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A <strong>rose</strong> <strong>by</strong><br />

<strong>any</strong> <strong>other</strong><br />

<strong>name</strong><br />

Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Joanna<br />

Carrick, founder and<br />

driving force of Red<br />

Rose Chain, talks about<br />

her comp<strong>any</strong>’s move to<br />

the <strong>Ipswich</strong> waterfront<br />

<strong>In</strong> <strong>this</strong> <strong>issue</strong> ...<br />

Issue 1 Winter 2009-2010<br />

Members’ news • OI Club activities • A dip into the Art-hives! • Hair today,<br />

gone tomorrow • Hatches, matches and despatches • President’s event •<br />

PHOTO BY CATHY SHELBOURNE<br />

OI Journal 1

Welcome to all those who left <strong>School</strong> in 2009:<br />

Elliot Adams<br />

Emily Allen<br />

Wesam Anad<br />

Marnie Botwright-Rance<br />

Roberta Brad<strong>by</strong><br />

Hannah Brooks<br />

Georgia Butler<br />

William Campbell<br />

Anna Churchill<br />

Seamus Clarke<br />

Lydia Cole<br />

Steven Coll<br />

Christopher Cope<br />

Holly Court<br />

Joe Crame<br />

Charlie Crerar<br />

Jessica Davey<br />

Peter Davis<br />

Sophie Dunlavey<br />

Harry Edwards<br />

Richard Emerson<br />

Peter Fogarty<br />

Miles Freeman<br />

Mark Frost<br />

Ben Goble<br />

Tom Godfrey<br />

Helena Goodrich<br />

Marcus Grainger<br />

Archie Gravell<br />

Tim Guard<br />

Devon Halls<br />

Rebecca Hare<br />

Edward Harrison<br />

The Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Journal is published annually <strong>by</strong> the<br />

Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ians Club<br />

Editor: Kate Kincaid<br />

Publications Officer: Cathy Shelbourne<br />

T: 01473 408300<br />

E: ces@ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk<br />

For more information about the Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ians, and to receive<br />

the twice-yearly Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian News, please contact:<br />

Carole Day<br />

T: 01473 298961<br />

E: oldipswichians@ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk<br />

www.oldipswichians.org.uk<br />

Painting of <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> on these pages <strong>by</strong> OI Mike Wootton<br />

Our thanks to Dr Blatchly for material from the Archives<br />

OI Journal 2<br />

Jamie Hauxwell<br />

Matthew Heal-Cohen<br />

Emily Hilton<br />

Jack Hinshelwood<br />

Ben Hobbs<br />

Katherine Hope<br />

Catherine Howe<br />

Emma Johnston<br />

Wiliam Jones<br />

Felicity Kaye<br />

Oliver Kemsley<br />

David Leach<br />

Nick Liang<br />

Steve Liang<br />

Uk bin Lim<br />

Marcus List<br />

Thomas Lloyd<br />

Nicholas London<br />

Alexander Lothian<br />

Thomas Marriage<br />

David Marshall<br />

Robert McTear<br />

Jessica Moffat<br />

Thomas Mulholland<br />

Xavier Murray-Pollock<br />

Jessica Oliver<br />

Isabel O’Rhiordan<br />

Henry Outridge<br />

Thomas Pakenham-Walsh<br />

Laura Peatman<br />

Rachael Pells<br />

Lara Pepper<br />

Callum Phair<br />

Jonathon Pinkney<br />

Emma Rawcliffe<br />

William Raymond<br />

Joe Reddington<br />

Tate Reid<br />

William Reid<br />

Edward Richards<br />

Grace Richmond<br />

Beth<strong>any</strong> Scott<br />

Kieran Seymour<br />

Eleanor Shone<br />

Henry Stark<br />

Philip Steward-Rudland<br />

Sophie Stoakley<br />

Jonathon Street<br />

Emily Stubbs<br />

Ross Taylor<br />

Pollyanna Thorburn<br />

Josh Townsend<br />

Josh C Turner<br />

Josh S Turner<br />

Max Underwood<br />

Jack Voller<br />

Ralph Wainer<br />

Casper Wilcox<br />

Amelia Wilkinson<br />

Christopher Williams<br />

Lydia Williams<br />

Sam Wilsher<br />

Simon Wood<br />

Edward Woodley<br />

Leo Wortley

Old<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong>ian<br />

Journal<br />

2009<br />

OI Journal 3

OI Journal<br />

Welcome to the newly<br />

designed Journal,<br />

which I hope you<br />

will enjoy. I look forward to<br />

your feedback, and to your<br />

contributions to the next <strong>issue</strong>!<br />

Firstly, two apologies. One is<br />

to the past Presidents who<br />

appeared in the last OI News,<br />

in a photograph captioned a<br />

Pride of Presidents. Some of the<br />

<strong>name</strong>s, as m<strong>any</strong> of you were<br />

kind enough to point out, were<br />

incorrect. I have re-printed <strong>this</strong><br />

photograph on page 11 with<br />

(I hope) the correct notation<br />

and can only apologise for the<br />

mistake. However it’s an ill<br />

wind, as they say, and I was<br />

greatly encouraged that so m<strong>any</strong><br />

spotted the mistake and took<br />

the trouble to get in touch. It<br />

made me wonder if I should<br />

pop in a few deliberate gaffs<br />

just to keep you (and for that<br />

matter me) on our toes. So read<br />

carefully, the first to spot the<br />

deliberate mistake gets a bottle!<br />

Secondly I must apologise for<br />

the rather late publication date,<br />

especially to those OIs who I<br />

have harried for news. Any of<br />

you who know me will not be<br />

OI Journal 4<br />

Kate’s<br />

Column<br />

surprised that <strong>this</strong> is late, and <strong>any</strong><br />

of my old tutors may sigh and<br />

be reminded of my homework.<br />

However I do hope that you will<br />

agree that like all good things it<br />

is worth waiting for (unlike my<br />

homework)!<br />

The reason for <strong>this</strong> lateness<br />

is due to a backlog in the<br />

<strong>School</strong>’s publications office. We<br />

are very fortunate to have the<br />

services of Cathy Shelbourne,<br />

the <strong>School</strong>’s Publications Officer.<br />

Cathy has done a fantastic job<br />

in re-designing all the <strong>School</strong><br />

and OI magazines but <strong>this</strong> has<br />

taken time, more time than we<br />

Kate Kincaid (1975-77)<br />

EDITOR<br />

had allowed for. Currently, <strong>this</strong><br />

Journal and The <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian are<br />

scheduled to appear at the<br />

beginning of the <strong>School</strong> year<br />

in September, which creates a<br />

huge amount of work at one<br />

time. So to avoid <strong>this</strong> traffic<br />

jam in future and ease the flow<br />

through Cathy’s office we are<br />

going to change our publication<br />

dates.<br />

Please make a note that from<br />

next year the OI News will<br />

appear in April and August, and<br />

the next Journal in January 2011,<br />

and so on. It makes good sense<br />

that we start the year off with<br />

our big <strong>issue</strong> which will carry the<br />

accounts and report of the AGM<br />

held only three weeks prior,<br />

making that important news<br />

much more current.<br />

I am as ever extremely grateful<br />

to Cathy for making my job<br />

possible, to Carole Day whose<br />

encyclopaedic knowledge of the<br />

Club is invaluable, and to John<br />

Blatchly for more fascinating<br />

tales from the boundless<br />

archives. Lastly, thanks to all of<br />

you who sent in news and took<br />

the trouble to get in touch. Keep<br />

it up!

A <strong>rose</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>any</strong><br />

<strong>other</strong> <strong>name</strong><br />

OI Joanna Carrick traces<br />

her love of Shakespeare<br />

and drama back to the<br />

sixth form at <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong><br />

Hair<br />

today,<br />

gone<br />

tomorrow<br />

26<br />

14<br />

<strong>In</strong> <strong>this</strong> <strong>issue</strong><br />

6-13<br />

14-29<br />

30-43<br />

44-45<br />

46-53<br />

54-57<br />

Club News<br />

Features<br />

Members’ News<br />

including Obituaries<br />

<strong>School</strong> News<br />

From the Archives<br />

AGM and Accounts<br />

Reunions Down Under<br />

and nearer to home<br />

10, 28<br />

OI Journal 5

OI Journal<br />

Chairman’s<br />

Comment<br />

OI Journal 6<br />

As you will see from the Journal, <strong>this</strong> has been a busy<br />

year with a great deal going on in the Club. We have<br />

carried out an ambitious series of events and reunions<br />

and I am, as ever, grateful to Carole Day, and the various<br />

‘hosts,’ for the smooth running of these popular gatherings.<br />

This year, more than ever, we have spread the OI net across<br />

the globe, with Graham Papenfus visiting South Africa, Hong<br />

Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.<br />

The Club has published the book <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> - A History<br />

in Photographs, which is a wonderful culmination of months<br />

of hard work <strong>by</strong> John Blatchly and Stuart Grimwade. The book<br />

is available from the <strong>School</strong> and provides a fascinating insight<br />

into the growth of the <strong>School</strong> from the early times at Henley<br />

Road to the present day.<br />

We have progressed with the building of the new website<br />

which will greatly enhance links with OIs across the globe.<br />

The careers initiative is underway, the information has been<br />

gathered, and we are starting to assimilate it into a booklet.<br />

However, just recently the Club suffered a major blow in the<br />

loss of our much-appreciated secretary, Keith Harris, who died<br />

suddenly following a massive heart attack. Keith took over as<br />

secretary in 2008, and was effective, efficient and a pleasure<br />

to work with. He will be sorely missed throughout the m<strong>any</strong><br />

walks of life in which he was involved. Our thoughts are with<br />

his wife, Joy, and their children Neill, David, and Suzanne, who<br />

is married to OI David Llewelyn. A full obituary is published on<br />

page 41.<br />

On behalf of the committee I would like to wish you all a very<br />

happy and a prosperous New Year and I look forward to seeing<br />

more of you next year at <strong>any</strong> of the m<strong>any</strong> events we have<br />

planned.<br />

James Davey<br />

Chairman<br />

Speak and you shall be heard! James sounds off for one minute on the subject of <strong>Ipswich</strong>,<br />

during the <strong>Ipswich</strong> Electrifiers’ Speakerthon <strong>this</strong> summer, in which 100 people spoke<br />

consecutively for one minute each.

Graham Peck was at <strong>School</strong> from 1952-1959. When<br />

he left, he joined Suffolk County Council as a trainee<br />

engineer in the Roads and Bridges Department. Whilst<br />

there, he was able to continue his studies at the Civic College,<br />

gaining ONC and HNC qualifications in Civil Engineering.<br />

<strong>In</strong> 1970 he became a member of the <strong>In</strong>stitution of Civil<br />

Engineers. After a long and rewarding career in the Highways<br />

Department he retired in 1995. However, his retirement was<br />

to prove a very busy time for it was then that he was able<br />

to concentrate on his passion for painting watercolours. He<br />

also became one of the most active members on the OI<br />

committee, editing the Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian in 1998. The following<br />

year he took on the role of Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Administrator as<br />

well, and in 2005 he became the club secretary. So there was<br />

no one better placed to be President of the Club he has given<br />

so much to already.<br />

Graham writes:<br />

“During my year in office I hope it will be possible for the<br />

OI Club to work very closely with the <strong>School</strong>. This year I<br />

have chosen as the President’s event an Art Exhibition. Art<br />

is something close to my heart and <strong>this</strong> exhibition is an<br />

opportunity to bring together not just OIs but also pupils, their<br />

families, members of staff, and friends of <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>,<br />

all of whom will be exhibiting. My chosen charity is the East<br />

Anglian Air Ambulance. There are always m<strong>any</strong> worthy causes<br />

that need support but <strong>this</strong> charity is local, it saves lives, and it<br />

benefits all the people of Suffolk.<br />

I am greatly indebted to fellow OI Mike Wootton who I met<br />

<strong>by</strong> chance. Mike’s enthusiasm is infectious and has helped to<br />

re-awaken my dormant artistic urges. Under his tutelage I have<br />

gained confidence and a huge amount of enjoyment, and he<br />

has been a great help in putting <strong>this</strong> Exhibition together.”<br />

Club News<br />

Profile<br />

of our<br />

President<br />

OI Journal 7

OI Journal<br />

The <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

Dinner 2008<br />

The 2008 <strong>Ipswich</strong> Dinner<br />

followed on as usual from<br />

the Annual General Meeting,<br />

whose main business was to<br />

elect the officers of the Club<br />

and sign off the accounts.<br />

Whilst <strong>this</strong> was being done<br />

m<strong>any</strong> members enjoyed<br />

the bar facilities in the<br />

Little <strong>School</strong> before going<br />

on to sit down for dinner<br />

in the Great <strong>School</strong>. There<br />

was an excellent turnout,<br />

once again showing what<br />

a popular event <strong>this</strong> is just<br />

before Christmas. Full credit<br />

must go to John Ward for his<br />

organisation of an evening<br />

enjoyed <strong>by</strong> so m<strong>any</strong> meeting<br />

up with old chums again.<br />

This year’s dinner takes place<br />

on 19th December 2009, and<br />

if you haven’t already booked<br />

tickets <strong>by</strong> the time you read<br />

<strong>this</strong> then please do so quickly.<br />

The guest speaker is OI Dr<br />

Jason Payne James, forensic<br />

physician and forensic<br />

medical examiner. Why not<br />

OI Journal 8<br />

have a ring around and put a<br />

table together?<br />

ATTENDEES<br />

Dr GMW Cook,<br />

OI President 2008<br />

Mr TJ Briden,<br />

Guest Speaker<br />

Mr WD Coe,<br />

OI Chairman<br />

Mr K Daniels,<br />

Chairman of Governors<br />

Mr IG Galbraith,<br />

Headmaster<br />

PC Allnutt<br />

JR Andreasen<br />

Miss H Armes<br />

RHD Ballam<br />

A Banerjee<br />

OSH Barrett<br />

AE Beale<br />

GG Bell-Jones<br />

B Bentley<br />

Dr JM Blatchly<br />

SJ Bland<br />

JPE Boto<br />

Miss B Botwright-Rance<br />

PV Boughton<br />

O Bowditch<br />

Dr JW Broadway<br />

MJ Bronniman<br />

J Broughton<br />

MT Burrows<br />

Miss JL Burton<br />

SAE Cannon<br />

N Card<br />

TA Cates<strong>by</strong><br />

J Cawthorn<br />

CJ Chandler<br />

JR Chaplin<br />

PK Chapman<br />

Miss LC Cheves<br />

DA Chivers<br />

DW Chivers<br />

DR Clarke<br />

HJ Cochrane<br />

DJ Coe<br />

TC Cooledge<br />

KRE Cooper<br />

Miss AS Craske<br />

M Crowe<br />

EA Cutting<br />

JStJ Davey<br />

JDH Davidson<br />

PB Denison<br />

M Donaldson<br />

E Driver<br />

AJ Dunlavey<br />

P Emerson<br />

JD Fairs<br />

JE Felgate<br />

MR Fenn<br />

RM Fenning<br />

SC Finch<br />

S Fityan<br />

S Fitzpatrick<br />

C Flather<br />

CP Fowler<br />

Miss N Fowler<br />

P Gallagher<br />

T Gallagher<br />

Miss HL Godfrey<br />

Ms C Gordon<br />

RD Gower<br />

JE Graham<br />

AH Greengrass<br />

Miss KP Grimes<br />

EP Grimwade<br />

PR Guard<br />

RH Hagger<br />

MJM Hilton<br />

Miss AR Hunt<br />

EB Hyams<br />

CR Jeffrey<br />

RH Johnson<br />

Miss LN Jones<br />

Miss SJ Kaye<br />

Mrs K Kincaid<br />

B Lamb<br />

JS Le Mare<br />

EJ Lowe<br />

J McDonald<br />

Miss HL McFarland<br />

AD Mann<br />

RJ Mann<br />

JJ Mason<br />

AU Masser<br />

MH Mellor<br />

Miss F Milner<br />

J Mitchell<br />

DRD Newell<br />

Miss CE Nicholls<br />

Mrs HG Noble<br />

JM Noble<br />

WG Notcutt<br />

CN O’Loughlin<br />

JEG Parker<br />

TGW Parry<br />

THW Passmore<br />

SA Patel<br />

RN Pearce<br />

SN Pearce<br />

SC Peatman<br />

GK Peck<br />

BJ Pewter<br />

CJ Phillips<br />

R Porter<br />

GW Richings<br />

Miss GF Richmond<br />

TS Richmond<br />

Miss L Rix<br />

J Rubin<br />

SM Runnacles<br />

B St Joseph<br />

S Salam<br />

NPE Scargill<br />

AE Schur<br />

Miss A Sharp<br />

MJ Sherifi

JS Skeates<br />

BG Squirrell<br />

HE Staunton<br />

Miss S Thomas<br />

Miss C Treharne<br />

M Treharne<br />

S Trott<br />

W Turner<br />

PR Vellacott<br />

TD Vellacott<br />

JI Walker<br />

TAM Waller<br />

Miss ERS Ward<br />

JPL Ward<br />

G Watson<br />

Mrs SL Webber<br />

D West<br />

LA White<br />

SJ Whiting<br />

WAD Whitfield<br />

A Williams<br />

REJ Windus<br />

TA Woods<br />

AT Wynne<br />

<strong>In</strong>vited Guests:<br />

Mr S Boyle<br />

Mr A Calver<br />

Mr R Clayton<br />

Ms C Day<br />

Mr J Halls<br />

Mr G Jones<br />

Mrs J Jones<br />

Mrs J Masser<br />

Mr G Papenfus<br />

Mr P Petrie<br />

Mrs C Shelbourne<br />

Mr R Welbourne<br />

Mrs V Yorath<br />

Upper 6th:<br />

W Jones<br />

H Passmore<br />

E Richards,<br />

Head Boy<br />

Miss B Scott<br />

London Dinner<br />

29th April 2009<br />

ATTENDEES<br />

Martin J Anderson<br />

Charles Bagnall<br />

Simon W Ballard<br />

Iain A Betterton<br />

Dr John M Blatchly<br />

Jonan PE Boto<br />

Timothy J Briden<br />

Robert HA Chase<br />

Giles A Clarke<br />

Andrew Cockrill<br />

Revd Dr Geoffrey MW Cook<br />

Karl Daniels<br />

James St J Davey<br />

Paul A Dewis<br />

Mark K Evans<br />

Richard J Evans<br />

Michael R Fenn<br />

Sam J Fitzpatrick<br />

Ian G Galbraith<br />

Thomas Gallagher<br />

Peter A Goymour<br />

Anthony H Greengrass<br />

Andrew G Griffiths<br />

Thomas P Griffiths<br />

Peter R Guard<br />

Graeme C Halle<br />

Alasdair J Hamblin<br />

Anthony C Harris<br />

Martin J Holland<br />

Ben DBK Jervis<br />

Tristan Jervis<br />

Dan G Jewers<br />

Timothy N Jones<br />

Alastair RG Kidwell<br />

Kate Kincaid<br />

William A Latta<br />

Graham RW Lovering<br />

Matthew J Lyddall<br />

Guy Main<br />

James E Mansfield<br />

John R S Mash<br />

Matthew M Moreton<br />

Richard P Mortimer<br />

Colin G Nears CBE<br />

Shyam Patel<br />

Graham SK Peck<br />

Benjamin J Pewter<br />

Robert Porter<br />

Jason C Race<br />

Simon Roberts<br />

Peter E Rolph<br />

David E Rowledge<br />

John S Skeates<br />

Jeremy J de C Tate<br />

Geoffrey G Warrington<br />

David J M West<br />

Andrew J Williams<br />

Laura M Williams<br />

Iain J A Wills<br />

Trevor A Woods<br />

Alan T Wyatt<br />

Lt Col Robert JW Wyatt<br />

OI Richard Wilson, the speaker at the<br />

London Dinner, has enjoyed a long and<br />

successful musical career as a solo tenor.<br />

See features on 500 Years of Music-Making<br />

at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />

Club News<br />

London<br />

Dinner 2010<br />

This really is a note for next<br />

year’s diary. The London<br />

Dinner will be held on<br />

Wednesday 28th April, in<br />

Lincoln’s <strong>In</strong>n, thanks to 2010<br />

President Tim Bryden, a<br />

member of the Temple there.<br />

This is the most amazing<br />

venue and I would urge<br />

everyone to try and make it<br />

and to book early to ensure<br />

a ticket. 2010 is the 100th<br />

anniversary of the annual<br />

London Dinners so we are<br />

celebrating in style.<br />

At a recent committee<br />

meeting it was agreed that<br />

future London Dinners would<br />

alternate between the regular<br />

venue of the East <strong>In</strong>dia Club,<br />

which has served us very well<br />

for m<strong>any</strong> years, and a ‘roving’<br />

venue. So <strong>any</strong> suggestions for<br />

2012?<br />

Last year’s Dinner was very<br />

well supported so while you<br />

are ringing round to make<br />

up tables for the <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

Dinner why not ask about the<br />

London Dinner at the same<br />

time – saves on telephone<br />

calls, makes booking simple<br />

and early, and helps the<br />

organisers in a big way!<br />

Remember, don’t miss out<br />

on <strong>this</strong> one; it could be 100<br />

years before it’s held here<br />

again. If you have lost contact<br />

with people you would like<br />

to meet up with at <strong>any</strong> of<br />

the club events then Carole<br />

Day will be able to put you in<br />

touch.<br />

OI Journal 9

OI Journal<br />

Calling all<br />

Thespians<br />

Ben Eagle (2003-08) has<br />

contacted the committee<br />

asking if he could put on The<br />

History Boys <strong>by</strong> Alan Bennett<br />

as an OI drama production.<br />

The committee have agreed<br />

in principle, and details need<br />

to be thrashed out. Rehearsal<br />

and performance times will<br />

depend on the availability of<br />

the <strong>School</strong> facilities At the<br />

time of going to press it is<br />

hoped that it will happen<br />

next September 2010. We<br />

will keep you informed.<br />

20/20 Cricket<br />

This day provided cricket<br />

enthusiasts with a great day<br />

out enjoying top class cricket<br />

in the comfort of a box at the<br />

Essex County Cricket ground<br />

in Chelmsford. This was such<br />

a success that we will be<br />

repeating the offer next year<br />

and will keep you aware of<br />

the dates.<br />

OI Journal 10<br />

A Friday Night Social in<br />

Dockland<br />

For the ‘50s and ‘60s leavers, not an event<br />

which we would have publicly admitted to in<br />

those days, but times change, and so have the<br />

old <strong>Ipswich</strong> Docks!<br />

About 35 of us assembled on a dark but mild<br />

and dry evening in late October, to stroll from<br />

west to east along the newly-refurbished<br />

Waterfront, starting on what our Town Guide<br />

Chris Terry assured us was the site of the<br />

Anglo-Saxon quays of the oldest English town.<br />

Towering over <strong>this</strong> spot now, of course, is The<br />

Mill, a bright new 35-storey landmark building<br />

for the town – indeed the tallest building in the<br />

East of England. The new Jerwood Dance House,<br />

at its base, now forms an entirely new and<br />

exciting entry to the Dock.<br />

Beside it, we then viewed the Maritime Trust’s<br />

new Window Museum, stuffed with artefacts<br />

celebrating our maritime heritage, including<br />

my old sailing bobble hat atop William Coe’s shop dummy, now playing the role of a traditionally dressed<br />

sailmaker. Then on past the refurbished Albion Mills and its new cafés and bars, the magnificently floodlit<br />

Old Custom House (still the main offices of the Port Authority), and the beautiful medieval and Tudor<br />

complex of Isaac Lord’s – a real jewel in our crown, thanks to the loving care and attention given during OI<br />

Stuart Cooper’s ownership. We admired the huge and glittering new University College Suffolk building,<br />

curving away from the quay to provide a splendid open space. Finally, with only slightly cold fingers and<br />

feet, we were welcomed into Coffeelink’s upstairs library room overlooking Neptune Marina for a welcome<br />

hot refreshment and chat. It was a lovely evening and a most successful change from the usual Pavilion<br />

venue.<br />

5th and 10th reunion on 18th July 2009<br />

Stuart Grimwade

Reunion<br />

roundup<br />

1st Reunion and<br />

Upper Sixth Social<br />

This is always a popular<br />

meeting but <strong>this</strong> year 40 OIs<br />

returned to <strong>School</strong> for what<br />

was a very sociable evening.<br />

All credit and thanks to<br />

Martin Crowe for gathering<br />

the troops. It is an important<br />

Top: 1st reunion and Upper Sixth social on<br />

11th September 2009; above: 40th and<br />

50th reunion on 25th September 2009<br />

reunion as it gives new<br />

members of the Upper 6th a<br />

great opportunity to talk to<br />

students about their life after<br />

school at a time when they<br />

are having to make those all<br />

important decisions about<br />

their own futures.<br />

Club News<br />

OI Careers <strong>In</strong>itiative<br />

We have had a very<br />

encouraging response to the<br />

start of the Careers <strong>In</strong>itiative.<br />

William Coe sent letters to all<br />

OIs in the summer requesting<br />

your help in offering careers<br />

advice, mentoring and work<br />

experience placements. This<br />

information is currently being<br />

assimilated into a booklet<br />

which will be available<br />

to OI members only. The<br />

information will eventually<br />

be put onto the secure part<br />

of the OI website so that it is<br />

available to Club members as<br />

well.<br />

This is such an important<br />

area for members to get<br />

involved in, and will become,<br />

we hope, an invaluable<br />

dimension for both the <strong>School</strong><br />

and OIs graduating or needing<br />

a change of direction. It<br />

represents an excellent and<br />

relatively easy way in which<br />

members can help build links<br />

with pupils, the <strong>School</strong>, and<br />

new members.<br />

This is an on-going process<br />

and we will be constantly<br />

updating our directory, so<br />

if you find your situation<br />

The correct line up<br />

changes and you are able to<br />

offer more or different types<br />

of help please keep Carole<br />

informed.<br />

As <strong>this</strong> process gets<br />

underway we will keep you<br />

informed of its progress,<br />

however, just <strong>this</strong> summer<br />

our Treasurer’s son, OI Nick<br />

Runnacles, wanted some<br />

guidance for his future career.<br />

Following a chat with William<br />

Coe he was put in touch with<br />

several OIs who had offered<br />

help and as a result was able<br />

to plan his applications more<br />

efficiently. We wish him luck<br />

with his future and we are<br />

encouraged that <strong>this</strong> initiative<br />

really will make a difference<br />

to so m<strong>any</strong> people.<br />

So, on behalf of the Club, a<br />

big Thank You to those of you<br />

who have been able to offer<br />

your help.<br />

On the front page of our last <strong>issue</strong> of the OI News, we<br />

published a photo of past Presidents with an incomplete and<br />

inccorrect caption. Our apologies to all concerned. We hope<br />

<strong>this</strong> is the correct line up! From left to right, front row: Rev Dr<br />

Geoffrey Cook, (President 2008); Ian Galbraith, Headmaster;<br />

Karl Daniels, Chairman of the Governing Body; Caroline<br />

Bealing, Alan McLauchlan; second row: Neil Cawthorn, Michael<br />

Philpot, John Skeates, Alan Wyatt, Anthony Greengrass, Peter<br />

Rolph and Nicholas Fiske. Third row: David Moore and Lt<br />

Col Bob Wyatt. Back row Simon Woolfries, David Coe, John<br />

Clements, John Le Mare and Tim Thorne.<br />

OI Journal 11

OI Journal<br />

News from<br />

the Fives Club<br />

Friendly Fives continues<br />

to be played at <strong>School</strong><br />

throughout the year on<br />

Wednesday evenings<br />

and the fixture list for<br />

next season is available<br />

from Tom Fletcher (tom.<br />

fletcher@cantab.net).<br />

Anyone who would like to<br />

take part please contact<br />

Peter Boughton (pvb@<br />

ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk).<br />

The OI Fives Club remains<br />

indebted to the <strong>School</strong>,<br />

Headmaster and Governors<br />

for their continued support,<br />

including the use of the<br />

facilities.<br />

OI Journal 12<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> Tour<strong>name</strong>nt<br />

Undaunted <strong>by</strong> the Arctic<br />

conditions, the usual band of<br />

intrepid <strong>School</strong> students, OIs,<br />

and guests braved the big<br />

January freeze to celebrate<br />

30 years of the <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

Tour<strong>name</strong>nt, and to compete<br />

for the Graves Cup. With<br />

injury preventing John Caudle<br />

from defending his title<br />

(although John did make his<br />

impressively large presence<br />

felt at the Saturday night<br />

dinner), the draw looked<br />

wide open. The pairings of<br />

Courtney Friend and Oli Watts,<br />

and Peter Forrest and Alex<br />

Yusaf established themselves<br />

as early favourites.<br />

Noteworthy too was the<br />

return to the OI Fives scene of<br />

br<strong>other</strong>s Matthew and Colin<br />

Scott (in Matthew’s case, the<br />

first time since leaving school<br />

24 years before).<br />

The Saturday Fives went<br />

according to the form book,<br />

as the two favourites cut an<br />

unbeaten swathe through the<br />

field to win their respective<br />

groups. The Saturday night<br />

Dinner provided a welcome<br />

distraction from the Fives and<br />

as always, was instrumental<br />

in influencing the<br />

performance of all attendees<br />

the following morning. Early<br />

pacesetters Friend and Watt<br />

made it to the semi-finals<br />

but their play mutated from<br />

ruthless Fives machine<br />

to port-induced autopilot<br />

and in the shock result of<br />

the tour<strong>name</strong>nt they were<br />

defeated <strong>by</strong> Nick Bunyan and<br />

age-defying Mike Fenn.<br />

Meanwhile, in the <strong>other</strong> half<br />

of the draw, Forrest and Yusaf<br />

were repeating their winning<br />

form, cruising into the final<br />

without losing a game.<br />

Despite a valiant display, Nick<br />

and Mike were unable to<br />

complete the fairytale ending<br />

as Peter and Alex confirmed<br />

themselves as clearly the<br />

best pair in the Tour<strong>name</strong>nt,<br />

winning the final in straight<br />

games. There was also a<br />

Scholey family double in the<br />

Plate, with Peter victorious<br />

in Plate A and son George<br />

winning Plate B.<br />

As for the league, the OIs<br />

finished just above the midway<br />

point.<br />

Gareth Hoskins<br />

Finalists in the <strong>Ipswich</strong> Tour<strong>name</strong>nt, from<br />

left to right: Mike Fenn, Nick Bunyan, Alex<br />

Yusaf, and Peter Forrest

Lady OIs v Cambridge University<br />

Congratulations to Annabel Griffiths and Eleanor Ward<br />

(daughter of John Ward, OI Social Secretary) on winning the<br />

first Lady OIs fives match against the light blues. The match<br />

was played at <strong>School</strong>, and Annabel had to temporarily forsake<br />

her Cambridge allegiance to defeat the University <strong>by</strong> 3-0.<br />

Earlier in the year Annabel was made captain of the Cambridge<br />

University’s Ladies Eton Fives team (see Members’ Mews) and<br />

we congratulate her on that position.<br />

First Ladies’ match at <strong>Ipswich</strong>; from left to right: Eleanor Ward, Annabel Griffiths, L Burgess,<br />

Emmalina Thompsell<br />

OI Eton Fives Season 2008-09<br />

Twenty-three OIs, two school pupils and four guests<br />

represented the OI Fives Club <strong>this</strong> season.<br />

2008 started worryingly for the OIs with John Caudle injured<br />

and Mike Fenn claiming not to be of league standard. However<br />

the resurgence of the ‘youngsters’ Peter Forrest, Richard<br />

Robinson, Jim Wright and David Cox (who has now regained<br />

his life from Rothschilds) meant that <strong>this</strong> year’s sides were<br />

substantially down on the average age of the past few years!<br />

Coupled with the continued dedication of Peter Boughton,<br />

Richard Wood, Simon Woolfries, Tom Fletcher, Mark Graves,<br />

and David Leach (<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>), a solid league season was<br />

enjoyed <strong>by</strong> all.<br />

<strong>In</strong> the Alan Barber Cup, unfortunately, we were unable to field<br />

our best side and lost to Old Edwardians 2-1. A return ‘grudge’<br />

match is planned. <strong>In</strong> the Kinnaird Cup Amateur Championship,<br />

OI Gareth Hoskins and his partner Nick Shaw (Harrovian), and<br />

OI Peter Boughton and his partner Nick Bunyan (Windsor and<br />

Eton), reached the third round with Gareth and Nick seeded 12.<br />

Club News<br />

<strong>In</strong>to the<br />

Breach<br />

The Club is very pleased to<br />

announce that Leigh Belcham<br />

(1951-58) has agreed to take<br />

up the position of Secretary.<br />

After leaving <strong>School</strong>, Leigh<br />

took up an apprenticeship<br />

with GEC in Coventry and<br />

whilst there became very involved in the apprenticeship<br />

movement. It was a natural progression for him to move<br />

from there into youth work and in 1962-64 he trained as a<br />

Youth Leader in Birmingham. He then became Youth Director<br />

for the Birmingham Parish Church based in The Bull Ring,<br />

in the centre of the city. <strong>In</strong> 1969 he moved to Littleport,<br />

Cambridgeshire, to take up the position of Youth Tutor and<br />

then in 1976 he was appointed Development Officer for the<br />

Pickenham Adventure Camp in Norfolk.<br />

<strong>In</strong> 1978 he went on to manage Carroty Wood, the Christian<br />

Young Persons Adventure Centre in Tonbridge, Kent. <strong>In</strong> 1983<br />

he took on the role of National Co-ordinator of Christian<br />

Camping in Coventry. He moved back to <strong>Ipswich</strong> in 2002 to<br />

work as the Administrator for Rural Ministries.<br />

With his long career in administration and youth <strong>issue</strong>s he<br />

is an ideal candidate and we are extremely grateful that he<br />

has agreed to join us as Secretary. Leigh is married to Jill and<br />

they have two sons. Jill has a keen interest in history and has<br />

offered to help out in the ever burgeoning Archives. <strong>In</strong> his<br />

spare time Leigh<br />

enjoys sailing and<br />

pastel painting,<br />

and yes, some<br />

of his paintings<br />

can be seen in<br />

the forthcoming<br />

exhibition.<br />

OI Journal 13

A<br />

OI Journal<br />

The Red Rose Chain film and theatre comp<strong>any</strong> will soon be celebrating its twentieth<br />

anniversary with a move to <strong>Ipswich</strong>’s waterfront. CATHY SHELBOURNE meets its<br />

founder and driving force.<br />

<strong>rose</strong><br />

<strong>by</strong><br />

<strong>any</strong><br />

<strong>other</strong><br />

<strong>name</strong><br />

FRONT COVER, AND PHOTO ABOVE, BY<br />

CATHY SHELBOURNE; OTHER PHOTOS<br />

SUPPLIED BY RED ROSE CHAIN<br />

OI Journal 14<br />

What’s in a <strong>name</strong>?<br />

Red Rose Chain takes its<br />

<strong>name</strong> from an obscure<br />

Shakespeare reference<br />

(too obscure even for<br />

Google) in which the<br />

god of love defeats the<br />

god of war with a chain<br />

of <strong>rose</strong>s.<br />

The Witchbottle Theatre’s<br />

<strong>name</strong> was inspired <strong>by</strong><br />

the remains of clay<br />

bottles found during<br />

excavations near the<br />

docks. Witch bottles<br />

were thought to protect<br />

homes from sinister<br />

spells and magic. Now<br />

you can let Red Rose<br />

Chain’s magic weave a<br />

spell on you!<br />

“The two years of my education that I enjoyed most,” says<br />

artistic director Joanna Carrick, “were those spent at <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong>.” She joined the sixth form in 1984. “I loved it. I was<br />

shocked that the teachers treated us in such an equal way. We<br />

were regarded as young adults, and I had a voice.”<br />

It was a voice that she has used to powerful effect throughout<br />

her career, as a writer and artistic director of Red Rose Chain<br />

which she founded nearly twenty years ago. It started as a team<br />

of little-known artists (and one very famous one, Neil Morrissey),<br />

doing a 24 hour Shakespeare marathon at the Wolsey Theatre<br />

in <strong>Ipswich</strong>. It is now a multi-skilled independent production<br />

comp<strong>any</strong> renowned for its awareness-raising films, and plays<br />

staged in strange places! Next year it hopes to move into its<br />

own purpose-built theatre on the <strong>Ipswich</strong> waterfront.<br />

“Jo was intense on stage and incisive in class,” recalls Alex<br />

Burnett, head of English at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>. “She put Shakespeare<br />

way above everyone else and her essays and readings of his<br />

texts were memorable. Few read with such confidence and style<br />

in the classroom.” She studied English, History and Classical<br />

Civilisation at A level, and went on from Churchill College,<br />

Cambridge to the Central <strong>School</strong> of Speech and Drama.<br />

“I’ve never done a day’s work that wasn’t connected with<br />

drama,” she says, perhaps unsurprisingly, as her father acted<br />

in m<strong>any</strong> films, and both parents are distinguished speech and<br />

drama teachers. At the age of 16, she put on an Agatha Christie<br />

play in the Town Hall; as soon as she left drama school she<br />

set up Red Rose Chain and was joined <strong>by</strong> her husband David<br />

Newborn, and their adopted son, Jimmy Grimes.<br />

At first, Red Rose Chain did adaptations of classics such as David<br />

Copperfield and Dracula. Their first full-blown Shakespearean<br />

production, of Hamlet in 1984, was followed <strong>by</strong> Pericles. This<br />

year’s staging of The Winter’s Tale, at Theatre in the Forest, is<br />

the fourth consecutive Shakespeare performance in Rendlesham<br />

Forest. Theatre in the Forest began in 2000 as part of an arts<br />

initiative encouraging artists to work in unusual locations. The<br />

first production, UFO Bentwaters, provided a light-hearted answer<br />

to the UFO incident in 1980, and introduced the involvement of<br />

professional actors alongside a well-trained youth team.<br />

Exit, pursued <strong>by</strong> a bear <strong>name</strong>d Rose<br />

Although the Theatre in the Forest concept has been outstandingly<br />

successful, Red Rose Chain decided on a rather unusual stunt to<br />

boost bookings earlier <strong>this</strong> year. The Winter’s Tale contains one<br />

of Shakespeare’s most famous stage directions – Exit, pursued<br />

<strong>by</strong> a bear. From 1st April, rumours of a wild bear in Rendlesham

Forest began to circulate around the world. Clips of sightings<br />

(creatively filmed <strong>by</strong> Red Rose Chain) were posted on YouTube,<br />

and national newspapers sent reporters to track down the bear.<br />

Although <strong>this</strong> hoax might have spelt curtains for the comp<strong>any</strong>,<br />

in fact it became a huge marketing coup. Over 9,000 people<br />

flocked to the 19 performances of The Winter’s Tale, making it<br />

the biggest outdoor theatre event in the East of England. With<br />

outstanding box office receipts, Red Rose Chain was able to<br />

sponsor a bear cub in Cambodia, rescued <strong>by</strong> the Free The Bears<br />

charity. And the bear’s <strong>name</strong>? You’ve guessed it.<br />

After ten years of summer productions in the Forest, and projects<br />

the rest of the year with a wide range of partners, Red Rose<br />

Chain hopes to be moving into its own purpose-built theatre<br />

next year. The Witchbottle Theatre is part of the huge arts<br />

development on <strong>Ipswich</strong>’s waterfront. <strong>Ipswich</strong> Borough Council<br />

has contributed £75,000 towards the £400,000 needed to fit<br />

out the new premises, which will include a 200-seat theatre<br />

equipped for cinema screenings and live performances, plus a<br />

film production and editing suite, café, and meeting spaces.<br />

Film and theatre<br />

“It’s very unusual for a theatre comp<strong>any</strong> to do film too,”<br />

acknowledges Jo. “We love both forms of expression.” They<br />

began making films in 1997, with Sparkleshark, shot on the roof<br />

of Woolworths in <strong>Ipswich</strong>, with a budget of £500. Since then,<br />

they’ve done documentaries and short films on social <strong>issue</strong>s,<br />

m<strong>any</strong> of them attracting awards at international film festivals.<br />

Jo and the team work with the subjects of the stories to enable<br />

them to express themselves more powerfully. These films and<br />

DVDs are used in PSHE lessons in secondary schools throughout<br />

the UK. “We want to give a voice to people who don’t normally<br />

get a hearing.”<br />

Red Rose Chain is also keen to let the past speak out. The Ebony<br />

Box, researched and written <strong>by</strong> Jo, introduced audiences to<br />

Thomas Clarkson, a local man who dedicated his life to fighting<br />

the slave trade. The cast of three played over thirty characters,<br />

in <strong>this</strong> play to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition. Since<br />

then Jo has been ‘talking Tudors’ with John Blatchly, who was her<br />

headmaster, and she is working on a play about Anne Boleyn,<br />

whose heart was reputedly entombed in Erwarton church.<br />

Her contacts with the <strong>School</strong> continue too, in the form of her<br />

son, Ted, who is in the Prep. With such a distinguished tradition<br />

of acting in his family, it is not surprising to learn that he was<br />

Joseph in the school play. “I was so proud!” says his m<strong>other</strong>.<br />

Features<br />

Awards and<br />

accolades:<br />

Film Education Body for<br />

Suffolk as appointed <strong>by</strong><br />

Screen East in 2009<br />

‘Youth Organisation of<br />

the Year’<br />

High Sheriff’s Awards,<br />

Suffolk, 2009<br />

Award Winner ‘Best<br />

Marketing’<br />

Anglian Business Awards<br />

2008<br />

‘Best Dramatic Short’<br />

HD FEST, Los Angeles,<br />

2008 (Friday Night Shirt)<br />

‘Award for Outstanding<br />

Achievement in Film<br />

Making’<br />

Newport Beach Film<br />

Festival 2002 (Moving<br />

On Up)<br />

Award for ‘Improving<br />

The Lives of Young<br />

People’<br />

Department of Health,<br />

Health & Social Care<br />

Awards 2001<br />

‘Bronze Award for Film<br />

Making’<br />

BMA Film Award 1998<br />

OI Journal 15

OI Journal<br />

Howzat!<br />

Ian Hammond<br />

Scholarship<br />

hits home<br />

OI Journal 16<br />

M<strong>any</strong> OIs will remember<br />

with affection Ian<br />

Hammond, who was<br />

a member of the <strong>School</strong> staff<br />

from 1953 to 1994, as Cricket<br />

Coach and Groundsman. Ian<br />

was an outstanding opening<br />

batsman and useful seam<br />

bowler who played for the<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> Greyhounds and then<br />

the OI Cricket Club. He played<br />

seven matches for Suffolk<br />

between 1953 and 1957.<br />

He coached m<strong>any</strong> boys very<br />

successfully and was very proud<br />

of their achievements, always<br />

welcoming them warmly when<br />

they returned to play against the<br />

<strong>School</strong> or for the OIs during the<br />

cricket week in August.<br />

Ian was a real character. He<br />

enjoyed the social side of cricket<br />

enormously in an era when the<br />

game was played in a great<br />

spirit. On m<strong>any</strong> occasions he<br />

played for Colchester and East<br />

Essex against the OIs during the<br />

Archie Gravell, seen here with Karl Daniels,<br />

Chairman of Governors, is <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s<br />

highest scoring batsman ever. Left,<br />

the commemorative bat, inscribed with<br />

Archie’s successes, which was presented to<br />

him <strong>by</strong> Karl Daniels.<br />

cricket week, and attempts to<br />

reduce his cricketing expertise<br />

<strong>by</strong> delaying him in the bar the<br />

night before were expensive and<br />

totally ineffective.<br />

Ian was a man of modest<br />

means but when he died at a<br />

comparatively young age he<br />

left a handsome legacy to the<br />

<strong>School</strong> which was directed to<br />

the <strong>School</strong>’s charitable trust,<br />

now called the <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />

Foundation. The Trustees,<br />

decided in conjunction with the<br />

<strong>School</strong>, to create the first sports<br />

scholarship in Ian’s memory. This<br />

was awarded to a thirteen year<br />

old boy, Archie Gravell, who was<br />

emerging as a very promising<br />

cricketer.<br />

The scholarship proved to be<br />

well deserved. As a member<br />

of the First XI in 2008, Archie<br />

scored five centuries, including<br />

one in Granada on the <strong>School</strong>’s<br />

cricket tour, and finished with a<br />

batting average of 119. His total<br />

of 1,072 runs created a new<br />

batting record for the <strong>School</strong>.<br />

This year Archie is captain of<br />

the XI and he is having an<strong>other</strong><br />

fine season with the bat – at the<br />

time of writing he had hit six<br />

centuries which is an incredible<br />

performance.<br />

Undoubtedly Ian would have<br />

been very proud to see Archie<br />

Gravell excelling at the game<br />

he loved. Commenting on the<br />

scholarship he received Archie<br />

said, “It is a great honour to be<br />

awarded <strong>this</strong>, and I am very<br />

grateful.”<br />

This is a fine example of the<br />

way in which the Foundation is<br />

beginning to thrive as a result of<br />

the generosity of OIs and Friends<br />

of the <strong>School</strong>.<br />

Karl Daniels<br />

Chairman of Governors

Phil Caley (1973-81),<br />

previous captain of Suffolk<br />

County Cricket Club and<br />

the <strong>School</strong>, has finally broken<br />

the all-time record run tally for<br />

Suffolk in Minor Counties cricket.<br />

Phil made his debut for the<br />

county in 1982, a year after<br />

leaving <strong>School</strong>, and captained<br />

Suffolk for 15 of the 28 years<br />

he has played for them. He has<br />

represented his county over<br />

300 times in all forms of the<br />

game and in the Minor Counties<br />

Championship, and scored 9,250<br />

runs, eclipsing fellow OI Simon<br />

Clements’ (OI 1965-74) record,<br />

which stood at 9,219. There can<br />

be little doubt that his greatest<br />

achievement was captaining his<br />

county to the Minor Counties<br />

Knock Out Trophy in 2007. This<br />

was one of Suffolk County Cricket<br />

Board’s biggest achievements in<br />

m<strong>any</strong> years.<br />

To play cricket at such a high<br />

level for so long is testament to<br />

his ability and passion for the<br />

game. Fellow team member<br />

and OI Chris Swallow (1989-<br />

2000) reckoned he was “one of<br />

the most outrageously talented<br />

cricketers I have ever played<br />

with.” Former Suffolk cricket<br />

coach Andy Brown paid tribute to<br />

Phil’s contribution to cricket: “Phil<br />

has been a magnificent servant<br />

to Minor Counties cricket, not just<br />

to Suffolk. Without him the Minor<br />

Counties might not be as strong<br />

as it is now.”<br />

At <strong>School</strong>, Phil scored 538<br />

runs from 10 innings at an<br />

average of 67, in his final year.<br />

However, Simon Clements (who<br />

captained the <strong>School</strong> in the 1974<br />

season – and until now held<br />

the unbeaten record for runs for<br />

Suffolk), scored 902 runs at an<br />

average of 82 from 12 innings.<br />

He in turn has been beaten <strong>by</strong><br />

Archie Gravell, holder of the<br />

Ian Hammond Scholarship, who<br />

not only scored 13 centuries for<br />

the <strong>School</strong>’s 1st XI in 2009, but<br />

earned his place in Wisden last<br />

year, with the joint highest score<br />

of <strong>any</strong> schoolboy batsman in the<br />

country.<br />

Features<br />

Order!<br />

Suffolk’s All<br />

Time Leading<br />

Run Scorer<br />

OI Hugh Thomas<br />

spent half his<br />

gap year in<br />

Australia, playing<br />

and coaching<br />

cricket. He looks<br />

back at the<br />

achievements<br />

of fellow OI and<br />

cricketer Phil<br />

Caley<br />

Above: Phil Caley in the 1979 cricket team<br />

(back row, far right). Below: carrying away<br />

the cup in the Minor Counties knock-out<br />

trophy in 2007. Top: on his 18th birthday<br />

in 1980 - with bat!<br />

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What a<br />

Difference<br />

Six Decades<br />

Make<br />

Leaving school,<br />

as we all<br />

know, is both<br />

a daunting and<br />

an exciting<br />

experience.<br />

Finally able<br />

to call your<br />

time your own<br />

away from the<br />

bonds of termly<br />

timetables, the<br />

world is begging<br />

to be explored.<br />

We contrast the<br />

adventures after<br />

<strong>School</strong> of two OIs<br />

sixty years apart.<br />

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Don Stocker, far right, saw very active<br />

service in the RAF.<br />

Anyone attending the<br />

Martlesham Heath<br />

Airport Society’s open<br />

day last year will remember a<br />

remarkable gentleman proudly<br />

sporting his RAF uniform. He<br />

was OI Don Stocker, now 94,<br />

who joined the little known Civil<br />

Air Guard at the age of 24. By<br />

1940 he had signed up to the<br />

RAFVR (Volunteer Reserves) as<br />

a cadet to be trained to fly in<br />

America. He was then posted<br />

to Port Elizabeth in South Africa<br />

where he found that he was<br />

a skilful bomb aimer. He was<br />

commissioned in 1941 and sent<br />

on to the Middle East to join his<br />

crew in 37 Squadron, equipped<br />

with Wellington bombers. Their<br />

first assignments involved<br />

attacking Hitler’s Afrika Corps<br />

who were <strong>by</strong> then in retreat. 37<br />

Squadron were based in Foggia,<br />

Italy, with 1,000 bomber and<br />

800 fighter aircraft. <strong>In</strong> August<br />

1944 they were involved in<br />

‘softening up’ bombing in the<br />

South of France to make way for<br />

the 100,000, mostly American,<br />

troops who would make their<br />

way up through France to join<br />

the Normandy invasion force in<br />

Dijon.<br />

Still flying Wellingtons, 37<br />

Squadron then continued their<br />

advance up the East coast of<br />

Italy, in support of the 8th<br />

Army, as <strong>this</strong> country was finally<br />

liberated from the Germans.<br />

When a cry for help came from<br />

President Tito of Yugoslavia they<br />

responded <strong>by</strong> dropping food and<br />

weapons for the partisans and<br />

<strong>by</strong> bombing important roads,<br />

bridges and railways. Don recalls<br />

that it was about <strong>this</strong> time that<br />

his life on earth nearly came to<br />

an end, when both engines on<br />

his Wellington cut out. They had<br />

a full load of bombs on board but<br />

fortunately the engines picked up<br />

again and they were able to just<br />

swoop clear of a farmhouse roof.<br />

On one occasion he was flying<br />

with the Wing Commander when<br />

they were stalked <strong>by</strong> Junkers.<br />

The Wing Commander, himself<br />

a veteran of 73 operations, was

able to cleverly feign diving one<br />

way and then suddenly change<br />

direction to shake them off.<br />

An<strong>other</strong> time Don was flying a<br />

daylight raid to drop ammunition<br />

for the Yugoslav Partisans, and<br />

his sixth sense told him that<br />

the information they had had<br />

regarding the area the Partisans<br />

had cleared was incorrect. He<br />

shouted, ”Dive right NOW.” Just as<br />

they did so, the sky erupted with<br />

a mass of flak shells.<br />

The next task was to bomb the<br />

marshalling yards in Austria.<br />

For <strong>this</strong> they flew American<br />

Liberators which had a greater<br />

range than the Wellingtons.<br />

Don’s sixth sense was useful<br />

once more as he anticipated<br />

the presence of an enemy night<br />

fighter. The rear gunner was<br />

alerted and managed a direct hit.<br />

The next target, the Ploesti<br />

oilfields on the Romanian/<br />

Hungarian border, ranks as one<br />

of his most dangerous. This huge<br />

area was Hitler’s main supply<br />

of oil and as such it had to be<br />

destroyed. It was protected with<br />

fighter squadrons, smokepots<br />

and a formidable array of the<br />

dreaded 88mm flak guns. The<br />

USAAF attacked at low level<br />

in daylight and lost over 50<br />

planes. Don continues, “At night<br />

it was our turn, it was ‘maximum<br />

effort,’ and that would usually<br />

mean losing several planes. This<br />

time our navigator was badly<br />

wounded. The radio operator<br />

and I did our best to patch him<br />

up and as I was the only person<br />

on board to have done a bit<br />

of navigating it was up to me<br />

to get us home. Somehow we<br />

managed to get back and our<br />

navigator was eventually flown<br />

home to South Africa where he<br />

made a good recovery.” Ploesti<br />

was hit again and again with<br />

heavy losses but <strong>this</strong> stopped<br />

Hitler’s mechanised units in their<br />

tracks and undoubtedly hastened<br />

the end of the war.<br />

One of Don’s last targets was<br />

to have been the bombing of<br />

Hitler’s Austrian redoubt, but<br />

the Fuhrer committed suicide<br />

and saved Don the job. Don’s<br />

nick<strong>name</strong> at <strong>School</strong> was ‘Jammy,’<br />

and no wonder, as he had so<br />

m<strong>any</strong> brave but very narrow<br />

escapes.<br />

By the end of the war, Don was<br />

Bombing Leader for 40 Squadron<br />

with some 40 missions under<br />

his wing. He was demobbed and<br />

finally sent home after three<br />

years abroad. He arrived back at<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> station, to be met <strong>by</strong> his<br />

fiancée Mary, whom he married<br />

in 1947.<br />

What vivid memories he has<br />

of those dark days! He says: “I<br />

regret nothing and will always<br />

be proud of my days in the<br />

RAF. I remember it as if it was<br />

yesterday - the tension, the<br />

relief and also the Mess nights<br />

of drunken hilarity, and indoor<br />

rug<strong>by</strong> matches. Most of all,<br />

I recall the wonderful flying<br />

comrades. They can never be<br />

replaced. Fifty-six thousand of<br />

them were killed or reported<br />

missing, but their cheerfulness,<br />

their dedication, and their sheer<br />

loveableness is their tribute for<br />

all time. I doubt we will ever see<br />

the like again.”<br />

After the RAF Don became a<br />

teacher. We can only imagine<br />

how he must have inspired his<br />

pupils with tales of derring-do.<br />

Gap year travels<br />

<strong>In</strong> contrast, sixty years on,<br />

students are expanding their<br />

horizons <strong>by</strong> travelling the globe<br />

on ‘gap’ years. For OI Katherine<br />

Harris her quest for adventure<br />

began at <strong>School</strong> as a cadet in<br />

the CCF. She is grateful to Dr<br />

Nicola Notcutt and Alasdair Ross<br />

at <strong>School</strong> for encouraging <strong>this</strong><br />

adventurous spirit and giving her<br />

the confidence needed to take<br />

her on <strong>this</strong> adventure. Katherine<br />

decided that the one thing she<br />

wanted to achieve from her gap<br />

year was a challenge, and so<br />

after eight months of working in<br />

a care home for the disabled (a<br />

challenge in itself), she set off<br />

for the Himalayas. She now takes<br />

up the story:<br />

‘My plan was to go to Nepal<br />

and trek for three weeks to the<br />

Everest base camp and back<br />

before working in a Nepali<br />

hospital for a month.<br />

When I arrived in Kathmandu<br />

I thought I had bitten off more<br />

than I could chew. I was on my<br />

own in a manic city; a big culture<br />

shock. However, when I met up<br />

with my nine fellow trekkers I<br />

felt much more comfortable, and<br />

I knew I was in safe hands when<br />

I found out that our trek leader<br />

was a truly inspirational woman<br />

who had climbed to the summit<br />

of Everest.<br />

After a slightly hair-raising flight<br />

to Lukla, an airport perched<br />

on the side of a mountain<br />

with a runway only 100m<br />

long, we started the trek. We<br />

were extremely lucky with the<br />

weather, with clear skies nearly<br />

every day, which made camping<br />

so much easier. After two days<br />

of walking we caught our first<br />

glance of Everest, an incredibly<br />

exciting moment. It took us a<br />

further eleven days to trek to<br />

the base camp via Gokyo Lakes,<br />

climbing Gokyo Ri (5400m) and<br />

going over Cho La Pass (5450m).<br />

When we were approaching<br />

the base camp you could feel<br />

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Katherine Harris during her gap year<br />

the excitement buzzing through<br />

the group. This was the season<br />

for climbers wanting to make<br />

the ultimate ascent and so<br />

there were m<strong>any</strong> expeditions<br />

gathering there, waiting for the<br />

right window in the weather<br />

to set out. About five minutes<br />

before we arrived, there was a<br />

huge avalanche which covered<br />

the whole of the Khumbu base<br />

camp. We all had a lump in our<br />

throats, thinking of the climbers<br />

and sherpas that could have<br />

been killed. Luckily there was<br />

no one there at the time and so<br />

no casualties. When we arrived<br />

at the base camp we could all<br />

feel the tension of the climbers<br />

assembled there. We were very<br />

fortunate to be invited to have<br />

tea at the Himalayan Expedition<br />

camp with the <strong>In</strong>dian Army. Their<br />

enthusiasm was contagious.<br />

Glastonbury on ice<br />

The only way I can describe the<br />

base camp is like Glastonbury<br />

on ice. There was a festival<br />

spirit, complete chaos, and tents<br />

everywhere, with crevasses<br />

between them - all made worse<br />

<strong>by</strong> the melting glacier, due to<br />

unusually warm weather.<br />

The next day a few of us climbed<br />

Kala Patthar (5600m) which is<br />

meant to be the best view of<br />

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Everest. Sadly, when we got to<br />

the summit, it was a complete<br />

white-out! It then took us four<br />

days to walk back to Lukla.<br />

None of us wanted to leave the<br />

mountains, with their profound<br />

sense of peacefulness and<br />

breath-taking views. The sherpas,<br />

porters, and kitchen team had<br />

all been so friendly that it was a<br />

tearful good-<strong>by</strong>e. However, two<br />

of the sherpas, Tik and Samir,<br />

showed so much potential that<br />

we are sponsoring them through<br />

English classes.<br />

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When I arrived back in<br />

Kathmandu I was joined <strong>by</strong><br />

fellow OI Nikki Fowler to start<br />

work in <strong>this</strong> hospital. At the time<br />

of writing we are one week<br />

into a month-long placement<br />

in Iwamura Memorial Hospital<br />

in Bhaktapur. It is a private<br />

hospital and so much smaller<br />

and quieter than the government<br />

hospitals, which means that<br />

the doctors have more time to<br />

teach us. So far we have seen a<br />

lot of chest infections, arthritis<br />

and heart conditions. We travel<br />

at weekends and have just<br />

returned from Chitwan National<br />

Park where we bathed and rode<br />

elephants in the jungle. White<br />

water rafting next week!<br />

We are living with a host family<br />

in Bhaktapur (one hour bus ride<br />

from Kathmandu). Our host<br />

‘dad’, Thakur, is a teacher from<br />

the local school. They have one<br />

daughter and then ten <strong>other</strong><br />

children live here whose homes<br />

are too far away for them to<br />

travel to the school every day.<br />

We live with Thakur’s m<strong>other</strong> in<br />

a three bedroomed flat. It’s a<br />

tight squeeze and rather noisy<br />

but great fun. We are living a<br />

true Nepali life, which includes<br />

eating rice, lentils and curried<br />

vegetables for breakfast!<br />

So far, it has lived up to being<br />

the challenge I wanted. I have<br />

seen a great deal and learnt a<br />

lot. I have grown to love Nepal<br />

and its wonderful people and<br />

it has inspired me to want to<br />

return when I am qualified, to<br />

be an expedition doctor. Everest<br />

has captured my imagination and<br />

I hope to return one day to its<br />

base camp.”<br />

Katherine left <strong>School</strong> in 2008<br />

after taking A levels in Biology,<br />

Chemistry and Geography. When<br />

she returns to Blighty, she has a<br />

place at St Andrews University to<br />

read medicine.

TV’s Right Thing To Do,<br />

or Kipling’s Right Way To Be?<br />

Headmaster Mermagen had<br />

asked my father to be there<br />

when he tried to convince<br />

me, in his office overlooking<br />

Henley Road, to stay on the<br />

extra year to sit Cambridge<br />

common entrance. I didn’t<br />

follow his advice, as I had<br />

already been accepted<br />

elsewhere - and I have<br />

regretted my decision these<br />

45 years. When I spoke later<br />

to bewhiskered Tom Glover,<br />

our wise Chemistry master<br />

of the benevolent grin and<br />

of the ironic eye, he stated,<br />

below the hint of a frown,<br />

“It’s all about character,<br />

Gillespie.”<br />

“Character!?” For years, I had<br />

thought that Tom had meant<br />

something akin to doing the<br />

right thing, a bit like in the<br />

transatlantic soaps on the<br />

telly.<br />

Tom Glover had character;<br />

he was liked and respected,<br />

both <strong>by</strong> students, and <strong>by</strong> the<br />

staff; he delighted in arousing<br />

our interest with a whiff of<br />

almonds here and sparks on<br />

the blackboard there; but Tom<br />

would have been slammed<br />

in today’s TV soaps, because,<br />

in the first case, he had<br />

made a cyanide compound<br />

and, in the second, an<br />

explosive: would the media<br />

have accepted <strong>this</strong> as the<br />

right thing to do in a class of<br />

schoolchildren? I believe that<br />

Tom did do the right thing: if<br />

I took chemistry seriously, it<br />

was because his actions were<br />

right for me.<br />

We call that rigid sense of a<br />

single right thing to do, which<br />

admits of no <strong>other</strong> ethical<br />

outcome, moral absolutism.<br />

Its adepts are blinded <strong>by</strong><br />

their own opinion and blind<br />

to their bigotry; it’s how<br />

terrorists justify murdering<br />

innocents? The right thing to<br />

do argument for staying on to<br />

try for Cambridge might have<br />

been, “You ought to stay on,<br />

Gillespie; you will never know<br />

unless you try, and you owe it<br />

to yourself; it’s the right thing<br />

to do!”<br />

Years later, I discovered<br />

that magnificent poem, “If,”<br />

and, in its retro, Victorian<br />

tones, found not the right<br />

thing to do, but the right<br />

way to be. Kipling’s ideal of<br />

character became clearer as<br />

I studied remarkable leaders<br />

of industry and national<br />

administrators; men and<br />

women like Headmaster<br />

Mermagen and Tom Glover,<br />

who were of rigid standards<br />

rather than of rigid opinions;<br />

who, in their modesty, are<br />

attuned to the needs of<br />

<strong>other</strong>s; in their pragmatism,<br />

to the interests of <strong>other</strong>s<br />

and, in their humanity,<br />

understanding of the errors<br />

of <strong>other</strong>s; yet, individuals<br />

with a hard edge: unstinting<br />

workers; dedicated; resolute;<br />

resilient in the face of<br />

adversity; persons who are in<br />

control of themselves.<br />

“If” showed me why I<br />

disappointed Tom Glover:<br />

I had put that instinctive,<br />

egotistical self of Kipling’s<br />

‘impostors’ first; I had not<br />

wanted to test my limits; and,<br />

most shamefully, I had been<br />

afraid to fail.<br />

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I’m not there yet; today in my<br />

sixties I still tell myself, “You<br />

have to try, Gillespie, because<br />

if your empty desires control<br />

you; if you are work shy; and<br />

if you are afraid of failure,<br />

then you will never be a man,<br />

my son.”<br />

Bob Gillespie has written<br />

and published Machiavelli<br />

and the Mayflower:<br />

How to understand the<br />

Europeans, published (in<br />

English) <strong>by</strong> La Rémige.<br />

“If you find the Europeans<br />

baffling, enjoy reading Bob<br />

Gillespie’s practical guide<br />

to understanding them,”<br />

says reviewer Jonathan<br />

Story, Emeritus Professor<br />

of <strong>In</strong>ternational Political<br />

Economy at INSEAD (where<br />

Bob graduated from). He has<br />

since been awarded an OBE<br />

for his international work,<br />

and now lives in Paris.<br />

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Celebrating<br />

500 years of<br />

music-making at<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />

<strong>In</strong> his book, <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong>, A Famous<br />

Antient Seed-Plot of<br />

Learning, Dr Blatchly<br />

suggests that it was<br />

‘a musical school<br />

from the first.’ Since<br />

then, the <strong>School</strong><br />

has proved to be<br />

a fertile seed-bed<br />

from which m<strong>any</strong><br />

musical careers<br />

have flourished,<br />

and a fine crop<br />

of collaborations<br />

between current<br />

pupils and OIs<br />

continues to<br />

delight.

The OI Presidential Event<br />

for 2008 was such an<br />

occasion, at which the<br />

musical talents of past and<br />

present pupils and staff were<br />

enjoyed <strong>by</strong> a capacity audience.<br />

“When I was invited to suggest<br />

an event for my Presidential<br />

year, I felt we should mark<br />

the <strong>School</strong>’s long history and<br />

involvement in the life of<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> and the wider Suffolk<br />

community,” wrote Geoffrey<br />

Cook, President of the OI<br />

Club, in his introduction to the<br />

publication* accomp<strong>any</strong>ing<br />

the subsequent concert on<br />

16th October 2008. “St Peter’s<br />

church, the <strong>School</strong>’s chapel in<br />

the days of Cardinal Wolsey,<br />

seemed a fitting venue for a<br />

Celebration of Music at <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong>.”<br />

Musical heads<br />

The concert (see review<br />

overnleaf) raised over £1,200<br />

for the <strong>Ipswich</strong> Historic<br />

Churches Trust. A cheque<br />

was presented at the OI Club<br />

Annual Dinner to John Blatchly,<br />

one of the two Headmasters<br />

playing Two Cod-Pieces in the<br />

OI concert, and also chairman<br />

of the Historic Churches Trust.<br />

Dr Blatchly is a prime mover in<br />

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“Horrendously loud drumming wasn’t quite what he was into, and yet Mr Leach<br />

was always encouraging towards what I was doing.”<br />

James Hicks, drummer with Underline the Sky<br />

the campaign to erect a statue<br />

in <strong>Ipswich</strong> to honour Thomas<br />

Wolsey, and was instrumental<br />

in organising widespread<br />

publicity for his cause. An item<br />

on BBC Look East featured the<br />

Wolsey Consort – made up of<br />

OIs, Chapel Choir members, and<br />

staff – who sang at the launch<br />

in St Peter’s Church. They also<br />

took part in the Celebration of<br />

Music at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>, and<br />

the Season Songs concert (see<br />

review overleaf).<br />

The current headmaster, Ian<br />

Galbraith (the <strong>other</strong> half of the<br />

codger duo) has continued to<br />

support music-making at the<br />

<strong>School</strong>, as an active musician<br />

himself, and also as a facilitator.<br />

His keen interest has enabled<br />

the Director of Music, Andrew<br />

Leach, to develop opportunities<br />

for music-making which<br />

include a Symphony Orchestra,<br />

an <strong>In</strong>termediate Orchestra, a<br />

Chamber Orchestra, the Big<br />

Band, the Chapel Choir, <strong>School</strong><br />

Choir, brass, flute and chamber<br />

music ensembles, and a Choral<br />

Society whose members include<br />

OIs, parents and staff.<br />

Happy families<br />

Out of that rich mix have<br />

emerged some surprising<br />

results! A number of musical<br />

families, such as the Passmores,<br />

have been joined <strong>by</strong> some<br />

father and son teams – for<br />

example, Andrew Leach himself,<br />

and his two sons, both of whom<br />

played in Rod Stewart’s backing<br />

band when Rod Stewart graced<br />

Portman Road for a concert in<br />

2007; and OI Richard Edgar-<br />

Wilson OI and his son Sam<br />

(Year 13), whose accomplished<br />

playing of the marimba<br />

perfectly complemented his<br />

father’s singing of the Season<br />

Songs. A father and daughters<br />

team has appeared in the<br />

form of OI Ben Parry and his<br />

daughters Freya and Imogen,<br />

currently pupils at the <strong>School</strong>.<br />

Further afield, OI David Sawer,<br />

Professor of Composition at the<br />

Royal Academy of Music, who<br />

apparently describes himself as<br />

“a theatre person who writes<br />

music,” continues to challenge<br />

the critics. Skin Deep, his three<br />

part operetta <strong>this</strong> year for Opera<br />

North, about plastic surgery,<br />

received mixed reviews (such<br />

as in the Times: “His manically<br />

jabbering score buzzes with<br />

Stravinsky-like rhythmic energy,<br />

ingenious orchestral textures<br />

and clever ways of drifting<br />

between speech and song”).<br />

Young bands<br />

OI Nick Wilkinson (1981-86)<br />

spends much of the year<br />

touring the world as bass<br />

guitarist for The Pretenders<br />

Past President Geoffrey Cook (second from<br />

left), with treasurer Steve Runnacles, and<br />

past chairman William Coe, presented<br />

a cheque from the OI concert, to John<br />

Blatchly, chairman of the Historic Churches<br />

Trust.<br />

(who also played at Portman<br />

Road with Rod Stewart). And<br />

OIs James Hicks and Tom Bryce<br />

are members of Underline<br />

the Sky, the band who won<br />

the Road to V competition, and<br />

opened proceedings on the<br />

4music stages in Chelmsford<br />

and Staffordshire <strong>this</strong> summer.<br />

James looks back on his<br />

schooldays with gratitude.<br />

“I think music at <strong>School</strong> had<br />

a great influence on my<br />

decision to be involved in the<br />

life of a band. Certainly six<br />

years of drum lessons with<br />

Mr Gillings was a very large<br />

part of the reason I’m where<br />

I am now! Mr Leach helped a<br />

lot as well. Horrendously loud<br />

drumming wasn’t quite what<br />

he was into, and yet he was<br />

always encouraging. Even if<br />

I was making a racket in the<br />

music rooms during his quiet<br />

lunchtime break he wouldn’t<br />

complain!”<br />

* The Chapels and Music of<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> (£5 + £0.50 p&p),<br />

available from Carole Day in the<br />

OI office.<br />

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OI Ben Eagle reviews the Presidential event of 2008<br />

O Happy Evening<br />

They say that one never<br />

truly loses touch with<br />

one’s school. This rang<br />

very true on Thursday 16th<br />

October 2008, as St Peter’s<br />

Church witnessed possibly<br />

the first ever Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian<br />

concert. The former <strong>School</strong><br />

chapel was packed as<br />

students, OIs, teachers and<br />

friends of the school all came<br />

together to celebrate music at<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong>.<br />

The specially formed Wolsey<br />

Consort, consisting both of OIs<br />

and current members of the<br />

<strong>School</strong>, opened the evening<br />

with the vocal antiphon<br />

O Wilhelme, pastor bone,<br />

composed <strong>by</strong> John Taverner.<br />

This beautiful piece would<br />

most probably have been<br />

sung in the chapel every<br />

night after Vespers but <strong>this</strong><br />

was possibly the first time<br />

in nearly five hundred years<br />

that the work had been heard<br />

in its original form in the<br />

building.<br />

Following <strong>this</strong> stunning work,<br />

Kathryn Parry continued to<br />

keep the audience captivated<br />

as she performed Joseph<br />

Gibbs’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in D<br />

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minor. Kathryn is a freelance<br />

violinist who has worked<br />

with m<strong>any</strong> of the nation’s<br />

best orchestras as well as<br />

having collaborated regularly<br />

with Sir Simon Rattle among<br />

<strong>other</strong>s. It was a privilege to<br />

experience the work of such<br />

an accomplished musician,<br />

one of m<strong>any</strong> individuals who<br />

enthralled the audience on<br />

<strong>this</strong> cold October evening.<br />

Richard Wilson OI, who must<br />

be thanked considerably for<br />

organising the event, next<br />

performed Whitaker’s The<br />

Chesapeake and the Shannon,<br />

accompanied <strong>by</strong> Ben Parry OI.<br />

Richard has a sublime tenor<br />

voice and, as Richard Edgar-<br />

Wilson, has had a long career<br />

as a solo tenor, having sung<br />

in over forty countries and<br />

having worked with m<strong>any</strong><br />

of the best musicians of our<br />

time.<br />

The concert celebrated<br />

not only the talent of the<br />

performers but also the talent<br />

of former ambassadors of the<br />

school who have left their<br />

legacy through composition.<br />

Former Director of Music<br />

Stanley Wilson wrote some<br />

very fine Romantic music,<br />

and both Soliloquy, sensitively<br />

played <strong>by</strong> cellist Graham<br />

Walker OI, accompanied <strong>by</strong><br />

his br<strong>other</strong> Allan, and two<br />

choral pieces later performed<br />

<strong>by</strong> the Wolsey Consort,<br />

Gibberish and To a Lady seen<br />

from the Train, are a tribute<br />

to his work.<br />

After the scintillating sounds<br />

of the cello came two pieces<br />

<strong>by</strong> James Ching. First of all,<br />

the song At Grafton, sung<br />

with great maturity <strong>by</strong> Year<br />

12 student Charlotte Walters.<br />

She was accompanied<br />

<strong>by</strong> peer Sam Wilson and<br />

together they managed a<br />

superb performance. This was<br />

followed <strong>by</strong> Ching’s work for<br />

piano: ‘A Marching Tune’, No.<br />

1 of Four Monographs, played<br />

<strong>by</strong> Allan Walker OI. Allan is in<br />

fact Ching’s great nephew so<br />

there was an air of familiarity<br />

in the performance. Allan<br />

succeeded in commanding<br />

a highly complex and<br />

demanding piece.<br />

Three further short piano<br />

pieces <strong>by</strong> David Sawer were<br />

next explored <strong>by</strong> an<strong>other</strong><br />

Year 12 student, Nicholas<br />

Freestone. They were played<br />

with conviction and accuracy.<br />

Last year’s head boy, Martin<br />

Crowe, returned to sing one<br />

of a number of songs written<br />

<strong>by</strong> him that had made a big<br />

impression on the <strong>School</strong><br />

last year. The first half of<br />

the concert closed with the<br />

<strong>School</strong> song, composed <strong>by</strong><br />

John Evans in 1899. It was<br />

the first time for a very long<br />

while that students, OIs and<br />

staff had publicly united as<br />

one to rhyme ‘Gipping’ with<br />

‘ripping’.<br />

Following a short interval the<br />

audience returned to their<br />

seats in anticipation of what<br />

was sure to be a superb<br />

second half to the concert. It<br />

opened with Season Songs<br />

<strong>by</strong> Ben Parry OI. Ben is an<br />

incredibly talented musician:<br />

as a singer, conductor and<br />

a composer, former Head of<br />

Music at St Paul’s <strong>School</strong> in<br />

London, and now Director of<br />

Junior Academy at the Royal<br />

Academy of Music. The Old<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong>ians commissioned<br />

<strong>this</strong> set of songs from him for<br />

father and son Richard and<br />

Sam Wilson. The eight songs<br />

for tenor voice and marimba<br />

were set to a collection of<br />

poems <strong>by</strong> OI Cecil Lay and it<br />

was an absolute privilege to<br />

be present at the premiere of<br />

such a stunning work. Both<br />

Richard and Sam provided<br />

faultless and enrapturing<br />

performances and the<br />

applause that followed was<br />

very deserving both for the<br />

performers and the composer.<br />

After the Wolsey Consort<br />

had sung an<strong>other</strong> superb<br />

duo of pieces <strong>by</strong> Stanley<br />

Wilson, our two most recent<br />

Headmasters, John Blatchly<br />

and Ian Galbraith, played Two<br />

Cod-Pieces <strong>by</strong> Peter Warlock.<br />

It was very fitting that the<br />

two Headmasters, who have<br />

been unfailingly supportive<br />

of the music department<br />

during their respective<br />

times at the school, should<br />

perform together. Ben<br />

Parry, in an effort to involve<br />

the audience to a greater<br />

extent, then offered up the<br />

song: A musical tribute <strong>by</strong>

Leo and Mayo. Members of<br />

the audience were asked<br />

to join in with the chorus.<br />

Although it took a while<br />

to comprehend the lyrics,<br />

everybody managed to<br />

crack it in the end. The<br />

Wolsey Consort returned<br />

for one final time to sing<br />

two spiritual arrangements.<br />

Firstly, the world premiere<br />

of Gwyn Arch’s (OI) Ride on,<br />

King Jesus conducted <strong>by</strong> the<br />

highly enthusiastic composer<br />

himself, and then our current<br />

Director of Music Andrew<br />

Leach took the stage to<br />

conduct his own O Happy Day.<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> has been<br />

home to a number of very<br />

successful bands over the<br />

years and in the last few<br />

performances some of <strong>this</strong><br />

talent was experienced. Ned<br />

Bennett OI and Ed Dewson<br />

OI collaborated with brass<br />

teacher Paul Shepherd, Evan<br />

Jones, Pete Woodcraft, Ben<br />

Parry and Sam Wilson, to<br />

perform two jazz pieces<br />

that succeeded in getting<br />

everybody’s feet tapping.<br />

This was followed <strong>by</strong> three<br />

numbers played <strong>by</strong> the ever<br />

popular school Big Band,<br />

conducted <strong>by</strong> Paul Shepherd<br />

and featuring Charlotte<br />

Walters on vocals. There were<br />

several OIs who played with<br />

the band as well as some<br />

memorable solos, including<br />

a ‘solo battle’ between tenor<br />

saxophonists Ned Bennett<br />

and Ben Goble.<br />

The concert was an enormous<br />

success and it will be<br />

remembered for a very long<br />

time. Huge thanks must<br />

go to Richard Wilson OI for<br />

organising the whole event<br />

as well as to Ben Parry and<br />

all the <strong>other</strong> OI performers<br />

who were involved. We must<br />

also thank Andrew Leach and<br />

William Saunders for all their<br />

work in ensuring that the<br />

future of music at <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong> will be a long and<br />

successful one.<br />

Far left: Two Old Codgers (headmasters<br />

Galbraith and Blatchly); top: father and<br />

son Richard and Sam Wilson perform OI<br />

Cecil Lay’s Season Songs; and below: all<br />

eyes on Sam (from left: Ben Parry, Andrew<br />

Leach, Charlotte Walters, Richard Wilson,<br />

Kathryn Parry, Nicholas Freestone, and<br />

Sam Wilson.<br />

Features<br />

A Song for<br />

all Seasons<br />

A delightful melee of songs and music at the Season Songs<br />

concert on 8th October brought together the talents of present<br />

and past staff and pupils of the <strong>School</strong> – some of them very<br />

long past. Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Cecil Lay, a pupil from 1898-1904,<br />

posthumously contributed his poems to the title piece, Season<br />

Songs, impressively arranged <strong>by</strong> OI Ben Parry, sung <strong>by</strong> OI<br />

Richard Wilson, and accompanied on the marimba <strong>by</strong> his son<br />

Sam Wilson, Year 13. The rolling, melodious sounds achieved<br />

<strong>by</strong> Sam were in complete contrast to the pastoral poetry of<br />

an<strong>other</strong> era, and the combination worked extremely well.<br />

Cecil Lay seldom left his native Aldringham except for shopping<br />

trips to London. He was a regular writer to the press about<br />

twentieth century manifestations such as noise, speed or<br />

the wireless; a character wedded to the previous century,<br />

looking like ‘Suffolk got up and walking about, Suffolk breaking<br />

into words and consciousness.’ However, some things never<br />

change; he has also been described as “not a particularly good<br />

poet, who spent much of his time in the pub.”<br />

Richard Wilson (who as Richard Edgar-Wilson, has had a long<br />

career as a solo tenor, singing in over forty countries), gave a<br />

powerful performance of four songs to poems <strong>by</strong> RS Thomas,<br />

composed <strong>by</strong> Andrew Leach (Director of Music at <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong>) while a student at Cambridge. This was followed <strong>by</strong> a<br />

beautiful rendition of Quia Respexit Humilitatem, sung in Latin<br />

<strong>by</strong> Charlotte Walters (Year 13). Freelance violinist Kathryn Parry<br />

gave a charming explanation, and subsequent performance, of<br />

what Debussy was asking her to do in the Sonata for Violin and<br />

Piano. <strong>In</strong> the words of her Year 2 class, she was required to be<br />

‘fuzzy’, like a Monet painting – and she demonstrated some<br />

rather discordant tone experimentations.<br />

Ben Parry (married to Kathryn, and now Director of the Junior<br />

Royal Academy of Music) matched his expressive renditions<br />

of five songs <strong>by</strong> Stephen Sondheim with appropriate body<br />

language; and the programme, which had started at a canter<br />

with Nicholas Freestone and Sam Wilson (both Year 13) in a<br />

lively piano duet, ended at a gallop with all hands flying as<br />

four highly accomplished pianists (Messrs Freestone, Leach,<br />

Parry and Wilson junior) jostled for space at the one piano in a<br />

very exciting Galop March.<br />

Cathy Shelbourne<br />

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OI Journal<br />

WE GO IN PURSUIT OF THE HIRSUTE<br />

Hair today, gone tomorrow<br />

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“… haircuts should be of<br />

a conventional nature,”<br />

states Rule 2(e) of the<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Pupils’ Rules.<br />

But one person’s view of<br />

conventional does not<br />

necessarily correspond with<br />

an<strong>other</strong>’s, as two pupils in<br />

1972 famously found out.<br />

“We were all lined up for the<br />

<strong>School</strong> photo. Mermagen [the<br />

headmaster] scrutinised us,<br />

and suddenly dragged boys<br />

off to the library, brandishing<br />

a large pair of scissors. <strong>In</strong> his<br />

haste to rectify the offending<br />

haircut, he nicked one boy’s<br />

ear instead,” recalls James<br />

Davey, chairman of the OI<br />

Club.<br />

The media took the <strong>School</strong> to<br />

the cleaners – or was it the<br />

barbers? “Protests as head<br />

cuts boys’ hair,” screamed<br />

the Evening Star. One of the<br />

boys’ m<strong>other</strong>s was quoted<br />

as saying, “I think the<br />

headmaster’s action was<br />

Men have<br />

three basic<br />

hairstyles<br />

- parted,<br />

unparted,<br />

and<br />

departed<br />

disgusting.” The boys even<br />

complained to the National<br />

Council for Civil Liberties.<br />

However, a father said: “I<br />

regard the head’s action as<br />

justified.” And an OI wrote to<br />

Mr Mermagen after reading<br />

the report in the Daily<br />

Telegraph: “You have my<br />

admiration.”<br />

Hair-raising stories of <strong>this</strong> era<br />

are not uncommon. Fringes<br />

were to clear the eyebrows<br />

<strong>by</strong> two-fingers’ width. Hair<br />

was not allowed to touch<br />

the collar. Even the teachers<br />

were not beyond rebuke.<br />

Gary M Reiss, a visiting<br />

American teacher, writing in<br />

The <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian in July 1972 as<br />

‘the Haystack’ (could <strong>this</strong> be a<br />

reference to his own thatch?),

ecalled “I have bought<br />

shares in the local beargrease<br />

comp<strong>any</strong> – that miracle drug<br />

for keeping locks out of<br />

annoyance behind the ears.”<br />

John Blatchly, headmaster<br />

from 1972-1993, had a more<br />

lenient policy, believing that<br />

there were more important<br />

things to worry about than<br />

hair. Ian Galbraith, his<br />

successor, advocates “variety<br />

within limits.” The <strong>School</strong> is<br />

upfront about the rules, and<br />

every pupil receives a copy,<br />

so that they know what<br />

is expected of them – and<br />

so do the parents. “Each<br />

generation has its own rules<br />

which it pushes against.<br />

Rules are made for the good<br />

of the community. Hair is one<br />

aspect of people’s image of<br />

themselves, and hairstyles<br />

can be an expression of how<br />

individuals relate to peer<br />

norms. We encourage our<br />

pupils to respect each <strong>other</strong>’s<br />

choice. ”<br />

Features<br />

Short back and sides - or going with the flow? Top right: Speech Day in the early 1960s<br />

(note the hats). Middle right: tousled locks for a hockey team of the late 70s. Bottom<br />

right: a cartoon <strong>by</strong> Holly. Surely not <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>? Facing page, top: hair at Highwood in<br />

the 70s, and below: hair today. Gone tomorrow?<br />

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OI Journal<br />

Building bridges<br />

Trains and boats and<br />

planes have had a<br />

make-over since the<br />

days of the lyricist<br />

Burt Bacharach, as<br />

Graham Papenfus, the<br />

<strong>School</strong>’s Development<br />

Director, discovered<br />

<strong>this</strong> summer in his trip<br />

to the East and Down<br />

Under, re-connecting<br />

with Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ians.<br />

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“I flew back on the new<br />

double decker A380, which<br />

took just 21 hours from<br />

Sydney to London, via<br />

Singapore, and wrapped up<br />

three weeks of almost nonstop<br />

travelling – and talking!<br />

The Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ians I met<br />

were such a friendly bunch,<br />

and so hospitable.”<br />

His itinerary took in Hong<br />

Kong, Australia and New<br />

Zealand, and his mission was<br />

to represent the OI Club at<br />

reunions and <strong>other</strong> meetings<br />

in those three countries,<br />

and to encourage new links.<br />

He also called on potential<br />

benefactors to the <strong>School</strong>’s<br />

Development Programme,<br />

showing them plans and<br />

gaining support.<br />

“I met over sixty OIs, m<strong>any</strong><br />

of whom had not been back<br />

to <strong>School</strong> for m<strong>any</strong> years, or<br />

even met up with <strong>other</strong> OIs.<br />

It was great to put people in<br />

touch. One OI in Hong Kong<br />

was surprised to hear that<br />

an<strong>other</strong> OI lived very close<br />

to him without either being<br />

aware of the <strong>other</strong>. So we<br />

were able to put them in<br />

touch with each <strong>other</strong>, and<br />

also with the <strong>School</strong>.<br />

“<strong>In</strong> New Zealand, the two<br />

organisers of the reunion,<br />

one living on the South<br />

Island, and the <strong>other</strong> in the<br />

north, had been best mates<br />

at <strong>School</strong>, but hadn’t been<br />

in touch for years. It was<br />

fantastic for them to reconnect.”<br />

“I particularly enjoyed<br />

seeing pics of the<br />

<strong>School</strong> as it was in ‘my<br />

time’ and also great<br />

to hear the old <strong>School</strong><br />

is doing famously<br />

academically, in the<br />

arts, and at some<br />

sports, especially<br />

hockey which was,<br />

after sailing, my<br />

favourite sport.”<br />

The reunions were very<br />

popular. “Members loved the<br />

powerpoint presentation on<br />

how the <strong>School</strong> has changed<br />

since they were there and<br />

how it was flourishing now.<br />

The wives were flabbergasted<br />

<strong>by</strong> what a fantastic <strong>School</strong>

it is, and the opportunities<br />

available now.” The Old<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong>ian hosts helped<br />

contact all attendees, and<br />

assisted Graham with<br />

arranging accommodation,<br />

often putting him up<br />

themselves. And although<br />

some people couldn’t<br />

make the reunions, they<br />

made great efforts to send<br />

replacements or continue<br />

the links. “<strong>In</strong> Sydney, the<br />

daughter of an OI we wrote<br />

to (who had unfortunately<br />

passed away) joined us on<br />

the day when her OI br<strong>other</strong><br />

could not make it. Our host in<br />

Melbourne put me in touch<br />

with an<strong>other</strong> OI who is one<br />

of the leading researchers<br />

at Monash University.<br />

Unfortunately, he could not<br />

make the reunion so we<br />

visited him at the<br />

University and were<br />

surprised to meet up<br />

with Annabel Griffiths,<br />

a former Head Girl of<br />

the <strong>School</strong>, who was<br />

on a seven-week work<br />

experience with him.”<br />

The network of<br />

international reps has<br />

now increased to include<br />

Hong Kong, Wellington,<br />

Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney,<br />

Brisbane and Cairns – and<br />

already there are plans afoot<br />

for the 2010 get-together in<br />

Christchurch. The rep acts as a<br />

catalyst not just for members<br />

in their area, but also for<br />

visiting OIs, and in particular,<br />

gap year students.<br />

Graham also visited <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

Grammar <strong>School</strong> in Brisbane.<br />

<strong>In</strong> appearance, it is very<br />

similar, although pupil<br />

numbers are higher and they<br />

are all boys. There are about<br />

one hundred boarders. ”They<br />

are very keen to continue to<br />

develop their links with us.<br />

Last Easter, a Year 11 master<br />

and his wife came to England<br />

for a holiday, and I showed<br />

them around our <strong>School</strong> and<br />

introduced them to some<br />

senior staff. They kindly<br />

hosted me for an evening,<br />

and the following day I went<br />

into the school, met the staff,<br />

chatted to the headmaster<br />

about Development matters,<br />

and looked around. It’s a very<br />

sporty place. <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />

1st XI visited Australia in<br />

1991/92 and were fortunate<br />

to play against <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong>, Brisbane. Both<br />

schools are keen to build a<br />

closer relationship.”<br />

Features<br />

Left: OI Clive Hammond at the Hong Kong<br />

Cricket Club; left, top: OIs Geoffrey Knights,<br />

Annabel Griffiths and Prof James Whisstock<br />

at Monash University in Melbourne.<br />

Reunions in Cairns (above, top), Wellington<br />

(above, middle), and Sydney (facing page)<br />

on a ferry, with the Sydney harbour bridge<br />

in the background.<br />

After the dust has settled on<br />

those taxis and trams, ferries<br />

and planes, perhaps the most<br />

lasting legacy of the trip will<br />

be the friendships forged,<br />

<strong>by</strong> Graham and those he<br />

met, and also among the OIs<br />

who came to the reunions<br />

and meetings and were<br />

able to share their school<br />

experiences, whatever their<br />

age, occupation, or distance.<br />

“Thanks for a great<br />

evening, always good<br />

now and then to wind<br />

the clock back, and<br />

meet new faces.”<br />

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OI Journal<br />

OIs in Singapore<br />

World War Two Memories<br />

We are very grateful to Peter Wrinch for his<br />

account of his, and his br<strong>other</strong> Tom’s, time<br />

in the Far East during the Second World<br />

War. Now 60 years on, <strong>this</strong> document has<br />

been presented to the Archives where it is<br />

available to <strong>any</strong> OIs who would like to read<br />

it. Unfortunately it is too long to edit and do<br />

justice to in <strong>this</strong> Journal but it is nonetheless<br />

a fascinating read.<br />

More Stonex Names<br />

<strong>In</strong> continuing feedback we have heard from<br />

Michael Warner who writes that he too<br />

remembers his Stonex <strong>name</strong>, of ‘Monitor’. <strong>In</strong><br />

Roman times it was someone who warned<br />

people of the approach of <strong>other</strong>s. Any more?<br />

Do keep them coming.<br />

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Geoffrey Bell-Jones writes:<br />

My wife and I decided to visit our daughter<br />

who was living in Singapore with her<br />

husband on a three year work contract.<br />

<strong>In</strong> discussion with Graham Papenfus of<br />

the Development Office, I learned that<br />

there were three OIs in Singapore and, as<br />

the OI Club was becoming more involved<br />

internationally, offered to meet them and<br />

update them on the Club’s activities. The<br />

three are all br<strong>other</strong>s. I was only able to<br />

meet the eldest one, YP Loke (1966-69), as<br />

the <strong>other</strong> two were away for the Christmas<br />

break. I met YP at the Raffles Marina where<br />

he had been general manager for the last<br />

nine years. Trained as a marine architect, he<br />

has been involved with boats and designing<br />

marinas all his life.<br />

YP had had no contact with the <strong>School</strong>,<br />

except for reading the OI publications, since<br />

he left in 1969 and he now realises it is a<br />

very different place in terms of activities<br />

and facilities. We discussed the Annual<br />

Fund and the Elizabethan Society as these<br />

developments are new to most overseas<br />

OIs. We spent a very pleasant evening eating<br />

outside overlooking the marina with all its<br />

modern yachts and motor cruisers.<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> East OI Rotarians who visited Williamsburg, from<br />

right to left: George Woodward, Lewis Tyler, Stephen<br />

Runnacles, John Clements and Keith Harris.<br />

Calling All OI Rotarians<br />

The Rotary movement has crossed m<strong>any</strong><br />

shores and embraces members from all<br />

over the world. <strong>In</strong> the <strong>Ipswich</strong> East branch<br />

alone there are 12 OIs and if you were to<br />

extrapolate <strong>this</strong> number there must be over<br />

100 Rotarians within the Club as a whole.<br />

Last year the <strong>Ipswich</strong> East branch visited their<br />

twin club in <strong>Ipswich</strong>, Massachusetts. It was<br />

a big surprise to the five OIs on that visit to<br />

see the OI coat of arms and Semper Eadem<br />

motto on the gateway in Williamsburg! Can<br />

<strong>any</strong>one shed <strong>any</strong> light as to why <strong>this</strong> appears<br />

on the <strong>other</strong> side of the Atlantic? Apparently<br />

we treated our colonial cousins very badly

when we first landed in those parts.<br />

The <strong>Ipswich</strong> East Rotary Club is planning an<br />

OI Rotary meet-up next year on Friday 24th<br />

September 2010 so make a note in your diary<br />

as a chance to meet up with the following<br />

OIs who are members of <strong>Ipswich</strong> East: Stuart<br />

Cooper, Ewan Dodds, Bob Dunnett, Nigel<br />

Farthing, David Knights, John Moor<strong>by</strong>, Richard<br />

Porter, Mike Steward, George Woodward,<br />

Lewis Tyler, Stephen Runnacles, John<br />

Clements (and latterly Keith Harris).<br />

Mower Marathon Team<br />

Reunited<br />

Fifty years ago, in 1959, OI Mark Grimwade<br />

(1943-53), then an engineer with <strong>Ipswich</strong>based<br />

Ransomes, and a team of students<br />

from Hatfield Technical College, set off from<br />

Edinburgh on a ride-on mower to ride to<br />

London. They wanted to test the reliability<br />

of these world-renowned grass cutters<br />

with their petrol engines, and<br />

they hatched a plan to drive a<br />

Ransomes Matador between<br />

the two capitals. Their journey<br />

took 99 hours and they drove<br />

on a two-hour rota. They were<br />

accompanied <strong>by</strong> a support<br />

vehicle in the shape of a camper<br />

van in which they were able to<br />

grab a few hours shut-eye.<br />

The team, now in their<br />

seventies were reunited for<br />

the 50th anniversary recently<br />

to celebrate their 400 mile<br />

feat. They gathered in London<br />

in Hyde Park where they<br />

re-enacted the completion<br />

of their journey <strong>by</strong> mowing<br />

a ceremonial strip of grass.<br />

They then travelled (<strong>by</strong><br />

train) to <strong>Ipswich</strong> where<br />

David Withers, managing<br />

director of Ransomes<br />

Jacobsen, met them. After<br />

lunch they were taken on a<br />

tour of the modern factory<br />

where an updated version of<br />

the trusted Matador is still being<br />

built today.<br />

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Members’ News<br />

With all the recent uproar over MPs’ expenses we were very pleased to know that the two<br />

MPs with <strong>School</strong> connections have kept their noses clean.<br />

Derek Wyatt, a former history teacher in the ‘70s, who coached rug<strong>by</strong> and was himself<br />

capped for England, went on to work in publishing and television, before becoming Labour<br />

MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. The Daily Telegraph commented favourably on the modest<br />

nature of his expenses claims. These included two Scotch eggs and a packet of mini pork pies!<br />

Derek is active in the area of reforming the internet and won an ISPA Hero’s Award in 2006<br />

for his work on seeing the Computer Misuse Act on to the statute book. He also won the New<br />

Statesman Award 2006 for the best website of an elected representative, which you can check<br />

out at www.derekwyatt.co.uk.<br />

OI John Pen<strong>rose</strong> (1975-82) is the Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare and went on to<br />

read law at Cambridge. Following his degree, he worked in management consultancy and<br />

publishing before being elected to Parliament in 2005. Earlier <strong>this</strong> year he was appointed<br />

Shadow Minister for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. On his blog, regarding his<br />

expenses, John writes: “Before I became an MP I worked for a series of different firms, but<br />

none so lax as Parliament. Westminster shouldn’t just try to match a well-run business or<br />

public organisation, it needs to do better. MPs can’t get away with claiming they’ve obeyed<br />

the rules like <strong>any</strong>body else, because they write the rules as well.”<br />

Hear, hear, John! Full marks for common sense. Was that something you learnt at<br />

<strong>School</strong>?<br />

Ride on<br />

Ransomes: Mark Grimwade<br />

is second from left.<br />

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Saga louts!<br />

OI Tom Griffiths had no particular career<br />

path when he left school in 1993. He<br />

was like 50% of sixth formers who don’t<br />

have a firm idea of their future. Like<br />

so m<strong>any</strong> of them, he took a gap year<br />

in order to develop his knowledge of<br />

the world and impress the university<br />

admissions tutors. On returning, he<br />

went to Manchester University and<br />

read Economics. More travelling after<br />

his degree led him to write his first<br />

book ‘Before You Go’, a foolproof guide<br />

to planning a gap year and the various<br />

pitfalls to be avoided. Then in 1998<br />

he launched The Gap Year Comp<strong>any</strong><br />

and gapyear.com which advises on,<br />

and facilitates, gap years for students,<br />

tailoring each programme to suit<br />

individual requirements.<br />

The gap year has become very much<br />

the norm nowadays and you are in<br />

the minority if you haven’t backpacked<br />

around Thailand. <strong>In</strong> my day, being an<br />

au pair was the most exotic route on<br />

offer! But for all of us who missed the<br />

boat for exciting years out, who have<br />

funded offspring as they see more of<br />

the world than we knew existed, and<br />

rather wistfully wished that they too<br />

could have that adventure, then Tom<br />

will grant that wish. He says that he is<br />

busy promoting the gap year brand to<br />

the 55-65 age group, the Saga-Louts<br />

as he calls them. So the Gap Year<br />

phenomenon is available to all, it just<br />

depends on whether you take it before<br />

your working life or after. Either way, the<br />

life experience will be just as rewarding.<br />

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Send us your gap year stories!<br />

We’d love to hear what you<br />

get up to.<br />

Mind that gap year student<br />

OI Ed Pope, 2003-2008, (fully clothed -<br />

why?), now at Cambridge reading Geography,<br />

organised four months in New Zealand<br />

playing cricket, followed <strong>by</strong> ski instructor<br />

training in Jasper, British Colombia, and a stint<br />

back at the old school, during his gap year.<br />

Below: Ironing Ed acquires some skills he<br />

never learnt at <strong>School</strong>.

Harmonising with<br />

existence<br />

Bart Seaton (1987-1992) has<br />

had a most interesting journey<br />

from student at the University<br />

of Wales to Franciscan monk at<br />

Hilfield Friary, in Dorset.<br />

The Project<br />

The Hilfield Peace and Environment Project<br />

is an initiative <strong>by</strong> the Society of St Francis, an<br />

Anglican religious order, to nurture and share<br />

the Franciscan values of peace, justice and<br />

the integrity of creation as a resource for all<br />

who are inspired <strong>by</strong> St Francis of Assisi.<br />

It aims to bring together people of different<br />

faiths – and of no acknowledged faith – to<br />

work for a more gentle and respectful care<br />

for the earth.<br />

Hilfield Friary is situated in rural Dorset.<br />

This Society of Franciscan Br<strong>other</strong>s<br />

work together to bring peace and<br />

justice between people, and they have<br />

a deep care and understanding of the<br />

environment. I am indebted to the editor<br />

of the Society of St Francis for allowing<br />

us to reproduce in part, the article Bart<br />

wrote for them which appeared in full in<br />

their publication last year.<br />

As a student of psychology, Bart began<br />

to think that his feeling towards life was<br />

at odds to the way the world seemed to<br />

be turning. One day, instead of attending<br />

a statistics lecture, he took an unfamiliar<br />

route which led him to the Menai Straits.<br />

He found himself sitting on a flat piece<br />

of rock close to the water’s edge.<br />

“It was there,” he says, “that my<br />

listless mind, empty of intentions that<br />

I suddenly sprang to my feet as if from<br />

a dream. My mind seemed to have<br />

gone quiet for a moment and I felt that<br />

I had somehow harmonised with my<br />

existence. Had some saint tapped me<br />

on the shoulder? Then I had no frame<br />

work to be sure but today following my<br />

subsequent experiences I would attribute<br />

it to the intercession of the saints,<br />

perhaps St Patrick or St Paul, or both.<br />

This experience led me to change<br />

course and I was able to switch to<br />

read Theology. As a child at home and<br />

at school I had followed the Christian<br />

pattern of worship and learnt that ‘God<br />

is love’. Now I knew I had been opened<br />

up from the inside out <strong>by</strong> love and as St<br />

Paul suggested, even if everything else<br />

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breaks down and passes away, love will<br />

remain, only love endures.”<br />

During the months between courses,<br />

he explored the ideas of Buddhism,<br />

including meditation, a practice that<br />

he quickly took to. On returning to<br />

University he was able to join a Zen<br />

group who practised meditation. Bart<br />

says,” I didn’t expect <strong>this</strong> pattern to my<br />

student life would be sowing the seed<br />

for the rule of life I now follow in my<br />

vocation as a Franciscan friar.”<br />

After graduation he looked up a family<br />

contact living in France as a Zen monk<br />

and offering silent retreats. He set out<br />

to walk from Suffolk to Lot in France<br />

and arrived on foot after a month’s<br />

pilgrimage. With just a lightweight<br />

tent he camped, and stayed at various<br />

monasteries along the way. He spent<br />

three months at the rugged, isolated<br />

retreat – and, determined to test his<br />

vocation, he returned to an enclosed<br />

Christian community in Sussex.<br />

After working for m<strong>any</strong> months as a<br />

carer it was suggested to him that he<br />

might further test his vocation with<br />

the Anglican Franciscans, and seven<br />

years ago he joined Hilfield Friary. Bart<br />

now works there as Guest Br<strong>other</strong> and<br />

says,” I see my role, in common with<br />

my br<strong>other</strong>s here, as allowing people<br />

to open their minds to expand their<br />

creativity, to be still and realise the<br />

part they themselves play in God’s<br />

redemption of the world through love.<br />

Faith(s) like hopes can pass away but<br />

only love endures.”<br />

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Sponsored Cycle Ride in Memory of A Dear Friend<br />

Earlier in the year, intrepid OIs Robin<br />

Thorogood and Edward Lowe took part in a<br />

sponsored cycle ride from London to Paris.<br />

They were raising money in memory of their<br />

good friend, and fellow OI, Tom Lethbridge.<br />

Tom sadly died in 2007 from Aplastic<br />

Anemia. Robin and Eddie were raising funds<br />

to help those still having to cope with <strong>this</strong><br />

little known but nonetheless devastating<br />

condition. They were accompanied on their<br />

trip <strong>by</strong> OIs Hugh Thomas, James and Richard<br />

Harding, and Kieran McElhinney, who were<br />

cycling for <strong>other</strong> charities.<br />

Robin writes of his journey:<br />

“Eddie and I departed from Clapham<br />

Common with nine <strong>other</strong>s on Thursday 11th<br />

June in high spirits, but before reaching the<br />

outskirts of London we had suffered two<br />

punctures! Then came the rolling Sussex<br />

Downs which proved to be a real challenge<br />

and we were very glad to roll into our beds<br />

in Lewes that first night.<br />

On Friday we took the ferry crossing from<br />

Newhaven to Dieppe, arriving at 4pm. We<br />

continued our biking along an old railway<br />

track to Forges-les-Eaux where we stayed<br />

in a wonderful farmhouse b&b. <strong>In</strong> our<br />

ignorance, Saturday proved to be the most<br />

mammoth challenge, taking us just over<br />

100 miles through the French countryside to<br />

Paris. After some wrong turns we eventually<br />

arrived at our destination underneath the<br />

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Eiffel Tower at 8.30pm, completely exhausted<br />

and totally elated. Tom’s parents, Michael and<br />

Christine, had very kindly made the journey<br />

to welcome us on arrival.<br />

That night we somehow found the energy<br />

to sample the Parisian nightlife and got to<br />

bed sometime in the early hours. On Sunday<br />

we took the easy way home <strong>by</strong> catching the<br />

Eurostar back to Blighty.<br />

It was a thoroughly memorable trip and<br />

a much harder challenge than we had<br />

originally envisaged. Perhaps the initial bright<br />

idea thought up around a pub table should<br />

have had more details! However we were<br />

overwhelmed <strong>by</strong> the kind donations and<br />

everyone’s generosity, as were Tom’s parents<br />

- so thank you all.”<br />

Anyone who would like to contribute to <strong>this</strong><br />

worthy cause in memory of Tom can do so <strong>by</strong><br />

visiting www.justgiving.com/robinthorogood<br />

OI Thomas Lethbridge (above) was a very<br />

talented Design Technology student at Oxford<br />

Brookes University. Shortly before his death,<br />

he was runner-up in a national competition<br />

to design a tree house for the Countryside<br />

Education Trust at their site on the Beaulieu<br />

estate in the New Forest. His design is now<br />

part of an exhibition at the Beaulieu National<br />

Motor Museum, and a memorial to Tom has<br />

been carved there on a six-foot high oak tree<br />

stump.<br />

<strong>In</strong> Receipt of Maundy Money<br />

OI and lay reader John Andreasen (1938-42)<br />

was privileged to be a recipient of Maundy<br />

Money at <strong>this</strong> year’s presentation <strong>by</strong> the<br />

Queen at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral.<br />

John writes:<br />

“I was nominated <strong>by</strong> the Cathedral on<br />

behalf of the diocese. I have served the<br />

Church for over 60 years in parish, deanery<br />

and diocesan posts. I have been a reader<br />

for nearly 40 years, officiating at over 100<br />

different churches in the diocese. For 30<br />

years I have been a Director of the <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

Historic Churches Trust, with particular<br />

responsibility for the redundant church of St<br />

Clement, <strong>Ipswich</strong>.<br />

The organisation on Maundy Thursday<br />

was fantastic - from the car parking to the<br />

service, and then to lunch in a marquee in<br />

the Cathedral Gardens. The security was,<br />

of course, very tight and all the recipients<br />

were frisked <strong>by</strong> the police on leaving the<br />

car park; even the Bishop was searched. We<br />

had to be seated in the Cathedral an hour<br />

before the service was due to begin. Whilst<br />

waiting I was approached <strong>by</strong> the Bishop<br />

of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel<br />

McCulloch, who said that he would mention<br />

to Her Majesty that I had umpired cricket<br />

matches for over 50 years.

The recipients were all seated on the end<br />

of the rows for easy access for the Queen<br />

and she came to each of us in turn, giving<br />

out two purses: one white with 83 pence of<br />

Maundy money made up in denominations<br />

of one, two, three and four pence silver<br />

coins. The <strong>other</strong> purse, a red one, contained<br />

a five pound coin commemorating the<br />

Accession of Henry VIII in 1509, and 50 pence<br />

celebrating the founding of Kew Gardens in<br />

1759. I was exceptionally fortunate to be<br />

introduced to the Queen. The Queen brought<br />

her own choir from the Chapels Royal to<br />

help lead the service and the Yeoman of the<br />

Guard provided extra security. The Duke of<br />

Edinburgh read one of the lessons. Following<br />

the service, the Cathedral provided a lunch of<br />

cottage pie and apple tart, served <strong>by</strong> senior<br />

students from the local schools, and cadets<br />

from the ATC.<br />

It was a most historic and memorable day for<br />

me and one I shall never forget.”<br />

John is a wonderful character and a<br />

regular visitor to the Friday night socials<br />

in the Pavilion where he can be found<br />

chatting with fellow OIs. He also takes<br />

services at Helmingham Church.<br />

Olympic Hockey Hopeful<br />

OI George Pinner’s hopes of making the<br />

England hockey squad for the 2012 Olympics<br />

came a step closer earlier <strong>this</strong> year when he<br />

was selected to play for his country in a fournation<br />

tour<strong>name</strong>nt in Hamburg. <strong>In</strong> Germ<strong>any</strong><br />

they faced Olympic bronze medallists<br />

RNLI runners: Richard Elston (centre back), Lizzie Devenish,<br />

George Salmon, George Finch, Adam Rawcliffe, Alex<br />

Marsh, Alex Scorer, Jack Beckett, Alex Peterson, and, far<br />

right, a wet Ben Eagle.<br />

Australia and European Champions, Holland.<br />

When not playing for his country George<br />

keeps goal for the Beeston club helping them<br />

to finish third in the Premier Hockey League<br />

and to reach the cup final, qualifying for the<br />

Euro Hockey League.<br />

“My focus,” says George, “is the 2012<br />

Olympics. I took a year out of my studies<br />

in 2008 to train full-time with the Great<br />

Britain hockey squad to give myself the best<br />

possible chance of being selected.” That<br />

strategy appears to have paid off and we<br />

will watch his progress. A former under 18<br />

England goalkeeper, George graduated in<br />

Business Studies from Nottingham University<br />

earlier <strong>this</strong> year.<br />

George Pinner in April 2004, with the gold medal he won<br />

in the Netherlands, playing in goal for the England Under<br />

18 hockey team, whilst a Sixth Former at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />

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Raising Funds For The<br />

Lifeboats<br />

When OI Ben Eagle was asked <strong>by</strong> Year<br />

11 student Richard Elston to join him in a<br />

fundraising run for the RNLI from Clacton Pier<br />

to Walton Pier, he was only too pleased to<br />

get involved. However it was such a hot day<br />

that after a mile, he decided to swim the<br />

8km distance instead. He finally arrived after<br />

two and a half hours, cold and exhausted,<br />

only to find that he still had to run the last<br />

half mile along the length of the pier before<br />

sinking gratefully into a welcoming towel. It<br />

was well worth it and the event raised £1500<br />

for the Lifeboats.<br />

Next year Ben is already planning an<strong>other</strong><br />

fundraising effort to walk the Pennine Way<br />

with fellow OI Will Hardisty. That may be<br />

a wise move as Will has recently set up a<br />

micro brewery on his farm using their own<br />

home-grown maltings and two special<br />

recipes. Perhaps some of those 50,000 litres<br />

they are planning to brew will sustain them<br />

on their travels!<br />

Still on the Lifeboat cause, OI friends Oli<br />

Marsh and Alex Purser, who both enjoy a bit<br />

of an adventure, decided to embark on quite<br />

a challenge in their fundraising campaign.<br />

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Their plan was to climb Ben Macdui in the<br />

Cairngorms, then hop on a canoe and paddle<br />

from Loch <strong>In</strong>sch up the Spey to where it<br />

meets the North Sea at Spey Bay. From there<br />

head West to <strong>In</strong>verness along the coast and<br />

then follow the Great Glen to Fort William<br />

and just for good measure abandon the<br />

canoe and climb Ben Nevis to finish the trip:<br />

a total distance of about 200 miles, 20 of<br />

which would be on foot and 180 <strong>by</strong> canoe.<br />

The idea was to take two weeks to complete<br />

the trip which would start early in October.<br />

This gave them the whole of the summer to<br />

hone their canoeing skills especially those<br />

required in open water.<br />

As we go to press, Oli and Alex have<br />

completed their journey and returned home.<br />

M<strong>any</strong> congratulations to them for a sterling<br />

effort. The full amount raised is not yet<br />

known but you can follow their adventures<br />

<strong>by</strong> visiting www.bens<strong>by</strong>boat2009.blogspot.<br />

com and reading their account of the trip.<br />

Mark Evans (1965–1973)<br />

After leaving <strong>School</strong> I worked on the<br />

construction of two important pieces of local<br />

infrastructure, the Colchester Northern Bypass<br />

and the Alton Water Reservoir Dam.<br />

I then went to Kingston Polytechnic to study<br />

civil engineering and after that worked on<br />

the Thames Barrier. I went to work overseas<br />

in Australia for a few years and on my return<br />

I specialised in the water sector, project<br />

managing the design and construction of<br />

water schemes.<br />

During <strong>this</strong> time I passed my professional<br />

exams, becoming a Member of the <strong>In</strong>stitution<br />

of Civil Engineers (MICE). It has been an<br />

interesting and varied career and I am<br />

currently Strategic Development Director for<br />

a comp<strong>any</strong> who specialises in tunnelling and<br />

water transportation sectors all around the<br />

UK. Our flagship project <strong>this</strong> year is on the<br />

2012 Games Park in London.<br />

Married to Deb<strong>by</strong>, we have two teenage<br />

boys and live in Surrey where we bought a<br />

120 year old stable in Effingham which we<br />

converted. The project would never have<br />

made Grand Designs as it was done on time<br />

and to budget!<br />

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As a graduate of the Mermagan era, sport<br />

has always been a big interest. I played<br />

club rug<strong>by</strong> until quite recently, mostly at<br />

Esher RFC, and I now play vets football for a<br />

local club called Midlife Crisis FC. Other big<br />

interests are mountain biking and sailing;<br />

having a small yacht on the River Hamble<br />

enables me to cruise around the Solent and<br />

sometimes over to France.<br />

Thirty-five years on I feel it is safe to admit<br />

that as an <strong>Ipswich</strong> Town fan I occasionally<br />

used to skive off Saturday afternoon games<br />

in order to get down to watch a match at<br />

Portman Road. As games often involved<br />

a cross-country run to the Fynn Valley I<br />

reckoned that it was worth taking the risk of<br />

Cycling to success: Mark Evans enjoys a 100 mile ride on<br />

the South Downs (below). Andy Lavelle’s photography was<br />

exhibted in the Willis building in <strong>Ipswich</strong> (below right).<br />

getting caught! I still follow the Tractor Boys<br />

and get to a few games each season.<br />

As I work in the water industry I try to raise<br />

sponsorship for a charity called WaterAid<br />

which helps communities that have no<br />

access to proper drinking water or sanitation.<br />

To raise sponsorship in recent years I’ve done<br />

the London Triathlon and cycled solo from Big<br />

Ben to the Eiffel Tower.<br />

I owe a lot to John Nicholson (Nitch),<br />

especially my choice of career and love of<br />

sport. He showed me that Maths can be fun<br />

and he selected me to play for the 1st XV –<br />

still one of my proudest moments!<br />

Bruce Finch (1977-88)<br />

Writes to say how delighted he was to see<br />

pupils still learning the important skill of<br />

debating (see <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian <strong>School</strong> Times,<br />

Summer 2009). <strong>In</strong> 1994 he donated the Finch<br />

Cup for Public Speaking and Debating and<br />

since then has enjoyed debating at University<br />

and around the world. This was stimulated<br />

<strong>by</strong> his experiences in <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s<br />

debating society in the late 1980s under<br />

the supervision of Dick Tucker and Richard<br />

Burnell. He says: “It’s wonderful to see so<br />

m<strong>any</strong> pupils have gone on to maintain the<br />

tradition and achieve success. I certainly have<br />

found it invaluable in my professions as a<br />

Royal Naval Officer, Management Consultant<br />

and Conservative Parliamentary Candidate. I’d<br />

like to think that the Finch Cup has helped to<br />

keep the debating spark alive over the years.”<br />

Andy Lavelle (2001-08)<br />

Currently studying<br />

Art Foundation at<br />

Suffolk College,<br />

Andy’s AS level<br />

work was voted<br />

in the top ten of<br />

6,000 candidates<br />

nationwide. He<br />

had an exhibition<br />

at the Willis<br />

building in <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

(see photo, left)<br />

which showcased<br />

his portraits. His<br />

unusual technique<br />

involves taking

shots of people unawares, resulting in some<br />

beguiling and very natural images. Andy<br />

is going on next year to study Drama and<br />

English at Bristol.<br />

Kate Kincaid<br />

(nee Walker 1975-77)<br />

As editor of <strong>this</strong> magazine I am always<br />

appealing to OIs for their news, so, leading <strong>by</strong><br />

example, here is an update of mine.<br />

I live in Wrabness, on the banks of the<br />

beautiful river Stour in Essex, with wonderful<br />

views across to Suffolk. Married to Peter; we<br />

share our lives with a collection of horses and<br />

dogs. Horses have always been a passion for<br />

me and following successes in the show ring<br />

with home-bred animals I now find myself<br />

on the <strong>other</strong> side of the fence being asked<br />

to judge. I very much enjoy <strong>this</strong> aspect and<br />

I am glad to be able to put something back<br />

into the sport. It takes me to various places<br />

around the country and I recently spent two<br />

days judging in Jersey. For the last 20 years<br />

I have been an accredited riding instructor<br />

for the Riding for the Disabled Association<br />

and teach children from a local school on a<br />

weekly basis. This is immensely rewarding<br />

and a great leveller.<br />

As I pen <strong>this</strong> I am about to launch a new<br />

business, Winning Colours, (you can check<br />

out the website www.winningcolours.<br />

co.uk.) We provide luxury, bespoke, gifts<br />

and goods, embroidered with racing colours.<br />

Aimed at owners and those connected with<br />

racehorses, we are hoping that one day we<br />

may be <strong>by</strong> Royal Approval! We can but hope.<br />

I still enjoy skiing and often spend time with<br />

my br<strong>other</strong> who has a small chalet in Flaine,<br />

France. Sailing in warm waters is something<br />

Peter and I both enjoy and do as often as<br />

possible. Having had a boat in Majorca for<br />

several years, the Balearics is an area we<br />

know well. We have also enjoyed cruising in<br />

the Dodecanese and the Windward Islands.<br />

Peter plays golf at Swinley Forest once a year<br />

with OIs John Chittock, living in Surrey, and<br />

Ian Pearce, living in Jersey.<br />

Winning ways: the Editor, Kate Kincaid, has just launched a<br />

range of luxury goods embroidered with racing colours.<br />

This year I have heard from:<br />

Mick Berriman (1962-73) -<br />

spotted <strong>this</strong> year alive and well and back<br />

in <strong>Ipswich</strong>, firstly in The Greyhound (some<br />

things never change), and then a couple<br />

of weeks later propping up the bar at the<br />

Suffolk Show - <strong>any</strong>thing you want to tell us<br />

Mick?<br />

David Clowes (1964-73) - helping<br />

Mick with that jug of Pimms at the show and<br />

looking good on it.<br />

Joe Bloye (1965-72) - at the<br />

<strong>other</strong> end of the members’ marquee still<br />

accompanied <strong>by</strong> leggy blondes, possibly his<br />

daughters!<br />

John Dig<strong>by</strong> (1965-75) – last heard<br />

of heading up hevron Oils’ operations in New<br />

Delhi, married with two children.<br />

Ivor Body (1939-45)<br />

Ivor writes from his home in Rustington,<br />

West Sussex, that he has fond memories of<br />

his time at <strong>School</strong>. He says, “I was always<br />

playing catch up owing to the fact that I had<br />

no schooling prior to the age of 11 due to the<br />

war and being in RAF camps for short periods<br />

of time. I wish the <strong>School</strong> all the best and<br />

hope that it will prosper for m<strong>any</strong> decades<br />

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to come. It still seems funny to me to see<br />

young ladies at the <strong>School</strong>, but all for the<br />

best I’m sure!”<br />

Peter Tomiak (1997-2004)<br />

Peter gained a First in Earth Sciences<br />

(Palaeontology) at Bristol University where<br />

he was awarded the Donald Ash<strong>by</strong> Prize<br />

for the best final year student in the Earth<br />

Science Department. He is currently working<br />

with Sir Iain Douglas-Hamilton at the Save<br />

the Elephant research camp at Samburu,<br />

Kenya. Peter would like to pass on his<br />

particular thanks to Mr Welbourne for his<br />

encouragement during his A levels.<br />

Matthew Tomiak (1997-2002)<br />

Achieved a merit in his American Studies<br />

Masters at King’s College, London. He is now<br />

working for Red Bee Broadcasting in London.<br />

Ed Seaton (1983-90)<br />

“I am working as a consultant dermatologist<br />

and cutaneous surgeon at the Royal Free<br />

Hospital in North London. I specialise in skin<br />

cancer. I married Tran Huynh at St Mary le<br />

Tower in <strong>Ipswich</strong> in 2005 and was pleased to<br />

have David Warnes involved in the service.<br />

We have a daughter, Amelia, who was born<br />

in 2007. We currently live in Chiswick and I<br />

would love to meet up with <strong>any</strong> circa 1990<br />

OIs.”<br />

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Mike Seaton (1989-96)<br />

I am now greatly enjoying teaching English<br />

at Stowmarket High <strong>School</strong>, having spent<br />

m<strong>any</strong> successful years working in London in<br />

the Public Relations industry. I married Trine<br />

in Debenham Parish Church in 2007 and our<br />

daughter, Ellis, was born in October 2008.<br />

Andrew Turner (1960-71)<br />

After working as a trainee solicitor and<br />

admin assistant in the NHS, Andrew went<br />

to Theological College in Nottingham. He<br />

was ordained at Bury St Edmunds cathedral<br />

and then served as curate in Framlingham<br />

before becoming the Rector of Badingham,<br />

Bruisyard, Cransford and Dennington. He then<br />

joined the RAF in 1991 at Cranwell and has<br />

served with them ever since, rising to the<br />

rank of Wing Commander. He is stationed<br />

at RAF Marham and is married with two<br />

children.<br />

Captain Andy Wild (1986-97)<br />

Having returned from a tour of duty in<br />

Afghanistan he is now Adjutant of the Royal<br />

Anglicans.<br />

Lieutenant Michael Card<br />

(1993-2000)<br />

Michael is currently serving in Afghanistan<br />

with the 7th Royal Horse Artillery.<br />

Henry Hughes (1994-99)<br />

Henry is a PT instructor with the Royal Green<br />

Jackets, based in Winchester.<br />

Charles May (1993-97)<br />

Charles joined the Marine Artillery and is<br />

serving now as a Captain. He has seen action<br />

in both Iraq and Afghanistan.<br />

Chris Jarrold (1979-86)<br />

Chris has been appointed Professor of<br />

Cognitive Development in the Department of<br />

Experimental Psychology at Bristol University.<br />

He writes that he is very pleased about the<br />

appointment not least because Bristol is a<br />

great University and a fantastic city to live in.<br />

He is also the Honorary Secretary of the UK’s<br />

Experimental Psychology Society.<br />

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Annabel Griffiths (1995-2007)<br />

On leaving <strong>School</strong> in 2007 I went to Gonville<br />

and Caius College, Cambridge, to read<br />

Biological Sciences and have just completed<br />

my first year. I played Fives at <strong>School</strong><br />

throughout the Sixth Form, including various<br />

tour<strong>name</strong>nts – the Ladies Nationals, <strong>School</strong>s<br />

Nationals, and a mixed tour<strong>name</strong>nt.<br />

At Cambridge I was appointed Ladies<br />

Captain at the end of my first year. During<br />

my second year, the club has grown quite<br />

substantially and we have been able to build<br />

on our successes. We were undefeated in our<br />

fixtures and had a huge four pair entry into<br />

the Ladies Nationals, where my partner, Real<br />

Tennis champion Karen Hird, and I reached<br />

the quarter-finals. I also played for the<br />

men’s second team at the EFA tour<strong>name</strong>nt,<br />

represented North Oxfordshire and the Old<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong>ians, and I played first pair in two<br />

Varsity matches.<br />

Extraordinary half blues were awarded to<br />

Karen and myself - the first half blues ever to<br />

be awarded to ladies in Eton Fives!<br />

Mike Fenn (1948-59)<br />

Still on the subject of Fives, Mike Fenn has<br />

continued as the Secretary and Administrator<br />

of the Eton Fives Association. At the AGM in<br />

October 2009 Mike relinquished <strong>this</strong> position<br />

to fellow OI Gareth Hoskins. Mike also serves<br />

as a trustee of the Eton Fives Charitable Trust<br />

and is a committee member of the Fives<br />

Federation.<br />

Felicity McNeil (2001-08)<br />

Went to St James Palace with fellow student<br />

Katherine Harris to receive their Duke of<br />

Edinburgh Gold Awards. They were both able<br />

to meet the Duke and then received their<br />

awards from Chris Hollings, BBC 1’s Breakfast<br />

News sports reporter and contestant on the<br />

popular Strictly Come Dancing programme.<br />

To gain their award they climbed Mount<br />

Toubkal, the highest mountain in North<br />

Africa, and also organised a charity dinner<br />

for their peers which raised a considerable<br />

amount of money for the Juniper Trust.<br />

Right: Felicity McNeil and Katherine Harris - and friend -<br />

celebrate their Duke of Edinburgh Award achievement.<br />

Left: Annabel Griffiths excels at fives.<br />

Rob Harden (1983-90)<br />

Rob and children delivered a three-part<br />

speech to hundreds of people gathered<br />

on <strong>Ipswich</strong>’s Cornhill for the first-ever<br />

Speakerthon, organised <strong>by</strong> <strong>Ipswich</strong> Electrifiers<br />

Speakers’ Club as part of the Ip-Art festival.<br />

James Davey was there too - see photo on<br />

page 6.<br />

Below: Never too young to rise to a challenge!

IAN COLLINS<br />

Underline the Sky<br />

James Hicks (2000-2007) and<br />

Tom Bryce (1998-2004) are<br />

both members of the very successful band<br />

Underline the Sky, which opened the V<br />

festival in the summer.<br />

“We've played nearly 200 shows since we<br />

started as a band just over eighteen months<br />

ago. <strong>In</strong> December we will be releasing<br />

our first EP, and our MySpace website<br />

http://www.underlinethesky.com will be<br />

redesigned, with new photos, new T shirts,<br />

Waste not,<br />

want not<br />

Born in Hong Kong, Ulysses Ma came to<br />

the <strong>School</strong> in 1972, joining Westwood to do<br />

O and A levels. After a degree in metallurgy,<br />

he went on to do a PhD at Imperial College.<br />

Following several appointments in industry<br />

he discovered that his real talents lay in<br />

management and that he gained most<br />

pleasure from his work when it involved<br />

helping people to achieve their goals.<br />

With <strong>this</strong> in mind he embarked on a MBA<br />

course at Brunel University, graduating in<br />

1991. During the next ten years he worked<br />

new shows etc - 2010 will be an incredibly<br />

important year for us. Fingers crossed..! Tom<br />

and I are both at University – but not the<br />

ones we originally planned on. The band has<br />

made huge changes to our lives so we are<br />

now studying at different campuses around<br />

Essex. Juggling Uni and band life is hard but<br />

we're just about managing at the moment!”<br />

Girl power: singer Bronwen Cooper keeps the rest of the<br />

band Underline the Sky under control. Recognise Old<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong>ians James Hicks (second from right) and Tom<br />

Bryce (far left)?<br />

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on m<strong>any</strong> projects for various different<br />

companies where sustainability was the key<br />

word, and during <strong>this</strong> time his work received<br />

m<strong>any</strong> awards. <strong>In</strong> 2000 he set up Greenfile<br />

Developments Ltd. (www.greenfile.net)<br />

and started to pick up several projects in<br />

the construction industry, helping to stamp<br />

out an ever-growing problem of waste,<br />

making <strong>this</strong> vital industry leaner, greener,<br />

more sustainable, more profitable and<br />

ultimately more attractive to shareholders<br />

and environmentalists alike. Up to 20%<br />

of all materials delivered to building sites<br />

up and down the country end up in a skip.<br />

That equates to 100 million tonnes of waste<br />

going into landfill sites and represents a<br />

considerable saving of both money and<br />

precious resources.<br />

“Our aim,” says Uly, “is to help companies<br />

reduce waste, and save costs. Often it is<br />

thought that saving money means getting<br />

rid of people. But people are the ones who<br />

can help you save money through more<br />

sustainable solutions. At Greenfile we<br />

motivate people. We encourage and engage<br />

the managers right through the workforce to<br />

work together to deliver sustainability.”<br />

One of Uly’s award-winning projects, Project<br />

NoWaste, was developed for Bovis Land<br />

Lease and implemented at the recently<br />

refurbished Unilever House in Blackfriars,<br />

London. As part of the programme,<br />

workers can strive towards gaining NVQs in<br />

environmental studies and management.<br />

Uly also teaches project management<br />

and consultancy skills at the South Bank<br />

University in London and lectures at<br />

Reading University on the postgraduate<br />

programme for NHS managers. He is due to<br />

publish a book in 2010 on sustainability for<br />

construction.<br />

Of his <strong>School</strong> days Uly reckons he learnt<br />

to be a good person, to play fair and to<br />

behave with decency towards <strong>other</strong>s - all<br />

important attributes for a successful career<br />

in management. He is married and lives in<br />

London with his wife, whom he met on his<br />

first night at university.<br />

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Hatches,<br />

matches<br />

and<br />

despatches<br />

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Matthew and Rachel Brooks<br />

Births<br />

Major Niklas Fairweather (1982-<br />

93) and his wife Lisa announced the birth of<br />

their second daughter, Isabella Lucie, on 4th<br />

September 2009, a sister for Elena. Major<br />

Fairweather is serving with the Army in<br />

Germ<strong>any</strong>.<br />

(I’m all for population control, but at <strong>this</strong><br />

rate we are becoming an endangered<br />

species! Let us know who else we should<br />

welcome into the world. Ed.)<br />

Marriages<br />

Olivia Donaldson (nee Jones)<br />

1993-95; was married to Rory Donaldson on<br />

30th August 2008 in York Minster.<br />

Matthew Brooks (1982-93)<br />

married Rachael Evison at Great Fosters,<br />

Surrey on 4th October 2008. Matthew is now<br />

Group Manager for Frazer-Jones based in<br />

London. At the wedding Matthew was joined<br />

<strong>by</strong> fellow OIs Daniel (his br<strong>other</strong> and best<br />

man), Patrick Ryder, James and Claudia Ryder,<br />

Michael and Peter Wynn, Mr and Mrs Douglas<br />

Yelland.<br />

(I know marriage is often considered<br />

an old-fashioned institution but I’m<br />

sure more than two of you made <strong>this</strong><br />

commitment last year – let us know. Ed.)

Obituaries<br />

It is with sadness that we bring to your<br />

attention the passing of OIs. As always,<br />

we send our condolences to their families<br />

and friends and thank them for letting us<br />

know.<br />

Keith Harris, a much-appreciated, and sorely missed, OI<br />

Club Secretary<br />

Keith Harris (1939-45)<br />

Keith was born in Gorleston in 1936 and<br />

moved to <strong>Ipswich</strong> in 1940, only to be<br />

evacuated soon after the outbreak of war,<br />

spending a few years in Northumberland. He<br />

was educated at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>, where his<br />

love of rug<strong>by</strong>, cricket and m<strong>any</strong> <strong>other</strong> sports<br />

originated.<br />

He went on to College in Norwich, to study<br />

accountancy. <strong>In</strong> 1955 he was called up for<br />

National Service and spent two years with<br />

the Royal Air Force, servicing electronics<br />

on night fighters. <strong>In</strong> 1957 he joined the<br />

family-owned business Photokraft, a group<br />

of four processing laboratories, and <strong>this</strong> was<br />

to start a long and distinguished career in<br />

the photographic industry. <strong>In</strong> 1976, when<br />

Photokraft was taken over <strong>by</strong> Colourcare<br />

<strong>In</strong>ternational, he became Sales Director for<br />

the comp<strong>any</strong> in Newmarket. He then became<br />

Director of Overseas Development, setting up<br />

new laboratories for the Colourcare Group in<br />

Norway and Spain.<br />

The lure of a new challenge lead him to join<br />

the Association of Photographic Laboratories<br />

in 1986 as Chief Executive, and during <strong>this</strong><br />

time he organised the industry’s biggest,<br />

most successful, trade shows in Birmingham<br />

and then Olympia. The APL became part<br />

of the American trade organisation Photo<br />

Marketing Association in 1993, and he<br />

became Director of UK Operations, a post he<br />

held until 1998. <strong>In</strong> 1999 he was asked <strong>by</strong><br />

PMA to organise the last of the big UK trade<br />

shows, and returned as a consultant for one<br />

more show – he would never turn down a<br />

challenge. His last position was as the UK<br />

consultant for Photo Imaging News, a USbased<br />

trade publication.<br />

Keith loved and followed most sports but<br />

his sporting passion was rug<strong>by</strong>. He played<br />

for <strong>Ipswich</strong> Rug<strong>by</strong> Club and began coaching.<br />

His interest in refereeing developed as he<br />

saw <strong>this</strong> was a way to give something back<br />

to a game that had given him so much<br />

pleasure. Refereeing gave way to assessing,<br />

and eventually he became President of the<br />

Eastern Counties Federation of Referees.<br />

Keith was a founder member of the Rotary<br />

Club of <strong>Ipswich</strong> East, becoming President in<br />

1970. He supported so m<strong>any</strong> activities and<br />

was currently Secretary, a post he had held<br />

for several years. The Rotary motto of ‘Service<br />

above Self’ typifies Keith’s care and concern<br />

for <strong>other</strong>s. He was secretary for m<strong>any</strong> years<br />

of Victim Support and gave his time and<br />

Keith on the right, with Graham Papenfus and Carole Day,<br />

in front of the <strong>School</strong> pavilion<br />

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expertise to several <strong>other</strong> organisations,<br />

including the OI Club, where latterly he was<br />

the Secretary. He will be sadly missed <strong>by</strong> so<br />

m<strong>any</strong>.<br />

A very strong family man, Keith gained his<br />

greatest pleasure from time spent with his<br />

wife, children and grandchildren. His wife<br />

Joy, daughter Suzanne and sons Neill (OI) and<br />

David (OI) and their families survive him.<br />

Michael Ford Coverdale<br />

(1944-49)<br />

Peter John Gooding<br />

(1935-1944)<br />

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Stuart Cooper<br />

Michael died on 16th July 2009, aged 77<br />

years. He leaves a widow, Jennifer, and a<br />

daughter, Diana.<br />

Peter attended Henley House Prep <strong>School</strong><br />

and joined <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> in 1935. He was<br />

a very keen sportsman, playing tennis,<br />

cricket and hockey. When he left <strong>School</strong> in<br />

1944 he joined the National Provincial Bank<br />

whilst waiting for the call up which, due to a<br />

medical problem, never happened.<br />

During <strong>this</strong> time he met his wife, Meryl, and<br />

were due to celebrate their 58th wedding<br />

anniversary <strong>this</strong> year. They were married<br />

in the <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Chapel <strong>by</strong> the Rev<br />

Truman Tanqueray. Peter and Meryl have five<br />

children, and their daughter was christened<br />

in the chapel as well. Peter continued his<br />

association with the <strong>School</strong> <strong>by</strong> becoming<br />

Treasurer of the OI Club, and he also played<br />

cricket for the OIs and the Greyhounds, and<br />

hockey for Hadleigh and Fisons.<br />

On leaving the bank, Peter worked for Fisons<br />

in their insurance department, and the family<br />

lived in Hintlesham and later in Felixstowe.<br />

When Peter left Fisons he went to work<br />

for Sterling Winthrop in Surrey and later for<br />

Whitbread before finally joining Keith Shipton<br />

who went on to form Marsh McClellan.<br />

During his time with MM he spent nine years<br />

in Australia, where his daughter went to live.<br />

When he formally retired at 60 he continued<br />

to do voluntary insurance work for Melbourne<br />

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and Sydney Universities and discovered a<br />

gap in their insurance system. He set about<br />

rectifying <strong>this</strong> for these universities and all<br />

<strong>other</strong>s. He was instrumental in setting up a<br />

comp<strong>any</strong> called Unimutual, which has been<br />

successfully running for 20 years, helping<br />

universities in Britain and abroad.<br />

<strong>In</strong> 2002 they finally returned to their muchloved<br />

Felixstowe. Peter used to cycle past the<br />

house he finally lived in when he had worked<br />

at Fisons all those years ago. It was a house<br />

he had always dreamed of living in, so when<br />

he saw that it was on the market it gave him<br />

enormous pleasure to buy it. He and Meryl<br />

spent six years renovatng the house and<br />

garden and when he finally ‘retired’ he loved<br />

to spend time in his garden.<br />

Since returning to Felixstowe Peter made<br />

it his mission to have the <strong>name</strong>s of WB<br />

Carrington and B Swinbanks added to the ‘<strong>In</strong><br />

Honour Of’ board at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>, which<br />

has been done. He was also keen for there<br />

to be some recognition made of the Rev<br />

Tanqueray and although Peter will not see<br />

the fruits of <strong>this</strong> labour, plans are in hand for<br />

a stained glass window to be erected in the<br />

chapel in 2010.<br />

Peter died at home, cared for <strong>by</strong> his wife and<br />

daughter, soon after he had been diagnosed<br />

with leukemia. He was 72.<br />

Peter Henwood (1956-65)<br />

Peter’s br<strong>other</strong> Tony writes:<br />

Peter left <strong>School</strong> in 1965 and worked for the<br />

Eastern Electricity Board at Wherstead for a<br />

year or so until he finally made up his mind<br />

that he wanted to go to sea as a marine<br />

engineer. At 19 he was accepted <strong>by</strong> the Elder<br />

Dempster Line, a Liverpool-based shipping<br />

comp<strong>any</strong> that ran passenger and cargo ships<br />

from Britain and the continent to the west<br />

coast of Africa. He went to the Engineering<br />

College in Liverpool for a year before joining<br />

his first ship, the Kabala, in 1968.<br />

Peter was a gifted and innovative engineer<br />

with an affinity for all things mechanical. He<br />

<strong>rose</strong> rapidly through the ranks and quickly<br />

attained his Chief Engineers’ Certificate of<br />

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Peter Henwood, a gifted and innovative engineer<br />

Competency in Steam and Motorships. He<br />

worked for various shipping companies<br />

during his 37 years at sea, ultimately sailing<br />

for 15 years as Chief Engineer on some of<br />

the largest and newest of P&O Nedlloyd’s<br />

container ships on the UK-Far East Service.<br />

Having travelled the world in over 25<br />

different ships, on m<strong>any</strong> different trades, he<br />

retired in 2004.<br />

He was married to Katie for over 30 years<br />

and they lived in Bramford before moving<br />

to Weston-super-Mare, and finally coming<br />

to rest in the Der<strong>by</strong>shire Peak District. For<br />

m<strong>any</strong> years he sailed his own boat and drove<br />

an old MG TF car which he re-built. Once in<br />

Der<strong>by</strong>shire, with little opportunity to sail, he<br />

and Katie took up singing in the local choir,<br />

a pastime which he enjoyed immensely. He<br />

died on 1st March, just a few days before his<br />

62nd birthday, after a short battle with liver<br />

cancer.<br />

Kenneth Aggis Lowe (1928-33)<br />

Born in 1916, Kenneth died peacefully in<br />

Devon in his 93rd year. He was at <strong>School</strong><br />

from 1928-1933, arriving from Miss Steel’s<br />

infant school.<br />

He progressed up the <strong>School</strong> under his<br />

House Master of Holden, Tom Glover. On<br />

leaving, he pursued a career in the Army,<br />

ultimately becoming a full colonel. He led a<br />

distinguished war campaign, taking part in<br />

the defence of Tobruk in 1942 against Field<br />

Marshall Rommel. He was taken prisoner of<br />

war and confined in Sachsenhausen POW<br />

camp, and finally released <strong>by</strong> the allies in<br />

1945.<br />

As a boy he lived in Corder Road, opposite<br />

the <strong>School</strong>’s German master, Mr R King aka<br />

Fritz! He was a lifelong friend of Ken Orger.<br />

Kenneth played cricket for the OIs during OI<br />

Cricket Week, making a century for them in<br />

1935.<br />

He is survived <strong>by</strong> his widow, Betty, and<br />

children David and Sally.<br />

Nigel Nicholas (1953-60)<br />

Nigel’s widow, Jacqueline, writes that,<br />

sadly, Nigel died suddenly at home on 2nd<br />

November 2003. Academically he enjoyed<br />

his time at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>. He was also a<br />

keen member of the choir and when he<br />

married Jacqueline at Stoke Poges, in 1967,<br />

John <strong>In</strong>ce played the organ. The CCF was<br />

an<strong>other</strong> source of great interest to Nigel<br />

during his time at <strong>School</strong>.<br />

Nigel leaves a wife, two children, James and<br />

Elizabeth, and three grandchildren Lily, Freya<br />

and William.<br />

Gordon Pritchatt (1935-40)<br />

Gordon was born in 1924 and went to <strong>School</strong><br />

in 1935. He left just after the war began in<br />

1940. He was a good scholar and enjoyed his<br />

sport, with his main interest being cricket. On<br />

leaving school, he joined Barclays Bank and<br />

worked in the Clacton branch until he was

called up to the RAF in 1943. He served for a<br />

time at the Radar Station in Bawdsey before<br />

being posted to The Gambia in West Africa.<br />

On return to civilian life, he obtained a post<br />

at the Hyde Park Hotel in Kensington. He<br />

became Assistant Secretary there in 1950<br />

and organised the first post war OI London<br />

Dinner there that year.<br />

He married Cynthia in 1949, and their<br />

daughter Tania was born in 1954. <strong>In</strong> 1951 he<br />

moved to Guildford where he was Comp<strong>any</strong><br />

Secretary of Plastic Coatings Ltd. The family<br />

lived in near<strong>by</strong> Weybridge where they stayed<br />

until his retirement in 1984.<br />

Don was always a very sociable character<br />

and a keen member of the Round Table. He<br />

also founded a wine club. His great hob<strong>by</strong><br />

was painting and he was an accomplished<br />

water colourist, like his father. M<strong>any</strong> of his<br />

friends have a collection of his work which<br />

he sent out every year as a Christmas card.<br />

After his retirement they moved to<br />

Pulborough, where Don continued his<br />

painting and enjoyed the comp<strong>any</strong> of his<br />

daughter and her family who lived near<strong>by</strong>. He<br />

died peacefully in his home on 15th October<br />

2009.<br />

Paul Richards<br />

Geoffrey Boyd Webster<br />

(1943-1953)<br />

While Geoff was at <strong>School</strong> he very much<br />

enjoyed the extra-curricular activities of the<br />

CCF and remembered one notorious RSM<br />

whose commands could be heard across<br />

the Park. He was also one of Mr (Cab<strong>by</strong>)<br />

Stonex’s Scouts and attended m<strong>any</strong> camps.<br />

He left <strong>School</strong> with A levels and was articled<br />

to the <strong>Ipswich</strong> accountancy firm of Ensor<br />

Son & Goult, where in 1958 he qualified as<br />

an associate of The <strong>In</strong>stitute of Chartered<br />

Accountants. Soon after he married Eva<br />

Carter, a nurse from Parham, Suffolk, and<br />

they had three children: Mike, Rob and<br />

Helen.<br />

Geoff went to work for ICI which took him<br />

to appointments in Manningtree, Welwyn<br />

Garden City, Fleetwood and Dumfries. <strong>In</strong><br />

1979 he took up a position at the London<br />

head office and the family moved to<br />

Hertfordshire.<br />

1985 saw the family re-locate to Kuala<br />

Lumpar, when Geoff was appointed Finance<br />

Director of ICI in Malaysia. It was here that<br />

he and Eva took up golf, a pastime that<br />

they subsequently enjoyed on returning to<br />

Hertfordshire with the Mid Herts Golf Club<br />

where Geoff met up to play with several OIs.<br />

Geoff and Eva were both active members<br />

of the Round Table and ‘41’ Club, and were<br />

involved in a great deal of charitable work.<br />

To celebrate his retirement in 1992 Geoff<br />

and Eva set off on a mamouth walking<br />

expedition. Raising funds for the Macmillan<br />

Fund they spent from August to November<br />

walking from John O’Groats to Land’s End via<br />

the West Highland Way, the Pennine Way,<br />

and the South West Coastal Path. Geoff was<br />

always keenly interested in current affairs<br />

and politics. His trustworthy and meticulous<br />

nature was well suited to his role as a Lib<br />

Dem councillor and voluntary advisor and<br />

auditor for various charities.<br />

Sadly, in 2008 aged 73, Geoff became ill<br />

with pancreatic cancer and died on 16th<br />

December.<br />

David Woolf (1943-1949)<br />

David died on 15th November 2008, aged<br />

73, after a long illness. He left <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

<strong>School</strong>, where he was a boarder, to continue<br />

his education at Millfield <strong>School</strong>. David<br />

always wanted to become an electrician but<br />

on leaving school his father became ill, and<br />

he offered to run his father’s fashion shop,<br />

Stuarts.<br />

<strong>In</strong> 1975 David started an alarm comp<strong>any</strong>,<br />

Majestic Security Services Ltd, and was joined<br />

<strong>by</strong> his son in the business. They even fitted<br />

an alarm at the <strong>School</strong>! David’s hobbies<br />

included sailing and skating.<br />

He was married to Carole for 51 years and<br />

they have four children, Suzanne, Louise,<br />

Richard and Vicky, and nine grandchildren.<br />

Members’ News<br />

Obituaries<br />

Kenneth Raymond Wooton<br />

(1934-1939)<br />

Kenneth was born in 1923 and attended<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> during the war. On leaving<br />

<strong>School</strong> he took up a post as an Engineering<br />

Apprentice at Ransome & Rapiers. <strong>In</strong> 1947<br />

he went to work for Burmah Oil in Rangoon,<br />

where he was responsible for construction<br />

and maintenance of their oil refineries.<br />

Following that, he went on to work for<br />

Assam Oil and then to Wimpeys on the<br />

Isle of Grain, where he returned to in 1956<br />

following short spells with Permutit and Head<br />

Wrightson.<br />

He took a break from working in the oil<br />

industry and spent five years from 1958-<br />

1963 working with his br<strong>other</strong> John in the<br />

family retail business, developing it into<br />

Wottons Shaver Centre. <strong>In</strong> 1963 he returned<br />

to work for Wimpey in Pembroke and then to<br />

Chiswick. He retired in 1984 and two years<br />

later he was elected as a councillor for the<br />

Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames,<br />

becoming deputy Mayor in 1992. He died<br />

in 2008 aged 71 and leaves a wife, three<br />

children, and several grandchildren.<br />

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OI Journal<br />

News<br />

from the<br />

Common<br />

Room<br />

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Jenny Jones retires<br />

After ten years at the helm of the<br />

Prep <strong>School</strong>, Jenny Jones has retired.<br />

She was involved from the start with<br />

the planning and building of the new<br />

building and was responsible for the<br />

very smooth transition of pupils, staff<br />

and resources. Her total commitment<br />

to the project included several visits to<br />

<strong>other</strong> schools to ensure that the building<br />

provided everything that was hoped for<br />

- and more. Ian Galbraith commented,”<br />

Jenny Jones has always insisted on high<br />

standards in all aspects of school life.<br />

She cares deeply about the welfare and<br />

progress of all her pupils and has worked<br />

tirelessly to look after the individual<br />

needs of the children as well as<br />

developing the school as a community.”<br />

<strong>In</strong> appreciation of Jenny’s hard work,<br />

Prep parents presented her with a<br />

photo-book, a bicycle and national<br />

garden centre vouchers. I’m sure m<strong>any</strong><br />

OIs (and future OIs) will wish her all<br />

the very best for a long and happy<br />

retirement.<br />

Also retiring from the Prep <strong>School</strong> were<br />

Angela Govan, the Deputy Head, and Liz<br />

Fordham, the Head of the Nursery. Jenny<br />

Jones has been succeeded <strong>by</strong> Amanda<br />

Childs who was Deputy Head of Alleyns<br />

Junior <strong>School</strong> in Dulwich, London.<br />

An<strong>other</strong> farewell <strong>this</strong> year is to Sally<br />

Dawson who has been the Headmaster’s<br />

Secretary for 25 years. She has been a<br />

wonderful support both to Ian Galbraith<br />

and his predecessor John Blatchly,<br />

ensuring the smooth running of their<br />

busy schedules whilst organising a wide<br />

range of <strong>School</strong> events. She has always<br />

been on hand to offer excellent advice<br />

to staff, pupils and parents. According<br />

to Ian, Sally has remained efficient and<br />

calm at all times, and will be greatly<br />

missed.<br />

Prep retirees, from left to right: Andrea McGovan, Liz<br />

Fordham, and Jenny Jones

A new broom<br />

Ahead of his retirement, at<br />

the end of <strong>this</strong> school year, Ian<br />

Galbraith has announced his<br />

replacement. Nicholas Weaver<br />

will take up the position of<br />

Headmaster from September<br />

2010. He is currently the<br />

Deputy Head at the Portsmouth<br />

Grammar <strong>School</strong>.<br />

After 17 years of outstanding<br />

service and leadership, Ian’s<br />

shoes will be hard to fill. A fuller review<br />

of his time at <strong>Ipswich</strong> will appear in the<br />

next edition but suffice to say he will be<br />

sorely missed.<br />

Mr Weaver read Engineering at Jesus<br />

College, Cambridge, before teaching<br />

Physics at the Leys <strong>School</strong>, Cambridge,<br />

and then at the Royal Grammar <strong>School</strong>,<br />

Guildford. He moved on to Radley<br />

College where he was head of Physics<br />

<strong>School</strong><br />

news<br />

With all students who took A levels<br />

in Further Maths, Latin and Russian<br />

achieving A grades, thirty students<br />

gaining A grades in all subjects, and a<br />

record 81.5% of all passes at Grades A<br />

and B, <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s A level results<br />

were, once again, outstanding. All<br />

five Oxbridge candidates fulfilled the<br />

requirements set <strong>by</strong> their colleges, and<br />

the overwhelming majority of applicants<br />

for places on medical, dental and<br />

veterinary courses were also successful.<br />

The GCSE results reflected an<strong>other</strong><br />

impressive year of hard work and high<br />

achievement for Year 11 pupils. Six<br />

pupils secured A* grades in every subject<br />

and a further twenty achieved either A*<br />

or A grades in all subjects.<br />

Head to head: left, Nick Weaver, and right, Amanda Childs, new head of the Prep<br />

for seven years. During his career he<br />

has been involved in coaching m<strong>any</strong><br />

sports, including rug<strong>by</strong> and rowing, and<br />

has been an officer in the Army section<br />

of the CCF. On a pastoral level, he has<br />

been a resident assistant in a boarding<br />

house. Married to Ruth, they have three<br />

children.<br />

So watch <strong>this</strong> space to learn what Mr<br />

Weaver may have in store for our dear<br />

<strong>School</strong>. Will he see his appointment<br />

Numbers to contend with ...<br />

• Five Year 13 Russian language students<br />

went to Novgorod, and one of their<br />

pupils spent a year at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />

• The Chapel Choir went to Poland - and<br />

sang in a salt mine 135m underground<br />

• Five high quality drama productions<br />

were staged, including Blood Br<strong>other</strong>s<br />

with two separate casts<br />

• Fifty pupils of all ages took part in<br />

a masterclass with artist in residence<br />

Marjoke Henrichs<br />

• The Under 14 boys’ hockey team won<br />

the National Final and the Under 16<br />

boys’ hockey team were runners-up in<br />

the National Final in their age group<br />

• Both the <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Under 16 girls’<br />

hockey team and the <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />

Under 14 girls’ hockey team reached the<br />

National Outdoor Finals. The girls’ Under<br />

14 team finished second nationally,<br />

rounding off an <strong>other</strong>wise undefeated<br />

season.<br />

<strong>School</strong> News<br />

as an opportunity to reap<br />

some changes - a new uniform<br />

perhaps, or maybe new<br />

branding? GCSEs and A levels<br />

replaced <strong>by</strong> the <strong>In</strong>ternational<br />

Baccalaureate? Or will he be of<br />

the opinion ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t<br />

mend it’?<br />

Maybe some of you can<br />

remember changes brought in<br />

<strong>by</strong> previous new heads? If so, let<br />

us know (e-mail ces@ipswich.<br />

suffolk.sch.uk ). I personally am<br />

indebted to John Blatchly for ringing the<br />

changes when he arrived, turning over<br />

400 years of history <strong>by</strong> allowing girls to<br />

attend the <strong>School</strong>!<br />

We wish Ian a happy retirement and<br />

hope that he will continue to maintain<br />

his ties with the Club. We also wish<br />

Mr Weaver all the best in his new<br />

appointment and we will bring you news<br />

of his plans in a future edition.<br />

• The girls’ Under 16 A rounders team<br />

won all the six matches they played,<br />

there<strong>by</strong> winning the South Suffolk<br />

Tour<strong>name</strong>nt and the Suffolk County<br />

Tour<strong>name</strong>nt.<br />

• The Under 12s won the South Suffolk ’A’<br />

netball league and remained unbeaten<br />

throughout all their games; the Under<br />

14s won the South Suffolk tour<strong>name</strong>nt<br />

and the Suffolk tour<strong>name</strong>nt and went<br />

through to the regional finals where<br />

they finished 6th. The Under 16s finished<br />

second in the South Suffolk tour<strong>name</strong>nt<br />

and second in the Suffolk tour<strong>name</strong>nt<br />

and played in the Regional finals<br />

where they finished 7th. The Under 19s<br />

were runners up in the South Suffolk<br />

tour<strong>name</strong>nt and finished joint third in<br />

the Suffolk Tour<strong>name</strong>nt.<br />

• Archie Gravell is <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s<br />

highest scoring batsman ever. Not only<br />

did he score 13 centuries for the <strong>School</strong>’s<br />

1st XI, but he earned his place in Wisden<br />

last year, with the joint highest score of<br />

<strong>any</strong> schoolboy batsman in the country.<br />

OI Journal 45

CHARLES KEENE - A SELF-PORTRAIT<br />

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From the Art-hives!<br />

The <strong>School</strong> boasts a fine stable of pedigree artists and a recent sale turned the spotlight on one<br />

of them, John Sell Cotman. With the help of John Blatchly, we have dipped into the archives to<br />

discover more. A programme for an exhibition mounted in 1982 to mark the opening of the library<br />

and art studio, revealed some fascinating tales. On that occasion Sir Hugh Casson and John Piper<br />

were among the distinguished guests. It is well known that East Anglia is a remarkable breeding<br />

ground for painters; <strong>this</strong> is usually attributed to the wonderful light and large expanses of sky and<br />

land. <strong>In</strong> a recent poll of favourite English art, pieces <strong>by</strong> Constable, Gainsborough and Munnings<br />

all ranked in the top ten. Given <strong>this</strong>, it is perhaps not so surprising to find that, between 1830<br />

and1860, with a <strong>School</strong> population of only about 120, m<strong>any</strong> gifted artists emerged. It is interesting<br />

then to see that <strong>this</strong> tradition is alive and well, as borne out <strong>by</strong> the President’s Event, an Art<br />

Exhibition held in Little <strong>School</strong> at the end of November 2009.<br />

Charles and Henry Keene<br />

These br<strong>other</strong>s were at<br />

<strong>School</strong> in the 1830s.<br />

Largely overshadowed<br />

<strong>by</strong> his br<strong>other</strong>, Henry<br />

pursued a commercial career,<br />

settling in London with the<br />

Westminster Bank. He was<br />

eventually made manager<br />

of the Bloomsbury branch in<br />

1888 and continued his love<br />

of line drawing as a hob<strong>by</strong>.<br />

Charles, on the <strong>other</strong> hand,<br />

was awarded a gold medal<br />

<strong>by</strong> the French Salon in 1889.<br />

At <strong>this</strong> time he was largely<br />

unappreciated in his home<br />

country, having been criticised<br />

<strong>by</strong> Ruskin for his failure to<br />

tackle grander subjects than<br />

cabbies, servant girls, soldiers<br />

or drunks.<br />

Ruskin was the critic of the<br />

time and <strong>any</strong> artist failing<br />

to gain his censure would<br />

indeed struggle, as shown in<br />

the recent BBC drama about<br />

the Pre-Raphaelites. From<br />

1854-90 Charles worked<br />

for the satirical magazine<br />

Punch, and while Ruskin<br />

saw only ‘cheap, popular art’<br />

in Charles’ illustrations, m<strong>any</strong><br />

<strong>other</strong>s found exceptional<br />

draughtsmanship, and it is<br />

on <strong>this</strong> that his reputation<br />

rests. He produced very few<br />

oils, and his best known one<br />

is a self-portrait which now<br />

hangs in the Tate Gallery in<br />

London. It shows that he<br />

is perfectly capable in <strong>this</strong><br />

medium but less comfortable<br />

in dealing with colour than<br />

he is with lines. Nonetheless,<br />

it is for his monochrome<br />

popular cartoons for Punch<br />

that he made his <strong>name</strong>, and<br />

he remains one of England’s<br />

finest exponents of the use<br />

of black and white, in spite of<br />

Ruskin. <strong>In</strong>deed, there is still a<br />

Charles Keene prize for Senior<br />

Art at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>.

The previously unrecorded painting <strong>by</strong> John<br />

Sell Cotman of the Blackfriars Dormitory<br />

- part of <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s buildings before<br />

the move to the present site, and known<br />

to Edward Poynter, who was a pupil at the<br />

Lower Brook Street location as well as at<br />

Henley Road.<br />

From the Archives<br />

John Sell Cotman<br />

A painter from the Norwich <strong>School</strong> of Artists, Cotman (1742<br />

1842) rarely strayed into Suffolk (and, it should be pointed<br />

out, was not an OI). However, <strong>this</strong> previously unrecorded and<br />

unpublished watercolour surfaced at a sale <strong>this</strong> summer in a<br />

London gallery. It represents the interior of the dormitory of<br />

the <strong>Ipswich</strong> Blackfriars, and must have been painted in 1841<br />

or 1842, when the building - deserted <strong>by</strong> <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> - was<br />

in a sorry state, and faced demolition. The headmaster, the<br />

Revd James Collett Ebden, who had been appointed in 1832,<br />

oversaw a sharp fall in pupil numbers (only 18 remained in<br />

1841). When the dormitory became inhabitable he deliberately<br />

ran the numbers down, and taught pupils in his Lower Brook<br />

Street house.<br />

Although most of the buildings were demolished in 1845,<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> had happily moved on, towards its present<br />

home in Henley Road and vastly increased pupil numbers.<br />

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OI Journal<br />

Sir Edward Poynter<br />

Edward Poynter was born<br />

in 1836, the second<br />

son of Amb<strong>rose</strong>, a<br />

distinguished architect at<br />

that time. His childhood was<br />

marred <strong>by</strong> ill health and he<br />

spent much of it indoors<br />

where he was encouraged<br />

to paint. He started school at<br />

Westminster where J Rigaud<br />

was his housemaster and a<br />

great friend of his father’s.<br />

Continuing ill-health saw him<br />

moved to Brighton College<br />

for the sea air but when<br />

Rigaud moved to <strong>Ipswich</strong><br />

as Headmaster his friend’s<br />

boy moved too. Young<br />

Edward was there in time<br />

to see Prince Albert lay the<br />

foundation stone for the new<br />

buildings in Henley Road in<br />

July1851. By the following<br />

March only the finishing<br />

touches were lacking and the<br />

<strong>School</strong> was officially opened<br />

at a ceremony held in the<br />

new Great <strong>School</strong> in July<br />

1852.<br />

Edward was always drawing.<br />

Whilst at <strong>School</strong> in Lower<br />

Brook Street, he made careful<br />

drawings of the interior of<br />

the schoolroom erected<br />

behind the Master’s House<br />

there when the dormitory<br />

schoolroom became<br />

uninhabitable<br />

(see painting <strong>by</strong><br />

John Sell<br />

Cotman).<br />

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At 16, Edward was clearly<br />

excited <strong>by</strong> the building<br />

operations taking place to the<br />

north of the town, and he<br />

must have talked his way into<br />

the part-finished tower where<br />

he made six titled sketches,<br />

presumably to impress his<br />

architect father. They show<br />

the unplastered interior<br />

walls with no furnishings<br />

or occupants. We are very<br />

grateful to the owner of <strong>this</strong><br />

single sheet, folded perhaps<br />

to be part of a letter home,<br />

for providing scans and<br />

allowing their reproduction.<br />

Edward was not able to enjoy<br />

the new facilities, for later in<br />

1852, he returned to London<br />

to begin his artistic training<br />

with watercolourist Thomas<br />

Shotter Boys. From there he<br />

went on to study in Paris and<br />

Rome and was admitted<br />

to the Royal Academy<br />

in 1877. M<strong>any</strong> of<br />

his works have a<br />

classical influence,<br />

including the ceiling<br />

at Waltham<br />

Abbey.<br />

It was Poynter who<br />

championed the French art<br />

tuition methods for the newly<br />

created Slade <strong>School</strong> of Art<br />

and appointed Dalon as head<br />

of the National Art Training<br />

<strong>School</strong>. He became the<br />

official buyer for the South<br />

Kensington Museum, now the<br />

Victoria & Albert, and in 1894<br />

was appointed the Director<br />

of the National Gallery. Two<br />

years later he succeeded<br />

Millais as President of the<br />

Royal Academy.<br />

Below: an Italian fisherboy, in pencil and<br />

wash, done <strong>by</strong> Edward Poynter in 1853<br />

whilst in Rome.<br />

Right: six sketches of the new tower at<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>, each signed <strong>by</strong> the 16 year<br />

old Edward Poynter, reproduced here <strong>by</strong><br />

kind permission of Steve Delo.

From the Archives<br />

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OI Journal<br />

The Importance of doing drama<br />

Dr Blatchly has edited<br />

notes made <strong>by</strong> Peter<br />

Marsden, who produced<br />

the <strong>School</strong> play each year<br />

between 1947 and 1960.<br />

Peter ‘Spud’ Marsden<br />

and his wife Constance<br />

arrived in 1945 and were<br />

the first to run Westwood<br />

House, from 1953 until<br />

1960, when Peter became<br />

head of Great Yarmouth<br />

Grammar <strong>School</strong>. He wrote<br />

<strong>this</strong> account in the 1990s<br />

for the Archives. <strong>In</strong> 2001,<br />

members of the Marsden<br />

family met the headmaster<br />

and a group of OIs to plant<br />

a cedar tree in memory of<br />

Peter and Constance.<br />

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No one who knows <strong>any</strong>thing<br />

of <strong>School</strong> drama in the Eighties<br />

can possibly understand the<br />

significance of THE SCHOOL PLAY<br />

in the Fifties. Very little else<br />

happened on the <strong>School</strong> Stage<br />

and the yearly play was all the<br />

more significant because of<br />

<strong>this</strong>. <strong>In</strong> those far off days <strong>School</strong><br />

activities were very limited. Only<br />

two games were played (what a<br />

job it was to have to get hockey<br />

allowed as a 'voluntary activity'!)<br />

and there was very little music.<br />

So it was that the <strong>School</strong> Play<br />

was a minor peak in the yearly<br />

range.<br />

I shall always look back with<br />

gratitude to Truman Tanqueray,<br />

who not only gave me one of<br />

the best opportunities of my<br />

teaching career <strong>by</strong> appointing me<br />

to take over Geography here, but<br />

also for letting me loose on the<br />

<strong>School</strong> Stage.<br />

I wonder how m<strong>any</strong> can still<br />

remember the Stage in the Old<br />

Great <strong>School</strong> at it was in 1945?<br />

It drooped and sagged under a<br />

mantle of dust and gave witness<br />

to the problems of keeping a<br />

school going during the war<br />

years. The <strong>School</strong> Stage in 1945<br />

and the stage in 1960 contrasted<br />

just as the whole school<br />

contrasted.<br />

<strong>In</strong> 1945 there were air raid<br />

shelters still in the corner of<br />

the <strong>School</strong> Field, where the<br />

'Beekeepers' (as the Met. Men<br />

were nick<strong>name</strong>d) were later to<br />

stake their claim. There were<br />

temporary teachers on the<br />

staff, who were doing the best<br />

they could, but some of whose<br />

discipline did not make it easy<br />

for the rest of us. The Staff Room<br />

was a grim little room, in which<br />

'Castle’s Corner' was sacrosanct.<br />

He was the chaplain. A nucleus<br />

of stalwarts under Hugh<br />

Grimwade had kept the <strong>School</strong><br />

going through difficult years<br />

and it was as if the place were<br />

shaking itself after waking up<br />

from a gentle doze. The advent<br />

of Teddy Potter, the return of<br />

George Notcutt, Ken Seacome<br />

and Charles Mollard began to<br />

wake us all up and to start new<br />

things stirring.<br />

It was the production of Richard<br />

II in 1945 that made me take a<br />

long look at the <strong>School</strong> Stage.<br />

I remember sitting in agony<br />

through Michael Goymour’s<br />

struggle with John of Gaunt’s<br />

great speech. There he was<br />

in the midst of that sagging<br />

contraption of a stage. Originally<br />

it had been cleverly thought<br />

out. I believe it was designed<br />

to be put up before, and taken<br />

down after each production. It<br />

had some very nice blue velvet<br />

curtains, one of which had to<br />

have a large corner cut out of it<br />

to accommodate one of the huge<br />

old radiators. The main curtains<br />

would not draw properly and<br />

two juniors had to walk across<br />

the stage to draw them <strong>by</strong> hand!<br />

<strong>In</strong> such a setting Richard and<br />

his Court had less than half a<br />

chance.<br />

So, when the Seacome and<br />

Mollard team was reconstituted<br />

to produce The Magistrate<br />

the following year, something<br />

had to be done. Permission was<br />

given to dismantle the stage<br />

and to start again. Luckily there<br />

was a much despised group of<br />

'Non-Cadets', who were later to<br />

become a much more positive<br />

force in the community under the<br />

<strong>name</strong> of 'Pioneers', who were<br />

to set to work to salvage timber<br />

from the Old Shelters. It was<br />

black and reeking of creosote,<br />

but with the help of 'Benjy'<br />

Rogers in the Manual it was soon<br />

cleaned up, cleared of nails and<br />

planed for use. It was <strong>this</strong> supply<br />

of free timber which made a firm<br />

framework for the proscenium,<br />

made a set of portable rostra<br />

and framed up a complete set<br />

of 'flats'.<br />

So the Magistrate was able to<br />

blunder through his comical<br />

Curtains for The Magistrate? Not for the<br />

resourceful Peter Marsden.

situations with curtains which<br />

could be drawn properly and on<br />

a stage which had been 'squared<br />

up' to say the least. Why the flats<br />

did not fall down it is hard to say.<br />

There were several doors to be<br />

opened and shut in the scenery.<br />

There were hasty exits and<br />

entrances, but <strong>by</strong> luck more than<br />

judgement, it all stayed firm to<br />

the final curtain.<br />

Then came the challenge.<br />

Truman asked me to produce<br />

the next play, and to <strong>this</strong> day I<br />

don’t know how I had the nerve<br />

to say yes! I had precious little<br />

experience <strong>other</strong> than being<br />

superbly produced <strong>by</strong> Sidney<br />

Gillard at The Leys in Gilbert and<br />

Sullivan and as Robert Browning<br />

in the Barretts of Wimpole Street.<br />

My wife and I had together<br />

introduced Drama and Mime to<br />

Ely Youth Club in 1942-3, but to<br />

produce a long play myself was<br />

a very new venture. Truman<br />

Tanqueray was a man of faith<br />

indeed!<br />

Strangely enough I knew what<br />

I wanted to try to put on –<br />

Dorothy Sayers’ Zeal of Thy<br />

House, and here came the first<br />

test. I announced the play and<br />

called a meeting of those boys<br />

interested in joining the cast –<br />

instant rebellion resulted. "What!<br />

Make us dress up as angels!"<br />

No contest. Archangels win over King<br />

Rugger.<br />

they protested. Here was my<br />

first crisis, to which I remember<br />

reacting <strong>by</strong> one of my best<br />

performances, putting on a nice<br />

fit of temper and walking out on<br />

them, saying that I had chosen<br />

the play and that it was that or<br />

nothing! Amazingly they came<br />

round, and after much toil and<br />

struggle it came off.<br />

How we<br />

rehearsed! At<br />

all sorts of odd<br />

hours. <strong>In</strong> those<br />

days we were<br />

utterly under the<br />

sway of 'King<br />

Rugger' and let<br />

no one dare to<br />

try to escape<br />

rugger practice<br />

for rehearsal.<br />

Shall I ever<br />

forget a wordy<br />

battle with<br />

Jimmy Young<br />

on <strong>this</strong> point – I<br />

had transgressed<br />

and he made<br />

it very clear to me in the Staff<br />

Room at the end of morning<br />

school that there were faults in<br />

my upbringing, weaknesses in<br />

my character and failings in my<br />

education. Who could stand up<br />

to Jimmy’s flood of invective and<br />

his limitless vocabulary? I can’t<br />

remember being able to say<br />

very much but I can remember<br />

standing there and taking it for<br />

From the Archives<br />

“What! Make us dress<br />

up as angels!” they<br />

protested. Here was<br />

my first crisis, to<br />

which I remember<br />

reacting <strong>by</strong> one of my<br />

best performances,<br />

putting on a nice fit of<br />

temper and walking<br />

out on them, saying<br />

that I had chosen the<br />

play and that it was<br />

that or nothing!<br />

the whole of the dinner interval!<br />

I don’t know whether I gained<br />

his respect <strong>by</strong> <strong>this</strong> – but certainly<br />

we were always better friends<br />

afterwards!<br />

Rehearsing in the old Great<br />

<strong>School</strong> was no pleasure. It was<br />

cold and draughty and one sat<br />

hunched on the 'chicken perches'<br />

listening to the<br />

first efforts.<br />

Sam Lyne did a<br />

wonderful job<br />

as William of<br />

Sens, but poor<br />

old Goldsmith<br />

never really<br />

enjoyed having<br />

to be a woman.<br />

Women’s parts<br />

were always<br />

a problem for<br />

me and it was<br />

always my<br />

wife who had<br />

to do some<br />

coaching in the<br />

art of female<br />

walking and<br />

how to manage a long skirt! J K<br />

Mann adopted a splendid Suffolk<br />

accent as foreman of works, and<br />

our Angels (Jackson, Havicon,<br />

Helm and Arnott) in their wings,<br />

appropriately borrowed from the<br />

Girls’ High <strong>School</strong>, from what<br />

was no doubt a large stock in<br />

those days, made a splendid<br />

addition to the scenery, with<br />

the advantage that they could<br />

also comment on the action. I<br />

suppose poor Michael Cooke,<br />

who in those days looked a<br />

bit cherubic, had to be the<br />

cherub. He got away with it and<br />

was none the worse for the<br />

experience.<br />

So we come to that near disaster,<br />

Twelfth Night, when we found<br />

the players almost inaudible<br />

on the first night. For years<br />

afterwards, the words 'SPEAK UP'<br />

remained chalked on the back<br />

of the flats and the Producer<br />

learned a lesson he was never<br />

to forget.<br />

Even so, there were some<br />

memorable performances.<br />

'Tub<strong>by</strong>' Lingham was an ideal<br />

Sir To<strong>by</strong> and Meggitt was clever<br />

enough to be able to play the<br />

fool admirably as Aguecheek,<br />

his foil. Rodney Cadman had no<br />

problem with Malvolio, but what<br />

agonies there were in producing<br />

Reynolds as the Duke. Shall I<br />

ever forget those opening words<br />

'If music be the food of love' – for<br />

a time I thought we should get<br />

no further.<br />

Simpkin played his part superbly.<br />

His first entry through the<br />

audience, tripping down the<br />

centre aisle and leaping on to<br />

the stage, was never made on<br />

the final night, he having been<br />

crippled <strong>by</strong> King Rugger – a fact<br />

we were expected to swallow<br />

without comment.<br />

1949 was the years in which<br />

Colin Nears reached the peak of<br />

his achievement on the <strong>School</strong><br />

Stage. Dr Faustus was a part to<br />

test <strong>any</strong> schoolboy actor, but he<br />

carried it off triumphantly. On<br />

the stage for most of the play,<br />

he had some mighty passages<br />

to learn. No one who saw it will<br />

have forgotten the final climax<br />

and the drama he was able to<br />

draw from his final two-part<br />

speech. Bill Dodd had designed a<br />

wonderful 'Jaws of Hell' backcloth<br />

and Keith Dar<strong>by</strong> had made two<br />

most realistic Devil Masks, so<br />

that with appropriate lighting<br />

we had to hold on to our chairs<br />

to keep ourselves from going<br />

over the brink as well. Poor old<br />

Mephistopheles had a bad time<br />

of it, because he had to get the<br />

better of a most inappropriate<br />

costume. Looking back I cannot<br />

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think why I allowed the poor<br />

chap to wear it – but I suppose<br />

in the last minute crisis of dress<br />

rehearsal and a large cast I was<br />

unable to rise to <strong>this</strong> one. He<br />

played his part splendidly – but<br />

I am sure he would have done<br />

even better had we made him<br />

look less 'operatic'!<br />

<strong>In</strong> 1950 came The Importance<br />

of Being Earnest, when<br />

everyone who took part enjoyed<br />

Wilde just as much after weeks<br />

of rehearsal as at first reading.<br />

Surely <strong>this</strong> is some test of the<br />

quality of his humour! Well I<br />

remember Bill Dodd’s sets. All<br />

three of them were worked out<br />

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Dr Faustus was a part to test <strong>any</strong><br />

schoolboy.<br />

in excellent detail and the scene<br />

changes had to be rehearsed<br />

nearly as thoroughly as the play!<br />

Cadman and Blaxall set things<br />

going well with their opening<br />

dialogue – the one eating all the<br />

cucumber sandwiches – but the<br />

atmosphere became tense with<br />

the appearance of Lady Bracknell<br />

in the person of John Mash, who<br />

produced a most convincing<br />

character study and a perfect<br />

voice for the part. 'Lambkin' Page<br />

and Colin Nears were a splendid<br />

pair as the two girls wrangling<br />

over their cups of tea. This was a<br />

production for which every one<br />

of us involved could look back<br />

with satisfaction, and we had<br />

enjoyed ourselves!<br />

Footnote: The local press<br />

severely criticised the<br />

production of The Importance<br />

of Being Earnest, according to<br />

Tony Hubbard who was Miss<br />

Prism in 1950. Can <strong>any</strong>one<br />

remember why?<br />

The Importance of Being Earnest - in 2009,<br />

and in 1950.

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> publications<br />

These are all available from the <strong>School</strong><br />

• A Famous Antient Seed-Plot of Learning<br />

The school history, written <strong>by</strong> Irvine Gray and Bill Potter in 1950, has<br />

long been out of print. <strong>In</strong> 2003 the <strong>School</strong> published a new and fully<br />

illustrated history with the title A Famous Antient Seed-Plot of<br />

Learning. This is a quotation from John Leman, boy, usher and master<br />

of the <strong>School</strong> who, on dismissal <strong>by</strong> the radical borough authorities in<br />

1608, squatted in Felaw’s House, so that the <strong>School</strong> had to be given<br />

better accommodation in the former refectory of the Blackfriars. The<br />

new history has separate chapters for each headmaster up to Ian<br />

Galbraith, and is available for £17.50 (including p&p).<br />

Since 1980 the ancient Town Library of <strong>Ipswich</strong> has returned to the<br />

care of the headmasters who looked after it from 1614 until the<br />

1830s. A fully illustrated History and Catalogue of the collection was<br />

published in 1989 at £29.50, but a few copies remain at only £12.50.<br />

• A Century of Cricket 1885-1985<br />

Written <strong>by</strong> Roderick Clayton OI, <strong>this</strong> gives an illustrated account of<br />

matches with Norwich <strong>School</strong>. It is available for £2.50.<br />

• The <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Corps 1889-1989<br />

An illustrated account <strong>by</strong> David Warnes; also £2.50.<br />

• The Chapels and Music of <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />

Published last October at the time of the President’s Concert in St<br />

Peter’s Church, <strong>Ipswich</strong>. Authors John Blatchly and Richard Wilson<br />

unearthed a great deal of the <strong>School</strong>’s musical history over the last<br />

500 years. It is fully illustrated in colour and costs £5.00.<br />

• <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> A History in Photographs<br />

Just published; price £10.99 (post free). The best of the fine collection<br />

of photographs in the archives, presented <strong>by</strong> joint authors Stuart<br />

Grimwade and John Blatchly.<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> CDs:<br />

FUNKY TOWN<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Big Band, CD recorded June 2009. A lively set of old<br />

and new Big Band arrangements, including ‘Watermelon Man’, ‘The<br />

Look of Love’ and ‘Beat It’. £12<br />

PRAISE!<br />

The Chapel Choir of <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>, CD recorded January 2008. A<br />

fascinating showcase of works covering the whole of 20th Century<br />

English Sacred Choral Music. £10<br />

STRIKE UP THE BAND!<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Big Band, CD recorded July 2006. A collection of jazz<br />

standards, including ‘Over The Rainbow,’ ‘The Pink Panther,’ and ‘Smoke<br />

on the Water.’ £5<br />

The <strong>School</strong>’s Assistant Director of Music, William Saunders, has also<br />

recorded:<br />

TOWER POWER and DIGNITY & IMPUDENCE<br />

All these CDs are available from the <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> Music Office,<br />

telephone 01473 408310 or e-mail musicenquiries@ipswich.suffolk.<br />

sch.uk. Cheques payable to <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />

From the Archives<br />

IPSWICH SCHOOL<br />

A HISTORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS<br />

A History in Photographs<br />

Published in September, <strong>this</strong> valuable archive charts the<br />

<strong>School</strong>’s history in photographs, some of which date back to<br />

the 1850s. M<strong>any</strong> of these photographs were understandably<br />

faded and torn and have been bought back to life using<br />

today’s modern digital magic. The book is the joint work<br />

of John Blatchly and OI Stuart Grimwade, who together<br />

supplied the photos and history along with the expertise to<br />

restore them to their former glory.<br />

Stuart writes:<br />

BY JOHN BLATCHLY<br />

AND STUART GRIMWADE<br />

‘It was John’s enthusiasm for the <strong>School</strong>’s history that started<br />

it, coupled with his encyclopaedic knowledge of most of the<br />

artefacts coming into the Archive. He had quickly seized on<br />

the relevance of my familiarity with digital photography and<br />

together we spent m<strong>any</strong> enjoyable evenings sorting through<br />

the wealth of photos in the Archives.<br />

The Victorians produced photographs of remarkable quality<br />

and skill not seen today in spite of (or perhaps that should<br />

be because of) all the technical advances. It is no surprise<br />

that m<strong>any</strong> of them, for example Burrows, started out as<br />

artists. All these elements combined to inspire me and so<br />

we began the task of restoring the early photographs. The<br />

more we undertook the longer the task became, partly due<br />

to John’s extraordinary ability to gather in pictures from all<br />

corners of the world and from the most unlikely sources. We<br />

hope that you will enjoy the selection that we have come<br />

up with and that it might inspire you to visit the New Morfey<br />

Rooms at <strong>School</strong> to view the whole collection.’<br />

The book, which is published <strong>by</strong> the Club, is<br />

available from <strong>School</strong>, price £10.99. We hope<br />

that all those involved in the photo on page<br />

127 will forgive its inclusion!<br />

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<strong>In</strong> attendance:<br />

• President: Revd Dr G Cook<br />

• Vice President: GSK Peck<br />

• Chairman: WD Coe<br />

• Treasurer: SM Runnacles<br />

• Secretary: K Harris<br />

And those signing the attendance register legibly:<br />

T Briden, J Broadway, T Cates<strong>by</strong>, H Cochrane, A Cutting, K Daniels,<br />

J Davey, M Fenn, C Fowler, I Galbraith, T Greengrass, E Hyams, C<br />

Jeffery, R Johnson, K Kincaid, J Le Mare, N O’Loughlin, G Papenfus<br />

(Development Director), R Porter, T Schur, J Skeates, H Staunton, E<br />

Ward, J Ward, T Woods.<br />

1. Apologies<br />

Apologies for absence were received from S Bell, J Clements, T<br />

Cracknell, J Fenn, P Gooding, H Goodrich, S Grimwade, J Nicholson, P<br />

James, G Pritchatt, P Swinnerton, M White, P White, A Wyatt, and R<br />

Wyatt.<br />

2. Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting<br />

These had already been published and circulated to the membership<br />

and were taken as read. There being no comments it was<br />

unanimously agreed that the President sign the minutes as a true<br />

record of the proceedings.<br />

3. Chairman’s Report<br />

Mr President, Headmaster, Fellow OIs<br />

At the last AGM I set ourselves the two targets of getting over a<br />

thousand OIs back in the year and reducing the number of missing<br />

OIs. I can report success in one but we have failed in an<strong>other</strong>.<br />

Since the last AGM we certainly have got more than a thousand OIs<br />

back in to various events during the year. It has been a very successful<br />

year with over 24 different events put on <strong>by</strong> the Club and we only<br />

failed to put on two of the events that we hoped to during the year.<br />

We have held reunions for 5, 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55 and a<br />

diamond reunion for all of those at the <strong>School</strong> pre-1948. As well as<br />

developing the Friday Socials, we have had a good number of well<br />

supported competitions - OI versus the <strong>School</strong>, although I think in <strong>this</strong><br />

year we have lost more than we have won. Maybe I was getting soft<br />

in my last year as Chairman!<br />

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Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of<br />

The Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Club<br />

Held at <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> on Saturday 13th December 2008<br />

<strong>In</strong> terms of missing OIs – i.e. those who are members but who we<br />

are without contact details, the number has gone from 802 to 783.<br />

The Committee and Carole Day are planning a concerted campaign to<br />

trace them early in the New Year. Please assist them all you can to<br />

help locate these individuals.<br />

<strong>In</strong> terms of highlights for the year, the March Sports Reunion in<br />

conjunction with the Fives celebration, was a fantastic effort and<br />

thanks must go to Peter Boughton and Mike Fenn for their superb<br />

organisational skills. I have said it before, but the key to these events<br />

is getting people behind them to motivate and act as catalysts and<br />

in <strong>this</strong> instance, Peter and Mike’s efforts were superb and led to a<br />

fantastic day of celebration of Fives at the <strong>School</strong>.<br />

The next highlight for me was undoubtedly the London Dinner –<br />

superbly hosted <strong>by</strong> John Pen<strong>rose</strong> at the Palace of Westminster, a<br />

sell-out dinner, not often we’ve said that in the past at OI events, with<br />

a waiting list of people to attend, was a real treat along with a talk <strong>by</strong><br />

John and the irrepressible Derek Wyatt MP.<br />

The <strong>other</strong> event I wish to highlight was the recent OI President’s<br />

Event, the concert <strong>by</strong> Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ians and schoolchildren at St Peter’s<br />

down at the docks – our old school chapel. Again here m<strong>any</strong> thanks<br />

to Richard Wilson who masterminded the whole event and it really<br />

was a fantastic evening of music and entertainment.<br />

<strong>In</strong> achieving all <strong>this</strong> we been greatly assisted <strong>by</strong> the Development<br />

Office, Graham Papenfus and in particular Carole Day, in terms of the<br />

organisation of events. The support of the <strong>School</strong>, in particular the<br />

Headmaster and the staff invited tonight, has been fantastic, together<br />

with financial support from the <strong>School</strong> and the Governing Body. I<br />

would also like to thank John Blatchly for all his work on archives to<br />

the various reunions during the year and his support of events. His<br />

knowledge and willingness to help us and to come up with little<br />

gems of ideas has been a great help over the last three years.<br />

I wish to pay thanks to the Committee, in particular those retiring<br />

tonight: Andy Mann, Billy Richmond and Richard Wilson and to the<br />

outgoing President Geoffrey Cook who has hopefully enjoyed the<br />

year as much as we have enjoyed having him on board. There are<br />

few people who give up so much of their time for <strong>this</strong> old school in a<br />

wide variety of ways. I would also like to thank Mike Fenn who stands<br />

down from the Committee after 15 years’ service in a variety of posts.<br />

I hand over, after three years in the chair, to James Davey who I am<br />

sure will lead the Club on to bigger and greater things. I would like to<br />

thank everybody who has helped me over the last three years and<br />

wish the Club all the best for the future.

If I have one last request, it is <strong>this</strong>. I could not have achieved so much<br />

over the last three years without the great support of the <strong>School</strong><br />

both practically and financially, primarily through the Development<br />

Office. I believe it is now coming to the time that all Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ians<br />

should look to themselves to repay some of that support, primarily<br />

<strong>by</strong> financial means if at all possible as the <strong>School</strong> looks over the next<br />

few years to endeavour to progress further.<br />

It really has been a pleasure filling <strong>this</strong> role. The majority of OIs<br />

have a great fondness for <strong>this</strong> institution, are real characters, and I<br />

can assure them that despite often quips of “it would never have<br />

happened in my day” the <strong>School</strong> is still producing fantastic individuals<br />

who will contribute greatly to society and should make <strong>this</strong> institution<br />

proud, and staffed <strong>by</strong> teachers who are great characters and work<br />

tirelessly for the pupils – none more so than Ian who is a superb<br />

headmaster.<br />

Mr President, Headmaster, Fellow OIs, Karl and the Governing Body, I<br />

wish you all the best for the future and thank you for giving me the<br />

opportunity and a Merry Christmas and a healthy and Happy New Year<br />

to you all.<br />

Adoption was proposed <strong>by</strong> John Ward, seconded <strong>by</strong> Graham<br />

Papenfus and passed unanimously.<br />

The President expressed his gratitude to William Coe for his major<br />

contribution as Chairman over the past three years.<br />

4. Treasurer’s Report<br />

The Treasurer presented his report:<br />

a) Stating that the Accounts as shown in the Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian<br />

magazine, in conjunction with the AGM notice, were incorrect in that<br />

there had been placed, inadvertently, brackets around the Deficit/<br />

Surplus total. <strong>In</strong> fact there was a Surplus of £1,155 for the year.<br />

b) The first loss ever recorded in the 2007 accounts was due to two x<br />

President’s Evenings falling into the same year.<br />

c) Subscription income for 2007 was £9.700, for 2008 was £12.600<br />

and he confidently anticipated £18,000 in 2009. This demonstrated<br />

how long it takes for the subscription increase to filter through.<br />

d) £1,000 had been donated to Copdock & OI Cricket Club.<br />

e) Expects a surplus on the accounts in 2009, which will be similar to<br />

2008.<br />

Adoption was proposed <strong>by</strong> John Skeates, Seconded <strong>by</strong> Roland Johnson<br />

and passed unanimously.<br />

5. Election of President<br />

The President proposed that G Peck be President for 2009. This was<br />

seconded <strong>by</strong> Karl Daniels and passed unanimously.<br />

AGM and Accounts<br />

6. Election of Vice President<br />

The President proposed that Tim Briden be elected, seconded <strong>by</strong> Ed<br />

Hyams and passed unanimously.<br />

7. Election of Junior President<br />

The President proposed that Marcus Karia be elected as Junior<br />

President. This was seconded <strong>by</strong> John Ward and passed unanimously.<br />

8. Election of Junior Vice President<br />

The President proposed that George Pinner be elected as Junior<br />

Vice President. This was seconded <strong>by</strong> Tim Passmore and passed<br />

unanimously.<br />

9. Appointment of Officers<br />

The President proposed that the following be elected:<br />

• Treasurer to be Steve Runnacles, seconded <strong>by</strong> Tim Briden<br />

• Secretary to be Keith Harris, seconded <strong>by</strong> Mike Fenn<br />

• Social Secretary to be John Ward, seconded <strong>by</strong> Trevor Woods<br />

• Magazine Editor to be Kate Kincaid, seconded <strong>by</strong> William Coe<br />

Voting was unanimous for each of the proposals.<br />

A vote of thanks was expressed to Tim Fenton for producing the 2008<br />

magazine<br />

10. Election of new committee members<br />

The President proposed that:<br />

• James Davey be elected Chairman for the forthcoming three years.<br />

This was seconded <strong>by</strong> Graham Peck and passed unanimously. The<br />

President gave a vote of thanks to William Coe for an outstanding job<br />

during his period as Chairman.<br />

• Retiring at the end of 2008 were:- Andy Mann, Billy Richmond and<br />

Richard Wilson. The President expressed his appreciation for all their<br />

input during the period on the committee.<br />

• To retire in 2011 (three vacancies) The President proposed that two<br />

new members be elected to the committee to serve for a three-year<br />

period, being Pierson Broome and Stuart Cooper. This was seconded<br />

<strong>by</strong> Tony Cates<strong>by</strong> and passed unanimously. A further proposal that<br />

the committee be empowered to fill the third vacancy, for the<br />

group retiring in 2011, was seconded <strong>by</strong> Graham Peck and passed<br />

unanimously.<br />

11. Election of the London Secretary<br />

The President proposed that James Mansfield be elected as London<br />

Secretary. This was seconded <strong>by</strong> Tony Greengrass and passed<br />

unanimously.<br />

There be no <strong>other</strong> business, the President closed the meeting at<br />

6.52pm.<br />

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OLD IPSWICHIAN CLUB<br />

<strong>In</strong>come and Expenditure Account<br />

for the year ended 31st July 2009<br />

2009 2008<br />

<strong>In</strong>come<br />

Subscriptions Received: 18,683 13,104<br />

<strong>In</strong>terest on <strong>In</strong>vestments and <strong>other</strong> income 85 447<br />

Advertising <strong>In</strong>come 1,000 3,000<br />

Total <strong>In</strong>come 19,768 16,551<br />

Less Expenditure<br />

Social Expenditure<br />

Friday Night Socials and reunions 7,724 6,952<br />

Copdock & OI Cricket 500 1,000<br />

President’s Party 2,672 1,750<br />

Subsidies for <strong>Ipswich</strong>, London & Regional Dinners 553 1,906<br />

11,449 11,609<br />

Other Expenditure<br />

Postage 1,480 526<br />

Miscellaneous Expenditure & Admin support costs 1,814 1,266<br />

Website expenditure 1,000 500<br />

President's Honorarium 750 -<br />

Additional Colour Printing Costs for magazine 1,950 1,950<br />

Purchase and engraving of Trophies 178 546<br />

Total Expenditure 18,621 16,396<br />

Surplus/(Deficit) of <strong>In</strong>come over Expenditure for Period £1,147 £155<br />

Balance Sheet<br />

as at 31st July 2009<br />

31/07/2009 31/07/2008<br />

ASSETS<br />

Bank and Building Society Accounts 28,182 23,535<br />

Debtors - 1,000<br />

28,182 24,535<br />

Less CREDITORS 5,770 3,770<br />

£22,412 £20,765<br />

ACCUMULATED RESERVES<br />

Brought Forward 20,765 20,610<br />

Surplus of <strong>In</strong>come over Expenditure for Period 1,147 155<br />

£21,912 £20,765

President: Graham Peck (52-59)<br />

Vice-President: Timothy J Briden (58-59)<br />

Junior President: Marcus Karia (93-04)<br />

Junior Vice-President: Matthew Donaldson (99-05)<br />

Chairman: James St J Davey (66-77)<br />

Tel: 07850-087508 (Mobile)<br />

Tel: 0844 669 6322 (Business)<br />

E-mail: james.davey@virgin.net<br />

Secretary: Keith Harris (45-52) until November 09<br />

Leigh Belcham (51-58) from November<br />

oldipswichians@ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk<br />

Tel: 01473 298972<br />

Treasurer: Stephen M Runnacles (63-74)<br />

Tel: 01473-287715 (Home)<br />

Tel: 01473-220017 (Business)<br />

E-mail: steve.runnacles @ensors.co.uk<br />

E-mail: s_runnacles@yahoo.co.uk<br />

Social Secretary: John PL Ward (70-75<br />

Tel: 01787-210551 (Home)<br />

Tel: 0870 9044978 (Business)<br />

E-mail: johnplward@hotmail.com<br />

Editor: Kate Kincaid (75-77)<br />

Email: katekincaid@sky.com<br />

Careers: William D Coe (76-87)<br />

Tel: 01473 256061 (Business)<br />

E-mail: william.coe@keme.co.uk<br />

Website: Pierson Broome (73-80)<br />

E-mail: pierson.broome@yahoo.com<br />

AGM and Accounts<br />

THE OLD IPSWICHIAN CLUB<br />

Officers and Committee for 2009<br />

Committee:<br />

To retire in 2009: Charles Bagnall (79-88)<br />

Dr James W Broadway (68-75)<br />

Kurt W Goddard (64-75)<br />

To retire in 2010: Kate Kincaid (75-77)<br />

Thomas GW Parry ((93-04)<br />

To retire in 2011: Pierson A Broome (73-80)<br />

Stuart J Cooper (51-61)<br />

Stephanie Kaye (64-75)<br />

Co-opted for 200: Stuart Grimwade (50-62)<br />

John Caudle (59-70)<br />

Ex Officio:<br />

Events Programme Manager: Carole Day<br />

Tel: 01473-298961<br />

Email: cd@ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk<br />

The Headmaster: Ian G Galbraith M.A.<br />

London Secretary: James E Mansfield (69-76)<br />

Development Director: Graham N Papenfus<br />

OI Journal 57

OI Journal<br />

CALENDAR for 2010<br />

The Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Club has an extensive programme of<br />

reunions and events offering m<strong>any</strong> opportunities for keeping<br />

in touch with fellow members of the Club.<br />

We have several key dates in the calendar next year 2010,<br />

one of which is the London Centenary Dinner. This promises<br />

to be a very special occasion so look out for full details early<br />

in the New Year. We hope there is something to appeal to<br />

each and everyone of you and hope very much to see you<br />

during the year.<br />

If you have <strong>any</strong> suggestions or ideas for talks that might<br />

be incorporated into the calendar, or <strong>any</strong> feedback on<br />

the current programme, please get in touch with the<br />

Programme Manager, Carole Day, on 01473 298961 or email<br />

oldipswichians.suffolk.sch.uk.<br />

January<br />

Saturday 9th Eton Fives tour<strong>name</strong>nt and dinner<br />

Friday 29th Social Reunion<br />

– cheese & wine tasting<br />

February<br />

Friday 5th Garden Opera<br />

Saturday 27th Cross Country<br />

March<br />

Friday 26th 80s Reunion<br />

Saturday 27th Hockey vs <strong>School</strong><br />

Fives vs <strong>School</strong><br />

Squash vs <strong>School</strong><br />

Netball vs <strong>School</strong><br />

Soccer vs <strong>School</strong><br />

30th, 35th, 40th and 45th reunion<br />

April<br />

Friday 23rd 90s Reunion<br />

Wednesday 28th London Centenary Dinner<br />

May<br />

Friday 14th 50th and 55th reunion<br />

(Speech Day)<br />

Friday 28th 70s Reunion Dinner to celebrate<br />

first girls at <strong>School</strong><br />

June<br />

Saturday 5th 15th, 20th and 25th reunions<br />

Saturday 12th 1948 and before<br />

- diamond lunch and<br />

Unveiling of Tanqueray Window<br />

Friday 25th OI cricket vs school<br />

OI Journal 58<br />

Back to front<br />

As the President’s Art Exhbition on 28th November 2009<br />

demonstrated, there are m<strong>any</strong> excellent artists amongst the OI<br />

ranks. Here we meet the two artists whose work appears on<br />

the title pages, and the back cover, of <strong>this</strong> OI Journal. We also<br />

take a look, in the Archives section, at the work of artists of<br />

the seventeenth century, who, sadly, lived far too long ago to<br />

take part.<br />

OI Mike<br />

Wootton,<br />

(right)<br />

whose muchappreciated<br />

support for the<br />

President’s Art<br />

Exhibition on<br />

28th November<br />

2009 included<br />

framing all<br />

the exhibits,<br />

is pictured<br />

with his own<br />

contribution for<br />

the prize raffle.<br />

OI Michael Hewes (2000-<br />

2007) is a sculptor and<br />

an installation artist. “I<br />

am interested in giving<br />

participants a unique,<br />

uncanny and out of the<br />

ordinary experience. I use<br />

found objects and mixedmedia<br />

constructions,<br />

usually with ideas of the<br />

uncomfortable, unsettling or<br />

isolated.”<br />

Now a student at Norwich<br />

University College of Art, he<br />

was 15 when he drew <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> in Escher’s Mirror<br />

(see back cover). After A levels in Fine Art, Physics and<br />

Russian, he did a Fine Art Diploma at the Colchester <strong>In</strong>stitute,<br />

followed <strong>by</strong> a summer of travelling and visiting art galleries<br />

in major European cities from Rome to Budapest, Vienna to<br />

Munich. Michael can be contacted at michaelhewes@hotmail.<br />

co.uk

Legacy<br />

giving<br />

and the<br />

Elizabethan<br />

Society<br />

Would you consider<br />

making provision<br />

for <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> in<br />

your Will?<br />

To find out more, contact<br />

Graham Papenfus,<br />

Development Director, on<br />

01473 298 964 or gnp@<br />

ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk or see<br />

www.ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk/<br />

pages/development-legacy<br />

Former pupils looking back at their time at<br />

<strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> will have m<strong>any</strong> memories of the<br />

years they spent at the <strong>School</strong>.<br />

These might range from participating in music,<br />

drama or art, of sporting achievements, friendships<br />

made or perhaps of a particular staff member. A<br />

common thread through the vast array of memories<br />

is that <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> left m<strong>any</strong> OIs with enduring<br />

recollections, benefitting their lives in m<strong>any</strong> ways.<br />

One could say that the <strong>School</strong> has left them with a<br />

legacy.<br />

OI Journal 59

OI Journal 60<br />

Now you see it, now you don’t. Do our<br />

memories of schooldays become distorted <strong>by</strong><br />

the passage of time? Old <strong>Ipswich</strong>ian Michael<br />

Hewes’ <strong>Ipswich</strong> <strong>School</strong> in Escher’s Mirror,<br />

submitted to the President’s Art Exhibition<br />

in November 2009, gives the <strong>School</strong><br />

a whole new dimension.

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