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Members of the 3rd Form approach the Canadian memorial on Vimy Ridge during the annual History and English Departments visit to the WW1 battlefields. [Picture by Michael Middlehurst] LONDON LUNCH MAILING LIST Richard Taylor has a ‘core’ mailing list of well over 150 Old Brutonians who have attended Lunches in the past or indicated that they wished to do so in the future. He sends out a notice to all on this list, with details of the lunch, a month or two in advance. In addition, Harry Witherby is maintaining the database containing over 1000 email addresses of Old Brutonians and he will be reminding you all of the lunch in good time. To be included please contact: oba.database@witherby.net For Old Brutonians not on Richard Taylor’s list who may wish to attend the 2003 Lunch in the City, please contact him as soon as you can so that your name may be added. Richard Taylor,10 Bramfield Road, London SW11 6RB. Tel: 020 7223 1299 Fax:020 7924 4288 Email: tapador@globalnet.co.uk When did you last return to Bruton? Farmhouse Bed and Breakfast and Self-Catering holidays 10 minutes from Bruton. Quality B&B (ETC 4 Diamonds Silver Award/ AA 4 Diamonds) and Self-catering accommodation, (4 Stars grading), on our dairy farm. B&B From £27.50 per night; S/C From £200 per week; Credit cards accepted. www.clanvillemanor.co.uk Mrs Sally Snook, Clanville Manor, Castle Cary, BA7 7PJ Tel: 01963 350124 Fax 01963 350719 Mobile 07966 512732 e-mail: info@clanvillemanor.co.uk 5% of the cost of your stay will be donated to the OBA 20 OLD BRUTONIAN ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER 2004
NEWS OF OLD BRUTONIANS 2004 1939 John BURNETT (N39/43) writes “I started by being an articled pupil to an Architect in London. I then went to the School of Architecture at Liverpool University, qualifying in 1950. I captained both Tennis and Hockey teams whilst there. I then moved to Hertfordshire, met my wife and got married in 1953. (I got my Hertfordshire County Hockey Cap in 1952). We moved around the country to Bristol, Stevenage, St Albans and then out to Little Horkesley near Colchester, changing jobs and designing schools, houses and hospitals - all very interesting with different problems. A couple of years ago, my wife died and I moved into a maisonette in Nayland and would be very pleased to meet any Old Brutonians of any vintage”. John has 3 children and 6 grandchildren. 1953 Noel BURFORD (P/L53/56) writes from Rutland that after leaving King’s he completed two years National Service with the RAF before moving into a career in sales and marketing in Toys and Leisure. He is now retired and keeps in touch with Jeremy HEWLETT (N51/55) Christopher LEDGER (N53/58) writes that he is now fully retired and living in South Devon where his interests include golf, gardening, model engineering and amateur radio (Call Sign G3UBL) 1954 Roger GALLANNAUGH (O54/57) has been appointed a Governor of King’s School. 1956 Bill BUNBURY (N56/58) writes from Perth, Western Australia where he is a Broadcaster with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Bill is an award-winning radio documentary-maker, producing and presenting for ABC Radio National’s ‘Hindsight’. Among his awards are the 1986 United Nations Australia Peace Prize for ‘The War Rages On: Australians in Vietnam’; the Gold Medal for History Documentary at the prestigious New York Radio Festival Awards in 1996 for ‘Timber for Gold: The Kalgoorlie Woodlines’; and the inaugural NSW Premier’s History Awards Special Prize in 1997 for the radio commentary series ‘Unfinished Business’. His examinations of Australian history have also led to such books as Being Aboriginal (with Ros Bowden); Reading Labels on Jam Tins: Living Through Difficult Times; Rag,Sticks and Wire: Australians in the Air 1919-90; Cyclone Tracy: Picking up the Pieces; Rabbits and Spaghetti: Italy, Australians and World War II; and Timber for Gold: The Kalgoorlie Woodlines. Bill is also a member of the Western Australia Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, a board member of the Fremantle History Museum, and has been a frequent university guest lecturer. His father, who was Australian born, also attended KSB (N14/16) but died in 1970. Jeremy PONTIN (N56/60) has recently retired. On leaving school, he worked in property and qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1966, whilst in private practice in Devon, his home county. Later he worked in Surrey and Hampshire, where he became the County Estates Surveyor, responsible for a department of some hundred staff, providing valuations and estate management professional services for the whole county. 1993 saw his department reorganised, whereupon he was appointed Resident Land Steward for the Duchy of Cornwall, responsible for the Isles of Scilly district. In recognition of his work for the Duchy, Jeremy was appointed MVO in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Jeremy is married and has three children. Sport remains a passion, and he particularly enjoys the annual London to Brighton cycling event, where he is joined by his children, raising money for the Heart Foundation. Jeremy, who keeps in touch with quite a few of his contemporaries at School, says that he would be happy to see, or hear from, anyone of his vintage from School who is living in Cornwall or visiting. As a parting shot, he suggests that the School Shop might consider selling baseball caps with the School’s Dolphin and Crown emblem. 1958 Richard CANT (N58/62) writes that after practising as a private client solicitor for 39 years he has thrown in the towel on law in favour of Sandbanks Beach. Tim CRONIN (N58/62) paid a visit to King’s in September 2003. Jonathan GOODERHAM (O&B58/62) is based in Auckland, New Zealand where he works as a Fine Art Dealer specialising in European and Antipodean paintings. Jonathan is married to Janet and has a daughter, Elizabeth. John WINSTONE (N58/62) writes that he is in contact with John WILLIAMS (O58/62) who is now a grandfather and living in California. 1962 George O’GRADY (N62/66) George becomes chief executive of the PGA European Tour at the end of 2004. His immediate predecessor and boss, Ken Scholfield has chosen retirement, saying that it would have been selfish of him to have remained in what he sees as “a highly privileged position” when there was a man of George’s abilities waiting in the wings. George’s appointment had the unanimous backing of everyone on the tournament committee and the board of directors. On leaving Bruton, George went to Reading University where he captained the rugby team. After working first for Esso and then as a stockbroker, he joined the European tour as a tournament director in 1974. Chief referee at the Royal Lytham and St Annes, he was staging manager for the 1981 match at Walton Heath. Having been appointed as Scholfield’s deputy in 1989, he played a key role in the growth and development of the Tour’s television company. 1966 Neil FORD, Q.C. (B66/71) is now Head of his Chambers - Albion Chambers, Bristol. NEWS OF OLD BRUTONIANS 1969 Kirsten COOKE (nee Hamilton-Fairlie) (Hall 69/71) is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. Kirsten specialises in Wedding Photography and is based in Stokesub-Hamdon. 1971 David BARTON (P71/74) was awarded a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service (QCVS) in the Operation TELIC honours and awards list following the war in Iraq. He writes “I had a staff team of about 75 personnel and we ran all the administrative arrangements for the 46,000 strong British Force, spread across 10 countries. We started off in January in Kuwait and then moved into Iraq in April 2003. Particular areas of responsibility were all manpower arrangements, running a large database for the Force in the Middle East, welfare (telephones, Internet, radio, TV, mail, papers - over £50m budget!), the administration of casualties and compassionate cases, mortuary management and the administration of Prisoners of War. I can’t remember if I told you but I ended up as the Senior British Liaison Officer working with the Americans in the Prisoner of War camp outside UMM Qasr, Iraq. We had just under 7000 Iraqi prisoners in the camp. The operation was challenging and rewarding but not good fun because of the large number of people who lost their lives or were seriously injured. However, it was the adventure of a lifetime and all those excellent KSB values and qualities were remembered and put into practice throughout the 4 months deployment. Also, what great guys the American’s were to work with; and they were even better allies.” Nick BARTON (P71/77) Nick recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya and raised over £10,000 in the process for children’s charity called Whizz Kids. He is a wealth investor, working for Bank Hoffman, and his portfolio is East Africa. 1972 Dominic WOOD (O72/76) writes that he is in his 26th year of work as a scientist at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency at NEW Haw, Weybridge (executive agency for DEFRA) researching into BSE and Scrapie. 1973 William NEWTON (L73/75) The following is an extract from The Daily Telegraph of June 7th, 2003: Memories of the Queen’s coronation Derby will be revived today when she presents the trophy for this year’s race at Epsom. The Queen’s Aureole finished second in the 1953 Derby, days after she was crowned. The public’s disappointment at the horse’s defeat was tempered by the fact that the race was won by Pinza, giving the jockey Sir Gordon Richards his first Derby victory in 28 attempts. Sir Gordon had been knighted in the Coronation honours. His victory is commemorated in the trophy for today’s Vodafone Derby - a bronze sculpture of Pinza, with Sir Gordon in the saddle. The bronze, measuring 2ft 6ins in length, OLD BRUTONIAN ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER 2004 21
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