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The JJJaaavvveeellliiinnn 2005 The Journal of the Hunmanby Hall Old Girls’ Association CONTENTS Editorial 3 Committee and Branch Secretaries 4 Letters from our Vice-Presidents Miss Rutherford Lady Appleyard Joan Marshall Letter from our Chairman Forthcoming meetings AGM London branch Sussex branch Northern branch Meeting reports AGM Quadrennial lunch London branch North West branch Sussex branch 2 Editorial It is early February. The organisation on the Javelin is changing. Whilst I will continue to put the magazine “to bed”, due to time constraints, I will not be typing up any more letters or articles or reports. All that work will be nobly done by other volunteers whose names and addresses are on the tear-out Javelin news centre page slip. So please don’t send any material to me unless you do so by email. And Karen has kindly agreed to organise the printing and posting out. So it has become an editorial team, but we do really need others to volunteer their help. The committee does quite enough already. So please do give us some of your time if you possibly can. You will note also that we are moving to London for the AGM this year. The reason is that, having been told for many years that people wouldn’t go to Bridlington as a protest because they wanted to go to Filey, when we changed the venue to Filey, we had even fewer people present. The current plan is to move round the country so watch the Javelin, which will give details each year carefully, please. We also have dropping Javelin sales. This means that it will become harder and harder to justify its production – both in terms of time and of money. If we cannot keep the sales up, we will have to consider, eg, a newssheet telling you about forthcoming meetings and other events as opposed to what I hope is a newsy, chatty, fun-to-read magazine. It would, in my view, be a great pity to be forced by apathy amongst our readers and OGs to do this. I have been reading in such spare time as I feel I don’t have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History. A really good read not least for emphasising her deep Christian faith, having been brought up a Methodist and being immured with Wesleyan credos, particularly “do all the good you can, by all the means you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can”. She appears to have lived this to the full, without having had the benefit of those special school years at HH. She was also lucky enough to attend, as a teenager, a Martin Luther King speech entitled Remaining Awake Through a Revolution in which, ia, he said, “We now stand on the border of the Promised Land of integration. The old order is passing away and a new one is coming in. We should all accept this order and learn to live together as brothers in a world society, or we will all perish together.” If we read these two quotes together, they remain very important in today’s confused and concerned world, full of fears of terrorism and religious conflict, whilst at the same time mustering worldwide to give help to those who suffered in the recent tsunami. I recommend the read. It will make much sense to outsiders of US politics and will show how one very focused Methodist has attempted to use her abilities and her faith to make a better world for the less able in her society. Have a good read. Erica Stary 3 HUNMANBY HALL OGA COMMITTEE 2004-05 Vice Presidents: Miss Jean Rutherford, MA 6 Glamis Court, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE34 8AN ( 0191 456 5476* Lady Appleyard (née Miss Jefferson) Vine Cottage, Old Vicarage Lane, King’s Somborne, Stockbridge, SO20 6PZ Miss Joan Marshall 60 Newland Avenue Driffield, YO25 6TX Chairman: Miss Ann Carlisle, 22 North Brink, Wisbech, Cambs. PE13 1JR. (01945 583077 Fax: 01945 580270. Chairman Elect: Mrs Di Ablett (née Grice), c/o Miss J Needler, Fairholme, Westholme Road, Grimsby, DN32 0DT ( 01472 240 558* Past Chairman: Mrs Sylvia White (Lane) 19 Birchwood Grove, Acacia Road, Hampton, Middx, TW12 3 DU ( 020 8979 4687* Secretary: Mrs Jayne Mitchell (née Fridlington) Corner House, Farrier’s Court, Scopwick, Lincoln, LN4 3PL ( 01526 322 254* Treasurer: Miss Jo Needler, Fairholme, Westholme Road, Grimsby, DN32 0DT ( 01472 240 558* Editor (Acting) Erica Stary Vacancy [email protected] Membership and Mrs Karen Ratcliffe (née Bramley) Reunion Secretary: Stone Crest, Chapel Street, Hambleton , Selby, YO8 9JT ( 01757 228 136* Ex Officio: Mrs Rachel Pallister (née Mason) Howgills, Bolton-by-Bowland, Clitheroe, Lancs ( 01200 447 480* HH Liaison Secretary Vacancy Elected Members: None, volunteers welcomed. BRANCH SECRETARIES East Anglia: Mrs Caroline Donsworth (née Bramley) The Low Meadows, Hacheston, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 0DT ( 01728 747 008* Fax: 01728 746 666 East Coast and Hull; Vacancy London and South Mrs Sylvia White (as previously listed) Midshires; Midlands and Mrs Margaret Jeffery (née Clarke) Nottingham; Pasture Barn Cottage, Featherbed Lane, Pathlow, Stratford on Avon CV37 0ER ( 01789 414187 fax 01789 293530 North Midshires; Mrs Diana Ablett (née Grice), see above North West: Mrs Elizabeth Winter (née Bean) 5 Woodstock Drive, Birkdale, Southport, PR8 3DG ( 01704 568 275* North Yorkshire: Vacancy South East England: Mrs Liz Cullen (née Dalton) The Old Slate House, Fletching Common, Newick, Sussex BN8 4QS (01825 722 785* [email protected] Mrs Jill Christmas (née Embling) April Cottage, 20 Manor Road, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 8UE (01892 684 039* Fax: 01892 529 614. West Yorkshire: Mrs Ruth Woodhouse (née Wilkinson) 83 Lynwood Crescent, Pontefract, W. Yorks WF8 3QX ( 01977 794 071* Email: [email protected] • Please phone only in social hours – 0900 – 2000. Thank you. Counties , Metropolitan Boroughs or Towns Included – Branch Area if your home town is not mentioned your normal branch is that with a town or county nearest to you East Anglia Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk East Yorkshire Barnetby, Barrow on Humber, Barton on Humber, Beverley, Bridlington, Brigg, Brough, Cleethorpes, Cottingham, Driffield, Goole, Hessle, Hornsea, Howden, Hull, North Ferriby, Ulceby, Walkington, Withernsea, Wootton English Borders, Callander Region, Dumfries, Fife, Galloway, Grampian, Highlands and Islands, Borders & Lothian, Strathclyde, Tayside, ie all Scotland Scotland Cleveland, Cumbria, Co Durham, Isle of Man. Northumberland. Tyne & Wear London & Bedfordshire. Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, South London, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, West Midshires Midlands, S Wales North West Manchester, Merseyside,Cheshire, Lancs, N Wales North Yorkshire Bedale, Boroughbridge, Filey, Harrogate, Ilkley, Knaresborough, Leyburn, Malton, Northallerton, Pickering, Richmond, Ripon, Scarborough, Selby, Tadcaster, Thirsk, Thornton Le Dale, Whitby, York Notts, Midlands Derbyshire, Grimsby, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Scunthorpe, & Lincolnshire Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands South & West Alwoodley, Barnsley, Batley, Bingley, Boston Spa, Bradford, Brighouse, Cawthorne, Yorkshire Cleckheaton, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Guiseley, Halifax, Heckmondwyke, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Ilkley, Keighley, Leeds, Liversedge, Mexborough, Mirfield, Ossett, Otley, Pontefract, Pudsey, Bradford, Rotherham, Sheffield, Shipley, Skipton, Sutton Keighley, Wakefield, Wetherby, Worsley, Wyke, S E England Hampshire, Kent, Sussex 5 West Country Bristol, Channel Isles, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Scilly Isles, Somerset, Wiltshire, Isle of Wight 6 LETTERS AND NEWS FROM OUR VICE-PRESIDENTS Miss Rutherford Jean, alas, has had a bad year medically: pacemaker and new hip. However, she thinks, positively, that she is over the worst and that you would rather not hear much about those experiences but instead would prefer to wait for her next year’s missive which is bound to have better news. In the meantime, she sends you all her best wishes. And, on your behalf, I send her ours here. Lady Appleyard Dear Old Girls The very warmest of good wishes to all of you for 2004. I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Javelin with all its news of so many of you. If any of you are in this direction, do please get in touch with me. I should always be pleased to hear from you and see you. I am sorry that I have not managed any of the reunions this year but hope to do better in the coming year. My news is much more cheerful than last year. My husband has continued to make an excellent recovery from his heart problems and life has returned to its normal busyness. We had a wonderful holiday in Cannes last February. Indeed, we discovered why our ancestors went there in winter not summer! We have returned there several times since then and are going there again in a couple of weeks. It's a marvellous way to shorten the winter with sunshine and sea air, not to mention the food! I have continued to try to train our dog who gives great joy though not the kind of obedience that I would like! In between holidays and dog-training I have continued to do some work for the English Speaking Union. This year's big project has been the setting up of a programme of debating for all 413 schools in London. This is being done in partnership with the Education Department and the Minister for London. It is very exciting and eventually we hope to extend the programme to other areas of the country. We have been involved in other projects of course, and these together with my other commitments have made life very full again. I often come across Hunmanby connections in unexpected places. Most recently, some Winchester friends brought me news of the Petch family! They had met Mary and her husband 7 on a cruise! Whatever you are doing and plan to do this year I hope that all will go well for you and I send my love and best wishes to you all.