Old Raineians’ Association

Newletters Volume II: 1979 - 1989

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I December, 1984

!1ERRJ CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPER.OUS Nml YEAR TO ALL OUR MEMBERS

bAL SUPPER 1 . ·. The supper was held on 10th November in Highgate Village. The function was an renjoyable success, well-catered and well~-a ttended, although the actual number who attended was not as high as we had hoped for. ·

The holding comrni ttee were pleased to see more new faces attending an Old aineiahs' function and to meet husbands, wives and friends of the members.

If you had been able to attend would you have remembered any of these people?.

Marcus Naraidoo (1976-83)

Victor Hills (1967-73)

Brian Chaperlin ( 1963-7·1)

Nelson McMahon (1933-38)

Lorraine Johnson (nee Anderson) (1967-74)

Gillian Groves (1975-82)

Helen Kostis (1972-79)

Sarah Dudley (nee Cooper) (1967-74)

To all those that did attend, thank you. We hope to meet you all again next year more.

Provisional date for next year's Supper is 9th November, 198).

No, not the George Orwell novel but the. resurrection of the Old Raineians' ssociation. It has been a most successful year, from Ray Reffold's initial attempt t holding a gathering back in January, ·to the Supper in November.

The Association is back on its feet and making plans for 198). During the past ear we have managed to do the following?.-

Hold a regular monthly social' gathering at "The Blind Beggar11•

Form a Holding Committee to take on the administration of the Association.

Run a stall at the Parents' Association summer fete.

Make a donation to a School Fund.

Hold the Annual Supper.

Issue a quarterly Ne1vsletter.

Increase membership.

Update and computerise the membership records.

'vle hope to achieve as much if not more next year bu·t your participation will be just as important then as it is now. If you have been involved in any of the above we thank you for your support and encouragement4

SCHOOL FUN:D -·-- ...... -.....-...-__. ... A donation has been made towards the School's J3ass Clarinet Fund. The present

arrangemen-t for the use of such an instr1.unent is to borrow it from the ILE;A if it is available when needed.

The School musicians vrish to purchase one of their own and we were pleased to be able to help. This is the first donation rM1de to the School by the Association for a long while. \'le hope to be able to make them more often in the future.

FAREvJBLL P ARrr'Y ---~----~

Some of you are already vrri ting for details of the Arbour Square farewell par·ty to be held on 27th April: 198),

Unfortunately we have been unable to finalise the details in time for this News­letter and they \vi11 novr be published in the March issue together with application forms. The party will s·l;art in the early evening and buffet and bar will be available. Sorry for any inconvenience vri th forward planning.

Do not let this stop you from writing though. V!e are always pleased to hear from you.

11 J3I,IND BEGGAR" ----As theOctober meeting follm-red on from the Annual Prize Giving vl8 were pleased to welcome several ne-· corners including Niss c. van l\1eeteren (teaching at school 1966-72) and the Headmaster and his wife.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEID'ING

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CAREERS CONVENTION ~--~------- -"'·--Some response on contributions has been received 9 certainly more than the response on donations for the Ann~~l Supper raffle!

The known occupations of our members are quite diver:se e.g. authors 9 firemen 7

journalistsp engineersg teachers 7 the list goes on. One of our membersp who shall remain anonymous (JI1arcus), even lists himself as a 1

' super hero11• There must be some useful

information available to the students. vie are not asking you to offer jobs to school leavers 9 only to offer some help and advice"

1'-'IErffiER.SHIP -----~ This year the number of life and annual members has increased considerably. This is good but keep up the job of advertising the Association among ex-pupils and ex-members of staff.

There are still thousands of people who have left the 11 well-loved portals1' of

Arbour Square but >vho are not members. Tve cannot expect to contact them all but with your help we would like to contact as many as possible!

Please remember that we do not normally send out individual reminders for renewal of annual subscriptions and therefore need your help in keeping these up to date.

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])lease send your remittances to lV[artin Leonard - r!fembership Secretary c/ o Arbour Square 9 payable to nold Raineians' Association".

o J?.~T_VA1l.J]£ 'vle a,re sorrv to learn of the death of two members - Miss R,G.Moore and Miss Lammas.

Niss Lammas died ;,t the end of Nay and had enjoyed ov8r 60 years as a member of the O.R.A.

9 having been a very active support;er in her younger days. Relations of I1iss Lammas

returned a medal to the Association 1vhich she had been gi von at the end of the First vJorld \!Tar. Do any of you have similar medals or know any of its details please'?.

SORRY TO~ Malcolm Pit-Keathly (1946-5L~) whose school dates were given incorrectly in

tho last issue. Chris Sternshine (1962-68) whose name was incorrectly spelt in the last issue. Geoffrey Gill on ( 1959-6L~) vhose name and school dates '"ere given incorrectly in the last issue,

SUCCESSFUL CONTACTS -~are putting Sandra Colley (nee Siseman) in touch VTith Anita Merker (nee Smi·th).

Chris Sternshine is now in touch Raineianv Alan Johnson (1961-68).

l\'lEMBERS NEWS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Hith Sandra Dorris who is also married to an Old

"'re have received so ~a;y-letters vJith news 9 contacts and requests for contact in the last three months that >ve vrill not be abJ.e to pu1J1ish it an this issue.

Some of our elder members write very interesting letters 9 full of information and anecdotes, He '\lril]- feature these over the months.

Grace" V!oods writes to say that she is pleased to hear from the Association again and that ~he still lives in Stepney" As G~ace is 85 years old we are prompted to ask - who is our most senior member?. Many of you 'N"e know were at the School in the Roaring 20 1 s.

~lY Parsons (1919-27) and subsequently teaching at the school (1938-52) infoJ.."'IlS us that she has held her ovn Summer Old Eaineians' Party for tJ:~c past 11 years at her home in Essex. 'l'hese gatherings in June and July are apparently well-attended and Emily extends a weJ.come to <:my of you who remember her. She sends us news of the following;-

Patricia Perkins (nee Tebbutt) (1948-55) will be put in touch wi-th ~MJ' Uo~~ (nee Greenspan} via Cynthia 1 s sister f..~l)l~l.§Lll<?.via (nee Greenspan). ~G. I3UIU1 Vine (1925-31) will be put in touch with ge~-~idd via Emily's contact with Mrs Tidd who is also an Old Raineian. Alexander Masson (lmovn as Stan) (1927-32) would like news of L~_n L132asg _t_~J_§_~am and H_9-r:ry Hagan who all used to come clown to Goodmayes to play footbaH for a young team which he formed, Jlo.;y_<Si_1vesJ;,E.E. ( 1926-32) w-rites that he remembers the follovring members of the Old Raineians' pre-1var Rugby Team - Hil_~:rz..J.'~r£1 tt 9 Cliff_li~wkins and the Noah Brothers" fl.on Harroq and puzanne Har]'od (n~e Quintol0 \1955-61) are still in contact with !l._~~ Wells (nee Collingsf who lives in Vellington 9 Nevr Zealand with her husband Rick and two children~ John and Joan Hooker (nee Cooper) living in Billingshurst and Alan and Gillian !J:szant (neei-IOUi-den) livj:;=;-g in Stevenage. Suzanne \N"ould like to contact--Cl:g:~§Jtine P~trick: ' Margaret v18;_lli~ 9 \ven_9y Ruddy and Jacg__ue_line vJinterhalder. It seems this group made visits to Toulouse in 1959 and 1960 to visit penpals 9 with whom they are still in touch! Their escort as far as Paris was a French Teacher named Miss Niller. Ron and Suzanne live in the Bristol area and wonder if there are any members in their locality?.

FINALLY Please keep sending in your Newsletter articles. We can never have too many as

there is always the next Newsletter to be filledc Articles to Roy Casey c/o Arbour Square.

We hope to see you all at Arbour Square in April, 1985. Please give us your support.

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. MARCH 1985

FAREWELL PARTY . --~~·~-- . ·:·.

A ttFarswell to Arbour Square" evening will be held on 27th April 1985 to allow you a' last · cha.nce to vied t the old. echool building before the' school moves to· new preidaes., 'We ar!!ll inviting ex-·pupiln and ex-staff members to join us from 6 p•m• in,. the school hall.,.

; There· will be a cash bar. avrllablo all evening and buffet meal served at 7 t.30 p.m. Alceholic a.nd non-alcoholic drlnks will be available.

A ticket app1ication form accompaniee this· Ne.waletter: to assist ua in dealing ' with your application please rehtrn it promptly to a.rrl ve at the school by 12th April 1985 at tho latest~

If' you are elderl;r or disabled Etnd, therefore, have difficulties with public tran.sport pleas& indicate this on the appli'cation form and we vill attempt ~o put you in touch with someone who can help you to got to Arbour Square ..

If you are able to offer assistance wi~h· transport to somebody living locally to you please advlse us on the application form. 1'here is plenty of parking available in Arbour Square ..

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~ From 3rd JWle 1985 Raine 'a J<~oundation School will be located i'n Approach Road,

:S.thnal Green, I.ondon E2 9I.Y. ('l'he Lwet School will remain in Old' Bethnal Green : Road).

The new premises was the site of Parmiter's Sohool and has undergone major building works over a.pp:r.oxbstely the paat two years.

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~e Arbour Squre site h~ been purchaaGd by the Inner London Education Authority. ' . . . ' . ~ .. . .

From June all ttorraapondt;ncll". for the Old Rainetans ~ Aseocation should be add.reaaed to the new premises.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The a.nhual general meeting vlll be h~ld at Arbour Square 'on· ThlU1ild83' 9th May 1985 at 7 p.me This will be the last Association function to be held in the old echooi.

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The purpose of the meeting will be:

(i) To review the activities of the past year.,

(ii) To present a statemont of Income and Expenditure for the year 1st January to 31st December 1984"

(iii) To elect a President.

(iv) To elect a President Elect, the Elective Committee and the Honorary Auditors~

(v) To decide upon any resolutions submitted to the Holding Committee.

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As there has been no President Elect during the past year the Holding Committee will be pleased to receive nominations for President, signed by the.proposer and seconder. The nominee should attend the meeting to accept the Presidency if successfully elected. Details of any resolution to be put to the meeting should also be submitted in writing.

PrssidenUal nominations and details of resolutions must be submitted to the Se'i!'etary no later than · 3 ·;i May 1985,

~1EHBERSHIP _ .. _. _.._._...__ Although membeTship is increasing steadily we are concerned at the number of

Newsletters which are being circulated to non-members~ Some have been sent membership application forms with their Newsletter but unfortunately forgotten to return them. We cannot circulate Newsletters to non-members, or those whose subscriptions have expired, .on an indefinite basis and unfortunately these people will have to be removed from the mailing list. ·

New and renewal mAmbership applications should be addressed to Hartin Leonard ·:.../c ATbour Square.

Subscription rates are curreni.;ly as follows:

·Full time students

Membership

Life Membership

50p per annum.

£1 per annum.

£10 single payment.

All members receive cop:"es of the Newsletter free of charge ..

T~ATRE BOOKING

Seymour Freed is able to arrange reduced rate block bookings for the Vanbrugh Theatre which stages Rfi.DA productions.

If anyone is interested please contact Seymour direct on 01-866 9334, preferably on Sundays.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Do you have any old School photographs? If you are attending the Farewell Party and have old sports team, school or class photographs we would appreciate a loan of them for the eveningo Please bring them along with you and we will return them when you are leaving.

There are photos from 1969 onwards readily available at the school but prior : to this dace there are only a limited number which have not been put into the ILEA Archives ..

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NEWSLETTERS

DatElS for the newsletters are having to be rearranged because the staff who so kindly produce it for us are heavily·involved with the ~chools move. There will be one newsletter per academic 'term i~e~ three_ rather than four. ·

BLIND BEGGAR

Dates for social evenings held at the Blind Beggar are 28th March, 25th April,. 30th Hay and 27th June, all held on Thursday evenings.. Hope to see you there! ·

MOST SJi.:NIOR Mii.:MBER

In December we enguired. about our most senior member; by chance we·· have received a letter from Australia from Herbert Fergus Ve.nables. Herbert was at the School in 1906 but'doEiJs not g.iv'~ his ages He must be in his nineties. Herbe~t emigrated to New South \tJales irt 1910.. He met his wife in 1913 and began working for the local· cotincil in · · Bowral.ln August 1911+ on a Sani tnry Contract ..

He became a il:ocal councillor in 1919 and was Hayor from 1922 to 1927~ He followed this with a further fifteen terms as Mayor before re:biring from local government in 1958 ..

Herbert visited the .school in 1961 and gave a slide show: does anybody remember it? Unfortunately Herbert lost his wife in 1974 but still enjoys his large family including 16 great grandchildren.

-Staff whom Herbert mentions are ~lr I,uke and Mr Martin~

Surely Herbert must be our most senior member, unless you know mtherwise. We would still like to find our most senior UK mombero

MJGHBERS NE\AJS AND CORRESPONDJ~f~CE

We were sorry to learn that Dr Shutt died in !I.Ugust 1980.

Robert Taylor (1939-46) writes that he was at the school during the second world war and as a result was an evacuee. He and many other pupils were evacuated first to Brighton then to Egham and ~inally to Camberley., As every good school boy would, Robert vividly remembers the day one of his teachers was caught off guard - he says "I will never forget the IJatin lesson-, struggling with a difficult prose, and Hiss Freeman, who joined the staff during the war, was doing her usual Telegraph crosswordo Suddenly a V2 dropped nearby and nearly reduced Hiss Freeman to a shivering jelly11

o Robert has a photograph showing Henry Bullish_, ·Bernard Stej~berg, R:llph Glazer, Sa.r:-der Heredeen, Alan Simon, Douglas Albert, Peter Graham, Hax Rosen, Dennis Tucker, Lean Charkin, Charles Colfey, Sylvia Levey and Slogg;er Lutono Robert would like to contact any of these old pals ..

Richard Tillbrook (1961-68) is still in touch with Steven Wilkinson (l967-7L~), the Chappell brothers, John & Geof!rex (1967-74) and Barry (1965-72) who all live in Norfolk .. He is also in touch with Tony and Jvlaria Hole (1968-75)0

Samuel Horle.x_ (1933-38) ie a .successful author having had several books published., He has sent a copy of his latest, 11 In Search of Eastern Promisett (Quiller Press), to the Headmaster and suggests a Library of Old Pupils' Bookso Are there any other members of the Association who have had books published and wish to participate in this idea?

Halcom-Pit-Keathly (1946-54) would like to contact Bill Tatum and Bill Jackson who, he tells us, would join him and George Cloke playing Wagna;lr.r:. 1178's" from Donny Lyons' collection ..

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Re5inald Bourne (1924-·31) (Headboy 1930-31) is living in Norfolk having been head of a primary school for 26 years and now retiredo

Tracy Richter (1972-79) tells us that shE:l.iS now taking part in Amateur Dramatics at Kings Langley? She would like to contact Linda Petto and other class mates ..

Miss Mangold (Headmistress 1955-6L~) writes that she remembers many of the girls whose names she now reads in the Newsletter. She is in touch with Nrs Wein~arten and Miss Millero She hopes to meet many of her old pupils at the Farewell Party in April..

Elsie Fi~her (1916-24) wt·ites to say that when she used to travel to the school from Essex the fkadmistress was Miss Grier. Other staff members whom she remembers were M. Montgomer;y:, ~i.~ Bu_!'~, ,Mary Elder, Do,Eothy Carruthers and Hiss Tree;ear. Elsie lists a great many contempories and it is clear from her letter that some Gtill. survive namely Phyllis Buchi (nee Lewis), Habel and Emil~ Parsons, Olive Murph~ (nee March) and Isa Weidman. (n€w Jacobson). Elsie particularly remembers the multi-racial nature of the school being situated in JEast London and trips to Petticoat Lane o . She now does ·· voluntary work for Gypsies and attributes her concern for them to the values of caring and ncn-discrimination which were learnt at the schoolo

AND FINALLY

Please keep your letters coming. received so we need more from youo

He are now almost up to date with correspondence Articles to Roy Casey c/o 1\.rt)Our Square ..

Many of you write about friends wanting to be informed about the 1\.ssociatiori. Please let us have their names and addresses so that we can contact them ..

The Holding Committee hope to have the pleasure of your company, and your companions, at the farewell party in 1\.pril..

Father Clynick, (1958-80) member of staff and Chaplain for many years, is seriously ill in Mile End Hospital! having had part of his leg amputated~ Please remember him in your prayerso

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July 1985

F ARE\lELL PARTY 230 people came to the farewell party on 27th April. Of these, 196

had been pupils or taught at the school bet\-Jeen 1918 and 1985.

The recponse was very encouraging, particularly from the ladies who accounted for nearly half of the total number.

Memorabilia poured in at the door with photographs, badges, Festival programmes and even a pre-Har jacket. Our thanks to all those who brought articles for display and to those unable to attend who sent items by post.

Our thanks especially to Mrs Howard and her helpero for the splendid buffet and to the staff of !!The Ship" public house for a bar which was kept,very busy.

A raffle was held and we intend to use some of the proceeds to donate prizes for Speech Day. Thank you to Emily Parsons (1919-27) who brought some items with her for raffle prizes.

Several of you offered to help with transport and we thank you for this We hope the. attendance for the annual supper in November is as good. Details of' th~ supper, to be held on 9th November,. will be in the October Newsletter.

ANNUAL GENERi\L MEETING The first AGH for several years was held on 9th Hay at Arbour Square.

The attendance in relation to the number of Association members was quite poor : however, the number did exceed a quorum. No nominations for the executive committee were received prior to the meeting and therefore nominations and voting ~ere carried out at the AGM. The results were as

follows:-

President - Ray Reffold

President Elect & Secretary - Martin Leonard

Vice President & Treasurer - Clive Baugh

Vice President & Assistant Secretary - Roy Casey

School Liaison - Tony Groves

Executive Committee - Jackie Connolly (mfe Farmer) Robert Connolly

All past Presidents

Laur:ie Dalton Sarah Dudley (n~e Cooper) Helen Kostis Gwynneth Jackson John Vlilliams c~., ~<ZN"eo.

Four resolutions were received and passed. These were

RUGBY CLUB

1. The date of the AGM be revised to April/May (Rule 15a)

2. The financial year to start lst January and finish on 31st December (Rule 14a)

3. All annual membership subscriptions should fall due on a common date i.e. 1st January (Rule 13b)

4. Subscription rate for Students should rise to ±1. (Rule 13c).

Are any of you interested in rev1v1ng the Association rugby team? If we could be sure of fielding a team we would be in a better position to obtain the grounds and facilities needed. In 2.ddition to the team members we will also require a training coach and ~anager. If you are interested in reviving the team in A~fY OF THE ABOVE POSITIONS PLEASE WRITE TO THE SECRETARY.

LONDON HAW\ THON Two members of staff took part in the marathon this year Graham Willett

and Steve Johnson. They hope to raise ±500. for the Ethiopia Famine Appeal through their sponsors. Our congratulations to you both for completing the course and for_sponsoring a worthwhile cause .

. BLIND BEGGAR Dates for social evenings held at the Blind Beggar are 29th Au~ust, 26th

September, 31st October, all held on Thursday evenings. Hope to see you there!

HOST SENIOR !1El'IBER We seemed to have stirred up some memories now. Here are two members

who are in their nineties. Charles tv. Franklin (1905-09) writes to say that he was born in 1893 and was in the same form as Herbert Venables whanwe wrote about in the last newsletter. Charles gives an eye-opener to their times. by saying that Herbert lived on a farm in Dagenharn!

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MOST SENIOR ME~illER (cont' d2_ Charles was in the Civil Service until he retired in 1955.

\~hen Charles was at the school it was jm Cannon Street Road and he never attended Arbour Square. Host of us will be able to say the same of the new Approach Road School. Charles also had the pleasure of being part of an Association revival after the Great War in 1919 when he became Treasurer. He served as President in 1939. Ernest G.Smith (1905-12) is unable to write to us himself d~e to a stroke but his son has been kind enough to write on his behalf. Ernest was born in 1895 Ernest served in the Lincolnshire Regiment during the Great VJar and on leaving the forces in 1919 he joined Portals Holdings Ltd. with whom he served until retiring· in 1955. Ernest has a bronze oedal bearing the head of Henry Raine on the face and on the reverse is inscribed "To commemorate the elevation of Raine's Boys' School to Secondary School Rank in the year of the Great Victorian Jubilee 1897 - John A. Telfer, Chairman of the Governors 11

• Around the edge is engraved "Ernest Smith Lond.Univ.,Hatric 1912 11

• i\pparently three such medallions Here awarded annually, gold, silver and bronze. Ernests' son says that there are no familiar names in the newsletter. Hopefully Charles Franklin and Herbert Venables will be known to his Father and we will be very happy to put these three gentlemen in touch with each other if they wish.

MINE OF' INFORMi\TION

One of our members who is a mine of information when a name in the newsletter strikes a memory is Wallie Spooner (1946-79) who taught at the school for so many years. Here is Hally's latest offering Debra Harvey (1974-81) has gone on from her Honours B.D. to do a Master's degree with a grant from The British Academy. Her friend Amanda Malpass is at Leeds University. Other contemporaries of Debra's are Graham Cater at Oxford, Jopnne Marshall working with the Tower Hamlets Sports Council 9 Karen Davies and Teddy Ayres. Kenneth_[~rotkin (Henderson) (1949-55) was being sought by Seymour Freed (1949-55). Kenneth must have either emigrated or not finished his medical degree as he does not appear in the Medical Re~ord of U.K. practitioners • Ivor Ward is Assistant Governor of Holloway Prison. George Lymborides, deputy head boy in the early 60's is now an architect in Limassol, Cyprus. He can be contacted if any old classmates wish to write to him. Th~re is also a whole list of ex Raine's nuuils who are now doctors in the U.K. Th~y are John Pimm (1944-51), Michael Mul~e~an, Dennis Burton (1966-73), Ivor Dainow (1943-L~B), Geoffrey Perry (1977-84), Hichael Vincent (1967-74) Hichael Bishop (1955-60), Victor Kateck (1958-65). Y{e can contact most of these if any classmates wish. Wallie is also in touch with some ex-staff members namely Miss Ring2r and Hr Shivas •

HE1'1BERS Nm>JS AND CORRESPONDENCE Charles L .• Sidney (1913-20) writes that although he is now having to take

things more slowly he fondly remembers the school and Cadet Corps. John Eve (1926-31) writes that he vividly remembers two French teachers, t1essrs. Huirhead and Barnes. l1r i'1uirhead carried a small case around which contained the sole of a plimsoll which he called his ntrusty corrector11 but strangely was never known to have used it on anybody. J.ir Barnes was a first r.ate marksman with a piece o{ chalk which John can testify to. A contemporary of Johns was a boy named Sparks who responded to only one Fre1ch phrase and was ah.rays known at l~aine' s ·as "Ousommenous", this being the only question which he was ever able to answer when asked by Mr:.Nuirhead. Alan Johnson (1963-68) is married to Sandra@ (1963-68) t>cJRr'i>t.S" Alan travels the world regularly as an Expl~ration Direct~ of an oil company and says thpt if any old classmates are overseas he would be pleased to contact· them. E.H.Bartholomew (1918-22) writes that he fondly remembers the school. He is in touch with Archie R.Forbes (1913-22). Both of these used to commute from Essex to school. Two brothers also attended the school, although the dates are not given for one of them, W.G. Bartholomew and J.C. Bartholomew (1920-2L~). Another friend with whom he communicates is Leonard Razzell (1916-20).

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NICE THOUGHT We received a letter from Len Kendler which said "Please find enclosed a

contribution towards postage. When I paid for Life Membership postage was minimal. If all my investments had given me the same return, I would be able to describe my occupation as millionaire!" Thank you,Len,for that nice thought, from all past and present Association committee members.

OBITUARIES We have learned of the death of three members recently.

Frank Smith (1917-22) passed on in February 1985. Hr Fowler passed on in Octoher 1984. His wife Mrs B.Fowler says that they were at school · tog0ther during the Great War. Father Peter Clynick (1958-~) passed on in March 1985. Below is the eulogy given by one of his colleagues at a Requlm Mass for him. We feel sure those of you who knew Father • Clynick wil recognise him from this.

"What shall we say of Father Peter Clynick? - and after a quarter century of friendship I would not have presumed to call him Peter to his face! He was a lovable combination of contradictions. He had a great affection for the West Country where he was bred and where he began his ministry and combined this with a great love for East London and its people and he has been with us here for over 25 years.He was abrasive, obstinate, often pig-headed. He enjoyed a fight for a cause in which he believed: he suspected ecclesiastical plots in almost every diocesan instruction. I said at one of his jubilees that he did not suffer fools gladly and that this characteristic did not endear hi1n to all: There were some who could not look beyond­and beneath these sometimes prickly aspects of a complex character. For beneath all this - as the people of St. Mary's well know - lay an utter dedication to his vocation to the priesthood. Early, morning by morning, he was or. his knees in this church: daily he offered to God the activities of the neiv day in the Mass and pleaded for the people entrusted in his care. From that Mass he derived his strength and the compassion which he showed to those in need of comfort. He has shared your joys in this parish and you will recall many a happy celebration in the Hall and in your homes - he loved the. good things in life. He has shared your sorrows and has been a channel of the consolation and the love of Christ. And this absorption in the priestly life has been costly. When ill-health had weakened him dogged will-power had brought him to the church and thealtar: his rule of life has been strict; he has taken seriously the observance of Lent, been utterly regular in the use of the Sacrament of Penance; the grimness of his living-quarters will be known to most of yo~~ His was a life of discipline. And surely these last two months of agony - and we rejoice that they are now ended - have been in the Providence of God a time of purification and preparation. We have nuch to remember and much for which to be thankful and there is no cause for ~adness as a faithful priest passes to his reward. Our memorial to him must be in the quality of our personal Christian discipleship - in our heeding his insistence on commitment to our Lord and devotion to His Holy Mother, on the priority of worship, on our dependence on the Sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion, on our need to respond to whatever human need we see and recognise. Behold a great priest who in his days pleased God and was found faithful. May God grant him pardon - may he rest in peace and rise in glory".

AND FINALLY Please keep writing to us. We need more material to produce the next

newsletter. Articles to Roy Casey c/o Approach Ro~d, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9LY. When you do write please remember to include the dates you were at school. Do not forget that the address for •all correspondence is now at Bethnal Green.

Think about the rugby team please. If we can revive one sports team there will be encouragement to set up others in the future.

He are often asked, when handing out membership application forms, \vhat the Assocation has to offer. At present the answer is a newsletter, some social gatherings and a link with the school. To be able to add sports teams to the list would make it sound much more inviting.

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October, 1985

.ANNUAL SUPPER :

This year's function will bG held at the new school premises in Bethnal Green. There were over two-hundred people at Ap~il's farewell party for the old school premises and we hope that a similar number of you will be interested enough to take this opportunity to see the new building.

Tl1e ~arty starts at 7.30 p.m~ with a buffet at 8.30 and a bar available till the evening finishes around 11 o'clock.

Those of you who attended the April farewell party will know the excellent standard of the catering and bar which are being provided by the same people. You will also be pleased to see that at £6.00 per head this year's function is better value than that held a year ago. To allow us to give the necessary notice to the caterers and make our last minute arrangements please return your ticket application, which accompanies this News­letter, to arrive at the school no later than 30th October, 1985.

ANNUAL MEMB:ERSHIP:

Annual memberships now become due for renevTal on 1st January. If you have an annual membership then a renewal form will accompany this Newsletter. Please return the form together with your remittance for £1.00 before the end of January 1986 or why not consider life membership at a cost of £10.00.

If you are a new IDBmber who has paid a subscription during or after June, 1985 then you will not need to renew your annual subscription until January, 1987.

,._ P~JTS 1 ASSOCIATION Ah~AL FETE;

The Parents' Association Annual Fete was held in July. Some members of th~ Con®ittee were in attendance to help out and the attendance at the f&te was good. We understand that over £400.00. profit was made. This money is used by the parents to assist various projects to support the school.

NEW COHIVIITTEE MEMBER~

A new member was eo-opted to the Executive Committee in June. He is A dam Groves ( 1977-84) 1vho was Head Boy in 198 3-84.

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STAFF NEWS:

Our congratulations to Gerry Oalvert who completed.his 2.5-t;h.year of teaching at the school in September.

BLIND BEnG.A.R:

Dates for social evenings held at the ''Blind Beggar''are 31st October, 28th November, 30th January and 27th February. All held on Thursday evenings - the last Thursday of the month. Hope to see you there!

RUGBY CLUB:

A number of you have spoken to us at the"Blind Beggn.r"and indicated that you are interested in a team. However, you have not written to us and confirmed it. Until we have your names on file we will not be able to do any more about the team.

FOUNDER'S DINNER:

We intend to hold a more formal dinner near to Founder's Day. The provisional date for the meal is Saturday 26th Aprilt 1986 and it is likely to be held in a resturant in Central London. Full details will be in the March Newsletter.

MEMERS NEWS .AND COBRESPONDENCE:

Congratulations to all of the following on receiving their degreesg

Ian Stothers - B.Sc Engineering. l~ocoustics & Vibration - Southampton

Robert Leung - B.Sc Chemical Engineering - Loughborough

Janis Mahoney ~ B.A.Economics & Politics -Warwick

Patrick McOurry - B.A. French Studies - Warwick

Amanda Malpass - B.A. English Language & Literature -Leeds

Gary Anderson - B.Sc. Geology - Cardiff

Graham Cater - B.A. Mathematics - Oxford

Gary Preston - B.Sc. Mathematics - Southampton

Candy. Sevren - B.Sc. Sociology - Southampton

Ching Fun Lee - B.A. Law - Bristol.

This is not a full list of this year's results but only those available at the time of writing the Newsletter.

Congratulations again to Candy Sevren (1970-77) and Gary Preston (1969-76) who are to marry in October.

Congratulations to Stephen Burton (1968-75) on the birth of a daughter in March.

Norman Holland (1945-51) writes that he visited Arbour Square before its closure. Norman was evacuated to Brighton with the School during the war together with his elder brother Alfred Holland (1939-45, we thiclc). After leaving the school Alfred studied theology at Durham and emigrA-ted to Australia where he is now Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales. Their younger brother David Holland (1952-58) was also a Raineian. Norman now has his own tea blentling business in We.ot Ind:l.a Docks. Lesley Jensen (ne'e TeaJ ( 1962-69) writes that the less formal atlJlOBpln:l:re of the Aprfl f'unctlon at Arbour Square has prompted her to rejoin the Association. Her letter was one of several which said how much you all enjoyed tho eve:6.ing. We hope to see you all again in November! Lesley's sister Hilary Tear (1966-73) was also at the school. Both were Head Girls. Tha.nk you to ~Clarke (1931-35) for the donation to funds which he sent to us in May following an enjo~~ble evening at the April function. Tom Bennett (1930-35) who was a school sportsman is enthusiastic about the publication of his book in 1986. Tom retired from the RAF in 1955 with the rank of Squadron Leader having been a navigator with the Dambuster Squadron d11ring the war. His book is about experiences of 617

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Squadron and a copy will be dom.ted to the School library. Tom recently met Arthur Smith who plans to hold a mini-reunion .for.-their contemporaries. Please let us know how it goes and who attends. Duncan Edmonston (1958-65) is now married with 3 childEen and living in Scotland where he works for Customs & Excise. Duncan was struck by serious illness in 1979 Hhich paralysed him completely from the nose down. HE! has recovered well and re-learnt the everyday things most of us take for granted such as breathing, eating and walking. Nowadays Duncan is a money-raiser for charity. In 1981 he attempted to beat the UK record for the longest journey possible on British Rail raising over £6000.00 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. In 1986 he is attempting to set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe by train, which will raise money for the Save the Children Fund. If anyone would like to sponsor Duncan we can put you in touch with him.

AND FINALLY

The next Newsletter will be issued in March 1986 so this is our opportunity to wish all our members and their families a merry Christ~~s and happy New Year!

As ever we are in need of more letters and material for the Newsletter. It has been nice to announce births and marriages for a change but there must surely be more than two a year!

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OLD llAINE~ANS~ ASSOCIATION

R.

r1arch 1CJPE)

ll'he f1 nction 11eld in i'~r.;ven::;eJ 1()1)5 WAS -,+.ten(c:d 1)y :~hout r~,() !-'ennle. /\.1 thOP!2:h this is an imr;rover.1cmt on tl-·e previn1 · s ;ye 'T 11'P 1vould stiJ l be ~arniAr to ':"'ee · reoter nurn1)en:l Pi';t"n-' inr:"

The caterinr· by (rs, 'ov,rnrcl was exe:elJ ent ar.ain" C11r f''T'JeeiaJ tr,"'nks to G'Jr7 'rre1'' ( 1 C:'(8-R5) ancl. his f:::uT:iJ ;y? fron U e · "Wincisor Cn.c:tle", I,ovr::r CJ.:-·1:-h:::m ·~·o.gr;, 1·rl".O ;·b=n ··eel iD c:d~ th0 11th hour with the 1;m f·'"'·ci ~ i ties · .fter onr ori.. ... ina 1 ,sn;:r·ce ~ancelled.

Plenty of advnnce ~·~rninp in riven for this year's Annual Supper I

''!hicr1 V~rill be helcJ on r:attn·da;y, 1 ;·th Hovem1·)er 1C'l8G.

'~be r"inner 1_r,rill be; helcl on ::~-~tun~.a:y 2(·th :'rril 19ilf, at The -!:·ar'•icon Sit~ ''ntol, C~on tral r;trcet, :r_,onr1 on? 'LCC1"

~he evenin~ will corn ence At 7.00 nm for dinner at 7.30 pm.

The cost of the dinner will he ~15.00 per bend exclusive of drinl<:s.

, To enabJe us to ~ive the necessary notice to the Potel please return ;vour ticJcet a:r.•>lic::tion 1 i·-rhicl-t nc:cor'pon:ies this t:rPwslette.r, to arrive at the :. chool no l_ater than f'Jonday, 11-l-tb ,\pril o The number of pla(es will unfortunately be li1citc~ to 50 and, therefor2, 1-'l18llCCPs~ f:tll apnl ico_ti on:::; 11iJ.l be ret;urnerl 0

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Are any of you irr a position to belp the School with pJacing some of its sixth form nu~ilo i1· work-experience schemes? The scho6l is 9bout to launch a Gl'V:E (Certificate of J're-Voc.c>.tic,nal Education) course \·,rhich entailc r'A:"'iodcc of \I'.TOrk exy:-erience" If you :i:equire further c1 etails please contnet r·r. IL Heffold on 01-981 1231. ·

BLIND BEGGAR:

Dates for sociP.l evening~::: held ,,t; the "Dlind J:'-egr;ar" ar.e 27th ~~arch, 24th £\t•ril, 2gth Fay snd .26th J·une o 'T:heFte are a} ways held on the last Thursday of the month. l 'e hone to ]\eep seeing ne~r~r faces as ~ell as our regulars.

There is a questionnaire acco!J1)!8nying your NevrsJ etter this time wr.'ich. ,,;ill assict us further in +idyint:: up our membership recoro.s. f';ay we b.Bk you to cornplete the form and retvrn it to us at Raine's Foundation School, Approach Road, London, E2 9JY.

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Our thanks· to Georgu~.:.i:.Q.~t:pey (1960-67) for the contribution toward Association funds he recently sent.

John Caster (1S77-8L~) i.s to take par:t in Operation 1:alleip:h '1986. John had to fund ·0art of his co::::ts himr;elf and lool\:ed for Sponsor­ship from all nuarters. The ~osociation has made a small donation from thC) iJenevolent Fund.

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Robert Connoll;v (1968-75) and tTacl~io_COll_l}_Olly (nee Farmer) (1968-. 75) have given us some news on several people t~ey know. ChBryl Cole (1968-75) Rrrifr,rated to 1 'el!_inrton, New Zealand, several years ago. Cheryl has 2 sorts~ a~ed 4 and 2. Fame la Andre1-1s ( 1969-75) emir.:1.:rated to Australia vrllere she 1Jirorks ln the t11-eal=,re. Other T'eople whom they have rnet b1Jt lost touch· with are Ga~;y Smith ( 1968-75) who is r1arried, Gary Ainsworth, who is r1arrled vvith two chil("ren and Paul Grifflths who lS married with nne child. -----

Ernest George Smith ( '1905-12) has been in t0uch . .g_o;ain from his home ln Farnpsrfre-.- Ernest snys that at 90· yer:~rs ol.d he is too young to take an active ~art in tte AsPociation but he likes to sta~T in touch thr01. .. w~h 'f:l!.e newsletter.

E.~. Bar~holomew (1920-24) snys be is still keen on gardening and r~adinp but,like Ernest ~~1ith~ be feels he is too young to be ac1 ive in the .1\.E:sociation. Tr. :r::artholommv wo1JJd like to hear more of his contenporaries~

Durfcan Edmonston (1958-65) has vJritten to us Bj:rain~ Yon will re•11ember from the C"ctoher 'Nm.vsletter that Duncan is to make a world ~ail travel record attnmpt, this year in aid of the Save th~ C~iJ.dren Ji'vr;cl a!1~ won:1d. 8Jlpr.::::c iate B:ny f'ponsorship. Duncan ls J .. Yl tou.ch v.-l th lh[_e_J __ .ilnlr>ot ( '1958-65).

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An interosti.ng letter har· 1;een received from R<2.~_c;_rt_:.Jlii..J)or ( '1939-46) who visited.one of his old te~chers in ~u~ust last year. no~ert made the vicit to Dertram A. Dalton with another classmate, Denni.s T1...1cker. :Bertr~,rr' (15ic1~i-c1-·i'i"i'i)~fon -taup:ht Geop::ri:1;ry 8t the sclio-o1'" ·unl'i"l' ·1 gL!-f., :::mrl was in c 1· ar[·,;e of th0 · r;·roup of ev~1cuee s who went ·r-o E~p:h"'m r!urin.c thc:7 1rT(:r. T'r,: Da"1 ton now l ivcc:< in T)lad0n ano is. a wicl01·rer, 81 thn1· ;";"h r~·o l;ert ;.:a"s -the three: c hi ·1 clren would. be rc:':!rnero0e:ced .bv his con':eFlpor;:rrieso Dem··is n'ucker is now one of the 8C1 Pljnist:rators of the T~rd-;;-d;e r'll:l"H''GTT1(;Dt DeT,t. at· neacling Univer;~i ty. r.'ohert oJ.[;o te11s us that an ex-Traineian is perforrrying in a popular teJ.evision ~3PTics. The doctor in 11 Eartenc1ers'' is played by I,eonard __ Ti'~~~-,c:;te:b_£, now billed as I eonarcl Fen ton o

Geoffrv Gill~ ( 1C))C}-6i1-) has hc:len in to1 ·eh witb r:obert Crnith, who-88--\,,i-:f·o· 1~-ii'E3 8xnec tinr:; ,,_nr,ther cbild in .DecemberTf)I0.ase--:! et ~s 1-:T\0\;.r, Tl'ohert) .1 Fmd fl''~:VG thot Pobert is con·~r-·cting }~rn_~f-':t_"_T:ar_].ing 1.n tre\J Zealc:md" Geoft ry and Jl.o l;e:rt are a] so J.n so arch of • : · Gareth l\>iore.

ConR:ratlJlations to :~o;y C3.~;ey ( 1967-72) on the bi~·th of his daughter in \le tober·.---~------

l'lore news ras m~i-i ved frorn ovr f 'vouri te sm'rce of inforrnRtion \11al J ie Spooner' ( 1C)LIG-79). Hov cm•ld we rep-uJ arly · :aC1 01..1t t~he i\f " -~-- ~ .. ··-·· - - --~--- . . ~ewsletter if not for the re~ular corresnondents like ~allie? Craig Rose (1975-82) receivorl a B.A. History at Bristol University. -c:.-r~:iTri"~ s 'r8s1..11 ts 1.vere so r~.ood that he h:"rc heen a,,,err1 ed .P. p]_pce ·,jt ()e1·wyn Coller;e, Caml>rj_df"e (Dr. Ghutt' s old college) to stucly ;for; 1- ,' }"'h D T • d l) }1 ' ( -1 C) C. r) (Cl) • t h • ,.,., t h .. -~ .L • ' ' ' . lllS. ~- •. :ln .. a :)e .dmy , oc..-:.:<; 1 lS .eac .lng 'a ,.e·_a,J.cs 1n .

'Cm.mty Durhan1o ...... F~{J.T:le-asks , .. rhat ha'?' 1-la;:-.pened to :rind.a'' s yo1'nger . brotber yeorr::_~_}'}e1..J.~2Y ( '1967-74). I can help 1~ri th that as George

v·ras a c1assmate and also a brot 1ner member of 1 'lnterton h0l1f3e. George was at the J\nnu0l (::.upTiG:t' in Novomber 1 C)f.l,lj .. with hL:J 1riif.e ~ He is a jo1•rnoliFd~ v-.rith ;1 locr::l par.1er whr:re he 1iver: in · 11raintree"' ;~se. ox o Jc=met Don ton ( 1962-69) is a Ban 'ister and Councillor on · the I·arnbeth7011i1ci.r::- ,Tanet has recen.tl:,' been on teJ evision o

Also on television r0centl~ was John Muir0nan (1965-72) ~ho is· a r-:u.: E represent-:d~ive involved V.:fftTi--so'uT;h\,iarlc 1 s problernc; 0

"'ina11;v 'iall ie writes -'3.bont D2vid(Tocl. )Keen ( '1 058-65) who· is nov.r Dr. Feen at the Ili3nc.~ester \·oJ~y--211---·coventry._ David is one· of tl e cotmtTy' s J.e,y'inr': authoritien on I'1t~ir:l·ocene .T 1'olhisca! 1t/al1ie t-rould like to bec:r oi' r1ovid' s c;onten·poraries such ar: r, • 1 r t ~ -,1 d . '<1- . . · f'lre J..np::, .:·a son, beyn0n, l',oore an . ,··n.J8'()ffi8.n. -~~ ...

I.)CHCCT G\lVEPj\Tr· f.'S:

One of the 1~1ecti ve Co111i1ittee mern~1ers has l)ecome a f)chool Grvernor 0 Tony C'roves ( 1C1Eil--72) is D01r,T rer;rcwent:inr; the .. non--. Ter';ehinr; Sta Cf on the ''onrc1 of Governor.E- o ·

Unfortunat8lY Ton'' ha.,~; hrcuo.lJt ns bacl_ news 0 ··r'he '"ounc1 ation is now in despei""te need of funds to b0 a;~·le to ·nre~:ervo its Vo 11llltEtrv .\icl ed stRtus tie Call c.e nf tbe financi:::J] COJ11 1lli tm0'nts which occurrod cluTinr-; tbe move of thfl -yTemises.

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The Foundation will be contactinr the rarents an~ J'arents' ~ Association in a bid to rec0ive donations and likewise Tony

has aoproached the ~ssociatiou to sec if we can help. The i\ssocietion' s :response to this C.F'DC;nl ·wiJ 1 be fl.'lly discussed._ at the '1GI'lfo

Should an;y incJ i vidual men1be· r:; feel that they wouJ.d like to m?~e some financial resturo tow~rd preservinv the School's rel.atiVe independence then tl1 e Association will he nle8sed to. paRr~ on tbe donations 0 ·\ny (' onations shovld be mac1 e -payal1J e to th0 /\r:sociatiort - 1-n; sha] l cmsure that the~r are then raf'.sed on to the relevant bo~y.

The AGl'rr vril1 be heJ cl on 2'1 "t u:ay '1C)86 at 7. 00 pm in the Pusic Doom at App:ronch Ro2d, ~et:nal breen.

The purpo.ses of tbe l!leetinr; will be:

(i) To review the activities of the pa~t ycnr;

( ii) To present a < !~ . .Jtcrr:on t of' Income 8nd I:;xpendi ture for the :vear '1st Jsm_wry to ?•1st :uecember 1985;

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(iv) To elect a rrosic~ent ~·,aect, the Elective C01nmittee and and the Honornry ~uditors;

( v) To decide upon any resolution:::: subm::i_tted to tl•.e Elective ComF'i ttee n

Nominations and resolutions should be submitted to the President to arrive no later than 3 1.vceks 1:.JGfc1re tho /'.Gt'' 0 Cheese ond. wine will be nv~ilablo nfter the AG~.

Presir' ent: President EJect 8 SecrGtary: Vice Ircsi~ent ~ rrrea nvrer; Vice rr0sident ~ Assistan Socrotnry: i)chool Liaison: Executive Commi i-ter:~:

All Past ~residents

Hay T7effold

Partin lreonRrd

Cli ve Bm1g;h

Roy CBsey Tony Groves Jackie Connolly (nee Far~er) I7obert Connolly lraurie Dalton 0 ~ h Il '1 ( C ) J_)8I a _ uo __ ey nee _,ooper l1dttm Groves Holen Kostis Gwynneth Jackson John tiilli8ms

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li'IN.h.LT,y:

Send more letters, more news, more anything to enable tis to p~oduce the Newsletter please.

We are constantly mentionin~ members and former pupils who live in ~ustralasia, eg Ian Thurston-Moon, Herbert Venebles, Alfred Holland (Bishop of Newc~~tlo, NSW), Cheryl Cole and l'ome la /)nClre\'lS o

Are any of th~?se pe"plo in touch with oach other? Do they realise that t 1 erc are other C1d R"linnians in the country? If any of you arc in contact with ono of them or you are one of those peo1lle snd :r cceivinr: the r\:ewslettcr we vvolJld be hm;py to tr' and a:rrr:np-e for ~:m exchanr:e of acldrer;ses.

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OLD RAINEIA s~,~ ASSOCIATION

R.

N£ MARCH 1987

First of~. sincere apologies to all Old Raineians for the non­appearance.of a Newsletter since February 1986. This is regretted by the entire Committee, but family illnesses and commitments, exams, moving.house, have all contributed to the long silence. However, at the l~st Committee Meeting, I · ashly volunteered to edit the Newsletter, and Helen Kostis kindly offered to type it, so let's hope we can return to regular production, of course, if no-one writes to us, there won't be interesting editions!

Not a great deal has happened over the last 12 months, the Founder's Dinner arranged for last April had to be cancelled because of poor response, with consequent loss of deposit. The A.G.M. in the Summer could not take place, as there was not a quorum, but after a period of deep depression, one was organised for December, followed by· a buffet supper, and though not very well supported, those members who came, enjoyed a pleasant evening (and excellent buffet) and were unanimous in their desire to keep the Association alive.

The new Committee is:-

Martin Leonard Nicholas Themistocli Helen Kostis Raymond Reffold Tony Groves Gwynnett Jackson Laurie Dalton

Malcolm Pit-Keathley Robert Connolly Jackie Connolly Norman Holland Alan Johnson Tony Vowell

President Treasurer Secretary Assistant Secretary School Liaison Officer Newsletter Editor Membership Secretary

Among the replies received before the A.G.M. were several from folk of arlvancing years, or suffering ill health, and therefore prevented from attending- th~se included E.L. Bartholomew (1920-24), Miss A.L. Easton (1922-28), A. H. Forbes (1919-23), Tom Bowgill (1920-24), Grace Woods and Emily Parsons (1919-27, and on the staff 1938-52) who sent her good wishes and hoped that the move had been happily accomplished. Alice Easton had met Frank Morris, an ex-president, while he was in charge cif the Flower Show Marquee at Essex County Show. Sam Elliman would like to contact E.L. Bartholomew- he had re-met a fellow member of his form 40 yem~s later, Harry Sudling, at a Golf Club,but Harry has since died.

Miss E.R. Taylor gave news of a move necessitated by health reasons­we wish her well in her new abode.

Some folk were unable to attend as they now live too far away -H.W.J. Flack was abroad at the time, Helen Bishop (nee Bennette) 1923-35(?), Mr. J .. J. Clark (193f3-41), Sam Morley (1928-33), Alan Russell, and Dennis Burton, now a Doctor in Northamptonshire.

A smaller O.R.A. Reunion Dinner took place in Leigh of 4 1930-35 'old boys' - Thomas Bennett, Arthur Smith, Doug Jewson and George Coplen­this was their first meeting together since 1939 and they reminisced for over 3 hours ·-: they wonder if anyone knows the whereabouts of Alfred, "Alfo" Evans, who used to belong to Broad St. Club.

David Deverell ( 1932..£1';;9) ret:L"'B:l last year from a senior research and development post in the Minisb'y of Defence. He hears from Frank and Doug Clarke and wonders if any staff fJ~om his era are still going strong.

Annie \~ilkinson Tauber ( 1927--33) wrote from Canada, and would be glad to contact any contemporaries. She has lived in the U.S.A. Since 1953 and has happy memories of Miss Baugh and Miss Grafton. She particularly wonders about the whereabouts of Pearl Schreiber, Gladys Stokes or Edna Gilham - v1e will pass on her address to anyone who can help. Another O.R. now resident in the U.S.A. is George Pinckn~y (1960-69) who is working for Mobil as an exploration geologist, having had previous experi(mce in the North Sea, !\1edi terranean, North Africa and Canada. He is married to a Canadian nurse and they have a daughter - he keeps in touch with John Mass on, and Doug \iJillment, who works for British Airways. More news from abroad:- Keith (Dylko) Hobe.rts (1960-67) is now director of coaching for New Zealand A.A.A. - he wrote last April telling of a proposed visit to London last July with the New Zealand team before their participation in the World Championships in Athens - unfortunately his offer to come and talk to present Raineiems was not taken up, during the "limbo". Be was expecting to·meet Terry Day in London, and he hears from 3 contemporaries living in Australia, Norman Evans, Michael Dunn and Dennis McCormack. Another connection with New Zealand is a more recent Raineian, John Caster, who participated in "Operat5on Raleigh", and was grateful for a small donation from O.R.A. funds towards his sponsorship. He wrote telling of some of his experiences, ~learing tracks through the bush and constructing huts. As a qualified diver, he was going to be involved in a survey of black coral in Dusty Sound in the fiords of the South Island. He was excited aboui:. his opportunity to meet interesting people, learn new skills and see fan·~ as tic scenery. Hesident in Malawi with their four children are Gavir and Peggy (Sayers) Adlington - they are due for home leave, this May.

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Another much-travelled O.R. is David Spencer (1975-83) who after gaining his geology degree at Exeter, led the first joint British-Chinese gEdogical expedition in China, with members of Exeter and Peking Univer­sities, for 10 weeks last Summer. He found it an exciting experience, but commented on not being able to move about freely. This expedition received publicity both in the press and on T.V. David is now working in South Africa as an exploration geologist and is thrtlled by its scenery. He has bought a motorbike and hopes eventually to return to England 'overland' as far as possible. Other O.R. 's living abroad:­Chryl nee Newton in Canada, Ernie Tarling in New Zealand, Gerlinde Leinwetter (nee Bennett) in Vienna with a 7 year old daughter - ~he

hears from Annette nee Rood who married last June. George Olymbourides is an architect in Cyprus, and he encountered another Cypriot O.R., ? Crysafi on a plane. George's contemporary, Fred Curlo, is now a Primary School Headmaster, Anita Merkor (Smith) was pleased to have been in ~ouch with a contemporary - her husband works for Nat West and together with their 3 children they are resident in Jersey at present.

John Cl ark ( 1938-41) wrote fr'om Kic1derminster that he had spent some time in 1985 in Thailand installing borehole pumps for an irrigation scheme, he found the counti~y beautiful and the people delightful.

Barbara Donovan (nee Page) married in December 1985 and is now living in Rotherhithe, she is shortly going on a Canadian Tour as soloist with the St. Martins' Singers. John Chimes is still principal timpanist with the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra and lives with his wife and 2 daughters in Hertfordshire. Iiis brother Terry is also drumming, but on the Rock scene. Richard Tillbrook keeps in touch with them,· Steve Wilkinson and the Chappell brothers, Barry, John and Geoff, who now appear to be resident in East Anglia. Richard is head of R.E. and Careers at Davenant Foundation School.

G.L. Gillon wrote to say that he sees Bob Smith, and that they interided visiting Gareth Moore in Oxford where he is teaching Hebrew and other ancient languages in a Priory. Beryl VJooldridge (Cudman, 1933-38) had, like many others, including Stella Zacharias, now a nurse, miss~d receiving O.R. news through the Newsletter.

Lesley Jensen (Tear) is living in the Richmond area, but sorely missing the Sussex countryside. She had seen a T.V. programme on which Pa0l Reynolds (left 1968) was speaking about building defects caused by asbestos. Another O.R. to appear on T.V. was Bernard Simms, now a specialist Forensic dentist, speaking in "Body Matters" about the identification of criminals by their teeth. Philip Geode was in Blockbuster. Clive Shilson has appeared in some T.V. plays.

George Cloke became a i\1ethodist Minister and was in charge of Youth Work in Scotland before contracting Multiple Sclerosis, he r~signed from the r1inistry, but is now doing community work in the Midlands -his 3 sons are all .at Uni.versi ty and he would welcome news from contemporaries.

June Morley (Carter) 1965-71 lives at New Eltham, she is married with 3 children and would like to link up with contemporaries, she does see Shelly Welford, Averil Levack a~d Geoff Ballam. She met Vivienne Durne (Waeland) recently, Whose cousin Margaret Bu~ler (Bell) now lives near York with her husband and 2 children.

The autobiographer of boxer Frank Bruno is O.R. Norman Giller. Lynn Bryand (1973-E\0) gained an f!I.A. degree from Loughborough University in December 1985. She worked for the County Library service in Chester, but is now in Milton Keynes. Iris Lyddon now lives in Rainham and is foster mother to a severely handicapped boy. Julie Dawkins is consi.dering working for a second degree, at present whe works at London University in the Examinations Dept. t•!elanie (Foord) and Ainsley \i-Ui) Franc is live in Bethnal Green.

Maddalena Pettenati (1972-79) married in 1986, is now Mrs. Brown and is working in the Futures Dept. of a Bank. In the accounting profession are Graham Cater in Newcastle, who recently won a prize in countrywide accountancy exams, and Ian Crane who is not entirely su~e he is a born accountant. Ching Fun Lee passed her Law Society exams and is now articled to a firm of solicitors in the West End. Debra Harvcy is working for her Ph.D. at Cardiff University, and also lecturing i.n Hebrew. Her sister AlBon is married and living with her family at New !-llalden. The B ~·ahame sisters, Sus an (now Wyburn) and Linda ( Gaubert) are both happily married with young families. Barbara Collins (Newton), sister of Cheryl and Janet, lives in Sidcup with her 3 children. Hazel Fosbraey (Paul) has moved to Salisbury. Michael Hazell, after gaining his degree at Bristol, has remained there and gone into the insurance profession. Nicholas Beeson was teaching Maths and Physics a year ago, but might well have changed lis occupation. I also think the news of John D'ath's engagement in December 1985 has been followed by marital status - blame the non-existent Newsletter if news is incorrect!

Gemma Carter (O'Connor) is mother of 2 children and living in Catford. Sue Smith (Holden) wrote from Bexley and offered services as typist -thank you, we may call on you!

\!Je apologise for lack of dates by people 1 s names, when you write please state your years at school.

This Newsletter has contained news of many generations of Old Raineians - if your era has not had a mention, please write to us, and the next issued, intended in the Summer, will endeavour to remedy that. It has also shown how widely spread throughout the world old pupils arG.

Again, please accept apologies for the long silence, pay your sub and rejoir the Association if you arc an annual member', but, above all, write with your news and support functions, or the Association will really become defunct.

Gwynnett Jackson

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.. November' i988

Dear Old Raineians,

We were. delighted that the July N~wsletter brought .a good cespqnse ,·.{and had the postal strike not. interve~ed, I am sure even more folk would have written with their news. Several responded by .becom.i ng life members, and if they have not yet had an acknowledgement, we" apologise - there is an information chain whhin the committee which can.be slow to function, and again, the G.P.O~ didn't help. It was nice 'to see'.' almost forty of you, in a widespre,ad age-group, at the "Blind Beggar," at the end of September, and in October the School Parents'·,Association held a Quiz Night and we managed ~o assemble a team of Old Raineians, who not only enjoyed the evening cind the but. winners being a table of Staff! J · Some items of School News first. ;Regrettably, Mrs. Anne Johnson has taken early retirement because of )ill health; Mr. 'Reff' Rerf'old,is' also taking early retirement at the end of this t~rm. The O.R.A. :are greatly indebted to him for his ~ ~escue operatJon!:.about,·four::year.?1 ,.

ago, when the· Association seemed ~o ·be in''danger of,sin~Jng;irito~}:!)'··~' .. · oblivion, and his loyalty to the school and .. jnterest'in,;the:pupils·cv/ill long be re~embered wit~ affection.J. Our good{wishes.for l?ng,happ~i~r~. abo~e all, healthy ret1rements go •.

1to:both.;these:long"-serv1ng··and.,;::·:;~~~~:

ded1 cated_ members of staff. 1

• . . • •. : ·• • ' ;. . ··.::{''l~:~f. Next term the geography departmenti wi 11 include another' 0. ·Douglas Marks -congratulations on his appiointment •. Now we.might hear.,more;of the Marks clan. Congratulations ~oo to the present head girl ;andfie~d boy, Samantha Sawyer and Sam Bentl:ey. · ·

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-Congratulations also to ex-pupils recently ga1n1ng degrees- apologies for any omissions, but information has to be given to us.

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Davi d Spencer Terry Ann Br·yan Jonathan Fitt Harry Sherwood - He left Raine's in 1939 and went into dentistry, and after retiring in 1983 undertook a Hi story course at University Call ege - thus proving that it is never too 1 ate! Paul Kl ass Grace Lee

The 1 ast Newsletter and campaign: to recruit new members brought quite a good response, and some i nterest:i.ng letters;" a+so- some of- the'iili ss-ing addresses. We apologise to anydne whose name appeared as a '16st' member, as the lists became confused -never mind, it made people write and complain that they didn't like being considered 'missing'! Alan Oates is director of a container firm based at Southend, Sue Wyburn sent her new address; James Keen, who left in 1949, would like to renew contact and friendship with cont~mporaries. Does anyone know Tracy Richter's present address? - he~ newsletter was returned by G.P.O.

l Tom Howgill sent us several addresses and also pointed out that we had included some members who were d~ceased on our lists -we send sincere apologies to relatives of W.G. Howgill, A~D. Taylor, J.D. Wale and particularly Stan Matthews.

We welcome as new life members:-

Tom Dun can who is Editor of Dockl ands Recorder. He entered journal 1 sm via the E. London Advertiser, two years in Fleet Street and became "News Editor of the Ilford RecoFder b~fore becoming an Edito~; He has al~o just completed a 3~year course df training for a lay ministry and was admitted and 1 i cen sed by the Bishop of Stepney on November 1st.

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Paul Kloss, a previous head boy and now doing an M.Sc. cou~~e at· Warwick.

Sam Morley who sold up an engin~ering business and is:;_now a self-publishing author of "Victdry in Site" and his latest "If it wasn't for Gal f" - anyone inter~sted iri purchase, .please cont~c;t.,_,us·~

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Nicola Killick -a veterinary nurse at Blue Cross Animal Hospital.'

Wendy Kendal? - training to be ~nurse. !.

Jean Hunt ( Jacques) 1 i ves near the Lower School , has been married'~"'21 years and has two daughters - s~e works part-time as a chemist's assistant and would love to get :in touch with any contemporaries.

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Beryl Woodri dge ( Cadman) 1 eft in 1938 and bemoans· the fact that there is seldom information about pre-war pupils - she is interested in modern sequence dancing.

Hilary Selby (Tear) lives in Chislehurst and together with her husband, set up their own company furnishing and making ready for 1 etti ng, property owned by ex-patriots in London.

"Blind Beggar" News

J. de'Ath is a Senior Officer''ir1 Customs & Excise, brother David has moved to S. Africa and has a yearjold son.

Brian Chaperlin is married, li~ind in Beckenham and is Surveyor.

Patricia' towe is ·studying·· at poiyJechhlc~;r.

Samantha Marsan is a. Deal er's Assi!stant in a f

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Tony Vowell is a money broker, brdther John works fn Lloyds Bank. Lian Ashby is studyi'ng Physics at university. Terry Pryer is in New York at Football College! Debbie Halls works for a stock-braking firm, and Michele :oavies is a Recruitment Officer.;·

A group of nurses-in-training, Angel a Perry, Wendy Kendall · an·d Lei gh Oliver- their contemporaries - Julia Harvard is a jewellery· supervisor at Argas, June Baker is in a solicitor's office andSar·ah Parkinson is studying Theology.

A group who left in 1982 are all banking in. the City, Pat O'Cavanagh, Gillian Groves and Alan Thornton. Tracy Barrow (Robinson). of the same year 1 i ves in Bl ackheath and is in contact with. Kerry Goodall_,·.:.Andrea Brab le, Debbi e 'Brown ( Edmead), Debbi e Ve.rna 1 l {Knight), Jenny Casey ( Farrant), Jayne Mars ha 11 (Neighbour), John Neighbour) Jason .. Orgl es and John Meredith.

.. , .. -. ~--- ·-~ c';;.:;:: -~~~~::~:*;{>;.f;r¥~-- ._,_, -·~.t Norman Holland brought along wHh .him Oave Arter, whose son is Davenant where Richard Till brook teaches, M. Robin son and. Bert Law1ey. There was quite a large contingent of 1967/68 leavers, Alan Johnson and his wife Sandra (Dorri s), Jacky. Briown ( Cramer), Carol Cafferty .·· .<:< (Slat er), Terry Pl ummer and wife. Ann. { Le,vy), .. Gl ennys Hughes Jenki'iis and Fred Groom •. Fred is Deputy Head of a school .in Barnet :and.lives,in. 8arn~t~wi~tl) aJ.s.,wtfE; and 2.chi1dren, another addition immfnent'·· . ..: he.~ regularly sees Howard Tracy and Al1an Revil. Stuart Howsonwas(me of the "Tower of London" inmates and jremembered Micky Russell, Helen ahd Nicholas Beeson, Karen Bailey and Jonathan McCoig. Jonathan and Micky were keen skiers as is Robert Morgan, living in. Purleyand working~as a regional Managing Director for Dollond & Aitchison- he would fike to know the whereabouts of Terry Chimes, Gl enn Ct;lle, · Bri an Parker an( . anyone else from his year. Tony Kay is an insurance broker and financial adviser, and has bravely sent his elder daughter to Raine's! .(and says he still has to do home~ork). Vie Hills, working at County

Hall, is awaiting the demise of ILEA with interest, Da~;e Lloyd works for much-maligned British Tel ecom! Si an Lewi s and JanE.~· McGregor appeared briefly and gave news of Karen Gregory's enga~iement and Michelle Waller. John De'Ath lives with his wife .. in Essex, Geoff "Cowen has just become a father~ !

Tom Howgill is now over 80, but delighted to have ORA news, and he supplied us with several !addresses, and endorsed our suggestion that the annual membership of 1 £1 be phased out, but felt that provision should be made to increa$e the £10 life membership f~e if the rate of i nfl ati on made it necessAry. John Bowman was a contemporary of Stan Matthews, he married Mary Craner, also a Raiheian, and. their son was for a time a School Governor -he has a builfiing contr·actor's ·business \ in Stepney (founded in 1905). John Chappell 1 (twin of Geoff, brother of Barry) wrote from King's Lynn where he teaches, and he became a father· in June. Barry is still taking exams to qualify as 3. Company Secretary, and Geoff is managing an asbestos ftrm w1ich deals with the U.S.A. and Hong Kong, ~and .1lso liad some responsfbi11ty for .the:.... removal of asbestos for ILEA, wher! his contact was Victor Hills! Geoff's wife· Lorraine, together with 2 tssociates, has opened a shop in Wymondham selling toiletries. John'> suggestions for increa:;ing membership were as follows:-

1) To invite pupils withi•1 certain years to ~atter~:d a reunion;

2) To invite previous members of staff such as 'Biffer' Broughton to furictions, so that ex-pupils met their staff;

3) An O.R. Day to be pennanently Ti xed in the ea endar for people to keep free and attend a function.

;,.Thank you, John -now ser:d us your 1 ife membershi J!

Apologies to Ken Fennell for including him on a non-paid-up list, also to John Roberts and Joycg Curtis (Roberts). In answer to his query about an O.R.A. tie - the stocks are exhausted, but at the recent committee meeting, it was a greed that more be ordered - their cost wi11 appear in the next newsletter. Ken was a form~r s,chool $Wimming captain, he now lives in Upminster and works as a; engineer. J6yce Curtis lives near Victor·1a Park, her daughter Lyndsey also attended Raine's. John Roberts lives in Gidea Park and is a money broker - he was a member of the British Rowing Squad in the Moscow Olympics and has rowed in many parts of the world, being at one time World Silver Medallist. Mike Futter lives in Staffordshire and is Managing Director of an industrial removal firm- in 1957 he went to Finnish Lapland as a member of the British School's Exploration team; he later founded an East London climbing club (The "Elm'' Boys). A member of that club, Harry Roberts, lives in Toronto and·is a teacher. Teddy Robert~ also . --~~·--~--lives in Toronto, dealing in exotic scrap metals for a firm based in Stoke-on-Trent. Alan Jones (19~0-55) lives in Upminster and is a project engineer for British Gas - some of his work has been on offshore gas platforms. Two other contemporaries, Malcolm Boyce is now a doctor in Kensington, and Les Lester works for B.T. at the Post Office Tower.

Sam Morley h~s memories of Mr. Dagger's of receiving:six-of-the-best from him. Reg Parker (whose sisters Vera and Gwen Fi nton and ? · Sull i van.

bronzed and burnished scalp and Contemporaries of Sam's were also· attended Raine's), Albert

11 Bunny Vi ne 11• ( 1925-30) suggested that Frank Morris might be able to

furnish us with some addresses. He also remembered the Dramatic Sci~iety and'lts performances in the Cripplegate Theatre with Claud Walters and ~ybil Lammas and interval music provided by the school string quartet. Yes - the book. of remembrance is still in a glass case in the entran~e lobby.

More apologies! - this time to John Hooker and his wife Joan (Cooper) for having their names on the 11 lost, stolen or strayed 11 list. They have two sons, >both now at work and regularly c·ontact Bri an Weeks; Ron Harrad and his wife' Suzanne (Qui nton) .. Paul i ne Smith· (Joel), :AT ant:-. -Ward ,~AI1nette o' Sul fi van ( Ashcro'ft ]"'and Al an 6~·-. Soz'anne a1's<rwrote to us (apologies also to her and husband Ron) -they li~e in Brtstol and also keep in touch with this group; ·

Glennys Hughes-Jenkins tells us that Terry Day has a network of his O.R. contemporaries on a computer file, including Tony Rush, Tony Ell i ott, John Reeves and Bob Simmonds. She also has contacted Barry Walsh who is in touch with several of his year group- he is married to Bronwen ( Griffi ths) and sees Dave. Ell i ott< Pete Wil mshurst, Doug ~· ·.·. Wilmott, Glyn Griffiths and Lorely Hay.· :She supplied us with addresses of Elaine Quinn (Gelding), Terry Walsh, Tony Sculz, John Whittle, Alan ·· Revi l and Peter Brill • --·· --·

David Spencer also provided some missing addresses- having just finished an M.Sc. in Structural Geology atimperial College, his thesis involving a two-month trip to Pakistan studying the 'geOlogical' contact between India and Asia in· the Karakoram Hi mal ay as, .he is· now at the Geology Institute in Zurich beginningwbrk fo~ a P~:D~ He has bee~ in touch with Dave Watts, Ti Ull ah, Sue Ye'ats (a radiograph er who X-rayed him at London Hospital)~ Jean Tompkins, Carole Day, Brian Stanislas and John Caster.

Mary McCurry has just started teaching Maths and has discovered Whai an exhausting job it is- she spent six months in India after qualifying, working in a Cheshire Home for mentally handicapped and iri a. 1 eprosy. village for half the time, and travelling for the remaining three· . months. She sees Sarah Smith, Robert Stuart. and Jonathan Doherty •. ' Her. brother, Patrick, is a freelance journalist •.

Barbara Donovan (Page) who appeared in several school Gilbert & Sullivan productions is now in the chorus of the New Sadlers Wells Opera and appearing in 11 The Gondoliers 11 and 'iLa Belle HiH.ene 11

- after. the London performances, there i si a 5-week tour in cl udi ng Southampton, Bath and Oxford. Peter J. Hollow~y was Oliver in our 1984 production, more recently he appeared in 11 The. Franchise Affair 11 on BBC T.V. Tommy Watkins (1961-66) is the Manager of several pop groups including Bros!

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I encountered Ian Shapoznic outside the Lower School one afternoon who sang a verse of the school song and recalled being evacuated during the war together with Davenant. He had memories of Mr. Bentz, the history ~aster, a chemistry mast~r and his "madamazonga" and Nobby Cl ark, the music master.

Thank you to everyone who has provided any items for this newsletter -we are always delighted to receive letter~/news.

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Forthcoming events:-

Thursday 8th December 7pm onwards · "The Blind Beggaf 11

Please turn up in your thousands!

_Thursday .15th December .Upper Schoo 1

Retirement party for Mrs: Johnson and Mr. Reffold (please see separate sheet)

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CLOSE TO STEPNEY GREEN OR WHITECHAPEL UNDERGROUNDSTA1l0NS

OLD RAINEIANS' ASSOCIATION

February, 1989. Dear Old Raineians Happy New Year - here comes the first 1989 Newsletter! Last year we managed to produce three, and the response in the increased number of life members, and interesting correspondence really makes our efforts worthwhile. Unfort- unately many members appear to be unpaid-up annual members, and although we have been very kind and continued to send newsletters together with member ship renewal forms, now that postage and paper costs are so high, this really is the last reminder: to them to prove the paint, if your newsletter ends at -fh-e bottom of this page please send your completed subscription form, together with, hopefully, your lifelong £10 sub, and we will send the remainder! We know that there are mistakes in our records, and that we have been doing awful things like demanding money from ex-presidents - so - if there is a reason like that, or you are convinced that in 1950(60/70) you paid a life sub, do PLEASE tell us, and we will amend our lists accordingly.

N 0 T 1 C E 0 F A- G. M.

to take place during a

Cheese and Wine evening

on Saturday, May 6th 6.30 pm. onwards

at the Approach Road building

"Blind Beggar" Gathering

THURSDAY MARCH 9T11 - 7-00 pm

onwards O.R.A. ties at £2.50 now

As a result of 1 the last newsletter and or the pre-Christmas "Blind Beggar" get-together, we welcome the following as life members Gillian Abbots, Mrs Barbara Donovan (Page), Mrs Suzanne lane (Chumbley), Mrs Christina Palmer (Jefferies) Miss Carol Cafferty Mr. Tom Duncan Mr. Jonathan Fitt Hr. Christopher Fitt Mrs Barbara Ford, Mr. P.J. Jarvis, Mr. Alan Liddiard, Mr. Kevin Smith, Mrs B. Wooldridge. Mr. A.S.-Oates. One suggestion put forward at a committee meeting was that it would be. a tremendous help if there was a representative from each 5 year span on the committee (1984-89, 1979-84, 1974-79 etc) - in that way Tore suggestions for events might be forthcoming. and also more contracts with "lost" Old Raineians might he made - so - any public-spirited volunteers PLEASE come along to the AGM. - the meeting NEVER lasts more than half-an-hour, there's plenty-of time far chats and refreshments] Retirement Party for Mrs Anne Johnson and Mr. Reff Reffold held on Dec. 15th Clive Baugh is now an ardent skier, intending to grace the slopes three times this winter despite his disastrous first ski-trip to Pertisau when he returned home with a leg in plaster - not the result of a skiing accident, but from trying to wash his feet in the-washbasin in his room (shared with four others, in sardine-like conditions) slipping, smashing the basin and badly gashing his leg. Laurie Dalton remembered two mountain activity holidays in Wales, traversing Snowdon and camping In. a Martin recalled a hostelling trip to Shropshire and two school journeys, to Sicily and Greece costing £75 and £65 respectively - and because of double-booking by the travel agent with the airline, having to remain a second week in Sicily (cost-free) but sadly, miss the first week to the school's summer term! Steve Brown and John Roberts reminisced about school trips to Sayers Craft and the lake District with Viv Nicholas and also the visit to Russia, in which Gillian Malpass also tack part Hr. Stanney was unable to be present at the party, but sent best wishes to everyone and regretted being unable to see everyone John Matthews wrote saying that contributions for a Cancer Scanner at Oldchurch hospital sent in memory of his father Stanley for a long time a governor of the school, and loyal Old Raineian had reached the total of £1,050.

Another OR. who remembered the evacuation was Norman Holland, who was allowed to go with his elder brother, but Norman proved to be so tiresome they had six changes of abode in six weeks, and finally his brother had to leave school at the age of 13 and return to London with Norman. That did not prevent Normans brother from studying theology later and becoming a .Bishop in Australia. Barbara Collins (Newton) lives in Sidcup, she has 3 children playing a variety of musical instruments- Peggy and Gavin Adlington were in England over Christmas, only their second English Christmas in 11 years, but they will he back in Malawi now with their three daughters and a son. Maggie Bell has a son and a daughter and lives near York. Diane Tinkler had a son last October, Hazel Fusbray (Paul) is expecting a baby this month - she lives near Salisbury. Diane's brother Mark is working for Unilever, Genieve Ali has two children and works for Lambeth Borough Council, Angela Rossi sold her own optician business and works for a firm in the Surrey Quays development. Patrick McCurry is editor of the education page of the East London Advertiser, and was in school -recently photographed two of the schools musicians who are in the London Schools Symphony Orchestra (where John Chimes first became a timpanist!). Mike Hazell married last July and lives in Bristol, Ian Crane has left his accountancy Firm and is training to be a Maths teacher, David Spencer is studying in Zurich and has just flown to Nepal to continue his geological mapping project for a few weeks. Anita Marker (Smith) has returned to England from Jersey where her husband has worked for three years - they have three children and hope to live -in Winchester. Susan Wynbourn (Brahame) also moved house recently -- she still hopes to read news of any of her contemporaries. Her sister Linda has three children. Lesley Jensen (Tear) had hoped to be at the retirement party, but with husband in Paris and she and her sons suffering from an unpleasant 'Liturgy' was unable to do sidelined (Bennett) living in Vienna hears from Annette Road and had heard that Shelley Fuller had married- Debra Raid (Harvey) lives in Norwood and lectures !h theology at Spurgeon's College. Amanda Malpass works at Chichester'Festival Theatre. An enjoyable evening %as spent at the Blind Beggar on December 2nd with almost 40 Old Raineians present. It was particularly pleasing to see Viv and Ross Nicholas who had driven up from Sussex - Sandra Johnson had written to Ross and suggested they might like to come - I 'm sure they were delighted to see so many of the Arran 1967 Field trip members. Gerry Calvert was also there ~ O.R. 's are always pleased to see old staff. Two ex-presidents, Nelson McMahon and Bertie Lambert were there together with Fred Barnes, and among recently-left~ school folk were Kathy Forrest, Colin Holder, Cynthia Antoine and Mahomet, who had been seriously ill. Nice Kamala! is working in the City, his sister Dare is studying Business Studies and Tourism. Gregory and Matthew Ross are both modelling, Gregory has appeared in pop videos, Eddie Marisa is now at an acting school. Richard Palmer graduated in 1987 and now works for the Council in the Social Services Dept. Mrs Anne John3on resides in Stepney in her retirement, Alan Barnes lives in Horsley and teaches in Waking, Roger Beck teaches in Sunbury. . Zippy Auerback teaches in a Sixth Form College in North London. I hope you have found mention of someone f2milar to you - if not - please send us news of the for the next newsletter ,Please remember the two forthcoming events - March 91h at the Blind Beggar and May 6th at school - we are net making 9 fixed charge for refreshments that evening, but we hope you will contribute so we cover expenses - please come along if you possibly can - one final plea - if you are an ex-president, can you send details OF your term of office? Gwynneth Jackson

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NEWSLETTER June, 1989.

Dear Old Raineians,

Here is the Summer ition of the Newsletter being written during the ntastic spell of Test Match weather- let's hope that those of you

who have already had their sumner holidays have managed to catch sane of this lovely weather, and those whose holidays are yet to come are also lucky.

Since the last newsletter, there has been another informal "Blind Beggar" gathering- it was well attended despite problems in the production of the Feb. newsletter. Alan Johnson was abroad at the time, but Bill Richards stepped into the breach and not only duplicated the copies, but also despatched at least half of them, but we realise that notice of the gathering was very short. It is interesting to note that there is always a varied assembly at these gatherings, a few regulars always appear and then a range of folk from those who left school quite recently back to folk who started school in the 1930's.

I have compiled a book of O.R.A. members by year of entry into school, but am very short of vital information (e.g. year of entry), so please can the following members supply us that information ard, at the same time, any news of themselves or other O.R.'s with whom they are in contact, for in~usion in the Autumn newsletter?

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Tracy Barlow Mrs. B.S. Canning Mr. F .M. Cl arke Mr. T.P. Clements Mr. D. Deverell Tom Duncan John Eve Mr. H.W. Flack Mrs. Barbara Ford Mr. S .A. Foster Mr. G.R. Gitton Mr. R. Harrad Mrs. Suzanne Harrad ~1r. F .G. Hawkes

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Mrs. Lorraine Johnson tk. J • D. Ke r r tvlr. N. Kindler

Mrs. Jan Mansfield Mr. R. Mansfield P a u 1 ~1a rt i n Mr. F.J. Penny Ni gel Phil pot Jean Platt Mr. Pl att Roy Powney Barry Quirk t~r. C.E. Smith t~ r . S. T. Smith Mrs. Susan Smith Mrs. Irene Stannard Mr. A.G. Taylor Miss E.R. Taylor Chris Waring t~r. R.J. Wheeler

The great advantage of this book is that when a member writes and asks if we have news of his/her contemporaries, we can at least let them know which ones are members~ and supply addresses if requested. You may be interested to know that our oldest member is Miss Elsie Fisher, who was at school 1917- 1924. Sadly, there are very few members who have joined from school since 1978, and despite personal appeals, the present Upper Sixth school leavers are not very interested in joining the Association.

The A.G.M. and Cheese & Wine evening held on May 6th was a very pleasant occasion, and for the first time for years, we actually made a profit. Mrs. Edna Howard (School secretary and Committee member) was responsible for the very nice buffet~ we did have requests, which have been noted, that beer should also be available at the next similar occasion.

The business part of the evening included presentations of a report of the year's happenings, a financial statement and a statement concerning current membership - following the request that all members become life members, a number have done so, but approximately 45 annual members have paid no subscription for at least 3 years and may find Steve Brown on their doorstep. Financially, we cannot afford to send out 3 newsletters a year to these folk, so regretfully we shall have to delete their names.

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Following election of officers and people being willing to serve on the committee, this is the 1989/90 Committee:-

President - Laurie Dalton (also Membership Secretary) President-Elect - Bill Richards Treasurer - Clive Baugh Assistant Membership Secretary- Steve Brown Minutes Secretary- 'Reff' Reffold Newsletter Secretary - Gwynneth Jackson School Liaison Officer - Tony Groves Members of Executive Committee:- Edna Howard, Robert Connolly, Brian Chaperlin, Alan Johnson, Norman Holland, Malcolm Pit-Keathly, Craig Rose

Martin Leonard has unfortunately had to resign from the Committee because of pressure of work -we thank him for his loyal service over many years.

Prior to the A.G.M., Sandra Johnson was in touch with Capital Radio (Capital Gold), and their announcements of the forthcoming meeting resulted in several phone calls, unexpected people turning up that evening and an increase of membership. The Old Raineians who called Capital include Carol Batchelor (Hitchcock), Shirley Ogus (Hunter), Lorraine Carter (James), Janet Toledano (Steinberg), Maurice Manning, Pat Robson and Harold Brown. It was also very nice to see Gerry Calvert, Tony Billington, Colin Nice, Viv and Ros Nicholas and Wally Spooner at the A.G.M.

We welcome these 1 ife me~bers:-

Janice Smith (Neale), Harold Brown, Dave Drake, Stephen Richardson, Susan Wyburn (Brahame), Oiane Wall is (Tinkler), Thomas Nunn, Peter Lodemore, Lesley Jensen (Tear), Victor Hills, Maurice Manning, Fred Groom

and these annual members:-

Christi ne Bathe (Carr), Angel a Belcher (Baker), Kim Driscoll (Hewlett), Barbara Long (Baker), Elaine Cresswell, Lorraine Carter (James), Sus an Hard ing ( Dobby), Janet Gi l bey and Fred Herbert.

Following the distribution of the last newsletter, I had a letter from Mr. J.E.W. Smith informing me of the death of his father, Mr. E.G. Smith, in February, aged 93. He must have been our oldest member, and his son said he was always proud of his connection with the school, and remembered his time there with affection.

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People who have contacted school by phone include Shirley Ogus (Hunter), Doreen Roberts (Spike), Jeff Hecker, Mr. Burman, Mrs. C. Wilcox - are there any of their contemporaries about?

Recently, the Midland Bank has set up a 'Midbank' in school and trained school members to run it - two Old Raineians are part of the training team - Mark Attwaters and Debbie Reid. Debbie and her sister Clare were both keen swimmers, and Clare now works as a life guard for Tower Hamlets Borough. Another keen swimmer, Peter Lodemore, is now at Brunel University studying for a psychology degree, his brother David lives in Boston, U.S;A.

David Lloyd (one of two!), contemporary of Tony Mole, Robert Connolly and Paul Griffiths, would like to hear from them, or anyone else from his year. He lives in Milton Keynes and is Deputy Head of Education of an onsite unit for children in care.

Jack Lowe married recently (we send congratulations) and at the wedding was quite a large Raines contingent of staff, ex-staff and his contemporaries. Tony Perrett, his wife Jodie (O'Regan) and their small daughter, Chris Russell, Steve Johnson, Janis Fuller and Graham Willett who all got to know Jack through ski trips or the Raines runners. Frank Ford, his wife Lesley and their 2 small sons, live at Benfleet, John Gamble lives in a thatched cottage in the wilds of Essex, is married and an expectant father; Gary Bronzeit is married and also has 2 sons. Martin Cater is still a motorbike fanatic- he and Frank plan to 'bike it' to Spain. Martin's brother Graham lives in Newcastle on Tyne, and last year went on holiday in Peru and had some horrendous experiences with the local transport system in bandit country.

Barbar~a Donovan (Page) is still singing, and met Lynne Ahearne, now married with 2 young children, at a wedding. After 10 years in Zambia, Dpvid De'Ath together with his wife and 3 young children, has moved to the Orange Free State where he works for Consolidated Goldfields. Kevin Donnelly lives in South London, married with a baby daughter, and works as a principal architect for the Borough of Lewisham. Craig Rose has recently completed a Ph.D. at Selwyn College, Cambridge and has been elected into a research Fellowship at another Cambridge college.

Malcolm Pit-Keathly, headteacher in a 1-lertfordshi re Primary School, had a letter publi~hed in Covent Garden's Education publication "In Touch" expressing his conc.ern that out-of-classroom activities will be severely curtailed now that there is no legal requirement for a parent's contribution for such visits.

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Alan Liddiard wrote again from Devon where, in his retirement, he studies part time at Exeter University, does voluntary work for the National Trust and is Vice Chairman of the Regional Group of the Society of Dyers and Colourists. In his working life he worked in the Research Laboratories of the Calico Printers Association, who were the discoverers and patentees of polyester fibres. He later worked in the Philippines, and then as an employee of CIBA as a lecturer, and then, based in Hong Kong, helped to develop the textile industry in China, Vietnam, North Korea and neighbouring countries.

Alice Easton also wrote to us in April - she was at school 1922- 28 and was President of the ORA with Harry. Scott, Fred.Collins and Frank Morris. She had been in touch with the sisters of Emily Parsons who, at that time., was still in Chingford Hospital -we send our best wishes for a good recovery. Another former Vice-President still living in Stepney at the age of 89 is Grace Woods- sadly, she is housebound. Vera Mullen is now in a retirement home at Leigh on Sea and Phyllis Buchlie (Lewis) is living in France.

Ray Silvester has moved from Bracknell to the Isle of Wight where he has a small guest house. A newsletter had eventually reached him (wonders of the Royal Mail l), his first contact with the Association since the "Farewell to Arbour Square" function. He was at school 1926 - 33 and was for a short time a Vice President, but someone lost the minutes!

Susan Wyburn (Brahame) would love to have news of any of her class 1961 - 67 - she says she has never seen mention of anyone as yet! Diane Wallis (Tinkler) lives in Nottingham. She has a baby son and works as a physiotherapist. Hazel Fosbraey (Paul) had a daughter in February. Thomas Nunn married Janet Britten and they have 2 children and a bull terrier!

Harold BrOI-Jn (1949- 55) is a Chartered Accountant Business broker. He is married with 2 children and is Treasurer and Vice Chairman of the Sportsmans Aid Society. He is in touch with Melvyn Eagle, Stanley Davis and Matt Harris.

Janice Smith (Neale) lives near Ongar. Stephen Richardson 1963- 71 is a local Government Officer concerned with Housing Strategy, Pal icy and Research -he is married with one daughter. Dave Drake 1960 - 68 is Senior Lecturer in History at Hastings College.

Janet Gilbey (sister of Jean and Stephen) 1965 - 71 is a secretary. Karen Petersen is assistant personnel manager in the Bank of Nova Scotia. Susan Harding (Dobby) works as a Legal Assistant in Lincoln's Inn, she has one son. She keeps in touch with Pat Nunn, Carol Taylor, Janice Andrews, Shelley \~elford and Elaine Barber.

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Lorraine Carter (James) lives in Greenwich and has 2 children.

Elaine Cresswell (Barber) lives in Chelmsford and works as personal assistant to the Chairman of the Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Barbara Long (Baker), 1971- 77, is a secretary at British Telecom. Kim Drisco11 (Hewlett), 1971- 76, is also a secretary and has 2 daughters. Angela Belcher (Baker), 1972- 76, is also a secretary­she has one daughter. Christine Bathe (Carr), 1971- 76, is an insurance clerk living in Hornchurch.

Frederick Herbert 1960- 67 lives in Sunningdale and is Duty Station Manager for Lufthansa. He is getting married in July -congratulations and best wishesl Clive Bau~h who has returned to the Committee is an expectant father. Mick Hawkins at the A.G.M. produced his ORA life membership card, issued in 1967, cost 4 guineas.

Finally, two dates for your July diaries, and please turn up if you can.

SchdO't Summer Fete at Schoo 1 (Approach Road)

Saturday July 8th, opening at 2 pm

Informal ORA Summer Gathering

''Blind Beggar"

Thursday July 20th, any time from 6.30 pm

I hope you have found some items of interest in this newsletter - the only way one can be compiled is if we receive news of you, or encounter you- so- please drop us a line, if only to tell us you have had triplets, have rowed across the Atlantic, or helped dig out some archaeological site!

Enjoy your summer holidays, hope to see some of you in July!

Gwynneth Jackson

OLD RAINEIANS' ASSOCIA'l"ION

November 1989 Dear Old Raineian,

It seems early to be starting to write a pre-Christmas Newsletter, but there is a good reason! We have at'rahged an O.R.A. get-together at Arl>our Square -thanks to a suggestion from Alan Johnsort and Bill Richards, and especially to Bill who made the request to what is now part of the City and East London Institute. So - please book the following date in your diary and bring along husbands, wives, partners and any other Old Raineians with whom you are in contact, and make it a "BUlllper Do" ! I

******************************************* * O.R.A. * * REUNlO~ GET-TOGETHER * * FRIDAY DECEMBER 1st 1989 7-lOpm * * RAINE'S BUILDING ARBOUR SQUARE * *******************************************

It was lovely to see so many at the "Blind Beggar11 in July, but it was felt that a gathering in the Old School would be even nicer.

There will be a buffet provided together w-ith beer, wine, fruit juices and soft drinks; all for the cost of a fiver per head (at the door). this also includes a contribution to the cost of hiring the Old School Hall.

Our membership continues to increase - since the last newsletter we welcome the following to the Association:

Annual Members:-Julie Okpala, who only left Rairte 1 s in July and is continuing in the VI form at City of London School where Jfm sure her musical talents will be appreciated; Janet Baxter (Lee} 19~2-67 who· is a Senior Contracts Administrator for Japanese Trading Co. and lives in Tiptree; as does Barbara Powley (Lee) 1963-69 who is secretary to the Manager. of the local branch of Barclays Bank and has become a member df MENSA - she has been married for 15 years and has no children, "just a demented cat named Scally". Hurricanes and tornadoes permitting she has already promised tobe at the December Reunion!

Annual Members (cant): Paul Reynolds (1960-69 ??) declares himself to be the last of the big spenders - no I wasn't in the VI form at the same time but in the Music Dept.! He married recently and works as Industry Marketing Manager for Prime Computer (UK) Ltd. He is occasionally in contact with Bob Brady and Mike Mulrenan; Angela Rossi 1970-77 is an Optometrist and has contact with Genieve Ali, Deborah Castle, Lorraine Dalton, Rob Morgan and Janice George.

Life Members:-Mike Mulrenan 1961-68 now a GP in 'l'ewkesbury having held a variety of hospital posts including working in Jamaica and Kenya. He recently encountered Tony Szule (1961-69 also a new life member) who was on a cycling holiday [in Tewkesbury]; Tertr Day 1960-67) married to June Smith (60-65) with two children (Cooperians not Raineians - shame I). Terry has his own company employing 20 people and, having retired from active basketball, is now a keen but unaccomplished golfer and squash player; Richard Powell (1963-71) technical editor at Derwent Publications; Peggy Adlington (Sayers) (1965-72) married to Gavin (1964-71) . has 3 daughters and a son. They have lived in Malawi since 1978 where·. Gavin works for the Malawi Government and Peggy is teaching in a Primacy School for ex-patriate and Malawi children; Vivian Nicholas, geology teacher 1964-71 (and instigator of the mammoth production of "The Mikado" - I'm sure we made about 95 kimonos, many of which are still among the school props and appear in various guises!) married Rosalind Berwill who was also on Raine's Staff. They have two children and live in Sussex where Viv is Deputy Head of a school in Burgess Hill; Jeff Hecker a computer consultant is married with 3 children; Tony Elliott (1960-66) lives in Cambridgeshire and is Marketing Manager for l'ravel Agents Thomas Cook; Johnathan Webster (1952-59) a Company Chairman living in Sunbury and has joined as result .. of meetin~ Lawrie Dalton (current ORA President); M.Robinson (1950-56) lives in Brentwood working as an accountant but also holds a London Taxi Driver's licence. He remembers having Mr Spooner as a Form Master and has some contact with Zane.Grant; James Keen (1944-49) now a self-employed consultant having retired from Ford where he was a Facilities Engineer; Stephen Hewitt (1963-70) present occupation urtknown, but at school he was a member of the 1968/69 successful basketball team as were Tommy Nunn, Steve Richardson, Dick Powell, Tony Szule, Barry Chappell, Barry Quirk ......... .

Now back to present day Raine's ........ . Congratulations to the new Head Girl Barbara Walsh and Head Boy Alfred Desire

Barbara missed making the customary speech at Prize Day as she was suffering from chicken pox. Last year's Head Boy, Sam Bentley, and Head Girl, Samantha Sawyer, are both delaying entering university for a year to travel to Australia, as is Dayy Jones. Kelly Bouvier has gone to the U.S. of A. to be a Nanny, as Artna Shelbourne has been for the past 2 years; and Claire ~ is in Israel. In Australia Samantha Sawyer will meet up with Julie Chadwick. Abigail Wiggins and David Bethel are working in school as lab technicians; John Featherstone is working for a sports outfitters and playing in a jazz group. Charmaine Kerridge has gone to the London College of Music; Dorothy Chunda is spending 6 months at Montpelier University and Frances Thompson is at college in Lancaster. Denise Perry (Cox) came to the School Fete in July with her 2 children and passed on news that Jill Reilly and the 3 Goode sisters are all married but that David Goode is still at large! Congratulation to Peter L9demore for .his degree in psychology; to Steve iverton, and to C~ri Batcbelder who is now at Durham researching for a PhD. Apologies to anyone who should have .been congratulated - send us the details and you will receive public acclaim in the next newsletter.

RAINEIANS HOLIDAY TRAVEL COMPETITION

Who is the most widely travelled Old Raineian of 1989?

Helen Kostis was on a Greek Island, !an Crane flew to India and returned via U.S.A. (strong contender!), David Spencer spent two months doing geological survey work in the Karakoram but was then intending to holiday in the Far East. If anyone can match these far-flung parts of the world do let us know and we might manage to produce a prize on December 1st.

The next batch of news was gleaned from folk at the Blind Beggar reunion in July. Vivienne Durne CWaeland) is Comptroller for the U.S.Navy in London while her husband, Martin, has a managerial post in British Telecom; Margaret Bell is still living and working near York and her brother, Maurtce, lives in Bogota, Columbia with his wife Rose and 2 daughters where he teaches English; Penny Gardiner is in her final year afJ a medical student, her sister Jane is marrying a dentist at the end of October and Vicky Gardiner is PA to a lady in the British Consulate and travels widely; brother Jamie seems determined to make a career in golf; Terry Bryan (Dorothy in our 1st production of the "Wizard of Oz" - we ar'e doing a second this month) is marrying next summer; Karla Young is now a qualified nurse at the London Hospital - Plane Beves passed on some of this news - and also that her brother ~ond has settled down working as an electrician. John Rodmell is spending this year of his degree course in Spain and Germany; Jon Fitt is now studying for a qualification in Environmental Health. David Watts is working for the Ministry of Agriculture, »Aihara Ponovan <PA~e) is still on the short list for English National Opera, Anne Simmortds is rtow married and living in Majorca. Robert Howard-Perkins has recently started an O.U. course in Social Sciences, Bertie Lambert (1933·38) reminisced about contemporaries who became RAF Officers, Air Commodore erin&le, the .1U.:t:Q brothers, also about Lionel Attwell who was a lab technician at Raine's and of staff Biffer Broughton, W,Owen Williams and E,G.Englebert. He also mentioned Given Smith (Kidd) who lives in Dagenham. Other people present that evening included Nico J{amakami, Tony J{ay, Ian thurston-Mobn, Stuart Howson, Brian Chaperlin, Bill Richards, J~ff Hecker, Jack Lowe and his wife Krys, §tephen Solly, Alan and SAUdra Johnson, Lawrie Dalton, Sharon Seater and staff members "Reff" Reffold and Gercy Calvert. David Lodemore has been married and living in New York for 7 years and is coming over for Christmas. Bill Richards met Robin Hobbs at an Essex match -Robin didn't know of the School's change of building and he keeps in touch with Basil Dowling. Another sporting personality Dave Sexton, former manager of Chelsea, Q.P.R. and Manchester United, is now coach to England's Under~21 team. Princess Diana's hairdresser Michael John also attended Raine's. Blake' Lee-Harwood is a spokesman for Friends of the Earth.

Thanks to all who responded to my request for information about their years at school and to those who write such interesting letters. The remainder of the newsletter includes excerpts from some correspondents. Stanley Smith (1918-22) has happy memories of Old Boys' Suppers, dances and Amateur Dramatics. Harbara Ford (Cross) (1959-65) lives in Southampton but hopes to attend a gathering one day. S.A.Foster started at Raine's in 1953 and is now Science Inspector for schools in Croydon. Suzanne Harrad (Quintan) (1955-61) and her husband RQn live in Bristol and keep in touch with Gillian Bryant CHouldenl, Annette O'Syllivan (Ashcroft), Pauline Smith (Joel), John and Joan (Cooper) Hooker and recent visitors from New Zealand were Rosemary Wells (Collings) with her husband and two children.

G.R.Gillon (1959-64) sent a 'photo taken at a Prize Day which also included Jeff Hecker and Colin Bonn. He works in the Petrochemical Industry and has 'almost' met Cliff Theobald twice!! John Eve (1926-31) was in J.W.Dagger's form - now retired, he edits a magazine for the pensioners in his former company and recently won an award for it. Alan Liddiard wrote with more wartime evacuation reminiscences after the media publicity, recalling good organisation and kindness both in Brighton and later in Camberley where the school established itself and earned a good reputation in the neighbourhood. He recalls that on arrival in Brighton each child was given a carrier bag of provisions to hand over to the foster parents, including corned beef and a packet of biscuits. J eff Hecker recalled many contemporaries, John Bishop, Alan Leach, Chas Beynon, Stuart Gibson, Peter Martin, Batch Moore, Mick Lee, George O'Sullivan, Ernie Tarling, Kipper Theobald, John Bean, Carlos Goumal, Michael Bradburn, Railton St.Denis-Kelly, Maurice Bell, Alan Choat, Graham Norman, Jack Benstead and from the other side of the "partition" Pat Truman, Dorothy Wellard, Michelle Phillips, Andrea Simmonds, Sandra Briden, Pat Baker and Barbara Goltman (who died 2 years ago). He sees Roger Abrahams occasionally, has bumped into John Bishop, Kipper Theobald and Carlos Goumal over the past few years. He still has impositions which he set whilst a prefect from Kenny Arnold, Kenneth Dyer and one on Good Behaviour and one on VIETNAM - both unsigned - anyone recognising and wishing to reclaim them do please ask!

I hope you have found something of interest within these sheets. If you l1ave any recollections of school life you wish to share with fellow Old Raineians, please write in.

Finally, a last reminder about December 1st: Please come along if you can, it does not matter if you think you'll be the only one from your year; you may be pleasantly surprised (or horrified) to find others from your past life. However, whatever you do on 1st December I will take this opportunity to wish you all, on behalf of the Old Raineians' Committee, a merry Christmas and a happy New DECADE!!.

Gwyneth Jackson Editor

P.S. Did you know that Approach Road is so called because Queen Victoria used it as the approach to Victoria Park.