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OLD FELICIANS Old Felicians’ Discounts OLD & Scholarships Available FELICIANS WINTER NEWSLETTER WINTER JANUARY 2018 JANUARY NEWSLETTER Helen Etherington née Burden JANUARY 2018 Somerville 1986 - 1995 Harriet Etherington Year 4 Pemberton Leo Etherington Year 2 Pemberton [email protected] stfelix.co.uk SAINT FELIX SCHOOL SOUTHWOLD 01502 727048 EDITOR’S NOTE We are most grateful to all those who have responded to the request for news and articles and to those who have taken time to write tributes for their family and friends. Please do keep sending them to us, either by post or email. We do, however, reserve the right to edit them if necessary. Although every effort has been made to see that entries are correct, the Club cannot be held responsible for any errors that may have arisen. We would especially like to hear from younger OFs, who have left school relatively recently. We welcome news of your studies, your travels, your families and your lives. We are always pleased to publish news of any OF gatherings or simply memories you have of your time at school. Please send your submissions to Deborah Digby at [email protected] and feel free to contact her if you have any queries on content of submissions. We often receive requests from OFs for information about friends they have lost touch with over the years, so if there is anyone you would like to track down, please let us know and we will post it in the newsletter, if they are not on the OF database. Our newsletters are now posted on the Old Felician section of the school website (www.stfelix.co.uk) and so are accessible to anyone using the site. If you do not wish your personal details to appear on line, please advise us when submitting your news. Please note that the deadline for news for the 2019 newsletter is summer 2018 but we welcome submissions throughout the year. Deborah Digby JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 1 OLD FELICIANS’ CLUB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2018 Life President Janet Buchanan‐Smith (Lawrie) Cockeden, Glenbrook, Balerno, Midlothian EH14 7JE [email protected] Tel: 0131 449 4242 Chairman Fran D’Alcorn 5 The Chestnuts, Wrentham, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 7EZ [email protected] Tel: 01502 675358 Hon Secretary Caroline Macmillan (Hayward) 36 Wendell Rd, London W12 9RS [email protected] Tel: 020 8749 3010 Mobile: 07979 751722 Membership Jean McArthur (Clarke) Secretary 30 Lytham Rd, Broadstone BH18 8JS [email protected] Tel: 01202 640066 Mobile: 07726 330376 Members Elizabeth Strowlger Foxbury House, Foxbury Lane, Westbourne PO10 8RN [email protected] Tel: 01243 373122 Mobile: 07730 893027 2 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Members Erica De Courcy (Salisbury) 43 Molyneux St, London W1H 5JB [email protected] Tel: 020 7262 1490 Deborah Digby (Wilkinson) Tancred House, Hessay, York YO26 8JR [email protected] Tel: 01904 738824 Mobile: 07711 947647 Sylvia Hillier (Winsnes) Bloomfield House, 1 Bloomfield Rd, London N6 4ET [email protected] Tel: 020 3665 5488 Mobile: 07805 957130 Carol Smithers (Watts Jones) 42 High St, Westoning, Bedfordshire MK45 5JH [email protected] Tel: 01525 753220 Mobile: 07721 030203 Christina Walmsley (Melvill) 41 Beltran Rd, London SW6 3AL [email protected] Tel: 020 7371 0121 Mobile: 07818 217507 Please note that we are looking for a new treasurer and new committee members, particularly younger ones, to keep the club alive – this is fast becoming urgent, so please do get in touch. It is a great way of keeping in touch with other OFs and the school and we do have a lot of fun too. Submit nominations for election to the Chairman of the Executive Committee in writing by 1 March 2018, having first obtained the candidate’s permission. JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 3 REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES The Regional Representatives do a sterling job obtaining email addresses and contact details for local OFs and so ensuring our data base is kept up to date. They continue to arrange local social events including visits to cathedrals and gardens, coffee mornings, lunches in pubs and restaurants and London walks, which are open to ALL OFs, not just those living in their county or country. Why not contact a representative to see if she is organising a get-together? And if your country or county is not represented yet, why don’t you volunteer? It is a great way of renewing friendships made during your time at Saint Felix. Just contact Caroline Macmillan at [email protected] and she will add you to the list. UNITED KINGDOM Bedfordshire: Carol Smithers (Watts Jones) 01525 753220 [email protected] Berkshire: Sharon Upton 05600 496767 [email protected] Bristol: Erica Wildgoose (Budgen) 07901 646820 [email protected] Buckinghamshire: Alex How 01844 202478 [email protected] Cambridge: Liz Thomas (Thorogood) 01223 842400 [email protected] Cornwall: Hilary Price (Butters) 01803 813472 [email protected] 4 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Cumbria: Helen McKenzie [email protected] Devon: Hilary Price (Butters) 01803 813472 [email protected] Dorset: Jean McArthur (Clarke) 01202 640066 [email protected] and Mary Gosling (Hudson) 01935 812673 [email protected] Essex: Jill Griffths 01277 822224 [email protected] Gloucestershire: Lucy Josey (Adkinson) 01242 234888 [email protected] Hampshire: VACANT Herefordshire: Elizabeth Henderson 01568 616990 [email protected] Isle of Man: Jane Tatchell 01624 844949 [email protected] Kent: Elspeth Howell (Kellock) 01580 880361 [email protected] Leicestershire: Sue Read (Ashpole) 01780 721237 [email protected] Lincolnshire: Frances Carr (Mead) 01790 753561 [email protected] JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 5 London: Caroline MacMillan (Hayward) 020 8749 3010 [email protected] and Christina Walmsley (Melvill) 020 7371 0121 [email protected] Midlands: Jane Adams 01981 540695 [email protected] Norfolk: Alison Gibb (Berry) 01953 850606 [email protected] Northamptonshire: Sue Read (Ashpole) 01780 721237 [email protected] Oxfordshire: Sue Hitchcox (Adams) [email protected] Rutland: Sue Read (Ashpole) 01780 721237 [email protected] Scotland: Janet Buchanan Smith (Lawrie) 01314 494242 [email protected] Somerset South: Maggie Hague (Johnson) 01963 250108 [email protected] Somerset (rest of): Hilary Price (Butters) 01803 813472 [email protected] Suffolk West: Charlotte Hare 01359 250474 [email protected] Sussex East: Elspeth Howell (Kellock) 01580 880361 [email protected] 6 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 Sussex West: Elizabeth Strowlger (Roberts) 01243 373122 [email protected] Warwickshire: Rosemary Hyde (Riley) 01789 298897 [email protected] Wiltshire: Jennie Slater (Thompson) 01672 564689 [email protected] Yorkshire: Deborah Digby (Wilkinson) 07711 647947 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL Australia: Catherine Heap (Johnson) [email protected] Canada: Linda Wrigley [email protected] France: Jean McArthur (Clarke) 01202 640066 [email protected] Ireland: Fenella Begley [email protected] New Zealand: Cati Condon (Plaegaerts) [email protected] Portugal: Sarah Hockley (Kerrison) [email protected] South Africa: Sherley Southworth (North Lewis) [email protected] Switzerland: Jenny Haller (Ollington) [email protected] USA: Alison Partridge (Lawrie) [email protected] JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 7 WELCOME TO THE CLUB 2017 LEAVERS We are delighted to welcome all Old Felicians who left Saint Felix during 2017 as members of the Old Felicians’ Club. We wish them every success and look forward to hearing their news and to meeting them at future events. Remember to use the OF website on the school website too! OLD FELICIAN WEBSITE Old Felicians have their own section on the school’s website www.stfelix.co.uk, which is currently being updated. There you will find news of forthcoming events as well as reports and photographs of reunions, etc. Contact the OF Club Secretary with contributions. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS Please let us know if you would prefer to receive the newsletter by email, especially if you live abroad, as the cost of posting out the newsletter is soaring. The newsletters are available in PDF form on the OF section of the school’s website. 8 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUTURE NEWSLETTERS We look forward to receiving your contributions, which are one of the most popular features of the newsletter, be they reminiscences, news of what you have done since leaving Saint Felix, reports of get-togethers or reunions or articles of interest to Old Felicians. Please let us know who attended reunions, along with their maiden names and house/dates at Saint Felix. DATABASE – THIS MEANS YOU The latest database is only as good as the information YOU give us, and we are finding that changes, particularly to email addresses, are not kept up to date. This is very frustrating for the regional reps as well as for our membership secretary. PLEASE drop a quick email to [email protected] confirming your latest name, address, email and phone numbers, if any of these have changed. JANUARY 2018 | OLD FELICIANS | 9 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 2017 Dear Old Felicians This has been a relatively quiet year as far as the OFC is concerned after all the celebrations in 2016. I do feel very fortunate to have been let in gently and carefully guided through my first full year as your Chairman. Caroline has been remarkably tolerant of my many foibles and failings and, as always, she has been efficiency personified. I am grateful to her for providing all documentation well in advance and alerting me to any news about Old Felicians. I attended the lunch at Leander which was so expertly and professionally organised by Rosemary Scott; it was a splendid occasion which I hope may be repeated in the not too distant future. Margaret Angus and I set up an exhibition ‘The Way We Were’ in the Sports Hall foyer to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the founding 10 | OLD FELICIANS | JANUARY 2018 of Saint Felix.