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THEHAMPTONIAN THE NEWSLETTER FOR HAMPTON SCHOOL ALUMNI SCHOOL THE NEWSLETTER HAMPTON FOR 1988 2018 THE 1988 TRIPLE AUGUST 2018 In 1988, after winning the Schools’ Head of the River and the National Schools’ Championship Inside this issue: Eights, the Hampton crew secured the ‘Triple’ • Alumni News • Ben Wheeldon OH (1998) by defeating Eton and winning the Princess • School News • Walter Bailey Cup Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley. • Inspiring Hamptonians • 1988 Rowing Triple The victorious crew reunited after 30 years to • OH Section News row the famous Henley course once again. 02 I THE HAMPTONIAN ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS Hampton Frank Keenan OH (2004) School Director of Development & Alumni Relations Connect 0208 783 4406 [email protected] Hampton School Connect continues to grow from strength to strength, with now over 1,000 members. Hayley Coll The online network exists for Hamptonians to connect Alumni Relations Officer with one another. It is a modern form of directory, 0208 783 4406 which Hamptonians can use to catch up with old [email protected] friends and access for career and business purposes. To sign up please visit Facebook www.hamptonschoolconnect.org.uk Like our Facebook page to keep up to date with alumni news and events: search Hampton School Alumni Twitter Follow @Hampton_Alumni for alumni news Linkedin Add Hampton School to your Linkedin profile Alumni website Visit the alumni page of the School website: www.hamptonschool.org.uk/alumni Stay in Data Touch Protection We are always keen to hear from Hamptonians. Thank you to all those who Update have contributed their stories to this issue. As you are aware the General Data Protection Regulation If you wish to share details of your career, (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018. Thank you to those who have already made your preferences known to the sporting and family highlights with us School. These will be acted upon once all the data has been please contact the Alumni Office entered and stored on the Old Hamptonian database. Please [email protected] contact the Alumni Office if you would like to update your communication preferences. THE HAMPTONIAN I 03 Welcome Welcome to the second edition of our alumni magazine, The Hamptonian. The impressive variety of exploits and for the Triple-winning Hampton 1st VIII Our School has a long tradition of achievements detailed in these pages of 1998. Our cover story reveals that our providing an exceptional academic and says a great deal about the remarkable rowing champions of yesteryear donned all-round education, with financial support talents of OHs and current pupils alike. some rather special blazers, fashioned given to boys whose families could not from the Main Hall curtains, to mark the otherwise afford fees. We are grateful for Another exhilarating School year has just occasion. These ‘curtain’ blazers for the support and generosity that we have concluded and we are pleased that many Triple winners are a unique Hampton already received, and we are thrilled that of our alumni have been able to return tradition and one which we hope to see the first two Fitzwygram Scholars will be for visits and events. We are particularly repeated before too long by another crew. joining us in September 2018. These grateful to those who have come back to boys would not be coming to Hampton share their post-Hampton experiences, At the end of the Spring Term we were without our benefactors’ generosity and I as a key reason behind the establishment delighted to announce the establishment cannot tell you how grateful the School is. of a dedicated Alumni Office was to of The Fitzwygram Foundation at the enable more of these inspiring links annual Old Hamptonians’ Alumni Dinner. Enjoy reading The Hamptonian and I between School generations. Our TV scientist and presenter, Patrick hope to be able to greet you personally returning Hamptonians have ranged from Aryee OH (2004), treated us to a most during a visit to our School soon. entrepreneurs to a leading barrister, a entertaining speech, supported by video With kind regards and best wishes top-flight advertising executive and an clips of his close encounters with skunks economic strategist at a leading think and baboons. Patrick also expressed his tank. Each OH has offered our boys profound gratitude for his assisted place valuable advice and insight into their at Hampton and pledged his support for chosen professional pathway and will no our new dedicated charity’s aim. doubt have inspired some to follow in their footsteps. The Fitzwygram Foundation is our new dedicated charity to provide funds to offer Kevin Knibbs There was a colourful and compelling transformative, completely free places to Headmaster sight to behold at Henley in July, when boys whose families could not otherwise 30th anniversary celebrations took place afford a Hampton education. The Fitzwygram Foundation The Fitzwygram Foundation: providing free places at Hampton School Our new dedicated charity, The Why 2025? It is the 50th anniversary An additional 50 Free Places will more Fitzwygram Foundation, will provide of Hampton becoming an independent than double those available to local boys, funds to offer completely free places school in 1975. who would benefit beyond measure from at Hampton School to boys from all an education at our School, as so many backgrounds. Why 50? One for each year of our Hamptonians can attest. independence, so an extra 50 free places Our aim: to provide an additional 50 Free for 50 years on. This is why The Fitzwygram Foundation Places, called Fitzwygram Foundation will make a huge difference. We hope Scholarships, at Hampton School by The School is fully committed to this that many of you will share our vision and 2025. cause and we are doing all we can. In support the Fitzwygram Foundation, you 2018-19, Hampton School is providing can find out more at the webpage linked Why Fitzwygram? Fitzroy Fitzwygram over 40 Free Places, while providing below: was a Victorian benefactor and local financial help to another 40 boys’ families. vicar who used his own money to fund www.hamptonschool.org.uk/alumni/ schooling for Hampton children. He We aspire to do a great deal more, fitzwygram maintained the tradition of our first but Hampton has no historic financial Benefactor, Robert Hammond, and set endowment and this limits the number of out the example for our future. pupils we can currently support. 04 I THE HAMPTONIAN Alumni News Paul Casey OH (1995) Paul beat Tiger Woods by one shot to win his second PGA Tour title at the Valspar Championship. Brian Littlejohn OH (1962) Mike It was the end of an era at the Martin OHA Pavilion as Brian Littlejohn OH (2001) retired after many years of service. Mike has released his third book on conflict. Why We Fight explores the evolutionary psychology of warfare and follows on from previous books, An Intimate War, and Crossing the Congo. ‘A pivotal book in the study of conflict.’ Sir Paul Collier, University of Oxford Will Jarvis OH (2009) & Joe Snape OH (2009) Setting a new Guinness World Record Hamptonians Will and Joe highlight mental health issues and raise over £7,000 for the charity Mind by hugging for 36 hours! Iain Morris OH (1991) The acclaimed screenwriter, famed for The Inbetweeners, has a new film coming out this summer. The Festival is due to hit the screens in August THE HAMPTONIAN I 05 Khawar Malik OH (2002) Khawar was named as a Patrick Aryee OH (2004) ‘Future Leader’ as part of the EMpower Ethnic Minority Patrick is back on our screens with Big Beasts: Last of Role Models 2018. the Giants . The three-part series explores Earth’s biggest creatures and their prehistoric ancestors. THE ExPEDiTiON 55Km ROW TO mCBRiDES CAmP START 900km row down the Kafue River in Chris mcBride is an avid conservationist, 55Km ROW Friday 20th July, 2018. who wrote a book “The White Lions of 14 days, navigating past crocodiles, Camp by river. hippos and elephants through one of the Timbavati”, about a rare pride of white lions. largest game parks in Africa. The Kafue 75Km ROW TO DELAi CAmP river flows into the Zambezi and is an meet Darrell Watt, who has important source of biodiversity, irrigation transformed the musingashi and hydro-power in Zambia. Part of the Conservancy. expedition involves coaching local rowers and the expedition will finish at the site of 70Km ROW TO KAFWALA CAmP the Kafue River & Rowing Centre. Huge rapids to navigate. 50Km ROW TO iLA SAFARi LODGE We will meet with Dr Kim Young Overton from the Panthera Project. ila Safari Lodge is an Ben Wilde eco-camp boasting the first electronic Landrover in Zambia. The camp has an electronic boat and uses solar power and biogas. OH (2002) 58Km ROW TO KAiNGU CAmP Ben has been selected to the We will use canoes to navigate the rapids and boulders. RFU national panel of referees. The Panel is a small group of 85Km ROW Camp by river. around 35 officials who oversee 75Km ROW officiating the top four leagues in 67Km ROW ACROSS Camp by river. 65Km ROW LAKE iTEZHi-TEZHi 75Km ROW FiNiSH the country. Rising through the 85Km ROW Camp by river. 27th July 2018, we will see Camp by river. Friday 3rd August, 2018. a total eclipse of the moon. Camp by river. 75km row, finish at the ranks of the London Society of Kafue River & Rowing Centre. Rugby Football Union Referees and the RFU South East group Francis Highton OH (2009) of referees over the past five years, and after 200+ games Francis is taking part in ‘RowZambezi 2018’, an expedition aiming in the middle, Ben has been to raise awareness of the issues surrounding access to clean selected along with four others and sustainable water in Southern Africa.