The The Magazine of the City of London School alumni association: the John Carpenter Club Carpenter John School alumni association: the City of London The Magazine of the Issue 307 JCC DONATES NEW DIGITAL SCOREBOARD TO GROVE PARK Autumn 2013 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Editorial Wednesday 20 November 2013 My first year at City is now over. Nevertheless, despite the Notice of AGM welcoming nature The Annual General Meeting of the Club will be held in the Asquith Room of the people here, at the School on Wednesday 20 November 2013 at 6:00pm, this institution seems to inspire preceded by tea from 5:30pm. such staying power that it takes many years to no longer be considered a Agenda newbie! The valetes on pages 10-13 are 1. Apologies for absence. testament to this, as they document 130 years of service to the School between 2. Minutes of last meeting (21 November 2012). them. Many of the staff who come to 3. Correspondence. City choose to stay. Of course, the pupils don’t get a choice - once Senior 4. Finance: to receive the Club Accounts for the year ended 30 April 2013 Sixth is completed, you’re out! We do of 5. To receive the Report of the General Committee for the year 2012/2013. course hope you’ll want to continue your A copy of the Accounts and of the Report may be inspected at the Reception relationship with City, though. There are desk at the School in the week before the meeting. Copies will also be sent to numerous ways you can do this: perhaps any member before the meeting upon application to the Treasurer and Secretary you could give careers advice to a current respectively. pupil, play for an Old Citizen sports team, or help organise a reunion for your 6. To elect the President for the year 2013/2014. yeargroup? Nomination: MAB Israel (1965-73) To allow us to provide the kind of events Proposed by BW Silverman (1961-69) you want to attend, I’ve created a short Seconded by CR Southgate (1956-65) online survey. This was advertised in the August E-Bulletin, and I was thrilled how 7. To elect Officers and Committee as set out below. many of you took the time to complete 8. General Business. it, thank you. However, the more people who do it, the better the results, so if you haven’t done so already, please do visit Election of Officers and General Committee www.surveymonkey.com/s/CTQ5RND The following nominations have been received: This term is the last for David Levin, who has steered City for the last 14 years and Officers been a great friend to the JCC. Therefore Secretary : CR Southgate (1956–65) I know many of you will want to come to thank him and wish him well on 20 Treasurer : RJC Jones (1954–62) November. Just in case the prospect of Editor of the Gazette : delegated to ARO a committtee meeting puts you off (why Chairman of Entertainments Sub-Committee : CR Southgate (1956–65) would it?!), I would just like to reassure Almoner : DL Morganstein (1983–91) you that David’s farewell will take place Reporting Accountant : AR Mitchell (1967–73) after the AGM, so attendance at the AGM is a voluntary prelude to the evening. In Committee fact, even for those of you whose time here preceded David’s, perhaps you would KFC Baker (1953–61) I Livne (2002–04) like to attend in order to mark the end of S Baloch (1999–04) BAH Todd (1961–68) male leadership at CLS?! After all, City has R Lehmann (1978–82) PL Wickham (1957–66) always been proudly socially progressive. TC Levene (1983–91) AR Willis (1961–68) MAB Israel, Hon. Secretary, October 2013 If you wish to attend the AGM and dinner, please complete the booking form Sarah Jenks (Miss) included in this Gazette and send it, along with your cheque, to the Alumni Alumni Relations Officer Relations Officer at the address shown on the form. This form is also available for downloading from the JCC website and can be paid online: www.jcc.org.uk 2 FAREWELL DINNER Do you have 4.02 minutes? This is the time it took on average for each respondent to complete the JCC Events Survey. Please add your opinion to all those already submitted and log on now. All data is collected anonymously. Visit: www.surveymonkey.com/s/CTQ5RND You can also follow the link in the Members’ Area of the JCC website, or find it in your E-Bulletin. Join the JCC in celebrating David Levin’s fourteen years at City on 20 November 2013 at 7pm (after the AGM). Come back to thank him for his incredible work both raising the School’s profile and strengthening its bonds with the Club. We have commissioned a portrait of David to hang in the Great Hall, and this will be unveiled on the night. Please take the JCC Events BOOKING FORM ENCLOSED Survey and help us make the Visit the Events page on the JCC website to book through PayPal or to download the booking form. Club better for you! N.B. THERE WILL BE NO ANNUAL DINNER IN 2014 Nearly 100 OCs have already taken part, but the more responses we receive, the better we can plan the kind of events you want to attend, and the more efficiently we can use Club funds. CLS APPOINTS FIRST FEMALE HEAD In a letter to parents on 29 August David Levin wrote the following: I am delighted to announce that Mrs Sarah Fletcher I believe Sarah to be an outstanding Head, who will has been appointed to the post of Head of City of further enhance the progress City of London School London School, hopefully from April 2014. She has has made both inside and outside the classroom. been a very successful Head of Kingston Grammar School, transforming it into a highly sought after I wish Sarah well in her role as Head of this wonderful school. Prior to that appointment, Sarah was Director school and will have every confidence in leaving it of Studies and Deputy Head at Rugby School in the hands of Gary Griffin in January 2014, in the and led the transformation of Rugby’s academic post of Acting Head for the period before Sarah’s results, particularly in terms of entries to Oxford arrival. Gary has not only known the school for many and Cambridge. Besides being a Housemistress at years but is also an outstanding Second Master. He Rugby she has also taught at Wycombe Abbey and in had experience of taking on the day-to-day running Switzerland. Sarah was educated at a comprehensive of the school during my period as Chairman of the school in Oxfordshire, winning a place to New Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, HMC, College, Oxford, where she took First Class Honours in 2011 and I know that CLS will be in very good in History. Her husband, Andrew, is Head of English at hands. Rugby School and she has two graduate sons. 3 Clockwise from top right: phenonmenally successful work The Sugar Girls, Harper published GI Brides in August. Weaving together the real-life John Gregory (1957-64) has written and will direct a stories of four women, it provides a moving tale of romance play called “Viagara Falls”. Any OCs living in East Devon will and resilience: NEWS IN be very welcome. It is a vey funny farce, which concludes When the GIs of the ‘friendly invasion’ arrived in 1942, with a Blues Brothers show. It has commercial potential they brought romance and excitement to the lives of young as a new way of presenting the Blues Brothers on stage, women who had grown up in Blitz-ravaged Britain. As well BRIEF so promoters also welcome! He has also written a scene as gifts such as chocolate, nylon stockings and lipstick, for “The Music of Time” which John Somers is directing at the GIs offered something even more tantalizing: the Payhembury on similar dates. John says, “Two shows running opportunity to make a new life in America. Some 70,000 GI at the same time eh, just a pity it’s East Devon and not the brides crossed the Atlantic at the end of the war to join the West End!” men who had captured their hearts – but the long voyage was just the beginning of a much bigger journey. Once there, the women would have to adapt to a foreign culture Duncan Barrett (1994-2001) has written a book about and a new way of life thousands of miles away from family women who married American GIs stationed in Britain and friends, with a man they hardly knew out of uniform. during the Second World War. Following on from Duncan’s GEOFFREY Lawrence QC The lawyers amongst you may be It was now that the world glimpsed for the first time the barrister interested to read a book that was who was to conduct Dr Adams’s defence. He was Frederick Geoffrey published in May in which an eminent Lawrence, and he was the opposite of Melford Stevenson – low Old Citizen features heavily. key, no particular liking for the limelight, and certainly no element Sir Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence QC of bluster to his delivery in court. In appearance, he was as fine- (1902-67) attended City of London featured, neat and small as Stevenson was bold and rough-hewn, and School 1911-21 and seems to have his approach was forensic and clever.