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Correspondence (74)
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Old Brightonian involved in 1944 Great Escape
Friday, 19 November 2010John Gifford Stower (H. 1932-33), born September 15th 1916 in the Province of Jujuy, North of Argentina, came to the UK as a youngster in 1925, spending his first years at a small school in Worthing, before finishing his education at Brighton College via Sedbergh. Two years later, aged 20, he returned to Argentina to work in a sugar cane mill close to his place of birth.
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President's letter Nov. 2010
Thursday, 18 November 2010It hardly seems three years since David Gold asked me to put myself forward as your President and that my tenure is almost at its end. During this time I have much enjoyed re-connecting with OBs whom I first knew at the college and those many others from both before and after my time on the College staff. I have had much pleasure in presiding over and representing you at various functions and reunions, here at the college or away in London and New York, as well as being generally associated with the college at a time of growth and continuing pre-eminence.
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Simon Smith, Second Master
Monday, 27 September 2010Simon Smith has decided to retire at the end of the academic year after 38 years of outstanding service to the college, for the past eleven as Second Master.
He has been a wonderful support to me in my five years as Head Master, providing wise counsel, good humour and kindly reassurance throughout. My predecessors, Bill Blackshaw, John Leach and Anthony Seldon, also owe him a terrific debt of gratitude. He has served each of them with great loyalty. Above all, Simon has served this community. He has made time for colleagues and pupils in equal measure, supporting them when times are tough and admonishing them only when necessary.
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Old photo recently found by Malcolm Faber (S 1975-80)
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
This photo was recently found in the Faber archives! This is the CCF at RAF Waddington (home to the Vulcan bombers) in 1978 for a weeks camp! It may well be of interest to some. My memory is somewhat hazy, but as far as I can remember (please fill in the gaps), names as follows:
Top: Tony Whitestone, Chris Browne, ?, ?, Guy Cordery, Mr Allen
Middle: Kevin Roddy, Chris Bean, Richard Bacon,?,?, Steve Squibb
Bottom: ?, Simon Kaner, ?Eaton?, Malcolm Faber, Richard Nye
I remember it being extremely cold in the wilds of Lincolnshire, freezing on night exercises. There was some Girls Venture Corps up there at the same time who provided some light entertainment – one of them fainted with the cold at morning parade!
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To the former pupils of Brighton College Junior School (1945 to 1972)
Thursday, 18 November 2010
I am planning to write a book about the history of Brighton Institution for the Deaf, Eastern Road (1848-1941) which was situated opposite Brighton College. My intention is to draw up the floor plans, and an architectural front & rear elevations of the school buildings.
I have no clue as to the arrangement of the classrooms or the dormitories from the basement floor level to the top floor as well as the extensions at the rear of the buildings so I am trying to establish the room’s arrangement. I will than draw the plans based on your details you provided. I have asked former pupils who are now in their eighties but they only remembered a little such as the Boot Repairs, Carpentry, Tailoring, and Furniture Repairs Workshop, all in the basement.
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Reflections on the College’s current success by an all-but octogenarian former Headmaster
Wednesday, 17 November 2010The recent great successes enjoyed by the College – surely a source of joy to all of us who love the place – have caused the Press to suggest that it was previously a ‘backwater’. So it seems right to refer to the work done in the last fifty years, that work itself laid on earlier foundations. After all, the decade before then produced Lord Alexander, Lord Skidelsky and Bishop Bavin (to say nothing of Sir John Chilcot) among others! And these last fifty years began with a visit from the Queen. Backwater...?!?
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Something that the College does not prepare one for is a major earthquake!
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The shallow one that struck near Christchurch New Zealand, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale on 04 September was felt 400 kms away in the North Island: we live 45kms from the epicentre.
At 4.35am, like most people, we were asleep in bed, when the ground started moving - enough to wake us up. This was followed very quickly by severe shaking and a roaring sound. Our house in rural Canterbury is ten years old and like most newer buildings was constructed following strict regulations. It was hard to stand up, not least because it was pitch dark.
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President's letter June 2010
Monday, 28 June 2010As the end of another summer term at the College approaches and a new cohort of leavers is about to join the ranks of the Association, I thought it appropriate to write to you, wishing you and your families well, wherever you may be.
I attended the recent Speech Day in the Dome in Brighton, which is now the regular venue for this prestigious event, the original School Hall being too small to accommodate the ever burgeoning numbers at the College. It is evident that the school is in very fine fettle and achieving excellence on all fronts.
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