The Autumn 2011 Issue 301 MagazineGazette of City of London School alumni association, The John Carpenter Club JCC Annual Dinner 14 February 2012 JCC AGM 2011 AGM and dinner to be held on 23 November Martyn Clements retires Music teacher says goodbye to CLS after 42 years Cricket New young players swell ranks of OC cricket team Contents ... 6 8 12 News Features Sports Cover 3 JCC 10 Cyril Bond - 12 Cricket The front cover Part II shows JCC 14 Fives President 6 School Cliff Hampton 15 Obituary - with 2011 A. C. Whitwood 14 Soccer leavers at this year’s Annual 8 Alumni Dinner. Photo: Graham Chweidan 16 Events The John Carpenter Club The Gazette is published three times a year by City of London School’s Alumni Relations office. Issue 302 will be published in February 2012. Contributions are welcome by the copy deadline 15 December 2011. Contact: Alumni Relations Officer, City of London School, Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 3AL, +44 (0) 20 7489 4766, [email protected]. Editor and Designer: Karen Sage. Printer: Warwick Printing Co. Due care is taken to ensure that the content of The Gazette is accurate, but the JCC and CLS does not accept liability for omissions or errors. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of the editor of The Gazette, the JCC or CLS. The John Carpenter Club is exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection Act to the extent that its members do not object to their personal data (name, address, profession, qualifications, subscription records etc.) being held on the Club’s computer database. The data is stored as a Register of Old Citizens, solely for the private use of members. Any member who does object should notify the Honorary Secretary of the Club in writing. News JCC Annual General Meeting to take place Editorial on Wednesday 23 November 2011 The City of London School’s 25th anniversary of its move to Queen Victoria Street, which is Notice of AGM being celebrated this academic The Annual General Meeting of the Club will be held in the Asquith Room year, will resonate particularly at the School on Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 6:00pm, preceded by with Old Citizens who started at tea from 5:30pm. the School in 1986/87 when it was still very new, and with those who were fortunate enough to Agenda experience both the old and new 1. Apologies for absence. schools. 2. Minutes of last meeting (24 November 2010). 3. Correspondence. 2012 also marks 175 years since 4. Finance: to receive the Club Accounts for the year ended the School opened in Milk Street 30 April 2011. in 1837, perhaps more significant 5. To receive the Report of the General Committee for the year to the older generations of 2010/2011. A copy of the Accounts and of the Report may be former pupils for whom I’m sure inspected at the Reception desk at the School in the week before the sense of history was more the meeting. Copies will also be sent to any member before the evident in the old school. meeting upon application to the Treasurer and Secretary respectively. This double anniversary 7. To elect the President for the year 2011/2012. therefore marks a special year Nomination: DA Walker (CLS 1967-74) for Old Citizens as well as for Proposed by CSH Hampton the School which, together with Seconded by MAB Israel the JCC, is organising three 8. To elect Officers and Committee as set out below. events specifically to welcome 9. General Business. Old Citizens to the ‘new’ school, either for the first time or for a Election of Officers and return visit. General Committee At these informal, evening The following nominations have been received: receptions (dates on back page and on the JCC website) we Officers : hope to bring the recent history Secretary : MAB Israel (65/73-73) of the School alive with a talk by Treasurer : RJC Jones (54/62-62) Terry Heard, Old Citizen, teacher Editor of the Gazette : delegated to ARO and archivist, an exhibition of Chairman of Entertainments photos and tours of the School, Sub-Committee : CR Southgate (56/65-65) taking in some of the archive Almoner : DL Morganstein (83/91-91) material we have at the School. Reporting Accountant : AR Mitchell (67/73-73) The JCC Annual Dinner is being Committee : held in the school’s Great Hall, KFC Baker (53/61-61) I Livne (02/04-04) to mark the anniversary, and PS Dylewski (90/95-95) BAH Todd (61/68-68) at the School’s Bursary Trust R Lehmann (78/82-82) PL Wickham (57/66-66) Anniversary Dinner at Tate TC Levene (83/91-91) AR Willis (61/68-68) Modern in June we hope to raise a record-breaking sum to allow MAB Israel more bright boys from financially Hon. Secretary disadvantaged backgrounds to October 2011 benefit from an education at this great school. If you wish to attend the AGM and dinner, please complete the booking form included in this Gazette and send it, along with your cheque, to the Alumni Relations Officer at the address shown on the form. This form is also available for downloading from the JCC website, www. jcc.org.uk in the forthcoming events section, via ‘CLS 25th anniversary’ on the home page. JCC News JCC President 2012 Air Marshal Sir David Walker KCVO, OBE I started at City of London School in a secondment to the Diplomatic 1967 in New Grammar under “Biff” (CLS 1967 - 74) Service in South Africa; Director Vokins. Commuting up to London of RAF Infrastructure; Director of daily from Reigate in Surrey was a Public Relations; and Director of cheap price to pay for finding myself Personnel and Training Policy. This in such congenial surroundings culminated in my appointment in with so many kind people around 2003 as the Group Commander for me. My previous prep school made all RAF Training. This embraced Dotheboys Hall look positively the command of seven major pleasant! I really thrived at CLS and training units, 10,000 people can never recall a day when I wasn’t and over 300 aircraft. In 2005, I happy to go to school. Like all of us, commenced what has now been a I made friendships that have lasted seven year secondment as Master for a lifetime, not just with boys but of the Household. In this role I am also with masters. A great guide responsible for all aspects of The and mentor throughout my career Queen’s entertaining, both official has been Andrew Murray who and private, in the four occupied encouraged my interest in the RAF, palaces, the private residences and and in history. for overseas visits. From CLS I went to Cranwell in When I have spare time my interests 1974 and then spent three years include classic cars, antiques, RAF Saxa Vord in the Shetlands at Bradford University as an RAF military biographies, history and where I met my wife Jane. Amongst University Cadet reading, from walking. I am also President of the posts that followed this were time to time, economics. Having the Craft Guild of Chefs and a Vice Aide-de-Camp to the Commander- graduated in 1977, I returned to President of the Royal International in-Chief of Support Command; Cranwell and then commenced Air Tattoo. To this I now add the Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen; a Service career which started at honour of becoming the John Carpenter Club President for the New JCC website content celebrates forthcoming year. I am delighted to take on the role School’s 25th/175th anniversary and continue the tremendous work taken forward by past Presidents To mark the 25th anniversary of City 25th anniversary’ menu tab on the and Club Officials in recent years. of London School moving to Queen home page. There is no doubt that the JCC has Victoria Street, and 175 years been transformed into a vibrant since its opening in Milk Street, the You can now read a brief history of organisation which serves the JCC has added a number of new the School, written by Old Citizen School well. This support ranges sections to its website, which may and former teacher Lionel Knight from bursarships and careers interest Old Citizens. All of these (CLS 1952 - 58), peruse a list of advice to providing work experience areas can be reached via the ‘CLS prominent Old Citizens, and read through internships. Relationships articles from the archives. Photos with the Head Master and the of the honours boards from 1849 to School simply could not be better, Erratum 1968 have also been uploaded into and in particular, the post of the In the Summer 2011 (Issue the Rogues’ Gallery. Alumni Relations Officer has proved 300) edition of The Gazette on an outstanding success. I consider page 15, John Gracey, one of the All of the anniversary events are my role to be a simple one: to authors of Professor John Flood’s also listed on the website, including continue to build on this substantial obituary, was incorrectly stated as our forthcoming Old Citizens’ legacy, ensuring the JCC remains having attended CLS from 1966 - reception on 19 October 2011. an integral part of School life, rather 72. Mr Gracey’s CLS dates were These events are also listed on the than a “before and after” as it was in in fact 1935 - 42. back page of this issue. the past. 4 www.jcc.org.uk Issue 301 News JCC School welcomes Old Citizen table hosts for 2012 Tate Modern Bursary fundraising dinner City of London School’s 2012 Last year’s event raised more than financially disadvantaged eleven Bursary Trust Gala Dinner, to be £270,000, which was match-funded year old boys to attend the School held on Thursday 14 June 2012, by the City of London Corporation, on full-fee bursaries.