8 Who? Message Board... Our congratulations go to the following former students or friends of What? BRGS: • Melanie Goggins who has graduated with a 2:1 BA Hons in Where? Criminology from Lancaster University. • Richard Ormerod has graduated in law from Lancaster University and is continuing to study for an MSc in information technology. In the last edition we featured a photo of the BRGS 1st XI football team from 1973-74 and Craig Wilkinson and Howard Parker • Hayley Grimshaw is taking a year out before taking a Post (1970-1977) wrote to identify the following (from back row left to Graduate Certificate of Education in to be a teacher. She right): Graham Nuttall, Craig Wilkinson, Michael Stephens, Bobby gained a BSc Hons in Psychology from York University. Loomba, Anthony Kershaw, Michael Kininmonth and Philip • Former Head Boy, Christopher Moylan, has graduated with a 2:1 Ashworth. On the front row were Christopher Farnworth, Keith BA Hons in Economics from Lancaster University. Chris is now Riding, Shaun Smith, William (Billy) Wilkinson, Ian (Fred) Lumb and working as a senior commercial executive. Peter Holroyd. • Catha Holt has graduated from Manchester Metropolitan Mary Cross appeared in the BRGS production of The Crucible in University with a 2:1 in Human Nutrition and hopes to become a December 1992 and would like a copy of the video of the dietician. production. If anyone has a copy, please do get in touch with school. • Lynzee McShea has graduated with a first class degree from Durham University in Zoology. Lynzee is due to begin a masters Alan Taylor lives in Canada and is trying to trace his family history. degree in science at Manchester University. Alan’s father, Leslie, attended BRGS in the 1920s. He has a copy • Lisa-Marie Jeffrey has graduated with a BSc in social sciences from of a 1921 whole school photograph on which Leslie appears but the University of Central . Lisa is working in Oldham he does not know which of the faces belongs to his father. If with former drug addicts to help them get back into the anyone happens to have the 1921 school photograph plus a name workplace. plate then please do get in touch. • Andrew Barnes has graduated with a 2:1 MEng (Hons) from Sheffield University and is working as a graduate highways engineer for a civil and structural engineering company. • Patsy Haigh has graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in midwifery. She is a former pupil of Fearns High School and BRGS. • Founder of the Rossendale Hospice and Musbury Fabrics, Dorothy Mitchell, has been awarded an MBE. Although Dorothy has recently stepped down from her position as founder-chairman of the Rossendale Hospice she still remains a director of Community Link, PEER (People Encouraging Enterprise in Rossendale) Support, Vice-Chairman of The Community Network Health and Well-being Group and is a member of Bacup and Community Partnership. Do you recognise any of the girls' hockey team from the 1940s in • Congratulations to Karin Kolbuck née Johnson, (PE teacher) on her the above photo? If so, please let us know. summer wedding to Chris and to Michel Sautejeau, BRGS Finance Manager, on his marriage to Marie. We wish you all every happiness. If you would like to find out more about how you could invest in the future of pupils at BRGS and enable us to continue to provide high quality education, please contact

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