The Salopian no. 157 - Winter 2015

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OLD SALOPIAN NEWS
From the Director of the Salopian Club
Salopian outreach continues
apace and across the globe
Salopians have been gathering,
or planning to gather, in places
as far afield as Bangkok and
Hong Kong in the East and
New York in the West. Closer
to home, Britain has been well
covered this year, with dinners
in Chester, Birmingham,
Cambridge and Cardiff,
and there have been record
attendances at Henley and
London events.
Meanwhile, as our Sports Clubs
continue to play an encouragingly
active role, the Salopian Arts and
Activities Committee is embarking
on an ambitious winter programme
of events involving Salopians in the
arts – theatre, opera, choral singing,
an orchestral concert with the School,
and a repeat of the Young OS Open
Mic Night. Another activity planned is
a World War Two Battlefield Tour to
Normandy from 15th to 19th September
2016. All these events will be publicised
on our website.
Our careers programme will be
invigorated with the arrival at the
School of the new Careers Fellow,
Catriona Dry, to carry on the good
work of her predecessor, Kate
Daubney, in helping young OS with
careers advice and assistance through
the Salopian professional networks.
Finally, we welcome Sir Peter Davis as
President of the Salopian Club in 2016;
he takes over from Sir Eldryd Parry.
Sir Eldryd has been indefatigable this
year in his support and representation
of the Club at both the School and OS
occasions, culminating fittingly with
an OS dinner in the place of his birth,
Cardiff. He departs with our admiration
and enormous gratitude.
Eldryd, diolch yn fawr.
Floreat Salopia
Nick Jenkins
Tom Lloyd (Rt 2009-14) has been awarded the Sidney Gold Medal, the School’s highest academic prize. The presentation ceremony took place at City Drinks in
London on 19th November.
Peter Davis was born in the Wirral and
brought up there and in Denbighshire.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School
(O 55-59), and for many years he was
a Trustee of the Shrewsbury School
Foundation. He is to be President of the
Salopian Club in 2016.
After starting work at 17 in Lancashire,
in sales and marketing, he ultimately
became Chief Executive of three major
FTSE companies – Reed International/
Reed Elsevier (1986-1994), Prudential
(1995-2000), and J Sainsbury plc
(2000-2004). He has also been a nonexecutive
director of a large number
of major companies and an investor
in a wide range of young businesses.
He has been Chairman of Business
in the Community (1996-2001), the
CBI Finance and General Purposes
SIR PETER DAVIS
Committee, the Welfare to Work New
Deal Task Force (1997-2000), and the
Government’s Employer Task Force
on Pensions.
Outside the world of business,
Sir Peter has been Chairman of Marie
Curie Cancer Care (2006-2011),
(where he is now Life Vice President),
Pro Chancellor of Bangor University
(where he is now Deputy Chair of
Bangor University Council), a Trustee of
the Royal Opera House and Chairman
of the Royal Opera House Foundation,
a Trustee of the V and A, and on the
board of Welsh National Opera (until
recently chairing their Advisory Board).
In 2000 he was awarded an honorary
LLD (Doctor of Laws) degree by the
University of Exeter, and in 2003 the
annual Gold Medal by the Chartered
Management Institute. He was made a
Fellow of City & Guilds in 2004 and
is also a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts.
Sir Peter is married to Sue and has two
sons and a daughter.