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. . OO UPDATES . . .The rescue mission that followed, known as Kindertransport,took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from NaziGermany, and the occupied territories of Austria,Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig. Thechildren were placed in British foster homes, hostels & farms.Under this arrangement, eleven year old Siegfried SamuelFeitlowitz from Hamburg arrived at Oswestry School in 1939,into the care of Headmaster Ralph Williamson, where he spentthe remainder of the war, leaving school in September 1945 asHead Boy.Sigi Faith OO, as the young boy is now known, was interviewedon BBC Radio Shropshire in a feature commemorating theanniversary. Press coverage of the celebration includedfeatures in The Sun and Daily Telegraph newspaper.Maids of honour at Tinks Farrow’s wedding in late November2008 were :Helen Frank (82-97) Email: helen@mortonstables.co.uk andDorothea Cramer (95-97)Email: dotcram@aol.comRobert Lamb (92-97) now lives and works in Bristol and canbe contacted on Email: lambii@hotmail.co.ukThe Society are very happy to have contact with IainMcIntyre (68-75) and his elder brother Tony (68-71).Iain lives in Monmouth running his own business and can becontacted on Email: iain@tinsleysupplies.co.ukTony left Oswestry and qualified at Durham and taught inindependant prep schools such as Dover College but wasmainly based in the Oxford area until his recent retirement.The years of playing rugby at a high level (England B squad)have taken their toll and he is presently recovering from twohip operations. Tony has moved to Frogwell near Tivertonin Devon where he enjoys umpiring in the Devon countycricket league and can be contacted onEmail: a.mcintyre952@btinternet.comJohn Elmhirst (formely Elmhirst-Baxter) (62-67)has recently moved to Hewnhan-on-Severn, Gloucestershire,he keeps in touch with Professor Roger Dennis and was sorryto miss The Final Triangle in 2007.Email: john_elmhirst@yahoo.co.ukHenry Savery Info WantedWe are seeking any information the society might haveregarding an old boy of Oswestry named Henry Savery.Savery was the author of Australia's first published novel,Quintus Servinton, and is thought to have attended Oswestryaround the years 1804 - 1808. The school archivist Gay GoreBrown is researching this claim and would like anyinformation from members onEmail: g.gore-browne@oswestryschool.org.ukOO brings science toManchester United FootballersMan U’s Human Performance ManagerDr Richard Hawkins (OO 1988-90)was appointed Head of Sports Science atManchester United in March 2008 where he workswith the sports science team at Manchester United’straining ground at Carrington, helping the players reach peak physical performance.An alumni of Loughborough University, Richard was Deputy Head of FA Sport Sciencefrom 2000-04, moving on to West Bromwich Albion FC from 2004-07 as 1st Team SportScientist and then Sheffield United as fitness coach in late 2007.Richard brings us his latest report:“The 2007/08 was a turbulent season which began atWest Bromwich Albion, had a 5 month period at Sheffield United from Oct-Feb and ended atManchester United for the final 3 months of the season.The Sheffield United role was very similar to the conditioning role I had at WBA except itoffered a new challenge which I felt was needed after 2 1 ⁄2 years. Due to variousfactors the role was short lived which coincided with an opportunity at Man United.One of the major constraints that conditioning and sports science staff in professionalfootball face is the need to service 30+ professional players with only one pair of hands. Thisis clearly not possible and therefore you often have to compromise the level of support youoffer players. One of the main attractions of the Man United role was that a team of supportstaff was being assembled, which meant a greater level of individual support for playerswould be possible. Hence the role of Performance Manager was something I was interestedin, and would allow me to utilise aspects of conditioning and sports science that’s notpossible if you operated as a one-man-band.The structure of sports science and conditioning at MUFC is such that there is now anumber of individuals that take on a specialist role while collectively providing day to daysupport to 1st team players. My specific role has focussed on the development of aperformance laboratory that is utilised to identify the conditioning needs of players,assisting in the development of individual player programmes. A testing and assessmentstrategy is now in operation which not only performs a key role in the long term developmentof fit players but also assists in the appropriate transition through the various stages ofrehabilitation for injured players.The new role now enables me to concentrate on more specialist areas and integrate thelatest developments in terms of technology and science into our programme providing theyfit in with our long term philosophy, which is simply to create an environment in which wecan maxmise the genetic potential of our players. A considerable amount of information isnow collected on players such as testosterone and cortisol levels to look at hormonal stress,salivary proteins to monitor immune status, heart rate and gps training and match records tolook at the various demands, physiological measures and performance tests to monitoradaptations, the list goes on. One of the major tasks we now face in the field is filteringand making sense of all the information we generate on players to ensure we make thecorrect decisions, as we strive to maximise performance whilst minimising the risk of injury.The demands placed on players and the squad in general, over what could be a 68 gameseason for us this year are excessive, and with every player responding differently to thedemands imposed on them it is important that appropriate strategies are utilised withindividual players to enable them to express themselves and perform every 3-4 days.The challenge that lies ahead is to ensurewe stay ahead of the opposition in termsof our conditioning and sports sciencesupport. Although this will not guaranteesuccess it will give us the best chancepossible if all other aspects are equal.”page 13Players Nani, Anderson, Fletcher, Evra