18 2017 Autumn GETTING TO KNOW YOU: CLAUDIA LUSSANA’S TALES FROM SANTIAGO DE CHILE TO SIENA Re-uniting the Georgian Family with each other and the School in order to strengthen our community LinkedIn Facebook Twitter and enhance education provision for the future through charitable giving LinkedIn is a great business Keep up to date with Reunite @stgeorgesru social networking site. news and events. Follow St George’s, Weybridge Follow us on St George’s Welcome Alumni today! College Reunite. To the 2017 autumn edition of Reunite CONTACT US: The Development Team have been very all aspects of the School with our Old Georgians/ THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Old Maurians and bringing everyone together in Mrs Caroline Long INSIDE busy planning and organising the launch Development Director of the Activity Centre Capital Campaign a variety of events and reunions. On this note, we would like to extend a very big thank you to Patrick Mrs Janice Rodrigues-Mendes THIS ISSUE – which was launched in October. Kenney (OG ’13) for all his help covering this role Development Manager Members of the Georgian Family were invited to over the past ten months and we wish him all the Mrs Melanie Gordon-Hughes Alumni Relations Officer a party to celebrate this launch and they were best in the future. 2 Dates for your diary given the opportunity to discover how this facility Mr Oliver Robinson In this issue we celebrate 50 years since girls have will transform our provision for sport, mental Development Officer joined our Sixth Form. I’m sure for those first few 6 Who has been reunited? performance and wellbeing. Guests were able to T: 01932 839352 girls it must seem unbelievable that 50 years have walk through the beautiful and innovative building E: development@ flown by so quickly. Earlier this year we welcomed 12 Getting to know you in virtual reality, meet the architects behind the stgeorgesweybridge.com current parents, James Cosmo and Jason Hood who design as they heard from staff, students and guest www.stgeorgesreunite.com 26 Careers met students to discuss their prospective careers. speakers about how the Centre will enhance the Office hours: 8.30am–5pm experience of our students now and for generations Fr Martin Ashcroft, School Chaplain and OG ’69 Monday to Friday all year 29 Community news to follow. spoke to our students and staff at the start of this (except Public/Bank Holidays) term about two very key themes and values that 30 School news If you are visiting the College, you will be aware of The Development Office, the College will be focussing on this year, which are the initial stages of the building work which are now St George’s Weybridge, 40 OGA Sports ‘Inclusiveness’ and Collaboration’, which is taken underway. In early December the old sports hall will Weybridge Road, Addlestone, from our ‘Georgian Family Spirit’. be demolished as building work starts in earnest Surrey, KT15 2QS, UK 44 Join the Celebration We hope you will embrace the theme and play an in order to complete the Activity Centre in the THE CONGREGATION active role in our school community 48 Announcements 2019/2020 academic year. Follow its progress via OF JOSEPHITES the school website and social media sites. With our best wishes For information about the Josephites 58 A piece of history We would like to extend a very warm welcome and their work in Belgium, England, Development Team back to Melanie Gordon-Hughes, who joins us Africa and the USA. www.josephiteweb.org following her time off on maternity leave. 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For full details of our privacy policy, 2017 Autumn Chile to Siena on page 31 RU18 RU17 please visit www.stgeorgesgiving.com RU18 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Date: 16th November Time: 7pm onwards City Venue: Happenstance Bar, 10 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7DX Host: Mr David Bicarregui NETWORKING Board member and chair of the Finance and Risk Committee for St George’s Weybridge. DRINKS All welcome for those working within the Banking, Complimentary Welcome drink, cash bar Finance or Insurance industries for additional refreshments Date: 30th November Time: 7pm onwards Class of Venue: St George’s College 1997 REUNION Celebrate: 20 Year Reunion Sunday 19 November 2017 Curry buffet and cash bar Book now and donate St George’s College to take part at Start: 8.30am Registration for a 9am sharp start Cost: Suggested minimum donation Date: 21st December Class of 2017 www.stgeorgesgiving.com £5 per person Time: 7.30pm onwards /events Contact: [email protected] Venue: Block and Gasket (formally known as the CHRISTMAS Slug and Lettuce) , Weybridge for any questions Celebrate: The completion of your first CELEBRATION term away from St George’s Hector Long Please join us! You are welcome to bring your dog to join in on Date: 19th January this occasion and of course they must be on a Time: 7.30pm onwards Hector UNIVERSITY Rodrigues-Mendes lead! Please join us to run, jog or walk and enjoy Venue: Prezzo, 116 St Martins Lane, our beautiful 100 acre campus. Support our London, WC2N 4BF ALUMNI appeal and get active! All proceeds go towards All alumni currently attending University are DINNER invited to a complimentary dinner in London the Celebrate 150 Activity Centre Appeal. Refreshments will be provided and there will also be a shorter route for younger children. Coming Soon in 2018: • April 2018 - Class of 1988 Reunion • 6th June 2018 - Over 60s Lunch 2 • May 2018 - St Maur's afternoon tea • 24th June 2018 - Annual Reunion If you are unable to attend but would still like to donate, please visit For more details and how to book any of the events below, please visit the Reunite www.stgeorgesgiving.com/events where all donations will be very much appreciated. Autumn 2017 Autumn website to complete an online booking form or contact the office by emailing [email protected] RU18 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY YOUR FOR DATES CLASH Class of 1968 50 Year Celebratory Reunion OF THE 19 May 2018 Venue: St George's College 1968 class ambassador, Kevin Cheney, would like to organise a reunion for his classmates DR GONS and this is his message: “I would like to try and arrange a reunion of our Giving GIVINGyear group as it is will be 50 years since most of us left the College. I realise there are problems th Kevin and Hillary Saturday 16 December in determining which is our year group due to 10:30am Fixtures starting from 11:00am 4A doing ‘O’ levels in one year and some of meal and cash bar. Final details will be sent you leaving early. However we would like to out in good time once we have a better idea get our year group together and I think this of numbers. We intend to invite wives and will mean those who turn 68 in the academic partners to the reunion and hope that we may year 2017/2018 give or take a few months. It have between 50 and 100 of our classmates to would be those who started the senior school the lunch. in 1961 or possibly from Barrow Hills in 1963. It would be those who finished ‘O’ levels in 1966 If you have any questions or suggestions or who in normal circumstances completed please do not hesitate to contact either their ‘A’ levels in 1968 but would include those myself on [email protected] or who took them early in 1967. Melanie Gordon-Hughes, Alumni Relations Officer at the College at development@ The plan is to hold a lunch at the College on stgeorgesweybridge.com as soon as possible Saturday 19 May 2018. The1968 school have kindly so that we can send out the invites to as many offered to do this for us on a complimentary of you as possible. basis. There will be a drink on arrival, a tour of the College before lunch, a three course Over 60s London Reunion Join us for a day of Georgian sport supporting our 1st Team Wednesday 6 June 2018 players and Old Georgians and watch dragons clash in: NEW VENUE ANNOUNCEMENT – Royal Thames Yacht Club, Rugby, Girls’ and Boys’ Hockey, Netball.