Foyle College Former Pupils Association Magazine 2019 Former Pupils Association Magazine | 2018/2019
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FOYLE COLLEGE FORMER PUPILS ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE 2019 FORMER PUPILS ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE | 2018/2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Note ........................................................................................................02 Board of Governors 2018-19 ........................................................................................................05 Contact Addresses ........................................................................................................05 Teaching Staff 2018-19 ........................................................................................................06 Support Staff 2018-19 ........................................................................................................07 Prize-giving Speeches 2018 ........................................................................................................08 Leavers’ Destinations 2018 .........................................................................................................17 Graduations 2018 ........................................................................................................ 18 Reports of the Year’s Events 1 Honorary Secretary’s Report .........................................................20 2 Honorary Treasurer’s Report .........................................................25 3 Chairman’s Appeal for Funding for FCFPA ....................................28 4 FCFPA Officers 2018-19 .................................................................30 5 Vice Presidents’ Profiles ..........................................................32/34 6 Dates for Your Diary .......................................................................36 7 Social Functions and Gatherings 2018 ..........................................38 Notices (births/marriages) ........................................................................................................60 Notes and News ........................................................................................................64 Obituaries ........................................................................................................69 Bereavement Notices ........................................................................................................78 Past Presidents FCOBA ........................................................................................................80 Past Presidents LHSOGA .........................................................................................................81 Joint Presidents FCFPA .........................................................................................................81 Your Contributions ........................................................................................................85 From The Archive ........................................................................................................97 Standing Order Mandate for those who wish to have a hard copy of the magazine. ................................................. 106 1 FORMER PUPILS ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE | 2018/2019 EDITORIAL NOTE Welcome to the 2018 edition of the of materials to the new site and Committee was elected at the Former Pupils’ Magazine. the subsequent demise of the Annual General Meeting in May and Springtown building are detailed it is pleasing to have many new and After the busy year of organisation in various articles. At this time the ‘younger’ faces joining that body. and numerous events celebrating Springtown site has been signed Having assumed the Chair, Donald the school’s 400th anniversary, it over to the Department of Education is using his military training to good was reasonable to assume that after much delay, but Duncreggan effect with efficient organisation we might have had a quieter time House and grounds, together with and many new ideas coming on in 2018, but this was not to be. It the playing fields on the lower side board. I wish him and the members was, perhaps, fitting that as this of Northland Road at Springtown are of the committee continued success anniversary year came to an end, still the school’s responsibility. It is in future years. the two old schools at Springtown hoped that the University of Ulster and Duncreggan closed their doors will soon complete its contract to Joint Presidents, Una and William, for the last time in December 2017. take possession of the property oversaw 2018 events from January as the continuing security and to May including the Spring Lunch at As if to signal the beginning of a maintenance of the old buildings Bishop’s Gate Hotel and the Award of new era, January 2018 saw the imposes a heavy cost which is Colours. Unfortunately the London school decamp to its new building. currently being met from scarce Reunion Dinner planned for the The new school became a hive of school funds. Merchant Taylors’ Hall did not take activity and the Principal and Staff place due to insufficient numbers must be congratulated for carrying As with a great majority of schools and increasing expense, but a out this momentous move almost in the UK, Foyle faces a huge London event will take place this seamlessly, publicly presenting a challenge to maintain its high year on 5 April at its previous venue, calm and efficient manner, perhaps academic standards in the face of the Farmers’ Club, Whitehall, and reminiscent of the swan gliding ever increasing financial demands already numbers are looking good along serenely on the surface, while and ever decreasing funding. This for a successful event. If you intend paddling furiously underneath. is perhaps even more acute in being present, your subscription The pupils certainly adjusted well, Northern Ireland as we remain in should be with the Bursar in leaving behind their old classrooms limbo without a government in February. This, and all other planned for a slightly extended Christmas Stormont for the past two years. events are listed in the ‘Dates for holiday and walking up the sweeping Diary’ section of this edition, on the drive to their new school in the This edition of our magazine school website Former Pupils page second week in the New Year. contains some appeals for funding and on Face book. We are pleased extras that can no longer be that Louis Fields, one of the new A few familiar structures would financed from the school budget. members of the committee, has shortly follow to make them feel at The archive, the magazine, the agreed to undertake the important home as the Lawrence Statue was organisation of events and the task of webmaster and press officer. swung into its place to view the restoration of valuable artefacts Foyle once more, this time from the and portraits must all be financed Following their installation at the May East Bank. The statue was soon from other sources and the most AGM, our present Joint Presidents, to be flanked by the old sandstone important of these is our alumni. Elisabeth Thompson and Jonathan pillars from Duncreggan beautifully There are appeals from Donald Hegan, have had a busy year to date restored by a group of talented Bigger, Chair of the Former Pupils presiding over the Annual Dinner in stonemasons in County Down and Association Committee, and myself, September and Prize-giving, and erected on either side of Lawrence. to help cover these important areas they have also been in attendance of expenditure. Please try to make at a number of FPA committee All this activity is described in some contribution to one or other, meetings, generally held in the greater detail by the Principal in his or both of these appeals. evening thereby involving a return speeches at Prize-giving and the trip from Belfast for both. Elisabeth Annual Dinner, while the movement A new Former Pupils Association was accompanied by Vice President, 2 FORMER PUPILS ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE | 2018/2019 Bob Elliott, for the school’s Armistice photographer, Martin McKeown and Service as Jonathan was abroad at Bob Elliott, who was awarded the Sean McMahon for his meticulous that time. Profiles for Bob and Joint Lawrence Medal in 1964, has detailed proof reading. Above all, I am Vice President, Harriet Love, are to a career in business which led to him indebted to Mildred Deans, my be found in the following pages. holding some influential positions Assistant Editor, for her support and and has taken him to some very far- assistance in the planning of layout You will see in the Obituaries section flung places. Dr Lucy Quinn, Head and content of the magazine. I hope this year that we have included Girl in 2003, has already experienced you enjoy reading it, either as a hard a number of people who played life in some very exotic corners of copy or online. significant roles in the history of our the earth, with some very exotic William M Lynn school. We are indebted to family companions, in a career path she Editor members who submitted detailed never expected when leaving Foyle, obituaries for them and others. and Emma Ball, this year’s Head Girl, Notes: Where we do not have detailed who is about to embark on the next 1 Souvenir Editions obituaries, we include Bereavement stage of her life anticipating all that We still have a number of Souvenir Notices where they are recorded may lie ahead and already conscious Editions, Volumes 1 and 2, or reported to us so that we can of the schools influence. These are celebrating the events to mark the acknowledge those past pupils of just a representative sample of ex- 400th Anniversary of the school. the school who died during