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In This Issue GAZETTE 2019 In this issue... This is our moment Saqib Bhatti on why there are exciting times ahead for the region Mountain Man James Forrest writes about his record-breaking adventure So much talent, so many memories Former Head of Art and Design, Bruce Hurn, reminisces Issue 300 Contents 03 News A word from the Chairman 04 Letters to the Editor 04 A snapshot of our 2018 events 06 Upcoming events 07 School news 08 Features Mountain Man 10 Welcome This is our moment 12 Welcome to the Gazette, and in a packed edition this time we have four very different contributions Former Masters from four Old Edwardians all of whom I’ve taught, coached rugby or put in detention. There’s Bruce Hurn reminisces 14 also Paul Golightly’s summary of our commemoration of Old Edwardians and the Great War, the single most significant and moving thing the school has done over the last five years, I think, and certainly one that has united the King Edward’s community – boys, parents, staff, old boys – like no other. I’d like to thank Paul in particular, but also all the OEs who’ve supported the various Archives films, lectures, exhibitions and publications; it has been a thoughtful, professional and very impressive project. King Edward’s School and the Great War: A retrospective 16 As my year as Acting Chief Master draws to a close, I must conclude that I have enjoyed the many OE events as much as anything. The combination of nostalgia and affection for the school that every OE seems to exude is heart-warming but not unexpected; the desire to help the school and Careers focus its boys now and into the future is extraordinary and, of course, fundamental to our success. I look forward to continuing to be involved with OE activities in the coming years but, in the meantime, Sport 18 would like to thank all OEs for their support during my brief residency in Sapientia. Old Edwardians ■ Keith Phillips Acting Chief Master and President of the OEA Old Edwardians news in brief 20 Obituaries 24 Old Edwardian publications 35 James Forrest (2002) on climbing all 446 mountains in England and Wales The views or opinions expressed in the pg10 Gazette are solely those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent those of the School. 04 News News 05 A brief word from: Memories of KES long before Letters to health and safety Caring at The Chairman the Editor the end Dear Editor, Birmingham as Commercial Manager Thank you for your article about the becoming General Works Manager in early work of three Old Edwardians at 1975, with a staff of over 450. This was my first Another Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice experience of managing practical engineering (Community Care, Issue 298). engineer and I became a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered After qualifying from the University of Engineer. Producing compressors for the A new year about to start with excitement Liverpool in medicine I was appointed burgeoning North Sea oil industry and visits to everywhere one looks – a new Prime Dear Editor, in 2015 as a Consultant in Palliative Aberdeen presaged a return to aviation. Minister, a new relationship with Europe Medicine at the Academic Palliative and (hopefully), recent cricketing glory (just) Whilst promoting classics and languages and End of Life Care Centre at the Royal Flying had continued as a hobby and I and the biennial Ashes optimism (familiar). prepared to tolerate scientists, Chief Master Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals had qualified as a flying instructor and We have our own to look forward to as Ronald Lunt had little time for engineers, and the Marie Curie Hospice, Liverpool. professional pilot, so I resigned my position Dr Katy Ricks arrives in Vince House regarding them with disdain as men in overalls. So I am not surprised that Michael and turned a hobby into a career by enrolling with enthusiastic experience of IB and Dear Editor, As a doctor in this area, my role is to at my expense on a helicopter conversion fundraising, plus the magic dust of KES Barnsley (letter in last edition) did not improve symptoms for people with course. The company I joined was taken over Common Room experience. In the same discover engineering until approaching I have enjoyed reading the OE Gazette that • On the infamous occasion when the main serious illness and help them determine by Bristow Helicopters and after a year on the breath, may I thank Keith Phillips who took graduation. Having encountered the has just been sent out. You have stimulated drive was blocked by fencing at the end of and prioritise what is important to them North Sea I specialised in instructing new the helm with such panache and skill (and opprobrium of the Chief Master whilst me to write some memories of my time at KES, term, watching the Chief in high dudgeon, at what can be an uncertain and pilots at the Redhill training school followed five minutes’ notice) over the last year, and struggling with Latin in the Lower Middle, I long ago, and long before health and safety. trying to regain control. Oh, and noting challenging time. I certainly wouldn’t be by training and examining on the large the whole school team for delivering once should not have been surprised when he Spider Webb’s bike being hauled up the able to do the work I do without a helicopters in Aberdeen. In 1984, I accepted a more for the boys in their care. totally refused to endorse my application for a I hope it may cheer up a few of us oldies and Big School flagpole, and the girls jumping highly skilled team as demonstrated in short-term secondment as a Training Captain university apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce in encourage the “youngies” to be really out of the KEHS windows! the article. That care was epitomised when we had Derby and a degree course in mechanical and Examiner with the Bristow operation in creative! So here goes… the ‘Years of “9”’ reunion in June: 10 of engineering at Manchester University. support of the British military in the Falkland • Walking up the Park Vale drive and being The structures and the ethos of the my 1979 year group after a gap which Islands, followed in 1985 as Manager of • Some time in my early years at KES, the overtaken by Bill Buttle on his utterly worn School in areas of service and pastoral for some really was 40 years. The bond With the aviation industry in disarray in the that operation. Chief explaining that “Yer (sic) must have out bike. Just after overtaking me, his chain support have stayed with me and between returning boys and staff marked late 1950s, it was not just arrogance that led the savoir faire” – and not having the came off and hilarious chaos ensued as influenced my choice of career. As the a shared affection and appreciation that is me to apply only to Rolls-Royce. It was My past CV was then rediscovered and I was vaguest idea what he was talking about. bike, chain and Bill Buttle got thoroughly obituaries in the Gazette show – when special, and the 2009 contingent of almost “Cocky” Traynor my Physics Master who promoted in 1987 to Administration and tangled together. Fortunately, he saw the people reach the end of their lives what 40 (yes, really) augurs well for future supported me in winning a flying scholarship Personnel Director of the Bristow Helicopter • As stage electrician, perching right at the funny side of it. we can do to help people remember at gatherings. Dr Ricks was with us and is as an RAF CCF cadet, and that together with Group at its HQ at Redhill. I was involved in top of an enormous, and fully extended, this time is what they are and what they already looking forward to the next one. his supportive words in my two applications the expansion of its existing worldwide ‘A-frame’ set of ladders fixing the spotlights • Witnessing the ammonium iodide ‘fad’ that have done, not just mourn what is delivered a pilot’s licence, which I achieved operations, and then into the Caspian, in Big School for the Dramatic Society led to numerous minor explosions as the about to be lost. In this edition there seems to be even between 27 July and 10 August 1960, and a Norway and Canada and in two sequential productions. No safety harness or risk material dried out on the science corridor more variety than usual. We have a 50 year career in aviation. management buy-outs before merging with assessment or anything else. radiators (and, I think, an expulsion). (I was Andrew Khodabukus (1999) mountaineer, the President of the local an American competitor to become the an A-level scientist by then!) Chamber of Commerce, three different Post-apprenticeship, I commenced work in world’s largest helicopter airline (400 aircraft). • Equally hairy, doing the same job hanging careers in sport, a look back at the the contracts department for a year before over the Big School catwalk. There was no • And lastly, at CCF camp in Warminster, extraordinary commemorations of the secondment to Rolls-Royce Montreal and a Retiring on New Year’s Eve 1999 at age 57, restriction to getting on to the catwalk if when 0.303 inch ammunition was being First World War, plus retrospective year later to New York to conclude I returned to flying, teaching and examining you were involved with the ‘stage gang’.
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