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Barney Connect – Issue 04 STAY CONNECTED WITH Inside 6 SCHOOL NEWS THE OB COMMUNITY 9 1960S REUNION Visit us online 16 BARNARDIAN NEWS Page 3 20 NEWS IN BRIEF ISSUE 04 BARNEY TRINITY 2017 Magazine for Barnard Castle School CONNECT alumni and supporters PUSHING PERSONAL BOUNDARIES 2 ISSUE 04 Contact Welcome BARNEY CONNECT ISSUE 04 ALAN TRINITY 2017 STEVENS Headmaster Barnard Castle School Alumni & Archive Dear Old Barnardians Miss Dorothy Jones +44 (0)1833 696025 As Heather and I contemplate with growing excitement our [email protected] journey to Marlborough College Malaysia in July, we have frequently paused to reflect on how much we will miss Foundation Director Barnard Castle, its great school and its wonderful people. Mr Christopher Enticknap +44 (0)1833 696099 More specifically, we will miss the tremendous OB gatherings, [email protected] especially the thriving London Dinner each October when the years slip away and everyone is 18 again, or so it seems from conversations Published in partnership with that are invariably rich with reminiscence and impish delight at the the Old Barnardians’ Club recollection of narrow escapes and even justice being served by Housemasters or one of my predecessors. The warmth with which Heather and I have been embraced by the OB community over the last seven years has been truly touching and we have enjoyed every moment in your company. The OB Club is a wonderful, vibrant organisation; its importance to the School has never been greater and it has been a privilege to see it growing from All correspondence to be directed strength to strength under the harmonious leadership of its very through the OB Club Secretary dedicated committee. President We will, of course, retain a link with the Old Barnardians wherever we Mr Alan Stevens travel because, of course, at the end of this academic year our son Jamie, will have the good fortune to become one of the youngest Vice President members of the OB Club. Mr Gerry Camozzi Thanks to AA Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh always has the mot juste: “How Chairman lucky we are to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” Mr John Hunter With warmest regards for the future OB Representative Governor Mr Peter Hodges OB Club Secretary Miss Dorothy Jones +44 (0)1833 696025 Alan Stevens [email protected] Headmaster and President of the Old Barnardians’ Club Barnard Castle School Barnard Castle County Durham DL12 8UN Tel: +44 (0)1833 690222 Email: [email protected] BARNEY CONNECT TRINITY 2017 3 Contents CHAIRMAN REFLECTS ‘STAY CONNECTED’ An active year for the club There are a number 04 of ways you can keep up-to-date with School PUSHING PERSONAL and OB news and events BOUNDARIES Bentley Beetham Endeavour Lecture School Twitter: @barney_school 6 Facebook: Barnard Castle School BARNARDIAN Website: www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk NEWS Old Barnardians Round up of news from the OB community Twitter: @barney_ob 14 Facebook: Old Barnardians Club Old Barnardians Womens Sports Teams OBITUARIES Old Barnardians Rugby In memoriam Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/barnard-castle-school Website: www.barnardiansreconnected.org.uk 24 YouTube: We are pleased to announce that there is now an OB YouTube Channel showing clips of individual OBs and the School film from the late DATES FOR THE 1940s with an ‘update’ from the 1990s. DIARY Join us at a forthcoming event 27 4 ISSUE 04 WELCOME MESSAGES Another departee this year will be Stuart These events are superb opportunities for Everall who steps down as a teacher with catching up, networking and reminiscing and over thirty years under his belt, and I wish I urge anyone in the vicinity to come along to him a very happy and long retirement. As an future gatherings. During the year, the OB Committee member for many years and Facebook and LinkedIn groups have been club Chair for four he has helped to guide the bolstered by the introduction of the Old club and move it forward. I’m pleased to Barnardians YouTube page, which attempts announce that although he is leaving his post to track down various school and OB related at the school he will continue to remain on clips and also includes the 1947 school film the Committee. with added commentary from Alan Wilkinson and a segment from 1994 when it Turning to the various events of the past was fully restored. In terms of reunions c.100 twelve months, the Old Barnardians OBs from the 1960’s came back in May to weekend last June saw strong numbers in reminisce over lunch and tour the school attendance on a rather soggy Saturday culminating in a chance to watch the Barney afternoon preceded by a strong showing at 1st XI play MCC. A couple of months earlier the Old Well the evening before. Despite the 30 of the 1997 cohort came back to celebrate weather, the various sporting events their 20 years’ reunion. Both days were a (football, netball, shooting and squash) huge success and we are very grateful for the continued as if there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. warm welcome extended by the school. The inaugural Autumn Gathering in September saw far better weather and a truly Finally, I would like to thank my fellow fantastic afternoon of golf, hockey, squash Committee members for their time and and rugby. The rugby in particular was a effort, all of whom have made an invaluable Message from the huge success with eight teams of varying contribution both in maintaining strong Chairman degrees of youthfulness and talent competing relations with the school and also helping to in a touch tournament complimented by a grow the reach of the club and ensuring its I’d like to welcome you to another hog roast and beer tent serving pints of “Top continuing relevance. The unsung hero edition of Barney Connect which is Tree” and “Old Barnardians”. Speaking of behind all of this remains Dot Jones who has now in its fourth year. The breadth and Top Tree, this has unfortunately been felled coped admirably with the growing pressures volume of Old Barnardian related as part of the new housing development in and demands as the club has grown over activities in the past year underline the top field, however, the trunk has been recent years. On behalf of the Committee and how active the club is and reinforce the preserved and will live on in the form of the club I extend my sincere and heartfelt close ties we maintain with the school. various mementos once it has been suitably thanks to her for everything that she does to A large part of this is down to the seasoned. make the club the success that it is. Headmaster Alan Stevens who has been invaluable in his continued and Other notable highlights have been the well- Kind regards positive support. Alan and Heather attended London dinner at the East India depart from the school for a new life in Club and the bi-monthly London and Malaysia shortly and I would like to Newcastle drinks, all of which are assisted by extend my sincere thanks and best our embrace of social media which has wishes to them from myself and the become a very helpful method for keeping John Hunter club. He will be sorely missed. people up to date on news and events. Chairman of the Old Barnardians’ Club “The breadth and volume of Old Barnardian related activities in the past year underline how active the club is.” BARNEY CONNECT TRINITY 2017 5 Message from the Welcome our new Heads of School committee member This year has brought many unexpected surprises. From This year we welcomed Lucy Parkinson to President Donald Trump to Brexit, yet we did not expect to the Committee but said farewell to Julia count our time at Barney coming to an end as one of them. Truly, it has only just dawned on us that at the end of July we will Doig and Nic Crowe. We very much be leaving Barney to move on to pastures green and with this has appreciate their involvement over the last come a certain amount of trepidation and anticipation. few years and know that they will continue However, we both know that all the leavers of Barnard Castle to support the Club and its members as School are prepared to face the challenges the world places often as they can. before us as developed young men and women. Barney is a place where we all have developed and we have been delighted to see I joined Barney as a Reception class pupil and it develop with us. Personal highlights have been DofE, stayed at the school all the way to the Sixth musicals, and Dr Truss’ never-ending supply of maths jokes. Form, leaving in 2013, after 14 years as a We will continue to hold Mr Alderson’s careers advice close Barnardian. As a result of this, and the fact that to our hearts! my father, Tony Parkinson was a teacher at the school, Barney always felt, and still feels, like We cannot stress enough just how crucial this school has been in defining home. At school I was very involved in the Arts us and allowing us to flourish and grow. Looking at our fellow friends and – I learnt to play the violin, piano, xylophone peers in Upper Sixth, we are stunned by the brilliant array of diversity and and I my final year became Head of Choir individuality expressed by so many of this school’s students. To think that (joint). I was a regular in school musicals, so many of us joined this school as boys and girls, and we are now leaving as working my way from the chorus in lower years men and women, is both remarkable and somewhat sad.
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