PDF Newsletters – September 2009
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009All of the September 2009 newsletter parts in all their glory in PDF format.
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Annual Dinner
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Annual Association Dinner,17th October (Saturday)
7.00 pm for 8.00 pm at The Bath Cricket Club, North Parade, Bath.
Black Tie or lounge suit, both will be in evidence and you will not feel under-dressed.
The changes last year seemed popular so are maintained.. An early start from 7 pm to allow you to recover from an arduous day before dinner at 8. Long-time Sulian, Tony Comer, will propose the toast to The Association, Rich Wood, the President will reply, and the Headmaster will say a few words along with the Old Su’s RFC. Contributions are requested to be around 5 mins. The ticket price is still £35 but if paid by Tuesday the 6th October it’s held at the recession busting price of £30. For those of you coming from afar, the Su’s 1st XV are at home to Wells on the Saturday. Bath Rugby are playing Stade Francais on the Rec on the Sunday. As usual a convenient ‘Chitty’ is enclosed.
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Basement to Beechen Cliff
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009The Editorial Team expect ‘The Book’ to be available at the Annual Dinner at Bath Cricket Club on the 17th October. The price depends on the current negotiations with the printers, but we hope it will be about £10 per copy
If all goes according to plan, you can buy your copy or copies as Christmas presents to give to your children and grandchildren. This publication of over 100 pages has black & white and colour photographs with profiles of 38 Old Sulians’, supplemented with pages of those who lost their lives in armed conflicts, past Head masters, past Head Boys & Girls and a brief history of the parent schools from their foundation in 1896. This will surely remind you of your days at School regardless of whether you were there during the CBBS or Beechen Cliff era. The Editorial Committee have been amazed at the diversity of the professions of former pupils who attended the School whatever its name and wherever located You will recognise old school colleagues who have served in the Armed Forces or the Church, or found success in sport, medicine, music, business, politics or science.
If you are unable to attend the Annual Dinner then reserve your copy by phone, e-mail or return the chit below. We will contact you in due course to confirm the price and post and packing. We will also update the web-site. We look forward to seeing or hearing from you.
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Newsletter – September 2009
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009NEWS!
The Book
Terry Light reports that the Team are still hoping to launch our literary venture ‘Basements to Beechen Cliff’ at the Annual Dinner. Hopefully you will find enclosed, a ‘flyer’ for the book with all the relevant details.
NHSOB Golf June 2, 2009
Mike Wood reports:
We brought home the trophy from Newport with a 3-2 win! The Team consisted of: John (Tom) Dowding, John Larcombe, Alan Blake, Dave Larcombe, Mick Moore (Captain), Tony Comer, Steve Ford, Roy Aust, Mike Wood and Robert Hill.
Su’s Golf Day – Fri June 19th 2009
Mike Wood again reports:
I wasn’t there (and I’ve not been allowed to forget it by Mick Moore!!) and Tony Comer handled things on the day helped by Steve Ford. The weather was good if not a little windy. The winners were:
Medal (cup) – Ollie Dicks
Old Tossers Tankard – Steve Ford
Stableford (Rosebowl) – Barry Marsh
Tony Bowrey Trophy – Roy Aust
Nearest the pin – Barry Marsh
Longest drive – Ollie Dicks ( Ed’s Note: Ollie is young!)
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Headmasters Letter – September 2009
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Dear Old Sulian,
Another year ends and with it the promise of long, hot summer days …. The reality, of course, will be different but hopefully the positive work undertaken over the year can act as the means to brighten our collective days in weeks to come.
A particular highlight for me was the wonderful performance of ‘Children of Empire’ during the Spring. To see drama and music departments coming together to entertain an appreciative audience was magnificent. Next year Ms Baker has promised another production to give the pupils and students another opportunity to ‘shine’ under the guidance of her team of staff.
Mr Cruickshank, in addition to being a great advocate and supporter of the Model United Nations (in which Beechen Cliff again participated with distinction), put his exceptional mind to bear on the task of creating the first ‘year book’ since the “Sulian”, a publication which ran from 1932 to 1968. The production of the ‘Gryphon’ was a monumental undertaking, requiring significant editorial and general organisational skills. The finished result is, I am sure you will agree, a wonderful record of the School over 2008/9 and a splendid ‘vehicle’ for allowing many of our pupils’ and students’ achievements to be recognised in ‘published’ form. I am hoping that all Old Sulians will have purchased a copy!
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PDF Newsletters – May 2009
Friday, May 15th, 2009Sulian Newsletter May 2009
Headmasters Letter May 2009
Newsletter Part 2 – May 2009
Friday, May 15th, 2009The Diary for 2009
28th May NHSOB Golf Match at Newport
Mick Moore has once again organised a team (the chosen ones) to travel over The Bridge for this annual fixture. The only change is that it is now against a Newport High Schools Old Boys team as time takes it’s toll. We are defending our title and wish the boys well against the boyos!
19th June Association Golf Day at Bath Golf Club, Sham Castle
A reminder for the Old Sulians’ Golf Day. Normal venue, Bath Golf Club, Sham Castle, Bath
9.30am tee time for morning Medal (for those with the stamina) and Old Tosser’s Tankard (7 holes for those with a little less stamina). Coffee (included) and bacon butties (self pay) available in the Clubhouse from 8.30am.
Lunch served from 1.00pm. Afternoon (2.15pm start) Stableford. Evening Dinner and prizes at 7.30
The price should be the same as last year i.e. £35 all inclusive (how do we do it?) but it will depend on overall numbers.
PLEASE give Mike Wood a clue if you will be there!! And feel free to pass the details on to other Golfing Su’s
Mike is on 01225 335250 or mike@systemagic.co.uk
23rd July Medieval Meander (Walking Treasure Hunt)
Once again Sue Trude, bless her, (that’s not what some say afterwards!!) will help you travel from the Abbey Churchyard, (Start opposite the Pump Room from 6 pm ‘till about 7), to find your way, aimlessly wander or in desperation retreat, to The Bath Cricket Club on North Parade. Teams of maximum size 4, if you compete alone you have no one to argue with or blame! Please let me know how many you are bringing by the 17th as we have to print the clue sheets. 01225 832207 or committee@oldsulians.org.uk
17th October Annual Dinner at Bath Cricket Club, North Parade
Full details in the Autumn. Rest assured the speeches will be short, the company will be delightful and we will probably have beef even though dear old Bryn James is no longer with us.
More News
I was overwhelmed with a response to the detail of the Secretary’s report in the last issue that winged it’s way in from my Flying Instructor Nick ‘Biggles’ Bowers (1966). I reproduce it as follows:
While trawling through the letter rack, I came across a copy of the Old Su’s Newsletter Feb 2009; put there upon arrival, awaiting a suitable opportunity to read the contents – which I have now, rather belatedly done.An item in the Secretary’s Report caught my eye – the bit about Glyn Maddox and the sailing dinghy. Construction of the beast (or rather beasts, for there were two!) was accomplished by a stalwart band of about eight volunteers who stayed after school for a couple of hours, once a week (Tuesdays if my memory serves me correctly) to learn the intricate art of boat building. The starting point was a set of drawings and a stack of timber components. I may be doing the gang a disservice, but I do not recall anyone (including Glyn) having any substantial previous experience of building boats but, of course, the standard of woodworking was kept well up to scratch, by Glyn’s inimitable style of encouragement. At length, the first of two very smart Heron Class dinghies emerged from the workshop and, as reported by the Hon Sec in his report, was taken to Shearwater for its first trial. There was little if any wind that day, so all we were able to accomplish was a couple of interminably long tacks across the lake and the acquisition of proof that the thing would indeed float! As for the eventual fate of those dinghies, I have no information, other than a faint recollection of talk about participating in sailing races on the river at Saltford. Whether, or not any such excitement was undertaken, I cannot say – I certainly did not have any further contact with the products of our woodworking labours.
Another of our year, Ian Potentier, currently being cajoled into joining up (!) recently confirmed the detail over several jars of an interesting brew at our joint 61st birthday bash in the depths of wild Wiltshire.
Another memoir came from George Glass (1944). The full text can be found on our web-site but for a taster :
My years at school were between 1940 and 1944 from Monkton Combe Preparatory School; not the best of years for the school or pupils – due to the war, Bath blitz, temporary kitchens on the car park in front of the Headmaster’s study, clothes rationing, gas masks, shortages of food and the good things of life. But in spite of it all we survived.
The staff, under the watchful eye of Dr Taylor, kept things going remarkably well. Latin and History were a nightmare under Dancy and James, my only encounters with Matthews were with the ‘dap’. Nevertheless I enjoyed French with Froggy Holden, English with Mr Birt, Art with Mr Whitacker, Science with Mr Hambleton.
In my class was Roger Bannister – a ‘bright lad’ who as a junior won the senior cross-country event, and Raymond Leppard who always played the piano at morning assembly.
You can rather gather I was not an academic at school but a ‘plodder’ and enjoyed rugby and athletics. Nevertheless I obtained 2 School Certificates enabling me to start on my career.
But do not forget the wartime working holidays organised by Mr Hambleton and others, collecting pit-props at Bovey Tracey and harvesting camps in Worcestershire – digging potatoes or if you were lucky, picking fruit, but do watch out for the land girls!
The Headmaster, Dr Taylor, organised on a Saturday night that the 5th and 6th forms from CBBS and CBGS should get together to learn decorum and to dance under the teaching of Madame A Carter. Being able to dance to Victor Silvester strict tempo has served me in good stead ever since; having met Diana, D R Wakefield, there we eventually got married in 1950 and have been together ever since. I must mention my older brother J R Glass 1935-41 who was called up during the war, obtained his wings in Rhodesia and was killed in Italy flying spitfires.
Charity Cycle ride.
Old Sulian RFC stalwart Toby Herlinger is cycling from St Austell to Bristol over three days starting on the 19th June.
He is participating on behalf of the South West Children’s Hospice and would appreciate any support Sulians could offer. The cycle ride covers 250miles.
He has set up a Just Giving page listed below.
www.justgiving.com/tobyherlinger Thank you in advance for any contributions.
The Gryphon Year Book
The School is producing a year book to which we have been invited to contribute. The picture of Rich and Terry should appear in radiant black and white with a few words about The Association.
It is also hoped to include details of the School’s status, achievements and staff amongst other things and to publish by the end of term. Full information will be found on the School and the Sulian websites. I will provide full details in the September Newsletter for those that would like to purchase a copy and find out what is going on at the old Alma Mater.