Hywelian Guild 2015

CONTENTS

Editorial 3 President's letter 4 What an Achievement! 18

Who’s Who 6 100 Years Ago 20

Secretary’s Report 8 News from The Archives 22

Branch Reports 9 In Memoriam 24

What Are They Up To 12 Sound familiar? 28 Now?

Bits and Pieces 16 Marriages and Recent 30 Arrivals

Cover photos from left, clockwise: Ann Cotton, GDST Alumna of the Year; Hywelians’ Summer Lunch; Class of ‘84; Cocktails at Christmas.

2 HYWELIAN GUILD 2015

Well, here we are again at the end of perhaps the sadness with which we another year, and as I have record their passing should be leav- another new Magazine to make, I am ened with gratitude for lives well- sitting down with a coffee ready to lived. start. This Hywelian Magazine is full We were particularly thrilled that Ann of news of your adventures, achieve- Cotton (HSL 1960-67) was this year’s ments and families. GDST Alumna of the Year—an award We start the process of garnering your very richly offerings as soon as the last Magazine deserved. You can read Ann’s is done and dusted. At first it’s a trick- story on page 18. le; by the time we get to September As in previous years, I have to thank and October, we are dealing with a profusely all those who make the task (welcome) flood. Thank you all for of putting this taking the trouble to let us know what Magazine together possible by their you have been up to. Without your encouragement, support and powers of contributions, the Magazine would be persuasion. My thanks go to the Hy- a great deal drier and very much thin- welian Guild ner! Committee, particularly the Of course with all the cheerful Editorial Sub Committee, and to the material, there is the inevitable task of Secretary and Membership Secretary reporting the passing of older Hywel- for keeping me going when it all ians. In general, threatens to fall apart! Hywelians seem to live long, Lyn Owen active and rewarding lives, so Editor.

AS WE NOTE ABOVE, Hywelians do no postage cost to yourselves. seem to have found the Those under 85 will have to wait a secret to long and active lives. We little longer for that are therefore delighted to tell the privilege... more senior members of the Guild among our readers that you will in future be sent your Magazine with

3 A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Principal Sally Davis summarises another very successful year for the school.

THE 2013/14 ACADEMIC YEAR was  An Olympic medallist. another successful one for Howell’s - fantastic results and If you have any suggestions, many events and activities held in please let us know. all sections of the school, from our Photographs of prominent former three year olds in the Nursery to staff and people who have donated our 18 year olds in the prizes are to be displayed in the co-educational College. corridor beyond the former We continue to maintain and Housemistress’s sitting room. improve our facilities. In the I have listed our academic results summer, the swimming pool was below; I am delighted that we partially refurbished, and the Art were 5th in the Trust for Department had a complete value-added at A level, and top, make-over. The Stone Hall has for the eighth year in a row, at been transformed with new GCSE. I am sure you will agree lighting, and redecorated using that the results are very heritage colours. School photo- Impressive. graphs are now displayed chronologically in the Dining At A level, the percentage of Room and we hope to refurbish examinations achieved at A* was the Great Hall next summer. 23.2%, with 55% being at A* or A. 42 students achieved all A* or We are also planning a Wall of A, which is 36% of the cohort. Fame for the Principal’s corridor. Nine students achieved all A*, and The criteria for this are: the percentage of examinations  The award of an OBE or achieved at A*-C was 96% and at higher; A*-E was 99.7%.

 A pioneer or record-breaker in At GCSE, 41% of all results were a particular field; achieved at the highest A* grade, with 72% receiving A*-A grades.

4 In total 91% of all results were A* television series on Channel 4 and -B grades. 24 students received all has a partnership with Jamie A*-A grades in either 10 or 11 Oliver on Food Tube. GCSE subjects. Michela gave a very interesting In September, we held our Annual and entertaining speech and Prizegiving and I was delighted to encouraged those leaving us from welcome back Hywelian Michela Year 13 to aim high, but also stay Chiappa. Michela is currently in touch with Howell’s, as she has Head of PR and Sponsorship for done. the Professional Sports Group, , working closely with As ever, I love meeting Tom Daley. She spent three years Hywelians; you are a fascinating working as a Marketing Manager and varied group of people and I in , and a year working as always come away from a meeting Assistant to a Professional Support with at least one story to share Lawyer in Milan. Michela has also with the current students. I hope to published a cookery book, Simply see you at Howell’s soon! Italian, which accompanied her Sally

Bronwen Jacques Trust ex-members of staff would have Mrs Bronwen Jacques was a priority entry to one of the homes Hywelian and one of the earliest each year. The remaining money Secretaries of the Hywelian Guild. was invested and the resulting When she died in 1975, Mrs income is administered by a Jacques bequeathed her house sub-group of the Hywelian Guild near Gloucester to the Governors Committee, chaired by Mrs Davis. for the benefit of former pupils and The income is available to help ex-members of staff. The any former pupil or ex-member of Governors decided to sell the staff who may be in financial house and create a Trust fund difficulty, whether or not they are with the proceeds, which they a member of the Guild, and the asked the Hywelian Guild names of those assisted remain Committee to administer. confidential within the sub-group. Half the money was given to the Hywelians wishing to apply should Cartref Homes in with the address their letter to Mrs Davis. proviso that two former pupils or

5 WHO’S WHO

Please note that, as the magazine is also being produced in an online version accessible to all, for security reasons we have not printed private addresses and telephone numbers. For those Hywelians wishing to make contact who do not have email access, please contact the Committee via School.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE PRINCIPAL AND GUILD PRESIDENT ASSISTANT SECRETARY Mrs Sally Davis, Mrs Frances Smallcombe (Gray) Howell’s School, Llandaff, Cardiff [email protected] Tel: 029 2056 2019 m DEPUTY PRINCIPALS TREASURER Mrs Natalie Chyba, Mrs Saskia Russell (Blair) Deputy Principal and Head of Col- [email protected] lege ASSISTANT TREASURER Dr Sara Southern Ms Kerry McFarland Deputy Principal and Head of Senior [email protected] School Mrs Judith Ashill AUDITOR Deputy Principal and Head of Junior Mrs Julia Evans (Martin) School LIAISON OFFICER EXTRAORDINARY VICE-PRESIDENTS Mrs Julia Baker (Rhys) Miss Jill Turner [email protected] Mrs Jane Fitz EDITOR Mrs Lyn Owen (Hawkins) VICE-PRESIDENTS [email protected] Mrs Ena Davies (Evans) MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Mrs Jose Rawlins (Parry Thomas) Mrs Joyce Shields (Bingham) Mrs Susan Woodrow (Pearson- [email protected] Griffiths) ARCHIVIST Miss Margaret Evans Mrs Janet Sully Mrs Nicola Davies (Salter) SECRETARY Mrs Sue Rayner (Davies) [email protected]

6 COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAMES VALLEY AND CHILTERNS Ms Kay Powell Dr Elan Preston-Whyte Mrs Calan McGreevy (Davies) [email protected] Mrs Helen Graham (Moger) WEST WALES Mrs Sheila McFarland (Hamley) Mrs Coulson (Catherine Johnson) [email protected] Mrs Catherine Coulson (Johnson) USA—NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Mrs Ward (Debbie Buss) BRANCH SECRETARIES [email protected]

Mrs Plambeck (Karen Millar) LONDON [email protected] Vacancy exists BRIDGEND Mrs Atkinson (Christine Treeby) Dr Parry (Pat Lennox) [email protected] [email protected] SOUTHERN Mrs Evans (Carol Diamond) Since the Magazine went to print, [email protected] we have learned of the death of SCOTTISH Carol Evans (née Diamond), Caroline Mclean Secretary of the Southern Branch. [email protected]

Officers and Branch Secretaries serve in a voluntary capacity, with appointment approved at the AGM. There is always a welcome to anyone wishing to serve on the Committee: please contact the Secretary for further details.

7 DEAR HYWELIANS, Once again the year has run away up her post. We wish her every from me and it’s magazine time success. We have our first again. Hywelian-related Head Boy: Josh It has been a full year, not least Frost is the grandson of Hywelian because we are always so welcome Maureen Frost (Gane) of the at school, and there’s always a lot Bridgend Branch. In addition to his going on there. One formal duties as of the more exotic Head Boy, Josh events was an even- “...we are always so recently showed ing of Mumbai Magic welcome at School.” his prowess at act- which we were ex- ing and singing, pected to attend in making a great suitable attire. This led to an inter- Lysander and doing a good take on esting shopping experience and Michael Buble in the splendid twen- one of the most comfortable outfits I ties have ever worn! version of A Midsummer Night’s The Bridgend Branch held its Dream! delayed 60th birthday lunch at The other first, and the highlight of school complete with a beautifully the year, about which you can read decorated cake courtesy of one of more elsewhere in the magazine, the catering staff who also did us was Ann Cotton’s success in the proud – as ever – at our Summer GDST Alumna of the Year Lunch, attended by more than 70 competition, from a strong field of Hywelians. short-listed entrants. Ann’s achieve- We are so fortunate that Mrs Davis ments in the field of education for is keen that present-day pupils are African girls are remarkable and we aware of the school’s history, and should be very proud that she is a this has culminated in an annual Hywelian. event in July known as Founders’ My grateful thanks to Sally Davis for Friday Assembly, which the whole all her support, to Vanessa Yilmaz school, from the tiny tots to the sixth and Hannah Roberts for all their form college, attends. Hywelians help, to my Committee, without are particularly welcomed and whom I couldn’t function, to Lyn celebrated on this occasion. Owen for editing the magazine, and We have achieved three ‘firsts’ this to all the Hywelians who have sent year. We reported last year that Kay us Powell was the first Hywelian to be contributions. Please keep them appointed as Chairman of the coming! Governors, and this year she took Sue Rayner Secretary

8 BRANCH REPORTS If you are an Hywelian now living away from Cardiff, joining a branch is a way of keeping in touch with fellow Hywelians. Contact details of Branch Secretaries may be found on page 7

SCOTTISH BRANCH WEST WALES BRANCH The Scottish Branch held its annual It's always good to report when 'new' lunch on 18th July 2014 at the usual faces attend our reunions, so we venue, the Parklands Hotel in Perth. were delighted to welcome Patsy It was a glorious sunny day so we Clark to our Spring meeting, hosted met for drinks in the garden, before by Marianne Rees (née Phillips) in heading indoors for lunch. Six Loughor, then Dorothy Webb joined members were present: Barbara us at our Autumn meeting, hosted by Trengrove (née Harvey); Jean Cox Ena Davies (née Evans) at her Burry (née Nelson); Mave Ersu (née Port home. Both gatherings followed Jackson); Caroline McLean; Alicia the usual agenda - good company, Gregg-Phillips (née Gregg), and Jean good food, much laughter and Coleman (née McGregor). We were also delighted to welcome two Hywelians from south of the border, Elan Preston-Whyte (née Jones) and Jacqui Holder (née Moore), who had travelled up from Oxford and London just to join us. Elan and Jacqui were at Howell’s with Mave, Barbara and Jean Coleman, so they all had a great time catching up with one another’s news and of course the rest of us enjoyed meeting them too. West Wales Branch members

reminiscing! If you'd like to come along to sample our next get-together, please note May 16 2015 in your diary. We've agreed to meet in Swansea at Hazel James' (nee Jones) home. Catherine Coulson

LONDON BRANCH Scottish Branch Lunch We have had two meetings of the London Branch of the Hywelian Guild. L-R: Barbara; Jacqui; Jean Cox; Mave, Firstly a tea at Drapers' Hall on 1st Caroline, Alicia, Elan, Jean Coleman

9 May and then a lunch in London on dissolved some seven years ago, but 8th November. Sally Davis and a group continues to meet informally. Vanessa Yilmaz attended both and At the suggestion of Ann Lawrence gave us lively updates on the (Secretary to the original branch), excellent state in which the school is Elan Preston-Whyte has sent this these days. Our next meeting will be report of their doings: on 25th April 2015 at the Drapers’ “I became the self-appointed Hall when all are welcome to join us secretary of the group which now for tea. numbers 15 Hywelians in all. This Diana Paul year seven of us met in May, just after the wettest Spring on record, at SOUTHERN BRANCH The Crown in Playhatch, near We only managed one meeting this Caversham, Over a very enjoyable year and this was arranged for May. lunch everything from the state of We had to cancel our September ourselves, our families and that of the meeting as, due to illness, I was not world came under discussion. able to arrange and attend the The greatest difficulty we find in meeting. meeting up is finding a venue which Next year we have arranged to meet is convenient for everyone and, twice for lunch at the Lyndhurst Park inevitably, there are some who are Hotel on 14th May 2015 and 24th either away or decide it is too far to September 2015.Our membership is travel. Those who made the journey now reduced to only seven and as this year were: Elan Preston-Whyte Mary Lloyd (Winn) from Swanage has (Jones, 1955); Ann Lawrence (Pride, no transport she is unable to join us. 1957); Margaret Dart (Carston, 1964); In addition, Elizabeth Frewin Freda Cook (Parry, 1955); Joy Alcock (Vaughan) has now moved to (Meazey, 1969); Jane Howard Manchester. Griffiths (Howard, 1970), and We would certainly welcome new Elizabeth Ainsworth (Williams, 1954). members. My contact phone number “In July, I travelled up to Perth with is 02380 490404 and my address 11, Jacqui Holder (Moore, 1953) to meet Pine Drive, Thornhill Park, Hywelians in Scotland at their lunch Southampton, SO18 5RQ. meeting. This advent from two Carol Evans (Diamond) Hywelians from south of the Border will no doubt be reported by their THAMES VALLEY AND CHILTERN group secretary, Caroline McLean.” BRANCH Elan Preston-Whyte The original branch, with its affiliation to the Guild, covered the adjoining counties of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. It was

10 SIXTY YEARS YOUNG!

The Bridgend Branch celebrated 60 As the photographs below show, years of existence at a lunch held in there was an excellent turnout and School during the year. it’s obvious that a good time was enjoyed by all present.

L-R. Chris Nicholas, Sheila Hughes, Mary Lloyd, Liz Fryer, Sally Davis, Megan Taylor Muriel Jeremy, Heather Robertson, Josh Frost (head boy) Barbara Forte, Judith Wil- liams

Enfys Brown, Peggy Lewis, Margaret McCormack, Jose Rawlins

Maureen Frost, Vanessa Yilmaz, relative of Joyce Care, Joyce Care

Lyn Jones, Mary Edge, Barbara Forte

Janet Hussell, Bethan Evans, Kay Powell, Joyce Shields, Sue Rayner

11 WHAT ARE THEY UP TO NOW?

As always, our Hywelians manage to get up to some fascinating exploits, and make their mark on the world!

YASMIN FORD (née Delpak,1981- keep young people, and those who 1988) says: ‘I went to Bath School of share the roads with them, safer Physiotherapy after Howell's, then while driving. If anyone has any started working on the South Coast interest in the issue, or contacts that for a few years. may be useful, I would appreciate any ‘In those days (early 90s), it was easy support.” to move in and out of work in the CATHERINE FOSTER says she has had NHS, so I went travelling to China quite a busy year! ‘In July I took part and taught English (Mrs. Maylin in a singing tour of the Czech would collapse in shock!) for a year, Republic, Austria, Hungary and then volunteered at the Bahai Temple Slovakia in what must have been the in New Delhi for a few months before hottest summer ever! Singers from all returning to real life. I enjoyed every over Canada gathered in Prague minute of my adventures and during the first week of July. We doubtless HSL gave me the rehearsed for three hours after confidence not to think twice about breakfast each morning, explored the having a go. city, and then travelled through the ‘I'm happily married with a little one Czech Republic to Salzburg where aged 5 (started a bit late …!) It’s hard we sang a Haydn Mass as part of the juggling work, motherhood, husband evening Mass at the church attached and health but there's always to the Franciscan Monastery in the someone who has it harder. I love heart of old Salzburg. From there we October and make a point of going to travelled to Vienna, where we also Llandaff fields often to scrunch about participated in an evening Mass at St. and feel nostalgic.’ Peter's - Baroque architecture, with great acoustics, such a gift to be able SARAH JONES left HSL in 1991. She to sing in such wonderful tells us that she obtained a Ph.D. in surroundings. We also attended a Epidemiology from Cardiff University performance of Orff's Carmina in 2005, and is now a Consultant with Burana in the courtyard of a Public Health Wales. monastery in Klosterneuburg that was Her daughter, Megan, was born in celebrating its 900th anniversary. 2014. Four full choirs and two full Sarah adds: “As a bit of an aside, I orchestras combined to give an am campaigning for the introduction outstanding concert. In the heat of of Graduated Driver Licensing in the I sailed down the Danube UK. This legislation would help to

12 to an adjacent island for a little respite JANET KINGDON was at Howell’s from from the heat of the city. 1969-1976. She tells us, ‘After ‘My sister Janet (Torriani) who lives in graduating from Oxford, I stayed to Switzerland, visited me here in do my PGCE and then taught maths Victoria for two weeks in August, for six years in a school in the city. I during a record-breaking summer that then moved to a girls' boarding school everyone on the West Coast in Wantage, just south of Oxford, for thoroughly enjoyed. Janet was also at the next 21 years, where I was Howell's. (we overlapped for a year or Assistant Head. Whenever HSL came two) and will be 89 in January! The to play lacrosse against us, I was family celebrated the birth of my 8th never sure who I should support! granddaughter in September- a little ‘In 2007, the school went the way of premature miracle who is now thriving many small boarding schools and it thanks to the neo-natal team at Mt. closed, so I went back to my teaching Sinai Hospital in Toronto. I have yet roots and now teach maths at a very to meet her, but thanks to modern large comprehensive (2,300 students) technology, I receive photographs of in Thame, just east of Oxford. I am her progress via my iPad! aiming to retire in 2017. ‘I am still singing. My choir will be ‘In June, I went to the summer performing Vaughan Williams' Hywelian meeting, having not been Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ as part back since 1979. I can recommend it! of their upcoming Christmas concert - I reconnected with lots of people who a work I know and love so well! were at HSL in and around my time, ‘I have just celebrated my 84th especially Angela Goodwin (nèe birthday with my Victoria family, and I Wakeham) and am looking forward to still sally forth for good walks, though next year! It would be great to see mountain hikes are no longer on my more people of my era there.’ agenda! JAYNE SAMUEL-WALKER left in 1975. ‘I wonder whether anyone has news She and her partner Caroline Taylor of June Derrick (Ridge) or Valerie entered their Civil Partnership on 21 Tucker (Combes)? We have kept in December 2005, having met in 1990. touch over the years, but just recently They converted to a marriage on 10 our contact has dropped off. December 2014. There have been a ADRIENNE CROCKETT left HSL in few big trips: the Arctic (twice); Mada- 1979. She is still at the South West gascar and South Yorkshire Partnership NHS Africa; the Amazon; Ecuador and the Foundation Trust as Consultant in the Galapagos, and the Antarctic. Crisis Service. Adrienne is thinking ‘Retirement to follow—life is good,’ about plans to move back to Cardiff in says Jayne. retirement. Although it is not RACHEL BREEZE says, ‘I was Rachel imminent, both her children are based Breeze, divorced and remarried, so in South Wales now, so coming home becoming a Chicken in June this seems to make sense. year. I’ve had a very eclectic career

13 including chef in the army, leading with girls from Oaklands after many eventually into community years-and says, ‘We haven't changed development. I'm now the Cluster a bit!’ Manager for Communities First (a RHIANNON ALLEN (née Williams) says, Welsh Government anti-poverty ‘On 9 August, a group of us met up in programme) in Tredegar. I have two Cardiff for a mini-reunion: we were children aged 16 and 17 and two the 1979-1986 cohort and some of us step-children aged 22 and 11.’ had not seen one another since 1986! LIANE SAUNDERS left HSL in 1987 and Those present were: Rhiannon Allen gives us a brief update on herself: ‘I'm (Williams); Penny Gillies (Leeson); currently on loan to the Cabinet Office Joanne Fowler; Joanne Potter from the Foreign Office. I'm working (Foyle); Louise Plummer (Owen); as the Foreign Policy Director on the Sarah Scott (Broughton); Jane national security secretariat. My team Petterson; Sarah McIlroy, and Carrie prepares the National Security Hindmarsh. Council on foreign policy issues, and ‘We had an excellent evening - is responsible for implementing dinner, nightclub and casino! They decisions that the Council takes. I've trained us well at HSL! been here since 2012 and return to the Foreign Office next Summer. ‘We are planning to hold a reunion in July 2015 in Cardiff for our year group ‘It's been very busy as you can so we are in the process of trying to imagine and I don't manage to keep trace everyone. If there is anyone of up with any school friends though I'd our cohort who is a Hywelian then love to hear from them. I did manage perhaps they could contact me via to catch up with my sister Julie Lucas the Hywelian magazine or . and her family this summer when So far we are in contact with about 35 they were down from Scotland where of our group.’ they live. It was great hearing from my niece who performed in the SHABNA HARRIDGE (née Rajapaksa) closing ceremony of the reports, ‘I'm one of the class of 1985 - in Glasgow. the first intake when the Junior School was created. I stayed on to ‘It's a big year this year as my daugh- complete my secondary education at ter will be taking her GCSEs next Howells, completing A levels in 1996. summer. I can't believe it as it seems like only yesterday that I took my own ‘I emigrated to Australia at the end of O-levels at Howells!’ 2012. I work in Ballarat, Victoria as a Consultant Paediatrician and Lecturer Joyce Shields adds that Liane was at Melbourne and Deakin University.’ awarded an OBE in 2004, aged 35! HELEN GRAHAM notes that School has HELEN DACEY left School in 1971, and just obtained a wedding licence, and is now living in Abergavenny. She that the first ceremony took place in works as a Cognitive Behaviour December. Helen goes on to say, ‘It Therapist in both Abergavenny and Cardiff. She recently reconnected

14 was registered by a Hywelian ANNIE FELLOWS (née Anne Haley) registrar ....me!’ was at Howell’s from 1966-70.She EDWARD PEARCE wondered if his writes: recent exploits were worthy of the ‘After 21 years in Kent we have just Hywelian News! He writes, ‘This moved to Wiltshire to be nearer family September I was awarded the and to get away from the M25! My Queens Commissioner and became husband and I are now both retired an Officer in the British Army and enjoying the freedom to travel Reserve. I achieved this having and visit family in South Africa, and to completed the four modules required have time to pursue other interests over the past year and I am now a after a lifetime of hard work. 2nd Lieutenant. In the photos are of- ‘My sister Sue Haley (HSL 1966-72) my Mother (an Hywelian, Sarah is about to move to Nairobi working Sheppard, who left HSL in 1976), my for the Gatsby Foundation, which is father and my brother. the charitable arm of the Sainsbury Group, and she is involved in economic development in Africa. In recent years she has spent much

time in the USA but is glad to be returning to Africa. ‘I'm also in contact with Jane Binstead (HSL 1964-71), who is living in Norfolk with her husband John and travelling extensively and exotically

now that they have both retired!

STILL GOING STRONG

Readers may recall that we featured Gabriel Williams in the 2013 Magazine. Gabriel’s daughter, Jane Barrett, frail, but mentally very bright. She wrote, asking for a copy of the is still living in her own home (with article referred to. Our intrepid a little help) at the grand age of Membership Secretary found it 102! (How do these Hywelians do and sent it on. Jane reports that it? - Ed) her mother is now physically a bit

15 BITS AND PIECES

CLASS OF 1985 the reunion please email School at the address below: WE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED the Cock- tails at Christmas evening in the [email protected] Great Hall on Monday 15th Decem- Even if you aren’t from this class, but ber. It got us thinking that it is 30 know of anyone who is, we would be years since we left very grateful if you could pass on the Howell’s. To commemorate this information. anniversary we thought it would be a Saskia Russell (née Blair) and Lisa good idea to have a reunion in school Ford (Liz Ford) in the autumn of this year. If you are from the class of 1985 and would like to be sent information on

WERE YOU A LEAVER in 1993, 1996 or 2007? We have a spare Yearbook for each of these years, and would be happy to give them to a leaver from that year who doesn't have one. Please contact Mrs Janet Sully whose school e-mail address is:

[email protected]

Readers who have enjoyed Janet Sully’s News from the Archives in the Mag- azine will be pleased to hear that the Hywelian Guild has co-opted Janet as a member of the Committee. Janet’s knowledge of the School’s history and her links with Hywelians con- tributes a great deal to the Committee’s work, and we know that she will be a great asset.

REMINDER! IF YOU WOULD LIKE a hard copy of next year’s Magazine, please remember to send a stamped addressed C5- sized envelope to Joyce Shields, the Guild’s Member- ship Secretary, by the end of September 2015.

16 DID YOU KNOW that once your joining fee is paid, your membership of the Hywelian Guild is deemed to be Life Membership? Some mem- bers have been wondering why we no longer ask for renewals - this is the reason. We do, of course, welcome any donations you may care to make!

Guild Secretary Sue Rayner says that she still has a number of Hywelian Guild Badges for sale at £20.00 each (including postage and packing). If you would like to buy one, please email Sue on:

[email protected]

The Maggie Howells Physics Prize overall! Maggie went on to study Hywelians Beth Coll and Sian Kel- Physics at Birmingham University low have generously donated a new followed by a B Ed in London. GCSE prize, The Maggie Howells She then went into teaching and Physics Prize, in memory of their taught Physics, both at St Julian’s dear friend, Maggie Howell who was High School in Newport and several also a Hywelian. local secondary schools in Newport Maggie was born on 27th November and Caldicot. Teaching was a good 1956. She lived most of her child- choice for Maggie as she had patience hood in Rhiwbina and went to the and tolerance and could relate well to local Junior School. In 1968 she was teenagers. awarded a LEA scholarship to How- Maggie sadly died of a brain tumour ell’s which was a direct grant to the on 6 March 2011. We were delighted school. During her time at Howell’s that Beth and Sian joined us for the Maggie was selected to be filmed Prize-giving ceremony in the autumn making shortbread by the BBC as she term, when the prize was awarded to could be guaranteed to be tidy and Holly Cruickshank. well behaved and have a clean white

17 WHAT AN ACHIEVEMENT! Ann Cotton OBE was this year’s GDST Alumna of the Year—Janet Sully gives an account of just why Ann won the award, and why Howell’s can be justly proud of another Hywelian achievement.

THERE WAS NO DOUBT about it this entering the care of the state. At Boston year: Ann Cotton (née Evans), who was University (USA), she studied the at Howell’s from 1960 to 1967, was multicultural education system of definitely going to be the school’s Massachusetts before returning to the nominee for the GDST’s Alumna of the UK to study Human Rights and Educa- Year tion at the London competition! As soon as I “...gender inequality Institute of Educa- realised what Ann had in education was tion. She was in- achieved during her career, I spired by a research knew that we had an caused by families’ trip to Zimbabwe to outstanding candidate. poverty…” do something about I first met Ann on 12th March the many girls not 2013, when she came to attending school, Howell’s from her home in Cambridge having concluded that gender inequali- with her daughter Helen, a ty in education was caused by families’ documentary film-maker, to have a tour poverty and not, as most assumed, by of the school; it was her first visit since cultural factors. She started her Cam- she had left in 1967! It was a pleasure paign for Female to show them around and I was Education in 1993 by raising money fascinated to hear Ann’s story of how through cake sales to pay 32 girls’ fees. she had come to set up her charity, Within nine years, over 300,000 Camfed (Campaign for the Education children had been helped by Camfed's of Girls). We were very pleased that, education programme. Now almost two despite her very busy schedule, she million children, primarily girls, have found time to return to school on 4th benefited from it, across a network of March 2014 when, among other things, 3,667 schools in Ghana, Malawi, she spoke to Year 9 geography classes. Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Ann is extremely unassuming and Under Ann’s leadership, in 1998 the down-to-earth, and it was only through Camfed Association, Cama, was set up looking on the internet that I discovered for those who had benefited from the full extent of her achievements. In Camfed. This offers post-secondary her early career, she established and led school training opportunities and an education centre for girls excluded enables young women to become role from mainstream education in London models, reinvesting the benefits of their and was an advocate for children education into their families and communities. Thousands have received

18 business training and start-up grants to Year, was a challenge! Then came the establish their own rural enterprises; publication of the short list and the others have become doctors, lawyers GDST’s encouragement to vote for the and teachers. Therefore the educational candidate of our choice. The winner and economic benefits are truly was announced at the GDST’s Annual long-term, helping to reduce poverty Reception in London on 11th June and and diseases such as AIDS and empower- ing African women to improve their lives. In 2003, Camfed was voted UK International Development Chari- ty of the Year, and Ann herself has re- ceived many awards. In 2004, she was named Ernst & Young’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the UK. In Ann Cotton with Principal Sally Davis 2006, Ann received an OBE in hon- our of her services to girls' education in we were thrilled that it was Ann! The Africa. In 2007 she was awarded an Chairman, Lorna Cocking, presented Honorary Doctorate in Law from the her with a trophy and cheque for a £500 University of Cambridge. She has also donation to Camfed. Ann, who received both a Skoll Foundation and attended the ceremony with her Schwab Foundation Award for Social daughter and Susan Thomas (née Entrepreneurship. Ann is Social Wilson), her best friend from school, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Judge gave a most entertaining and interesting Business School of Cambridge speech about her schooldays and her University and an honorary fellow of charity. Homerton College. Most recently, in Needless to say, we are very proud of November 2014 Ann was awarded the Ann and are greatly looking forward to 2014 WISE (World Innovation Summit her visit as our guest speaker at for Education) Prize for Education Prizegiving in 2015. If you can suggest Laureate at a ceremony in Qatar. another Hywelian of similar calibre to Condensing all this into 2,000 c nominate for next year’s award, please haracters, as required on the GDST do let us know!. nomination form for the Alumna of the

19 100 YEARS AGO

BRITAIN ENTERED the First World “Often, reading letters in the New War on 4th August 1914. The Year’s Magazine from Hywelian New Year’s Letter (as it Hywelians busy with interesting was called) was produced in work in different parts of the January 1915. Here are a few world, I have felt ashamed that I extracts from articles in that had nothing to tell, no work to magazine. write of – but now I am proud to From the school: write telling you of my work, “The war has, of course, made a work which was once a pastime, a difference in many ways. The war hobby – but is now the real thing. news is read aloud two evenings a One terribly stormy Monday night week and sometimes at dinner or seven weeks ago, an orderly tea, and there are plenty of war arrived, wet and breathless, with maps on the school room walls. an order from my Commandant Most of the girls are working very that I was to don my uniform and hard knitting for the soldiers. We be ready in ten minutes to go out made six shirts for the Cardiff Red to the Darien Hotel in the local Cross Society, but now we are doctor’s car, and transform the devoting ourselves to knitting, the said hotel into a hospital to receive elder girls making socks and body 37 wounded Belgian soldiers by belts, the younger ones scarves 10.30 on Tuesday morning. The and cuffs. We have just sent a box road was bad and the weather was of socks etc., for the mine worse, and both my orderly and sweepers in the North Sea myself were wet and tired when Amongst other subscriptions we we arrived, but all the same, when have been especially interested in at 10.30 the following morning a Shilling Fund long string of private cars drove for the relief of the Belgians. up to the entrance and poured in There is one little Belgian on us an endless stream of big day-scholar in the First Form” bearded Belgians, the Darien Hotel had ceased to be and the Gwladys Randall Darien Red Cross Hospital stood From Darien Red Cross Hospital in its stead. in Holyhead: The language difficulty was soon

20 overcome, though, with one “At the time of writing, I am solitary exception not a man could nursing Belgian and British speak English. It is really soldiers in a large house given up surprising how much French one for that purpose. Comparisons are can speak when obliged to make odious, but I am not alone in oneself understood. Some of the preferring the British Tommy to men speak only Flemish and with any foreigner. Very few of them these it is of course rather difficult are overburdened with modesty, to converse unless one speaks and one tells me that he carried on Welsh, when the intonation being his back a comrade whose leg was similar, one can understand the nearly in two for twenty four meaning without really under- hours until he joined his regiment. standing the words. Another, when in the firing line They have shocking stories to tell and retreating, saw his friends on of German atrocities and unfair all sides being shot, and happening fighting, while most of them have to turn round noticed that his best the terrible memory of ruined friend was a few paces behind, homes and murdered families, or wounded. Needless to say our hero are in absolute and most pitiful turned back and somehow they ignorance of the fate of their both lived to tell the tale. nearest and dearest. I am afraid this is a poor sketch of We work very hard – but the most a nurse’s life and will give my we do, or can ever do, is but a readers a very vague view of it, drop in the ocean of debt we owe but as your Editor seems to think to this wonderful little nation, but that everyone is interested in my a cipher in the tribute we must pay profession just now, I send my to each individual Belgian for little effort, with all good wishes courage, bravery and self- for the New Year to the Hywelian sacrifice.” Guild.” Peggy Williams Daisy Davenport Some Experiences of a Nurse [Note: Daisy’s war medals are in the School Museum.]

21 NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES 2014 Janet Sully updates us on recent additions to the School’s archives.

WE HAVE BEEN VERY PLEASED to certificate from 1868 pertaining to welcome another volunteer, Michelle her great-grandmother, Jane Gower, Ingram, to the group of archives as- one of the earliest pupils. In the last sistants. With her qualifications and few weeks of 2014, Mr Nigel experience in IT, librarianship and Bourdice donated the delightful little archives work, Michelle (who was at cotton cookery cap worn by his school 1995-2002) is a valuable mother, Sarah Patricia Brockwell, addition to the team. The new who was at school from 1938 to donations, together with existing 1943, and Mrs Elizabeth Davies, née material, are steadily being logged on Peterson, the niece of Barbara Wil- the computer. At the same time, we liams, who was killed on active have developed a cataloguing system service in 1940, provided photo- and are reorganising the archives graphs and news cuttings about her. material to correspond to this. All the old school magazines and the We are most grateful to those who Hywelian magazines to 1932 have have kindly donated items to the ar- been digitised and are available to chives and museum this year. These view online. Please email me for a include numerous documents and username and password. You will photographs sent over from the find the Netherlands by Gaynor Critchell (née details on the Thomas), a boarder from 1984 to Hywelian 1991; two autograph books of Enfys section of the Brown (née Jones), which include the school signatures of members of games website, under teams and photos from the 1940s; the History receipts for board and tuition from and Archives tab. The date given is 1947, donated by for the beginning of the year or years Margaret Evans; covered by the magazine. This and two tuition means, for example, that the receipts from the magazine covering the two years schooldays of 1982-3 and 1983-4 is listed under Frances Robinson, 1982. The digitisation process will née Williams (1970- continue next year. 77), together with We organised a display on the school photocopies of during the First World War, which letters and a was prepared for an event held in

22 school in June to commemorate the underway, and we hope the results war. It was re-assembled briefly for will be in evidence by the time of the our annual Open Doors Day on 19th Hywelian Summer Lunch! September, when we welcomed a For the second year of our Oral number of visitors to school. In History project, we were delighted addition to a tour, the visitors were that Miss Muriel Jeremy, Mrs Vivien able to see some of the archives Liles (née Morgan), Mrs Mary Lister material. A number of photographs (née Williams) and Mrs Joyce and information from the archives Shields (née Bingham) agreed to be also featured in a interviewed by four display at Drap- Year 8 girls about ers’ Hall on the their schooldays in connection be- the late 1940s and tween the school early 1950s. The in- and the Drapers’ terview was filmed Company. and an The photographs of the whole school edited version was shown to the were taken down from the walls dur- whole school at the Founders’ Friday ing the assembly in July. refurbishment of the Stone Hall area. As usual, there has been a steady Some of these have now been stream of research enquiries, and a re-framed and every single one from number of Hywelians and other 1860 to 2014 is now hanging in the visitors have returned to look around main Dining Room. Some old the school and museum. photographs have been selected to Please let me know if you would like create montages for the concave to come: you would be very wel- walls at the end of the Covered Way, come. Janet Sully. near the site of the old School House. [email protected] A few other projects are also No more linseed oil and Vaseline… I happened to see a small article in my newspaper recently which brought back memories of the hours I spent in our cold garage, trying to get my lacrosse stick into the sort of shape that Miss Bates seemed to think would help me play the game with a little more panache than at present. As I merrily splashed linseed oil everywhere and gummed up both myself and the thongs (note the technical term!) with petroleum jelly, I dreamed of gaining my colours and standing on the podium to receive the accolade of all. It wasn’t to be, and I read with regret that the last wooden lacrosse stick maker in the UK is to retire. Tom Becket, you have much to answer for! Lyn Owen

23 IN MEMORIAM

We are always sad to report the passing of Hywelian Guild members, and send our condolences to their families and friends. Some of the notices below refer to the very end of 2013, after last year’s Magazine had been printed.

Audrey Rapport (nèe Fligelstone) worked hard for many charities and was (1917-2014) always there to help others. Audrey’s daughter Heather Hockley sent Audrey stayed involved with HSL in this information about her mother. throughout her life. Her daughter Audrey joined her older sisters, Marjorie Heather, granddaughter Katie, nieces and Doreen, at Howell's School, Llandaff Wendy and Jill ,and other family in the 1920s. She often spoke of her members followed her through school. happy school days and the walk to school Two great granddaughters attend South through Llandaff Fields from her home in Hampstead School, also part of the Girls’ Cathedral Road. She enjoyed school Day School Trust. Audrey joined the sports and was proud to be in 'Star Gym'. Hywelian Committee in the 60s and was Audrey Bates, who would later teach a regular attender at Hywelian events. sport at Howell’s, was at school at the Audrey was delighted by the new music same time. Miss Trotter was and computer facilities. She went back to Headmistress and Audrey was taught by school in the late 90s to learn about the two Miss Taylors (Slug and Bug) and computing. Miss Tickner (Tick). Audrey always had a happy disposition. Audrey left school in 1935; she was a She enjoyed life to the full and was never keen student and would have liked to known to complain or say a bad word have gone to university like her sister about anyone. She was an elegant lady Doreen, but instead stayed at home to who said she learnt her good posture at look after her father. She learned school. She fortunately remained in good shorthand and worked for a firm of health throughout her days. Audrey loved solicitors in Cardiff. During the war she HSL and sang the School song to her was in the Land Army. Audrey married family just two days before she passed her childhood sweetheart Cecil Rapport away peacefully at the age of 96. in 1943 at Cathedral Road Synagogue. They had a son, Derek and daughters, Valerie (who sadly predeceased her in 2006) and Heather. They had nine grandchildren and there are 11 great grandchildren to date. She was a dedicated wife and mother who supported Cecil throughout his busy public life as Alderman, Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Cardiff, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of Glamorganshire. She Audrey Rapport (nee Fligelstone)

24 Carol Carr (née Jones) poor posture and untidy uniforms; I Carol’s husband Michael informed us at subconsciously braced my shoulders. the beginning of this year that, sadly, What a breath of fresh air the current Carol died on 18th Dec 2013 after Headmistress is! I was in school in the suffering dementia and Alzheimer’s era of Miss Margaret Lewis who seemed disease. well advanced in middle age but was Carol left HSL in 1955 at the age of 16 probably no more than in her just after her "O" levels. mid-thirties! She was a true Academic Dr Hannah-Mari Thomas (née and an excellent Head, striding around Beddow) like a crow in her black gown! Mari died on 13 October 2013. She left I recall appearing on the stage either in a School in 1950 to go to Medical School. play or in the choir—I can still sing excerpts from Dido & Aeneas, Merrie Mari returned to school for the Summer and Hiawatha`s Wedding Feast Lunch in 2010 where she met up with but my acting role always meant holding some of her friends from Medical School. a spear, wearing a sack and standing at She sent the following e-mail message to the back of the stage. the Membership Secretary in December 2010 about the Lunch that year. We I failed to find the gymnasium where reproduce it almost in full, as it is so full again Miss Disney ruled. Those of us not of wonderful memories! blessed with great agility spent fearful lessons striving to climb ropes and Dear" Joyce, vaulting over a horse. The latter I did Thank you so much for your letter and with such determination that I fell into also for all your trouble in organising the the waiting hands of Miss Disney and Summer Lunch. Glenys Rees (now onto my head. As I got up unsteadily she Lindsay) and I attended together, proclaimed, “I don’t like girls who show knowing that a couple of our off, Mari,” which she pronounced as contemporaries from the 40s to 50s era ‘Ma-ree’. would be there. We found others long Being an only child and a Day-girl I since forgotten! spent much of my time before lessons and We thoroughly enjoyed the day. Some of in the afternoon practising lacrosse and the school was still familiar and hockey. I still have firm friends such as seemingly unchanged, while other parts Glenys Lindsay, Gill Yeo, Pam Davies were obviously different. The lunch was and Sheila Kidd. excellent—not at all like the old school Glenys, Sheila and I all trained together dinners with their ‘hangover’ from the in the Welsh National School of war years--reconstituted potatoes and Medicine, where I met my darling dried egg -ych a fi! husband (my typist!). The school hall seemed smaller and less I look back on my days in Howell’s with colourful than I recall, and as we climbed great affection: things such as not eating the steps leading to it, I could almost see in the street and standing up for my el- the P.E. Mistress, Miss Disney, eyes ders on a bus are still ingrained. Our narrowed, looking at us up and down for

25 daughter (now in her 40s) attended How- office was moving to Newport. ell’s in Denbigh and married her best- ‘She was a very exotic Aunt and I friend`s brother. Thank you Thomas enjoyed staying with her in London. We Howell! " did all the sights, and I had experiences Margaret Jill Lewis (née Williams) such as meals out, theatre trips, shopping Jill passed away peacefully on Tuesday trips, visits to trendy hairdressers, and Sept 2, 2014, at the age of 67. She was in new food experiences. She was very good School in the late 50s and early 60s, and company and I always looked forward to was the daughter of Mrs Beulah Williams her Christmas visits. who taught Biology full time from 1962 ‘Adrienne sadly had to give up playing to 1982. Jill had a son, William. the piano in the 1990s when her arthritis Jill was a very dear friend of Jan got too bad. Being a perfectionist, she Sainsbury (née Hughes) who writes: ‘Jill decided she didn’t want to play at all if was diagnosed with cancer at the end of she could not play well. last year. Her death was very unexpected ‘An accomplished cook, Adrienne gave but like many cancers the end is often very good dinner parties; she was an unpredictable. entertaining conversationalist, with a ‘She was here at my home in July having quick wit, which she generally used to lunch with other friends from school. Jill amuse her guests. Some, however, will will be greatly missed.’ remember being on the end of a sharp Adrienne Timothy. and less benevolent tongue! Adrienne left HSL in 1952. Her niece, ‘She bought a flat in the Barbican early in Rebecca Comley writes: the 1980s so that her elderly mother could move in. She did a wonderful job ‘Adrienne was born in Ton Pentre in of caring for her, with theatre trips, 1932, younger sister of Muriel, my concerts and dinner parties. They shared mother, who says that their childhood a love of crosswords and there was lively was a very happy one. Adrienne was a competition to be first to finish very bright child, ahead of her school crossword. After her mother’s death in years. She came top in the competitive 1990, she continued to enjoy London life, entrance exam for Howell’s, where she and also spent time helping children learn thrived, excelling both academically and to read at a local school. at sport; she became Head Girl in 1951- 1952. ‘Adrienne spent much time renovating a small summer house she owned near ‘She gained a Law degree at University Llangranog in West Wales. She liked College London (in spite of suffering going back to discover more about her from tuberculosis) but decided not to Welsh roots. practise Law, but instead became an Examiner with the Patent Office, ‘Adrienne maintained her connection reaching the position of Senior Examiner with Howell’s throughout her life, being before taking early retirement because of an active member of the Hywelian Guild. arthritis and the fact that the London Although she began a process of

26 withdrawal from family and friends in ’Pam married in 1956 and is survived by the years prior to her death, she still her husband Brian. They moved to Truro continued to attend Hywelian functions, a few years ago to be nearer their daugh- a sure sign of how important the ter. Pam will be greatly missed by her Howell’s connection was to her and how son and daughter, grandchildren and much she valued the friends she had many friends.’ made there. Gill writes that she and Pam were at both Pamela Mary Hartnell (née Davies) School and university together and had Pam’s great friend Gill Dash (née Yeo) kept in contact for the last 70 years! sent this tribute : Pam’s last 18 months of life had been ‘Pam attended HSL from 1943-1950 and difficult, as she had always been a very then moved to University College, active person. Cardiff, where she studied Chemistry and Joan Ewart Thomas Zoology. Miss Thomas died in 18th Sept ‘Unfortunately, she contracted polio in 2014, at the age of 89. Although not a her final year, which hampered her stud- Hywelian, she was Senior Mistress ies and curtailed her sporting activities; 1963-5. She taught French and was usu- nevertheless, she continued to play tennis ally known as Tommy French (There to a high standard for many years. Hav- were a number of Thomases on the staff; ing missed her degree at Cardiff, she we distinguished between them by tack- later became a qualified radiographer ing on their subject!) while living in Worcester.

BRIEFLY... The details below are all that we have by way of information. Mary Gratland (née Hunt) Mrs Morfydd Morgan (née Llewelyn) Mary left school in 1931. Her son in- Morfydd died peacefully in April 2014 at formed us that she died in 2013, a month the remarkable age of 106. An interview after her 99th birthday. by Janet Sully appeared in the 2013 Hywelian Magazine Betty Johnson (née Powell) Rosemary Elizabeth Hanson-Cross Betty was born in 1914/15, and left Rosemary passed away on March 8, 2014 School in 1932. She lived in Beckenham, at the University Hospital of Wales. Kent, but spent her last years in a Rosemary, a Hywelian, taught history at Nursing Home. HSL in the 1970s. Mrs Jacqueline Lanfear Joan Strong (née Clarke) Mrs Lanfear was the school’s Financial Secretary from September 1978 to Joan left in 1930. She died last year, and February 1987. she would then have been 100 years old.

27 SOUND FAMILIAR? These ‘offences’ look very tame today, but they were obviously the height of bad behaviour then!

ONE OF THE FASCINATING ITEMS in the school archive is a Report Book, listing some of the offences for which girls were punished in 1923, as follows:  Speaking on the front drive  Not learning recitation  Not doing a punishment given by a prefect  Being on the apparatus in the gym without permission; being tiresome in class  Cheating in French class  Reading a story book while pretending to write an essay  Leaning over the banisters  Writing lines in class  Wearing someone else’s gym shoes on the hockey field  Being absent from detention (very daring!)  Bringing sweets to school  Being continually late leaving school  Carving initials on a desk  Wearing a school badge on another hat  Wearing a brown hat  Calling out the answer to another girl’s question  Making a noise on the stairs  Cycling from the playground to the road through the wrong exit  Going upstairs without permission  Continuing to ride a bicycle to school when forbidden  Taking ink into the Assembly Hall  Opening the mistress’s desk and putting dirty torn up paper in it  In a drawing exam: painting names on the table, flicking paint on her neigh- bour’s paper and painting her own face

In the book there’s a column for forfeits: sadly, we don’t know what these were. However, my aunt features quite regularly in this column, so if anyone knows about the forfeits, I’d love to hear from you! Sue Rayner

28 WITH THANKS School was grateful to receive a generous donation [of £500] from Jan Errington-Gibbs, which she wished to go towards the renovation of the Great Hall. Jan is the sister of the late Glenys Audrey Hayter, who was at HSL from 1944-53, and who died in 1981. Glenys obtained a degree in German and French at Cardiff University, then worked in the Foreign Office Jan also sent the accompanying Back Row L-R: Vivienne Hill (Hayes), Betty Ebbet, Elizabeth Hunt photograph. The original was in poor Centre Row: Gill Morgan, Anne (Bunny) Burnell condition and we are very grateful to Front : Glenys Hayter HSL’s IT department for their efforts to improve its quality.

KEEPING IN TOUCH

FOR THOSE WHO USE FACEBOOK, happening at Howell’s, you can the Hywelian page is a great way follow us on : for you to keep in touch with your @HowellsSchool. former classmates; share memories and photos; and find out Vanessa Yilmaz, Director of about everything that is going on Development and Alumni Rela- at Howell’s. Remember, you don’t tions, also reminds all Hywelians have to contribute to Facebook - that they can email School to give you can just read the content! or ask for any information You’ll find it at “The Hywelian concerning Hywelians or the Guild”: there are now over 420 Guild on the email address below: members. And if you would like to be [email protected] informed about everything that’s

29 RECENT MARRIAGES AND NEW ARRIVALS It’s a real pleasure to announce some cheerful news! Marriages... Anne-Marie Williams married Ste- Victoria Yandall married Graham phen Tuck in Cardiff in May 2013. Hillman on 26th April 2014 in They are delighted to announce the arrival of Bessie Mae in May 2014! St Denys Church, Lisvane. Victoria was at Howell’s Senior Anne-Marie left school in 1997. School from 1994-1999 and then

... And Births Kirsty Leeke (née Thomas) and her Eliza Mari Thaïs, weighed in at 9lb husband were delighted to announce 7oz. the arrival this year of Jessica Nicola Jane Howard Griffiths (née How- Anne Leeke. Jessica is their second ard) is the proud grandmother of child and was born on 4 May 2014. Grace Elizabeth Mazarine Halsey, Kirsty attended Howell’s from 1992- born 4 July 2014. Parents are Susanna 1999. and Jim, and Grace is a cousin to Sarah Green (née Finlay) had a Kiah and Taylor-Jane. lovely baby girl on 25 July 2014. Jane left Howell’s in 1970.

HELEN K WESTWOOD (formerly Helen between his chemotherapy sessions. Katherine Jones) says: Thankfully he is now feeling much ‘I recently met my childhood sweetheart, better, and we were able to visit the beau- David, of 30 years ago, left my job, and tiful Scottish Islands of Islay, Jura, relocated to Scotland. We got married on Shetland and Fair Isle as part of our 5th March 2014! David is the brother of honeymoon. I am now a happily-married Patricia Westwood who is also a Scottish housewife! Hywelian. ‘My husband has been undergoing cancer treatment since last year and we were lucky enough to arrange our wedding in Helen and puffin

30 … AND FINALLY

Photograph: Sian Owen Photography

As we said earlier, Howell’s School is on their wedding day in December now registered for weddings and the 2014. Also in the photograph is above photograph shows Louise and Registrar (and Hywelian) Helen Mark (no surnames, unfortunately!) Graham.

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