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72 THE BERGMAN ÖSTERBERG UNION 2014 72 Diploma Badges CONTENTS Occasionally70 Diploma Badges are available to buy. 3 Page They are donated by former students and sold in aid of the BÖU Archive Fund. Letter from the Chairman 2 Agenda for the AGM 2014 5 The price is £75 Minutes of the AGM 2013 6 BÖU Executive Committee 2014 16 The Executive Committee would like to thank the following: Awards and Presentations 19 Eileen Alexander for donating her badge. A Celebration of the Life of Martina Bergman Österberg 20 Mrs Jean Wills for donating her badge. Janet M. Campbell D.B.E. 1877-1954 21 Ann Allen for re donating Mrs Toplis’ badge. A perfect training system 23 Margaret Angus for purchasing Mrs Toplis’ badge from Ann Allen. Bergman Österberg housekeeper was part of notorious gang 28 An eventful dinner party! 31 It is wonderful to see diploma badges staying in our BÖU family second time Making music at Oakfield Lane in 1970 33 around! Many thanks to all donors and recipients, past and present. Proceeds Lacrosse - who introduced the game to MBÖ’s college at Dartford? 35 from the sale of badges are very much appreciated and go directly into the BÖU News from Dartford Students 40 Archive Fund. If you would like to become a proud new owner or would like to Obituaries 55 donate your badge please contact Jill Ellis Williams [email protected] BÖU Accounts 63 Benefit Fund Accounts 64 Message from the Editorial Sub-Committee The Benefit Fund 65 Changes to the Register 66 We hope you have enjoyed the BÖU Magazine 2014. Thank you to all those who Donation of Material to the Archive 67 have contributed to this magazine and especially our proof-readers, Jane Claydon, BÖU on the World Wide Web 67 Alan Gamwell, Cathy Marsh and Gwen Seabrook Smith. We encourage everyone to Diploma Badges 68 think about contributing to the 2015 magazine. The year 2015 will be very Message from the Editorial Sub-Committee 68 significant for the BÖU, as we recognise 100 years since the death of Martina Bergman Österberg on 29th July 1915. We shall be celebrating Madame Österberg’s life and work and hope that the BÖU Magazine 2015 will be a special issue with many contributions from you, her students. The deadline for receipt of articles will be31 st December 2014. The BÖU saved considerable postage costs by sending the 2013 Newsletter to members by e-mail. Please ensure that we have your current e-mail address by sending an e-mail to our Registrar, Pat Chatters [email protected] Members who do not have an e-mail address will continue to receive a printed copy of the Newsletter. It is also possible to receive the BÖU Magazine by e-mail. If you would like to receive a copy of the magazine by e-mail please contact the BÖU at: [email protected] 70 3 Best wishes from your Editorial Sub-Committee: Pat Chatters, Christobel Elliott, Jill Ellis Williams, Rosemary Moon, Anne Stuart. 68 1 Letter from the Chairman Donation of Material to the Archive Dear Friends, 4 Our Archive is a valuable asset to the BÖU69 as well as contributing to the study of Women’s Sport and Physical Education in the UK and worldwide. We provide It is a pleasure, as always, to be able to report to you on another exciting year for the information regularly to research students from all over the world and to other BÖU. Full details of all our activities appear in the magazine, which I hope you will interested parties. It is a growing and developing Archive accepting material all enjoy reading. Our many thanks go to the magazine sub-committee, and in particular the time from ex-students and former staff. Items previously donated include: Rosemary Moon, for creating, collating and proof reading it all. I hope it will have books, scrap books, photographs, uniforms, college memorabilia and Diploma arrived in good time this year, but you will still get the reunion flyer separately. Badges. I can hardly believe that a year has passed since our amazing trip to Japan in April We will accept items and possessions as long as the ex-student was Dartford 2013, and now we are well into planning our own special anniversary, the centenary trained. Items from former members of staff are also welcomed. The material of Madame's death in 2015. More of that later. offered needs to be appropriate and relevant to their work in Physical Education and Sport. It was agreed by the Executive Committee to focus upon material The reunion on 7th September was very well attended, and we were delighted to relating to Madame Bergman Österberg and Dartford. welcome Ann Brightwell (née Packer) and her husband Robbie, as our guest speakers, telling us about the 1964 Olympics. They really made the day! Offers to donate material should be made in the first instance to Rosemary Moon: 01689 890716 [email protected] We began the day with a lively AGM, and our committee is now complete again. It was a BÖU on the WORLD WIDE WEB pleasure to welcome Toni Cutler back and to co-opt Jane The Bergman Österberg Union web site is hosted by the University of Greenwich Claydon and Jenny Haynes. This Alumni office and can be found at: http://www.gre.ac.uk/bou . From the was followed by the official introductory page there are links to the Benefit Fund, the Executive Committee opening of the new Archive and the Archive. rooms by Ann Brightwell, after The BÖU also has a Facebook page: Dartford-College-of-Physical-Education- short speeches by Cllr Ann Alumni. Please ‘like’ our page and post a message. We want to use every Allen, myself and a message opportunity to keep in touch with students from Dartford College of PE. from Sheila Cutler. Rosemary and her team had created The Archive has its own blog which can be found at: excellent displays about Ann's http://bergmanosterbergunionarchive.blogspot.com Olympic endeavours, and the The blog has been created to enable distribution of news items from the BÖU 1963 year group, and everyone The opening of the new Archive rooms Archive and there is a facility for visitors to the blog to make comments and to L-R: Robbie Brightwell, Cllr Ann Allen, Cllr Avtar Sandhu, thoroughly enjoyed seeing our sign up as ‘followers’ of the blog. We also have a ‘Name That Girl’ page where we Ann Brightwell, Anne Stuart special collection in its spacious post photos of unknown students and ask for help in providing identification. surroundings. In our increasingly electronic age it is vital that we maintain maximum publicity via We had lunch in the Österberg Centre, where earlier a Kent Netball club had been the internet for the BÖU and for the Archive. Please visit the BÖU web page and holding their trials. The hot lunch was served for us this year by Rob and Chrissie, the blog and pass on our web addresses to your family and friends. and was excellent. We were delighted to welcome the guests already mentioned and also Cllr Avtar4 Sandhu, the Deputy Mayor of Dartford, who was standing in for Patsy http://www.gre.ac.uk/bou69 Thurlow, and Cllr Jennifer Rickwood. After lunch, Ann and Robbie gave us a witty http://bergmanosterbergunionarchive.blogspot.com 2 67 Changes to the Register and highly informative talk about her Gold in the 800m and Silver in the 400m, and Robbie's Silver in 68 the 4x400m. We all had a chance to see5 and touch Olympic medals, and then we repaired to Madame's Gill Aitkenhead MBE DL (1972) New members tree and rededicated the stone. The sun shone Flat 1 brightly and the day was capped off perfectly when 3 Park Lane Susan Evans (1976) Ann agreed to become our new Patron. (Rachael Charlotte Street 32 Heyes Drive Heyhoe Flint has felt that she has not been able to Helensburgh Wallasey contribute very much to the BÖU as Patron, due to Argyll and Bute Wirral her many other commitments, and asked us to find a G24 7NT CH45 8QW replacement for her). [email protected] [email protected] After lunch, Ann presented the Bergman Österberg award to Michelle Knopp, whose study on "The K. Jackson (Stubbs; 1968) Susan McNally (Greenard; 1973) relationship between physical activity, physical self- L- Michelle Knopp Yew Trees Birchwood perceptions and self-esteem in children and R- Ann Brightwell 4 Rodwell Hall Highland Road adolescents" gained the highest overall grade (78%) in St Thomas Rd Badgers Mount the final year independent studies course from a student going into teacher training. Trowbridge Sevenoaks Michelle was one of ten students offered a place on the PGCE course at the Wilts. Kent University of Greenwich for 2013/14. She spoke about her study and answered BA14 7LU TN14 7BB questions very confidently, and we were pleased to welcome her parents Gary and [email protected] [email protected] Cheryl, who joined us for lunch. Janice Moffat (Blanshard; 1975) In October, Birgitta Wistrand from Sweden paid a three day visit to do more research Member rejoined 87 Layhams Road in the Archive for her book about Madame. Rosemary, Alan, Christobel and I spent West Wickham time helping her and looking after her, for which she was very grateful. Valerie Thompson (Jones; 1963) Kent Westcott BR4 9HE On the 7th December 2013, Kent Netball held an afternoon tea at the Archive, which Itton [email protected] was very successful.