wellington year book 2008/2009 1 w e l l i n g t o n y e a r b o o k 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 9 2 wellington year book 2008/2009 wellington year book 2008/2009 3 visitor Her Most Gracious Majesty president hrh the Duke of Kent, kg, gcmg, gcvo, adc vice-president Sir Anthony Goodenough, kcmg [s 1954–1959] patrons The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, fba, dd, d.phil, ma The Duke of Wellington kg, lvo, obe, mc, dl governors Dr A. Borges Mrs V. Mitchell Brigadier (Rtd) M.T.A. Lord, bsc, ceng, f/meche † J.G. Sanger, ma, mba, fca † Sir Nicholas Kenyon, cbe P.G.C. Mallinson, ba, mba [Pn 1973–1977] Dr C.M. Marr, phd [Ap 1985–1987] Mrs O. Deighton Rear Admiral H.A.H.G. Edleston [Pn 1962–1967] The Rt Revd D.D.J. Rossdale, Bishop of Grimsby, ma, msc Dr R. Groves, ba, phd Dr P.J.A. Frankopan, ma, dphil, frsa Sir Michael Rake [C 1961–1966] A.E.T. Dean, bsc Dr E.M. Sidwell, cbe, bsc, phd, frsa, frgs T.B. Bunting, ma [Bd 1976–1981] General Sir Redmond Watt, kcb, kcvo, cbe The Rt Hon the Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean R. Perrins, bsc, aca C.G.C.H. Baker, ma [Bl 1962–1967] H.W. Veary, ba, aca Dr S.C. Winkley, phd Mrs M. Chaundler, ba, obe Legal advisor to the Governors: Mrs Y.T. Gallagher old wellingtonian society President: A.G. Bruce, bsc, ceng [Bn 1951–1956] Chairman: C.G.C.H. Baker, ma* [Bl 1962–1967] Vice Presidents: D.B.G. Bishop, ma [T 1946–1951] Hon.Treasurer/Vice President: N.J.A. Howard-Jones, acii* [T 1961–1965] P.C.P. Hunt, fca [C 1963–1967] Secretary: C.M. St G. Potter bsc* [C 1960–1965] Chairman OW Sports Committee: J.M. Goodeve-Docker [A 1961–1964] Editor of the Year Book: Dr P.J.R. Mileham [A 1959–1963] Head of School: Conor Turley [A] Assistant Editor: Mrs K.A. Mitchell general committee Elected Members: M.J. Power* [S 1952–1956] Mrs F.K. Haywood, [née Stalley], ba, msc [Ap 1984–1986] Brig. D.H.C. Creswell* [L 1955–1960] J.S.V. Britton, ba [A 1987–1992] Dr P.J.R. Mileham, mphil, phd, arhists* [A 1959–1963] C.A.S. Macfarlane, ba [Hg 1988–1993] J.M. Goodeve-Docker* [A 1961–1964] A.D. Macdonald, ba [Bl 1988–1993] A.J.M. Stileman, ma, rca [T 1967–1972] T.M. ff Allen, ma [Hl 1988–1993] R.I.H.B. Dyer, ba [T 1972–1977] N.H. Alcock [Bn 1989–1994] H.R.F. Somerset, ma [Bn 1974–1979] Miss S.R. Allen, ba [Ap 1992–1994] J.H.C. Mallinson, ba [Pn 1974–1980] S.F. Streatfeild, ba [C 1993–1998] Mrs J.F.L. Morgan [née Davies], bsc [Ap 1978–1980] J.M. Templeman, bsc [Hl 1993–1998] Mrs D.J. Alun-Jones [née Harrison], ma [Ap 1979–1981] J.J. Douglas [Bn 1998–2003] N.J. Knight, ba [M 1984–1989] J.W. Tress, ba [Bn 1999–2004] C.J.G. Yeldham [Hl 1984–1989] J.T. Sowerby, ba [C 1999–2004] *indicates members of the Executive & Finance Committee †Retired June 2009 Front cover: Royal Visits 2009 & 1859 4 wellington year book 2008/2009 wellington year book 2008/2009 5 content s f r o m t h e from the editor. .. 4 EDITOR the visit of her majesty the queen. 6 speech day . 1 8 Speech Day Prizewinners. 2 4 education—best results ever. 2 5 150th anniversary. 2 7 The Monro Pavilion. 2 7 Day of Service. 2 7 uam Dilecta ! Wellington College is a truly delightful place for study, work and The Wellington Academy . 2 8 play, to visit or revisit. Annus Mirabilis ? Certainly. We have just celebrated 150 Wellington College in Tianjiin, China. 2 8 Q the arts . 3 0 years since the College first opened on20 th January 1859. ‘A Golden Age’—as The Arts Committee. 3 0 the chapter title in Newsome’s history of College at the time of our 1909 Jubilee ? Well, if a The Art School . 3 3 handful of good years brings tangible assurance and confident hope for the future the answer Drama . 3 6 could be a resounding ‘yes’. Was the Centenary, as our sister journal The Wellingtonian then Music . 3 8 Arts Fest . 3 8 questioned, a ‘time of great divide’ between old and new ? We had famous celebrations in sport. 4 1 1959. ‘The future is not what it was’, a well-known journalist noted wryly at the time, but service. 8 0 surely history was made in 1909, 1959 and now in 2009. Chapel . 8 0 Wellington is about vitality and perpetual youthfulness, as an ever rolling stream of St Paul’s . 8 0 sons and now daughters come to Wellington to learn how to grow up and live. Never CCF. 8 2 Field Gun. 8 7 has so much been offered to Wellingtonians. ‘I think what we are seeing at Wellington’, Hope and Homes. 9 0 concludes Ralph Lucas in the Good Schools’ Guide, ‘is the beginning of a great change for The Duke of Edinburgh Awards. 9 2 the better in British education that will leave our children—if we use a school that’s in the Round Square. 9 3 vanguard—and the generations after that more cultured, more capable, better educated gazette. 9 5 Academic and Senior Staff. 9 5 in the best sense of the word, and with better exam results too’. Wellington is in the care University Entrance. 9 7 of the mercurial, charismatic and redoubtable Master, Dr Anthony Seldon. It is a leading Common Room News. 9 8 school again. While we now score highly, the league tables, as measures of success, seem WCA. 9 8 more threadbare than ever. Our traditional reputation is to be amongst the top four public Valete. 1 0 0 Speech Day Prizes. 1 0 3 schools in Britain. Our reputation today is where it should be. Smugness ? Heaven forbid. ‘Wellington College—the First 150 Years’. .1 0 4 Quam Celerime, to lapse again into classical language. The pace is indeed staggering in high o.w. section . 1 0 5 speed Wellington. The Year Book editorial team has struggled to grasp the myriad array of Chairman’s Report. 1 0 5 events, personalities and achievements—educational, sporting, cultural, social and ceremonial. Secretary’s Report. 1 0 7 Chief amongst the events was the signal of Royal approval when Her Majesty the Gaudies and Reunions. 1 0 7 bevir reports. 1 1 1 Queen—a global leader in her own way—came as our Royal Visitor to Wellington College on o.w. sport . 1 1 9 o.w. gazette . 1 3 0 o.w. secretaries / representatives . 1 3 4 obituraries & deaths . 1 3 7 6 wellington year book 2008/2009 wellington year book 2008/2009 7 1st December. She has a rare gift of making people feel so much better for Her presence and graciousness. She opened the Nicolson Modern Languages Institute and gave approval to the new Victoria and Albert ‘refreshment room’. The year of celebration, however, began twelve months previously, with book-launch parties both in London and in Great school of our new, highly colourful ‘informal’ history. That was quickly followed on 20th January with dinners for all students in Hall, and in Old Hall in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, who had earlier opened the new Wellesley House for day girls. Speech Day was marked by especially delightful activities in the presence of hrh the Duke of Kent, our President, and a concert was staged in his honour in November, being the fortieth year of his holding office. In September the new ‘Monro Pavilion’ was opened on Bigside by Hugh Monro, 12th Master. The whole of College, accompanied by pupils of the new Wellington Academy, Wiltshire attended Divine Service in joint celebration in St Paul’s Cathedral, where the other memorial to the Great Duke is placed at the heart of the Nation. In far distant Tianjin, building began on the new Wellington College, China. Then on 14th October we welcomed back many ows and friends for a Day of Service. The Wellington College ccf was inspected by our senior ow soldier, followed by a brief ceremony to unveil a new honours board in the Auchinleck Room. The day ended with the return of more than two hundred ows and special friends for a dinner to celebrate their service to the nation and society. On 27th November there was a Grand Finale Ball in a marquee on South Front, supporting our Hope and Homes charity project. We hope that this edition of the Year Book, alongside the Summer edition of The Wellingtonian—surely the best edition ever—faithfully captures the famed ‘Wellington spirit’ and does justice to the efforts that have gone into a year that has added substantially more history to our College. In timeless, monumental language, we remind ourselves, Semper Domus Floreat, Wellingtoniensis. patrick mileham Wellington College, past, present, future (Inscibed 1938) Assistant Editor: Kay Mitchell Published by, and copyright of, the OW Society, Wellington College, Crowthorne rg45 7pu Telephone: 01344 444069 0 Fax: 01344 444007 0 www.owsociety.com 0 [email protected] Designed by Jules Akel [Hg 1975–1980] 0 Printed by Tradewinds London We are very grateful for the use of photographs supplied to us, notably by Ian Jones (Queen’s visit), Derick Garnier [Hn 1930-1934], Brynn Bayman, Roger Auger, Sam Gutteridge, Stephen Dutch and Linda Raabe-Marjot.