BEDALES ASSOCIATION and OLD BEDALIAN NEWSLETTER 2013 to Members of the Bedales Association

BEDALES ASSOCIATION and OLD BEDALIAN NEWSLETTER 2013 to Members of the Bedales Association

BEDALES ASSOCIATION and OLD BEDALIAN NEWSLETTER 2013 To Members of the Bedales Association Bedales Association AGM Notice is hereby given of the 30th Annual General Meeting of the Bedales Association to be held at Bedales School on Sunday 30th June 2013. Provisional details are as follows: 11.00 Bedales Association AGM in the Reading Room 12.30 Light lunch for Bedales Association members Once the exact timings have been confirmed, they will be published on the school website, where the Bedales Association Annual Report will also be available. Exact timings will also be available from Helen McBrown by email (hmcbrown@bedales.org.uk) or phone (01730 711561), who will also send you a hard copy of the Annual Report if you prefer. Please give her the relevant address details. Richard Lushington Bursar and Clerk to the Governors Bedales School Petersfield Hampshire GU32 2DG Front cover: Gabriel Langlands (1987-90), John Russell (1978-85) and David Young (1976-81) at work on the Sam Banks Pavilion. Photo by Charlotte Bowdery 1 www.bedales.org.uk Tel: 01730 300100 Bedales Association and Old Bedalian Newsletter 2013 Contents Bedales Association AGM Invitation 1 Editorial 3 Head’s Reflections on 2012 5 Parents Day Invitation 6 London Concert 7 Badley Society 8 Reunion: Class of 2003 8 Development Report 9 From The Chronicle 10 Years Ago 10 Dunhurst in the 1930s 11 Eve Arnold 12 Laziness - Steuart Padwick 13 Lupton Hall 14 Burmese Refugee Teachers - Clive Taylor 15 Senora... - Emily Haworth (née Russell) 17 From a Distant Place - Peter Cameron 19 Arts Education Under Threat - Susie Hall (née Hopkinson) 21 Bedales Grants Trust Fund 23 Bedales Association 23 Bedales Memorial Library 24 Bedales Summer Schools 25 News in Brief 28 Bedales Arts 36 Reunions: Classes of 1968-69 37 Class of 1988 37 Births, Engagements, Marriages, Deaths 38 Recent Degree Results 39 Bedales Books 2012 40 Destinations of Leavers 2012 41 Obituaries: Arnold Arnold 42 Martin Boswell 43 Jean Case (née Barker) 44 Sally Champion 45 Timmy Crump 46 Angela Culme-Seymour 47 Minna Elsey(née Ackermann) 49 Keith Fuller 49 Wendy Grant 51 Ciaran Henderson 52 Jane Johnston (née Mackilligin) 53 Tom Lodge 54 Robin Marris 55 Sally Stratford (née Stevens) 56 Campbell Whalley 57 Contact us at: darcher@bedales.org.uk 2 Editorial hese are exciting times to be Bulletin having merely served as a prompt. we feel obliged to make the offer again. TBedales’ alumni officer. In the Please email me at darcher@bedales.org.uk past week, at the time of writing, I have These Bulletins have been productive in if you would like to do this. received news of a massive legacy to exactly the way we would like. They are the Bedales Grants Trust Fund, the helping you to gain support from the OB We would also like more OBs to give nomination of Dan Day Lewis for yet community for the things that you are us their email addresses so that they can another Oscar and the appointment of doing (fundraising events, performances receive the monthly Bulletins. Ultimately Ben Polak (1975-80) as Provost of Yale etc.). They also keep OBs informed in a this is the future for communication University. Whatever next, I wonder, but more topical and instant way about news of and we are keen to move further in that to more mundane matters... fellow alumni and about what is happening direction quickly, whilst remaining totally in Bedales. They also seem to amuse more committed to our non-electronic readers. This continues to be a time of rapid than one might expect. All of this is good. change in the style and media of our Another set of changes has been communications with Old Bedalians, even One development this year has been our precipitated by our decision to cease if the appearance of this Newsletter is offer to stop mailing out hard copy of this operating an OB website separate from strongly familiar. Newsletter, after an opt-out request on an the main school one. This has come individual basis. The alternative, open about because, in common with many I am conscious when compiling it that I for many years to overseas OBs, is to be schools, we do not believe that alumni am reporting a great deal of news to many notified by email when the Newsletter is are ever likely to want to visit such a site people who have not heard from us for published on the school’s website. The in large numbers or with great frequency. nearly a year. On the other hand I am well motivation for this offer was entirely Their lives are too busy and they operate aware that huge numbers are reading what down to the huge increase in postage rates through different channels. From about I send out in my monthly email Bulletins, since the previous edition. We actually the time of publication of this Newsletter, which often provoke a considerable like the idea of OBs reading hard copy, we expect to switch off the old amount of communication, some of it because we produce a Newsletter which NetCommunity site, saving a good deal of relevant to the news sent out. Other is meant to look and feel good that way. money and effort. We are probably ahead responses, at least equally welcome, are Therefore we were pleased that only of most schools in having the courage to simply whatever you want to say to us, the about 60 of you took up this option, but go our own way in this respect. A belated Happy New Year to friends of Bedales everywhere. We expect, instead, to enhance the OB presence on the main Bedales website Christmas and the New Year are quiet times in terms of OB news, www.bedales.org.uk. In addition, we but here are a few bits and pieces, a couple of books to read, a intend to make greater use of the Bedales post-Christmas puzzle and another chance to get yourself on TV. Facebook page to post news and stories. Best wishes, We would encourage all of you who have Dennis ventured into the Facebook jungle to ‘like’ the Bedales page. There we hope you • Learn about a ‘Mardle’ • Oscar again? • Ryn Gough on Kindle • Big cats in Namibia will find an increasingly varied mix of • Who didn’t win a Nobel Prize? • Make some Connections posts about both current Bedales and Old Bedalian events and news. On the other John Rogers (staff 1975-86) must rank as one of the most important hand, things may develop differently. It figures in the shaping of modern Bedales for his revitalising and... is an experiment. We are currently trying out the use of the Facebook page for Send your email address to darcher@bedales.org.uk to receive our semi-regular ongoing messages concerning the various monthly email Bulletin – start of the January edition shown above. reunions taking place in the Summer. 3 www.bedales.org.uk Tel: 01730 300100 Bedales Association and Old Bedalian Newsletter 2013 the end of 2013. They are a lively group. production of the Newsletter and in all my Another far-reaching possible change is other operations. These include, as ever, that this may be the last Newsletter which I my faithful proof readers, Anne Archer edit, after fifteen consecutive editions. As and Charlotte Bowdery, who is also an yet, I am uncertain whether I will be asked extremely valuable picture researcher and to continue beyond August. I am still the brains behind the Bedales Facebook enjoying all my various contacts with OBs operation. I am particularly grateful to of all generations, so very much hope I will Mary Hancox, my assistant back at base still be with you in a year’s time, not least whilst I enjoy myself working in more because I am very interested to see how I scenic locations. Thanks are also once Like our Facebook page. Please. can make all the changes listed above work again due to Alexei Yavlinsky (1995- out. It would please me greatly to increase 99) for some invaluable help behind the If you are allergic to social media and the quantity and quality of interaction IT scenes – many of you are seeing his between Bedales and its alumni whilst handiwork on a regular basis and it is computers in general, don’t worry, for saving the school several thousand pounds he who has facilitated the closure of the you will not be missing anything you a year at the same time. On the other hand, OB website. Mention must also be made previously received. We have no intention I could achieve this by ceasing to take of Jane Kirby’s (1974-79) indefatigable of cutting any of our printed publications a salary and letting someone else get on work in the Bedales Archive and Philip and I do also spend a good deal of time on with the job. However, I will not say my Parsons, who continues to work with the the phone (01700 811611). Fortunately farewells just yet. younger end of the OB spectrum. Bedales pays my bill. Finally, all that remains is to thank Dennis Archer An interesting development, as we close all those who have helped me in the darcher@bedales.org.uk down one website, is that Suno Wood (née Warrick) is launching her own OB website, www.bedales68.co.uk, focusing on her contemporaries and the adjacent years. This entirely personal and characterful approach is something that I would like to encourage. It speaks to OBs in the style which they are more likely to enjoy and to which they are more likely to respond.

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