OLD ORWELLIAN NEWS

CONTENTS Headmaster 2 Old Orwellian Day 3 Half Century Club 4 OO Art Exhibition 5 OO Recital 6 Alumni News 6/7 A day in the life….. 8 Contact 8 Future events 8

Autumn 2014

Old Orwellian Art Exhibition

Simon Gales (1975-77)

North

Winter Rose (1951-55)

Exposed II

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HEADMASTER

Adrian Brown Headmaster

We welcome the following new members of the Old Orwellian Association who left Orwell Park this year to go to their respective senior schools.

Cordelia Barlow Red Lions Oundle

Benjamin Barton Red Lions Oakham

Angus Bishopp Red Lions Oundle

Rufus Byrne Hill Red Lions Ampleforth

Edward Chevallier Guild Red Lions Uppingham

Christian Clement Red Lions Uppingham

Jamie Cumming Yellow Tigers Uppingham

William Davie-Thornhill Yellow Tigers Radley

Tobias Dixon Smith Red Lions Oundle

Justin Du Green Dragons Gresham’s

Guy Gooch Red Lions Rugby

Olivia Jacklin Green Dragons Rugby

William Jacklin Green Dragons Rugby

Xavier King Blue Boars Oundle

Laetitia Lang Yellow Tigers Oakham

Philip Lewellen Blue Boars Stowe

Billy Lowther Green Dragons Eton

Maximus Mash Red Lions Stowe

Frederick Mason Yellow Tigers Oakham

Danila Mikhaylov Green Dragons Oundle

James Morrison Red Lions Oundle

Lucy Murphy Yellow Tigers Ampleforth

Imogen Oliver Red Lions Stowe

Charlie Preece Green Dragons Oundle

Alfie Rowe Yellow Tigers Uppingham

Jordi Sabe Blue Boars Colegio Monserrat e Barcelona

Hector Smiley Green Dragons Stowe

Ella Thornton Green Dragons Benenden

Lydia Torrington Green Dragons Royal Hospital School

Zara Tweed Yellow Tigers Uppingham

Sophie Watson Blue Boars Framlingham

Marc Zürn Yellow Tigers Gymnasium in den Pfarrwie

NEW OO MEMBERS

In reflecting upon the successes of last year’s leavers, listed below with their senior schools, I remain astonished by what the boys and girls achieve, both in volume and quality and, most importantly, perhaps, in breadth. Academically, once again we had a 100% pass rate at Common Entrance and the 14 awards achieved to senior schools comprised four academic awards, three sports scholarships, two music awards, a DT and an Art scholarship and three all-rounder/leadership awards.

Last term we said farewell to Brian Hunt, who arrived at the School in 1983 and be-came Deputy Head under Andrew Auster in 2001. Brian’s 31 year contribution was recognised formally on Speech Day; among his many talents he was above all an in-spirational teacher of History and he will be remembered by many current and Old Orwellians as the person who gave them a life long passion for that subject.

Nicole and I have been delighted to welcome so many generations of Old Orwellians at events during the past year. Art and Music have always been an integral part of the life of the school and this was reflected in the OO Art Exhibition and Recital, which saw current pupils perform with Old Orwellians. Next year we hope to build on the success of the inaugural Golf Day last May and we look forward to seeing many of you at events in 2015.

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OLD ORWELLIAN DAY 21 JUNE

It was a pleasure to welcome to the school over 70 Old Orwellians for lunch in the Orangery on Old Or-wellian day this year. It was a most enjoyable event with former pupils from many eras in attendance. Part of the school’s archive was set out in the Oak Room with school magazines dating from the 1880s when Orwell Park was Eaton House.

The date of Old Orwellian day was this year organ-ised a little later in June than in previous years. The hope was that OOs from younger generations would be able to attend, those who were committed to school or university. We were delighted that this hope was realised and we were able to field two cricket teams and two hockey teams.

Lalit Bose (2003-2007) and Rupert Uthwatt Bouver-ie (1973-78) captained the cricket teams. Frankie Lang (2006-2011) captained the Old Orwellian hock-ey team against an Orwell Park pupils and staff team.

It was a super day, thoroughly enjoyed by all. We look forward to repeating the event next summer.

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HALF CENTURY CLUB LUNCH 14 NOVEMBER A splendid lunch was enjoyed by the members of the Half Century Club and their guests in the Or-angery on Friday 14 November. The Half Century Club was formed for those former pupils who left the school (whether that was Orwell Park, Alde-burgh Lodge or Bedstone Court) fifty or more years ago, and it was pleasing to welcome new members this year. Following an address from the Headmas-ter, we were delighted that Peter Jackson (1936-40) kindly agreed to speak on “Behind the scenes at Wimbledon”. This was a most interesting and en-tertaining insight into one of the world’s most fa-mous institutions with which Mr Jackson has been involved for many years.

Following the lunch, there were tours of the school which included a visit to the Observatory. For some Half Century Club members, this was the first time they had visited the school since they left over 50 years before. There was much reminiscing.

The 2015 Half Century Club lunch will be held at the Farmers Club in London on Friday 13 Novem-ber.

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Requests

OLD ORWELLIAN ART EXHIBITION The School hosted the first Old Orwellian Art Exhibition on Friday 14th November. The Art Exhibition had been installed in the Alston Room in the middle of October and had been much enjoyed by parents, staff, pupils, Old Orwellians and visitors to the school. We were extremely lucky to have so much amazing work on display and are grateful to the artists for allowing us to show their art. We hope to make the Art Exhibition and the Recital a bian-nual event. The Exhibitors were:

Poppy Bryanton (1999-07) Francesca Lang (2006-11)

Arlo Clark (2005-11) Winter Rose (1951-55)

Freddie Clark (1999-01) Sasha Sharma (2009-11)

Simon Gales (1975-77)

Winter Rose

Poppy Bryanton

Arlo Clark (the image from the painting is reflected in the metal cylinder).

Simon Gales

Freddie Clark

Sasha Sharma

Part of the decoration of the main corridor involved the hanging of team photographs from 1904 to the pre-sent day. However, there are gaps in our archive. If anyone has team photos from 1980 to 1994 and from 2007 to 2012, we would be very grateful if they could contact Nicole Brown (nicolebown@orwellpark.org).

Similarly, if anyone has items of school memorabilia that they would be happy to donate to the school, please do let us know. We are building an archive which will eventually be on permanent display.

Francesca Lang

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OLD ORWELLIAN RECITAL 14 NOVEMBER

On Friday 14 November, Old Orwellians and parents enjoyed a recital performed by both Old Orwellians and cur-rent pupils of Orwell Park. Emily Shea-Simonds delighted the audience with her performance of Una Dona A Quindici Ani by Mozart, and Bradley Tai bravely opened the recital with a confident and skilful piece on the pi-ano River Flows in You by Yiruma. It was a mixed and hugely entertaining programme with pieces by Chopin, Mozart, Lloyd-Webber and Bernstein. It was a splendid evening which we plan to repeat biannually.

OLD ORWELLIAN RECITAL 14 NOVEMBER

GEORGE MANLEY DIXON 1909-11

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Brian A Barlow (1937-1940) 2 November 2014

Peter A Cherniavsky (1934 and 1938-1939) 25 December 2013

Sir Colin St Clair-Ford.Bt (1946-1952) 3 December 2012

We are sorry to write of the following deaths of which we have been notified since the last issue of the newsletter:

George Manley Dixon (1909-11) was born in 1898 in Woodford, Essex. He joined Alde-burgh lodge in 1909. In the notice of leaving pupils in the Aldeburgh Lodge Magazine, Au-tumn term 1912, can be found the entry: “George Manley Dixon is preparing for the Mer-chantile Marine at Marlow. He joined the school in the Autumn Term 1909. He was in the IVth Form and was a member of the Cricket team, Football team and Shooting VIII.”

George left home at 14 and was apprenticed to Thomas Law & Co in Glasgow, a firm known to his father who was an insurance underwriter. Early in 1914, George sailed for Australia, landing first in Sydney and then on to Tasmania. However, once there aged 15, he jumped ship, and after some work farming, joined the Australian Army. He remained in

the army until he was discharged in 1916 due to the fact that he had contracted TB. He had fought at Gallipoli, sustaining an injury in 1915 and was transferred to the UK where he was admitted to Harefield Hospital – still on-ly 17. In the August of 1916, George embarked on a trip back to Australia. After a long and tumultuous 10 years through the Depression, George re-joined the Navy in 1940 as a sub-lieutenant with the RANVR. He was awarded the DSC for “gallantry in the face of the enemy” in 1943. After the war, George was skipper of the LST 3501 which took scientists and equipment to Antarctic bases during the 1947-49 period. His skill and daring with LST 3501 was legendary and ensured that his name would be remembered long after his death in 1978.

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ALUMNI NEWS

Duncan Taylor (2008-10)

Peter Jackson (1936-40) writes:

With considerable difficulty I persuaded David Jude to allow me to submit this remarkable OO event to you:

Born in Felixstowe, a squash international and Suffolk County tennis player, working in the financial world in the West Country some 37 years ago, David Jude had a call completely out of the blue asking whether he might be interested in becoming Honorary Secretary of the International Lawn Tennis Federation (the World Governing body of tennis)! In 1977 he was formally elected.

At the ITF’s recent AGM (36 years later) David did not seek re-election and so stood down as both Honorary Treasurer and Board member. On doing so he was nominated as an ITF Honorary Life Counsellor and, “even more flattering” (his words!), he received this year’s annual award from the ITF/International Hall of Fame “Golden Achievement Award”. Just one given a year and reserved for the greatest of the great and good of tennis world wide. The first recipient was President of Tennis Australia (an outstanding world tennis leader). Two other recipients have been Chairmen of The All England Club!

Over the years David has been personally involved with all aspects of the administration, development and spread of tennis through the world. Very influential, mostly behind the scenes, and with his wife Mary (also from Felix-stowe), two of the most popular and charming people of the tennis world.

I felt Orwell Park would like to know about this. To quote something I said in another context, “The boy did all right!”

Peter Jackson OO/OA (Vice President, AELTC, Wimbledon)

Duncan joined Gordonstoun in 2010 and is a member of Round Square. He is in his final year (Year 13) and doing three A-Levels. Duncan is taking a year out next year to consider what he wants to do in the future and, during that time, wants to join the Royal Marine Reserves.

Duncan is Captain of the Fire Service this term (it changes every term). Recently he was part of the team that attended a serious fire at a local farm which involved fire crews from all across Moray and which caused considerable damage to farm buildings and ve-hicles before it could be brought under control. He was also the Fire Service representative in a tableau of Gordonstoun which was performed for the Duke of Edinburgh when he visited the school in September.

Also, Duncan was a member of the Gordonstoun Ethiopia Service project during the summer when a group of students and a couple of members of staff travelled to Maydaero School in Tigray Prov-ince in Northern Ethiopia to improve the classrooms and refurbish the library in the school.

Pictures: Duncan demonstrating correct use of the fire hose Duncan with the winning Orwell Park team at the Gordonstoun Challenge this summer.

David Jude (1946-51)

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FUTURE EVENTS 10 May 2015 OO Golf Day 20 June 2015 Old Orwellian Day 13 November 2015 Half Century Club Lunch, Farmers Club, London

Adrian Brown, Headmaster Email: headmaster@orwellpark.org Telephone: 01473 659225 Julie Dean, Registrar Email: juliedean@orwellpark.org Telephone: 01473 653297 Sarah Kirby-Smith, Old Orwellian Secretary Email: oldorwellians@orwellpark.org Tel: 01473 653274

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ALUMNI NEWS Michael Bone (1970-75) A day in the life...

I was a pupil at Orwell Park between 1970 and 1975. Today, I am the Director of Infor-mation, Communication and Technology (ICT) at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). GOSH is the world’s leading hospital for children and specialises in providing ad-vanced treatment for children with rare and complex diseases. As well as being a centre of excellence for hospital care, GOSH is also a leading centre for research, working closely with the University College London (UCL).

Upon arrival at my office I switch on my laptop and also a second computer that runs a pro-gramme that monitors all of the networks, servers and systems across the hospital. As the hospital computers are critical, GOSH (like many hospitals) has two of everything; this way should something fail there is no disruption to our services.

Today I have an early meeting with the Genomics team to discuss the storage of DNA sequence data. We use DNA data to look for anything unusual which may aid us in identifying what is wrong with a sick child and how we might help to make them better. The meeting is designed to plan the storage of DNA information for the life-time of each of our patients.

After the meeting I have 30 minutes to prepare, as my next event is a presentation to a group of visitors from Nor-way. The presentation to the Norwegian teams start with an overview of our funding and how we use money from our Chief Finance Officer. I talk about our strategy, including what computer systems we have now, what we plan to purchase new, what we need to upgrade and what is to be replaced or decommissioned. After lunch I spend an hour writing a briefing paper for the Trust Digital Strategy and Transformation Group (DST). The DST Group is responsible for the strategic direction of Information Management, Technology and Transformation ser-vices for the hospital. The paper covers the technology required to store images at GOSH and to be able to share them with other authorised healthcare organisations around the world.

My next task is a business meeting to discuss the procurement of new data centre facilities. At present all the computers at GOSH are housed in one main computer room and several smaller backup rooms around the hospi-tal. However, as the demand for computers to support both clinical care and research continues to grow so the space we need to house them also grows. Working at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is challenging, often tackling complex issues, yet highly rewarding. The Trust motto is “The Child First and Always” and I am often reminded that, although I hold a senior position within the organisation, I am but a small cog in a far larger machine.