Having trouble reading this e-mail? View it in your browser. Print View eNews – January 2014 IN THIS ISSUE Welcome Back to top Welcome 2014 is not only the centenary of the start of the First World War, but also of the Clifton – Tonbridge cricket match at Lord’s. In acknowledgement of the former, we have an OC Old Cliftonian Tour of WWI Tour of the WW1 Battlefields led by Michael Ivey, himself an OC in Oakeley’s from ’78 – Battlefields August 29th – ’83. If you are interested please follow the links in the piece that follows. We are lucky to September 1st 2014 have secured this tour and I do urge you to consider joining it. Polack's For the second, we are delighted to announce that we have just secured a booking of the Nursery Ground at Lord’s for a School Match on Tuesday 24th June. We are hoping to OC News plan a big lunch, jointly with Tonbridge, for OCs and parents of current players. We have OCs in Print no details yet but please save the date and keep an eye out for further information which will be released as soon as we can. OC Business Community I would like to highlight two further pieces in this Newsletter. The first is the excellent OC Society Recent Events news that Simon Russell Beale is playing King Lear at the National Theatre until May. Follow the links for more information but note that the tickets are, not surprisingly, selling Provisional Events rapidly. Programme for 2013/2014 Secondly, we regret to announce the death of Professor Peter Geach, one of the most In Memoriam distinguished British philosophers of the 20th century. There is a link to one of several obituaries that have been published in recent weeks. Miscellanea Keeping in Touch UPCOMING EVENTS 27 Feb Christopher Jefferies - Ethics of the Media 28 Feb Cambridge Dinner 28th Feb 2014 2014 12 Mar Choral Extravaganza 15 Mar Julia Hwang and the Bristol Concert Orchestra 28 Mar Real Tennis Event FORWARD TO A FRIEND Know someone who might be interested in this email? Why not forward this email to them. UPDATE YOUR Old Cliftonian Tour of WWI Battlefields August 29th Back to top DETAILS – September 1st 2014 If you have recently moved To mark the 100th anniversary of the Great War the Old Cliftonian Society, in partnership house or changed your email with Historical Trips, is taking a group on a tour of the Western Front, with a special address, please contact the emphasis on the role played by Old Cliftonians. office on [email protected] For more information, please download: OC Battlefields Tour – Itinerary Download the Booking Form www.historicaltrips.com / [email protected] / 020 7993 6540 Polack's Back to top Polack’s Synagogue Windows The splendid stained glass windows that were given by the Jacob family to the newly extended Synagogue in Polack’s in 1972 have, at last, been reinstated in the Polack’s Centre, situated in the upstairs section of the former Senior Common Room. OC News Back to top Simon Russell Beale Simon Russell Beale (WaH '78) talks to Jasper Rees in the Telegraph Review about playing King Lear at the National Theatre. Previews begin on 14 January and will be broadcast to cinemas worldwide on 1 May. Read the online article: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre For more information: nationaltheatre.org.uk "Three Days" – A Short Film Suzie Boudier (OH '91) and Vanessa Bailey (OH '88) shot their first short film last October. “Three Days” is a short romantic comedy about a reluctant age-gap attraction, set against the backdrop of London. The film has been financed via crowd-funding, with contributions from film supporters across the globe. For more information: http://www.threedaysfilm.com/ Sherry & Narcotics: A New Play By Nina- Marie Gardner (OH '88) Nina-Marie Gardner's play Sherry & Narcotics was a finalist for the 2013 Verity Bargate Award and has been selected for the PlayWROUGHT Festival at the Arcola Theatre, Ediburgh. Directed by Jerwood Award winner Yael Shavit and starring Lucy Ellinson and Michael Colgan, the play was presented as a staged reading Friday, January 24th at 7pm. You can read more about the festival here: http://www.arcolatheatre.com/production/arcola/playwrought- Adam Phillips to deliver The Clark Lectures at Trinity College Cambridge Adam Phillips (PH '72), notable psychotherapist and writer on literature and philosophy is to deliver The Clark Lectures at Trinity College Cambridge in the Lent Term 2014. Previous holders of this post include E.M.Forster, T.S.Eliot and F.R Leavis. For more information, please see: www.trin.cam.ac.uk Adam Fowle (BH ’77) Adam Fowle has been appointed chief executive of Tesco's family dining division. Link to PDF of Times' article. Sir John Hicks Sir John Hicks (WiH '22), the first British Economist to be awarded a Nobel Prize. The British Academy published their memoir for Sir John Hicks on 21 November 2013. This joins the other British Academy’s memoirs of other notable Old Cliftonians, amongst whom are Sir Neville Mott, Sir John Kendrew, Sir Brian Pippard and Nicholas Hammond, former Head Master. They can be accessed on the British Academy website http://www.britac.ac.uk/memoirs/12.cfm. View webpage Anthony Brown, Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers We congratulate Anthony Brown (ST ’70) on his election as Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers. Click here for the notice on the Merchant Venturers website http://merchantventurers.com/2013/11/anthony-brown-becomes-master-of-the-society-of- merchant-venturers/ View webpage Bryan Senior (PH ’53) An exhibition of Bryan Senior’s paintings from the period 1958/61 was held in the Cork Gallery, London in October. Although the exhibition set out to cover Senior’s formative years it does not include the time spent at Christ’s when his distinctive style was developed, is evidenced by a number of paintings in private collections. The years chosen partly reflect the grim reality of life in the industrial Midlands, characterised by smoke and industrial decay. One critic described his reaction to the ‘Vale of Health’ as follows: The low earth tones, heavy paint and near abstract construction of the landscape had a distinct lingering mood and a deep resonance. My response to the painting was an intensely physical one, feeling a ‘gut reaction’, enjoying that sudden shock of excitement that often accompanies an important discovery’. The same approach colours the later scenes of London’s Primrose Hill and Kenwood. Besides the landscapes the exhibition included two forceful portraits, one of the artist and another of his favourite model, ‘Tish’. http://www.courtgallery.com/artists/Senior.html View webpage View webpage London to Varese for Luke and Leukaemia OC James Paull (SH '05) is part of a team cycling from London to Varese to raise money for the Haematology Ward in the Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi and to donate funds to Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. Following their fascinating story and read more about Luke: http://londontovarese.wordpress.com/ Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War – an article by Jonathan Walker (ET '71) Author Jonathan Walker normally writes about conflicts of the 20th century, but in The Blue Beast he looks at some of the mistresses behind the military commanders and politicians who conducted the Great War. Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War is about Churchill’s little known plan to reclaim parts of eastern Europe under communist control immediately after the Second World War. Click the links to see recent press articles and full reviews. Syria's War Viewed Almost in Real Time – for the first time, the war in Syria has given global audiences a close-up view of war. Melik Kaylan (ET ’74,) a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, wrote a fascinating commentary on the reporting of warfare by social media, thus unwittingly giving the lead for a political discussion group at Clifton. Click here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324492604579083112566791956.html Melik Kaylan has worked as a journalist based mostly in New York for twenty-five years. Among other places, he has been an editor at the Village other places, he has been an editor at the Village Voice, contributing editor at Spy magazine, associate editor at Connoisseur magazine, Arts editor at Forbes.com, editor-at-large at ReganBooks. His work has been published widely in the US and UK in the above publications and the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, New York Times, the Times of London, the Spectator, and other places. He has won Cultural Awards in Italy and Turkey for print and television work on antiquities smuggling. He has been to the Middle East numerous times, to Iraq five times, to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, the Caucasus. His Travel and Leisure article on Tbilisi, Georgia, is included in the 2008 Best American Travel Writing collection. He has scuba dived for bodies with the NYPD scuba unit (New York Magazine), dived with the Cousteau ship in the Red Sea (Forbes.com), searched for Inca treasure in Ecuadoran mountains (Outside magazine), investigated the murder of a fellow journalist in Peshawar, Pakistan (the Spectator). Currently, he writes for the Wall Street Journal about culture. OCs in Print Back to top Tony Lewis-Jones (WiH '76) Out now, Full Moons and Half Truths by Tony Lewis-Jones with cover illustration by Wynn Wheldon – the acclaimed 2003 pamphlet now an e-book for Kindle Fire: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Full-Moons-Half-Truths-Lewis- Jones-ebook Also by Tony Lewis-Jones; Kindle e-book Talking Blues is available at Amazon.