O.M.A. Newsletter No. 84 January 2018 President: Colin A R Cutler BSc FPRI Website: www.oldmaidonians.org.uk The Newsletter of the Old Maidonians’ Association OMA Committee News Annual Dinner – 24th March 2017 Attendance of Email addresses: If you have received this 90 was the highest for some years due to the presence Newsletter by post and are now on email, we ask you of 21 new members who had left the school the to send an email to
[email protected] so that previous year, thanks to the initiative of new Com- we can send future issues by email. mittee member, Bernadette Eaves. The Mayor of the Royal Borough, Cllr Sayonara Luxton, attended with her husband Ian Luxton, Mayor’s Consort, and proposed the toast to Desborough College and to the Old Maidonians’ Association. Dr David Hight Annual Dinner FREng FRS (1955/62) was presented with the Wilfred Upson Prize (for bringing most honour to Friday 23rd March 2018 the College during the year) for being elected a at 6.30pm for 7.30pm Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his at Maidenhead Golf Club status as a world expert and world leader in the field of geotechnical engineering. David was happy to donate the prize, a cheque for £100, to the OMA. Booking form on back page Changes of address/email address: Please remember to let us know if you change your address or email address. After each issue we lose contact with a number of our members, with Newsletters and emails being returned as undeliverable.