BEDALES ASSOCIATION & OLD BEDALIAN NEWSLETTER 2019 The Lavenham Press, Water Street, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 9RN CONTENTS WELCOME 2 HEAD’S REFLECTIONS ON 2018 3 OB EVENTS – REVIEW OF 2018 4 STONER CRICKET CLUB 9 UPCOMING REUNIONS 11 A YEAR AT BEDALES 12 GLOBAL AWARENESS 16 PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE FOR BEDALIANS 17 THE CHANGING FACE OF BEDALES 18 DUNHURST, A REMINISCENCE 20 THE GIMSONS 22 LUPTON HALL MEMORIES 23 JOHN BADLEY FOUNDATION 25 BEDALES GRANTS TRUST FUND 28 OB PROFILES 29 THE BEDALES CHAIR 34 ANDALUSIAN ART RETREATS 36 2018 IN THE ARCHIVES 39 STAFF PROFILES 41 SHOWTIME CHALLENGE 46 MUSICAL MEMOIRS 46 NEWS IN BRIEF 47 OBITUARIES 51 John Batstone 51 George Bird 52 David Boswell 53 Leo Singto Gauvain 54 Katy Krabel (née Allcard) 55 Dr Hilary Mitchell (née Haden, formerly Elphick) 56 John Rogers 57 John Redcliffe Salaman 58 Geoffrey Spencer 58 Hazel Straker 59 Jean Symons (née Layton) 60 Jean Trubshawe (née Wood) 61 Sarah Compton van Niekerk (née Hall) 62 David Redford Warwick 63 Ruth Whiting 64 BIRTHS, ENGAGEMENTS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS 65 UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS 2018 66 Please note we have included dates where possible of when staff worked at the school. If dates are omitted it is because they have been mentioned in an earlier section of the newsletter or because we do not have the exact dates they started or left the school. If you would be able to help us complete any missing dates, please contact a member of the Alumni Liaison Team. Contents • 1 WELCOME elcome to the Bedales WAssociation and Old Bedalian Newsletter 2019. It has been an eventful year. The refurbished Lupton Hall was the venue for Three Schools’ Concert, the John Badley Fellowship Dinner, the JHB Society lunch and four Memorials for former staff: John Batstone, Kay Bennett, Bruce Moore and Ruth Whiting. The long awaited refurbishment has been very effective; the benches are now graced with cushions but otherwise it is the versatile much loved space it The Newsletter Editorial Board and took place over fi ve days in June and used to be. the Steering Group would welcome was marked by some very special Another successful event for new members if any of you would participants. Read more on page 14 Members working in media related like to join in reporting, planning and of this Newsletter. sectors was held in Topolski Bar which hosting Association events. Thanks to all of you who have about 80 of you attended. We hope to The usual 10, 25 and 40 year participated in and supported the offer another event in 2019 for those reunions were held over the Parents’ activities of the Association and in Business and Professional Services Day weekend. A 50 Year Reunion Lunch especially to the External Relations related careers. was held on Badley Day (formerly Offi ce for making it all happen. We said The Steering Group met twice the ‘Badley Weekend’) in September farewell to Keith Budge after 17 years during the year, in London and and in June Mark Hanson (1977-84) as Head. We are immensely grateful at Bedales. The AGM in July was arranged a gathering for the years for his support of the Association; he again held at the 1901 Arts Club in 84/5. Other events included the ‘Badley rarely missed a meeting and never London, for which over 50 members Behaved’ Dog Show, Stoner Cricket dodged a diffi cult question. We very booked tickets. It was unfortunately, week, the Stansted Players production, much look forward to working with the overshadowed by the unexpected OB careers evening for 6.2s, the OB new Bedales Head, Magnus Bashaarat. endurance of the England football team Football Event, the Great South Run It seems no time at all since we said a in the World Cup; the match against and the Annual Donor Reception. temporary goodbye to Leana Seriau Croatia that same evening signifi cantly Many of these events provide a very for her fi rst maternity leave and we diminished attendance at the AGM. successful fundraising platform for the wish her all the best for her second Not even the prosecco and canapés John Badley Foundation in addition which started in February. could hold the attention of those who to providing reunion and other social did attend, and we fi nished promptly opportunities for members of the Sylvia Kahn-Freund (1964-70) so everyone could watch the nail-biting Association. The walk from Lindfi eld to Chair of the Bedales Association fi nal 20 minutes of the game. Steep, to mark the school’s 125th year, Steering Group CONTACT THE Newsletter Editorial Committee ALUMNI LIAISON Robert Booth (1958-63) • Paul Cormack (1940-47) • Matthew Rice (1975-80) TEAM The editorial committee is looking for additional members. Should you wish to join, Alex Beckmann please contact Alex Beckmann. Alumni Liaison Manager (Maternity cover) E: [email protected] T: 01730 711 572 STAY CONNECTED to your Old Bedalian community Philip Parsons Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Alumni Offi cer( Volunteer) Like us: Bedales School Follow us: @bedalesschool Join us: Bedales Alumni E: [email protected] Instagram OB Bulletins T: 01993 811 294 Follow us: @bedalesschool Subscribe: [email protected] 2 • Welcome HEAD’S REFLECTIONS ON 2018 t might be assumed that Henry tradition of Bedales whilst maintaining INewbolt’s dangerously simplistic poem the rigorous standards we expect Vitai Lampada, a powerful articulation of of our students.” In January I was those High Victorian values of violence fortunate to attend a talk given to and sacrifice, would contain little that the Petersfield History Society by is relevant to the welcome pages of an Ann Donnelly, whose grandfather was Old Bedalian magazine. It’s a long way, Oswald Powell, or ‘Osbos’ as he was both metaphorically and geographically, called, to Badley’s ‘The Chief’. I’ve not from the cricket pitches of Clifton asked the teaching staff at Bedales College to the Outdoor Work barn at to call me ‘The Chief’ yet because Bedales. But the feeling of inheriting an it sounds rather hierarchical and educational legacy, “This they all with a undemocratic, and in Zadie Smith’s joyful mind/ Bear through life like a torch White Teeth calling someone a ‘chief’ in flame,/ And falling fling to the host is quite a sharp insult, but the torch of taught them how to pass exams. Her behind”, of bearing a torch lit by Badley life has been passed along the 125 year academic standards and the intellectual and Powell in 1893 and passed on golden thread of Bedales history, and ambition she fostered in the students through successive Heads at Bedales, is now lights my office. she taught should be an enduring very real. Newbolt’s poem was written One of my most moving and Bedales beacon, and should inspire our in 1892, so is almost the same age as insightful engagements this year was current academic staff to keep striving Bedales, and the educational values attending our former Head of History, for excellence in the classroom. that the Old Rugbeian, John Badley, and Ruth Whiting’s (staff 1963-2000), Every school has someone who acts Old Uppinghamian, Oswald Powell, memorial service in the Lupton Hall, as the guardian of the flame, usually brought to the foundation of Bedales, attended by a huge range of OBs, a long serving teacher or recently the antithesis of High Victorianism, are many of whom had been taught retired long-serving former teacher still central to the school’s character by Ruth, together with current and who can reach back into their own and ethos. former staff. I never met Ruth, but memory and tell you the precise A photograph of Badley hangs in her legacy and symbolic role within reason that jam roly-poly was dropped my office, deliberately placed behind the Bedales community were clear from the lunch menu in 1963 and the my desk so that he can look over my to me and Camilla as we listened to brouhaha that ensued. This kind of shoulder and scrutinise what I am the varied tributes. Ruth knew a great folk memory is what makes boarding writing to students, colleagues and deal of history, and a great deal too school communities so rich in history parents and check its authenticity. In about how to enthuse, inspire and and meaning for the students that pass last year’s edition of this magazine our challenge students. She also stood for through them. Alastair Langlands (staff Chairman of Governors, Matthew Rice rigour, exactness and hard work. Lazy 1973-2001), former Dunhurst Head (1975-80), welcomed me warmly and expression, slapdash English and loose and unofficial story archivist, has been gave me a clear mission, writing: application of fact were anathema our own Arts and Crafts version of “I believe Magnus will continue the to her. Ruth taught students history, Tiresias since Camilla and I moved to liberal, progressive and innovative and then when she needed to, she Bedales. Tiresias knew seven generations of Thebans, and Alastair has interpreted the Bedales past for us so that we can appreciate the history, events and importance of the Bedales community, past and present. So far, I’ve probably only met a very small percentage of the OB diaspora, but I look forward to setting that right in the coming year, and hope that you enjoy reading about your old school and contemporaries in this publication. Magnus Bashaarat Head Head’s Reflections on 2018 • 3 OB EVENTS – REVIEWS OF 2018 Sector Event – 8 February 2018 An enjoyable gathering took place at Topolski Bar, London, for OBs working in or studying Music, Theatre, Media, Marketing, Film, TV and Journalism and related fields.