenly, the dog leapt from of publishing. They are an amazing retailer her straight in front of our car as we drove and have galvanised sales, margins and up. We screeched to a halt and all froze in marketing potential across the whole range What are your strongest another one of my favourite classes - many the car as we heard whimpering sounds. of publishing. The latest transformation is memories of Emanuel? years later I am the proud publisher of We had run over Geri’s dog before we’d Natalie Haynes, Margaret George and in audiobooks driven by Amazon-owned I have very fond memories of Emanuel. even said a word. Needless to say we Valerio Manfredi, all authors of wonderful Audible but their dominance is as much My passions at school day-to-day were didn’t publish her book. ancient historical fiction. I also really of a worry with regard to a developing the boat club and the choir. In choir we enjoyed French with Mrs Brimacombe monopoly, particularly in the ebook and In the mid-90s, under a quite expensive went on a tour of Devon and Cornwall who told us early on that she wanted us audio formats, as it is a result of their two-book contract, we published a first one Easter holiday. Mr Strover would to learn as much about French culture as phenomenal efficiency and creativity. novel by a young comic author which was pick the soloist by pointing at you in the the language and took us on outings to see something of a commercial flop. The author middle of the concert, so you never knew Will there always be a role Can you reveal anything about French films and eat in French restaurants. was at a loss to figure out what to write beforehand if it was going to be you. It for publishers in the changing for her second book and as her contractual Elton John’s autobiography was quite stressful! In a church in Newton What roles have you had world of ebooks? How have delivery date loomed she was stressing which Pan Macmillan will Abbott, Mr Strover pointed at me to sing in publishing? you had to adapt? about it and suggested to her editor that publish in 2019? the treble solo – at which point I opened I did a Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing There will always be a role for publishers. she could put together a collection of her All I can tell you is that the material I’ve my mouth and my voice broke. at Oxford Polytechnic, which taught me However efficient and streamlined the columns from the Independent which read so far is just fantastic. It’s very honest I also remember the final day of my everything about publishing from editing process of getting a book from an author’s seemed to be getting a lot of mail from and brilliantly ironical and self-deprecating. Jeremy Trevathan 5th year. It was the last day any pupils skills and libel law to the technical skills head into a reader’s hands becomes, it readers. We had a major debate in our I have laughed out loud at some of the (OE1972-77) were required to wear school caps in of producing and designing books. I really is increasingly obvious that the role of editorial meeting. Journalists’ collected stories. What a publisher wants from a enjoyed the process of producing books, book like this is authenticity and a subject Publisher at Pan Macmillan public. A large group of kids gathered publisher, as an early investor in an author’s columns never sell well. Did we want to inside the school grounds by the gates dealing with typesetters, designers and career, a curator of well-written and hold the faith because we believed in her who can spin a story and is prepared to of the Battersea Rise entrance and were printers and my first few jobs were in produced material and as a conduit and potential or did we want to cancel the tell everything. From what I’ve seen so far, permitted to create a bonfire of the that area. a buffer between author and reader, is still contract? Debate raged around the table I have a feeling it’s going to be a classic of detested items of clothing. While working at Penguin in the mid-1980s key to the process. This business is about and finally our MD asked for a vote on the the genre. I’m genuinely excited about it. people, instincts, trust and relationships issue. We were evenly split and he decided His autobiography is a sort of publisher’s Which teachers influenced you? I had become interested in the work done by the subsidiary rights team. When and technology can never replicate that. to cast his vote in favour of optimism in Holy Grail of my generation. He’s never We had a wonderful English teacher in a publisher acquires the right to publish One of the real developments in recent her future. The column in the Independent told his story before and now he is. my sixth form years called Mr Duesbury. a book from an author’s agent they are years is that publishers’ focus has shifted that the second book was based upon was He was a former actor at the RSC and often granted subsidiary rights: translation from the relationship between the author called Bridget Jones’s Diary and the author had long hair and a goatee beard. Ancient rights, film rights, dramatic rights, US rights. and the retailer to one between the was Helen Fielding. We went on to sell History with Paul ‘Bunny’ Moreland was The subsidiary rights team negotiates deals author and the reader. over 5 million copies in the UK alone.

8 9 HISTORY

a cricket eleven, some time for the many a side-line as a model but we only found “How on earth had he found the time friends he had, so essential as they were this out by chance when he took us to an [for his writing]? A cynic might reply that to heart and mind (with some serious away match by train. At Clapham Junction he poached it from hours he could have drinking, no doubt into the bargain), then station, he faced us in front of a hoarding spent in the classroom or marking essays, three hours of concentrated writing which unbeknownst to him bore a life-sized and even his most devoted friends, whose into the night.” poster of the now famous Whitbread beer number I was to join in later life, will advert in which he stands in front of a concede that he was not perhaps the most Steve Gooch (OE1956-63) fridge full of beer. We all started nudging workaholic of teachers. When he did teach, “Clive’s memory of Charles Cuddon each other and laughing which didn’t go though, he could be . . . well, the inescapable squares almost exactly with my own. down well until he looked behind him and word is “inspiring”.” a broad grin appeared as he ushered us I remember the 60 Piccadilly a day and his Nick Hubbard (OE1985-92) regular disappearances midway through on our way.” “Jack Cuddon drew the short-straw of a period (if not sooner) for one (if not Andrew Robertson (OE1965-73) two) of them. I also remember his habit being English teacher for my rather unruly of wearing odd socks, the pyjama legs “Two stories stick in my memory: First, and notorious Form 5A in 1989/90. He which served as long-johns in winter and when he was refereeing a rugby match (he was one of the few teachers who you which you might glimpse slipping below his always wore his white Oxford University could warm to, respect and fear all at the trouser turn-ups if you were quick enough cricket sweater when he did) and the same time! My enduring memory of him to be in second place after him, speeding crossbar fell down and missed him by a was his deep, tobacco fuelled chuckle. He home down the school drive (he was whisker. Not even a flinch! He should have was also a tremendously modest person; I always first out). auditioned for James Bond. Phlegmatic still feel very sad when I recall opening the in excelsis. Daily Telegraph and reading his full page Along with the constant hint of subversion, I then literally bumped into him in obituary – not only was it a shock to find you rarely felt disapproval. The only out about his death, but also the realisation reproach might be for factual inaccuracy Leicester Square years after we left. “Hello, Robertson. Still playing cricket?”. He hadn’t that we hadn’t (as a class) made the most or poor style. You were more likely – as of his life’s experience.” Clive and I did when he directed us in changed a jot and I told him he must ‘The Dumb Waiter’ – to hear a snort have the Dorian Gray painting in his attic. When OEs return to Emanuel for tours of enjoyment.” A charismatic gentleman; I have nothing or functions, Charles Cuddon is one of but fond memories of him. That poster the teachers they are most likely to ask Martin Rickman (OE1961-69) in the library gets him perfectly.” after or add their own amusing anecdote regarding their experiences in Room 22 “After Christmas there would only have Kevin Jackson (OE1966-73) CHARLES been three or four of us in [Mr Cuddon’s] or the sports field. Many of these visiting (Taken with Kevin’s permission from his Senior 6th class, and although we used to former pupils are totally blown away by obituary in The Independent on Saturday, turn up every morning for the register to the huge ‘Whitbread Man’ poster we 16 March 1996). be taken, Mr Cuddon was rarely there. have on permanent display in the school CUDDON One day, after having not seen him for Library, which is our own tribute to one of nearly a week, I met him in the corridors Emanuel’s most unique and gifted teachers. J. A. Cuddon, better known as Charles or Jack (JAC), joined Emanuel in 1954 as a and he said “Ah, Rickman! Have you all been here all this week?” I said “Yes, Sir.” ‘temporary respite from the poverty young writers must endure’. He spent the next 39 years and he replied “Excellent. Now I can get as an inspiring English teacher and sports coach. An accomplished writer, sportsman, the register up to date.” schoolmaster and male model, Cuddon is very fondly remembered by many of his pupils. Gary Reeve-Wing (OE1964-72)

“I was one of those lucky enough to have The Whitbread Man Jack (JAC) as my English teacher and we were all slightly in awe of him as he could Clive Wilmer (OE1956-63) despite appearances, the perfect gentleman, Charles gruffly, ‘have one of mine’ – and be an intimidating figure in class and was they settled down for five or ten minutes “The feeling he first inspired in me was treating everyone with respect, unless they generally quite serious. However, on one of agreeable smokers’ gossip. (Many years terror. An old school friend recently plainly deserved the opposite. particular Friday last period he came in later, I repeated this story to Charles. It was described him as ‘a Transylvanian figure’: One rumour sprang from a villain whose and in his booming voice said “Right this met with a brisk laugh and no denial.) tall, powerfully built and deeply tanned, name was Snasdall. Snasdall was a great afternoon is Poets”. As we scrabbled about he would pace the school corridors scorner of the teaching profession – with I don’t want to suggest that he encouraged deciding which text book to get out he in what seemed a permanent cloud of this notable exception. It was positively rule-breaking. It was just that he knew further added, “Pi** Off Early Tomorrow’s smoke. He was hairier than was strictly dangerous to speak ill of Jack Cuddon in human nature and couldn’t stomach Saturday” and promptly left the room allowed in the 1950s, and there was his presence, and he would tell one tale hypocrisy or the pseudo-rigours of the without another word. You knew there was something dangerously ragged at his edges. in particular to demonstrate the essential self-important. He was in fact a great a streak of rebellion about him, which was A feeble and timid child, I dreaded being rightness of the man. Apparently, one believer in discipline, though he never had particularly appealing to young boys, and commanded by this ogre. morning, bored with Maths or French, to impose it or threaten violence. that a wicked sense of humour also lurked just beneath that gruff surface. And yet rumour told a different story. Snasdall had slipped out of class for a quick When Charles retired from Emanuel he Those who had crossed the threshold fag in the changing rooms. There, among wrote how, throughout his career, he had We often used to refer to him as 007 as into his presence came back unharmed the duck-boards and the washbasins, given at least three hours a day to writing: he had that air of enviable sophistication with stories of a kindly, tolerant, unstuffy whom should he run into but Jack Cuddon, ‘anything less,’ he said, ‘is not enough.’ Think about him, craggy good looks and that man with a delightful sense of humour who had come there, he soon gathered, of it: a day’s teaching and marking, perhaps “man-of-the-world” persona. It was no and a streak of subversiveness. He was, for the same reason. ‘Here, Snasdall,’ said rehearsing a play after school or coaching surprise then for us to discover he also had

10 11 SCHOOL UPDATE HEAD GIRL AND HEAD BOY PERSPECTIVES

“Being Head Girl and Head Boy this year has been an honour and an incredible opportunity to explore the school from a new perspective. While it has been demanding to balance the requirements of academic work, extra-curricular activities and our prefect commitments, we have felt immensely privileged to have been given an opportunity to learn more about ourselves and about leadership and responsibility.”

Ottie Clouston life that has developed as a result of the Max Marjoram The highlight of this year’s rugby season As always, the four school houses have (Head Girl) new Dacre building has been the new film (Head Boy) was definitely playing Latymer Upper been battling for supremacy and have studio, where Media Club students have School, a local rival of Emanuel, at the competed in weekly events such as The highlights of a year in this role have been creating and filming Emanuel News I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge Twickenham Stoop. There was an immense football, basketball, rugby, badminton, included weekly update sessions with the Bulletins which give regular updates about of being this year’s Head Boy and it has amount of build-up to the game and the chess, photography, choir and many more. definitely helped me to prepare for life Headmaster, increased integration with school life. The studio has also provided the 1st XV put in many hours of tough work after Emanuel. The first thing that drew Pupils have also been given the opportunity the lower years of the school through opportunity for the establishment of a new in training while trying to drum up as much me to the school was the loving and safe to extend their knowledge by attending assemblies and open days and mentoring house event: The House Film Competition, spectator support as possible. Managing atmosphere it seemed to have and I can a number of talks by experts in their lower school forms. The ability to hand out which has given many students the chance a comfortable 27-0 win on such an honestly say that Emanuel has helped me fields. For example Ben Pugh, founder and commendations has acted as a popularity to try their hand at directing and producing. important occasion really was a spectacular to become a better version of myself. It CEO of ‘Farmdrop’, gave us an extremely stimulant in my relationship with the Year moment in our Emanuel careers as rugby The inaugural ‘film in a week’ project also has been such a privilege to give something interesting talk about how he set up and Sevens as well. Seeing a significant number players and it will be a night that we will took place during the Easter break, with back to the school and I will truly value the manages his unique business. Mr Geoff van of parents and teachers get increasingly 15 students from Senior Media Club and remember for the rest of our lives. and exciting direction when traditional time I’ve been lucky enough to have here. Klaveren, a physiotherapist at St Mary’s competitive and aggressive during the EPA A-Level Drama taking part as crew and Shakespearian Twelfth Night was morphed The rowing squad had their annual training Hospital, conducted an informative talk on Quiz Night was an occasion to remember, cast for a short fiction film. The group Highlights for me include the Emanuel Quiz with 1940s American jazz. The musical was camp in Lake Varese this Easter. It was a injury prevention and management. as was the Christmas Carol Service with its wrote, acted in, directed and edited the Night, involving a large cohort of parents an extraordinary, elaborately staged and week of intense, yet enjoyable, rowing in beautiful hymns and bible readings. film themselves and learnt a lot about and teachers. The prefects were designated It’s been a busy but very productive year at costumed production of ‘We Will Rock their own table and went into the evening the remarkable scenery of Northern Italy. filmmaking in the process. Emanuel. We have learnt a lot and hope we This year has been a new and exciting You’, complete with electric guitars and with the expectation of finishing bottom. They stayed at the Australian Institute for have been positive role models. We will say one for Emanuel, with a new Headmaster Also within the creative sphere, the school Gaga girls. This year we also return to the However, due to our fiercely competitive Sport and were able to make the most of a sad farewell to Emanuel but know that and a new Dacre building creating an has put on a succession of incredible Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where a group and intellectual nature, we were able to their impressive facilities, such as the state we will be back in the coming years. atmosphere of change and excitement. theatrical productions this year. The of students will be performing ‘The Twits’ finish the night mid-table, which was a of the art gyms. One of the welcome additions to school senior play was taken in an alternative and ‘Still Life’ during the summer holiday. momentous achievement.

12 13 CO-CURRICULAR LIFE Art The Art department has benefited from the specialist facilities and vastly improved working environment the new Dacre block offers. Larger kilns and specialist drying and glazing Clubs and Societies areas in ceramics have led to an increased number of GCSE pupils experimenting with There are over 70 clubs available at Emanuel including chess, clay. A level pupils have been working on more swimming, philosophy, ancient Greek, rock climbing, dissection, sophisticated print techniques using the acid physics Olympiad, spelling, Doctor Who, junior science, drones, etching facilities. The large light painting studio senior tech and art club. The media club has generated a great deal has housed our regular life drawing classes and of interest and promises to be a source of enjoyment, collaboration the darkroom allows for photographic creativity. and inspiration for many years to come. The thriving computer club is busy building a super-computer. Fives remains extremely popular Our vibrant and exciting Art GCSE and A Level with the younger year groups. The Hans Woyda mathematics club shows were very well attended by parents, has been fortunate to attract, and challenge, some brilliant young pupils and staff. students. The music department continues to offer everything from orchestras and choirs to the less formal and incredibly popular Glee Club. In addition, we have been very fortunate this year to have hosted speakers of the quality of Professor Edith Hall, Dr Jon Tabbert, OE Nadia Saward, Gordon Corera, Ross Raisin, OE Dr Emrys Jones and mathematician Dan Abramson, who gave a truly captivating lecture on the four-colour problem.

Drama The Drama department has treated audiences to a vast array of incredible performances, from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to Queen and Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You. Year 7 performed ‘Tales from the Brothers Grimm’, exploring the darker side to these well-known fairy tales. Pupils in Years 10-13 took part in the department’s annual Play in a Week, performing Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco’s politically provocative production. Over 250 students at Emanuel have had the opportunity to be involved in a production and to demonstrate their amazing talents.

14 15 Music In addition to a host of well-established musical events such as Teatime Concerts, the Summer Serenade and the annual Showstoppers concert, the music department has ventured into new territory with the inaugural A Night at the Musicals and Scholars’ Concerts. A Night at the Musicals involved 70 pupils performing songs from more than 10 different musicals accompanied by a 30-strong light orchestra made up of staff, visiting music teachers and pupils. 27 scholars gave a very polished performance at the two Scholars’ Concerts, demonstrating the impressive musical talent at Emanuel. Last December, 50 members of the Choir sang Choral Evensong at St. Paul’s Cathedral. This year’s Evensong will be on Monday 3 December and all OEs are very welcome to attend this very special event. We will give full details in the e-news closer to the time. As usual, house music was a popular and fiercely fought event with around 200 pupils involved. After the soloists had performed, the house choirs took to the stage to battle it out. Howe/Clyde won the Choir competition but Nelson/Drake came out victorious overall.

Sport The Sports department strives to deliver a programme based on enjoyment, engagement, student development, recognition and success. There are too many highlights to list in full so we’ve selected just a few here. In cricket, Nancy was selected for the full senior Middlesex 1st XI, the U13A XI won nine of their twelve fixtures and the U12A XI qualified for the London Cup finals day. In netball, the 1st VII won both the Ibstock Place and Harrodian tournaments and four age group squads qualified for the Surrey Finals. Emanuel teams won four medals at the National Schools Rowing Regatta, including silver in the Championship Pairs. Proud moments in rugby included 1st XV victories over Latymer, St Benedict’s and Christ’s Hospital and the U15 XV winning the Mill Hill Festival. More than 20 new school athletics records were set at Sports Day. In cross country, fourteen students finished in the top 10 of their respective age groups in the Wandsworth Cross Country Borough Championships.

16 17 INTERVIEW How did you get involved we want. In the old days, they used to grind I then flew to Trinidad and before passing in Entomology? the specimen up so there was nothing left. through customs, I had to sit down with Very often, two completely different species a microscope and confirm the identities I remember seeing ants in the corner of the will look identical but the DNA might find of these two species. We then bred these playground at primary school and observing a 10% difference in the sequence so they wasps in quarantine in the lab in Trinidad what they were getting up to. I started are clearly different species. When we see and eventually released them in citrus getting books out of the library; in those that difference in the DNA, we go back to orchards against the citrus whitefly (which days, you didn’t have access to photocopiers the specimen and we might find some really is actually black). The citrus whitefly was a or anything like that, so you literally hand subtle characters in the physical structure major pest in Trinidad and it has now been copied the drawings out of text books and of the animal that shows you that they controlled thanks to the introduction of coloured them in. A friend at school said, are different. these two wasps. “You know you can actually do this as a job – studying insects – it’s called entomology.” We’re discovering new species all the time. What do you enjoy most about I couldn’t believe my luck that you could be One of my roles is as a taxonomist; I classify, your work? paid for looking at insects all day and here identify and describe new species. Having Discovering new things. When Thomas I am - it’s what I’ve been doing for the last DNA to support this taxonomic research, Ayshford and I discovered an animal in 40-odd years. which is something we’ve only really had Northern Borneo, which is not just a new in the last 15-20 years, has completely species but a new genus, it just knocked Your main area of interest revolutionised science. is wasps and specifically me sideways. It’s got antennae that we’ve microscopic parasitoids. Can We also publish these descriptions. never seen in the group before, it’s got you explain what these are? Taxonomy lends itself naturally to being four segments on the tarsals where it published online, thanks to our old Emanuel should have five, the wings are completely Parasitoid sounds a bit like parasite and pupil Tim Berners-Lee, because it’s is always unique. When we did the DNA analysis, parasites are things such as lice and malaria, changing. It’s one thing to write a monograph we could see that it’s just completely protozoa that live in your blood. Parasites and put it on the shelf but then the next unrelated to anything around it. We called don’t normally kill you although they might day, someone discovers a new species that it Wallaceaphytis kikiae - Wallace after make you ill. Parasitoids always kill the thing should have been in it. If you’ve got it on Alfred Russel Wallace, aphytis because this they live on and that’s why we like them the web, you can just keep adding to it. I’ve is the genus that it is closest to and Kiki was because the things that they kill are usually developed an identification key to a certain Thomas’ pet name for his Mum. detrimental to health or agriculture, so we group of insects. Using this key, you can just can use them effectively in pest control. keep adding new species as you find them. What does your work at the Where have you travelled Natural History Museum to recently and what did you involve? do there? It’s very varied. I might be asked to go to I’m just coming to the end of the first phase a particular country to look at what the of a major project which is funded by the dynamic is in a crop; which pests are present Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This latest and what their natural enemies are doing. project is about controlling whiteflies. It was kikiae Wallaceaphytis This involves fieldwork in the first place thought to be a single whitefly species, but so I go there, set up traps and catch the About three years ago I reared some wasps over the last four years we’ve demonstrated insects. Very often, I might be working with from a whitefly in my son’s old school Working with Ugandan students at Namulonge research station that there are 35 distinct biological species. a crop specialist or experts in other fields playground in Sevenoaks and it turned out Until now, you looked down the microscope of agriculture, so normally I am part of a to be a species completely new to science. and they were all identical but we’re now team. Generally, we collect thousands and I named it Encarsia harrisoni after an old starting to find physical differences between friend, also a taxonomist. thousands of insects in a few days because these species as well. They behave differently they’re so abundant and diverse. I also like the travelling. There are lots of and they eat different plants so if you want advantages to this job but one of them The next stage is the donkey work part of to control them, it’s crucial to be able to is that you really get to see the world in the process and that’s here in the lab sorting identify them. a way that other people don’t because the specimens under the microscope into ANDREW One of my roles in this project is to you’re not a tourist; you’re actually working different wasp categories. I’ll then farm these discover how important the wasps are with local people. It’s especially interesting out to different specialists. They may be that control the whiteflies, in this case when you get to work in really remote, less specialists in the museum, or they may be the natural enemies, and then to see if developed places because you get to see anywhere in the world because they have there’s scope for classical biological control how a country uses its meagre resources POLASZEK a particular interest in one or more of these where you introduce a new kind of wasp to combat problems and you work together categories of wasps. I’m then left with the into the area where the whitefly is a pest. effectively. It’s fantastic to see that at first (OE1971-76) ones that I specialise in. The whitefly is a major pest on cassava. hand and to contribute to it to some extent. After the sorting stage, I focus on what’s Cassava and maize are the two staple really interesting either because it’s crops of Sub‑Saharan Africa. Dr Andrew Polaszek is an Entomology Researcher in the important in controlling a particular pest Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum or just because it looks amazing and weird Can you tell us about a in London. Andrew’s primary area of interest is parasitoid and is not clearly related to anything else. particular programme of pest control you’ve been involved in? wasps. These are wasps which lay their eggs inside other One of the things that we pioneered here insects and whose larvae then eat the insect from within. that I’m really proud of is non-destructive I was instrumental in a programme to DNA extraction. The insides of an insect control the citrus whitefly, a major pest in They have been extremely successful in suppressing are digested using a special enzyme but Trinidad. I flew in a small aircraft to Gainsville populations of pest insects, eliminating the need for we still end up with a perfectly preserved Research Station where they gave me insecticides, and have saved millions of pounds in this way. specimen so we’ve got as much DNA as two vials of wasps – two different species. Discussing rainforest conservation with the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge

18 19 FEATURE

in the end. I have also worked with some “It is a privilege great surgeons who were all inspirational in helping me make my decision to become to have the a paediatric urologist. It is a very rewarding training and and satisfying job. A DOSE OF OE Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has been a part of my life for a long time now. skill to perform I completed a PhD at GOSH and UCL and have been a Senior House Officer, Research MEDICINE paediatric Fellow, Specialist Registrar and Senior Registrar at GOSH before finally becoming We recently caught up with two OEs who have pursued a career surgery – to a Consultant. in medicine. Joanna Thorne has been working as a GP in a practice sometimes take There is no typical day for me and some in Mitcham since 2012. Navroop Johal is a Consultant Paediatric days are busier than others. On theatre Surgeon (Urologist) at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He works children from days, I leave home early and conduct patient with young patients from premature and unborn babies to children consents before a team briefing to discuss all the patients we will be operating on. and young adults up to 19 years old. being unwell and Navroop (Nav) Johal (OE1985-92) We normally complete six operative procedures and then do a ward round. return them to I have so many great memories of Emanuel. If I’m not operating, I’ll be working in the I had a long commute from South Croydon Clinic where I can see up to 40 patients their families.” to school but walking up and down the in a day. Every day is different and I am drive is a happy memory. The teachers were always learning something new. all excellent. I fondly remember Physics experiments with Mr Naylor, Applied Maths The most satisfying part of my job is making with Mr Grundy and buying chocolate bars children better. Paediatric surgery is the study Geology and Biology (joint honours) universal healthcare free at the point of More and more complicated conditions are and fizzy drinks at the tuck shop during smallest surgical specialty; there are about at the University of Bristol. access is the most wonderful institution for now being cared for in primary care but break times before playing football with 180 paediatric surgeons in the UK. It is During my last year at Bristol, I took courses a population and we must protect it. without any increase in funding or resources a tennis ball beside the Hampden Hall. a privilege to have the training and skill to in parasite biology and it became clear to I chose General Practice because I love to cope so the same team is having to deal perform paediatric surgery – to sometimes with almost twice the workload that they I took a gap year after leaving Emanuel and me that what I was most interested in was having continuity with patients and being went travelling before studying Medicine take children from being unwell and return involved with the whole family all the way did 5 years ago. the treatment of people so I enrolled on in Cardiff. I fell in love with the city when them to their families. What greater reward a 4-year fast track postgraduate course through their lives. I also enjoy the variety: The job is extremely busy with long hours I attended the open day and found could there be? in Medicine at St George’s University I get to see a bit of everything in Medicine and minimal times for breaks but I work everyone was so welcoming and friendly. After a busy day at work, I love coming Hospital in Tooting. and Surgery and there is a great satisfaction with a great team and I balance the intense The medical school had an amazing clinical in the diagnostic challenge of never knowing GP days with my other roles so that I can home and spending time with my daughter. After I graduated as a doctor I rotated course and I did placements all over Wales, what problem is going to walk through the maintain a work-life balance that suits me I run a lot and try and complete the Park for the first two years doing my general from Beaumaris in Anglesey to Nevill Hall door next. and my family. Run most Saturday mornings. I also enjoy foundation training, first in Croydon and Hospital in Abergavenny. travelling and have done so extensively then in Eastbourne. I then applied for I have developed a range of roles as part of I spend my free time looking after my two I really enjoyed paediatrics at medical school all over Africa and have worked in South speciality training in General Practice at St my career and I love the freedom that being young sons. I still love travelling and try my and surgery as a house doctor, so becoming Africa and Australia. My in-laws live in Kenya Mary’s Hospital in London (part of Imperial a GP gives me. Currently I work one day hand at photography when I’m abroad. a paediatric surgeon was an easy decision and I go there with the family every year. College). During my training, I completed a week at Merton Clinical Commissioning Joanna Thorne (OE1996-98) 6-month rotations in Care of the Elderly and Group, leading on care pathways around in Psychiatry along with a 6-month rotation diabetes and musculoskeletal conditions. My memories of Emanuel are of having an in Forensic Gynaecology undertaking I also teach medical students one afternoon awareness of being in a minority for much forensic and medical examinations of a week and I’m an appraiser where I review of the time. I was in the second year’s intake complainants of rape or sexual assault. GPs’ annual work to keep updated. of girls to Emanuel. There were just eight Unusually, the training scheme also involved The most challenging part of the job is girls in my sixth form year and four in the a year spent working in a rural hospital in managing to adequately and safely deal with year above. I was in the orchestra and senior KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. a patient’s problem in a very limited time. choir as well as appearing in a number of It was amazing to work in a small team Often people have waited for some time drama productions. I also have very fond in South Africa looking after a 350 bed to be seen - either through limitations on memories of the Boat Club and the rowing hospital, doing everything from performing appointment availability or through their tour to Australia. C-sections and other surgical procedures choice of ‘saving up a few things’ to see I have always been interested in Medicine. to flying out to rural areas for primary care the GP about. After leaving Emanuel, I secured a place at clinics and managing major incident traumas. I work in a deprived area and the Queen Mary Westfield to study Medicine It was an extraordinary experience and impact of poor housing, poor nutrition but had a crisis of confidence about being really was both the best and worst time of and unemployment on people’s health responsible for people’s lives at such a my medical career. Limitations on resources is profound - and yet there is so little young age. I withdrew from the course, very often meant there was little we could I as a GP can do to address this. spent a year working in a school for disabled do to help. It did, however, make me an even children in Swaziland and then went to more passionate advocate for the NHS:

20 21 ARCHIVE The Wedge Magazine

This arts and literature magazine ran time with either a story or a poem. Sadly, ARCHIVE from around 1995-2005 and is by far we do not have a full collection and are the school’s longest-running publication missing issues one and two, so if you have except for The Portcullis. Over the years them at home, please get in touch. They there have been many short-lived Emanuel were the best 20p you could ever spend. MATTERS magazines but the dedication of Mrs Janet Bettesworth kept The Wedge going strong The Emanuel archive contains a vast array of documents, photos, for over ten years and around thirty issues. records, trophies, uniform, publications and artefacts. Here our Regular features included interviews and archivist, Tony Jones, comments on a few of them. drawings of teachers and many of you would smile if you read the 1995 “Spotlight on Mr Benn” or a really funny one on the late history teacher Mr Jonathan Driver. There was even the occasional spotlight on a parent and a generous £25 was on offer for winning the creative writing Rodney House Record competition. Younger pupils loved it and often saw their name in print for the first Mr Paul Manning taught Technology at Emanuel between 1966 and 1973 and was known to be an inspirational and committed leader of Rodney House for some of those years. Between 1966 and 1973 Rodney produced an extraordinarily detailed magazine called the Rodney House Record which ran for eight issues and, we believe, NF Simpson Collection ceased publication in the summer of 1973. Who knows how many Over the years NF “Wally” Simpson copies of this extinct magazine still exist? However, house member (OE1930-37) and I exchanged many letters Mr Philip Whittingham (OE1961-69) held onto his copies for all and emails, including a few which were these years and kindly donated them to the archive. So if any old handwritten. Wally even wrote a short Rodnegians are still arguing about the 1973 result in the Junior memoir for our book, “Emanuel School Cricket League or the House Bridge event, we have all the results at War”. My correspondence with Wally at our fingertips thanks to Philip. We hope to have them bound was an absolute pleasure; he sent us many and restored at some point in the future. books, always signing them ‘OE’, and even invited me to the reading of his final work, “If So, Then Yes”, at his favourite theatre, The Royal Court in Sloane Square where we finally met. David Warren’s In recent years there has been a major revival in his work; actors like John Cleese Rugby Cap have noted the major impact of his style of Ian Alexander absurd comedy. Performances and tributes to his work have taken place. Long-serving Collection Although we have a huge collection English teacher Mr Charles Cuddon was of caps in the archive, one of our also a massive fan of Simpson, although he Occasionally we receive an incredibly favourites was donated to the school was not aware there was a crucial Emanuel generous donation which knocks us for by the family of Brigadier David J connection. It’s a small world; when we six. When Ian S Alexander (OE1959-67) Warren (OE1930-37). Warren was had a function in 2014, Simpson’s daughter presented the school with a substantial one of the most heavily decorated was the partner of one of our guests and part of his rowing memorabilia, we were soldiers ever to attend Emanuel. she was stunned to randomly discover a truly bowled over. In the collection are a He was awarded the Distinguished picture of her father in the Library, unaware number of tankards from regattas, including Service Order (DSO), Military At the time of his death in 2011 at 92 years she was visiting the school he attended! Twickenham (1965), Walton (1965) and Cross (MC) and Order of the old, I had been corresponding with Chiswick (1966). The collection also British Empire (OBE). Although Wally for several years. He may not features a number of medals including the some soldiers won both military medals, it was have been a household name but National Schools’ Regatta in both 1965 and relatively rare. However, Warren’s achievements eclipse most others he was a literary cult figure and 1966 as well as a Holland Great Britain as both honours were ‘immediate’ awards. This means that the level playwright who was best known Youth Henley Medal from 1965. Ian rowed of danger and bravery was so high that the decorations were given for his 1960s plays, “One Way at every level for Emanuel in the golden without discussion by official award committees. Both medals were Pendulum” and “A Resounding era of school rowing, including the 1st VIII won in critical moments of beach landings, firstly in 1943 in Italy and Tinkle”. When his final production, in 1965 and the 2nd VIII in 1966. Away latterly in 1945 when Warren was involved in the first wave of D-Day “If So, Then Yes”, premiered in from rowing, Ian was a true all-rounder landings. After the war he remained in the military and when he retired London in 2010, he became the – he was Vice House Captain of Clyde, in 1967 was Head of the British Military Mission in Libya. The archive second oldest writer to have a Sub-Prefect and involved in many other has a picture of him wearing the cap when he played for the 1st XV new work performed in the West activities including CCF, Duke of Edinburgh, in the mid‑1930s. End after George Bernard Shaw. rugby and the bridge team.

22 23 EVENTS 1960s Decade Reunion The 1960s Reunion was our biggest one to date. Over 150 OEs attended, many of whom EVENTS had not been back to school for over 50 years, along with more than 20 partners. It was a glorious, sunny day and everyone enjoyed the impressive archive display in the Library ROUND UP followed by a tour of the school and a fantastic buffet lunch. /EmanuelSchoolAlumni @OldEmanuels www.emanuelalumni.org.uk

Official Opening of the Dacre Block The Dacre Centre for the Arts and Humanities was formally opened by Eliza Bonham Carter, Curator and Head of Royal Academy Schools, last October. The event was attended by parents, governors, staff, City and pupils, Old Emanuels and representatives OEA from local primary and prep schools Finance along with former Headmaster, Mark Summer Hanley-Browne, who was involved in Event the design process during his tenure. The Lunch new building’s facilities include new art We were delighted with This year, the OEA returned to classrooms, history, geography and learning the success of the first in Emanuel for their Summer Lunch. support classrooms, music practice rooms our new series of careers After introductions, a delicious and a state of the art media suite. and networking events. 3-course meal was served. Those Parent Julian Young very who were hoping to relive old kindly hosted the event at cricket rivalries were disappointed Dacre Day 2017 the impressive EY offices that the 1st XI cricket match against in London Bridge. Students Alleyn’s was rained off just as lunch Our annual Dacre Day celebrations were well-attended by benefited from speaking to was beginning. However, there current and past pupils along with parents, teachers and friends parents and OEs working in was still plenty to do indoors with of the school. Many also enjoyed the archive display in the Library, the financial sector and a great archive display laid out in where OEs were pleased to see photos of their younger selves it was a great opportunity the Library. engaged in various school activities. for networking.

An Evening with Gordon Corera ‘An Evening with Gordon Corera’ was the first in our new series of parent and OE talks. BBC Security Correspondent and acclaimed author Gordon Corera talked about the emergence of terrorism in the UK, cyber-attacks and Operation Columba, a secret British operation which deployed 16,000 homing pigeons to OEA Luncheon Club gather intelligence from people living under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. After the disruption of the Christmas 2017 lunch when a fire on the railway line outside Waterloo and freezing weather conditions resulted in several non-appearances, the spring meeting at the Union Jack Club was a popular one. The food, service and venue were all of the highest standard. Everyone enjoyed themselves so much that no photos were taken for us to share with you.

24 25 FEATURE Paul Slack

Midnight Runners. Although he For longevity you really cannot beat had left the band by the time Easyskanking, a ska band formed in the MUSICAL OEs: they had their biggest hits, late 1970s, which is still going strong and he has periodically returned whose origins lie in playing school discos. to play the keyboards. Down The current incarnation includes Adrian the years Pete has been ‘Squeaky’ Smith (OE1975-80), Nigel FROM SKIFFLE involved in many other bands Reid (OE1974-79) and Rob Middlecoat including, very briefly, The (OE1972-79) and they still perform their Damned, and in recent years brand of easy-listening ska regularly. has diversified into cabaret School discos were the ultimate breeding TO INDIE and burlesque. ground for bands dreaming of stardom, Chris “Merrick” Hughes including the rather unsavorily named (OE1971-76) was a lifelong Chuck McKee (OE1974-81) and The Emanuel has a fascinating mix of alumni who have had success prog-rock fan but did not join Sweaty Helmets. The latter played a in the cut-throat music business, whilst others never got beyond the 1968 House Music Competition where Adam and the Ants until they had been school disco with Storm Petrel featuring a few gigs or dreaming of stardom from their bedrooms. they diversified into blues and jazz with playing for a few years in 1980. After Mick Waller (OE1973-80), Dan Goodwin This article takes a roughly chronological look at both the Geoff Tipping (OE1965-72), they played his arrival, this post-punk band had its (OE1973-80) and Richard Polgrean famous and the dreamers. schools, church halls and other venues. most successful period with huge-selling (OE1973-80). Dan later drummed for singles in which “Merrick” played drums, cult indie guitar band The Kitchens of In the 1970s the musical landscape evolved sometimes keyboards and produced much Distinction who in their most productive and progressive rock was eventually of the material. In subsequent years Chris period of 1986-96 recorded four albums, superseded by punk. Teenage terror Paul has produced many bands including the released many singles and played big Slack (OE1968-75) became the bassist When rock and roll was in its infancy, name, he used The 1960s and 1970s saw many other mega‑selling 1980s band Tears for Fears. venues and festivals across the world. They in the legendary punk band The UK Subs. skiffle was still a force to be reckoned with. ‘Elton’ from Elton short-lived bands come and go. Martin In his school days Chris was a prog-rock epitomised very cool 1980s indie music School contemporary Andrew Pearce Andrew Hallinon (OE1951-57) entered Dean – becoming Trent (OE1961-67) played in The Spirits fan who once watched a version of the which deserved to sell way more records (OE1967-72) noted “Paul Slack was always in his band into an all-England skiffle contest, the mega star Elton and gigged regularly in South London in the prog super-group Egg play the Hampden than they probably did. trouble at school!” but Paul himself countered coming second in the Tooting run-off John! Hall in February 1972. “It’s true....however I was made a sub-prefect David Rees section, losing out to a skiffle version of When it comes to in an effort to curb my waywardness!” The Whilst some OEs were taking root in the the future rock and roll classic “Great Balls Emanuel School UK Subs remain one charts others were content to play school of Fire”. Tel Monks (OE1951-60) recalled bands, The Thyrds of the true giants of halls and discos. David Rees (OE1967-75) “We did at least three gigs..complete with are absolute royalty. 1970s punk and have and his band featuring Graham Mantle tea-chest bass and washboard percussion.” Elton Dean This four piece gigged the world for (OE1968-76) and Chris Prout (OE1968- Skiffle was soon forgotten and the youth recorded a solitary single “Hide and forty years. Paul left 75) enjoyed causing metal mayhem and moved on. Seek” (1964) which was reviewed in the the band in 1981, but were even featured in the Wandsworth Two OEs from the same school era were legendary music magazine ‘The NME’. re-joined in 2008 for Borough News. In the same period vocalist to have much more success in the early Paul Ellis (OE1957-64), Johnny Malcombe The Hellcats a couple of years. Andy Witney’s (OE1970-77) band The 1960s. Firstly, Bernard Colin Day (OE1953- (OE1957-62), Mick Teasdale (OE1957-64) Blue Elephant were gigging around south Pete Saunders 60) became one half of The Allisons who and Michael Hughes (OE1958-63) had a late 1960s. Martin influenced and inspired London with Steve Elster (OE1970-77) and Pete Saunders Pete (OE1971-74) were runners up in the 1961 Eurovision Tim Douglas (OE1963-70) to form his Emile Lobo (OE1970-77) also in the band. The Thyrds relocated to Birmingham when he was Song Contest with the UK NME pop own band. Although they had more than fourteen and in 1978 joined Dexys chart number one single, “Are You Sure?”. one name, their longest lasting was The The Spirits They never repeated their early success Quick. Tim and other members Ray Davis but remained (OE1963-70), Dave Bernez (OE1963-70) a popular and Michael Harvey (OE1963-70) were revival act. In delighted to meet up at the 1970s Reunion an interview, last year. the band

recalled playing Chris “Merrick” Hughes huge venues such as the brief moment of fame when they qualified James Atashroo Hammersmith through several televised heats into the Apollo whilst final of the TV music show “Ready Steady Alan Caddy still sharing Win!” They played many local gigs but bedrooms with their siblings! Alan Caddy decided not to pursue careers in music (OE1951-55), an ex-Emanuel choir boy, and instead headed off to university. Dave played lead guitar in Johnny Kidd and Price (OE1958-65) recalled participating in the Pirates and more successfully The impromptu jams with The Thyrds at school Tornadoes, who were the first band to and became a professional guitarist in the Molton Light score a number one hit in both the UK and States. Perhaps Michael Hughes got a taste America with Telstar. Sax player Elton Dean for potential stardom when he earlier (OE1956-62), who performed with cult performed with The Hellcats, a band which 1968 saw the rise of Molten Light featuring band Soft Machine from the same school featured Graham Nichols (OE1957-62), two brothers from Marlborough House, period, also played with Reggie Dwight in Dick Tarlton (OE1957-64), Rik McDonell Martin Rickman (OE1961-69) and Simon Bluesology and when Reggie changed his and CJ ‘Josh’ Coomber (OE1961-63). Rickman (OE1964-72). After failing to win

The Thyrds 26 27 FEATURE The First Year Huts (housing classrooms 41-44) were built around 1964 as temporary structures but they lasted nearly 20 years before construction began on the Hill Form Block, which was completed in 1983. Anyone trying to take a short-cut towards the Fives Court would have incurred the wrath of fiercely protective Groundsman, Arthur Warr-Wood, who is well-remembered by many OEs. Jamie Graham

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Nick Annand Ellie Rose (OE2005-09) played at Glastonbury and is a singer-songwriter Raymond-Barker Matthew going places, Shame Cole Salewicz (OE2000‑08) has seen some success as vocalist of indie band Savage Nomads and Dom Whalley’s (OE2003-06) dance band Jungle was nominated for a Mercury Award in 2014. And for something very strange Azim Keshavjee (OE1981- 82) heads up Comfortably Numb, one of Canada’s most successful Pink Floyd tribute acts and has been gigging for over 25 years. And from the strange to the totally unique, hats off to Matthew Raymond-Barker In more recent years there have been (OE1997-2002) who won the French many further examples of OEs working X-Factor whilst he was an exchange successfully in the music world. Nick student! Finally, let us not forget James Annand (OE1989-95) is better known as Atashroo (OE2002-07) who plays trumpet DJ Deekline and is a highly successful DJ of in The Renegade Brass Band. They might dance, break-beat and garage music with a be brass, but they sure have the rock large club following. Former School Captain and roll spirit! Rufus Miller (OE1997-2003) plays guitar for 2017 was a big year for The Maccabees, Sting, Jamie Graham (OE1995-2000) has the highly successful indie guitar band which moshed in two heavy metal bands and now featured both Hugo White (OE1997‑2002) works in the industry for a record label, and Rupert Jarvis (OE2000-02), who split

Rufus Miller up at the peak of their powers with a huge farewell show at Alexandra Palace last summer. As they exited stage left, they passed the Emanuel musical torch to Shame, an indie guitar band which snarls with attitude during their riotous live act. Featuring Josh Finerty (OE2008-15), Eddie Green (OE2007-13) and singer Charlie Steen (OE2008-13), the band swaggered across the 2017 European festival circuit, including Glastonbury. We spoke to Josh about the band when he was still a pupil and he said “we sound like early UK Subs”. Little did he know UK Sub Paul Slack was also an OE! The Maccabees By Tony Jones

28 29 2000s an analyst for Bloomberg in their renewable a School Truancy Officer in Putney, he energy department after completing a PhD moved to Cheltenham in 2002 where he Ellie Rose (2009) in which he researched lithium batteries married Clare and worked for the Ministry NEWS OF Ellie’s first album ‘Finishing School’ will utilising oxygen. of Defence. Jonathan became involved come out in 2019 with the first single in the church in Cheltenham. In 2012, Elliot Black (2006) being released on 1 August this year. Ellie he moved to Wotton-under-Edge having co-wrote the song and has just returned After leaving Emanuel, been ordained as a Baptist Minister and from South America where she shot Elliot took a year off is still serving Morton Baptist Church in OLD EMANUELS photos and videos for the album. and travelled around Thornbury now. New Zealand and Asia Earlier this year, Ellie worked on music before doing a degree Oliver Needs (1995) Tallulah Haddon been ‘wowed by the talent and commitment 2010s with Luke Pritchard from The Kooks, which in Biology at Newcastle Oliver did a degree in Fine Art at East (2014) of the students and the kindness of the they debuted at The Bedford in Balham. University. He then travelled around the London University. He regularly exhibits his Chiara King (2017) staff, who made the transition from pupil to Tallulah starred in Ellie plans to start performing and touring States and returned to London to do a artwork throughout London, most recently Chiara was crowned Miss London in May colleague very easy’. Channel 4’s recent again at the end of the year after her single Masters in Science Media Production at at the Hammersmith Arts Fest Group and will represent the capital in the finals drama series, Kiss Me is released. Madeleine Vey (2013) Imperial College London. Exhibition. He will also exhibit a selection of Miss England later in the year. First and has previously Maddi graduated in Physiotherapy at Cardiff Komali Scott-Jones (2009) of drip paintings at Other Art Fair Bristol starred in The Living Since then he’s been working in TV, mostly After starting a Business Management University last year. After graduation, she and Meghan Willcox (2009) at the end of July 2018. His work can be course at King’s College London in and the Dead, Taboo and Spaceship. on science shows for the BBC, Channel stayed in Cardiff and has been doing her Meghan and Komali became firm friends viewed at oliverneeds.com September 2017, she decided to take a year 4 and Discovery. He started out as a Tom McCahon (2014) junior rotations in different specialities on their first day at Emanuel and started out to participate in Miss England and to researcher and has worked his way up to Mark Jefferies (1991) After completing his Mathematics degree since then. their clothing brand King’s Ransom London work. In September 2018, Chiara will take being a producer. He is currently working Mark went to Durham University to at Durham, Tom returned to Emanuel as in 2013. The main ethos of the brand is to up her place at Edinburgh University to Nevada Summerley on shows for Discovery Channel focussed study Anthropology and then to Sheffield our Fives coach. He trained our players champion young people who are striving to study International Business and Mandarin. (2012) on gold mining in Canada and Alaska. University where he completed an MSc in three days a week with a further day at be at the top of their game. They sell online In December last year, Human Forensic Archaeology. He joined Jude Wilson (2017) Charterhouse. Tom will be moving on to as well as at pop-up shops throughout Lily Bolton-Green (2003) Nevada graduated from the UK Immigration Service and as a result teach Maths from September this year. In the year. Lily is the Director and Founder of Activ After finishing his A Levels, Jude worked as the Royal Northern has been posted around Europe and the his day, Tom was undefeated ‘Emanuel Blitz Camps, multi-activity holiday camps for a student caller on the Fully Funded Places College of Music in Alongside running King’s Ransom, Komali is world, including three years in Belgium, and Chess Champion’ for several years before children aged 4 to 14, and Activ Adventures, telephone campaign before taking a gap Manchester. She was an artists and repertoire (A&R) and creative has recently returned to the UK after three year. He has won a 100% rowing scholarship heading to university. provider of outdoor adventure programmes awarded a Masters in Composition with consultant at Parlophone records, while for schools. years in Jordan with his family. He has also to Temple University (Philadelphia) and is Barney Pierce Jones (2014) distinction. She is now teaching Music at Meghan is a freelance film producer. recently left the Army Reserve after 20 due to start there in August. Emma Healey (2001) years having undertaken tours to Iraq and Since leaving Emanuel, Barney has Epsom College. Guy Cohen (2007) completed his Airline Transport Pilot Licence Emma’s latest book, also to the USA. The former resulted in him Daniel Martin (2016) Stella Collinson (2011) Guy studied Physics and at one of the world’s leading flight schools. Whistle in the Dark, being awarded the MBE for services to the Dan is currently studying Physics at Stella graduated with a degree in Medicine Philosophy at Bristol This involved 14 written exams, two flying was released in May. reconstruction of Iraq. Mark currently lives Birmingham University. and Surgery from Newcastle University. She University before going exams and a lot of hours spent at a desk The book follows the in York. Hannah Cox (2014) came back to Emanuel in June to give a talk to work for the John huge success of Emma’s studying. He moved to New Zealand for Smith Trust, where he Michael Palmer Hannah graduated from the University of on life as a Junior Doctor. first novel, Elizabeth is just under 9 months to complete the flying worked on Rule of (1991) Durham with a degree in Music this year. Missing, which won the Costa First Novel phase of his training and also spent time in Leopold Kai Matthews (2011) Law and democracy building projects in the After he left Emanuel, She is very much looking forward to starting Award in 2014 and topped the Sunday Southampton and Bournemouth. Having Kai has recently graduated from Imperial FSU and MENA regions. He joined the Civil Michael spent a year her career as a freelance soprano. Hannah Times Bestseller list. In between writing a completed his training, he is now job hunting. College London in Medicine. At University, Service Fast Stream and worked in a range as a youth worker in will begin her choral training with Genesis bestseller and a second novel, Emma got Kai was also Chairman of Aiuchi (Medics) Jiu of roles in the Department of Health, a residential centre Sixteen in August and is currently singing Nadia Saward (2014) married and became a mother. Jitsu and a Councilman (Ordinary Member) Cabinet Office and HMRC. in Norfolk before in the award-winning Tenebrae Choir. Nadia graduated from King’s College for Imperial College Union Council Robin Pierson (2000) London with a degree in English Language Guy left Government two years ago to join spending eight years in Scotland as a Tilly Edgcumbe (2014) and representing the Faculty of Medicine and Literature and is currently studying Privitar, a privacy engineering technology Robin makes his living from podcasting. History undergraduate at the University of Lauren (Lolly) Counihan (2014) undergraduates. for an MA in Writing Poetry at Royal company, where he leads their policy His popular ‘The History of Byzantium’ is Aberdeen. He studied Russian at Strathclyde Tilly and Lolly’s obsession with fashion Holloway. She is also in the process of Catriona Maclean (2010) work. At the same time, Guy started a a podcast dedicated to the story of the and then returned to Aberdeen as a Roman Empire from the collapse of the Carnegie Scholar where he wrote a PhD continued to grow after leaving Emanuel. writing a children’s novel which she hopes Catriona is Social Media Executive at luxury policy fellowship at the Centre for Science West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople thesis on British interest in Russian liberal Following a trip to Vietnam in 2017, their to finish by the end of this year. department store, Fortnum and Mason. and Policy at Cambridge University. in 1453. In addition to his regular podcasts, politics between 1905 and 1917. In his spare clothing brand, Monro & Turtle, was born. As part of her Fashion & Textile Retailing Through both the fellowship and his role Paul (Pip) Williams Robin has also taken time to produce time, he enjoyed climbing hills and sailing. Their range of vintage jackets, adorned with degree at The University of Manchester, at Privitar, he is working on issues of data (2014) feature length episodes on the most Michael then spent a year in Cambridge as unique handmade Hmong embroidery, Catriona did a year in industry where she ethics, focusing on how privacy enhancing Pip returned to dramatic incidents. Robin also writes about a PGCE student and has since worked at has just launched. You can find out more at worked as an intern at Ralph Lauren’s technologies can be used to enable Emanuel in 2017 American TV shows at thetvcritic.org and Chelmsford County High School for Girls, www.monroandturtle.co.uk or check out London office and returned after graduating organisations to gain value from data whilst as our Graduate works for his father, who is an actor. starting out as a history teacher and moving their Instagram (@monroandturtle). to a more senior role. She then moved protecting users’ privacy. Outside of work, Drama Assistant after via various pastoral and curriculum roles into beauty and lifestyle PR before joining Guy travels and plays sport whenever he Hero Fiennes Tiffin (2014) completing his degree to his current job as Assistant Headteacher Fortnum & Mason in 2017. can. He lives in London with an Emanuel 1990s Hero appeared in the new Netflix series in English and Drama at UEA. He has and Head of Sixth Form. friend and near a few others. He still sees Jonathan Hunt (1995) Safe which premiered in May. The eight-part also been working with his own theatre Georgia Miansarow (2010) them a lot! Jonathan completed a degree in English Michael is no longer involved in rowing thriller was scripted by best-selling author company, We Talk of Horses, and developed Georgia won silver at this year’s World Literature with the Open University after (he says that he spent many Saturdays as Harlan Coben and deals with the fallout a show that was performed in London in Rowing Championships in Australia’s LW4x. James Frith (2007) his post-school choice, Law, bored him a teenager coxing for ESBC until he grew after the disappearance of two teenagers. February and which the company is taking She left Emanuel to study in Australia and is James came in to lecture our Science (as his tutor Tom Hamilton-Jones had taller) but is still active on the water as to Edinburgh this summer. Pip says that now a member of the Australian National students on the use of batteries in electric predicted). Firstly working in scientific a sailor in Essex, Norfolk and Scotland. being back at Emanuel has been a ‘surreal Squad. At Emanuel, Georgia was in the first cars and the renewable energy sector in publishing in the West End and later as and exciting experience’ and that he has Girls’ VIII to compete at Women’s Henley September last year. He currently works as in 2008.

30 31 1980s Nigel joined International Computers, Paul moved to France three years ago and Paul Ellis (1964) Outside of work, David continued to play a passion gained from his years with the where he achieved Distinguished Engineer continues to play music while reinventing Paul studied Engineering Science at tennis, having been a member of the team chapel choir under Mr Oram. Ramanan status. He has spent his career in the IT himself as a painter. His artwork can be University College Oxford and joined BP at Emanuel, and was tennis captain for David and his Swedish wife have three Vivekanandan Supplier market. He is currently a Senior viewed at www.instagram.com/paulslackart in 1968 as a Petroleum Engineer after NP Bank. The team was in division one of - Rammie Vive (1986) children and are also grandparents. He Sales Manager at Oracle Corporation. You graduation. BP posted him to the Libyan the Kent league from time to time. After says he enjoyed his time at Emanuel and is After leaving Emanuel Dick Millard (1973) can reconnect with him on LinkedIn. Desert (he was there when Colonel retirement, David took up singing again, grateful for the appreciation of music and in the summer of Dick never acquired Joe Gadhafi took over the country in 1969), now as a tenor, and he currently sings with Pete Crockford sporting opportunities it gave him. 1986, Rammie went Craddock’s taste for then to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, then to Abu four choirs including the local church choir, (1976) to Merton College Ritmeester cigarillos, yet Dhabi and then the North Sea. Paul then for 2 years. This was followed by a year Pete first qualified as a after leaving Emanuel worked for smaller oil companies in the out in California before studying Business quantity surveyor but he completed a degree UK and in Canada. Studies at Portsmouth, where Rammie had became disillusioned in Russian & Soviet the pleasure of meeting up with OEs Matt with the ethics of the Studies at Portsmouth and then pursued Geoffrey Tyack Reece and Nick Collier once again. construction industry a somewhat dubious career in the darker (1964) FAREWELL and went on to study Sociology and corners of the Square Mile as a City spin Geoffrey recently Rammie spent 10 years in the print Philosophy at UEA. doctor. He went back to rowing after retired as Director of advertising industry, becoming a Sales retiring early to discover, to his great horror, the Stanford University SARA Director at Kingswood Print & Display Ltd. He completed a law conversion course that wooden racing shells had disappeared. undergraduate study In 2001, following the passing of his father, at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic and His vision of a glorious return to rowing programme in Oxford, WILLIAMS- Rammie spent 3 years in Sri Lanka working qualified as a solicitor. Whilst working, he completely evaporated when he had to a post he held for 32 years, and which as Sales & Marketing Director for DHL embarked on a correspondence course resort to coaching juniors as, after months took him several times to the Bay Area of Danzas. This was a wonderful adventure until MA in Environmental Law, a new but very RYAN of arduous winter training, he was dropped California - which he regards as his ‘second the tsunami hit the island in Dec 2004. After exciting field with the Rio Earth Summit from a Vet VIII for being too young. These home’ - and to other parts of the world. much deliberation, he decided to call time and the environment very much at the The best advice I was given when joining the teaching days, when not on a bicycle on a muddy On leaving Emanuel he studied history at on his career in Sri Lanka in March 2005 and top of the agenda. profession was to go on as many trips and take part towpath along one of England’s many rivers, St John’s College, Oxford and received his return to the UK as he now had a young in as many co-curricular activities as I could, as I would Pete says that his 26 years as a Government he is still often sadly seen hanging around PhD on the architecture and planning of family to think about. see a different side to pupils and they in turn would see lawyer were always interesting. He was at rowing events in a rowing blazer, waving Victorian London from the University of a different side to me. This has proven to be so true! Rammie and his wife Shanthi have a son, fortunate to stay in environment law flags and ringing bells. He is also a Lock London. He is an emeritus Fellow of Kellogg As I leave Emanuel after many happy years, the following come to mind Luca, and currently live in Esher where throughout (DoE, DETR, DTLR, DEFRA). Keeper at City Road Lock and has even College at the University of Oxford and in no particular order: Rammie runs his own business, Revive Advising ministers was always a challenge, found time to force his own daughter both continues to teach undergraduates and Property Maintenance. After spending 44 especially John Prescott and Alun Michael. to study Russian and to row. post-graduate students, as well as organising The Classics-French trip to Provence for breakfast, which he happily ate years of his life as a non-believer, Rammie Highs included working on many Bills conferences and study tours to interesting where the Head of Classics, Michelle whilst we enjoyed our café-croissant; had a God encounter and came to faith through Parliament, appearing before a 1960s buildings. He has published several books, Yan, enjoyed a sing-along with the Pupils discovering for the first time in 2012. He now serves as a Deacon and Lords Committee, negotiating trips to and is President of the Oxfordshire Y9 girls to Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Martin Trent (1967) Barcelona’s magical Parque Guëll, Overseer at Cornerstone the Church in Brussels, drafting statutory instruments and Architectural and Historical Society and Girl as we travelled through the After Emanuel, Martin went to Fitzwilliam with ‘Hansel and Gretel’s House’ Walton On Thames, which has been a very seeing his own words on the ‘Statute Book’. editor of the Georgian Group Journal. He Camargue; College, Cambridge followed by a PGCE at (dixit a Y6 boy); powerful and blessed journey for him. He is also proud of his legal work to make still considers himself a South Londoner and Bristol University. His first teaching job was The trip where I fell in love with the the South Downs National Park possible keeps in contact with some of his Emanuel The fascinating trip to Southern India Andy Thomas (1981) at Manchester Grammar School, and, after Alhambra and its beautiful fountains and to bring it and its Authority into being. contemporaries. with its sounds, smells, colours, tastes Andy initially followed a scientific career a spell there, he worked in an Overseas – my favourite being those little Pete is married to Sarah and has three and above all the laughter. after graduating. He did his MPhil at Teesside Development Administration in a secondary Terry Fitchett (1961) waterfalls on both sides of the stone children, the eldest of whom is now doing and his PhD at Bath. He spent time at school in Kikuyu, Kenya. Following that he Having retired in 2002, Terry is still actively steps in the Generalife gardens; Having the opportunity to spend time human geography at Newcastle University. the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the spent a couple of years working in a special using his foreign languages as a tour guide with pupils in different settings has On his 60th birthday this year, Pete The tasty chocolate con churros in a Research Councils and was accepted as a school in Sussex for brain damaged boys, in the South East. He and his wife have been great fun and being part of their completed the London Marathon. little café in Cádiz where we sheltered Member of the Institute of Physics. with particular interest in dyslexia. Martin celebrated their golden wedding anniversary educational journey a real joy. then moved north, to Harrogate in North from the downpour (yes, it does rain It was then that Andy decided to ‘reboot’ Paul Slack (1975) and continue to be in good health. Yorkshire, for a post as Head of English at in the South of Spain – LOTS!); I have also worked with - and learnt and take his life in a different direction. He Paul attended St. from - fantastic people in my time at St Aidan’s High School and from there he 1950s The L6 trip to Paris which happened self-trained in programming and in 1998 Martin’s School of Art Emanuel, though Charlotte Easton, who became Deputy Head at Stokesley School, during the riots. Whilst visiting he and his wife left their jobs, sold their in the late 1970s. He David Benson (1957) passed away from cancer in September a semi-rural 11-18 comprehensive school the usually peaceful Père Lachaise house and other possessions and bought abandoned his studies After deciding that surveying wasn’t for him, 2016, holds a special place in my heart. on the northern edge of the North York cemetery, a student panicked at the a one-way ticket to Calgary, Canada. They to pursue a career in music. He was a David joined what was then the National Knowledgeable, enthusiastic, kind, funny Moors. He retired in 2007, after a spell as noise we were hearing, convinced that soon became established and Andy has founding member of the British punk band Provincial Bank which his father assured him and resilient, she will always remain a role Acting Head. we were about to be attacked, until been working in Software Development UK Subs and made several appearances would be paying him £1000 a year by the model for many - me included. in a range of sectors. He is looking forward on the BBC’s Top of the Pops. He also Martin was a Magistrate in Middlesbrough I reassured him that it was only the time he was thirty. Finally, I don’t want to end without to retiring in a few years. appeared in Julian Temple’s film ‘Punk Can for ten years after retirement and he also noise of a school playground backing Take It’ and more recently in Lionel Guedj’s does voluntary work with the Alzheimer’s In 1970 he was transferred to the finance onto the cemetery; mentioning my very favourite place in Andy and his wife live an hour’s drive from house subsidiary Lombard North Central the school: the library. How lucky to ‘Rock‘n’Roll of Corse!’, a biographical Society in Stokesley and at the Helmsley The simple pleasures of relaxing in the the Canadian Rockies and spend a lot and was soon appointed PA to one of the have the use of such a fantastic place portrait of Corsican guitarist Henry Arts Centre. In addition, he is a volunteer sun whilst pupils were playing football of time hiking there in the summer. Directors. He enjoyed a most extraordinary (my idea of heaven is a good book and Padovani, which was officially selected for on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, on the beach of Torremolinos or period in the 1970s as he was involved with a bag of sweets). I will miss the wide the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. where he has started a little blues band Le Touquet (note to self: always take 1970s many major private and public company range of reading material and librarian from among the railway volunteers called an inflatable ball on any trip); Having quit the music scene at the end of customers. David took up a senior position Tony Jones’ extensive knowledge of Nigel Dyer (1979) the eighties, Paul returned to playing music Off The Rails. In his Emanuel days, Martin in the mid-seventies and moved back into The Boulogne market where Mr all things literary and of course his Nigel graduated in 1982 from the University in 2007 and has since toured regularly in played in a band called The Spirits. of Leeds with a combined honours degree Nat West Domestic in 1980 until he retired Keddie bought a whole roast chicken interesting take on life! Europe as well as Australia and Japan with in the early ‘90s. in Computational Science and Mathematics. The Flying Padovanis and his partner Moon. During his time there he rowed in the 1st VIII and served as Vice Captain of Boats.

32 33 Old Emanuel Rugby Club RUGBY 7S OLD EMANUEL OE Seventy7s, named after a bus that goes to the school, embarked on their summer activities that has led them to be National 7s Champions in recent years. Two ASSOCIATION additions for the first match versus some Premiership teams included pupils Sam Jai Smith and Max Lufkin joining nine other former pupils. Old Emanuel Golf Society OE TOUCH RUGBY The full results were as follows: Golf Club this year due to unfriendly Touch rugby continues on Thursday evenings all year for both sexes. It is very Stableford scheduling. Hopefully, we will return to this event next year (date to be advised), if the enjoyable in summer weather and new

1. David Coates – 43 points Promotion winning 1st XV mid-morning shotgun start is abandoned. players are welcome. Several games 2. Peter Lippiatt - 39 points The venue for the Autumn Meeting in go on at once with players in peer On 21st April 2018, 240 people 3. Tony Batt – 34 points 2019 is still under consideration, with AFFILIATION groups for ability which change around attended a Gala Dinner at Blagdons Scratch Lewes a real possibility to support Stuart The new tie-in with Harlequins will add during the evening. to celebrate a wonderful season to coaching at all age groups and there 1. David Coates - Gross 74 Cameron-Waller in his year as Captain. During the off-season, the club has at Old Emanuel Rugby Club. will be sessions at The Stoop. Quins will 2. Tony Batt - Gross 82 Please contact the Secretary, Clive Galyer, restructured. Keith Knowles OBE is also be leading the pre-season rugby on 020 8643 1834 or 07859 8215 42 or The 1st XV achieved back-to-back the new President whilst previous Longest drive – Stuart Cameron-Waller camps in August for the Emanuel Lions preferably via [email protected] promotions and will be in the lofty heights President John Sturgeon continues youth teams. Players from Emanuel School Nearest the pin – Simon Muskett for further details on any of the Golf of London 2 next season. Promotion was presidential involvement. Keith will act as are of course welcome to join in these Society events. We would really like to achieved with one match to go and with a non‑Executive Director using his contacts The Spring Meeting of the Society The Autumn 2018 Guest Day will be summer programmes. see old friends and new from the OE every other team in the league beaten. in politics, Sport England and business to was held again this year at Cuddington held on 11 October at Knole Park GC, ranks (including ladies – and there must The group is ambitious to punch through STRENGTH & CONDITIONING raise the club’s profile and help finance the Golf Club in Banstead, Surrey, over Sevenoaks with Roger Gillett as Captain now likely be many golfers!) at the Spring next season and with a few expected TRAINING expected continued growth and needs in 18 holes played in the afternoon this year. and Autumn meetings. recruits and some long-term injuries Sessions started on Tuesdays in May coaching etc. The club is now working with of Thursday 10th May. For the OE Spring Meeting in 2019 we will overcome, there is confidence. There are with Crossfit qualified instructors, two of Harlequins and already some players are be returning to Cuddington Golf Club. We Though slightly windy, the course usually about 10 players in the 1st XV that whom recently did a two-week residential being looked at as Academy players. The are not entering the Surrey Schools Old We have now started accepting conditions and sunny weather led to a went to Emanuel School. weight training course with the Ukrainian club is also looking at adding to coaching Boys Golf Competition (now styled Surrey recommended friends/past guests pleasant round and some good scores. The 2nd XV also won promotion and Olympic coaches. staff and have hosted some interviews. Schools Golf Societies Festival) at Bramley of OE golfers into the Society. a new Surrey Reserve Premier League is Players from Emanuel School over 17 The ambition and confidence continues! being formed with Old Emanuel invited to years old – especially those preparing for NETWORKING join. The club is one of the few in the area university or on a gap year - and others Anecdotally many rugby players find fielding a 3rd XV and, although they are wishing to return to Blagdons are welcome careers and opportunities through contacts more social, they compete well against 1st to join in. The programme last year, working in the OERFC. With hundreds of players OEA Luncheon Club Old Emanuel & 2nd XVs. There are plans for an under outside in the good weather, was hugely and parents in the ‘Emanuel family’ around 21s squad. successful. The instructors’ attention to The 1960s Reunion saw many who had not been back to the school Cricket Club Blagdons, many are in senior management Emanuel Lions, the youth and mini section, detail in technique and focused exercise for many years getting on famously with old friends with whom they and employers or just have leads. The club Our AGM in February saw the re-election of Dave Debidin as continues to thrive. Sunday mornings for different levels of rugby needs (position were quite probably ‘renewing acquaintances’ after a long absence. is working on refining and linking these Many were impatient for the next opportunity to meet again. President and Chairman and Jon Watt as Secretary and Treasurer. at Blagdons have been very busy! Last and ability) prepares the club well for opportunities, which include gap year and Kavin Hemraj takes on the role of Club Captain. season’s under 18s have joined the senior the season. Sessions cater for males and The Old Emanuel Luncheon Club is there for exactly that purpose. overseas possibilities. The club meets four times a year and is open to all OEs. There is The 2017 Saturday League Captains have been re-elected squads with some standout players and females and several levels of intensity. CLUB FUNDRAISER no formal membership or subscription - albeit we encourage those for 2018 and promotion hopes are high. Off-season nets and others doing well at university. Youth rugby training started later in June eligible to be fee-paying members of the OEA – and guests are very recruitment have been successful. At the time of writing, the In the very competitive Surrey system and pre-season camps are planned for In November 2018, on the day before welcome. It is an opportunity for OEs of whatever age or gender to club has enjoyed a reasonable start to the season; the first and the teams did well: August for Emanuel Lions (mini and youth). England play New Zealand, Old Emanuel get together and have some fun. The lunches usually take place on Rugby Club plans a ‘City Lunch’, based second teams have each won 3 of the first 6 games and the SURREY CUP: It is a lot of fun and all are welcome. the 2nd Monday of March, June, September and December. If you third team has recorded 2 wins. Our Sunday XI has achieved near Waterloo with a guest speaker Under 12s Bowl Runners Up would like an opportunity to see other OEs whilst enjoying some 4 wins to date. (Zinzan Brooke has been reserved). good food, why not come along to the Old Emanuel Luncheon Under 13s Cup Winners It is a fundraiser for the club and all are We continue to encourage all current and past pupils to Club? You will be made most welcome. Under 14s Cup Runners Up welcome to attend. Please book a table join us – all are guaranteed a warm welcome, and there are Under 15s 3rd place in Cup with your colleagues and enjoy a good The next meeting of the Old Emanuel Luncheon Club will be on concessionary membership subscriptions for OEs under 25. meal, entertaining speeches, bonhomie Monday 10 September, 2018 at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo, Please ring Secretary Jon Watt on 07957 407147 or Chairman Under 16s 3rd place in Plate London. Full details of the event will be available in due course. and the opportunity to donate and bid Dave Debidin on 07956 361775 for more information. HARLEQUINS CUP: If you are interested, please contact me on [email protected] on auction items. All are welcome to Blagdons for our “Barbados Day” on 8 July. Under 15s 3rd Place or 01323 894270 and I will provide any further information you TOURS need and add you to the distribution list. You will then receive Our programme of fixtures can be found at: For any details, please contact: invitations to all the events as and when they are announced. All youth teams toured this year and all www.oldemanuel.play-cricket.com. [email protected] Stuart Cameron-Waller (Hon Sec) D Debidin (OE1964-70) won their games on tour. The senior squad www.emanuelrugby.co.uk won in Rotterdam on the May weekend. Under 13s Cup Winners

34 35 A man of many talents, Donald also the Cold War. After tours in Scotland and authored ‘“Union Cinemas Ritz”: A Story Cyprus, the family returned to the UK and OBITUARIES of Theatre Organs and Cine-variety’, settled in the Wantage area where Brian published in 1999 to critical acclaim. Music transferred to Support Command and flew was one of his great loves and as a boy he RAF freight aircraft. Flying to all corners of was Honorary Secretary of ‘The Dorset the world gave him an appetite for travel It is with sadness that we inform you of the death of the OEs on these pages. Fuller versions Club’ which held many school and OE that he would never lose; an annual solo of many of these obituaries have been published in our e-newsletters. If you would like to see music events. adventure was something he maintained complete versions, please contact the Development office. Donald was a lovely man and very proud well into his 80s. Flying was his passion and to be an Old Emanuel. Our thoughts are he was recognised as a Master Navigator Louis Calvete (OE1934-37) for Barclays Bank and became a Fellow of with his son, Nick, and his wider family. and, as the ‘action man’ he most certainly the Institute of Bankers. His work took him Donald Inkster (OE1934-42) was, when the time came he chose not Louis Calvete worked for the chemical Tony Jones to “fly a desk” but to continue flying for to West Africa including Nigeria and the We are saddened to note the death of a company ICI for 35 years, moving from real for the remainder of his career. This Congo for fifteen years during a turbulent great friend of Emanuel School, Donald research to management services and Geoffrey David White decision was not a surprise to those who time for the continent. He was later Inkster (OE1934-42), who passed away at finally to overseas sales. (OE1938-45) knew him. appointed General Manager of Barclays the age of 92. Donald was the last living Louis attended Wimbledon Park School Sadly, we lost Geoff in October 2017 after Bank. George believed that his years in Second World War veteran we were in Some of the honours included in Brian’s and Emanuel School in south-west London, a long battle with cancer. He attended the Army were important to his post-war contact with. He was a huge supporter Valete notice were School Prefect, then Kimbolton School in Cambridgeshire. Emanuel when the school was evacuated career and said that he entered the Army of our war research, gave us many House Captain of Rodney, Captain of to Petersfield during the war years. He spent the second world war years as a boy and exited it as a man. photographs and we interviewed him Rugby and Vice-Captain of Cricket. He in Ecuador. His father, a pacifist and Tony Jones extensively for our book ‘Emanuel School After qualifying as an accountant his early was also involved in athletics, shooting, anarchist, having been influenced by his George Holliman (OE1933-41) at War’. career took him, his wife Pat and his fives and CCF. personal experience of war-torn Spain and two young daughters, Janet and Elaine, It is with great sadness that we announce Until he had a stroke three years ago, Brian went on to play cricket for the RAF France, decided to sell his business, which to Singapore and later to Hong Kong the passing of Second World War veteran Donald and his wife Francoise were regular and rugby for Harlequins - and losing his manufactured hairdressing equipment, and where he was a Consultant Partner with George Holliman who was one of the last fixtures at school functions, OE lunches, shorts at The Sevens in front of a packed emigrate. During Louis’ time in Ecuador he Price Waterhouse. His mantra in life was surviving veterans we were in contact with. Dacre Day and fundraising events. Although Twickenham crowd was a favourite story worked at a pharmacy and at the British to ‘always do your best’, and it served George was amongst the guests of honour in later years Donald was exceptionally of the grandchildren. His passion for Legation as a bilingual assistant to the him well. at the ‘Emanuel School at War’ exhibition short-sighted, he was still able to locate the sports never diminished with his interests press secretary. in 2014. ‘Inkster seat’ in the Fiennes Theatre which Our wonderful father, husband, grandfather broadening as children and grandchildren On returning to post-war Britain in George, one of four brothers to attend bore his family name! In 2009, Donald and great grandfather, with his kindness took up more and more diverse pursuits. 1946, Louis secured work at ICI and also Emanuel, was School Captain and Captain attended the final Petersfield Emanuel and good humour, was the bedrock of the He was always there on the touch resumed his studies, which had been cut of athletics, boxing and tennis. He played reunion to commemorate 60 years since family and to all who knew him, ‘a true line or a mountainside with words of short when the family left for Ecuador, rugby for the 2nd XV and cricket for the the start of the war. He was very pleased gentleman’. encouragement. gaining a bachelors’ degree in Chemistry to journey over the Bridge on his final visit 2nd XI. Sporting life did not handicap John Dennis Cozens Pat White Brian and Ann (née Joyce) were married through part-time study at the University his academic abilities; George was an to the school a couple of years ago. in 1955. They have three sons, Jason, Ben of London. (OE1937-42) outstanding scholar who won a travel Donald’s family connection to Emanuel Antony Webb (OE1945-50) and Richard who in turn have six children. It is with regret that we announce the Following his early retirement from ICI in scholarship to France in 1939 and for three stretches way back to 1900 when his My grandfather, Antony Webb, died in Brian was totally devoted to his family and death of OE John Dennis Cozens of Howe 1980, he made full use of his language skills successive years from 1939 was a Grand father, Lawrence, attended the school until January. After he left Emanuel he went on especially his grandchildren. His post-RAF House. He was evacuated and received his by working as a London Blue Badge guide, Concours prizewinner, a French language 1906. In later years, one of the old school to be an actor, mainly in rep around the life included working across a breadth education at Churchers College, Petersfield, a Saga tour guide and a technical translator. competition established by the French cricket scoreboards was dedicated to country but he also appeared on TV. Most of public sector jobs in and around their where he made many friends who he He then had the opportunity to pursue Republic for English schools. Donald’s brother, Alan, who was also an notably, his credits include the original cast home town of Wantage. Richard was remained in touch with for his whole life. his interest in walking and completed the George was in France at the outbreak OE. Although the scoreboard is no longer of ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ by Tom born with learning difficulties and Brian After Matriculation he joined the RAF and Pennine Way, the Ridgeway and Offa’s of the Second World War on a London in use we have preserved the “He loved Stoppard in the West End, original cast of spent considerable time supporting Ann was stationed on Prince Edward Island in Dyke. He did not confine his interests to County Council travel scholarship. He cricket” plaque. Donald’s other brother, ‘It’s a Two-Foot-Six-Inch-Above-the-Ground in the organisation and fundraising for local Canada at the end of the war training as a the sciences – his appreciation of the arts returned to England in October 1939 Lawrence, also attended Emanuel in World’ in the West End and one episode of institutions and charities associated with Flight Navigator. Once demobbed he joined included most genres of classical music and and joined his brothers who had been the 1930s. Doctor Who, in which he was the person learning difficulties. Maurice Phillips & Company of London, a art. He was also a huge fan of the Goons evacuated with the school to Petersfield. who discovered that Doctor Who had Textile Contractor, where he worked with Donald was a schoolboy when the Second Brian was a charming man who led a and a lifelong vegetarian. two hearts. George left Emanuel in February 1941 and his father. He subsequently relocated to World War started and, with hundreds full and active life committed to service In 2006 he published Permanent Waving, worked for a few months in the income Lancashire and retired as a Director of that of others, was evacuated to Petersfield Zoe Thomas Webb and family. The Golden Years, an account of his father’s tax department of the Civil Service before company in 1990. in Hampshire before joining up himself To Brian’s wife Ann, and to his sons Jason, involvement in the hairdressing business being called up, joining the Queen’s Royal when he was 18, serving as a Lieutenant Brian M.G. Prior (OE1944-52) Ben and Richard and their families, The Old during the interwar years. He is survived by his son John (Joe) Arthur in the Royal Army Pay Corps. Donald was West Surrey Regiment. In 1942 he was Sadly, one of Emanuel’s outstanding Emanuel Association expresses its sincerest Cozens (OE1957-62) and daughter Julia one of a large group of pupils who were His wife of 60 years, Roslyn (nee Rix), died commissioned into the Royal Engineers all-round sportsmen of the post-war condolences. who cared for him in his latter years evacuated from Emanuel Wandsworth, in 2016; he is survived by two daughters, and posted to 564 Field Company, Royal period, Brian Prior, succumbed to cancer Jason Prior and Mike Markland prior to his death aged 91 in Birdlip, came of age whilst the war was raging Joanne and me, and two grandsons. Engineers with whom he served through in February this year aged 85. When he Gloucestershire. He is also survived by and never returned to the school as a the North African and Italian campaigns. left school having completed his studies Edited from The Guardian, Wed 2 May 2018 three grandchildren, six great grandchildren boy. However, he frequently returned to Later in the war he won the Military Cross in 1952, his one ambition was to fly and Claire de Carle and one great great grandchild. Petersfield, where he met Francoise who after coming under attack from the enemy. he applied and was accepted by the Royal It may be of interest to know that his uncle was soon to become his wife and life-time George was later promoted to Captain Air Force. It was no surprise to learn that Albert Edward Cahill OE is memorialized companion and who predeceased him before his war experiences ended in his Commission quickly followed. After on the plaque in the school Chapel of the by three years. They were inseparable Austria and he was demobbed in 1946. training in Canada as a Navigator he flew fallen in World War 1. and due to his failing sight Francoise with Fighter Command, initially on Night In the post-war years, George had a accompanied Donald everywhere. distinguished career in banking. He worked Susan Cozens Fighters during the very tense years of

36 37 Dr Robert Anthony Wright Tom became a French teacher and joined Martyn, a member of the Society of the (OE1955-60) Esher Grammar School, where he rose Holy Cross, was elected as an honorary to be Head of Faculty and staff there clergy Canon for Guildford Cathedral in Bob was a pupil at Emanuel School until remember him as being thoughtful, wise October 2015. In May 2017 he was elected 1960. I am so sad to say that he died on and fair, a genuinely lovely man, who as a House of Clergy General Synod 6th January 2018, aged 73. was a great teacher respected by both representative for the Diocese of Guildford. As a chemist, he taught for most of his life colleagues and students alike. He was Martyn was an essentially private man, who at Charterhouse. Two years ago we moved a keen sportsman, and was a regular spoke little about himself, and was self- to Hurstpierpoint. We have three children, supporter of Surrey and England cricket at deprecating of his talents and achievements. Philip, Oliver and Holly. the Oval. He played cricket for the college Whether he was giving spiritual direction, I think Emanuel nurtured a great cricketer staff team and took over the college leading pilgrimages at home and abroad Colin Hall (OE1946-53) Geoffrey Brian Sewards and footballer in Bob, as well as a fine hockey team where his commitment and or organising socials it was always about Dr Dennis Witcombe OBE enthusiasm were admired by the students. It is with great sadness that we report (OE1945-55) academic. other people. (Staff 1955-64) On retirement, Tom was able to expand the passing of Colin Hall who died on Geoffrey Brian Sewards was born on Linda Wright his passion and enjoyment of good food, He was comfortable in his own company, Dennis Trevor Witcombe was born in December 8 2017, four years after suffering 4 February 1936. He grew up with his good wine and particularly good beer. He playing the piano, listening to opera, reading Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1930. His parents a serious brain injury in Canada following a brother, Alan, and parents, Thomas and was always refined in his tastes, whether and writing new psalm chants. He was were from Maidstone, Kent, but his father cycling accident. Although Colin never fully Dorothy, in Wandsworth save for periods enjoying a Michelin meal, a bottle from the also a life-long Fulham fan - the triumph of worked for the British Bank of South recovered from this debilitating injury he of time evacuated to Wales during the war. Wine Society or a pint at the Oval - never hope over expectation! America. still made every effort to attend Emanuel Having studied at Emanuel School where to excess, always measured, always a great School events such as Dacre Day and His family, clergy and friends talked about In 1938 the family moved back to England he was a member of the CCF and, pleasure. his kindness and generosity, thoughtfulness, and in 1943 he started at Mill Hill School other Old Emanuel functions. ultimately, Head Boy he went on to study Tom was a generous and kind friend to sensitivity and sense of fun. He could in north London. The school was evacuated Over the years Colin had many OE related maths at Clare College, Cambridge. A many and was caring and considerate of light up a room with his wry smile and to St Bees in Cumbria during the war. responsibilities including Vice President of talented self-taught linguist, he holidayed others, a true gentleman. twinkling eyes. the OE Association and, for many years, in Germany and Italy whilst a student and In 1948 he won a scholarship to study the organiser of the Curzon Club which is it was on one such trip, to Munich, that he To his widow, Alex, The Old Emanuel Martyn retained a fond spot for Emanuel. history at St John’s College, Oxford, but for selected OEs of Howe House. It was met Ernestine with whom he subsequently Association extends its deepest sympathy. He attended a number of Old Emanuel before that came National Service. Not gatherings and school reunions. He was the most practical of men, he failed the Colin’s dedication to the Curzon Club enjoyed 59 years of marriage. Mike Markland Thomas Charles Mayhew also a benefactor of the school, supporting test to get into the Royal Armoured Corps which has made it the last surviving Old After Cambridge, Geoff became technical Emanuel group which specifically relates (OE1957-64) the Fully Funded Places Campaign. and instead joined the Intelligence Corps officer at Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft and was sent to Austria. to an individual school house. The fact from 1958 to 1961 and, following AWA’s Sadly, in February this year, aged 72, Tom Mark Wilkinson that it has recently celebrated its 100th departure from Coventry, he began his died at Hampton Court while playing his He obtained his MA at Oxford, stayed anniversary is in large part due to Colin. In 35-year career teaching maths at the beloved Real Tennis. At Emanuel he enjoyed John Burbey (OE1945-51) on to do a BLitt and then moved to 2008, when the Curzon Club celebrated Lanchester College of Technology (now English Literature and languages, particularly Manchester to do a PhD on Charles II’s its 90th anniversary, Colin presented the Coventry University). French which he learned from inspiring parliament. It was in Manchester that he ‘Curzon Club Salver’ to the school and it teachers. However, on leaving school Paul Ponder (OE1958-66) met his wife, Pat. They married in 1956 is awarded to the winners of the Senior During his life in Coventry, Geoff spent his first job was with a food flavouring in Pat’s home town of Preston. Cross Country every year. the spare time he had, aside from co- company in Rayners Lane. He moved from Geoffrey Smythe (OE1935-44) raising three children, devoted to the local Dennis started teaching history at Emanuel As a teenager, after leaving Emanuel, Colin there and joined the Civil Service in the in 1955 and became Head of Department community. He was a prominent member Department of Education. did his National Service and had a career of the local Liberal Party and frequent PPC, in 1959 until his departure in 1964. He was in various building services and marketing Tom went to Keele University to study also Lyons Housemaster. He was known a long serving officer of his local residents’ Martyn William Neale (1968-75) fields. With his passing, Emanuel School association (34 years as secretary) and also French and Psychology. He loved his time to be a rigorous academic and in his has lost its connection with a family which the Coventry Federation of Ratepayers’ there and went on to teach his beloved Martyn Neale’s skills as a musician and time at Emanuel many boys subsequently first walked down the drive in 1907 as Associations, as well as serving as a French language. The French language and talented singer shone out during his time studied History at top universities. Whilst both Colin’s father and uncle attended the school governor and as Chairman to the all aspects of French culture - film, song and at Emanuel. He was a perpetual winner at Emanuel, Dennis was involved in the school before and during the First World Coventry School Governors Association. literature - were his raison d’être. He loved of the yearly prize for music, gained Choir CCF, shooting, squash, the Dacre Society War. One cannot underestimate how much He campaigned on local and national issues the films of Truffaut, the works of Camus colours and won the Hipkins Cup. He was and rowing. Colin loved Emanuel School and his time and went out of his way to improve the and the songs of George Brassens and he an active member of the Concert and Dennis went on to become Head of under Headmaster Mr Cyril Broom. lives of others. His record of civic service was often heard attempting to explain his Chapel Choirs as well as the Early Music History at Manchester Grammar School Colin leaves his wife, Pam, who helped him was recognised (although recognition was intricate lyrics and then saying with a shrug Group. Martyn became a School Prefect and in 1970 became Head of Nottingham “You can only understand them in French!” and Choregus in 1975. considerably with his OE and Curzon Club never something he sought) in 2011 when Philip Welch (Staff 1959-62) High School. activities after his accident, and daughters he was awarded Coventry City’s Good Tom married Alex and they lived in Martyn attended Gonville & Caius College, In retirement he was able to spend more Philip Welch was a popular member of Penny and Sally and their families. He will Citizen Award. Streatham before moving to Long Ditton. Cambridge where he studied music on time walking and bird watching, and he staff, teaching mainly Sixth Form Physics. be greatly missed. Despite decreasing mobility in later In his younger days he enjoyed playing a choral scholarship. He did his theology became an enthusiastic letter-writer to He was an outstanding rowing coach and Tony Jones years, Geoff remained devoted to, and hockey, cricket and tennis with Alex, who training at Ripon College, Cuddesdon newspapers. assisted Derek Drury at the beginning of delighted by, his wife, three children, seven was also a cricket enthusiast. and spent a year on exchange at Church the golden era in the early 1960s. He left His own education was a continuing grandchildren and one great grandson who Music was a great feature of Tom’s life Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Emanuel to become Head of Physics at project: he took an Open University miss him very much. He sadly died on 3 and besides having a vast collection of California. He was ordained in December Isleworth Technical College and in later degree and courses with the University of January 2018 but left an indelible trail of original, early 45s he enjoyed a vast range 1981 and began his Ministry in churches years reacquainted himself with the Boat the Third Age. His life was founded on his footsteps for the rest of us to follow. of music including classical, folk and jazz. He in South East London. Club and the school. Philip kindly donated Christian values and he served on his local frequently visited musical performances of Rupert Sewards Since 1997, Martyn served as the parish valuable photographs which document the parish council. His sons, John and Simon, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel including trips to priest of Holy Trinity Church and All Boat Club from 1959-1962. were both ordained. Cecil Sharp House and Ronnie Scott’s. Saints Church Hawley and the Vicar of Tony Jones Dennis died on September 19, 2017, St Andrews, Minley. aged 87.

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