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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).
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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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1997-2005 "Seldon" reunion
Saturday, 05 September 2009On Saturday 5 September forty or so young OBs, from the Seldon years (1997-2005) returned to the College for an informal reunion. Anthony and Joanna Seldon dropped by to greet them and several members of staff from the same era.
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Commemoration Day 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008For my report on this year’s Commemoration day, I had resolved not to begin by mentioning the weather - as it seems I so often do. It would, however, be ungracious not to acknowledge the surprising and un-forecast sunshine that bathed Brighton College on 22nd June 2008. Whilst the rest of the UK was apparently awash with the accurately predicted wind and rain, Brighton was beautifully sunny and warm - so there... I’ve mentioned it.
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President's letter February 2006
Wednesday, 01 February 2006
Dear Brightonians,
If anyone thought the departure of Dr Seldon would also signal the departure of the camera crews and hacks we’ve grown used to seeing around the College they were wrong. After what seemed like only a few minutes in the job, Richard Cairns marked the Chinese New Year by making Mandarin Chinese (Puotonghuà as it is called in Chinese) compulsory for all new pupils at the College and instantly he was the lead item on national news broadcasts across Asia – and CNN, the BBC, most of Europe... Hits to the College website reached their monthly average in one day, calls from diplomats and government departments, not to mention prospective parents, from across the world flooded the College switchboard. The College is the first British school to make Chinese a core subject alongside Latin, French and Spanish, reflecting the international flavour of the community but also providing the best possible preparation for the modern world. We just pray the compulsory element doesn’t reach former Brighton College pupils….
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OBA Annual Dinner 2005 - "Two Golds, a Silver and the Seldon babes"
Saturday, 26 November 2005A short review of the OBA dinner 2005 by one of the 1980 leavers celebrating 25 years.
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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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President's letter July 2009
Friday, 26 June 2009I hope you are enjoying the summer (if that is the season where you happen to be). I hope also that you are enjoying the new look website, and I am very grateful to Alex Bremer (R. 1979-83) for his efforts in bringing it into the 21st century. The OBA has recently hosted two events, a Vice Presidents’ Lunch at the Carlton Club and the celebration of the entry of the latest cohort of College leavers into the Association, which coincided with the College graduation. For younger OBs we are arranging an informal reunion at the College for those who attended the school under Anthony Seldon, who was the Headmaster from 1997 to 2006. Details and/or reports of all these events can be found elsewhere on the site.
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Vice-Presidents’ Luncheon 2006
Friday, 14 July 2006The Army & Navy Club, London SW1
As the old saying goes: "Yesterday, I couldn’t spell Vice President! Today I is one"! Well you might ask: "How did this happen"?
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Leo McKeague's Daughter Christened at Brighton College
Thursday, 05 January 2006My daughter Lillie-Louise was christened at Brighton College on the 11th December 2005, after which we all had a few drinks in Cafe de Paris. Thank you from Rachel and myself to all the staff involved especially Father Robert and Anthony & Jo Seldon for a great day.
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Remembrance Sunday at Brighton College 2005
Sunday, 13 November 2005The Service of Remembrance at the College is essentially based around music and readings, including personal accounts of those whose lives were affected by war on and off the fighting fields. It is a demanding occasion for the College and Prep School Choirs and other musicians, but it is also an opportunity for deep reflection for the congregation which, as always, was made up of current pupils, parents, current and former staff and Old Brightonians. This year, the Chapel was bursting at the seams and it was fitting in this, the 60th anniversary of Armistice Day but also the 160th anniversary of the founding of Brighton College and Dr Seldon’s final term.
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Upcoming events
- 1990s Reunion! 10/03/12
- OB Business Network Drinks (City & Finance) 20/03/12
- OB New York Dinner 2012 24/03/12
- OBRFC v Brighton College staff - April 2012 02/04/12
- East Grinstead Sunshine 7s 2012 29/04/12
- 1980's Reunion! 19/05/12
- Newquay Surf 7s 2012 30/06/12
- Worthing 7s 2012 28/07/12
- Cronk Cunis U21 15s Tournament 2012 27/08/12
- Peter Rumney Memorial Game 2012 01/09/12