> back to contents page ISH GOATSThe Goats Club Founded 1956 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS HOUSE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER London Reunion 2018 Inside this issue: The London Reunion 2018 HRH The Princess Royal Visits ISH The Opening of The Thirsty Scholar Overseas Reunions SPECIAL TRIBUTES TO INTERNATIONAL Scanned by CamScanner STUDENTS HOUSE Liz Ware Accommodation provider of the year Winner 2018 Page 19 2018 Celebrating innovation and achievement in international education > back to contents page next> back page to contents> page URGENT CALL TO ACTION ATTENTION ALL GOATS WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU! Goats New Membership Cards We are loving the new Goats Club logo and membership cards - if you haven’t received yours yet, please email us and we will get one posted out to you! THE LAW HAS CHANGED CONFIRM WITH A TICK 3 Under The General Data Protection To keep receiving emails from The Goats Regulation (GDPR), we need your Office, you will need to reconfirm your GOATS MISSION STATEMENT permission to keep in touch with you. email address with us. ≥ To help current ISH residents and Goats to achieve their academic and personal aims. ≥ To continue to offer the best possible You can confirm by emailing us at: [email protected] The Goats Club Founded 1956 opportunities for Goats to experience British or by following these 3 quick steps: society and to create an atmosphere that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS promotes international cultural exchanges. 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London W1W 5PN UK international and UK students, supported by a Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 8384 substantial scholarship/bursary programme to Email: [email protected] give opportunities to more disadvantaged students, www.ish.org.uk/alumni and reinforced by a social and cultural programme to encourage international friendships. Don’t delay – CONFIRM to keep in touch TODAY! We have tried our best to ensure that the information included is correct and up to date, however we cannot Martin Chalker (Before it’s too late and Jilly gets in trouble!) accept responsibility for any errors. Chief Executive of International Students House 3 2 ISH GOATS ALUMNI NEWSLETTER ISH GOATS ALUMNI NEWSLETTER > back to contents page > back to contents page HELLO GOATS! CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR AND ALUMNI RELATIONS MANAGER 2018 EDITION JILLY BOROWIECKA What a year we have had at ISH and in WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU... INSIDE THIS ISSUE: From the Editor 4 Goats. I hope you will all enjoy seeing it The office has had the challenge of new reflected in this edition. Everything from GDPR regulations affecting our ability to From the President 6-7 our Patron’s visit (page 20) to hundreds of contact you. French fans for the FIFA World Cup Finals London Reunion 8-11 has taken place here. Reunions in India We were planning to send more digital (page 14), Malaysia (page 16) and London copies of the Newsletter out and reduce Goats Ambassadors 12-13 (page 8) and travelling Vice Presidents the number of printed ones, but it will 14-16 meeting up with folk in Australia (page cut us off from so many of you unless you Overseas Reunions Jilly with Julie Lewis at the 16) have made the distances between complete the OPT IN form – see page 3. Chief Executive’s dinner us melt away. Distinguished Goats of America – FISH(L) 17 Although this law may not be changing From the Chief Executive 18 PRESIDENT OF GOATS in your country it affects you because we have to abide by the UK laws, as all the David O’Brien has been elected as Special Tributes to Elizabeth Ware 19 President of Goats for a further 3 years data is generated here. and the new committee is now in place Please visit ish.org.uk and opt in. HRH The Princess Royal Visit 20-21 (see page 6). From the Dean of Student Life 22-23 BIG CHANGES AT ISH REMEMBERING AND CELEBRATING Then there are the physical changes to Travel Club 24-25 THE LIVES OF OUR LOST GOATS ISH in the foyer, the bar and the car park, We very sadly lost some of our dearest but I will leave Martin Chalker to tell you Cultural Events 26 friends and supporters of ISH in the last about those on page 18. Martin will also year. We mourn them but also celebrate TIPS ISH’s New Foyer update you on future plans. 27 their lives and loyalty to ISH and Goats (page 28). Obituaries 28-29 Visitors As I write this, we are thinking about 30-31 the new youngsters who will arrive in ISH Venues 32 October and as you read this we will be ISH WINS! in the midst of getting to know them Accommodation provider and introducing them to our lovely of the year Winner 2018 Karnvir Mundrey, Neil Glover, Ruth and international family. Goats getting together in Penang See page 23 Martin Chalker and Ranjita Rajan in India KEEP IN TOUCH Being in contact with you and hearing your news and your journey through life helps us all to keep our connections and enriches our lives, so please do keep in touch. A BIG THANK YOU TO... Melanie Paquin and Musa Bwanali who have worked tirelessly on all Goatee things and especially the London Reunion. They are a delight to work with and to know, as many of you will have discovered at the Reunion. st The Dream Team! Jada, Melanie, Musa, Jilly, Amy, Ben and David at the London Reunion BBQ Celebrating Goats’ 61 Birthday 5 4 ISH GOATS ALUMNI NEWSLETTER ISH GOATS ALUMNI NEWSLETTER > back to contents page > back to contents page FROM THE PRESIDENT DAVID’O’BRIEN The Goats Office, Jilly, Melanie and Musa GOATS AWARD REUNIONS It was also great to have support from along with the ISH events team Amy, One of the many benefits of being During these three years there have the VPs. Neil Glover attended the Indian Jada, Leah and Ben, outdid themselves involved with Goats as a Vice President been many small reunions around the reunion, and Rachael Elliott the throughout the five days ensuring or indeed as President are the various world. Some of our Executive Committee, Malaysian reunion. everything ran smoothly. Our special student events that you can attend. It is namely VP Fethi Thabet, VP Zenobia guests, Ken Dytor, Gill Hammond and important that the new students learn Nadirshaw and VP Neil Glover, travel a Yusuf Kaplan added to the fun, with about Goats and see what alumni do, and lot and when possible we try to arrange a their stimulating talks. Trips to the over these last three years our committee small event around their visits to different Guildhall, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan have taken this on board and done an countries. Their efforts to connect with Hindu Temple, Westerham, Chartwell amazing job. These events are a lot of Goats is greatly appreciated. We now and the Harry Potter Tour were greatly fun, with welcome events not just for the have twenty-six Ambassadors around the Reunion in India (Mumbai) appreciated. new intake, but also for the scholarship world. We ask each Ambassador to hold students and the Resident Advisors. an event every two years and would love Special thanks are due to Dr Sharon to see this grow. The Goats Office will Bolton for her opening reception, The year passes so quickly, so the final offer advice and support. If you have any and Martin Chalker, who with his wife event, the farewell party, arrives before ideas please be in touch. Rachael Elliott with David in Malaysia Ruth, welcomed a bus load of us to you know it. We have been offering a his home for afternoon tea. It was a Goats Award for the last three years, I was lucky enough to attend reunions in WELCOME TO THE great afternoon. It was wonderful to and it is open for the students to vote India and Malaysia during this last year, GOATS NEWSLETTER see David Anderson-Evans on top form, for the resident who made the most with Jilly and Martin Chalker. Both were 25 YEARS OF RA’s! chairing the well-attended tribute to positive difference to their lives this extraordinary experiences. In Delhi, the David and Jilly meet students in Malaysia This year we are celebrating 25 years of Many thanks to all of you who voted in Liz Ware, which was heart-warming and year. As always, the events team did a Goats event was hosted by Vikram and the Resident Advisors Programme, the recent election. Democracy matters, life-affirming. I am sure the members marvellous job (we were able to use it as Shobha Mathur, with Anubhav Sarkar Our Malaysian Ambassador, Nari Bhullar, set up by Kevin Coyne and continued by and these next three years will see a host of her family who attended, including a test run for the Goats Reunion Dinner).