SUMMER 2016: ISSUE 40 Thank you for taking the time to catch up with news of the old school, and with each other. May I also express my sincere thanks to Lucy Sheehan for the work she does to keep the College and our alumni in contact with each other, and also to Nick Henderson as the President of the OA Society. Nick and I have been discussing ways in which the College and OAs can work more closely together, to ensure that OAs are able to stay in contact with each other as well as with the College.

Welcome 1 Headmaster & OA President’s Welcome Class of 2016 Letters 4 The College Farm Cars and Motorbikes Hidden on Campus The Medals of Richard Oscar Rippon College Plays & Productions

Sport and Social 6 David Gibbs Astro Opening & Hockey Vets’ Luncheons Match Report Networking Drinks Sports Society Reports Reunions OA Day

World of Ardinians 18 OAs Abroad Careers Ardinians in the Arts: Ones to Watch OA Cricketers

Ardingly Today 34 Ardingly Life Into the Woods Astronomy at Ardingly Ardingly Solar

Archives & Memory Lane 44 140 Years of Steepo Diary – Lent Term, 1949 Pupil no.1 Where Are They Now? Ardingly Motors Tributes Welcome

This year we enjoyed a vibrant OA Day on Sunday 26th June. Inspired by Mark Keatley Palmer, OAs of all vintages drove into the College with cars of similar or even more ancient vintage. For this and future years we merged OA Day with the Companions’ Day – the Companions being former staff. This led to many surprise reunions, as teachers realised that their pupils of yesteryear had grown into responsible middle age, and OAs realised that their teachers might have been human after all. Like a fine wine, the relationship between a pupil and teacher improves with age, so I do encourage you all to come back to the College when you can to rekindle old friendships with each other and your former teachers.

Meanwhile the College is in excellent fettle. In particular, we celebrated two Firsts. The first-first was the double-double! In other words, winning the Independent Schools Football Cup and League double for the second time in successive years. The second First was becoming the first school from Europe – not just the UK but Europe – to design and build a solar-powered car and complete the Darwin-to-Adelaide Bridgestone Solar Challenge. Two wonderful achievements for us to cheer. Building work also continues apace on the campus, with two new girls’ houses opening in September, and work due on the Science Faculty and the Old Gym.

If you would like to visit or get back in touch with us, please do contact Lucy Sheehan, and we will look forward to welcoming you to see what has changed at the College or to one of our events.

Ben Figgis Headmaster

WELCOME FROM NICK HENDERSON Nick Henderson (E 1975-1080)

making the day the success that it was, and to Ben Figgis, the Headmaster, for his hospitality and his commitment to supporting and encouraging relations between the Alumni and the School community.

The immediate goals of the society this coming year are to continue to build up and reinvigorate the individual sports clubs and to further promote, through continued networking events and mentoring, opportunities for the OA community to support each other in their careers and vocations. Vital to achieving these aims is the need to make sure that we maintain up to date information for as many OAs as possible. To that end, please be sure to sign up to the OA Website (www.oldardinian.com) if you have not already done so. That way, and in conjunction with Lucy Sheehan (JS, K & WG 2004-2011) who has responsibility for the Alumni office at the School, we can keep you appropriately informed of OA news and events and the website is Liz Pocock (C 76-78), welcoming Nick Henderson (E 75-80) into the role. a great resource for reconnecting with OA friends you may have lost touch with.

Dear OA, Before signing off, I want to say a big thank you to Liz Pocock (nee Gray), the outgoing OA President, who dedicated a great deal of time It is really pleasing to be able to report that, despite the best efforts and commitment to The Society in her record breaking five year term of the weather, OA day on the 26th June was a real success with a and, during which, she has made a real difference. Thank you, Liz. great turnout. The Cricket, though reduced to a shorter game, still managed to go ahead with the school 1st XI managing to achieve Finally, if you missed OA day this time round, come next year: we another victory against the OA’s. I guess it just goes to show that would love to see you outstanding physical conditioning, superior athleticism and peerless team talent aren’t always enough to secure victory! I particularly want to thank Lucy Sheehan, who put a tremendous amount of work in to

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WELCOME ‘CLASS OF’ 2016

HEAD GIRL Ellie Haines (JS, K & WG 2009-2016) Ask any Ardinian to recall one of their first memories and without a doubt they will recount the trauma of entering the chapel for the first time. Hundreds of heads turn as the trembling Shell pupils huddle together making their way down the aisle to the stool where the Sorting Hat lies. At least that’s what we imagined.

Years later the very same Shell pupils emerge from the archway - some seemingly unrecognisable - from that very first day, and that’s not just the suits talking. But how has this transformation occurred you may ask? In my opinion it was a simple decision, a decision to take part in all that Ardingly has to offer. Whether it be playing sports or singing in the choir, I would not be in the position I am today without the chance to branch out, try new things and to stray away from my comfort zone. Ellie and Matt Having started as a full time boarder it became not just a school to me but also a supportive and caring home, a place that encouraged me and indeed all its students to make the most out of the education provided. This is an education which does not just teach so that we could pass our exams, but one that helped us to become conscientious, well rounded people with our own ambitions and goals. I can confidently say that Ardingly has helped me to develop into the person that I am today. Despite the deadlines, the exams and the stress of this final year, I can safely say that I am going to miss it here.

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HEAD BOY Matt Price (C & WB 2011-2016 ) Adelaide, having competed in the World Solar Challenge in Australia, as the first ever European school to participate; and, hearing the final On my first day at Ardingly, we were encouraged to whistle sound in the MK Dons Stadium and the cheer from the incredible open as many doors as possible, making the most Ardingly supporters, as the 1st XI football squad won the ‘double of everything that is on offer to us at Ardingly. double’, as League and National Cup Champions. Closely followed of course by Lovat’s callovers in Godwin and Tuesday night Nesquick At that time I had no idea of the vast number of doors that would parties in the red floor brew room! present themselves and how my Ardingly experience, as an academic Our future starts in our past and as we choose a and as a person, would be enriched by opening them. We are extremely fortunate in the wide ranging extra-curricular opportunities available to direction to take, leaving the comforts of Ardingly, us, and the incredibly committed and talented staff who give their time we cannot be sure what lies ahead. Wherever that and expertise to provide them. path leads, I will always value hugely my years at As a proud ambassador for Ardingly at hugely Ardingly; friendships made, lessons learned and varied events, from The Dorchester Hotel to McLaren opportunities taken. Technologies, from Prep Schools to Northern Territory As Piglet said, “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying Government House, I have been able to spread the goodbye so hard.” I look forward to proudly joining the ranks of the word that we are a school with a vision and courage; OAs, and returning to take part in events and matches... especially OA Football and Hockey! forward thinking, student empowering and ambitious.

It is extremely difficult to select highlights from my five years at Ardingly, I have made so many good friends and have so many amazing memories and stories to tell (and some I probably shouldn’t!) but I think it would have to be two events from my final year; crossing the finish line in

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FROM DAVID KELSEY (E 1946-1950) ON THE COLLEGE FARM

With regard to your query in the Summer 2015 edition of the Ardinian, I certainly remember helping on the College Farm whilst at school between 1946 and 50. Dusty Miller, the maths master, was in charge. I was allowed to drive the Ferguson farm tractor as I was a farmer’s son. I especially remember harvesting potatoes on the 9 acre field below the school buildings. If I remember rightly, they were badly frosted during the hard winter of 1947 and we had to eat blackened potatoes at meals in the Hall during the Spring term. Incidentally can your readers remember that we were served food by ex Italian P.O.W’s called ‘Gobbo’s’, tea from urns was ‘Hoggy’ and butter pats ‘Tolly’.

After leaving Ardingly I worked on our family farm in Bexley, Kent, taking over running the business at the age of 22 on the premature death of my father. I then spent the next 48 years growing vegetables and salads for major supermarkets, prior to retiring in 2005 and moving to Devon, where our eldest son has recently bought a farm. However, it is pleasing to record that From top to bottom: Colllege Farm, Dusty Miller helping a boy from the Shell Brook during the Steeple Chase and our youngest son is still working at the Kent farm. Dusty Miller’s Land Army. I still attend an annual reunion at a thatched pub in Ascot, with OA’s Tony Gibbs, Nigel Knight, Robin Baiden, Tony Hewett Ed’s Comment: David kindly consented to share a few and Tony Palmer, who were all in the College cricket teams. snippets of his diary from the 1940s for the Ardinian. See the Archives section at the back of the magazine for David’s full As a matter of interest, I started keeping a diary in 1946 reminiscence, which includes skating illegally on the HM’s and have continued for the rest of my life and at the age of pond and rogue fireworks in dorm’ theatre productions. 83 am still writing a ‘page a day’.

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MARK KEATLEY-PALMER (JH & E 1968-1978) ON RICHARD OSCAR RIPPON

The OAs recently bought two sterling silver medals on eBay from 1919 for the winner of the Ardingly Athletics half mile & full mile. The seller threw in 2 more medals from the same source. With no further information, I did a little digging and...

...I think I have found him!

R O (Richard Oscar) Rippon was at Ardingly during the 1st World War (1915 – 1919) in Lea House (F), and it is quite possible his father was at the school in 1885! He was a Sub-Prefect in 1918 & a Corporal in the OTC in 1919. In 1919, the year of the medals, he was narrowly beaten to the Victor Ludorum by a boy called Stevens! His times for the 1st places were: Half Mile – 2m 19s & Mile – 5m 3s. He is mentioned for his 3rd in the Steeplechase, but I can find no reference to the medal from the Surrey County Athletic Championships. He retained links with the school by regularly attending the Old Boys dinners.

In 1926 he was living in Balham, in 1932 he had moved to Epsom, 1944 finds him in West Bridgeford*, aged 43, and the final address we have for him was Milford on Sea in Hampshire.

He was born in 1901 & died in August 1975 aged 74 although it would Ed’s Comment: Do any seem that the School annals wrote an obituary for him 3 years earlier OAs have similar medals for which they printed an embarrassed apology! or other designs with an interesting story behind Rather spookily, we were both mentioned in the 1975 school magazine them? Please get in touch. – Richard in his obituary & me for my own athletic results... a rather strange last link in the circle!!

*my parents were living there at the same time!

FROM MIKE STORY (JH & H 1957-1966) IN DAVID PULLAN (A 1980-1984) RESPONSE TO FEBRUARY’S MARK ASKS… IN RESPONSE TO MARCH’S OK, OAS… WHO HAD A CAR OR MOTORBIKE MARK ASKS… WHICH SCHOOL HIDDEN NEAR THE SCHOOL? PRODUCTION DID YOU STAR IN?

A propos motorbikes…there was one in the Hawthorn Soc which Chris I was lucky enough to be in Colin Temblett- & I used to mess about with, as well as an engine from a Morris 8 (if Wood’s production of The Crucible by Arthur I remember rightly) which we used to strip down, rebuild and wonder Miller in the winter of 1983-1984. He wanted to why =we had so many bits left over! make the most of the tension generated by Dusty Miller had a gorgeous cream Aston Martin DB2 with a red hood which this play so staged it in the round in the Under. a few of us were privileged to help him to fettle...largely limited to passing I remember that you could cut the atmosphere with a knife as the drama played out. Cast him spanners when he was under the car, but occasionally getting a ride at members included Nick Dalton as Judge what was to us BLISTERING speeds on the way to Ditchling Beacon and back! Danforth, English master Paul Ridd as Proctor, The glamorous blonde, long-legged Paula who organised the stationery Helen Molony as Elizabeth, myself as Reverend supplies had a black MGTF which I had the privilege of fiddling with (loose Parrish and others whose names escape me. plug lead ... but I spun it out for half an hour just to be in her gorgeous The late, and much lamented, C T-W really presence in full view of everyone on the quad...How easy it is to keep a was a genius at bringing the best out of young teenager happy!) actors; that production of The Crucible made such an impact that we went on tour to other Alfie P (Alan Pearson, German teacher and house-master of H) had a schools in the Spring term, including Cranleigh black baby Austin with the unforgettable plate ‘AFP 220’ (his initials and his and Roedean. Ardingly phone number) which we clobbered by shoving a school bun up the exhaust pipe ... Fortunately the engine didn’t blow up, though it expelled a toasted bun at some speed!

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GIBBS FIELD OPENING HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Lucy Sheehan (K & WG 2004-2011) On Sunday 20th March, people from all sides of the College community gathered to witness the opening of the ‘Gibbs Field’, a new Astro named in memory of an Old Ardinian for whom sport was a lifelong passion. David Gibbs joined Ardingly in 1960 and he said often that the College gave him three things – his faith, his education and his love of sport.

When David passed away on 20th January, it seemed only fitting that our new Astro, which will be enjoyed by so many young sports people, should carry his name. We would like to thank Philippa Gibbs for joining us to open the field, and for the matches that so appropriately served to celebrate David’s fond affiliation with the College.

Joining the ceremony were three stars of the Great Britain hockey team - Georgie Twigg, Ashley Jackson and Barry Middleton (captain), who began the day with a masterclass for the Prep School hockey players. Head of hockey James Stedman said: “This was an incredible opportunity to have three of the best hockey players in the world all at Ardingly at the same time. Our students learnt so much from the best of the best and can now use our amazing new facility to train up and follow in the footsteps of these hockey champions.”

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MATCH REPORT OA XI v Staff XI v Students 1st XI Alice Stevens (K & WG 2007-2012)

The sun was out. The new pitch looked superb. And against all odds the Old Ardinians had managed to field a team! After watching a dramatic drag flick demonstration from some of the finest hockey players in the world, the OAs were geared up and ready for the tournament to commence.

First up we faced the might of the current Students. Within minutes Any dreams were quickly quelled however by the ferocious onslaught it was evident that the Students weren’t here for a placid knock about of the Staff and the OAs soon fell behind again. It was decided; we in the sun, instead they meant business and soon hammered one into needed reinforcements and perhaps a slight loosening of the term ‘Old the back of our net. Despite some dynamic show of talent from the Ardinian’. With a bit of sleight of hand, super sub and current England OAs, we were soon battling injuries, fitness and the undisputable skill captain Barry Middleton was in play. However, even with the might of of the Students who narrowly squeezed a 3-0 victory. Middleton in the back, the valiant effort from all players, a near miss from Jason Hong and some heroic saves from Daniel Hunter, the Staff After the gruelling defeat, the resilient OAs were straight back on the managed to slip another three goals into our nets. Defeated but ever pitch to face the Staff, quietly confident of victory. However gone were buoyant, the OAs sought out the comfort of the refreshments tent. the days of overweight, balding teachers who hadn’t played hockey since they were at school. Instead we found ourselves face to face with The OAs a team that had not one, but five National League Players. Suddenly Jason Hong (05-10) Ben Kay (06-15) this match didn’t quite look like the respite we’d hoped for. The full Alice Stevens (07-12) Tim Price (10-15) force of the Staff team was felt after they fired in two goals in quick James Chadburn (92-99) Freddie Knott (11-14) succession. However, never ones to give up in the face of adversity, the Dan Hunter (06-11) Sam Cooper (12-14) OAs persevered. A ray of hope came in the shape of Freddie Knott (C Nikki Jackman (12-14) Jack Haydon (09-14) 11-14), who hammered home the first goal for the OAs. Then came the Kat Harris (06-11) Seb Masters (07-14) dynamic Jack Haydon (C 09-14) with the equaliser. Abruptly the OAs James Pang (04-11) were not only back in the game but even daring to dream of a win.

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SAILING

THE ARROW TROPHY 2015 Oscar Baker (JS, E & WB 2003-2014) and Rory Davis (E & WB 2007-2012) October saw the return of the annual Arrow Trophy and the third appearance in the competition for the OAs. The event sees twenty-one teams of school alumni pitted against each other in a thrilling clash of the country’s most prestigious independent schools. With high octane matched fleet racing over two days punctuated by a ceremonial dinner at the Royal Ocean Racing Club in Cowes, given the palpable competition in the sea air between all the teams, the weekend was a fantastic experience.

Building on the previous two years, where our Despite another robust mid-fleet performance best position had been 15th overall, Ardingly in race four Ardingly just missed out on the looked to stamp their authority over the mid-fleet Sunday match racing finals but were really and in the first two ‘warm up’ races came 10th and happy to have come 6th overall after the first 7th overall – we were on the climb! An inspired day. An unperturbed team put on another strong tactical call from Martin Pascoe, along with superb performance in Sunday’s final fleet races which driving skills by Rory Davis at the start of the third were sailed in very tricky, shifting and building race, saw Ardingly storm to the front during the winds, which ensured Ardingly a well-deserved first beat. An excellent downwind leg, with some 8th place overall! physical spinnaker handling overseen by Tom Munday and Oliver Waring at the bow and guided OA sailing is a rapidly developing social group by Andrew Clunie in the pit, and Harry Truscott, of Ardingly leavers and is always looking to David MacDonald and Mary Ambler on the sheet expand and strengthen, so if any OAs would like and guy, cemented Ardingly’s position in front of to get involved in an expanding program of OA stronger teams of Winchester and Bradfield. sailing events I would welcome them to get in touch via [email protected]. Finally well Ardingly held on to the lead, done to everyone in the team and thank you for such a fantastic weekend. and with the help of some favourable gusts, managed to take an exceptionally impressive 1st place.

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FOOTBALL THE ANDREW GRIEVES MEMORIAL TROPHY Luke Hultquist (C & WB 1993-2000)

Old Ardinians 2 - Ardingly College 6

Due to a recent surge in interest, the OAs had their largest squad ever chance. A mistake a short time after from an OA defender (who available for September’s match against the College, and consequently shall remain nameless!) meant a short pass back to Harry in Goal decided to field two teams, one in each half. This was also the was intercepted, and the teams went into the break at 2-2. The first youngest OA squad ever assembled, with the average age being 21, half team retiring for a well-earned rest. some 12 years younger than the oldest player on show. The pitch was in perfect condition, the sun was shining, and the crowd of 40 to 50 The second half team had youth and fitness on their side, with an parents and staff assembled to eagerly await the start of the game. average age of 18, and started the second half brightly. Jonah remained from the first half and shared midfield with Jed and Fergus in The first half OA team consisted of the “older players” with an average the middle, both displaying great ball control, whilst Carlos’ unorthodox age of 23. The match started brightly, with both sides playing very style on the wing bamboozled the College defence. Unfortunately the good football on the fantastic pitch. There was several good moves College seemed to redouble their efforts in the second half, no doubt from both sides, with the ball played on the floor and some great inspired to “up their game” against an OA team consisting of last year’s passing sequences. The OAs enjoyed the lion’s share of the school leavers, their peers, who they knew well. Four goals followed possession, and had the majority of the early chances. taking the game to 6-2, despite the best efforts of captain Gani who remained in place from the first half, alongside Will, Jack, and Tim in The opening goal demonstrated a show of defence, who all looked comfortable on the ball, but were powerless to sportsmanship and fair play that epitomised stop the school’s new efforts at swarming the OA goal. Jack in goal had a busy half, but made a series of excellent saves. the game. The ball was played through to Karl Threadgold, who raced clear of the Up front, James and George formed an instinctive attacking partnership College defence, bearing down on goal. A school defender managed and created chances of their own, with George in particular unlucky with to catch up with him, mistimed his tackle, and brought Karl down. The a very well struck shot from outside the box that was neatly saved, referee immediately reached for his red card, and the decision was with the school Goalkeeper in fine form. clear, the defender being the last man, however Luke Hultquist the OA The match finished 6-2 to the College who made a very good captain, had a word with the referee and it was agreed between all comeback from 2-0 down, displaying their clear quality and team spirit, parties to show a yellow in the interests of the game. and we look forward to welcoming some of these players to the OA The OAs would have their reward however, Karl curling in an excellent Team in years to come. free kick around the wall. 1-0 to the OAs. OA Squad

Chris, Gani, Fraser and Sam continued to form a formidable defence 1st Half 2nd Half at the back, and both teams continued to attack, forcing great saves GK Harry Clark (08-13) GK Jack Haydon (09-14) from both the school goalkeeper, and the OA Goalkeeper Harry Clark, LB Chris Hopkins (01-06) LB Tim Price (10-15) whose handing was excellent throughout. The OA midfield looked CB Gani Nuredini (11-13) CB Gani Nuredini (11-13) solid, with Jonah’s pace on the left wing, Rory and Jack dominating CB Fraser Hyland (07-12) CB Will Smith (13-15) centre midfield, and Luke displaying trickery on the right. The OAs RB Sam Haydon, (07-12) RB Jack Howes (08-15) second goal involved great individual work from Luca Galelli up front, LW Jonah Adomakoh (11-15) LW Jonah Adomakoh (11-15) whose mazy run and possession took him into the box, where he CM Rory Davis (07-12) CM Jed Ayloff (10-15) provided a perfect cross into the path of Luke, who slid in to make CM Jack Bowman (08-13) CM Fergus Wood (10-15) the score 2-0 to the OA’s. RW Luke Hultquist (93-00) RW Carlos Sandin (08-15) FW Luca Galelli (04-09) FW James Mackay (11-13) The College were not beaten, and eventually their quality shone FW Karl Threadgold (04-09) FW George Waring (08-13) through: a fantastic free kick into the corner leaving Harry with no

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GOLF SOCIETY Simon Chapman (D 1973-1977)

William Gibbs Trophy presentation

The Old Ardinian Golfing Society has had a very successful year with four meetings held at Hindhead, West Sussex, Copthorne and Effingham Golf Clubs, where members of all age groups have competed for the various Society trophies.

The OA scratch team of six players qualified in trophy is mounted on a hand turned base some style for the Grafton Morrish Trophy played at made using selected timber from a walnut tree Royal West Norfolk and Hunstanton Golf clubs in in that once stood in the Headmaster’s Garden at late September 2015, and returned with some fine Ardingly College and which was felled by a storm silverware as the winners of the Committee Bowl. in the mid-1970s. We wish the team every success in early October 2016 when they return to Norfolk in search of even On a perfect day for golf, the match was well better results. contested and went to the last game before the result could be finalised. In spite of some very After a very good 2nd place finish in the 2015 strong play from the College team the Old Ardinians Public Schools Putting Competition at Royal did win the match, by the slimmest of margins. We Wimbledon Golf Club the OA team again recently look forward to the next match in 2017 where the qualified for the 2016 final in June, but the evening team from the College may be even stronger, as final had to be postponed due to three hours of interest in golf is thriving. torrential rain and thunderstorms. It is hoped that the final will now be played on a date in September and we will be sending our strongest team in search of the elusive win.

A very competitive golf match was held on the 4th May at West Sussex Golf Club, between a team of 6 golfers from Ardingly College and a team from the Old Ardinians. This is an annual event that has been played for many years at this wonderful venue. 016 marks 2the 60th anniversary of the For the first time, the teams were competing for the annual College v OA match. inaugural William Gibbs Trophy, which was donated To get involved visit by the family of William (‘Bill’) Gibbs who played www.ardiniangolf.co.uk with, organised and actively encouraged all aspects of Ardinian golf for almost 50 years. The crystal William Gibbs

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OA DAY CRICKET Harry Clark (E 2008-2013)

After a period of poor weather, this year’s OA match was close to being cancelled, but thanks to the fantastic efforts of the Ardingly grounds staff and coaches, a reduced overs game was able to get underway.

With the majority of the team suffering from slightly sore heads due to various exploits the previous evening, a delayed start was viewed as a OAs v College 1937 positive! There was also a gentleman’s agreement for the OAs to bat first.

After a delicious lunch the OAs went out to bat with the opening Sadly it was all downhill from there. The rest of the bowlers seemed to partnership from 2013 of Geoffrey Lawrence and Jack Bowman. be still digesting their lunch and as a result struggled for consistency, Lawrence looked as if he’d never left and was playing some trademark which made easy pickings for the 1st XI batsmen. Ben Harris looked shots - his guide down to third man has always been a thing of beauty. very solid indeed but was given a lifeline by Clark as the easiest of Bowman also looked in good form before he slapped one through caught and bowled chances was put down. Perhaps it was the point and was caught by a flying catch. A shriek of what one could surprise of actually creating a chance, rather than seeing the ball sail only assume was “duck!” showed that although it was a sociable, over the trees towards Godwin Hall.... He then dug in and made friendly game, the passion and desire still remains in the opener to mincemeat of the bowlers, dispatching the ball to all parts of the score runs on the Green. ground and as the innings progressed produced a wide range of highly skilled shots. 2013 skipper, Harry Clark then came to the crease to try and build a partnership with Lawrence. With some good running between the The 1st XI chased the target comfortably in the end with the wickets and both batsmen dispatching the few loose balls the 1st XI loss of just 1 wicket. The highlight in the field had to be the brilliant bowled, Lawrence was eventually dismissed for 12. Clark then performance behind the stumps from ex Sussex leg spinner, Geoffrey continued to keep the run rate ticking over at 6’s with Henry Howard Lawrence, who seems to be becoming the new Adam Gilchrist. If it and after 10 overs, at 62-2, the OAs were looking in good shape on wasn’t for his up and coming career in medicine, he would almost what coach Marc Nash described as, “a rather naughty pitch.” certainly be pushing Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler for a place on the England side. In typical fashion, having cruised to 34, Clark pulled a dragged down long-hop from the off spinner straight back to him which was well held Despite a few disappointments, the OAs had a great day out and and saw him on his way. This triggered the collapse of the middle and thoroughly enjoyed the game. Everyone in the post-match team talk lower order. Batsmen came and went briskly, deciding to go all guns seemed very keen to return next year and put on a much stronger blazing. Running between the wickets no longer seemed to be an display, which they are more than capable off. It was certainly a fitting option and only boundaries were sought after. The 1st XI kept their way for 1st team coach, Nick Tester to end his reign at Ardingly, and discipline with the ball and in the field and the OAs were bowled the quality performance the school put in did him real credit. out for just 82 inside their allotted 20 overs. All recent school leavers and OAs who wish to get involved in OA Cricket The OAs needed a good start if they were to stand any chance of should contact Courtney Austin (Captain) on [email protected] winning, and they got just that, with ex 1st team opener Tom Ogden or Harry Clark at [email protected]. bowling a beautiful wicket maiden, knocking Louis Evans off for a duck.

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OLD ARDINIANS’ DAY 26th June 2016

The day began with a few rumblings on the Terrace from the arriving OA Car Display exhibitioners, swiftly followed by a bucksfizz breakfast! At 11:00 Catering laid on an immaculate reception for the guests who were beginning to trickle in, which by 11:30 had turned into a flood as the reunions began.

At noon a Eucharist in the Crypt Chapel was kindly presided over by Father David with the help of Revd Michael Lewis, before the Companions in attendance returned to their old refuge, the Masters’ Dining Room, for an excellent lunch and speeches from the Head and James Flecker. The OA Pimms Lunch followed soon after, with around one hundred and fifty OAs in attendance. Special mention here must be given to Catering, who really surpassed themselves with a fantastic Paella, freshly cooked in the Marquee. Credit must also go to the grounds team, led by Ian Card, who resurrected the wicket and made possible the customary cricket match after a night of torrential rain, which got under way at 2pm.

At three the Staff Band began to set up, and a tour of the College lead by the Head of Mertens and newly appointed prefect, Konstantin Krome, departed from the Archway.

Four o clock saw the Pavilion and OA Room overflowing with OAs, ex staff, Companions, students and staff, creating an electric atmosphere for the final moments of the Cricket. An excellent Afternoon Tea arrived promptly for the hungry spectators, followed by a seemingly endless President’s Drinks. At six thirty a spectacular Evensong, a joint affair with St Peter’s, Ardingly and the College choir, signalled the end of OA Day 2016. Thank you to all who came, I hope we’ll see you next year!

Photography by Taylor Young. Website: http://www.tayloryoungphotography.com.

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OLD ARDINIANS’ DAY CLASSIC CAR & BIKE DISPLAY Mark Keatley Palmer (JH & E 1968-1978)

The sun shone, in the main, on the 1st OA Classic Car & Bike display.

Sadly we lost an AC Cobra and an E Type to the dreaded “sorry, we are still waiting for parts!”... But in the end we had thirteen fantastic cars on the Terrace and what an eclectic mix of “Ancient & Modern” it was! From an immaculate 1930’s Bentley to a “look at me yellow” MG Midget to a Ferrari California!

Interestingly the cars were displayed in the order they arrived – almost chronologically - possibly due to the extra time the Classic owners know to factor in to their preferred mode of transport! I would like to pass on a HUGE thank you all those who took part, especially those travelling great distances to share their “pride & joy” with an appreciative crowd.

If anyone would like to bring their piece of history or modern beauty next year, please do get in touch with me: mark@sycamoredesign. co.uk or Lucy: [email protected].

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REUNIONREUNION VETERANS’ DAY 2015

On the 22nd September, ninety Old Ardinians returned to the school for a chapel service, lunch and the opportunity to be reunited with old class mates.

For one OA, the day was particularly special – Norman Kent left Ardingly in 1937, fought in the Second World War, took part in the D-Day landings, and until this year had never returned to his old school. It was wonderful to welcome him back.

Poor visibility prevented our spitfire pilot John Mordant (G 53-57) from delivering a flyover on the day, however pupils were delighted the following week when John soared over the College in perfect weather.

Veterans’ Day 2015 was its usual success, with some fascinating reminiscences shared as the OAs were let loose about the College once again. We look forward to seeing them all again this September.

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REUNION VETS’ LONDON LUNCHEON

Thirty-three OAs were reunited at the Antelope Pub in Sloane Square on 20th April, meeting at midday for a quick drink before going upstairs to the dining room for a delicious meal, and back downstairs to the bar for more drinks, where afternoon quickly became evening! Thank you to all those who came along.

In attendance were - Alastair Hill (JH & Lea, 59-67), Chris Potter (Master, 61-78), Christopher Allen (Gibbs, 60-65), David Brook (Mertens, 50-55), Graham Nash (Crosse & Gibbs, 58-63), Harry Truscott (Gibbs, 60-66), Jeremy Prescott (Gibbs, 64-69), John Farrall (Hilton, 56-61), John Greaves (Hilton, 64-68), John Hardyment (Hilton, 63-67), John Lackington (Crosse, 56-65), John Paul Jacques (Gibbs, 56-64), Ken Woodford (Lea, 46-53), Martin Harrap (Lewington, 39-47), Michael Browne (Hilton, 46-52), Michael Stables (Lea, 55-62), Mike Magness (Hilton, 60-64), Paul Brown-Constable (Mertens, 56-65), Peter Rodgers (Warren, 66-71), Richard Howell (Hilton, 64-68), Richard Kirchner (Crosse & Mertens, 58-63), Robert Kirkby (Lewington, 45-52), Robert Macpherson (Lea, 58-63), Robert Pearce (Gibbs, 64-68), Robin Nugent (Mertens, 63-68), Stephen Wearne (Rhodes, 42-44), Stephen Alexander (Hilton, 60-69), Stuart Glass (Gibbs, 60-65), Tom Pike (Rhodes, 63-67), Tudor Jones (JH & Gibbs, 64-72).

he Alumni TDepartment are looking into putting on a city luncheon for Vets a little further afield than London, in the north of England. If you are interested, or would like to suggest a location, such as Manchester, York or Leeds, get in touch!

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LONDON NETWORKING DRINKS

The Alumni and Careers departments were delighted to host the first Networking event of the year on 1st June, bringing together OAs, former staff, parents and former parents for a glass of fizz in the historic Star Tavern, Belgravia. Attendees ranged from the world of finance and law to performance art and publishing. These events offer members of our community a chance to share opportunities and make new contacts. Keep your eyes peeled for another one in early Michaelmas and see the Careers section for more information on how you can get involved in our new Careers Network.

REUNIONS Lucy Sheehan JS, K & WG 2004-2011 In August the 2011 Leaver’s five year reunion took place at ping-pong club Bounce in Shoreditch, and the 2006 Leavers will celebrate ten years sailing down the Thames on September 30th in London.

More attendees are surfacing every day, so if you’d like to celebrate 10 years sailing down the Thames, get in touch quick.

I would also like to take this opportunity to say that the alumni department welcome any year groups whose reunion years are coming up in 2017 to contact us. We can help get word out, consult with venues and help tailor the perfect event for your year group. Likewise, if you would be interested in helping put together a reunion in another country, we’d be delighted to hear from you. In 2015 sixty Old Ardinians were reunited in Munich, and in previous years OAs have met up in as far flung destinations as Hong Kong and Australia. So feel free to drop us a line and pitch your vision of a reunion!

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THE OA SOCIETY OF FINLAND Mike Story (JH & H 1957-1966)

The OA Soc of Finland first met in JH on the 17th of September 1957, at about 14.30. At that point we were both wearing really itchy grey shorts and feeling rather lost on our first day in Ardingly. I had flown in from Libya the previous day and my itchy shorts were also ruddy cold! I moved to Finland in 1982 and Stephen “Joe” Band came to visit Here’s a group photo of last summer’s OA Soc meeting; I’m the one me for a holiday, I introduced him to a friend of mine from church and in the Bentley Drivers Club shirt holding the dorm photo of Rodney in they married and now live 1½ hour’s drive away. As far as I know there June 1957. aren’t any other OAs in Finland, I’ve Googled and trawled SocNets Talking of Bentleys; are there any other members of the Bentley Drivers but had no luck so far. Club in the OA Socs anywhere worldwide? I fell in love with Vintage So...we may have the only OA Soc in the Bentleys when the BDC had a rally in Ardingly in the early 1960s. whole world who meet at least once a year with 100% attendance!

OLD ARDINIANS LODGE Mike Byford-Bates Rumours that Ardingly College Lodge Our meetings for the remainder of this year are: have closed are false. I am pleased to 26th October 2016 say we have W.Bro. Michael Khajeh- 13th December 2016 Noori as a joining member. There is 4th March 2017 also some welcome interest from a Not a Member? Phone call or email - that can be rectified. number of potential members. Email: [email protected] Unfortunately we were unable to hold our annual Tel: 01273 846010 School meeting for the second year running. We are redoubling our efforts for 2017, which is the tercentenary anniversary of the founding of Freemasonry. If you are a Member, why not come along to a meeting.

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REFUGEE TRAILS ADIB CHOWDHURY (E & WB 2005-2010)

Adib’s new project, ‘Refugee Trails: A European Odyssey’ is an intimate close-up of the Refugee Crisis that spans over 1000 miles, from the beaches of Lesvos to the Upper Rhine.

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I left Ardingly back in 2010 and went on to study International Relations at the University of East Anglia followed by a Masters at the London School of Economics in International Conflict Studies. I discovered photography in the summer after my GCSEs at Ardingly and have pursued it since. At University I combined my academic interest in human rights, politics, and environmental issues with photography through working on personal projects.

Most recently I was working in Hazaribagh, Bangladesh, documenting the leather industry’s detrimental impact on the country. Waste water from factories pollutes the main source of drinking water in Dhaka and the industry is also causing long term health defects for the locals who live and work in the area, resulting in premature deaths and rising cancer rates. Prior to that and shortly after graduating, I embarked on ‘Refugee Trails’, a project that documented the current European refugee crisis, specifically the main entry route for refugees into Europe and the obstacles faced along the way.

Together with two journalists we drove across six countries from the Greek island of Lesvos, photographing the boat landings and the crossing where thousands have drowned, to Germany where we recorded refugees settling into life in their host country. I wanted to highlight the human cost of the Syrian conflict and the struggle undergone by so many to reach safety. The Marty Forscher Fellowship grant for Humanistic Photography generously awarded my work a $3000 grant which I will use to fund further projects concerning post conflict and human rights issues. Currently I am working for NATO in Brussels for the Protection of Civilians section and hope to work in the UK’s Foreign Office or the UN. In retrospect, Ardingly really helped form my curiosity of people from different cultures owing to the diverse background of its students. I’ll always miss those long summer evenings on the Green!

Website: www.adibphotography.com

Project: www.refugeetrails.com

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In February I put out an all staff email asking for word of any OAs doing something particularly extraordinary. Anthony Lovat’s response piqued my interest considerably - ‘Alexi Demetriadi sent me a postcard from North Korea’. In fact news of Alexi’s adventures were filtering back from all corners of the globe. Postcards arrived from the Burmese refugee camps of Bangkok, the blue streets of Chefchaouene - Morocco, China, Australia, Ghana… Undoubtedly Alexi had a tale to tell, and for the Ardinian he kindly agreed to tell the strangest one of all… A VIEW FROM THE NORTH

Alexi Demetriadi (2007-2015)

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When deciding to take a year off before university in the However, if I were to take one thing from the trip it would be a moment summer of 2015, at no point did it ever cross my mind at the very beginning as we stopped for a customs check, during our first half hour in North Korea. Stupidly, I had forgotten to leave the large bag that the country that eventually rushed past before my of political history books back in China, even after being warned of the eyes would feature on the list of destinations I would dangers of bringing in information about Communism or North Korea. ultimately head off to. I was petrified as an elderly Korean guard An essential gap year itinerary for a British student should include sun, a unzipped the bag and inspected its contents. good amount of alcohol and some volunteer work, not a fleeting glance into one of the last remaining Communist dictatorships in the world. He sifted through books ranging from Young Stalin to A History of Ethics, while I trembled As the train continued to grind slowly away from the Chinese border, in the corner attempting to explain myself. the uniqueness of the place started to dawn on me. A place where more horse drawn carts can be seen than cars, where immense red After a forty-five minutes, we succeeded in assuring him that they propaganda signs sit perched on hilltops and where you are utterly were not anti-North Korean, or that I would give them away while in cocooned off from the outside world. Pyongyang. Handing my bag back he suddenly smiled, laughed at me, shook my hand and in broken English wished me best of luck for my Welcome to the land that time forgot. Welcome to North Korea. future study and years ahead.

After a grueling five-hour train journey from the Chinese border town There are innumerable problems with North Korea but that one of Dandong, we finally pulled into the Pyongyang station terminal. I’m moment of kindness will stay with me. The hospitality that the Korean still not sure whether it was by chance or intention, but our first steps people offered us, sadly not offered to them by their own nation, will live onto Korean soil were accompanied by organ music, not unlike the long in my memory. As will the kind and gentle smile of an elderly guard soundtrack of Phantom of the Opera. If I hadn’t guessed it already, who probably never saw such an ill-prepared and idiotic young Brit! Korea promised to be quite unlike anywhere I had seen or been before.

As my budget only stretched as far as the ‘Ultimate Budget Tour’, our 4 days in the Hermit Kingdom were to be a whistle-stop tour of all things Communist. Our first site of interest was the Korean equivalent of the Empire State Building or the Louvre, the centrepiece of Pyongyang’s tourist attractions. The Palace of the Sun is the most sacred site for Koreans across the North and all are expected to make the journey at least once in their lifetime.

After being meticulously checked at security, we entered what could only be described as a Korean Madame Tussauds. Two enormous wax-like statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, arms outstretched towards us, ushered us into the palace. After wandering through many rooms of awards and doctorates bestowed to the deceased statesmen of North Korea, we reached a huge dimly lit hall, in which two large glass coffins stood. Enclosed within, suited and pristine, were the mummified bodies of the two Kims.

Pyongyang and North Korea had much more in store for us. A photo opportunity at the enormous bronze statues of the Kims was followed by a lecture on the origins of the North Korean Communist arms. The next day we enjoyed a meal composed of traditional Korean hot pot and lager and celebrated with a final night of karaoke in a hotel bar.

But it was not just the main tourist sites that left a lasting impression on me. Through western eyes North Korea is unusual to the point of surreal. Poverty is rife.

No advertising adorns the bus stops, rather instead bold and brash Communist Party propaganda. One newspaper, and I promise this is not a lie, had the headline ‘Why all the fuss about human rights?’ No phone signal, no WiFi, no connection at all to the outside world can be found, unless filtered and warped by the state. My ‘go to conversation starter’ that has served me in every other country - What football team do you support? - received no response whatsoever! As we made our way back to Beijing I came to the conclusion that this was a failed state in every sense; a state whose people are starved of food and information while its leaders hoard both. This was From top to bottom clockwise - Socialist Revolution Monument, government Communism gone horribly awry. buildings in Pyongyang, the Monument to Party Founding, Alexi’s Tourist Card. Previous page: Mansudae Grand Monument

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TRAVEL OSCAR SCAFIDI

Oscar Scafidi’s (E 97-02) new book, the Bradt Guide to Equatorial Guinea, is the only in-depth English language travel guide to Equatorial Guinea, one of the last truly unexplored corners of sub-Saharan Africa. This award winning work of photography and travel writing can be found on the shelves of Waterstones and other major UK bookshops. For the Ardinian, Oscar explains what drew him to this beautiful, and yet relatively unknown corner of Africa...

Was it difficult? There has been very little In a word: yes. Getting a visa to Equatorial Guinea is extremely written on the country, as until difficult, although much easier since I wrote the book. It took me the discovery of offshore oil seven weeks of hassling the embassy in London, and that was only reserves in the early nineties the beginning of my paperwork requirements! Equatorial Guinea is a it did not really figure on beautiful country, but it has a very troubled history, and as a result the administration are often wary of outsiders. There has also been anyone’s geostrategic radar. very little written on the country (in any language), as until the discovery of offshore oil reserves in the early nineties it did not really How did you get into travel writing? figure on anyone’s geostrategic radar. There were no previous tourist guidebooks or even decent maps of the country. As a result, I first began documenting my travels in 2007, shortly after researching for this project really was a leap into the unknown. completing an overland journey from London to Liberia in a 1973 Land Rover Series III with a friend from university. It began as a What is your favourite thing about Equatorial Guinea? hobby, simply to note down what I had been up to for posterity. Firstly, the lack of other tourists is a huge draw. In main cities After a few commissions from specialist travel publications, I started such as Malabo or Bata you will never be lonely in terms of foreign to explore ways of financing my travel through writing about it, which company, given the numbers of expatriate workers based there. eventually led to my work with Bradt Travel Guides in 2012. However, outside these centres you are generally alone to explore Why did you choose to write a travel guide to Equatorial Guinea? the beaches, archaeological ruins, waterfalls and natural landmarks that (anywhere else) would be packed with tourists! This country Sub-Saharan Africa has fascinated me for years, and in particular is probably one of the last places in African where this is the case. resource-disordered countries. Having lived in other oil-rich states such Secondly, Equatorial Guinea has impressively developed infrastructure, as Sudan and Angola, as well as travelled around Equatorial Guinea’s thanks to the oil wealth. Excellent roads and air links mean you can neighbours of Cameroon and Gabon, I was keen to see what Africa’s spend more time exploring and less time getting from A to B. Lastly, only Spanish-speaking nation was like. The fact that it was declared by I also love the diversity of landscapes, languages and peoples; a legacy the UN the sixth least visited country in the world by tourists in 2015 of the European powers drawing arbitrary lines on the African map at made it all the more interesting. Most people have only heard of the 1884-5 Berlin Conference. This tiny nation is home to speakers of Equatorial Guinea due to the coup d’état attempt in 2004 by Simon Spanish, Pidgin English, Portuguese Creole, French as well as at least Mann, or negative headlines involving French corruption allegations nine African languages such as Fang, Bube and Kombe. directed at the President’s son Teodorín. I was keen to look behind the headlines and find out exactly what this tiny African nation was really like.

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TRAVEL KAYAK THE KWANZA

Following his time in Equatorial Guinea, Oscar decided to embark on something a little more challenging than research. With his friend Alfy Weston, Oscar attempted a record breaking feat – to kayak Angola’s Cuanza, or Kwanza, river, from source to mouth, a journey of over 1000 kms.

The journey aimed to raise awareness and funds for the HALO Trust, 29th June: Good news: we made it through all rapids and around waterfall a humanitarian charity who work to clear landmines and the debris of that recently killed some South African kayakers. No more hippos! war so as to create a safe environment for some of the world’s most 29th June: Bad news: still 40km to Capanda dam with no current to vulnerable communities. As of July 2016, Oscar and Alfy have raised help us and Alfy isn’t feeling great after being munched by insects today. nearly £13,000, an exceptional achievement, made more exceptional considering the dangers they confronted along the way. Over the course 30th June: Woken at 12:30 am by AK47 assault rifles shoved into of their 1000km journey, the pair survived rapids, hippos, crocodiles, tent. Dragged out and handcuffed by local police forces. Spend night diamond mines and waking up staring down the barrel of an AK47… at police headquarters in medical storage cupboard with three armed guards. Next day transported back to Melanje, 135 km in the wrong Here is their story, told via the brief updates they were able to send home. direction. All possessions confiscated, including clean clothes! 5th June: the adventure begins on World Environment Day. 1st July: We are being forced to return to Luanda by SME 9th June: authorities dropped us at wrong entry point to kwanza; (Immigration) and the Ministry of the Interior. They have confiscated our struggled through reeds for hours. managed 11k; river looks clear passports and sent two officers to escort us back. No explanation as tomorrow…saw first crocodile. to why, or what happens when we get to Luanda. Hoping they give our passports back, but at this stage we wouldn’t be that surprised if we 12th June: 56k Saturday, inc. delay portaging kayak past wooden bridge. were re-arrested! Currently 60km outside Luanda. Saw first Hippos! Heard music and singing from nearby villages at camp. 2nd July: Free after 8 hours of negotiations thanks to Carlos at the 13th June: Sunday 50km, fish dinner from a local fisherman. Saw two British embassy in Luanda. hippos and a 3m croc… Camped near a very vocal hippo! 3rd July: The journey continues in secret, with radio silence on social media. 15th June: 53.5k Tuesday… clear day, no croc or hippo! Kayak through big forest fire. Only 30k (and first set of rapids) to Kuito bridge. We headed straight back to Alfy’s in Luanda, 15th June: Klepper Kayak sinks in rapids. repacked our bags, and early on Sunday 3rd July 17th June: Camping in a military base by the river after an 18k hike. we drove out to Dondo, to the next navigable Hopefully our repaired Klepper parts arrive tomorrow from Kuito! point on the river that we had been heading to 20th June: 30k kayak and 11k trek with gear. Camp by rapids. Dando before our arrest. town tomorrow for beer! Bought new shoes from illegal diamond We kept a low profile and did 25km of paddling on the Sunday, 70km miner’s camp. on Monday, 68km on Tuesday then a final 40km on Wednesday, camping 22nd June: 32k yesterday inc. 5k in the dark! Now in Sakanjala, North in isolated areas and avoiding security forces as much as possible. of Dondo. Saw mongoose in forest and met some Mauritanian There were a couple of tense moments heading through checkpoints diamond merchants. (which is a bit ridiculous, as we have done nothing wrong, and were even 23rd June: A fun day hanging out at a diamond mine with the cleared of doing anything wrong earlier in the week), but we could not Congolese. Day cut short by three notorious local hippos who wouldn’t afford any further delays with Angolan officialdom so best to be cautious. get out the way! It was three nights of getting munched by mosquitoes and the last 20km of the journey were hell, with a strong headwind and some big waves. So 24th June: Chased up a tree by hippos. Soaked walking kayak big in fact that we nearly sank in the last 1km of the journey. However, we through waist deep rapids. Camping in abandoned diamond mine. just ploughed on and kept thinking of that delicious can of Cuca beer 26th June: Awkward on the kayak now as Alfy was pro leave and waiting for us on the finish line! Oscar pro remain! The Ardinian would like to congratulate Oscar and Alfy on their 28th June: 50k day lots of rapids and only 2 hippos! Camping by excellent achievements. To learn more about their cause and see stunning waterfall tonight. Next stop: Capanda dam! the area of minefields that your donation would clear, go to www.kayakthekwanza.com and click on ‘donate’.

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THE WORLD OF ALASTAIR HENDY

Alastair Hendy left Ardingly in 1980 and almost immediately embarked on a variety of projects simultaneously. He is now a self-taught cook; a world renowned food and travel photographer; a contributor on diverse subjects to Europe’s leading newspapers and magazines; a teacher of food and travel writing from his converted Shoreditch warehouse; the owner of A G Hendy & Co Home Store in Hastings and 135 All Saints Street – a recreated Tudor house in the Hastings Old Town that you can stay in. Alastair has juggled all of this, creating a scheme of work that is both fascinatingly diverse and yet consistently, visually stunning. Here is an overview…

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Shop A.G. Hendy & Co is a store for the tools of the home; practical goods of beautifully simple design and solid craftsmanship. For the more eclectic shopper, the store doubles as a bazaar, and stocks a treasure trove of curiosities, from Victorian glass domes to science lab wall charts, crystal decanters and butterfly cases. You can visit Alastair’s shop, located at 36 High Street, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3ER.

Food Alastair is an accomplished cook, food writer and culinary photographer. He’s travelled the world learning from and documenting the cuisine of other cultures. You can sample his dishes at the restaurant connected to A.G. Hendy & Co, where fresh caught fish from just down the road is prepared with local produce, or join him on a food writing and photography course.

House Alastair bought 135 All Saints street in 2006, and on seeing the modern interior inside its Tudor shell, found an obsession taking hold of him. He put himself through a course in 16th century building techniques, and then anxiously began stripping away the layers until he found the original timbers – still sound.

New oak beams were hand cut, horse hair and lime plaster was applied to the walls and the floorboards – reclaimed pieces of groyne oak – were laid. Every nail, every minute fitting was carefully sourced, and Alastair used the very best craftsmen. However, the work done on 135 All Saints street was not merely reconstruction, but a reimagining of history.

As Will Self says of the project in World of Interiors, Alastair wanted ‘to imagine what the Tudor house might be like, if, each successive domestic technology had been introduced without otherwise altering the original fabric. Thus the plumbing belongs to the 18th century, the central heating to the 19th, and the electricity to late 19th or early 20th century. The eclectic mixture of furniture styles and periods is also responsive to this vision of organic homely growth: an 18th century settle with its original paint is juxtaposed with rush-backed 19th century Orkney chairs.’

Life at 135 All Saints Street is a complete immersive experience, and a rare opportunity to live and breathe another age entirely. There is no wifi, there is no television: read by candle light, bathe in a metal tub, doze by open fires and sleep snug in an oak box bed…

To enquire, visit www.aghendy.com/house

The Tudor house is also open on for the Old Town Carnival Week, 15th October for Hastings Bonfire Night and Halloween at the Old Town mortuary, and from 17th - 24th December for ‘The Christmas House’.

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REUNIONONES TO WATCH JOJO MACARI (E 2010-2013) Victoria Macari You could say that JoJo put his drama scholarship to good use. After studying drama at the College, performing in the first Pelican Briefs and heading up to the Edinburgh Fringe, JoJo was intent on finding a career in music or acting.

Soon after leaving Ardingly he musician who had shunned was given the opportunity to Drama College to go straight read through and workshop a into the industry. new play written by Jonathan ‘A Level Playing Field’ director Guy Lewis, writer of the critically Chris Barton more recently asked acclaimed ‘Our Boys’. JoJo back to appear in his This led to the offer of a lead production at Jermyn Street, a role in the show ‘A Level Playing musical – ‘Desperate Measures’ Field’, a drama which dissects a - in which he played guitar and class of A Level students in a top sang as well as acting. Since then London private school, both JoJo has acquired London agents comedic and dark with an who spotted him in his first show. undertone of the ‘exam factory’. He has just been offered the lead The play ran throughout the role in ‘The Past is a Tattooed spring of 2015 to sell-out Sailor’ which will run at ‘The Old audiences at the Jermyn Street Red Lion’ theatre this August. Theatre in Piccadilly, a venue that He continues to audition tirelessly has been a launch pad for so and produce and perform his many actors. In December 2015 own music. a half page article appeared in the Stage celebrating Jojo’s performance and proclaiming him the new maverick actor-

JACK BOWMAN (B 2008-2013)

After Ardingly I took a year to practise photography and get some work experience with production companies in London. I didn’t feel like a full degree was right for me, so I took a place at the University of Creative Arts in Canterbury for a year, and academically it was the best year of my life.

After that I just wanted to get shoots for the likes of Jaguar, out there – I realised I benefitted Land Rover and Volkswagen, from being younger and I which has been fantastic. My wanted to make the most work isn’t limited to the creative of my enthusiasm. side and I’m heavily involved with post production, editing film I spent nine months working as and retouching images. a freelance assistant as well as organising my own photo shoots. My advice would be that university I had great experience working isn’t for everyone. The most with Director Jo Mann as his important thing is to find assistant for the current Churchill something you love doing, insurance adverts shown on TV. something you can do for the After that I managed to land rest of your life, where ‘work’ myself a job as a Project Manager doesn’t feel like work. www.instagram.com/jabpictures and Art Director, helping create

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ONES TO WATCH ROSIE GIBBENS (JS, K & WB 2005-2011) Peter Martin (A & WG 2009-2011)

Rosie studied art at Ardingly under Claire Grover, and in 2011, after leaving an installation of latex gloves and a bacteria-printed washing machine on the floor of the College gallery, took up her place at Central Saint Martins. During her degree in Performance Design and Practice, Rosie developed an interest in Live Art and her striking, often humorous performance works earnt her a 1st Class Honours as well as the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement.

A year on from graduation, Rosie has accepted a place at the Royal “I became interested and terrified by the systems of bureaucracy and College of Art for a Masters in Contemporary Art Practice. She has surveillance that dominate city life. I wanted my character to represent shown work at the Battersea Art Centre, Platform Theatre and most the overtly friendly yet sinister face of corporate control.” recently, curated an exhibition in the Barbican conservatory entitled The rest of the exhibition explored the realities and ‘surrealities’ of life in the This Was the Future with the Barbican Young Visual Arts Group. City. One film explored the gentrification of London streets over the years. THIS WAS THE FUTURE: ART SAFARI Another required the participant to divulge his or her deepest secret, write it down and leave the paper on a cactus in a solitary room set high in the PHOTOGRAPHY BY CAMILLA GREENWELL canopy of the conservatory. In return one was allowed to pluck another Inspired by the utopian vision of the Barbican’s architects, the piece of paper from the cactus, and read a stranger’s own secret! exhibition investigated what it means to inhabit the future that the The exhibition was visually stimulating as well as humorously provocative, institute was built for, and to explore the experience of living in London and I recommend keeping an eye out for Rosie’s next shows. in the here and now. The event included installation, performance, photography, film, sound and interactive artworks, exploring themes To see more of Rosie’s work, go to www.rosiegibbens.com including surveillance, technology, public and private space and nature vs. human constructions.

Rosie invited myself, and several other OAs along to the exhibition, explaining nothing but promising a glass of wine. At the entrance we were greeted by an insipid-green light and a maze of queuing lanes in a room not dissimilar to an airport lounge. As we wound our way through we caught site of Rosie, who ignored our greetings when we eventually reached her station, and began taking us through an atomised, dystopian, secretarial grilling. We signed away our lives with ferociously sharp pencils on crisp consent forms, were inspected, stamped viciously with an APPROVED sign and shoved into the light of the exhibition. Rosie broke character later to explain…

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NORMAN KENT

On 22nd September 2015 Ardingly had the joy of welcoming back an OA who hadn’t set foot inside the school since the year he left – 1937. Norman Kent came to Ardingly in 1935, aged fourteen. He remembers a hard life, supplemented by an excellent tuck shop (run by the London firm Gorringes in those days) but a happy life nonetheless.

Life swept Norman away from Ardingly, and things moved quickly for Between their respective duties they took leave together in Brussels him as they did for many of his generation upon leaving school. Just and eventually married. Jean and Norman enjoyed sixty six ‘wonderful’ two years had passed before Norman had joined the Royal Engineers years together until Jean’s sad passing in 2014. and at 07.25 am, on June 6th 1944, aged just twenty, Norman found After the war, Jean and Norman flourished together. Though he was himself running up Sword beach in the D-Day Landings. Advancing nearly recalled for the Suez Crisis, Norman enjoyed a successful career under heavy small arms and artillery fire, Norman had not gone far in insurance at Prudential, such that before he retired in 1992, he was before his officer was killed beside him, and Norman was forced to offered Directorship. After living abroad for some years, Jean and take up command. Over the following two hours the Royal Engineers Norman settled in Ipswich. cleared seven of the eight exits from the beach, and the inland advance began. However, it was not until 2015 that Norman heard The next months were a slog as Allied forces news of his old school, and returning on Veterans’ pushed through France and into Germany. day, found himself overwhelmed and thrilled to be However things took an unusual turn when, back amongst buildings at once familiar and arriving in Berlin a sergeant, Norman encountered changed. We are looking forward to seeing perhaps the last person one expects to find in a Norman again at the next Veterans’ day, and warzone – his future wife. Jean, herself a sergeant, thank him for returning to us. was in charge of the Auxiliary Territorial Service In January of this year, Norman was awarded the Legion d’Honneur, girls when she met Norman. the highest French order for military and civil merits, for his role in liberating France in the Second World War.

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OA REUNION AT 30,000 FT

Something unusual occurred in the skies over the College in January; Rhodes boys Ben Burwood (E 90-95) and Harry Clark (E 08-13) found themselves flying an EasyJet Airbus A320 together. Ben is an experienced and highly skilled training captain and Harry a newly qualified First Officer.

Ben was doing Harry’s check flight before releasing him to the line, managed to secure a job with the orange airline. A six week ‘Type marking the end of his training. They flew to Edinburgh from Gatwick rating’ course, consisting of three intensive weeks of ground school twice and both thoroughly enjoyed the day. Amazingly there are some and 3 weeks of 4 hour simulation sessions started in October and after staff members who taught both Ben and Harry and are still haunting several other hoops were jumped through, Harry flew an Airbus full of the halls of Ardingly... passengers for the first time on December 27th.

Harry left Ardingly in 2013 and started training with CTC Aviation After just one month (50 sectors) of ‘Line Training’ (normal passenger in January 2014 having been one of the fortunate 5% of annual flights with a training captain), Harry was signed off by Captain Ben applicants to pass selection. He successfully passed 14 ATPL theory Burwood. He’s now building his experience in the right hand seat and exams in six months first time with a 91% average, got a 1st series embarking on what will hopefully be a long and successful career in Aviation. Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL) and a 1st time Instrument Rating (IR) Ed’s comment: have you met up with other OAs, accidentally or on pass. He graduated in the summer of 2015 and just one week after, purpose, in any strange corners of the globe? Send us your photos.

TIM MACDONALD MEMORIAL CLASSIC CAR RUN

In 2014 the Ardinian was incredibly saddened to report the passing of Tim Macdonald (JH & B 79-84) who succumbed to a brain tumour just short of his 44th birthday, after a ten year struggle bravely borne. Tim was a passionate lover of cars, and with his Marlin kit car he started an annual Classic Car run, held from his family’s paddock in Cardross, Scotland and taking in the most wonderful scenery. Stewart and Gillian continue Tim’s work with a Bi-Annual run, and would be delighted to welcome any OAs with Classic, Kit and Vintage cars to come along. The next meet will take place in May 2017, and attendees stay in the Macdonald house or camp. The run is a fantastic opportunity to honour Tim’s memory in the best way possible, driving over the finest country Britain has to offer in the company of fellow car enthusiasts.

To register your interest, please don’t hesitate to email Stewart and Gillian, on [email protected]

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THE CHRIS SPENCER MEMORIAL CRICKET DAY Ardingly College July 16th 2016 Andrew Spencer (JS, C & WB 1986-1996)

Chris Spencer was an Old Ardinian who spent 9 years at Ardingly College from 1982 to 1991. Unfortunately, his life was tragically cut short at the age of 37 in December 2010. Other than his wife, daughter and family, cricket was his greatest passion. So it seemed fitting that family and friends got together and held a cricket day in his memory once a year on the hallowed turf of the Green at Ardingly College. July 16th was the 6th year of ‘The Chris Spencer Cricket Memorial Day’.

This year we were blessed with a perfect day. The sun was shining, He has been desperate each year to win the trophy and arrived the school had prepared a great wicket and outfield. Friends and family this year with a gleam in his eye. There was only one winner, with began arriving with their picnics and drinks from 11 O’clock with his entertaining batting, energetic bowling and limpet like fielding beaming smiles ready for another great day, many of which were Old plus the controversy of that catch! Ardinians too. The two sides were captained by Chris’ two brothers, There was a raffle held during the day with a number of prizes Peter and Andrew. Team Andrew batted first. The theme of big hitting donated by friends which raised over £500 for charity. for the day was there to see from the start as Mike Newcombe rolled back the years with a delightful 4 over the covers and two big sixes It was a great day and it continued into the evening with a lot of into the pavilion that sent spectators with glasses of wine in hand laughter and drinks with a few sore heads and bodies in the morning. scurrying for cover. It was the OAs in Team Andrew that shone brightly Thank you everyone who continues to make this day possible. with Neil Mather scoring a belligerent 51 during his batting pair’s five overs at the crease. Rick Knights and Matt Short had an entertaining partnership with some lusty blows and Courtney Austin provided a late flurry of runs as Team Andrew racked up a formidable 215 runs.

However, Team Peter were not daunted by this run chase and each of their pairs provided a steady flow of runs with the occasional lusty blows. With the loss of 5 runs for each wicket during a pair’s five overs at the crease later proving to be pivotal in the scoring, two of Peter’s batting pairs went not out. With the final pair, which included team captain Peter Spencer, needing 39 to win from their five over, they cruised to victory scoring a mighty 58 runs and only losing 2 wickets to win the match by 10 runs.

The winner of the coveted Chris Spencer Player of the Day trophy, was Mike Newcombe. He was a lifelong friend of Chris’ and travels over from Spain each year.

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ABI SAKANDE (C & WB 2008-2013) DEBUTS FOR SUSSEX Written for the Mid Sussex Times by Gareth Cater Friday 8th July was a special day for Lindfield Cricket Club when Abidine Sakande took to the field at Hove to make his debut for Sussex against the touring Pakistanis. It capped a remarkable rise in a cricketing career that almost happened by accident after being spotted in the nets at Ardingly College.

Left: Abi Sakande gives KP some chin music. Right: Abi Sakande, Oxford blue.

Known simply as Abi, the Oxford University His huge cricketing talent is graduate blossomed after joining Lindfield as a junior in 2006 and is the first LCC player to make the coupled with a sharp intelligence, Sussex 1st XI since Paul Phillipson who started his as one would expect from a St. county career in 1970. Back at Hove, things got even John’s College, Oxford student more surreal for the club when Abi came on to bowl at Pakistani batsman Azhar Ali, who had also played (indeed, he received his 2:1 in a few games for the village in the early 2000s. Human Sciences, the morning

As 2nd XI captain, I first picked Abi in 2009 when of his Sussex debut). he was just 14. Indeed, myself and the then 3rd XI Just weeks after his Sidley debut, we travelled captain Glen Lovelock, still bicker about who spotted to Seaford for an away fixture. As we left Lindfield, him first, and no doubt that argument will continue I asked Abi about the book he was reading. An hour now that he’s playing his trade at the top level. In later as we pulled into the ground, he’d just about reality of course, he was encouraged to join Lindfield finished his answer, after giving us a blow-by-blow thanks to the Chairman of the time, Mark Lawrence. account of the author’s efforts to create a science In those days, Mark was also a significant force fiction masterpiece. To this day I can’t remember behind the growing reputation of the Lindfield the title of the book. Academy, and played a huge part in Abi’s early cricketing development. It’s saddening to think that Of course, I was never going to keep hold of after his tragically young death at 48, Mark never Abi in my team for long. By the end of that season got to see Abi play for Sussex. He would have he was a regular in the 1st XI, and in the following been immensely proud. year, he had returned to Sidley and taken 6 for 46 to win the game. In fact by 2011, his talent had I remember Abi’s 2nd XI debut grown too big for Lindfield, and he was off to Three like it was yesterday. On a gorgeous Bridges, and ultimately Billingshurst where he plays in the Premier league today. In between, he has early summer afternoon at Sidley achieved an Oxford blue in 2015 and 2016, with on the flattest of wickets, he opened highlights including grabbing the wickets of Kevin the bowling with a 16 year old James Pietersen and Jason Roy in a first class game against Surrey last year. Pearce (who went on to captain the 1st XI). His figures of 2 for 26 were As I write this, he’s bowled a tidy 20 over spell against the tourists with not much luck. I trust it encouraging, but what sticks in the won’t be too long before he troubles the scorers mind was the opening batsmen more seriously, and he knocks on the door of a both calling for their helmets after a List A or Championship appearance. All at couple of overs. He had natural Lindfield wish him the very best. pace and an ability to hit the pitch from a very early age.

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CAREERS Jessica Eustace

World of Work What an exciting and eventful first year it has been for me and the Careers Department at Ardingly! I have been fortunate to have facilitated some extremely interesting and informative events over the course of the year, made possible by the generous support of parents, former staff and Old Ardinians.

EVENTS The Careers Department joined forces with the Alumni Department in June to deliver the first I am very grateful to Harry Clark (E 08-13) who Networking Evening of the year, and there are now has supported a number of our careers events, plans to expand our involvement with them. We are in particular at a talk in which he shared his hoping to bring along a small group of Upper Sixth experiences in becoming an Airline Pilot with our to the next evening to offer them the experience of pupils, and in June at our first Year 7 “Welcome to networking in a relaxed environment and the opportunity the World of Work” Event. Harry, Performance Artist to make some contacts and get advice on possible Rosie Gibbens (JS, K & WG 04-11) and twelve career paths. other professionals hosted 100 pupils from four schools in a fun, interactive session where the STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES pupils had to discover what our professionals did for a living. The pupils, teachers and professionals One of the main priorities of the Careers had all participated in a Myers Briggs Psychometric Department this year was to start establishing a test that created a profile detailing their characteristics network of contacts and a policy and procedure to Get Involved and talents. These profiles were then used to explore assist our pupils in being proactive in their search possible future professions for each pupil. The for essential work experience opportunities. diverse careers our OAs brought to the table The Careers Department is I am delighted to say that we have always looking for OAs and revealed to the participants the sheer range of parents to become involved options available to them beyond education. managed to find over 20 work in our pupils’ development. experience placements for our If you feel you are able to Our Careers in Languages event inspired our senior provide some support – either school languages pupils when they had the opportunity pupils so far this year. by talking to a group of pupils to hear from two Old Ardinians studying modern about your career path, These placements range from Fashion Boutiques, offering careers advice or languages. Over the course of the evening, Kimberley to Architects Studios, Galleries and Finance potential contacts for work Pardailhe-Galabrun (WG 2011-2013) and Charlie Departments to name but a few. Work experience experience placements, Southwood (C 2007-2014) highlighted the number is becoming so valuable when pupils write their please feel free to contact of exciting and diverse careers that a course in Careers and Work Experience personal statements and prepare their CV’s, and languages can lead to, particularly for those interested on careers@ardingly,com. thanks to members of the community – from OAs in travel. We were also lucky to be joined by some to parents – providing those opportunities for I would love to hear from you. enthusiastic parents and guest speakers, two of students has become a reality. whom work in the Foreign Office.

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CAREERS HEADS WEDDING! Jessica Eustace Last year the Ardinian was delighted to announce the engagement of Heads Harry Partridge (00-07) and Hannah Barry (05-07) after Harry proposed in particular style at sunrise at the Grand Canyon in September 2014.

It holds an extra special place in our hearts and with its Chapel, memorable buildings and beautiful grounds this was the only place we could have chosen to make our marriage vows and celebrate with our family and friends.

In June the College had the Hannah and Harry’s wedding pleasure of welcoming back has also at long last dispelled the couple to marry in the the myth that Heads who get Chapel. Harry said to the married are given a ‘free house’ Mid Sussex Times, by the College, sadly confirmed by the Bursar!

DAVID JAMES COMEDY

OA David ‘Jimmy’ James (JH&G 1958-66) is an award-winning comedian and master story-teller, and a favourite on the stand-up comedy circuit since he won third place at the prestigious Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition in 2009.

He was 61 and had done only In 2014, a heart attack three open spots. Known as a comedians’ comedian and an slowed him down but audience favourite, he’s received he was able to return to standing ovations for his 10-minute work soon afterwards sets. “I think it’s because I came and is now back on off after nine,” he jests. He returned to the Brighton Fringe the squash court. “My 2016 with his new show, Precisely, opponents are very following last year’s sold-out wary, so I’m winning debut, Baby-Boomer. far more games than David lives in the I used to.” Sussex countryside David wasn’t entirely a stranger and travels regularly to the stage however when he to London where he took to comedy, in fact he’s a proud founding member of The trains individuals and Gravediggers, Ardingly’s second institutions on the use pop group after the Xiles! of humour in business. http://www.laughatdj.com/

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Headmaster Ben Figgis on the Colour Run, which saw several hundred runners slip and slide around the grounds in aid of Sarcoma UK, raising £5000.

Sixth form artists at the Taj Mahal.

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Sixth form scientists at the McLaren factory.

Students enjoyed a trip to Greece last Students present and hear papers summer, splitting their time between caring from leading academics at the for injured sea-turtles at the Archelon Centre College’s National Shakespeare and exploring the abundant historical Conference each year. monuments of the ancient world. They are seen here at the Temple of Poseidon.

Hilton House at the Steepo. Copyright Peter Joarder. 1st XI Captain Charlotte Childs has been invited to join the U18s England Hockey Squad.

Ardingly’s flourishing Fencing Six celebrate victory at Harrow.

Ardingly are the first team in ISFA history to win the “double double”, having won the Elgin Southern League trophy and the ISFA Cup for the last two years running.

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THE ORIGINS OF ASTRONOMY AT ARDINGLY David Harris The story starts soon after I was appointed Head of Physics in 1951 by George Snow, the then Headmaster. He was himself keenly interested in things scientific, and he felt strongly that Ardingly should have its own observatory. It had come to his notice that an amateur astronomer in Ferndown, Dorset, wished to dispose of a six-and-a half inch reflecting telescope; it was not long before Jack Bambury (Head of Biology) and I were travelling down to Dorset in George Snow’s magnificent Terraplane Tourer (complete with government-surplus altimeter, I remember!) to view what was on offer.

The owner was in the optics business, and he had ground the The observatory was well used over the years; my much-esteemed mirror himself; the instrument was driven by a small electric motor, colleague, the late Alan Pearson, was very interested in astronomy, and a copper dome was included. The equipment came up to and he ran a thriving Astronomical Society. expectations, and in due course it was purchased for around £100 – a lot of money in those days. It is worth noting that the original copper

Plans were soon being made for the erection of an observatory to dome was stolen a few years ago - literally house the telescope, and this was to be sited over the road in the field daylight robbery! No-one thought to challenge adjacent to Standgrove Cottage, next to the tennis courts. As far as I the perpetrators, doubtless thinking that it was can remember, Dusty Miller had a hand in the construction of the small being taken away for repair. The original dome has brick building, aided by boy labour. The key players in the actual mounting and installation of the telescope were two VIth Form since been replaced by one fashioned in plastic. physicists, Peter Lloyd* and John Lawrence. I hope that these notes on the humble beginnings of Astronomy at In due course the Observatory was officially Ardingly will be of interest. No doubt the new Observatory will contain the very latest astronomical and technical equipment. I would wish opened by no less than the then Astronomer those who will work in it every success and achievement in the future. Royal, Professor Richard Woolley, in the presence of all those who had played a part in the setting up * Peter Lloyd went on to read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, followed by a Ph.D. He has his own observatory in his back garden, and is a of Ardingly’s first observatory. This event was well-known amateur astronomer. recorded in the Ardingly Annals of the time.

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THE NEW ARDINGLY OBSERVATORY Helen Madaras On a beautiful sunny afternoon in June Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Director of the Vatican Observatory, brought the blue skies of Rome with him when he opened the new Ardingly College Observatory. He mused upon the importance of astronomy, what it is to be a part of creation and the basic question of humans, ’How do I fit into all this?’ Unveiling a plaque which honoured the Ardingly patrons who supported the project, Br Guy looked to the future when he said he hoped that in a 100 years from now, “We might be welcoming students here from across the galaxy.” Ardingly’s Observatory was built following an original design by the school’s master carpenter, Nick Marchant. It is a roll off roof observatory that is home to a 14” Meade ACF main telescope on an EQ8 Pro mount which allows students to observe the Moon and the planets as well as even fainter stars, nebulae and distant galaxies.

The observatory is totally ‘green’ as it uses solar power to operate the telescope and its accessories. Resident Astronomer Dr Igor Zharkov is leading the search for new supernovas, currently tracking two possibilities and liaising with the European Space Agency and NASA.

Since it opened for use in December 2015, the Observatory has welcomed over 300 students from the local area, including Guides and Scout groups. As Dr Andrew Spiers, Head of Science and Sussex STEM teacher of the year, said: “We aim to stretch the imagination and knowledge of all the young people who visit our Observatory.”

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INTO THE WOODS 1996-2016 Lara Marshall McBain (K & WG 1989-1998) Michaelmas term 1996, my goodness almost 20 years ago! Yes, it is scary just to think of the time that has passed, but it has some of the best memories ever for me. Jonathan Caldicot’s first production of ‘Into the Woods’. I seem to remember that we cast before the Summer holidays, and that my Walkman (oh dear it really was a long time ago!) was continually playing a very professional recording non-stop.

Of course we were set to imitate it! All my friends were part of the show and we even got together over the holidays to rehearse; we were Lara Marshall McBain and Megan Fudge, the Two Baker’s Wives that keen! My best friend Caroline (Beresford-Jones, now Gladstone and who is still my BFF to this day) had the part of the Witch, and I was playing the Baker’s wife. Nick Lambert was the Baker, Pippa Law was Cinderella, Ele Emmerson (nee Collington) was Jack’s mother and Will Flint was Jack. Now my memory gets a little bit sketchy, and unfortunately neither I nor JC can find our original programme. The beautiful Josie Atkins played Rapunzel, and the naughty Princes were the equally naughty Jamie Harding and Luke Ogden. Mel Wilson (nee Heneghan), Sarah Drummond (nee Martin) and Rosalind Moseling made up the mean sisters and stepmother. I met with Mark Turner recently and, hilariously, he cannot even remember being in it! But he was, as the Steward.

Highlights, personally, were having my first ever solo song and my mum saying “Well done darling, I didn’t think you could sing.” Ha! Thanks mummy! Obviously my singing in the car had not given her much faith!

We did not have a lovely 3D cow, as used in the recent performance, ours was 2D, and on wheels. It was also hinged at the bottom so when ‘milky white’ died you could let her go and she would fall over. Wonderfully simple and effect, however, it did mean you had to hold her up for the rest of the time she was on stage. On the last performance, and thank fully it was the last, as I exited stage I let go prematurely and milky white tippled over….on to the side of the set…..taking a large chunk with it! Ooops! Sorry JC!

Just as life imitates art, so can art imitate life, and one of the hardest parts of the process for us was that Nick’s mum passed away during the half-term. When Caroline, the Witch, had to sing at Nick, the Baker ‘your mother died, and your father cried’, needless to say there was not a dry eye in the room, and the bonding it did for us was unreal. 1996 After-Party – Caroline Beresford Jones, Jamie Harding, Lara Marshall Not only was Nick fantastic in the show, but he was a real gentleman McBain, Mark Brownlow and brave man in life. Maybe that’s why he is now a fighter pilot!

In those days we had a big shin dig after the final performance, of which I have attached a few pictures. If you look closely Caroline’s nose is wrecked by glue from her fake witches’ hooter! It stayed red for several weeks; oh what we do for the love of theatre!

It was fabulous to go and see this year’s production of ‘Into the Woods’ with Ele, we did have a picture taken with our counterparts afterwards but the lighting was all wrong. However, above is one of Megan Fudge (who I have taught since she was 9!) and I. She was a much better Bakers’ Wife than me – and her costume was amazing! Obviously a bit more money in the budget these days……equally shown by the stunning giants head….I think we had a voice on a mic!

All praise once again to Jonathan Caldicot, he just keeps on pulling them out of the bag! Lara Singing

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We all really enjoyed the production, and send our congratulations to everyone who was concerned with it. It is clearly not an easy show to do, and we thought everyone rose to the occasion quite brilliantly.

Dad’s Army’s Frank Williams (F 44-46), another Ardinian dramatist, on the 2016 production of ‘Into the Woods’, directed for the second time by Jonathan Caldicot.

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CABARET 2016 Chris Parke Saturday March 19th saw the reappearance of the annual Cabaret. The physical strength of the Stewards and the artistic sensibilities of the Friends of Ardingly re-created the Under as a venue of atmosphere and charm. By 7pm it was filled with a glamorous and excited audience, dressed in their best, and seated at large circular tables, their faces illuminated by soft candlelight.

Over the next two and a half hours they were treated to over twenty musical items, with an interval during which food was served and wine and discussion flowed. There were solos, duets, trios, ensemble numbers and also punchy, rich-toned instrumental numbers from the Jazz Band, under the direction of Mr Stephen Smith.

It isn’t fair to single out individuals but the Cabaret can be seen as part of a valedictory process for musically skilled Upper Sixth Formers and the backbone of its roster has always been students in their last year at the school. James Percy and Sam Cutler channelled the essence of bromance in their duet ‘Something Stupid’ and Phaii Tarasansombat sang ‘Officially Missing You’ beautifully. A special salute should be offered to departing veterans of at least two, if not three Cabarets past: Miranda Schaap, Florence Ertl, Anna Elwin, Ellie Haines and the incomparable Will Castle.

Every year great talent departs and the producer is left wondering who can replace such legendary figures, but fortunately the well of talent is strong and younger performers are always rising up to step into big shoes, and there was certainly evidence of this in last Saturday’s line up. A huge element in the success of the evening is the compering duo, and in Zara Shams and Milo Thursfield the event had some of the best presentation it has ever had; they were witty, confident and spontaneous. The Cabaret is a very rewarding event and represents the collective work of a large number of people, exerting their skill and hard work in a wide range of areas. Mention must be made especially of the contribution of Mr Max Kenworthy, Mr Stephen Smith, Mr Julian Hewings, Miss Lucy Sheehan and Sara Rondon, the speedy and proactive stage manager. The producer is massively grateful to them and to everyone else involved and this was indeed one of the best Cabarets of the last twelve years.

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THE GOAL ACHIEVEMENTS…

Born out of a passion for innovation and creativity Ardingly Solar Exhibiting at the McLaren Motor Show aimed to be the first ever European School to compete in the World Working with and alongside Cambridge University Solar Challenge – a biennial race across Australia from Darwin to Adelaide of over 3000km. From high-level electrical programming to Working with Stanford University acquiring financial sponsorship, the project takes students into the Training at nt CADCAM world of industry; driving them to develop a combination of skills independently as they overcome the challenges of building their own Local and national media coverage solar car. With a need for speed, an eye for detail and a taste for style Work experience at McLaren and Pro Drive we wanted to produce a car that doesn’t just race well but looks good too. We also want to inspire younger students around the world to take Working with MIA Electric Cars on projects of global importance, to venture where no student has been before and to break the boundaries of what people tell them is possible! Exhibiting at the South of England Show Entering and winning Big Bang STEM competitions THE RACE – WORLD SOLAR CHALLENGE Winning the “Thales Prize for Coding and Computing” The race took place over some of the world’s most treacherous terrain, Winning the “Pyrotech Award for Design and Technology” and the extreme conditions presented a real challenge to the team. Even so the heat, flies, a trailer fire and kangaroos didn’t stop them, NSEC Regional winners for ‘Electronics and Technology’ and the team crossed the line in Victoria Square, Adelaide, to cheers Exhibiting at the NSEC National Exhibition at the NEC and applause. Head boy at the time Matt Price (C & WB 2011-2016) in Birmingham found himself on national television along the way when he and other members of the team found themselves a part of a BBC mini-documentary that followed the College’s progress across the outback. THE FUTURE The College aren’t finished yet however. Technical glitches along the way still leave some room for improvement and as of Summer 2016, the new Ardingly Solar Team have enjoyed a visit to Riversimple (manufacturers of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles) and a training day at nt Cadcam. Ardingly Solar continues to bring young people into the world of engineering in the most exciting way possible.

Stay up to date via their Twitter – ‘Ardingly Solar’

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41 Much loved member of staff, Gesa Paulfeierborn, stepped down this year after a quarter century’s service to College. As John Witherington’s piece from this year’s Annals suggests, Ardingly won’t be the same without her…

GESA PAULFEIERBORN – SEPTEMBER 1991 John Witherington Gesa began working at Ardingly in September 1991 as its first Marketing and European Coordinator. Typically of James Flecker’s headship, it was both a daring and a controversial appointment. Firstly, it recognized the need for the College to engage in-house professionalism in the understanding of our potential market – for some at the time a step too far towards ‘business’ and too distant from ‘learning’.

Secondly, the visionary promotion of all things European was treated merely as duty. Her contributions went far beyond any job description, with as much scepticism in the College as in the country. Those were gladly encompassing all that makes for creating an ordered, happy, the days of Maastricht, ‘Black Wednesday’, the ERM, and John vibrant, and creative family environment. She had a genuine passion Major’s ‘bastards’. A mirror of our own times. for tutoring, taking great pride in supporting and nurturing those entrusted to her. In loco parentis, she was an extraordinarily generous If Gesa discerned the uphill struggle that lay ahead, she never carer to all in the House, fiercely protective and proud of their allowed it openly to discourage her. Her European credentials were achievements, and always at the heart of her approach were the authentic, attested by her mastery of five languages of which English pupils’ interests and needs. These special qualities made her a great was the fourth! Her marketing skills had been honed in her previous support to her colleagues as well; Housemasters, Housemistresses, job of promoting the market town of Beverley, so it was a while before and Tutors, to whom she was unfailingly loyal and uncomplaining, owe her Yorkshire accent was softened. Gesa deep gratitude for sharing their burdens so unselfishly. Many of her professional relationships with staff and students were formed on Her open and winning ways, her generous foreign fields. As an officer in the CCF, Gesa participated in a number nature and genuine fondness for all people of UK-based camps, but also organized Adventurous Training trips to enabled her quickly to overcome barriers and Bavaria. She accompanied many overseas trips: scientific research in Iceland, scuba diving in Egypt, and skiing in Europe. Most notably she persuade us to be more outward-looking. put her degree in Archaeology to good use by co-leading students on The English for Young Europeans (EYE) scheme had been started the A Level course participating in excavations abroad. She was by James Flecker to provide a term’s experience of an English boarding equally at home with a trowel on a Roman villa in Italy, with pick and school for Sixth Formers from a variety of European countries. Gesa shovel unearthing Jezreel’s prehistory or with suction pumps under developed the programme and took a full part in it; more interest was water excavating Herod’s harbour in Caesarea. generated and some students extended their stay to two or three terms. Despite growing awareness of the potential of this market, the Having accompanied her on a few of these income generated was sporadic and unpredictable. John Franklin took expeditions, I reflect with awe on the range the brave but logical step of introducing the IB, and with the immense educational benefits came also the financial security of the students’ of skills and characteristics Gesa showed: two-year commitment. forward thinking to avoid potential difficulties; calmness under pressure; a ‘feel’ for people of The EYE scheme and Gesa’s positive European influence had softened the ground not only for the fruitful growth of the IB but all nationalities, whether our own students or also for the warm and genuine welcome the College gave and others we met; clarity of thinking and planning; has continued to give its overseas students. and adaptability amidst the frequent changes or unexpected developments. Gesa quickly became a much sought-after tutor, and her tutees found in her not only She is the consummate ambassador, the perfect face of Ardingly abroad, and a model to all of respect and sensitivity towards other someone with whom many could converse cultures. Above all, Gesa is the perfect travelling companion: in their native language but also a genuine, encouraging, thoughtful and caring of others, good-humoured, open-hearted listener with the practical and great fun.

wisdom of one who knew what it was Closest to her heart has been her involvement from the start, under like to be a sojourner in a foreign land. John Franklin, with Ardingly in Kenya. Here she has helped pioneer It was no surprise –except that she was not a member of the teaching new ground in linking the College with the building, development, and staff – that she was appointed as an Assistant HoMM in Woodard, a financial support of schools. Gesa’s training and preparation of the staff post she held on top of her many other duties for twenty years, first to and students to play their part has been second to none, but it is her the boys and then to the girls. genuine open-hearted generosity which sets the tone and has proved such a powerful influence on the giving of so many to this cause. That In House, Joan Gall celebrates that Gesawas a commensurate it continues to flourish and support so generously the education and professional in everything she did, although she never saw her role welfare of so many Kenyan children, is in no small measure to Gesa’s inexhaustible passion for those in need.

42 From her time with Gesa in Kenya, Joan adds that Gesa has left a A third change to Gesa’s job title – Marketing Director – saw the particular mark on Ndogo Primary School, seeing it develop from an growing Development brief being given its own Director and Gesa almost empty plot to a substantia land thriving school. Working with taking responsibility for that most important interface between the OA Harry Vialou Clark and the Kariandusi School Trust, Gesa has College and all its constituents, the College Office team. A fourth change inspired Ardinians to contribute both to the buildings themselves and in her role was to come, yet amidst all the upheavals of new management the provision of resources. Five years ago she initiated a feeding structures, Gesa’s knowledge and experience, covering almost every programme to ensure that every pupil had a cooked meal in the middle aspect College life was unparalleled. Her departure after nearly 25years of the day – vital for the young children’s ability to gain the most out of of dedicated service, unique to her range of talents and contributions, their schooling, especially for those walking many miles to school. Her will be –I suspect with growing awareness – a loss sorely felt. initiative has borne fruit: numbers in the school have doubled and it has brought together parents from different communities. I witnessed Visitors to the College now see a pelican in two modes: self-sacrificially for myself the first lunch served to a girl barely taller than my knees; providing for her young and, with wings spread, about to take flight. It it was an emotional moment. No Ardinian, before or since, can have is hard to think of someone more appropriate than Gesa to personify failed to be moved by the impact of this project and Gesa’s role in it. the sentiments behind both those images. She has given fully of herself It will stay with us always –and that is quite a legacy. in love and generosity to others. She invested heavily in the College and its students, often at the expense of her own family time, wealth, It is for others better qualified to evaluate Gesa’s influence on the and health. At the same time, she is always innovative, forward-looking marketing of the College but to this was added a new dimension to and reaching ever upwards towards fresh challenges. her work when she became Marketing and Development Coordinator .Maintaining good relations with alumni has not always been Gesa has left the College a richer place, not straightforward, but Gesa successfully initiated and ran various OA just for the values of our Christian foundation events such as the Veterans’ Lunch, OA Days, and sporting events, as well as launching an Annual Giving Programme. which she embodied, but also as a beacon of internationalism, lighting the way for an inherently Her hard work and enthusiasm, her organizational inward-looking organization to play its part in skills and wide personal knowledge of OAs ancient the global community in the education of its and modern, native or foreign, made her insight future citizens. a valuable asset which the College will miss. The national book-ends of Gesa’s time at Ardingly have been Responsibility for the Registrar and Admissions heated debates over Europe. By the time these words are published, also became part of her remit and her engaging the UK will have voted on its future. And Gesa may too have decided hers. Wherever her pelican’s wings take her, we wish her and her presence was always to be found at the forefront husband Tim all the joy and fulfilment of fresh opportunities and of recruiting on Open Days and through adventures. To Gesa the whole Ardingly community, present and educational agencies and ‘expos’ overseas. past, owes an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

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140 YEARS OF STEEPO

Those of my generation will (mostly) recoil with horror at the mention of the Steepo, but really, our little run up from nine acre, round the reservoir and up the sheep hill pales in comparison to the Ardingly ‘Steeplechase’ of the 1870’s.

‘‘At 11:30 precisely the hares set off, being allowed a start of twenty minutes. They made straight for the Viaduct, staying only for a brook jump or two, then on to Cuckfield, and then away to Hurst, keeping principally to the roads within sight of Hurst College, when they finished off the first part of the run with a cut across country, not forgetting a good stiff water jump, and reached the pillar-box in an hour and a quarter from the start. After half an hour’s rest they made direct for The same might be said of the Steepo of the 1930’s. ‘Over – or in’, a Friar’s Oak, greatly to the chagrin of most of the hounds, who short film from 1934 (available on www.britishpathe.com) shows boys had anticipated a straight run home, but were sadly mistaken. hurling themselves into a river before scrambling up the steep bank to The course led from Friar’s Oak to Hassocks Gate, where one dash away. by one many of them dropped off to return to Ardingly by More recent Steepos have been the occasion for face paint, cross- train, while a few determined ones, who were not easily dressing and house warfare, perhaps in an attempt to lighten the daunted, kept pluckily on. At Haywards Heath we met several mood of the more serious runners trembling on the starting line. That inhabitants of the Asylum, who evidently thought we must be said I was still surprised when an OA contacted me recently with the mad. Here they were captured by the leading hound.’ This mad idea of a Steepo reunion. I thought – who on earth would want to famous run could not have measured less than twenty miles.’ do that? But the idea has had some good interest, and I’ve warmed to it myself, so keep your eyes peeled for a Steepo reunion 2016, and p.20, The Ardingly I Remember , ed. Nigel Argent. register your interest with the Alumni department!

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Nowadays we know that Cornelius went on to marry and have several children and be a part of his family firm. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the supply of fixtures and fittings for churches was a major London industry. Thomas Pratt & Sons of Covent Garden were known especially as clerical tailors and robe makers although they had a supporting business as general church furnishers.

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A Thomas Pratt & Sons Parian travelling font, circa 1890, of octagonal form moulded with Gothic roundels, black printed mark `Thos. Pratt & Caption here Sons, Church Furnishers, 24 Tavistock St. Strand, London

THE START OF A LONG TRADITION Andrea King, Archivist

On the 22nd June 1849 a boy IN HIS HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE, REGINALD was born who was to become a PERRY TELLS US: very special part of the history of Ardingly College. Cornelius James “SHOREHAM DAYS THE school was opened with no flourish of trumpets, no gathering of political Pratt was born in London at 4, notabilities, and no long speeches about its future. Its birth was unnoticed in Caversham Terrace, Chelsea and the national newspapers, and received the barest mention in the Sussex his parents were Thomas Pratt journals. The story begins on the 12th April, 1858, when a small boy named and Rebecca née Eldridge. Cornelius James Pratt stepped rather apprehensively from the train at New Shoreham station, and looked curiously at the quiet little seaport, so different from the busy London from which his father had brought him. Mr. Pratt, inquiring At that time Thomas was just described as a tailor by profession but later the family was established the way of the porter, set off for Church Street with his son, uncomfortable in as a well-known firm of Clerical Tailors and Church new suit and stiff collar, trotting beside him. At the end of Church Street Mr. Furnishers. Cornelius was the third of four boys in the Pratt knocked at the door of an inconspicuous house with walls of grey flint and family although the youngest child died as an infant. was shown into a little room where sat a young man in the middle twenties who appeared to the inexperienced eye of Cornelius much older than he really was. So, how does Cornelius fit in to school history? The Reverend Frederick Mounteney Dirs Mertens, M.A., Headmaster of St Saviour’s He was the first ever pupil at St Saviour’s School, School, proceeded to enrol the name of the first pupil to come to him from the Shoreham. The original register shows us that he outside world, and, no doubt, after the manner of headmasters, to assure Mr. did not stay long and left at Christmas in 1858. He Pratt that his son could not fail to be happy at Shoreham. After an hour or two was sponsored by the local vicar at St Barnabas, in the town, Mr. Pratt went back to London, leaving a tearful son to face his new Pimlico, where he had been baptised in 1851. This life, and that evening Mr. Mertens took Cornelius up to the Chapel of St. Nicolas was the first purpose-built church to embody the principles of the Oxford Movement and no doubt College on Lancing Hill, where they heard evensong. Cornelius James Pratt left the vicar was acquainted with Nathaniel Woodard no mark upon the history of the school; we do not know how long he stayed, or and his ideals and beliefs. what became of him afterwards, but he is entitled to his place in this history as the first of the many thousands of boys who have passed through the school.”

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ARDINGLY MOTORS Lucy Sheehan (JS, K & WG 2004-2011))

When Mark Keatley-Palmer and I put out a call for all your stories of cars and bikes hidden around the campus we heard from a number of OAs with a lifelong passion for all things motorised. Perhaps it’s ‘in the bricks’ as they say, because Ardingly seems to produce more than its fair share of automotive innovators and racing drivers. Their achievements span a century, from the hazardous early days of high-speed racing to the high-tech world that our Solar Car team have made history in.

As pioneering racing drivers go, very little is known of Walter Clifford Post war material shortages and export difficulties continued to haunt Earp, who attended Ardingly in the 1880s with his brother, Arthur. Allard into the 1950’s, however Sydney finally achieved international Arthur often acted as Walter’s mechanic, though their early partnership acclaim when he won the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally in his Allard P1, was not always a success – both brothers were hospitalised in 1904 narrowly defeating Stirling Moss. Sydney celebrated with a ride down when their car crashed into a wall racing on the Isle of Man. to the College in his cherry red Allard Special.

Early 1906 saw Walter’s first real triumph, when he broke the Sydney continued to compete, even racing against another Old world record for 100 miles distance competing in the Minneapolis Ardinian – Mike Hawthorn – at Le Mans in 1953. Towards the end Automobile Club Trophy in Florida, driving his Napier. Amazingly, Walter of the 1950’s however, Sydney turned his mind towards engineering completed the majority of the race with one wheel on the rim, having drag cars, and in 1961 unveiled the Allard dragster at Brands Hatch, shed a rear tyre at the 35 mile mark. Going from strength to strength, a supercharged Chrysler-powered slingshot which he built in his Walter broke four world records in 1907 at Brooklands circuit in his workshop. After many false starts it broke the record for the fastest 60-h.p Thames car. Past this point almost nothing is known of Walter quarter mile ever achieved - 10.48 seconds, forcing his critics to eat Clifford Earp, however we may remember him as a talented driver and humble pie. He later began producing low-cost kit cars and founded mechanic in a time when motoring was in its infancy and men such the British Drag Racing Association. as him were genuine innovators. Sydney Allard was often scorned during his career for his engineering Sydney Allard attended Ardingly during the 1920s, and commenced daring, but Sydney’s many failures bred a tenacity that allowed him to his racing career in a Morgan aged 19. He quickly progressed to reap the richest rewards in motor racing. competing in speed trails and in 1935 won his class – for unlimited Mike Hawthorn attended Ardingly from 1942-6. His family were non-supercharged sports cars – at the Brighton Speed Trails, driving a motoring enthusiasts, and as a boy Mike’s father Leslie would take him Ford V8. During this time Sydney began building the first ‘Allards’, and to Brooklands, where Sydney Allard won his first race, and where Mike their combination of high torque American V8 engines in a light chassis caught the racing bug. made them an inspiration for Carroll Shelby’s AC Cobra. As the Allard Special was put into production Sydney began competing in hill After an engineering apprenticeship at Dennis Bros of Guildford, Mike climbs, and after crashing and rolling down Ben Nevis in 1937, began racing seriously, winning speed trails in his Riley Ulster Imp. set a record in the Prescott Hill Climb in 1938. Quickly graduating to race in a single-seater Cooper-Bristol T20, a win at Goodwood brought him to the attention of Enzo Ferrari, who offered At the outbreak of WW2 Sydney turned his expertise to fixing army him a contract for 1953. An immensely successful year of podiums vehicles in the perilous conditions of blitz-torn London. Sydney and his and trophies followed, in which Mike won the French Grand Prix team survived several near misses, and after the war petrol rationing in an incredibly close contest dubbed the race of the century. and supply shortage jeopardized the return of the Allard. Sydney persisted however, and in 1949 won the British Hill Climb Championship in 1954 was a different year altogether. Mike was burned badly in a his self-built Steyr-Allard, fitted with a war surplus air-cooled V8 engine. terrible crash at Syracuse and while he recovered in hospital, learned That year Allard cars won the team prize at the Monte Carlo Rally and in of Leslie’s death in a car accident. Leslie had left the family garage to 1951 finished with a heroic 3rd in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Sydney his son, and Mike genuinely considered packing in racing altogether. astonished crowds with his fearless driving when a gearbox failure left him Eventually Mike decided not to renew his contract with Ferrari and in with top gear only and earned him the nickname ‘the hissing madman’. 1955, struck a deal with Jaguar.

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Images from left to right: Walter Clifford Earp, Sydney Allar, Mike Hawthorn, Max Chilton and The Ardingly Solar Car

The next year was extremely difficult for Marussia. At the Japanese Grand Prix Max’s teammate Jules Bianchi suffered a fatal accident The year began with tragedy at Le Mans. An inspired drive secured and sadly died of his injuries. Financial difficulties began to mount Mike lap records and eventual victory, but the day was marred by the and Marussia missed the last three races of the season. most horrific disaster in motoring history, when a collision involving Mike sent Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes into the crowd, killing 84 people. The In 2015 however Max returned to racing, assisting Carlin with their Indy verdict blamed inadequate safety standards, but the day haunted Mike. Lights attempt and finishing a successful season with two podiums and a win, which he dedicated to his karting rival, teammate and friend By 1956 Mike was receiving the recognition he deserved as a Jules Bianchi. world-class talent. A fantastic video that can be viewed online shows Mike driving round Le Mans in his D-Type, talking the viewer through The Ardingly Solar Car Team are the first in Europe to design, build each corner. Two seasons later, in 1958, Mike was crowned World and race a solar-powered vehicle 3,020km across Australia in the Champion in his Ferrari. The win secured Mike’s position as a racing Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. legend, the first British World Champion of F1, but he announced his retirement immediately. 1958 had been one of the most tragic seasons The modified Lotus 7 chassis was fitted in motoring history - the deaths of four drivers including close friend witha custom-built composite shell and 24% and Ferrari teammate Peter Collins had taken their toll. efficient Silicon Photovoltaic solar panels. On Aged just twenty-nine Mike was killed in a road accident on the Hog’s the 23rd October 2015 Henry Hinder and Holly Back in Guildford, mere months into his retirement. He is remembered Hill drove over the finish line finishing 6th out for his fierce talent behind the wheel, for the shock of blond hair that earned him his nickname ‘Snowball’ at Ardingly, and for the white of 13 Cruiser Class entrants beating major bow-tie he raced in. technological institutions.

Max Chilton joined Ardingly in 2000 and began his racing career a Hundreds of supporters, international film crews, friends and family year later karting. Regular podiums allowed Max to graduate to T Car cheered the team into Victoria square, Adelaide. racing, and in 2007 he finished 2nd in the Championship with seven The students worked alongside, and received support from some of wins that season. the industry’s major companies, including DHL, who flew the car out, At 16, he moved up to single-seater racing with the Arena International McLaren, GTR, Elekta, NTCadcam and Lincoln Binns, whose CEO Team in the Formula 3 Series. 2008 saw him move to Hitech Racing, John Binns was the team’s Industry Mentor. Old Ardinian, Henry Hill, with whom he secured second place at Oulton Park. In 2009 Max who was part of the engineering team and drove the car across moved to Carlin and after two podium finishes at Silverstone, won in Australia reflected on the experience… Portugal. He finished the season with another win at Brands Hatch and ‘We built the car primarily in Time24’s workshop in Burgess Hill, and it a 4th overall. Max then began racing for Ocean Racing Technology was great working alongside their mechanics. Along the way I learnt so team full time in a GP2 car and having impressed there, was selected many valuable skills, such as using fibre glass to bind sections of the in 2011 by the Force India F1 Team to take part in their Young Driver car and soldering when we were wiring up electrical systems, such as Test in Abu Dhabi. After a stint back at Carlin, the team gained backing the battery management system and the rear-view camera. Building from the Marussia F1 Team and after a win in Hungary, Marussia the car was definitely one of the most rewarding stages of the project, promoted Max to Reserve Driver. and it was a joy to watch so many people working on their own 2013 saw Max become the latest young driver to enter the Formula 1, sections before we finally fit each piece together. when he secured a full race seat with Marussia. Max achieved a great Driving the Solar Car across Australia was the real highlight though. deal at Marussia, helping the team beat rivals Caterham in the The feeling of driving a machine that I’d helped build on the other side Constructors Championship and securing a World Record with of the world was so rewarding, and one I’ll never forget. There was a the best finishing record (19/19) of a rookie F1 driver. great feeling of camaraderie throughout the race.’

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David Kelsey has written a page a day in his diary for sixty-six years, the first of which were penned at Ardingly in the late 1940s. For the Ardinian he has kindly put together a few snippets from the winter of 1949. They are a fascinating insight into College life during a time of great political turbulence and technological innovation, the rumblings of which were even heard in the quiet halls of Ardingly…

DAVID KELSEY – LENT TERM, 1949 (E 1946-1950)

On January 9th I recorded the 200th day of the Berlin Blockade, whilst on Thursday 20th we had school jam, raspberry, given out, and I listened on ear phones to Gilbert and Sullivan after Lights Out! On the 29th, a Saturday, we had two films in the ‘Under ’ using Race by a canvas. On Sunday 27th March we had Dorm feast down the school’s new £256.00 Projector. These were ‘Plastics’, can any at Collards – smashing time, absolutely wizard! readers recall what the film was all about? The other film was Blythe On the last day of term, Thursday March 31st, we had Dorm plays Spirit, both very good in technicolour. On February 5th, boys skated on in the ‘Under’. It seems that ours was a ruck. I imitated Chemistry Head’s lake, without permission. Monday 7th, ice melted with rain and Master Bas Atkins, and apparently a Thunderflash blew up during hail. Friday February 11th, I reported that there was discontent with the performance! Prefects in the Dorm. However, on Saturday 12th, I wrote that discontent in the Dorm cleared up! Letter writing to home and friends was much in evidence and throughout my time at Ardingly I received letters and food parcels Saturday March 19th, there was a dance in the ‘Under’, sponsored from my Mother, also letters from many female friends! As usual there by the Dancing Club, with a lot of girls being there. Four boys had six was much mention of inter-dormitory and school games; Football, each from Snow for looking through a crack in the Under door! How Hockey, Squash etc. and Sports Day events. What wonderful, times have changed. On Saturday 26th, Cambridge won the Boat happy days they were.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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f you recognise Ianyone in these photos or remember the day they were taken get in touch via lucy.sheehan@ ardingly.com to share 5 your memories.

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LEAVING MEMBERS OF STAFF Extracts from the Annals 2016.

Robert Costin Gwilym Batchelder

I don’t imagine St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican has been the scene of the official Gwilym arrived at Ardingly in September 2009 as a Design Technology teacher. vale for a Director of Music of Ardingly College before 13th December 2015, As an integral member of a small Department. he quickly made his stamp by when we bade farewell to Robert Costin after just over eight years at the College. clearing absolutely everything out of his workshop, mercilessly throwing away As a former cathedral chorister himself, it was appropriate that Robert’s final anything he thought to be waste, and reorganising everything, from the materials appearance as Director should be directing his own choir in the Mother Church and tools to the wall displays, to be just as he wished; there was no doubt that of Western Christendom. he meant business. With experience working in industry, designing and building timber-framed houses, coupled with a Masters degree in Engineering from I first met Robert in June 1985 – his parents lived in my parish and he was Loughborough, it was clear that this fresh-faced young man, frequently mistaken singing in the Choir of Peterborough Cathedral, where I was ordained. Our paths for a Sixth Former when he first started, had real talent. He instantly put his skills have crossed professionally twice since then, and so I have witnessed his rise in to use, helping students to produce beautiful retail-worthy products that they musical prowess from its beginnings. could truly be proud of. In September 2012, Gwilym became Head of Design After school at the King’s School, Peterborough, and Oundle, Robert completed Technology at Ardingly, continuing to work tirelessly to shape and develop the a performer’s course in organ, harpsichord, and piano accompaniment at the Department, its resources, schemes of work, machinery, and so on. Royal Academy of Music, before reading Music as Organ Scholar at Pembroke All those years ago, Gwilym started as a tutor in Toynbee, and it was clear that he had College, Cambridge. After Cambridge he began an ongoing love affair with great pastoral skills alongside his academic work, and this led him to being appointed New Zealand, as Assistant Director of Music at Wellington Cathedral and Interim as the Assistant Housemaster in Hilton in January 2011. It is here that the ‘real’ Gwilym Director of Music at Auckland Cathedral. He returns regularly to New Zealand in can be found, taking time to really get to know the boys and help them to settle into his capacity as recitalist, soloist, and broadcaster, frequently giving recitals also the House and life at Ardingly. He is a superb tutor, knowing everything that his tutees in Australia and Hong Kong. This summer a series of recitals in New Zealand and are involved in, keeping a careful eye on their academic progress, and he does this for Australia will help to launch his latest recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. all the boys in House. They truly value his advice, support, guidance, and the fact that Robert returned from New Zealand in 1996 and moved into schoolmastering, his door is always open, and it is here perhaps that he will be most missed. firstly at Worksop College (another Woodard school) as Assistant Director of Involvement in the sporting side of the College is also a major part of Gwilym’s Music and an assistant housemaster, and then to Bedford School in 2001, in a role, namely coaching Hockey; he was previously the Head of Tennis, and he can similar role, but with a greater emphasis on choral direction and academic music. frequently be found at the swimming pool, as well as running the Steepo race Those who saw him at work in Bedford knew it was only a matter of time before twice in a row every year (once for his own time trial, and the second ‘just for he moved to his own Directorship, and were not surprised when he moved to fun’ and to encourage and support the students). He takes part in the Gold Duke Ardingly for the Michaelmas Term, 2007. of Edinburgh award scheme as a mountain leader, the CCF, and the Christian At Ardingly Robert set about revitalising the Music Department with his great Union, which he now leads. He also has a passion for travel which, combined enthusiasm and determination to get the best out of his pupils and Department, with a desire to help others, led him to be involved in the Ardingly in Africa not least by instigating outreach into the wider community through the highly projects. He has travelled to Kenya to assist in this important work for as long successful concert series, Music@Ardingly, and by professional arrangements as he has been at Ardingly. Being an extremely keen sportsman, he has put his with the renowned vocal ensemble, VOCES 8, and the London Philharmonic passion and talent to good use by completing marathons and triathlons in order Orchestra, as Musicians-in-Residence. VOCES8 continue their connection to fundraise for Kenya, in aid of the Kariandusi School Trust and the Tusk Trust. with the College; this year their summer school will take place here. Outside College life, he regularly participates in both marathons and triathlons, Music@Ardingly wasn’t just about bringing big name artists to perform at the in the UK and abroad, and more often than not finishing amongst the top College; although one can’t downplay the effect of having musicians of the participants. A real moment of pride saw him compete against world champion calibre of Sir James Macmillan, Lord Berkeley, Stephen Hough, Peter Donohoe, triathletes the Brownlee brothers, with great success. In recent years he Julian Lloyd Webber, to name a few; but involving the pupils with these has encouraged students to become involved too, subsequently taking part international stars. We regularly sing one of Sir James’s Mass settings in Chapel, alongside them and helping them to achieve their goals. and Stephen Hough wrote an anthem for the choir, which the Ardingly forces Gwilym leaves Ardingly to be the Design Technology Head of Department at premiered in Westminster Cathedral. Royal Grammar School, Worcester. There are many, many ways in which Gwilym Choral music has always been central to Robert – the Choir has sung regularly will be missed, not only by staff and pupils but also parents too. His contributions in English cathedrals and major churches; St Paul’s in London, Westminster, have been College-wide over the past seven years, and to say that he will leave Southwark, Winchester, Chichester, and St George’s Chapel, Windsor; and an unfillable hole is a gross understatement. We wish him every success in his abroad with memorable tours to Rome, already mentioned, and to Paris and new role, where our loss is most certainly their gain. Northern France. Louissa Pedlingham Robert leaves Ardingly to pursue different facets of his musical career. He is currently completing a Master of Music degree under the renowned Bach Scholar and performer, Professor John Butt, on The Well-Tempered Clavier, to complement his recording; teaching music at St Paul’s Cathedral School; completing his latest recording project; and giving recitals at home and abroad. Few at Ardingly realise, I am sure, just what an accomplished and acclaimed recitalist there is in Robert Costin. His many recordings, as one can see from his Nick Tester website, have won countless plaudits, including a five star review from a national newspaper for his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. We can be nothing but grateful for Robert’s contribution to Ardingly, and wish him every success Nick joined Ardingly from Chigwell School in September 2008, not only as Head for his future. of Football and Head of Boys’ Games, but also Head of Academic PE. In the eight years that followed Nick transformed Boys’ Sport at the College, and he leaves it as a school with a national sporting reputation with national titles in Football, county

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titles in Cricket, Hockey, and Basketball, and a thriving Football academy. Ardingly Nick is an ideas man. He thinks outside the box. He challenges tradition, and Sport, under Nick Tester’s guidance, no longer follows others, but leads the way. believes that Ardingly should make its own path and not follow others. After accompanying Nick on recruitment trips to places like Abu Dhabi and being Nick is the best coach I have ever worked with. His subject knowledge of Football taken for dinner by prospective parents at the Ritz and Emirates Palace hotels, and Cricket in particular is truly outstanding. He delivers his training sessions with you learn that working with Nick means expecting the unexpected. On one of energy, humour, and fantastic attention to detail; the pupils hang off his every word, his many recruitment trips, he was able to convince the Hong Kong National and even the most reluctant pupil can’t help but give 100% by the end of the Cricket team to play Ardingly First XI as part of their warm-up for the ICC World session. Nick delivers his PE lessons with excellent attention to YouTube, but this T20 qualifiers that were being held in England in the summer of 2015. A mixture seems to have worked, and his results at both AS and A2 are tremendous! Nick of our School boys and OAs then had the incredible opportunity of testing has forged links with ISFA Football and Sussex Cricket, and is capable of coaching themselves against an international Cricket team. to the very highest level. As his roles at the College have evolved, Nick has spent a little more time in his office, but his real passion is for coaching, and this is where, One of Nick’s finest moments at Ardingly was raising £10,000 for charity, hosting in my opinion, he is at his best. Many coaches are better with certain age groups. a Bunbury XI vs College XI Cricket match in honour of Mark Lawrence, father of From what I have seen, Nick is equally adept at entertaining B or C team Under three Ardingly pupils, who tragically died a few years ago. Nick is a loyal friend 11s as he is coaching National Football or Cricketers in the First XI. and a spiritual person. He values friendship, and makes time for his friends. I can’t remember the last time Nick went out in an evening and did not offer Nick fought hard in his early years to change the culture of Boys’ Sport at to buy people a drink or dinner. He wants people to be sociable and to enjoy Ardingly. No longer was it acceptable for pupils to go out on Friday nights. Friday themselves, and will always step up when there is chance to help someone in nights became another ‘school night’. Elite coaches were brought in to coach all need. If this means he can have a drink with them, then even better! So many ‘A’ teams. Extra sessions were laid on for anyone who wanted them. Even in his of the pupils keep in touch with Nick as he has done so much for them and the eighth year, Nick still gives up his early mornings and his Sundays to coach. He is best example of how highly regarded he is by the pupils was when he was asked a big fan of sports psychology and is a student of the game, constantly reading to be Godfather to Harry Clark, a recent OA who captained the First XI Cricket the latest literature or talking to elite sportsmen to gauge their views on how sport team and has now gone on to become a pilot for EasyJet. is evolving, and which training methods work the best. Elite players were set up on Strength and Conditioning programmes in the gym. New kit was purchased so Nick is not just a sportsman by any stretch of the imagination. Being a sociable the boys looked the part. Slowly but surely, the results improved, as the standards person who makes an impression on everyone he meets, Nick has contacts in of training and preparation reached the levels that Nick demanded. all walks of life, and it is testament to how highly regarded he is by his friends that he can call in favours, such as inviting the internationally acclaimed West Nick has never been afraid to ruffle feathers, play the bad cop or make difficult End percussion group Stomp, and The Chase and Coronation Street star, decisions. He is incredibly articulate and, for a small man, can be surprisingly Bradley Walsh, to perform at our ArtsFest in recent years. You get the impression intimidating. Teaching young people about the importance of sacrifice in order to sometimes that Nick knows everyone, but that is because he has time for everyone. fulfil your potential is no mean feat, but Nick made it his mission to bring out the best in all of his pupils. It is easy to assume that recent successes have been the He has sung in the staff choir, set up a Close Harmony group, and organised norm, but Ardingly Sport is where it is due to a project that Nick was instrumental Mertens House Singing virtually every year. He has been to Edinburgh with in building eight years ago. This was hard, hard work. the Drama students, helping them perform at the Fringe Festival. As Assistant Housemaster of Mertens House for five years, he brought music to the House The culmination of all the years of hard work came at MK Dons Stadium in March through the Common Room piano and karaoke nights. He is a former choral 2015, as Ardingly won the Boodles Independent Schools (ISFA) Cup for the first scholar, singing tenor at Canterbury Cathedral, who was once offered a job in a time since the 1990s. Starting the game as massive underdogs, Ardingly’s 4–1 bar in Barbados having serenaded the waitress with his favourite song – Hello by win over Hampton, a school with over 1000 boys to choose from, was a special Lionel Ritchie. In his previous school, Nick taught both Drama and Music. Nick is effort from a squad Nick had helped to build over many years. Half the school not a larger than life person, but is most certainly a larger than life character. As came to watch and, for many, it was the first time they saw just how technically Matt Curran, the HoMM of Mertens explained, Nick helped run Mertens through gifted Ardingly’s players had become, and gave them genuine role models to energy, enthusiasm, and his sheer personality. look up to. Ardingly boys play with no arrogance, and with the emphasis always on the team. That is a culture that Nick fought so hard to engender. It soon became clear after one year at Ardingly that Nick’s strengths were not suited to running the PE department and organising schemes of work. He left Having watched the game, it comes as no surprise that Ardingly are the most his Head of Academic PE role and became more involved in the recruitment of represented school for National ISFA players over the past five years. A small pupils into the College. Running coaching festivals, visiting local Prep Schools, number have also been offered professional contracts or been given scholarships hosting dinners for Directors of Sport at local Prep schools, and going to places to big colleges in the United States. Two Ardingly Cricketers in recent years (Abi like Germany and the UAE on recruitment trips became part of a fascinating Sakande and Alex Gregory) have gone on to represent their country at Under job description for Nick. He is someone that needs a new challenge to keep 19 level. A job that Nick has learned to take on during his time at Ardingly is that him motivated, and the recruitment and the founding of the Football Academy of a would-be agent, such is the plethora of calls and e-mails he receives about gave him this. Over the years, Nick has been directly responsible for bringing in his players! The ISFA Cup was retained in 2016, and the Elgin Southern League approximately fifty boys and girls into the College. was also won during both seasons making Ardingly the only school to achieve the prestigious ‘double-double’, winning the League and Cup in two consecutive This variety of skills that Nick possesses, and the abundance of contacts that he seasons. Add to this the National 6-a-side title in 2013 and the ISFA Under 15 has built up over the years, help to explain why he is taking some time out from title in 2014, and Nick has overseen a golden era in Ardingly Football. the teaching profession to set up his own company, Performance Recruitment Consultancy (PRC) Elite. He has already signed up numerous experienced and A couple of years ago, Nick set up an élite Football programme. Many players elite speakers to speak at conferences on how to achieve peak performance, were struggling to balance their Football and work commitments, due to the specialising in both sport and business. He will continue to recruit for schools amount of time they spent outside school at local Football clubs. The elite and will offer consultancy to schools and businesses on the ways forward in programme was Nick’s solution. It enables Ardingly to dictate when the boys play achieving success. This is an exciting new venture for Nick, and a very brave their Football while, importantly, not missing academic lessons. Other schools one. He is taking a step into the relative unknown and, as always, creating his are now using Ardingly as an example of how it is done. Nick is a fantastic own path rather than following others. sports coach but, above all, he is an educationalist. He is most proud, not of the trophies, but of the numbers of sportsmen and women who have achieved top Nick, in many ways, is the ideal schoolmaster. He is multi-talented and prepared GCSE or A Level results. This sets up the pupils for life as they have been given to constantly go beyond the call of duty for the good of the students. He has a the best of both worlds: a top sporting and academic education. A sponsorship relentless drive to be successful and maximise talent, and he constantly inspires deal with Ethos College, a recruitment company for students to study and play pupils and work colleagues to do the same. For a man who can’t swim, ride a sport at university in the United States, has now been set up. Four boys have bike, or drive a car, he truly is unique. There is only one Nick Tester. been offered scholarships into the USA in the past two years. Education and James Stedman Sport are now seamlessly linked at Ardingly, as they should be.

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LEAVING MEMBERS OF STAFF (Continued) Extracts from the Annals 2016.

Finals, with the highlight undoubtedly being leading her Under 16 girls’ team to the National Finals as Regional Champions in 2015. Kate is a master in Sports Psychology, and loves to inspire the players with motivational YouTube videos and pep talks, always taking time to give advice to every single player in the Max Kenworthy squad. Kate fosters a sense of camaraderie and togetherness, with her teams not just playing to win for themselves but also to win for Kate. This was the first time Ardingly have reached a National Finals since the 1990s, and Kate was determined to make the most of it. The brand new playing kit – hoodies and Max joined Ardingly in September 2009 as a Visiting Teacher of Piano. The the new ‘wizard’ like long, warm, bench jackets – may well have stretched the departure of Darren Jameson at the end of that year left vacant the position of budget, but it made these National Finals (in which Ardingly came in the top six in Assistant Director of Music. Max was the successful candidate, and started in the country) into a memorable experience that all those girls will never forget. this new role from September 2010. Over the last six years, Max has contributed The sense of love and appreciation that the pupils have for Kate has been best seen enormously to the Music Department, in addition to being a tutor in Godwin at the end of season Hockey presentations. Kate is always showered with thank- Hall. He has taught GCSE, A Level, and IB, played the organ regularly for Senior you gifts that go way beyond the norm, and it was fitting that she received a ‘guard and Prep School Chapel services and rehearsals, organised all the Senior of honour’ from her Under 14A Boys’ Hockey team as she walked off the astro as School informal concerts, directed the orchestra, been the Musical Director for an Ardingly coach for the last time at St George’s College, Weybridge, in March. two very successful shows (My Fair Lady and Into the Woods), and supported She has been part of a ‘golden era’ for Ardingly Sport, and has loved it. She has not the Director of Music loyally, patiently, and professionally in the day-to-day just been a part of it, but an integral reason as to why Ardingly Hockey has thrived, running of the Department. Max has a refreshingly unpretentious, no nonsense and her rapport with the girls in the House and with her pupils in the classroom has approach to work, no doubt the result of being a born and bred Yorkshireman. undoubtedly helped her bring out the best in them on the sports field. This, combined with the resilience gained from having survived schooling at Bradford Grammar as a musician, has allowed him to become a most effective Kate once passed on a piece of advice to Louise Porter, her Assistant schoolmaster; his pupils, particularly at GCSE and above, like and respect him Housemistress, saying ‘one door closes, another one opens. This is the in equal measure. Following the departure of Robert Costin, Max was for one way of the universe’. Well, another door has opened, and Kate moves on to term acting Director of Music, prior to the arrival of Richard Stafford. He clearly St Edward’s, Oxford, where she will undoubtedly thrive in her role there as enjoyed and relished the extra responsibility, and it seemed fitting that during this Housemistress. Ardingly will miss her passion, her winning mentality, and her time, under his direction, the combined Senior and Prep Choirs sang Evensong ability to contribute in so many different ways to a busy boarding school. I have in St Paul’s Cathedral where he had been a chorister as a boy. Having had his not met many work colleagues who have the same relentless drive and ambition ambition stirred, Max has been looking to lead a department on a permanent to achieve their goals as Kate has. She has that special gift of bringing out the basis, and it was no surprise when he was appointed Director of Music of the best in people, and I feel privileged to have worked with her. We wish her and Leys School in Cambridge from September 2016. As a distinguished graduate her family all the best. She will be sorely missed. of Oxford University, Max may find the intellectual life in Cambridge not quite up to his exacting standards, but at least its location will leave him ideally placed James Stedman for trips up to Huddersfield, and place Laura, his wife, in reasonable proximity of London and the south. Max will be missed by colleagues and pupils alike, and we wish him every success in the future.

Stephen Smith Phillip Stapleton

The latter stages of 2010 saw a housemaster from Charterhouse apply for the job Kate Newson of Ardingly College’s Deputy Headmaster. We immediately saw in Phil the qualities of a charismatic leader and knew he would be a perfect fit for Ardingly. We would also quickly learn of Phil’s inherent ‘active’ side when he came to visit in early 2011 and, rather than driving back to Charterhouse with his notes and textbooks, Kate joined Ardingly from Christ’s Hospital in the Trinity Term of 2011, as he ran back. This certainly laid the foundations of the Phil we know today. Housemistress of Aberdeen and PE teacher. As a former Head of Academic PE, Kate’s experience was invaluable to the Department, and she took on the acting Phil’s youthful exuberance belied his years of experience, and we are most HoD role during Alex Hill’s maternity leave a couple of years ago. Her results at fortunate to have had Phil as second in command at the College. Having A Level were always excellent. Kate is a born winner. Her energetic and inspiring graduated from Durham in Biochemistry a number of years ago, it is noteworthy leadership has seen Aberdeen win House Music competitions, academic cups, that Phil has more letters after his name than any other member of the academic and sporting cups, and transformed a House which had only eight boarders in staff. Taken from the School Calendar: Mr P R Stapleton BSc (Durham), MA Ed it in 2011 to the 25 that it has now. She cares about people and always makes (Open) MBA (Cardiff), MRSC (Member of the Royal Society of Chemists). time for them, and this is what has made her such a great Housemistress. There Phil quickly established himself as the true professional we all now know him is also a steely side to Kate, and she sets high expectations of her students. to be; everything he did had the Phil touch of proficiency, competence and There have been some emotional moments along the way, as is the nature of composure, and always with a sympathetic and knowing smile. It was once the job, and Kate has been indebted to the loving support of her husband, Mark, said that ‘a leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or and her two sons, George and William. Both boys have thrived at Ardingly, and improves the system they live under’, and Phil has done just that during his time we are not just losing a brilliant teacher but a brilliant family as well. as Deputy Headmaster. Most notably, he has successfully guided the College Despite the 24-hour commitment that being a HoMM entails, Kate has thrown and its staff through the 2011 ISI Inspection as well as two Boarding Inspections, herself into the sporting life of the College with incredible success. She is a the most recent being last year. He has led and supported the HoMMs in their fantastic sportswoman in her own right, starring in Staff Hockey matches (Kate roles, always being on call 24/7 as a listening ear or for guidance with whatever was a former England Mixed and England Junior international) and twice winning emergency might crop up. His calm demeanour and quick thinking have been the Staff mixed doubles Tennis competition! As well as coaching Tennis in the appreciated by the HoMMs in many an instance. Most recently he has been Trinity Term, she has coached a boys’ or girls’ A team in Hockey for the past involved with the new Shape of the Day changes and arrangements, putting in a five years, winning several County titles, and attending numerous Regional tremendous amount of thought to further improve the day-to-day system that we

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live under at Ardingly. Some might argue, however, that his real baby throughout We will remember her as our terrifyingly efficient, wonderfully exuberant, highly these last few years has been the lunch queue. Always one to put others first skilled colleague but, more importantly, our joyful and smiling friend. Team and find time to help and support his pupils and colleagues, Phil has shown real Stapleton leave with our very best wishes, our admiration, and our love. leadership whilst at Ardingly, and for that we are all grateful. A man of faith, this Nicola Burns and Rachael Utting has played an important role in Phil’s life, and no doubt aids him with some of the more difficult decisions he has to make.

Phil is never one to shy away from a challenge. While many a person would use their ‘satisfactory’ school holidays for lazing by a beach or ambling through the countryside in order to recuperate, Phil finds pleasure in pushing himself to the limit Alastair Wood and seeing just how far his ‘Duracell batteries’ will take him. Before he arrived, in 2007, Phil thought of a wonderful idea to run three marathons in one year: the North Pole Marathon, the Everest Marathon, and the Marathon de Sable. Whilst he was taking part in the Everest marathon, Jules was preparing for her own marathon, Having cut his teeth at Charterhouse School, Alastair joined Ardingly College with Luke (their first child) due five days later! Since becoming Deputy Head, Phil in 2011 with a wealth of knowledge and ability which were more than matched has continued with these crazy ideas and raised substantial sums of money for by his enthusiasm. In his time here at College, Alastair simply could not have charity whilst doing so. He has run the Grand Union Canal (known as ‘the longest, given any more than he has. Whilst his contributions to the broader aspects of toughest, non-stop running race’), trekked the Three Peaks Challenge, cycled John our Community have been myriad and full, first and foremost I would hope that O’Groats to Land’s End (with Jules, the kids and a sick bug in the campervan), and Alastair’s presence as a committed and genuinely outstanding teacher within has recently completed the London to Brighton (run of course, not cycled). His most our Department be noted and commended. His impact has been great, both challenging was perhaps the Devizes to London, with temperatures reaching –5o C on our students and on his fellow teachers, for whom his willingness to help has at night and impending frost bite not helped by the many falls into the Thames. The been found invaluable. On a personal note, as a new teacher starting a year after Alzheimer’s Society, Children’s Hospice in Guildford, and a Christian Family Charity Alastair, my own professional development has relied heavily upon his aid and have been but a few charities to benefit from his endeavours. example. In class, Alastair is quite simply beloved: the tears shed by some of more longstanding students stand as testament to this fact. He has a broad range His influence and enthusiasm towards life at the College, whether in the of pedagogical skill, but his métier is most assuredly Middle School teaching, Chemistry lab, on the reservoir, running around the College, or a making loud where our recent departmental boom in student numbers is in no small part due noises in the Music School with his double bass, Phil has become integral to the to both his charisma and his teaching proficiency. Outside the classroom, he has School and is a true Ardinian in every aspect. We hear that West Buckland has committed countless hours to the development of sport here at Ardingly, most a souped up version of Steepo, known as ‘the Exmoor’; this school is not only recognisably as the Hockey coach of the year two years running, for his efforts with perfect for Phil’s extra-curricular interests, but his professional manner will make the U15 Girls’ Hockey, but also with notable contributions to Cricket and Tennis. him the perfect leader, and they are lucky to have acquired him as Headmaster. Leading trips to The Gambia as part of Ardingly’s charitable efforts in Africa, leading West Buckland has seen in Phil what we already know to be true, so our loss in Rhodes House, and being a prominent member of the Christian Union, Alastair is most certainly their gain. We will miss his professional, efficient, yet calming has worked tirelessly in service to the spiritual cohesion and advancement of the nature, but mostly his smile and friendship. community. In my opinion, his lasting testimony will not be his impact on College structures, but rather, and more importantly, the transformative and catalytic effect he will have had on countless students and staff fortunate enough to have been exposed to his personal warmth and professional excellence.

Justin Laleh Jules Stapleton

Jim Carrey once said, ‘behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes’, and Dr Jules Stapleton has rolled her eyes many times. Anyone who is introduced to Jules immediately notices the abundance of energy she exudes, Simon Stubbs which is just as well, since being married to the Deputy Headmaster, being mum to three energetic children, working as a part-time Mathematics teacher, singing, and playing Netball for her own team are just some of the things that have taken It is with great sadness that the English Department bids farewell this year to up a little bit of her time and energy whilst being here at Ardingly. Simon Stubbs, who has been a stalwart member of the team and an inspiration Jules arrived in 2011 as the Deputy Headmaster’s wife, heavily pregnant and with to his students over the last two years. Simon has taught all years in the senior two young children by her side. Having had a successful career in Statistics and school, including both IB and A level, and is possibly the only English teacher in taken time out to raise her family, Jules decided to come back to work once Alfie the world who could encourage a group of Remove students to love Flaubert as was old enough. It didn’t take us long to realise that she needed to play a more much as he does. He has contributed a great deal to life within the Department integral part in College life. and beyond: he has been responsible for running the Opera Society, including taking a number of extremely successful trips to the Royal Opera House, Covent Jules joined the Netball coaching staff in 2012 and very quickly became a much-valued Garden. His academic responsibility outside lessons has focused on gearing member of the teaching staff. During a Sports inspection, it quickly became known students up for life after the Sixth Form at SAT Society, and he has been able that she possessed the best lesson plans for any Netball training drills known to to put his love of the outdoors to good use by being a key member of the Duke mankind. Her first team were the Firsts, then the 16A, then 15A and finally the Fourths of Edinburgh team. Simon joined the College from Sweden, where he had been – although it may seem she has suffered ‘demotion’ in terms of team leadership, it is living and working for a couple of years, perfecting his Swedish and falling in love more a case of where she was needed to improve skills… and improve they did. with the lifestyle and culture of Stockholm. His departure sees him following in Her natural talents as a teacher were now abundantly evident, so the the footsteps of Catherine Ward all the way to Lisbon, where he will be teaching Mathematics Department wasted no time in recruiting Jules. Having a statistical at St Julian’s School. We are sure he will have just as much fun in Portugal as he guru on ‘Team Maths’ from 2013 was an instant hit, with staff and students. She did in Sweden: he is already planning to spend lots of time surfing and walking, has been such a great teacher and mentor to students of all ages – Dr S really is as well as learning Portuguese. Good luck Simon; you will be missed. someone we all have become quite reliant on. Markus Klinge

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TRIBUTES

DAVID GIBBS 1947-2016 (THOUGHTS) ON SILENCE Dear Teardrop Silence kiss me as a breath of wind a cheek, From Jim Sloane’s Memorial Service Tribute to David Gibbs For here in a bed’s confine your sensuous calm is mine. It is a great honour to stand here and to speak about David. Gentle swaying silence, was it you I feared in earlier years? I only knew him for about seven years and maybe only saw him four or five times Was it you who cast demons of molten lead into the mould of mind? a year and then normally in meetings. Yet I felt I had known him forever and was in For now, as I wrestle with my deepening youth, as I watch my childhood daily contact with him, such was his impact on me. innocence float away I here to represent Ardingly College, which was a key part of his life. Superfluous as a summer’s cloud, I need you. Some basic facts. He was a pupil at Ardingly during the 1960s and appreciated For you are beauty’s sad dimension. being taught by some outstanding teachers as well playing sport, particularly Now the choice of love flirting with my passive lips, hockey and cricket, captaining the 1st XI in 1965. Dripping drops of Christ’s rich blood for my redemption. Whilst always very active as an Old Ardinian, David returned to the College as a Governor in 2000, a position he retained until his sad death. He served as Chair Now a flower in eternal bloom, may I pluck you? of the College’s Education Committee for many years and we all greatly valued his And bear you to my breast where you may rest while I sing your praise insight and common sense approach. In the quiet delightful haze of a summer’s afternoon. In 2008, to mark the College’s 150th anniversary, David wrote “A School with a View”, cementing his own place as part of the College’s history. He also wrote the biography of Nathaniel Woodard. MICHAEL D PALMER (JS AND A 1942-52) It seems that if you get David’s help and support, you also get a book. Not a bad deal. Tony Palmer writes to tell us of his younger brother’s death on On a personal level, I first met him when I became a governor at Ardingly. I think he was September 8th 2015. the first person to come and introduce himself when I turned up for my first meeting. Michael had a distinguished career at Ardingly, culminating in his I have always been rather uncomfortable around headmasters due to a rather appointment as Head Boy. chequered school life and when David said he was an ex headmaster, my mind went back immediately forty years to meetings in or rather summonses to the He was a keen sportsman, being Captain of both Athletics and Hockey; a good headmaster’s office. But this was a very different headmaster. He put me at my musician, being a founder member of the Mertens’ brass band, and also an ease and was really interested in me. I was starting to see what must have made academic. He gained an Abbott Scholarship to St Edmund Hall, Oxford which he him such a wonderful teacher and indeed headmaster. took up after being in the Royal Engineers during his National Service. However, I was very green and quite naïve. David spotted that a mile away and He graduated from Oxford with a degree in Modern History and this lead to a took time to introduce me to the intricacies of being a governor. I then became career in teaching with an eventual Headship at De Burgh School at Tadworth. the chairman and again David was there to guide me and support me. We had a He was also a Lay Reader and an active church member. He leaves his wife, number of chats that helped me work out what my role really was. In meetings, he Margaret, three children and eleven grandchildren. played an active role in being the friendly critic. However, I knew I was in trouble when David would start to furrow his brow, looks pensive, go quiet and then say “If I may, Mr Chairman.” No ‘Jim’ but a very formal ‘Mr Chairman’. Then would JOHN BALDWIN LANDER (B & G 1942-46) come the question that you could not easily answer, the one you wished you John Lander, who was born in 1929, died in December 2015 after a long had thought of and the one that caught everyone’s attention. fight with pancreatic cancer. Over the years, I started to read the signs of the furrowed brow, the clasping of hands which were the early warning signs so at least I was prepared. But He was a keen Veteran OA and greatly enjoyed the lunches that he used of course he was being exactly what we all wanted him to be – completely to come to, with much reminiscing about the Spartan war years of his time committed to the College and only with its best interest at heart. Not only did he at Ardingly. He had a career in horticulture and this culminated in him being ask the right question at the right time but he had a prodigious memory or more awarded the Order of the Hop for his services to English Hop Growers. John was precisely a prodigious filing system. He must have been the king of hoarders. a keen public servant, being a parish and district councillor for many years and the first Leader of his local Liberal Councillors. He was also an election agent for I have no idea what the house must have been like but he seemed to throw two Liberal candidates. He is greatly missed. nothing away. He used to bring out his notes from a council meeting in 2001. When we were interviewing for a new head, he had all his interview notes from the previous head’s interview. Not only that, oh no. He had taught our present head, DEBBIE MEDLICOTT 1959-2015 Ben Figgis at Sherborne. In the interview process David turned to Ben and asked how he would deal with a boy of some talent who was not getting the grades that We were sorry to hear of the death of Debbie Medlicott, who passed away he should have been getting. Ben answered as best he could only to find that the in December 2015. boy in question was Ben himself. David had found his marking book from many Debbie was a keen horsewoman and a devoted mother with a passion for years previously and had checked every one of Ben’s grades. His life and the lives learning. She was also a prolific fundraiser for the RDA, BHF, local primary schools of many others were in those notes and marking books. Why would you throw and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. We send our sincerest condolences to her them away - particularly if they could be put to such good use? husband, William, and children Tom (A 2007-14) and Alex (JS 2009-12). I managed to speak to David as he neared the end of his life. He said he had achieved all and more than he ever expected and that he was surrounded by a wonderful family. It says a lot of the man, that he was happy to speak to me and CLIVE IZARD MBE 1919-2016 that he could accept his fate with such grace. Clive Izard was a true man of Ardingly, having been brought up in the village David was kind and gentle. He was on this earth to help others, to guide them, be and spending most of his life there. they young school boys and girls or naïve chairman or great institutions. He never criticised but questioned and probed to test one’s own thinking and the robustness He spent the vast majority of his time serving the community as parish clerk, of it. He knew what he thought was right but he never imposed that view. councillor, JP, and Secretary and Treasurer to the Hapstead Hall as well as other tasks. He is remembered at Ardingly College for his eight years of service He was a great servant to Ardingly and to Woodard. In his memory, we as Assistant to the then Bursar. His expert knowledge of the village was much have introduced a new prize for academic and sporting achievement. More appreciated in that role. He retired in 1983 and was much missed. We send our substantially we have named our new all-weather pitch after him and which condolences to his son John and family. Philippa graciously opened recently. It will serve as a reminder that in life you come across a few individuals who touch the lives of thousands for the greater good. David was just such a man. JOHN ALAN PERKINS 1931-2016 Much loved husband, Dad of two and Grandad of three, John took his MARTIN J P WRENCH (C 1965-70) last walk to heaven in March after a short illness. Martin’s mother, Dorothy, has written to tell us the sad news of his death in He attended Ardingly College from 1943 between the ages of 11 and 15 and the ethos of Ardingly had a profound effect on him as he continued to forge January last year from a brain tumour. True to the ethos of Ardingly, Martin a successful business career. Whilst at Ardingly he met his best friend, Dick devoted his life to helping others. Durham, and the bond between them led to a lifetime friendship. Exceptionally Having been a Social Worker immediately after university he then trained as proud of the College he always took a keen interest in events via the magazine. a Psychotherapist and worked at Smallfields Hospital, Tooting. We send our Always smiling and with a cheery word for everyone he also loved fishing and condolences to Dorothy and Martin’s wife and children. Martin had several poems leisurely walks, although his happiest times were with his devoted family. published in the Annals during his time at Ardingly. Here is one of them. REST IN PEACE DAD, we miss you.

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TRIBUTES

PETER THOMPSON 1968-2015 (WARREN In 1965 Jim met his future wife, Olga, and a few years later found himself in Sussex. Having played cricket in Ardingly and Hosted Keynes with the RAF, Jim remembered 1982-1986) the College and joined as an over qualified technician and stand-by teacher. He stayed for eighteen years and became a much loved member of the staff room. Jacqueline Southgate (nee Thompson) (Warren 1980-1982) Jim loved wildlife, the countryside and music, and he is remembered best ‘in a I remember Peter starting Shell as a quiet, shy, blonde thirteen year old, nice pub with a group of nice people, his contentedness written on his face.’ having spent five years at Brambletye Prep school in a somewhat regimented boarding system compared to the more relaxed environment of Ardingly. NICHOLAS J V REYNOLDS (E 1960-1964) At that time I was in the Sixth Form in the early years of female admission to the College, so perhaps Peter was luckier than some of his peers as he was known Nicholas Reynolds was born in 1947 and came to Ardingly in 1960 where to a number of the prefects and wasn’t subject to quite so many “wingers” ! he was in Rhodes (E) under Mr Ralph del Strother. His elder brother Paul was Peter’s love of Football, Rugby and Cricket were nurtured as an eight year old a year ahead, also in Rhodes House. at Brambletye but was able to flourish at Ardingly and by the time that he left Their father was a colonial officer in Northern Nigeria and they flew out there for several he had played for all of the College 1st teams becoming captain of the 1st XI summer holidays, which probably whetted Nick’s enthusiasm for travel. He undertook football team after Robin Smith had to step down from the team following an several epic journeys as a student and young man. He went to the US, hitchhiking up injury. Peter was also head of house during Graham Dawtrey’s first year as to Alaska and later right up East Africa from South Africa, then to Brazil and up into the housemaster of Warren. US again, usually hitchhiking or traveling by bus. Once he was away for two years. Peter was an enthusiastic and successful member of the CCF and had initially He had a good academic record at Ardingly and went on to gain an Exhibition wanted to follow a career in the Army but after a spontaneous interview for at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge to study history. He took a number of posts a position with a Lloyd’s of London syndicate and the offer of a job, Peter in England teaching history before training as a maths teacher, a move he never looked back and spent the next twenty nine years combining his love of never regretted. In due course, the lure of foreign travel proved too great and in sport with a very successful career as a respected Sports Personal Accident 1979 he got a job as a maths teacher at an international school in Mexico City, Underwriter, latterly at Beazley syndicate at Lloyd’s. Peter was lucky in some Greengates. He stayed there until 2005, teaching the International Baccalaureate respects to be involved with and insuring so many top sportsmen, some of and becoming head of the Mathematics Department. It was a life he loved and whom became friends and attended his funeral. the long holidays gave him ample opportunity for more travel. He had the ability Peter had continued to play football after leaving school until a serious leg to sleep for hours on long distance flights. He had friends, relatives and contacts fracture meant that he had to transfer his energy and enthusiasm to other all round the world. Families whose sons and daughters he had taught in Mexico pursuits such as cycling. He completed many challenges including the London were always eager for him to stay with them in their home countries. to Paris ride raising thousands of pounds for charities and particularly Help for Although he never married (he nearly did once but it didn’t work out) he was Heroes, an organisation that he continually supported and admired. like the fictional Mr Chips - the teacher who remarked that he had “thousands A lover of life, hard working and conscientious, he travelled the world. His of children.” The emails, Facebook messages and letters which poured out in sociable character made him highly entertaining and was always the centre of gratitude after Nick’s death were proof of the affection and regard in which he attention at any party and yet he was a great family man, happy being at home was held by his students. or taking holidays with his wife Emma and daughters Lillie and Rose. Sadly in 2004 he began to develop early or young-onset Alzheimer’s Disease at Peter was diagnosed with Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of soft tissue the age of 57. In 2005 he returned to the UK and eventually had to be moved to and bone cancer in September 2014 following an unsuccessful hip replacement a care home in Somerset where he died in November 2015. operation. Not only did he have to deal with this news but because the cancer had spread to his pelvis he was faced with the news that he required the amputation of his left leg. Devastating for anyone but for a fit, sporty, energetic WILLIAM G P GIBBS (JS & C 1957-62) young man this was a heart breaking “double whammy” as we called it. We were very sad to hear from his wife, Judith, of the death of William Gibbs Unfortunately the amputation and several rounds of chemotherapy couldn’t halt the spread of the cancer and Peter died a year after receiving the diagnosis. in January this year. During that year Peter never complained or gave up hope and I know that there was He was a keen sportsman while at school, enjoying fencing and golf, and later a possibility of him not being able to continue with his work but he had already looked became a dedicated member of the OA Golf Society. This year in May the match into different prosthetics and adapted bike specialists in order to get back some of Old Ardinians against the School were competing in the inaugural match for quality of life. However his one hope was just to have a bit more time with “his girls”. the William Gibbs Trophy presented by his family. “Bill” Gibbs had played with, organised and actively encouraged all aspects of Ardinian golf for almost 50 As his older sister this has been the hardest thing that I have ever had to write but years. The crystal trophy is mounted on a hand turned base made using selected I wanted to pay tribute to him and say firstly what an amazing, kind, selfless and timber from a walnut tree that once stood in the Headmaster’s Garden at Ardingly inspirational person my brother had become. I believe that this had started from College and which was felled by a storm in the mid-1970s. his time at Ardingly and the lifelong friendships that he made during his school years. So many of his friends were at both his funeral and London memorial service and especially his two best friends Chris Voller and Chris Collins which CHARLES MARTIN RICHER (C 1942-1945) was a great comfort to the family and particularly my parents who had known a lot of Peter’s friends as young boys. There is a special bond formed amongst Charles Martin Richer died peacefully after a long illness on 29th December Ardinians which I have seen with my daughter and son who have recently left 2016 at the Hospice in the Weald, his family were with him. Ardingly and I am sure that Peter’s daughters, Lillie in Remove and Rose coming He was an honourable man beloved by his wife June, daughters Caroline and into Shell in 2017, will also make such good and lifelong friendships. Henrietta and son Charles Jeremy.

JIM MARSDEN 1924-2016 ALAN LOVERING (A 1935-42) Jim was born into a coal-mining community of Mexborough, now South Alan’s wife, Mary, writes to tell us of his death in July, aged 91. Yorkshire, where poverty was acute and widespread. The fourth of five He was an enthusiastic sportsman in his time at Ardingly with mentions in the children he went to work when he was a boy, herding and milking cows. Annals of his skill in Football, Cricket and Shooting, and he was commended as He passed his 11-plus entrance for grammar school, and then at 14 moved a keen and popular Prefect. He kept in touch with the OA Society throughout his south to become an RAF apprentice. long life and had retired to Devon. He was involved in many charitable activities and will be much missed. When war broke out, Jim was sent north again to study mechanical engineering at Bradford University, before he was commissioned at age 19 as an RAF officer in 1944 to help with the D-Day effort. As the war progressed Jim served in ANTHONY NOEL PALMER (D 1942-47) France, Belgium and Germany as an engineer to a Spitfire squadron, before he was sent behind enemy lines in civilian clothing to rescue parts from a We have just heard of the death in March of A N Palmer, brother of M D new model of Spitfire that had been shot down. Palmer (A 1942-52). Jim’s post-war career was extensive, spending the late 1940s on the Indian Anthony was a Chartered Accountant and a keen supporter of the OA Society, being subcontinent. He was on the staff of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of the Hon. Auditor for many years. We send our condolences to his wife and family. India, was present at Ghandi’s funeral and got to know Nehru, the first post- independence prime minister of India. In the 1950s, in Iran, he was involved in Cold War espionage, an escapade we will never hear about, as it came under the Official Secrets Act. In later years Jim helped develop the Javelin jet aircraft and even investigated UFO sightings!

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