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Old Greshamian Magazine 2018 Old Greshamian Magazine 2018 Old Greshamian Old Greshamian Magazine November 2018 • Number 157 Old Greshamian Magazine October 2018 Number 157 Cover Photo: The newly rediscovered painting of the “real” Sir John Gresham (c.1495 – 1556), attr. Steven van der Meulen (? Antwerp fl.1543 – 1563) © National Trust Images Printed by The Lavenham Press 2 Contents Contact Details and OG Club Committee ........................................................................................ 4 Messages from the Chairman and the Headmaster ........................................................................ 5 Headmaster’s Speech Day Speech 2018 ....................................................................................... 8 The Bourdillon Tower ..................................................................................................................... 13 Forthcoming Events....................................................................................................................... 18 Reunions in the Past Year ............................................................................................................. 18 OG Masonic Lodge........................................................................................................................ 29 Friends of Gresham’s (FOGs) ....................................................................................................... 30 Development at Gresham’s ........................................................................................................... 31 Gresham’s Futures ........................................................................................................................ 38 Honours and Distinctions............................................................................................................... 40 Engagements, Marriages and Births ............................................................................................. 44 OG News ....................................................................................................................................... 50 The BBC Promenade Concerts ..................................................................................................... 72 Inventing the Future....................................................................................................................... 72 My Favourite Painting .................................................................................................................... 74 Sir Lennox Berkeley Painting Presentation ................................................................................... 75 A Mystery Portrait .......................................................................................................................... 76 Anniversaries: Gresham’s Own Suffragist .......................................................... 78 An OG Olympian ........................................................................ 81 The Peace Symbol ..................................................................... 82 An OG Killed by the USSR ......................................................... 84 A Spy Named Orphan.................................................................................................................... 88 Another OG Director-General of the BBC ..................................................................................... 92 Brothers in Arms ............................................................................................................................ 96 Memories of School Life during the First World War ................................................................... 100 A German OG in the First World War .......................................................................................... 103 A “Hero of British Journalism” ...................................................................................................... 104 A Potential Old Greshamian Saint ............................................................................................... 108 A Standard Ornithological Work Reissued .................................................................................. 114 “The Monarch” ............................................................................................................................. 116 “I Still Think Middle-Class Theatre is Deadly” .............................................................................. 117 The Auden Theatre 20th Anniversary .......................................................................................... 120 A Review of the School Musical and a Conversation with the Oldest Female OG ...................... 126 Philip Newell Memorial Fund trip to Ecuador and Peru ............................................................... 131 A Medical Elective in Cambodia .................................................................................................. 133 Gap Year in India ......................................................................................................................... 137 Obituaries .................................................................................................................................... 139 OG Sport: Cricket ...................................................................................... 171 Hockey...................................................................................... 174 Golf ........................................................................................... 178 OGRE ....................................................................................... 182 Round Norfolk Relay ................................................................ 185 Letters.......................................................................................................................................... 189 The Old Greshamian Club: OG Magazine ........................................................................... 195 Action Camps and Venue Hire ................................................. 196 Reunions, Merchandise and Advertising .................................. 198 Communication and Social Media ............................................ 199 GDPR and Club Details ............................................................................................................... 200 Your legal matters in safe hands Hayes + Storr Solicitors handle a whole range of family, property and business legal matters with care and professionalism. Call us today 01263 712835 www.hayesandstorr.co.uk Fakenham | King’s Lynn | Wells | Holt | Sheringham | Hunstanton | Swaffham 4 Contact Details The OG Club Gresham’s School Cromer Road Holt Norfolk NR25 6EA Tel: 01263 714500 (main switchboard) Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.greshams.com/old-greshamians/ Jo Thomas-Howard (Alumni Manager) [email protected] Tel 01263 714620 Mary Cokayne (Development Administrator) [email protected] Tel 01263 714629 Richard Peaver (OG Magazine Editor) [email protected] Old Greshamian Club Committee Chairman – Charlotte Coventry (née Goff) (O 1996 – 01) Vice Chairman – Robert Dale (T 1979 – 84) Treasurer – Kate Olby (née Seymour) (c & O 1991 – 98) OG Governor – Sir James Dyson (OSH 1956 – 65) Club Secretary – Jo Thomas-Howard (Alumni Manager) Common Room Representative – Mark Seldon (S 2002 -) Headmaster – Douglas Robb OG Magazine Editor – Richard Peaver (S 1971 – 2009) Henry Alston (W 1984 – 89), Alex Bartlam (née Buch) (c, E & B 1990 – 97), Duncan Baker (W 1993 – 98), Chris Deane (H 1979 – 84), Nigel Flower (T 1969 – 74), Fiona Gathercole (O 1980 – 82), Hannah Jones (c & O 1991 – 04), Charlie Mack (k & F 1989 – 2003), James Morgan (c & W 1980 – 89), Stephen Pask (F 1956 – 61) 5 From the Chairman Dear OGs, It has been another busy and exciting year for both the School and OG Club. Two completed and newly opened projects are Oakeley House and the London Children’s Camp woodland complex. Being an old Oakeley girl myself, I was slightly sorry that the original building had to be rebuilt, as it did have a quirky charm of its own. However, I have to say that the modern version is a wonderful asset to the School and the spirit of Oakeley certainly lives on through the girls that are in there. The London Children’s Camp enabled the construction of an assault course, high ropes course, lodge building and Bourdillon climbing tower in the School woods. The whole area is most impressive, particularly the climbing tower, from which the views at the top are spectacular. I urge any of you visiting the School to go and take a look as the complex is also available to rent - so something well worth considering when planning your next children’s party/stag weekend/company team-building day, etc. It is a facility which adds yet another string to the School’s bow of offering a varied range of activities and opportunities to its current pupils, former pupils and the wider community. On the subject of facilities, I attended a brilliant evening in June to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Auden Theatre. There were some excellent performances from pupils and OGs, proving what an invaluable investment this building has been. A range of other cultural, sporting and social events have been happening over the course of the year, and as I am writing we are looking forward to the opening of the “Inventing The Future” exhibition. James Glennie and John Smart have been instrumental in putting this exhibition together,
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