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Old Kin\?'sClub THEREDRAWNKCSARMS Newsletter No. 106 April2005 FORTHCOMING EVENTS OLD KING'S CLUB 10th May 2005 School Careers Advisors' evening 25th June 2005 Commemoration Day 18th September 2005 OKC v KCSBC Boat Race I st October 2005 Gaudy for the 1975 - 1980 leavers - see below 18th November 2005 OKC Annual Dinner at the School - see below 28th January 2006 OKC Annual General Meeting SCHOOL Summer term begins on Tuesday 18th April and ends on Friday 1st July. Half term is Monday 30th May to Friday Photographs taken at the Undergraduates Dinner at Balliol College , Oxford. 3rd June 2005. Autumn term begins on Wednesday 7th September and ends on Friday 16th December. Half term is Monday 17th to Friday 28th October 2005 (two weeks) www.kcs.org.uk Visit the new, improved KCS web site for all the latest information about activities in the School, news of the School and its Old Boys, and many photographs of School scenes. The Old King's Club pages contain information about Club activities, and KCSonline will bring you in contact with many other Club members. GAUDY FOR THE 1975 - 1980 LEAVERS Old Boys who left King's at any time between 1975 and 1980 (both years inclusive) will soon be receiving an invitation to a Gaudy at the School, to be held on Saturday, 1st October, 2005. Unfortunately we no longer have the current addresses for a number of OKC members who left during this period ; a list of those whose present address is not known to us is given towards the end of this edition of the Newsletter. Please look Photographs taken at the OKC Dinner , November 2004. through this list, and if you know the current address of any of these members, or any other information about them, please write to the Hon Secretary, and let him know. OKCANNUAL DINNER Advance notice This year our Annual Dinner will once again be held in the School Dining Hall The date is Friday 18th November 200S Kneelers made for St John 's Church, Wimbledon , and sponsored by the Old King 's Club. Please make a note in your diaries now, to be sure that you do not miss this event. front cover: The School Greater Arms has been redrawn , and is shown on the front cover. Full details and an application form will be included in the next Newsletter, which will A simplified version has also been approved and appears at the top of the cover. It will in be sent to you in October 2005. future replace the motif that has fonnerly been used. OLD KING'S CLUB 3 OLD KING'S CLUB: OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE PRESIDENT: Sir Robert Andrew KCB Apologies forabsence were received from R BArmitage, PAST PRESIDENT: RM Reeve SECRETARY'S NOTES A D Hein, D W Parry,and R M Reeve. VICE PRESIDENTS: RBArmitage (1991), L R Barkey (1985), M Barron (1996), D D C Belchamber (1986), 1. The minutes of the last AGM, held on the 10th REDawson (1979), RF Diacon (1983),PK Gerhold (1984),J DE Hamilton (1983), CLUB OFFICE January 2004, were circulated in Newsletter No 104, AD Hein ( 1986),J Keeling (1987), R G Mathews (1995), EA Stokes (1996), C Taylor (1973). April 2004, on pages 3-8, and copies were available at The Old King's Club officeis in the Lodge (next to the Year of election shown in brackets the meeting. Len Barkey proposed and Chris Day Sports Hall) and is open on Tuesday and Thursday seconded that they be approved. All agreed and they CHAIRMAN: H MGKing morningsfrom 10.00am to 1.00 pm; callers are welcome. were signed by thePresident. Our telephone number is 020 8255 5390. ln addition, HON SECRETARY: BJ Stokes messages can be left during School hours on any day 2. Hon Secretary's report HON TREASURER: PJ GrantFCA with the School switchboard operator on 020 8255 5300; you can fax us at any time on 020 8255 5439, or send an The Hon Secretary presented his report on the activities Elected members of committee: C L Day, R J Hudson, H M G King, of the Old King's Club forthe year 2004, as follows. G C McGinn, D WParry, S K Tester e-mail to [email protected]. The main purpose of the Old King's Club is to provide a Representatives of Accredited Activities: SCHOOL SHOP Cricket: D AP Bowen service for its members; indeed it could be argued that Cross Country: JP H Smith A wide range of OKC items, as well as Adidas and Nike this is its only purpose. That service is to keep its Fencing: D G Titles leisureware, is available from the School Shop in the members in touch with the School, and with each other. Golf: GC Cox Lodge. A list of the OKC items, together with the opening Hockey: RT H Carter hours and other information, is given at the end of this To achieve this purpose, the Club officeneeds first and Rifle Club: RJ Hudson Newsletter. foremost to keep an accurate, comprehensive, and up Rugby Club: PA Calaminus to-date data base containing, at the very least, the names, Soccer: JParrish addresses, and years of leaving of its members. Squash: THE NEWSLETTER Swimming: PJ de C Newman It must provide members with opportunities to meet, both This issue of the Old King's Club Newsletter was edited Tennis: C G Diacon socially and to further their sporting and other interests by BJ Stokes. Contributions forfuture issues are always KCS Lodge: H M G King begun at School, and it must communicate news of the welcome, and should be sent to The Editor, Old King's School and of Club members as widely as possible Club, King's College School, Wimbledon, London SW 19 Social Sub-Committee: R B Armitage, C L Day, H M G King amongst its membership. 4TT; or they may be faxed to 020 8255 5439 or sent by Trustees of the Old King's Club: RBA rmitage, LE Glover, AD Hein, S K Tester e-mail to [email protected]. Material forinclusion in the Trustees of the Invested Funds: D WParry, MA Smith, HF Woolhouse The means by which these objectives can be achieved next issue, to be published in October 2005, must reach Hon Auditors:J H Hole, GP N PhillipsAC A have changed over the years, with the advent of new the Editor by 1st September 2005. technology, and the Club has in the past readily adapted Benevolent Fund: to the improved circumstances. We were one of the first L R Backey (Chairman and Trustee), AC V Evans (Head Master, KCS), Management Board: The Old King's Club is not responsible for individual Alumni organisations to adopt a computerised data base J DE Hamilton (Trustee),AD Hein (co-opted), R Lowndes, opinions expressed in the OKC Newsletter. Editorials and, over the last few years, the existence of the internet R J Morris (Treasurer and Trustee), L D Peters, D V Smedley, C Taylor (Trustee) and other contributions do not necessarily represent the has had an increasing influence on the way we achieve views or policies of the Club, the Club Committee, or Careers for School Leavers: our aims. Old King's Club Adviser:J G Robson, 27 Westminster Gardens, Marsham Street, Westminster, London SW IP the Editor, except where explicitly identified as such. 4JD (020 7828 9576) For this Annual Report, I should like to take each of our ANNUAL GENERAL aims and give some account of how they are being addressed, beginning with the data base. MEETING We have, in round figures, some 6,000 members, of I 0th January, 2004 whom nearly I ,OOO are lost addresses. After the mailing sent to every member last October just over one percent The Annual General Meeting was held at 12.00 noon on of the letters were returnedundelivered as the members the 8th January 2005, in Collyer Hall. had moved and leftno forwardingaddress; this figure is typical. Add to this an estimate of a similar number which Present: are simply destroyed by the new occupiers and the The President Sir Robert Andrew magnitude of our problem of keeping track of members Chairman H MG King can be appreciated. An increasing use of e-mail Hon. Secretary BJ Stokes addresses, which apply to people rather than the places Hon. Treasurer PJ Grant where they live, seems inevitable in the future, even if and about 30 members. only to find new postal addresses! OLD KING'S CLUB 5 4 OLD KING'S CLUB In providing opportunities for our members to meet, 2004 Our affiliated Sports Clubs provide our members with is now retiring from these vital and responsible positions, Office for their help and cooperation; and to our saw the OKC build on several initiatives started the the opportunity to further their sporting interests, and and we thank him warmly for all his work, and wise President, Sir Robert Andrew and our Cha irman Micky previous year. Jointly with the School Boat Club we they had another good year. Pride of place this year must counsel, over many years. King fo r their help, supp ort, and enco ura gement held the second School v Old Boys Boat Race on Sunday be given to the OK Golf Club, who won the prestigious throughout the year. 12th September. Two teams from each side took part . Grafton Morrish trophy for the second time in four years, Last year I had with sorrow to report the death of Ft Lt The resu lts were a win for the School 1st Vlll over the beating Taunton, Edinburgh Academy, Winchester, and David Williams, who was tragically killed during the Iraq Mr President, that concludes my report for the year 2003.