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Ashvillian Society Update Winter 2014 Issue 61 INSIDE 75 Year Windermere Reunion Celebration Weekend Ashvillian Society Black Tie Dinner Whatever Happened to the Y? CONTACTS / NOTICEBOARD UPDATE EDITORS From the Editor Tom Taylor CONTENTS Hello and welcome to Issue 61 of [email protected] the Ashvillian Society Update! 2 Contacts David Simister Over the last week I have done my best to give the Update a bit 2 5 Bachelor Gardens of a refresh so I hope you find Noticeboard Harrogate this issue pleasing to the eye and HG1 3EL easily readable. If you have any 3 comments or feedback please do [email protected] Reports let me know. 4 SOCIETY OFFICERS Yours, News PRESIDENT Tom (OA 1996 - 2010) Nick Breton 5 - 7 1 Huby Park Celebration of Drama Features Strait Lane Lunch Rearranged 8 - 10 Huby LS17 0EE The Annual Lunch in November Contributions was postponed, the new date [email protected] for this event is Saturday 7th 11 March 2015. Appeals HONORARY TREASURER Various staff have already signed 12 up to attend the event and we are Appreciations Alistair Wright hoping that lots of Ashvillians [email protected] will come along. 12 - 15 Letters HONORARY This lovely three course lunch costs £20. To book, please 15 SECRETARY contact Lynne Davies (Assistant Sport David Bulmer to the Ashvillian Society) on [email protected] or 01423 Back 37 Pecketts Way 566358. Harrogate Diary of Events HG1 3EW [email protected] Calling All Golfers We need six golfers with a handicap of 10 or less (preferably) to play MEMBERSHIP in a scratch inter-school past pupils competition. SECRETARY vacant The qualifying round is onSunday 17th May 2015 at Fixby Hall in Huddersfield. The finals then take place on the 25 - 27th September at the Royal West Norfolk Golf Course, Hunstanton, following a IMMEDIATE PAST practice day on the 24th September. PRESIDENT David Bulmer Anyone who is interested should contact Lynne Davies on [email protected] or 01423 566358. 2 Ashvillian Society Update REPORTS Remembrance Sunday service Society President’s Report in the Soothill Hall, which was followed by the re-dedication Nick Breton - November 2014 of the refurbished Memorial Hall, which now looks splendid he last few months have in the Memorial Hall which had again. This was immediately been especially enjoyable become very faded, itself part of followed by a lunch for donors Tand rewarding as Society the total refurbishment of the who have supported the appeal President - here are some reasons Hall (see below). As usual, the to pay for the restoration of the why. lunch which followed the AGM name-plaques, and other guests. was very convivial. The appeal is still open, so please Summer email Lynne Davies on oa@ On the final day of the summer ashville.co.uk for details. Kirstin The Celebration Weekend term it was my pleasure to Barnes kindly represented the dinner at the end of June was address the leavers, present them Society at the School memorial brilliantly supported by the with a lapel crest badge, and service on 11th November, School Jazz Ensemble and Soul welcome them to the Society as and laid a wreath at the war Band. It was particularly good our newest members. memorial. A packed autumn to welcome more sixth-formers means that the drama-themed to the event, who clearly enjoyed Autumn and Christmas Society Lunch planned for the opportunity to dress up! November will be re-scheduled We will shortly be considering The first major event after till later in the School year. venues for the Celebration the summer break was the dinner next summer, so please Windermere reunion, which saw Now onwards to Christmas! look out for details. 80 of us meet at the Windermere At the time of writing we are Hydro to commemorate and looking forward to the Senior The AGM the following day was celebrate 75 years since the war- School Carol service on Sunday very positive, and it was a pleasure time evacuation. The tea, dinner 7th December at 6.30pm at the to welcome Kirstin Barnes as and whole weekend passed Wesley Chapel in Harrogate, our new Vice-President, as well wonderfully, and saw several and also to the evening drinks as for other Officers’ posts to young pupils and teachers reception in the Memorial Hall be confirmed. The AGM also retrace the evacuation journey on 17th December. gave its support to an appeal to by train and boat. Society members to sponsor the I wish to thank again the restoration of the name-plaques We have just held the support which the Headmaster, Staff, Officers and Committee members have given throughout the year, and in particular to the Society Administrator Lynne Davies, who has worked tirelessly to maintain the Society database, arrange all these events, and much else besides! For more information on any future events please contact Lynne at [email protected]. Yours, Nick Breton launching the Mem Hall Plaque Restoration Appeal Nick Breton, President Winter 2014 - Issue 61 3 NEWS Kirstin is President in Waiting Kirtsin Barnes started Ashville in in 1997 with a BSc Hons in her training and qualified as a 1984 in class J2 with Mrs Savage Psychology. Kirstin spent a chartered forensic psychologist in the junior school. She left in couple of years looking for the and got the job as Head of 1993 after completing her A right job and, in 1999, gained a Psychology and Interventions levels and, during that final year, job as a psychological assistant still at HMYOI Wetherby. she was privileged to be the first at HMYOI Wetherby, which is girl to become Ashville’s Head a juvenile prison for young boys Kirstin continued this work until Prefect. After leaving school she from the age of 15 to 18 years. 2010 before moving to be a non took a gap year and spent some She then spent the next few years operational prison governor as time in Romania helping to progressing in her psychologist Head of Resettlement working renovate an orphanage. training, completing an MSc in on ensuring young people Applied Forensic Psychology at were transferred back into the In 1994 Kirstin started at the the University of Leicester. community successfully, with University of Teesside where she the hope that they went on to studied Psychology, graduating In 2005, Kirstin completed all lead law abiding lives. Last year she became Head of Reducing Reoffending at Wetherby. Kirstin is also a Negotiator Adviser for all prisons in Yorkshire and Humberside and attend serious incidents such as riots, hostages, and incidents at height. Kirstin returned to Ashville in June 2013 to speak at the OA service, which was the first time she had returned in 20 years. OA Westminster Noticeboard Two OAs are standing for Parliament at the forthcoming General Election – Julian Sturdy, MP for York Outer, is looking to retain his seat for the Conservative Party, whilst David Simister has been selected to fight the Harrogate & Knaresborough Constituency for UKIP. Meanwhile, Ian Swales, Liberal Democrat MP for Redcar has Kirstin Barnes announced he is standing down. 4 Ashvillian Society Update FEATURES Ashvillian Society Black Tie Dinner 28th June 2014 OAs from seven decades were elect Kirstin Barnes and paid joined by partners, former and tribute to Clare Dolman who current members of staff and is leaving at the end of term, this year’s leavers, for a black tie before proposing the Toast to dinner at Ashville on the evening the School. of Saturday 28th June. The guests then moved to the Following a drinks reception Soothill Hall, which was officially in the newly-refurbished reopened earlier this year by OA foyer, where the guests were Jim Carter following a £2.25m entertained by the Ashville Jazz programme of improvements, to Band, a three-course dinner was reminisce about the “old days” served in the dining room. and enjoy the sounds of the school’s Soul Band. After dinner, Immediate Past President David Bulmer proposed the Loyal Toast; Headmaster Mark Lauder – who not only outlined the highlights and achievements of the last 12 months but also spoke about future developments at Ashville College – proposed the Toast to the Society, and Ashvillian Society President Nick Breton thanked the committee for their work, introduced vice-president Winter 2014 - Issue 61 5 FEATURES 75 years ago, Ashville College was evacuated to The Hydro Hotel, Windermere Reunion in Bowness-on-Windermere. 75 years later, almost 100 Old Ashvillians, including 19 who Celebration Weekend actually attended the school during its Windermere days, 18th - 19th October 2014 gathered at the Hotel for a weekend celebration. The evening was spent enjoying On Sunday, a service led by College staff, including thea celebratory Black Tie Dinner Assistant Chaplain, Catherine Headmaster, brought a group of night, with speeches from Old Frieze, rounded off the weekend 7 current pupils along, arriving Ashvillians, Jeremy Nightingale celebrations. It was a splendid by train and boat, to interview and Mark Hanson, the President occasion, a great chance to both the ‘Windermere Boys’. This was of the Ashvillian Society, Nick reminisce over the past and followed by afternoon tea and a Breton, and Mark Lauder, the make new memories to take chance to look at memorabilia Headmaster of the College, with us into the future. from the time, brought along finished off by a rousing three from both the College archives cheers led by Ian Wilson, one of and the Ashvillians themselves. the Windermere boys. A full gallery of photos from the Windemere Reunion can be found on the Society website: www.ashvillian-society.org 6 Ashvillian Society Update FEATURES Winter 2014 - Issue 61 7 CONTRIBUTIONS Park displayed in their main Ashville A Level Physics museum until recently.