This "HitMap" is recording site visits from Old Brightonians all over the world - click to see where our visitors are coming from (this map service started recording hits on 14th January 2006).
On a beautiful, early spring evening in the middle of March, 20 OBs and their partners gathered together in the beautiful Lotos Club, just a few blocks away from New York’s Central Park, to mark the re-birth of the “USA Friends of Brighton College”.
The Fellows’ Dining Room at Balliol College, Oxford was the venue for this year’s Oxbridge Dinner on Friday 25th February. Thirty-four current, recent and soon-to-be Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates enjoyed an excellent meal in this impressive setting, while catching up with College developments.
What an evening! Far and away the most successful and well attended London gathering we’ve had so far; several folk had come “out of the woodwork” for the first time in very many years!
Garry Gordon, the tournament organiser, commented that it was one of the best Sunshine 7s finals he had seen in years and that the''Pelicans had the potential to do some damage on the 7s circuit''. These are high words of praise and richly deserved so thank you to all the players and I look forward to next year's Sunshine 7s.
The second annual Peter Rumney Memorial Match took place on the 12th September 2009 on the College homeground, and was both a well attended and contested affair.
An enthralling evening of sporting knowledge and prowess was possibly being held somewhere on Thursday 3rd March, but at the Brighton College Sports Quiz the name of the game was definitely fun and fundraising.
On 27 September 1859 the first service was held in the college chapel (smaller then than it is now); and on Friday 2nd October 2009 a service was held to commemorate its 150th anniversary.
The new department comprises of a number of studios, photography labs and lecture rooms, but the single most impressive room is the large fine art studio that runs the length of the Woolton Building.
Do you have photographs from your time at Brighton College that you’d allow to be published as part of a new section of The Pelican, entitled Memory Lane? If so, you can either scan the photograph and email it to us with your name, House and years and a brief explanation of what’s going on in the photograph.
The Development and Alumni Relations Office's primary role is to support the Head Master and Governors in realising the long-term plans of the school, by raising non-fee income, and by building a network of strong relationships among parents, staff, Old Brightonians and other friends and supporters.