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Dear Club Members I would like to thank you all for your contributions and support with the production of this issue, especially; Anthony Phillips; Angus Ross; John Hall and the Committee Members who have proof read at short notice.

It was another successful ‘active’ OL year all round especially Sport (see the Chairman’s Report page 9).

This is an annual magazine but as I have said before, please send me your articles as early as possible so we can plan the number of pages.

We ran out of space this year and a couple of articles will have to wait until next issue.

Again, we have made further changes to the look and feel of this issue, we all felt that the magazine was a little too heavy, so I have reduced the weight but kept the paper quality: plus, a ‘brighter design’.

As promised last year, I have been designing an ‘App’ that is not just a copy version of our magazine but an invaluable tool with live updates, ios and or Android, let me know – details to follow.

This is your magazine, about you, so keep your news and stories coming. Many of our supporting advertisers offer special OL rates: please support them in return.

You can send me your news throughout the year. Please send me all your contributions by start of January 2015 to magazine@apropos-360.com All contributions may be sent by email to: magazine@apropos-360.com Your comments: feedback@apropos-360.com

Cover image: Andrew Sayers All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without prior written permission of the The Lancing Club. No responsibility will be accepted for any errors or omissions, or comments expressed within the content. Views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily the views of the Editor or the Committee. Services and goods advertised are not necessarily endorsed by the Editor or the Committee.

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From The Club President The Minutes of The Annual General Meeting of The Lancing Club AGM Chairman’s Report Chairman’s Update The Chairman of Governors Report From The Head Master New Club Members Events Committee Report Summer Reception The Lancing Club Dinner 2013 The Lancing Club Carol Service & Christmas Party 2013 Sport OL news from around the world From the Archives From Here To Eternity – Shaftesbury Theatre Friends of Lancing Chapel Obituaries Accounts

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY – 2014

There is a wide selection of Events during the year for OLs, organised by the Club and the College. The Club, in addition, Sponsors selected College events.

Hong Kong Reunion dinner.

Hong Kong Football Club 6.30pm Friday 7th March.

Lancing Old Boys Football Club dinner.

London.

7pm Friday 21st March.

Lancing Golf Day. Brighton & Hove Golf Club 1pm Thursday 27th March.

Over 60s lunch.

Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge SW1X 7LF 12 noon Thursday 24th April.

Evelyn Waugh Lecture and Dinner.

Lancing College 7.30pm Thursday 1st May. The Lancing Club Summer Reception and AGM, 6pm. Thursday 8th May. HQS WELLINGTON, Embankment, London.

St Nicolas Association Murder Mystery.

Evening, Lancing College 6.45pm Saturday 10th May. Lancing Associations’ Dinner.

Lancing College Wednesday 14th May. Battle of Britain Dedication Day. Lancing College 11am Saturday 14th June.

Leavers’ Ball.

Lancing College 6.30pm Friday 27th June.

Young OLs Drinks in London mid-September Club Dinner, Strangers Bar, House of Commons London Friday 31st October Club Carol Service & Christmas Party Chelsea Old Church Monday 15th December

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From

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have now had the honour of being Lancing Club’s President for almost eight years, and although my re-election each year has been subject to less scrutiny than Robert Mugabe’s, I would like to thank those members who voted for me, as well as those who had no idea an election was taking place and therefore abstained. I would think another two years at the helm is about all I, and indeed the Club, could, or should, endure.

But enough of the future. Looking back on the twelve months past, I must once again thank the Committee for all the hard work they put into the running of the Club, and the various OL Sports Clubs whose role in bringing OLs together is always absolutely crucial to the continued cheerful existence of the Club.

I am also very grateful to Anthony Phillips and his Magazine Committee and the Editor, John Clifford, for continuing to make the Magazine a vital component of the Club’s message and ethos.

I hope the Club is proving over the years to be an asset to the College itself, not merely financially (and maybe we could improve our contributions in that department), and that as the years roll by each new generation of OLs will feel there is value in keeping in touch

The Peter Tinniswood Music Prize The Prize, which is financed by the donation made by The Lancing Club to the College on Peter Tinniswood’s retirement, is awarded each year on Founder’s Day. It was awarded last year to Richard Clarke.

with those whose formative years they shared. This is something that senior OLs tend to appreciate more than new ones (can one be a “new” OL?) but I can assure the younger set that in time most of you will be happy, or at least curious enough, to renew old friendships. I certainly have appreciated doing so, and have enjoyed meeting Lancing alumni from many eras, not just my own (which was of course the most distinguished Lancing era of all time).

This leads me to particular mention of one of my friends from that era, Graham Robinson. Graham has contributed a phenomenal amount of time and energy as the Club Chairman for more than a decade.

However he has confirmed that he intends to stand down from this position at the AGM in May. I pay tribute to him here for his devotion to the cause in so many ways - organisation, enthusiasm, liaison with the College and even guidelines for my speeches and articles. This would be remarkable in any OL, but for a Gibbs’ House man it is truly staggering. Thank you Graham for all the magnificent service you have given to the Club in the past 13 years.

In 2014 the College bids farewell to Jonathan Gillespie as he moves on with our warmest congratulations to his next Headship at St Albans School, by extraordinary coincidence a place of learning I attended for two years before moving on to Lancing. Jonathan and Caroline have both been very regular attendees at Club events and we will be very sorry to see them leave. There will be an opportunity to thank them for their contribution to Lancing at the Club Reception on board HQS WELLINGTON in London on Thursday 8 May. Do, please, put the date in your diary now!

I am confident that we will give a warm Lancing welcome to the Gillespies’ successors, Dominic and Lydia Oliver, at the annual Club Dinner in the autumn, by which time they will be half way through their first term at the College.

Details of these and other events in the coming year will be forthcoming at which I hope very much to meet literally dozens of OLs.

Data Protection In order to comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, we wish to inform members that we hold information such as addresses and other similar information, which has either been extracted from College records or supplied to us by the individuals concerned.

Tim Rice

The Lancing Club Members Please send us your latest news, anecdotes, stories, achievements, reunions with OL friends etc. together with photographs.

Email to magazine@apropos-360.com or you can post to: John Clifford (Editor) 16 Overstrand Avenue Rustington West Sussex BN16 2JU

Online PDF option This magazine is also available to read by down;oading the PDF version from our website and includes all links to email and website addresses to our advertisers.

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Friday 31st October 2014

HQS WELLINGTON

Strangers Bar House of Commons

Embankment, London

Moored on the Thames by the Embankment, centrally positioned between the City and the West End. The open-air Quarter Deck has panoramic views of the Thames and with the other grand rooms onboard which can accommodate up to 220 guests across the whole ship.

The AGM will be at 6pm in the Court Room on board the ship. The drinks reception will start at 7pm; the Club will provide a free glass of wine on arrival and canapĂŠs will be supplied during the evening.

A cash bar will be available as usual.

Dress code is jacket and tie.

Westminster, London

An impressive venue overlooking the Thames within the House of Commons in the heart of Westminster.

Drinks Reception at 6.30pm (with a cash bar) Three Course Dinner at 7.45pm (including wine) Celebrity Speaker to be announced Dress code is Black Tie The closest tube is Westminster

The closest tube is Temple.

Please apply early to secure a place!

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The Minutes of The Annual General Meeting of The Lancing Club Held at The House Of Lords, London on Friday 17th May 2013 at 6.00pm The President, Sir Tim Rice, welcomed members of The Lancing Club and their guests.

APOLOGIES Apologies for absence were received from Mrs Laura Burdekin, Rev Christopher Campling, Mr Anthony Eland, Mr Richard Gilbert, Mr Maurice Kinnitt, Mr Ian Robinson, Mr Tom Robson, Mr Angus Ross, and Mr Christopher Williams.

MINUTES OF THE 2012 AGM Mr Jeremy Taylor, seconded by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Bates, proposed the approval of the Minutes of the AGM held on 11th May 2012. The Minutes were approved.

MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES Mr James De La Mare raised the point that on entering the website one appeared to be asked for money. It was pointed out that it was the College website and not ours and therefore we have no influence over it.

CLUB COMMITTEE REPORT The annual report of the Club Committee was given by the Chairman, Captain Graham Robinson RN (printed opposite). The President thanked the Chairman for his report and asked the meeting to accept the Chairman’s report. The acceptance of the report was proposed by Mr Anthony Phillips and seconded by Mr James de La Mare and was accepted unanimously.

The President thanked the Chairman for his hard work throughout the year.

TREASURER’S REPORT The Treasurer, Mr David Rice, read his report reviewing the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2012 as follows: As we are all well aware the Stock Market had a much better year in 2012 after a disappointing year in 2011. Two bonds were redeemed during the year and one Company re-purchased its shares. We sold part of our holding in Lloyds Bank limited to cover the Capital Gain which would otherwise have been subject to Corporation Tax. If we exclude the stock bought and sold during the year the value of the portfolio rose by 4.7%. This compares with a fall of 5% last year. Since the year end the market value of our portfolio has shown a significant 20% rise to £574K. Our annual dividend income is about 4.4% of the market value or 6% of original cost.

I must again thank Harvey Rawlings of Charles Stanley who continues to provide excellent advice and guidance on investments in these very difficult times at no cost to the Club.

Because of the very low rates of interest the Committee have a policy of trying to have excess Cash on Deposit although we have to keep sufficient funds to meet the expenditure which comes in three significant groups: the Magazine, the Annual General Meeting and Reception and the Dinner.

The income from Dividends and Interest showed a 1.7% increase to £22,773.

We had 99 new members from last year’s leavers giving an income of £29,205 which is the thirteen less than last year.

Our expenditure increased by 14% over last year. During the year we gave £6287 to five sports clubs: Football, Golf, Fives, Shooting and Tennis together with a contribution to the School trip to South Africa.

The Committee are keen to support OL Sports Clubs and welcomes applications for funding.

We also help fund the Over 60s Lunches together with OL events in Edinburgh and Hong Kong The Committee is keen to support local gatherings of OLs if members want to organise these in their area.

This leaves a deficit on the income account after tax of £11,563 compared with £7,504 last year, but similar to the deficit in 2012 and an overall surplus, taking into account the leaver’s subscriptions, for the year of £17,469.

Finally I would like to thank our Independent Examiner, Stephen Dexter, not only for the work he does examining the accounts but also his ideas and suggestions for improving the presentation of the accounts.

I consider the Club to be in good financial health and recommend the accounts for approval.

Mr Michael Eke made an observation regarding the deficit on the income and expenditure account and the Treasurer assured him the Committee had a policy of only spending fifty per cent of the year’s subscription income. He was also pleased to note we are now making a gift to those leavers joining the Club.

Mr Nick Parker seconded by Mr Michael Eke proposed the adoption of the accounts and the accounts were approved.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS All officers of the Club (except for the passed Presidents) retire at the end of the meeting under the rules. Sir Tim Rice, Captain Graham Robinson, RN, and Mr David Rice offered themselves for re-election.

There was some discussion, sometimes acrimonious, as to whether these should be re-elected en-bloc. Mr Nigel Ventham (Vice– President) spoke in favour of Reverend Canon Bruce Hawkins being elected as Chairman.

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Mr James de La Mare seconded by Reverend Michael Campling proposed that Sir Tim Rice, Captain Graham Robinson, RN, and Mr David Rice should be re-elected en bloc respectively as President, Chairman, and Treasurer. This was put to the vote and passed by eight votes to seven.

ELECTION OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Under the three year rule Mr Anthony Eland, Miss Neesha Gopal,, Mr Nick Parker and Mr Tom Robson retire from the Committee by rotation. The President thanked them for their contribution during their three years on the Committee.

Mrs Julia Benham-Hermetz, Mrs Laura Burdekin and Mr Mark Truman offered themselves for election. Miss Neesha Gopal, seconded by Mr Nick Parker proposed these elections and they were elected unanimously.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS There was no any other business The President thanked everyone for their attendance and declared the meeting closed.

Captain Graham Robinson RN Chairman

Mr David Rice Honorary Secretary

The Lancing Club

Annual General Meeting 2014 The Lancing Club Annual General Meeting will be held on HQS Wellington, Temple Stairs, Victoria Embankment, London WC2R 2PN on Thursday 8 May 2014 starting at 6.00pm.

All members and their guests are welcome.

Nominations for the election of a new Chairman and Secretary should be received by the Club Secretary, David Rice by 24th April 2014.

AGENDA 1. Apologies for absence 2. To approve the minutes of the AGM held at The House of Lords, London on Friday 17th May 2013 3. Matters arising from the minutes 4. To receive the annual report of the Club Committee.

5. To approve the accounts of the Club for the last year ending 31st December 2013.

6. To elect new officers of the Club 7. To elect new members of the Committee 8. To deal with any other business

Chairman’s Report

To AGM – May 2013

Club President, Ladies and Gentlemen,

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t is only a few weeks since you will have seen the Chairman’s Update in the Club Magazine and consequently I have little to add to that although I would like to emphasise a few points.

The first of these is that the Club has held some really enjoyable social events including Goodwood Races, last year’s Annual Reception here at the House of Lords, the Annual Dinner in the Long Room at Lord’s and the Club Carol Service and Christmas Party at Chelsea Old Church. The Club has also sponsored two Over 60s Lunches and OL drinks in the USA, Edinburgh and Hong Kong. I am really grateful to Neesha Gopal and her Events Committee for their organisation of the Club events and to Claire Welling for the administrative assistance she has provided in support of them.

I am delighted to report that the financial support that the Club has given to OL Sports teams has almost doubled to over £6,000. This is, I feel, particularly pleasing as OL Sports Clubs form a very active sector of the OL Community. As our President said in his article in the Magazine, it is astonishing how many OLs are involved in OL activity of one sort or another: brilliant.

Not without some difficulties, we produced what feedback indicates was an excellent Club Magazine. I am very grateful to our Editor, John Clifford, for his patience in dealing with late input – ‘not least from me’and his tolerance with other setbacks along the way. He will be at the Reception this evening so do please give him your comments. I must also thank Richard Rawlings for his tireless efforts in coordinating the advertising in the Magazine.

Last year I reported that we were undertaking a review of the roles and tasks of the Officers of the Club. Your Committee expanded this to a wider ranging look at ‘Updating The Lancing Club’. This consequently took somewhat longer than anticipated but we have forwarded it to the Headmaster for his comments as a couple of our recommendations impact on the School. We await his views and will obviously come back to you with the final agreed recommendations: an SGM may be necessary. continued > www.lancingclub.org | 9

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This AGM sees a number of Committee members standing down under the ‘3 year’ rule: Neesha Gopal – A tireless and assiduous Chair of the Events Committee Tom Robson – Young but with a mature head on his shoulders Anthony Eland – Older but with a youthful head on his shoulders and whose frank opinions have been hugely valuable.

Nick Parker – Has used his experience as a former Club Secretary and Treasurer to provide much welcomed advice.

I would like to thank them all most warmly for their contributions to Committee discussion and I am sure the AGM will as well.

I am also most grateful to David Rice who stood in as Acting Secretary a year ago pending the review of the role and tasks of the Club’s officers. This was in addition to his duties as Treasurer. He has been affected more than anyone by the delay in completing the review and I cannot exaggerate the debt of gratitude that I and Club owe him.

David, thank you very much indeed.

When I had lunch with our President a few weeks ago we discussed the re-election of officers at the AGM. I asked him if he was prepared to continue as our President. Having responded positively, he did ask how much longer he should go on. I replied ‘From Here To Eternity’.

I, of course, have been your Chairman for an eternity but when 3 years ago I indicated that I should stand down, our President, in the words he used in the Club Magazine at the time, ‘begged me to stay on’. That said, I do feel I should stand down’ ere too long but your Committee is anxious that we finalise and implement the recommendations of its paper ‘Updating the Lancing Club’ before I do so – in a gentlemanly Lancing-like fashion.

I have been greatly encouraged by the many comments I have received from Club members on the way the Club is running. I hope this has the agreement of the AGM and, accordingly, Mr President, I would ask that the meeting accepts my report.

Captain Graham Robinson RN Chairman

Chairman’s Update

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nce again, I am way behind the Editor’s deadline in updating the report I gave at last year’s AGM but, notwithstanding his constant but justifiable nagging, I would like to place on record my thanks to John Clifford for his tireless efforts in producing what, by the standards of other alumni association magazines, is a very good publication. This is not just my view but I know is shared by many Club members.

Our Magazine would not be of the high standard it is without the financial support given by our advertisers. In this competitive world, the altruistic advertiser is almost an extinct bird and advertisers do look carefully at the results from their investment if before they repeat the next year. May I ask all readers to examine carefully what is on offer from our advertisers and to use the services whenever you can?

Since I last wrote we have had some most enjoyable social events about which you can read in full in Neesha Gopal’s Events Report on Page 19. In summary, the return to the House of Lords for our Spring

Reception was very well attended and greatly enjoyed, the Annual Dinner held this year at the Royal Institute of British Architects, was another very pleasing event with the food being of an exceptionally high standard and there was a record attendance of nearly 150 at the Club’s Christmas Party and Carol Service at Chelsea Old Church (thank you, Canon David Reindorp (Field’s 66-71).

In addition, the Club has supported two Over 60s lunches, Receptions in the USA and by the time you read this Magazine will have contributed to an OL Dinner in Hong Kong.

Our financial situation has continued to flourish under the steady hand of our Treasurer, David Rice (Sanderson’s 60-65). In this he has been assisted by the rise in the value of our investments under the watchful eye of Harvey Rawlings (Sanderson’s 82-87). An increase in the number of school leavers joining the Club (over 80%) also contributed to the satisfactory situation. This in turn has meant that we have been able to offer increased financial support to OL sports clubs and increased subsidies to Club events. As I have said in previous Magazines, any Club member wishing to organise a regional event at home or abroad should contact our Treasurer who has the Club Committee’s blessing to make appropriate grants.

At last year’s AGM I reported that the Club Committee had undertaken a review under the title of ‘Updating The Lancing Club’ as to how the Club might do better. As I said at that meeting a number of the recommendations required the agreement of the Headmaster and these are now on hold pending the arrival of our new Headmaster in September. These recommendations included measures to increase the proportion of school leavers joining the Club and measures involving the College to improve the administration and professionalism of the Club. In the meantime the Club Committee is pressing on with other recommendations that do not need the agreement of others particularly those aimed at Young OLs. These include arranging a Young OLs drinks evening in London in September before the Universities return for the Autumn term. Two recommendations will need agreement, in due course, by the membership; to change the name of the Club to the OL Society and to include in the Club rules the objective ‘To support the College’ (it is astonishing in my mind that this is not already there!). These will be put to the membership under an overall re-write of the Club Rules.

Last year I reported that progress on the new Club website had not been as fast as the Committee had hoped. This was because of delays in the new College website on whose infrastructure the Club’s depends. I am hopeful that by the time you read this Magazine the new website will be up and running or at least within days of doing so.

May I please issue an annual reminder? A few years ago the Club set up within the Lancing Foundation, a Fund to support a Lancing Club Bursary for sons and daughters of Club members. It is not yet in position to provide such a Bursary as the Fund needs to grow. Anyone wishing to make a donation or a bequest to the Club Bursary Fund should in the first instance contact the Director of Development for more details. I commend the Fund to you.

I have now been your Chairman for 13 years – much too long.

Grandparent duties are also becoming more time-consuming (great!) and so I have confirmed with our President and the Club Committee my previously-stated intention to stand down at the AGM. I have greatly enjoyed being your Chairman; it has been very rewarding but it would not have been so without the support I have received from members – thank you.

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Our Treasurer, David Rice, has gallantly fulfilled the additional the role of Secretary for the last two years but very understandably wishes to relinquish this while remaining as our Treasurer.

Nominations (with a proposer) for election at the AGM for both these posts, Chairman and Secretary should be sent to the Club Secretary to arrive no later than two weeks before the AGM i.e.

Thursday 24th April.

I look forward to seeing Club members at the AGM and Spring Reception on Thursday 8th May on board HQS WELLINGTON.

The Arthur Cooper Language Fund

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he Fund was created with donations from OLs and College Staff to mark the lifetime of service to the College and the Lancing Club by Arthur Cooper and his wife, Nancy. The objective of the Fund is to advance education by the provision of an annual grant to assist deserving and linguistically talented pupils at Lancing College to travel abroad in order to develop their language abilities and their cultural awareness. Last year’s grant was awarded to Ben Foster, William Grey, Richard O’Neal and Edward Worsdell.

The report of their 4 week trip gives clear evidence that the objective of the fund was well and truly met. Their travels from Northern France via Paris to Southern France, to Bordeaux in the west before crossing the border into Spain, with visits to San Sebastien and Madrid before entering the final country of their trip, Portugal, encompassed 16 cities and were marked with visits to castles, art galleries, museums, cathedrals, churches and other heritage buildings. They certainly crammed a lot of culture into their 4 weeks although it was pleasing to read that ‘the strictness with which we handled our budgets was relaxed for a day in order to enjoy a fabulous meal in a small restaurant in a pretty street in Bordeaux.’ I am sure Arthur and Nancy would have approved of that! I think they would also be happy that the final 3 days were spent in Carvoeiro in the Algarve ‘unwinding by the sea reflecting on the great times they had had and marvelling that 4 teenage boys had managed to travel for a month with nothing really going wrong.’ Those who contributed to the Fund can also be satisfied that their collective donations assisted 4 pupils in having an extremely worthwhile and enjoyable trip.

Graham Robinson Chairman, Arthur Cooper Language Fund

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hat an astonishing year it has been for Lancing College. It is a year of ‘places’ and ‘people’. In terms of people, we have been delighted with the support given by Baroness Virginia Bottomley and Freddie Dennis of Odgers Berndtson in the appointment of a Head at the new Lancing College Prep and the nineteenth Headmaster in the long history of Lancing College. I am delighted that Dominic and Lydia Oliver will be joining Lancing in September this year and I will write more in full next year. However, let me deal with ‘places’ first and work geographically along the South Coast.

Lancing Preparatory School at Hove continues to thrive and grow under the leadership of Alan Laurent. Recently the structure has moved from leasehold to freehold which gave the Governing Body greater confidence to invest in the future and consider capital expenditure.

Alan remains as ambitious for his school as he did when he first arrived.

He presented to the Council the opportunity to buy a bungalow on the curtilage of the Prep School. To cut a long story short, Lancing now has a wonderful purpose-built Nursery linked to the Prep School. It is an excellent facility and hugely appreciated.

Moving to the West, the Sussex Pad is again owned by Lancing College. The purchase included not only the hotel and restaurant but a three bedroomed house and five acres of land. In the next three years the Pad will be utilised as ‘swing accommodation’ as every boarding house is updated and renovated. The pupils will move to the Pad for a term ‘corridor by corridor’ until the project is complete. This also gives time for all constituencies associated with Lancing to consider the long-term use of the Sussex Pad and surrounding grounds. It is all very exciting and the list of ideas is already considerable. I am sure many of you will have noticed the words ‘Lancing College’ proudly displayed for all passers-by on the A27.

On January 1st this year Lancing acquired a second prep school, namely Broadwater Manor School, Worthing. The school has now been renamed Lancing Preparatory School at Worthing. The Woodley family and indeed Broadwater Manor have enjoyed a very close

relationship with Lancing for generations. All four Woodley children are OLs. Kim Woodley (Headmistress) approached us stating it was her wish to retire and would Lancing be interested. Again, to cut a long story short, the synergies and strategy were clear from the outset. I am delighted that Pauline Bulman and myself were able to persuade Father Roger Marsh and his wife Eileen to come out of retirement to take on the role of interregnum head. As I write we are fully into process (with Odgers) to appoint the next Head who hopefully will take up role in September.

Now I move on to ‘people’. Odgers also helped us in the appointment of the new Bursar, Mark Milling. Mark was educated at Radley and Bristol University where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Economics. Previously Mark had been Assistant Bursar at Clifton College. We welcome Mark and his wife, Francesca, who have already fitted in seamlessly into life at Lancing. They both give the impression they have been at Lancing for years. With all the activity detailed in the preceding three paragraphs it has been a particularly busy time for our new Bursar, let alone a baptism of fire. There is much to do in the years ahead and we are all delighted that Mark has shown so much enthusiasm and direction for the ambitious programme currently on his desk.

At the start of the academic year Pauline Bulman retired after fifteen years as Bursar. There has been no more loyal or committed servant to Lancing College. The list of projects which Pauline has administered and led is too long to mention by name but two stand out. Pauline was central to the Reeve Art School and also very much part of the success of Lancing Preparatory School at Hove. However it is certainly not goodbye. Pauline finished as Bursar on the Friday afternoon and started her new role as Clerk to the Governing Body on the Monday morning. Pauline has been very involved in the appointment of the new Headmaster and the acquisition of Broadwater Manor and as always Lancing College and the Governing Body owe Pauline a huge debt of gratitude for what she has done and will continue to do.

The Governing Body congratulates Jeremy McCullough, Second Master, on his appointment as Headmaster of Colston’s School. Jeremy came to Lancing from Fettes and this year completes seven years with us. On behalf of the Governing Body we thank him for all his hard work and energy. Besides all the demands which go with being a Second Master, Jeremy has been pivotal in the school’s Development Plan, Education Committee and planning for various inspections. We wish Jeremy and Sally great success and happiness as they move on to the next chapter of their career.

Finally this summer we say farewell to our Head Master, Jonathan Gillespie, after eight years in the hot seat. Jonathan also came from Fettes and is moving on to run St Albans School, the oldest and one of the most successful day schools in the country. Jonathan’s first teaching role was at Highgate so this appointment effectively completes a circle for him. Jonathan will have led both a senior boarding school and a senior day school. Much has happened during Jonathan’s time at Lancing which includes all the projects detailed in this report. There has been an expansion of facilities in a number of ways. During his tenure the opportunities for pupils have been enhanced both in and out of the classroom and all have benefitted from Jonathan’s leadership and guidance. On behalf of all my colleagues on the Governing Body we are very grateful both to Jonathan and Caroline for all they have done.

Dr Harry Brünjes

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Lancing comes to Worthing

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recently received a visit from the Chairman of Governors at my home in Deal on the spurious pretext of his playing golf at nearby Sandwich. He wanted to run a delicate situation at Lancing past me.

What scandal or disaster could have occurred? It transpired that it was no such crisis but rather that the College had acquired a Worthing prep school and wanted my wife Eileen and me to run it for two terms while the search was made for a permanent head for the school. We did do two stints of prep school headship before I became Chaplain at Lancing, but having retired from both careers over four years ago, although I had done three short periods of teaching in the meantime, this offer was a real bolt out of the blue! To cut a long story short we decided that six months in Worthing was possible.

Broadwater Manor will have been known to many of you and you may even be among its alumni. It has always had strong links with Lancing while owned by the Sams/Woodley family, so when the College was approached to add it to its family it seemed an obvious course of action.

Lancing College already has a prep school, having acquired Mowden in Hove some eleven years ago. Lancing College Preparatory School at Hove has been a great success story and we are working hard to

replicate this with what has now become Lancing College Preparatory School at Worthing.

The school in Worthing has a very hard working and loyal staff. They have been overjoyed by the amount of investment the College has already made in the school. A lick of paint and a general brightening up of the ancient manor house has done wonders for the morale of all. New IT equipment has begun to be installed in a programme that will be completed in the summer holidays. Meanwhile open days and other marketing events are in hand, and what is needed is for this too well kept secret of an excellent school to be shouted from the roof tops. We need more children and for the school to grow. Nathaniel’s great idea was given birth but a few miles away and now it is being given a new expression of modern education on the south coast. It will not happen overnight but it will be a wonderful adventure making it happen and being part of that process. I trust all OLs will give the Worthing school their utmost support.

The Reverend Roger Marsh

Preparatory School at Worthing F O R M E R L Y M A N O R

B R O A D W A T E R S C H O O L

Broadwater Road, Worthing West Sussex BN14 8HU www.lancingcollege.co.uk Tel 01903 201123 Registered Charity Number: 1155150

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The Head Master

Dear Members of the Lancing Club

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ne of my final tasks before wrapping up the Advent Term is to write this annual letter for your magazine. When this publication reaches your letterbox, the Christmas and New Year festivities will be a long-distant memory, Easter goodies will have been in the shops for many weeks, and spring will hopefully be in the air. How time flies! This is particularly the case in a busy school where annual events - public examinations, plays, concerts, sports fixtures, major Chapel services - seem to come round with ever-increasing pace, swept up as we are by the wonderful enthusiasm and dynamism of youth! As one cohort passes out of the west doors of Chapel at the end of the emotional Leavers’ Service in June, so the next year group is ready to take their place with a sense of “you’ve been great; good luck, but it’s our turn now”. Thus one generation succeeds the next; faces and personalities change, but so much of what defines this great school remains constant. Our fine buildings, our Christian ethos and the strong values that are rooted therein represent an anchor-point in an ever-changing world. As I begin to prepare for my own departure for pastures new next summer, I have a keen sense that however enjoyable it has been to work amongst these fine Victorian neo-gothic buildings, the real privilege is in leading pupils and staff: it is therefore people whom I will remember and miss the most.

I am pleased to be able to report once again that the College is in very good heart this academic year. Almost 150 new pupils joined the school in September and have settled in remarkably quickly with the significantly help of the established members of the school. The 2013 leavers achieved some excellent examination results with over 20% of A Levels being awarded the top A* grade, 53% graded either A* or A, and almost one third of candidates achieving at least 3 A grades.

With the vast majority of our leavers securing places at their chosen universities these are extremely rewarding results in ‘raw’ terms as well as in ‘value-added’ terms. The latter shows that the outstanding teaching in our warm and nurturing environment adds significant value when compared with the performance of other independent schools, in some departments by as much as one whole grade of added value. At GCSE Level the College added on average approaching half a grade of value against the national average with an impressive array of core academic subjects exceeding this and adding nearly a grade of additional value.

The university sector remains in a state of significant flux which we monitor carefully in order to guide Sixth Formers about their UCAS

application. With an increasing number of places available at many Russell Group universities for applicants with strong A Level grades, we have moved from a situation a couple of years ago where applicants were chasing places to one where, at all but the most highly-selective institutions, places (albeit at a certain cost!) are now chasing applicants.

Applications to universities overseas, in particular the USA, are growing year on year.

Lower down the school the decision to adopt the International GCSEs in the majority of subjects provides a certain degree of stability in anticipation of major reforms of GCSEs and A Levels by Michael Gove. IGCSEs are favoured by many departments due to the lack of assessments during the two-year course (in contrast to GCSEs which currently have several controlled assessments) which allows more time to prioritise teaching and learning. Significant changes to the English examination system are afoot, beginning in 2014 when January modules are no longer available for taking (or re-taking). This will add a substantial burden to Upper Sixth Formers who will have to wait until the summer to re-take AS examinations. We are currently awaiting further details of the substantial reforms to A Levels for first teaching in most subjects from September 2015. Various options are available to us, depending on what we and other HMC schools make of the revised specifications, but the success of the move to IGCSEs suggests that International A Levels may be a welcome haven from the troubled waters of new syllabi and uncertain new grading standards.

Since September 2013 all pupils and staff have been equipped with an iPad provided by the College. Whilst it is certainly not our intention to replace pens and paper, this technology provides exciting educational possibilities for enhancing learning and fostering independent learning skills, which is the main reason for introducing them. Evening School is now set by staff electronically – it is entered by them into the College’s VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) and is sent automatically to pupils’ calendars, making the defence of not knowing what was set or for when untenable!

There have been some significant changes on the staffing front.

Mrs Pauline Bulman retired from her responsibilities as Bursar during the summer after 15 years of outstanding service to the College in this vital role. Mrs Bulman continues as Clerk to the Governing Body who have appointed Mr Mark Milling as the new Bursar. Having moved to a parttime timetable in 2006 Mr Alan Black decided to take full retirement from teaching at the end of the Summer Term by which stage he had completed an astonishing 42 years of service to the College – truly the end of an era! In June we also said farewell to Mr Rob Pavey OL, the Head of Modern Languages, as he headed off to his new post as Head of Sixth Form at Magdalen College School, Oxford. At the same time Mr Oliver Ridley, the Head of English, departed for Somerset to become Head of Sixth Form at King’s College, Taunton. He took with him Miss Nikki Dragonetti, the founding Housemistress of Sankey’s as a day girls’ house, to whom he had recently become engaged. They left with our warm good wishes for their future happiness together.

Mrs Emma Campbell, a member of the Mathematics Department, has succeeded Miss Dragonetti as Housemistress of Sankey’s, Mr Dominic Harman is now Head of English, Mr Sergei Drozdov Head of Modern Languages and Dr Andrew Betts Head of French.

The start of the new academic year in September saw a restructuring of the senior academic management of the College. As Assistant Head (Academic) Dr Stephen Cornford’s role is now focused on oversight of the three Senior School year groups – Third, Fourth and Fifth

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Forms. The Head of Sixth Form, Mr Stephen Ward, has joined the Senior Management Team and continues his important work with the two Sixth Form year groups. The final part of this development is the introduction of an important new role, that of Deputy Head (Academic), a Senior Management Team role that carries overall responsibility for the academic life and progress of the whole College.

Dr John Herbert joined us in September from Christ’s Hospital where he was previously Head of Teaching and Learning.

Following his appointment as Assistant Head (Pastoral) to succeed Mr David Austin, Mr Dan Connolly has stepped down as Housemaster of Second’s House after eight years in that post. Mr David Harvey, who joined us from Bloxham School where he was Head of Biology, has taken over at the helm of Second’s. Mr Andy Williamson has handed over the reins of the Chemistry Department after 24 years as Head of Department to Dr Mark Walsh.

Our warm congratulations go to the Second Master, Mr Jeremy McCullough, on his appointment to be Headmaster of Colston’s School, Bristol from September 2014.

The Sussex Pad building which was purchased by the governors in 2012 is now sporting a Lancing College sign and is currently being prepared to welcome pupils temporarily displaced by the extensive house refurbishment programme that will be under way by the time you read this. Amongst other recent developments of particular note is the Health Centre has also experienced a make-over with the creation of new consulting and treatment rooms as well as an area for teaching.

Sankey’s House has taken over part of the corridor previously occupied by the Health Centre to give additional space for the girls.

In January 2014 Broadwater Manor School becomes Lancing Prep Worthing on the retirement of the current Head, Mrs Kim Woodley.

The Woodley family has had a long association with the College (Kim’s children were all educated at Lancing) and there is a good number of former Broadwater Manor pupils at the College at the moment, so this is an exciting acquisition. The two Prep Schools will now be known as Lancing Prep Worthing (LPW) and Lancing Prep Hove (LPH). Father Roger Marsh (the College’s Chaplain from 1999 to 2009 whom many of you will remember) has been appointed as Acting Head at LPW for two terms while the governors recruit a new Head.

Drama and music have remained at a tremendously high standard, amongst the many highlights of the last year being the College Singers’/ Student Voices’ performance, under the baton of Neil Cox (rather appropriately on St David’s Day!), of Mozart’s Requiem, for which the soloists were all young OLs. The Lent and Advent Concerts were a delight as usual, and the Chapel Choir has been on stunning form once again. Contrasting productions have been enjoyed throughout the calendar year: Mr Phil Richardson directed Kindertransport in January, Mr Matthew Wilkes the junior production of Romeo and Juliet in May, and Mr Matt Smith Inspector Drake’s Last Case in the bucolic setting of the Open Air Theatre on Founder’s Day and then in November The Crucible in the Theatre.

On the sporting front there have been many fine performances, both team and individual, as recorded in the weekly sporting highlights on our website.

Over the last twelve months school groups have visited Italy (Skiing), Berlin (History/German), Oviedo (Spanish exchange), Belgium (French/ History/Physics!), Normandy (Sixth Form reading week), La Rochelle (French), Detmold (German), Barcelona (Spanish), Snowdonia and Cumbria (CCF), Morocco and Iceland (Geography), Amsterdam (Art),

Cornwall (Photography), Cuba and the Isle of Wight (Biology), the Brecon Beacons (Duke of Edinburgh Award) and Bisley (Shooting).

And visiting groups have been welcomed to Lancing from Ljubljana (with thanks to Andrew Page OL, HM’s Ambassador to Slovenia, for facilitating this link), Detmold and Oviedo.

Charity fundraising remains an important focus for the pupil body.

The Lent Term, our Charities’ Term, saw over £13,650 raised for a variety of good causes chosen by houses, and almost £16,000 has been raised for Malawi during the Advent Term, with the biennial Malawi Walk a particular focus on the first Saturday of the academic year in September. A cheque for £16,500 was sent to Open Arms before Christmas – these funds will pay for the running of the foster home Rose’s House as well as for the secondary education for the four boys whom we sponsor who live there. In addition, a cheque for £3,500 went to St Anne’s Hospital, Nkhotakota, where the monies will be spent on the renovation of the rural Chididi Health Clinic. The 2014 expeditioners will be helping decorate the clinic next July. Thus around £20,000 will have been disbursed in Malawi – which is outstanding.

As always Chapel remains at the heart of the school community, in the daily celebration of the Mass, regular whole-school services and the major occasions. Remembrance Sunday is always a highlight of the Chapel year, and remarkable for its solemnity. In 2013 the school had the infrequent experience of marking Holy Week, most of which fell during term time with the Palm Sunday service beginning in a freezing Lower Quad (with the Head Master particularly feeling the cold as he had just returned from Californian sunshine thanks to the OL gathering in San Francisco!) with the school and the Provost being led in procession into Chapel by a not-very-well behaved pony, pretending to be a donkey. In June we held an extraordinary service to mark the centenary of Archbishop Trevor Huddleston OL, and the Advent Term has concluded as usual with various Carol Services with the Chapel at its candle-lit finest.

I trust that the various publications we send you during the year help to keep you informed about the College. They certainly make it easier for me in writing this letter as there are too many highlights of the school year to give each an individual mention here. The College website remains the central source of current information: I hope you like its new design. Thanks to our new Digital Media Manager, Neil Ruff, we now have a significant presence on Facebook and Twitter, so please do follow us electronically as well as in spirit!

This is an opportunity for me to convey once again my grateful thanks for the funds donated by the Club and presented to me by your President at the Summer Reception in May. These allow me to provide grants to pupils who would otherwise not be in a position to take part in school trips and are therefore very much appreciated by the fortunate recipients and their parents.

I must now sign off what will be my final contribution to the Lancing Club Magazine. Next summer seems a long way away at present, but our departure for Hertfordshire and the exciting challenges that await me as the next Headmaster of St Albans School will soon be upon us. We shall leave Lancing with a heavy heart for we know it to be a great school, both in its history and its current incarnation: it has been an enormous privilege to serve the College as Head Master for the last eight years. I am grateful for, and humbled by, the many kind comments that have reached me following the news of my departure. By the time you read this, the announcement of my successor will have been made, continued > www.lancingclub.org | 15

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and I am sure that he will enjoy similar warm and loyal support from OLs to that which we have enjoyed. Caroline joins me in sending our very grateful thanks to the many OLs who have supported the school in myriad ways during our tenure – the hand of friendship you have extended has been a real blessing for us.

This comes from your alma mater with our very warm greeting to all OLs, and in particular to those who have joined the OL ranks during our years here.

Floreat Lancing!

Jonathan Gillespie Head Master December 2013

From

Catherine Reeve

The Development Office

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s I write this report in the first few days of 2014, it is impossible not to feel some excitement at the prospect of the year ahead.

Every New Year brings more challenges and opportunities and I feel privileged to be involved with Lancing at this stage of its development. 2013 was a year of surprises, not least the number of people joining the Lancing Foundation. I have been delighted by the continuing generosity of OLs, parents and former parents, staff and former staff whose support for the Foundation has reached new heights. The Foundation has raised £403,993 in the last year and £2.4 million since it started. We have good reason to have high hopes for the future.

We managed to pack an incredible twenty-one social events for OLs, parents, staff and pupils into 2013. You may not be aware that Lancing is recognised as having one of the best event programmes in the country and we wouldn’t have received this accolade if it wasn’t for the enthusiastic response we get from OLs. I am going to talk about two in particular as they encompass the role of the Development Office in building long term relationships and bringing the whole Lancing community together. We were the first Independent School to set up Over 60s lunches for its alumni and their success has been copied all over the UK by other Development Offices. The lunch in April 2013 had a record number of OLs attending any event since the Development Office held its first one in 2005. There is no doubt that the main reason for this largest gathering of OLs was that everyone was keen to hear from Sir William Gladstone, Bt.,K.G. who was Head

Master at Lancing in the sixties. It was a moving step back in time for those who attended and also an occasion for them to see that Lancing’s future is bright.

Another highlight of the year was the Gibbs’ Centenary celebrations in October. In his welcoming speech on the evening Matt Smith, Gibbs’ Housemaster said “The loyalty and affection Gibbs’ boys feel for their old house is manifest from the magnificent response we received from across the generations: from the 1940s onwards all eras are represented here... A hundred years young, we have much tonight to celebrate and much to be thankful for, fellowship and friendship above all. Gentlemen, this is your evening.” The oldest OL on the evening was Walter Selwyn, 1943-47 who was accompanied by two of his sons, Chris, 1970-75 and Roger, 1977-82. Peter Selwyn, 1972-77, the third member of the Selwyn clan, lives in New Zealand and was unable to attend. For me, occasions like this epitomise the spirit of Lancing as they provide the most rewarding sight of OLs picking up conversations after a long time almost as if the years have not intervened at all.

In some way our time at Lancing has shaped the rest of our lives and is one of the reasons that people return. Many of you remember the magnificence of our buildings and grounds, but perhaps forget that although rich in tradition Lancing has never been rich in foundation. We still need your support to continue the work of Lancing’s predecessors who laboured so hard on our behalf. The College relies on the generosity of its supporters and the Lancing Foundation will be the engine behind future developments; the support of OLs and parents will continue to be vital in the years ahead. The Foundation belongs to all of us. Lancing is fortunate in having every part of its community pulling together in support of the Foundation. Thank you to all of you for making Lancing’s future so much brighter.

The Woodard Schools (Southern Division) Benefit Fund If you are one of the many OLs who belong to the Fund, remember the benefits which membership bestows.

Bursaries can be awarded to members’ children who are being, or are about to be educated at Lancing or one of the other schools in the Southern Division. Financial need has, of course, to be demonstrated but, subject to this, the Head Master has the authority to recommend Bursary awards, and applications should be made direct to him.

Grants to cover the further education of members’ children, or for use to reduce hardship in situations where members are themselves in distress, are also available. Application for these grants should be made direct to the Secretary.

The Life Composition Fee is currently £115.

Further information can be obtained from: Annie Carr (Secretary) Byewood, Bolney Road, Ansty West Sussex RH17 5AW Telephone: (07768) 066405 Email: byewood@globalnet.co.uk

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Zainab Adegunwa 2011 2013 Handford Olivia Akufo-Addo 2008 2013 Field’s Alexey Alexeev 2008 2013 Gibbs’ John Angers 2008 2013 School Alex Archer 2008 2013 Second’s James Bailey 2012 2013 Head’s Aisulu Bakchieva 2011 2013 Manor Olutimilehin Bamidele 2008 2013 Teme John Bathgate 2008 2013 Teme Melanie Bennett 2011 2013 Sankey’s Daniel Berkley 2008 2013 School Nora Bollwerk 2012 2013 Handford Gabriella Philippa Bond 2009 2013 Manor Anastasia Borovikova 2010 2013 Manor Catherine-Louise Breuninger 2012 2013 Manor Alexandra Brünjes 2010 2013 Field’s Alexander Burch 2008 2013 Teme Rory Cahill 2010 2013 School Hester Josephine Catchpole 2011 2013 Handford Pui Yee Chan 2011 2013 Field’s Rachel Long-Yin Chan 2011 2013 Handford Michael Yu Pan Chan 2011 2013 Second’s Rebecca Chapple 2008 2013 Field’s Leslie Cheng 2011 2013 Gibbs’ Jodie Christmas 2008 2013 Sankey’s Milo Churchill 2012 2013 School Edward Clarke 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Joel Clarke 2008 2013 Head’s Robert Clarke 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Esther Cobbold 2008 2013 Field’s Joel Croucher 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Dai 2011 2013 Handford Isabella Kishen Dalmond 2007 2013 Head’s Seymur Damirov 2011 2013 Teme Demelza Davis 2008 2013 Sankey’s Gabriella Dickens 2009 2013 Manor Alexander Donohoe 2008 2013 Head’s Tatyana Doroshenko 2011 2013 Handford Kate Douetil 2010 2013 Field’s Max Ettinger 2010 2013 Head’s Claudia Fielding 2011 2013 Field’s Garway-Templeman 2008 2013 School Jean-Baptiste Hannah Goldhill-Watts 2010 2013 Manor Augusta Harmer 2010 2013 Field’s Charles Harris 2009 2013 Gibbs’ Beth Harvey 2008 2013 Manor Huseyn Hasanli 2011 2013 School Emily Hawes 2008 2013 Field’s Henry Hawes 2010 2013 Second’s Jasmine Hine 2008 2013 Sankey’s Timothy Holbrook 2008 2013 Head’s Justin Hwang 2008 2013 Teme Oliver Jackson 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Rebecca Jamieson 2008 2013 Manor Maximillian Kloucek 2012 2013 Gibbs’ Chaplin Ko 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Nikita Krasnov 2011 2013 Head’s Stefaniya Kravets 2011 2013 Manor Philipp Kuboth 2012 2013 Gibbs’ Tim Lam 2008 2013 Second’s Charmian Lam 2008 2013 Manor Christopher Lee 2008 2013 Head’s Rory Leggett 2009 2013 Head’s Jamie Lewis 2008 2013 Second’s George Linfield 2008 2013 School Chloe Liu 2011 2013 Handford James Lo 2008 2013 School Cameron Macfie 2008 2013 Second’s Sophie Macpherson 2008 2013 Field’s Alice Mayer 2011 2013 Handford Fionnuala McMorrow 2010 2013 Manor

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Molly McMorrow 2008 2013 Manor Amy Merrigan 2008 2013 Field’s David Millar 2008 2013 Second’s Amy Mills 2008 2013 Handford Guglielmo Minola 2012 2013 School Harri Morgan-Williams 2004 2013 Gibbs’ Saffron Noble 2010 2013 Manor Thaenthai Nuntileepong 2011 2013 School Alexander Olive 2006 2013 Head’s Louis Pakarian 2009 2013 Head’s Doh Yoon Park 2011 2013 Field’s Guido Peronaci 2011 2013 School Andy Petkov 2009 2013 Gibbs’ Emmaline Pintur 2011 2013 Manor Kitt Pollard 1999 2013 School Tiko Poon 2009 2013 Field’s Thomas Prichard 2008 2013 School Mary Reader 2011 2013 Handford Jodie Reed 2012 2013 Sankey’s Jake Reed 2009 2013 Second’s Hannah Richardson 2008 2013 Sankey’s Hugh Ryan 2008 2013 Teme Nina Sabah 2011 2013 Sankey’s Elizaveta Saigina 2011 2013 Handford Yana Samoylenko 2011 2013 Handford Arseniy Sayfulin 2008 2013 Teme Kasimir Schramm 2012 2013 Gibbs’ Philipp Schroeter 2011 2013 School Pia Schulte 2012 2013 Handford Jasmine Sham 2011 2013 Handford Callum Shepherd 2010 2013 Second’s Skinner 2010 2013 Head’s Louis Laura Smith 2011 2013 Sankey’s Edward Sparkes 2008 2013 Second’s James Spicer 2008 2013 Head’s Joshua Sprey 2008 2013 Second’s Aleksandar Stanchev 2010 2013 Teme Nicholas Stevens 2008 2013 School Franz Florian Straatman 2012 2013 Gibbs’ Li Constance Tang 2011 2013 Handford Artur Taran 2011 2013 Teme Elliott Taylor 2009 2013 Head’s Samanthi Theminimulle 2011 2013 Handford Olivia Thomas 2008 2013 Field’s Amelia Thompson 2011 2013 Sankey’s Augustus Threlfall 2008 2013 Second’s Nikolay Todorov 2009 2013 Gibbs’ Roman Trukhin 2011 2013 Gibbs’ Samuel Truscott 2008 2013 Head’s Connie Tse 2011 2013 Handford Henry Tsui 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Jacob Turner 2011 2013 Teme Megan Tyerman 2008 2013 Field’s Polly Tyerman 2010 2013 Field’s Edurne Valcarce Yrazusta 2011 2013 Handford Yulia Volkova 2011 2013 Handford Vladislav Vyuzhanin 2009 2013 Teme Ekaterina Vyuzhanina 2010 2013 Field’s Zhenni Wang 2011 2013 Manor James Wardle 2008 2013 Second’s Charles Warren 2008 2013 Head’s Annette Webster 2008 2013 Sankey’s Thomas Williams 2011 2013 Head’s Gabrielle Williams 2010 2013 Sankey’s Heison Wong 2008 2013 Teme Kin Yip Wong 2008 2013 Gibbs’ Yi Yang 2011 2013 School Li Cheng Louis Yee 2008 2013 Teme Nelson Yeung 2009 2013 Teme Henry Young 2008 2013 Head’s Liwei Zhang 2011 2013 Handford

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Thank you to all those who have supported another Editor for successful year of events arranged by the Club.

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MAGAZINE The third Mini Event was a visit to London to see the latest production from our President Sir Tim Rice “From Here To Eternity” at the Shaftesbury Theatre. There is a report on page 52.

The Club dinner was a stylish affair held in Florence Hall at the RIBA on 11th October 2013. The food for the event was beautifully presented – as we would expect from the home of British Architecture!

The last event of the year was the Christmas Carol Service returning to Chelsea Old Church and the party followed. We had a great turn out for 2013. The church was filled and the voices of the choir, OLs and guests was truly heart warming. We send our many thanks to Canon David Reindorp (Field’s 66-71) for inviting us to such a wonderful website, e-newsletters, and(Teme online venue.

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BURSARIES AVAILABLE The Lancing Lodge – Nigel Hardy Fellowship invites Pupils and young OLs to apply for bursaries.

The Old Lancing Lodge of Freemasons was founded in 1924.

Its membership is limited to OLs and those closely connected with the College. Through the generosity of one of its long standing members, Nigel Hardy (Head’s 1935-39) who died in 1998, income from a capital fund is available for bursaries.

Awards can only be made towards charitable objects.

These include education and travel which has an educational purpose.

School tours, sporting or otherwise, and educational trips, such as a field trip, qualify. Travel during a GAP year or while undertaking further education also qualifies, but those who apply need to show that there is an educational aspect to their travels.

Applicants must be under 26 years of age at the time of their application and will have to demonstrate that there is good reason for financial aid.

Funds are limited.

The Trustees of the Trust will assess applications and will normally seek comment from School staff who know the applicant.

Whilst only men may become members of The Old Lancing Lodge women have their own Masonic organisation – the bursaries are available to both sexes.

Application forms are available from the Head Master’s secretary, by phone, post or E-mail at hmsecretary@lancing.org.uk

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Lancing Prep Hove

The Old Lancing Lodge No.4660 The year 2013 was unusual for the OL Lodge. The Lodge members elected as Master, Paul Sealey (Teme 78-83), for a second year. Paul was assisted by his Immediate Past Master, J.Staunton (Second’s 9196). Lodge Chaplain is Rev. Canon D.P.E. Reindorp (Field’s 66-71), and Wardens A. Chandra (Sanderson’s 91-96) and J. Partridge (Head’s 7176). Other members of the Lodge also helped at the three annual meetings at Freemasons’ Hall, London. At the January meeting the Metropolitan Grand Master R.W. Bro. R.J. Race was invited and he presented 60 and 50 years certificates to W. Bros. J.W.O. Hughes and P.J.H. Kemp, this was a rare and great honour for the recipients as well as a historical event for the Lodge as a whole.

The Lodge held its usual September open dinner for wives, friends and recipients of funds from the Nigel Hardy Fellowship. There is an open invitation to OLs to come to this dinner. Just let me know a minimum of two weeks before hand, so that I can book dinner numbers. We will be dining at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Great Queen Street, London. The next open dinner is on Tuesday 23rd September 2014.

Amongst other donations the Lodge members voted on and made donations to:- The Lancing Foundation, Lancing’s Malosa sister school, (Malawi), Lancing Reading prizes and to the Lancing Lodge Nigel Hardy Fellowship and the Balrampur Foundation where A. Chandra is a Trustee (Sanderson’s 91-96). Membership is open to OLs or close associates of the school. OL Masons who are not members are made welcome. The Lodge meet three times a year at Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen Street , London.

The annual festival of the Public School Lodges Council last year was hosted by the Old Felstedian Lodge, at Felsted school, Essex on 1st June 2013. This year the festival will be hosted by the Old Reptonians at Repton School on 10th May 2014. It is their Lodges Centenary year.

Many of us enjoy these visits with our wives, and it gives us a chance to meet friends from the other 33 Public School Lodges. The Old Lancing Lodge Centenary will be in 2024 and our festival is planned to take place at Lancing College. The last festival held at Lancing was in 1985, and was attended by nearly 500 Masons and their wives, these festivals give a good opportunity to show off the school.

For further details about the OL Lodge or any information about Freemasonry in general please contact me. Philip G. Cook (Second’s 66-71) 20 Lucerne Gardens, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 4SE. Phone: 01489 785926 , Email: Philip.Cook3@ge.com www.oldlancinglodge.org.uk and e-mail info@oldlancinglodge.org.uk

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he above fund made donations to OLs for educational purposes.

Please look at the “Bursaries available” page in this magazine for further information. Over the last eleven years the “Fellowship” has made thirty eight donations to OLs who met the criteria for assistance. Please allow several months as the Trustees who manage the donations need to agree on the application forms, which are available from the Head Master’s Secretary or from P. G. Cook (Secretary Old Lancing Lodge).

No sooner have the OLs got used to the fact that there is a Lancing College Prep School catering for children aged 3-13 than we hear of the acquisition of Broadwater Manor in Worthing.

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taff and pupils in Hove are very excited by the prospect of having a sister school and the Lancing family just keeps on growing. The prospect of some feisty local derbies on the sports field along with joint educational opportunities for staff and pupils alike really whet the appetite as we continue to support the “Mother Ship on the hill”.

Here in Hove we continue to grow apace. Now a school of 230 pupils we have recently bought an adjoining bungalow to house the ever-expanding Nursery department. This is due to open in January 2014 and will enable us to build towards a two-form entry school of approximately 300. All this from our humble beginnings in 2002 when we opened with 130 boys and frankly wondered if we would ever reach the magical 150 mark!

Numbers are built on success and once again I am delighted to report a record number of scholarships and awards. This year we achieved six academic awards amongst scholarships for art, drama, sport and of course the much coveted all rounder (Ken Shearwood Award). Pupils at the Prep school continue to enjoy a wide range of opportunities and are encouraged out of their comfort zones with significant challenge.

No less than thirteen pupils gained county honours for sport last year including hockey, cricket and football (boys and girls) but we also have top level musicians and some genuinely talented artists.

The school production of “Bugsy Malone” was testament to the quality of our performing arts and we now include dance in that for the first time. The children chose the production and every pupil from Year 6 (age 11) upwards took part. We played to full houses at the College Theatre and received some very positive feedback from our audience. The biggest laugh of the week was of course when the Head Master was suitably splurged as he tried to make the closing speeches but this is typical of life in a school where a smile is the most important item on the uniform list!

For those who knew Mowden (as it was pre 2002) you might like to know that Chris and Judy Snell joined us in September to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of education in The Droveway as our current site opened its doors in September 1913. We had a marvellous night of good food and live music along with speeches from Dr Harry Brünjes and James Barrington OL. As a history teacher myself I hope that we never lose sight of our past but at the same time this is very much a school for the future.

Finally as we prepare for a new calendar year it might be interesting for OLs to note that Prep School pupils from Hove now make up just over a quarter of the third form intake each year so if anybody ever had doubts about the wisdom of acquiring a Prep School I think we have shown our worth. It is truly a privilege to be in charge of what is now an integral part of the great school that is Lancing.

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Summer Reception 17th May 2013

The Cholmondeley Room and Terrace, House of Lords was the prestigious venue for our Reception. Whilst the weather was not the best for a mid-May evening, there was a warm welcome to all.

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his year we met in the august surroundings of the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place – not far from Regents Park. Our thanks to our architect committee member, Neesha Gopal, whose membership of said body earned us access to this famous building.

We sat down for Dinner in the splendid Florence Hall – under the lofty ceiling and surrounded by great stone columns. Rev Peter Dewey said Grace. A fine Dinner with plenty of wine followed. The noise was enormous.

The Loyal Toast was proposed by Club Chairman Graham Robinson – who then welcomed us all between crackles and bangs from the Public Address system. Sadly, our President, Sir Tim Rice, was unable to join us as he was busy with the final rehearsals for his new musical show ‘From Here to Eternity’.

Graham then introduced our speaker, Barnabas Hurst-Bannister, who wove for us a most amusing, very clever and most carefully constructed tale of Lancing days, Lancing ways and Lancing people. As Graham Robinson remarked in his vote of thanks, this was clearly the result of much hard work, just as had been his memorable speech at the Seven Heads Dinner some years ago. We were most grateful and indeed privileged to have been there to enjoy it.

Dinner and speeches lasted well into the night – some of us had to dash away soon afterwards to catch trains home. Another successful Lancing Club event: many thanks to Neesha and Events Committee for organising it. You should have been there.

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nce again we all met at Chelsea Old Church for the nowtraditional Carol Service. The church was packed – and noisy too as old friends greeted one another in the few minutes before the service started.

The lights dimmed – and we were off again into all the tradition of Christmas – to hear the message of the angels – as the 15-strong OL Choir, assembled and conducted by Tom Robson, led off from the west door with the Advent Prose followed by ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ – solo plus processional.

Canon David Reindorp intoned the Bidding Prayer - and what a joy to hear again the traditional Prayer Book words (‘which’ art in heaven and ‘in’ earth too) followed by readings from the Authorised Version.

Seven Lessons and Carols followed. The choir was superb – this was the first time they had come together and after only an hour of rehearsal too. With plenty of volume, fine solos by Poppy Ewence, humming choruses by the men and descant in the final verses of the hymns, it was a brilliant and memorable performance – including a fine rendering of ‘Britain’s favourite carol’ (O Holy Night).

Just before the final Blessing, Canon Reindorp thanked all those who had arranged and contributed to another splendid occasion – Neesha Gopal, Tom Robson and the choir, Ben in the organ loft, Emily Guy for the programmes – and Peter Dewey for having come up with the idea of an OL Carol Service in the first place (despite having been in Sanderson’s).

After the service we all crossed to Petyt Hall where we enjoyed mulled wine, toasted cheese nibbles, sausage rolls and mince pies and admired the ‘Holbeins’ on the wall – Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More and Queen Elizabeth.

Another fine Lancing Club event: you should have been there.

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Henry Martin Gibbs Head Master’s House (1866-1869)

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he Centenary of the opening of Gibbs House was celebrated with a Reception and Dinner at the College on 5th October 2013. The function was attended by some 250 people including past Housemasters, old boys and current pupils. The current Housemaster Matt Smith welcomed all the guests and speeches were made by Christopher Doidge, Housemaster 1985-2000, Sir Michael Darrington (Gibbs’ 55-59) and John Bell, Housemaster 1968-75 But who was Henry Martin Gibbs? Why was he so philanthropic towards Lancing? What inspired him to support the College and its Founder Nathaniel Woodard.

Henry Martin Gibbs, “Martin Gibbs” (1850 -1928) was the son of William Gibbs (1790-1875) which is where our story starts. William joined the family firm with his brother Henry, coincidentally with their father Antony setting up a merchant bank Antony Gibbs & Sons. William worked in Spain for a period before having to return home to run the company on his father, Antony’s death in 1825. It was not until 1840 that the two brothers cleared their Father’s debts. In 1816 , George Gibbs & Son of Bristol together with William formed a shipping company.

George Gibbs was William’s uncle. Starting with slave trafficking, the shipping business was monopolised by the workload of Antony Gibbs and Sons. The company’s West African-Caribbean slave trade ceased in 1841 when Antony Gibbs and Sons started importing guano to be used as a fertiliser. The trade built up and, in 1856, it is recorded that 211,000 tons of guano were imported through the ports of London and Bristol.

William Gibbs became the richest non-nobleman in England. In his later years his philanthropy became proportionate to his wealth and the major beneficiaries were Keble College Oxford (Chapel and Hall) and St Michael and All Angels Church in Exeter. William, father of Martin Gibbs died in 1875.

William Gibbs mostly worked from London, but had to visit the port of Bristol quite frequently for business reasons. With his newly acquired wealth, he bought in 1843 Tyntes Place near Bristol, and in 1854 refurbished a few rooms of this recently remodelled mansion for his occasional use and renamed it Tyntesfield. It was not until 1863-65 that William made substantial alterations involving much rebuilding and made this the new family home. This was ‘the house with everything’.

The family were living in Gloucester Place, W1 at the time of Martin Gibbs’ birth on 30 May 1850, William and Blanche’s fourth and last son. He would therefore have been about thirteen when he moved to Tyntesfield – two years prior to going to Lancing.

It would seem that the majority of the Gibbs extended family went to Eton, so why was Martin Gibbs sent to Lancing? I can only suggest that there may be a connection with the ‘Oxford Movement’, aka the ‘Tractarian Movement’ – a religious society intended to promote Catholicism within the Church of England. Whilst at Oxford, Nathaniel Woodard was attracted by the Tractarian movement, as were John Keble (1792-1866) and Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1862) who was the principal founder of Keble College. I therefore make the presumption that, through the series of publications “Tracts for the Times”, a link may have been forged. William was very religious, and it may have been because of his previous Spanish connections that he was interested in this Anglo-Catholic movement. This might explain why Martin Gibbs was sent to Lancing instead of Eton and why William donated so much to Keble College Oxford.

However, with the Keble College connection, why did Martin Gibbs go to Clare College Cambridge in 1871 when Keble had opened its doors the previous year?

Martin Gibbs left Clare without sitting for his degree. In 1875 he started correspondence with The Revd Nathaniel Woodard – which would continue until shortly before Woodard’s death in 1891. However, they formed what may well have been a much stronger bond as, in 1882, Martin Gibbs married Emily Anna Otter (1854-1928), the sister of Sir John Lonsdale Otter (1852-1932) who had married Woodard’s only daughter, Elizabeth Audrey Woodard (d.1925).

With Woodard’s acknowledged enthusiastic expertise in finding benefactors, Martin Gibbs provided funds firstly for Great School, which was described as a schoolroom out of which should open twelve classrooms with a row of music rooms below and a common room for masters above the porch. He subsequently funded the Crypt and the completion of the Upper Quad as well as the building and establishment of Gibbs’ House which opened in 1913. Other gifts included the insertion of heraldic glass bearing the arms of benefactors and supporters of the Founder and a Spanish silver crucifix to the altar.

It is also interesting that, although he did not attend Keble College Oxford, Martin Gibbs is said to have provided (together with his brother Antony) finance for the hall and library at Keble.

And why did Martin Gibbs send his own sons to Eton rather than Lancing?

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Hence many men changed their names to that of the wife’s family so they could acquire their wife’s inheritance. Names became double- or triple-barrelled.

The Revd Nathaniel Woodard, rector at New Shoreham, recognised the imbalance that the aristocracy had created, and the 11 schools he founded, including Lancing (the first, opened in 1848), were established for the sons of officers and clergy – the new middle classes.

Interestingly, the word ‘snob’ is said to be derived from sine nobilitate meaning ‘without nobility’.

It is therefore of note that Martin Gibbs, son of a nouveau-riche, provided funds for the education of the middle classes whilst sending his own sons to a school for the aristocrats, nobles, and royalty – Eton.

Lancing and indeed former and current members of Gibbs’ House owe so much to Henry Martin Gibbs.

In those days amongst the nobility of Great Britain, titles, public positions, properties, estates, and wealth were traditionally inherited by the eldest surviving son, or, if there were no sons, the eldest surviving daughter. The remainder of the sons had to make their own way in the world, and it was common for them to become clergy or military officers, but they were of limited means by comparison with the eldest son. Of course, many a disinherited son would search for an heiress so he could marry and become the master of a new estate.

Retired Masters – Austin & Black

The following edited articles are reproduced with kind permission from the 2013 Lancing College magazine ‘Lancing Life’

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avid Austin – When it comes to considering David’s immense contribution to Lancing over a period of 36 years, his wife Lynn must take centre stage along with him. A wonderful partnership which supported David’s several roles over many years, in turn supporting so many pupils, especially the boys of Field’s House.

David’s abiding fascination with Physics is a marvel to wonder at and to delight in. He loved his teaching, took great pride in his laboratory and enthused his pupils through interaction with them in class. He would introduce his specialist subject into the most mundane situation or at the most inappropriate moment. On one trip to Malawi, and after a particularly fierce overnight wind, a group of expeditioners huddled around the wreckage of their collapsed tents to be treated to a disquisition on Hooke’s Law – the guy ropes stretched beyond their elastic limit. On another occasion, with one side of their vehicle gently sinking into a well-irrigated sugar field, the team learned of ‘resultant moments – the line of action lying outside the wheelbase’.

Robin Phillips (Gibbs’ 56-59) Photos: Henry Martin Gibbs The Gibbs Family - Tyntesfield Gibbs’ House

For that central and crucial span of 14 years in Field’s House, David and Lynn’s prodigious talents were able to flourish, creating a nurturing and supportive environment for the boys in their care. Personal engagement is paramount to David: he has an intuitive sense of how to frame a conversation with a pupil, especially if that conversation is likely to be a thorny one, and an inherent wisdom – how to listen to the sometimes inchoate yearnings, frustrations and grievances of adolescence. His support for his colleagues knew no bounds: for many he was the ‘go-to’ senior member of staff for any difficulty, whether of a professional or personal nature.

He was always very well turned out too. Alan Evans-Jones remembers David’s interview at Lancing in 1976: immaculate threepiece suit, flared trousers, kipper tie, hair down to the shoulder and a zapata moustache. Years later, he would appear on the football pitch in Mbalame village, shirt and shorts in razor-sharp creases, not a hair out of place: imperturbable in his premiership style. A talented and elegant games player and coach, he would outclass many colleagues and pupils with his tactical savvy, agility and style – on the tennis court, football field or golf links.

David graduated to Senior Housemaster, then Head of Boarding, and finally Assistant Head (Pastoral) – the designated Child Protection Officer of the College. The job title changed but David remained constant: ‘a calm, rock-like figure in the College’ (writes one colleague): ‘like having a Buddha on tap’ (writes another). Generous with his time: his advice was always valuable: someone you could rely on in a crisis.

Having run Field’s House so successfully with Lynn, he accepted and helped with its change to Lancing’s first all-age girls’ house.

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epic Sani sunrise, that elusive fish eagle will still be there, watching, waiting for David’s camera tripod to be meticulously and painstakingly set up before soaring majestically across the lake – just before David can click the shutter. 18 more young men and women will have the privilege of spending four weeks in what Jeremy Tomlinson described as ‘Mr.Austin‘s totally reassuring presence’, as he fields finances, first aid, football, photography – and (of course) Physics.

The final words are those of Peter Tinniswood: ‘I rated David at the top level and feel privileged to have worked with him. He deserves a great retirement. He has surely earned it’.

Right from the start it was understood that Alan was the natural successor to Donald Bancroft as Head of English and it is in that capacity that Lancing should celebrate this most gifted and professional colleague.

Alan set an example of close, enlightened study of the text, openness to opinion and rigorous, speedy marking of work. He gave confidence to his pupils, making them feel valued and competent. As Head of Department he gave real support and practical help while leaving freedom for individual preferences.

He is an acknowledged expert on popular culture and music, from Music Hall to the Jazz Age; from silent movies to Broadway. He is a connoisseur of theatrical scandals; South Cost seaside resorts; exotic Anglo-Catholic strongholds and German spa towns, from which he lan Black – Tributes were would sometimes send enigmatic postcards.

There followed tribute based on the Jubilate Agno by Christopher paid to Alan Black at a celebratory evening Smart (c1760) – on which Alan had done his B.Litt research: So: by Jeremy Tomlinson (RJT) on Let the shade of Bancroft rejoice with Cornford and Ridley: For behalf of the English Department Alan was tactful and discreetly dependable during their reigns; and in salute to a colleague and a friendship covering some 42 Let Gove rejoice with Ofqual and Ofsted: For Alan has adapted years – also to Oliver Ridley for to new exam criteria and grade boundaries; his excellent stewardship of the Let A Level and GCSE candidates rejoice in their labours: For department over the past seven Mr Black will sit their exams as they do; years.

Let Shakespeare rejoice with Chaucer and Milton: For Alan has Oliver Ridley and Nikki Dragonetti had hosted a Farewell Dinner kept their writings vibrant into another century; earlier for Alan at which they performed a wonderful song in his Let Arthur of the house of Miller rejoice with Scott Fitzgerald honour and Dominic Harman read a brilliant celebratory parody of and Tennessee Williams: For Alan has seen into their souls Hiawatha. and made them accessible; In 1971, the new Head Master, Ian Beer, announced the appointment Let Catullus rejoice with Pliny and Virgil: For Alan has made of ‘someone to teach English, who would be rather liked’. Under Ian them to be remembered; Beer’s new broom, the classrooms were modernised, chalk boards Let Horace rejoice with the ultra-vires poet Burns: For Alan went, the old desks removed and carpets laid – all to the horror utters trenchant epithets and aphorisms in the softest brogue; of some of the ‘old barnacle’ staff (some of whom had been there since the 1920s. With this revolution, in September, came Alan - an Let the shades of Halsey and Witherington rejoice with Dennis exhilarating breath of fresh air from north of the border, whose only and David: For Alan embraced the agrarian tradition; previous experience of Lancing was performing here with the Balliol Let John and Kate, house of Teme, rejoice: For there Alan Players – anarchic, histrionic interpreters of the classics. Perhaps on the made his nest; strength of that, Alan was made to teach Latin from the start: a very Let every timid Third Former and every brash Sixth Former significant part of Alan’s contribution to Lancing education. rejoice with every spotty Fourth Former and every vexatious From that time onward, Alan occupied a classroom in Great School Fifth Former; For Mr Black will treat them all equally and and, for a few years, very spartan rooms in the Masters’ Tower, where all will come to value his approval; For he is the master of there was a considerable community of resident bachelors. Memories the telling phrase and the witty riposte; For his anger though of those days are of constant laughter, schoolboyish pranks, watching terrible is brief and effective; For he will not do destruction if the Marx Brothers on film late at night, nipping out to secondhand he is well fed with evening schools, neither will he spit venom bookshops and hunting for rare 78’s, which were already Alan’s passion, without provocation; For he is tenacious of his point; For he is and longer outings in an old Bentley. a mixture of gravity and waggery; For he is good to think on, if He worked on various theatre productions – once taking a show to St.Michael’s Camberwell, sleeping on the floor in the Head’s study – a man would express himself neatly; For he is an instrument for and acting in several productions. Alan was the most acrobatic Laertes the children to learn benevolence from; For when his day’s work since 1604 and an equally combative ugly sister in later pantomimes. is done, his business more properly begins; He also had a go at editing the magazine, at chairing the Elizabethans Let all colleagues rise to drink to the health and happy and at running the public speaking (‘public yapping’ he called it). retirement of Alan: After a few years, Alan sharpened the focus of his job description.

For he is a jolly good fellow!

He did five memorable years as Senior Tutor in Sankey’s when it was a hothouse for Oxbridge one term and a cooling house for old lags the Photos: David Austin centre with Matt Smith left Hilary Dugale centre and other two. He had a long and distinguished pastoral role in Field’s and Catherine Krause right. later in Teme, as well as supporting countless devoted tutorial pupils. Alan Black

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The Trevor Huddleston Centenary Lady Parkinson’s talk at Lancing College

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hat life encompassed 85 years and much of it is in the public domain. His links with his family were private and from our point of view it was very much a policy of FHB (Family Hold Back). All of us knew his real family were the Community of Resurrection, and his involvement with us depended on a large part on his commitment to that community. In the event he somehow managed to remain very close to us all.

I wonder how much family background and tradition plays a role in someone’s life. Traditionally the Huddleston men, who can be traced back to Anglo Saxon times, followed careers as Clergymen, landowners, served in the Army or Navy or to help run the Empire. One famous Clergyman was John Huddleston, OSB, who helped Charles II escape after the battle of Worcester. Charles, when King, realised that a Roman Catholic priest post Reformation, would have a tough time, so he invited him to serve the then Queen Mother and to live in the Royal Household at Somerset House for the rest of his life. The story goes that when the King was dying the Duke of York took Father John to him and said “Sire, this good Priest saved your life, he now comes to save your soul.” Father John duly heard the King’s final confession and accepted him into the Roman Catholic church.

Trevor’s Father and my Grandfather followed another family tradition and joined the Navy at the age of 15. He and four of his brothers all ended up in India. He as Director of the Royal Indian Marine, the others in various capacities committing their lives to that country. My Grandfather, a tall powerful man with the jutting jaw of a Huddleston, was a very brave man. Early in his naval career he became famous for saving the lives of four men when the ship, the SS Warren Hastings, hit rocks just off Reunion in the Indian Ocean. I will now read his account of what happened.

“On the night before she was due there or early in the morning of the 14th January, 1897, we were steaming through heavy rain squalls and a heavy sea, at a speed of about 14 knots, when we struck the rocks off the island of Reunion. The history of the wreck has often been told and I need not recapitulate it or enlarge on the part I played. Suffice to say there were 1,372 souls on board and all but two were saved. The discipline of both soldiers and the crew was considered so wonderful that an account of the affair was read to every Regiment in the British Army, and by order of the Kaiser to every Regiment in the German Army. I was a very junior officer and had no responsibility, though I was court martialled, with the rest of the officers. Many exaggerated stories of my supposed heroism were disseminated, but setting these aside I was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society and the silver medal of Lloyds. I received also the thanks of the Government of India and of the House of Commons. Perhaps, however, the greatest honour done me, and certainly the one I appreciate most, was that I

“Lord Lieutenant, Head Master and Chairman of the Governors. Thank you for inviting us here today to celebrate the Centenary of Trevor’s birth. I know how much he loved his school and what an impact it had on his future life.” was made an honorary member for life of the King’s Royal Rifles mess.

This from a Regiment which makes no one an honorary member of its mess was an honour indeed.”

Lest you think I am overly proud of my family, I must tell you we had our fair share of scoundrels, one of whom was hung, drawn and quartered.

I suppose, therefore, that we should not be surprised that Trevor had inherited so many qualities of his Huddleston ancestors; a religious calling, bravery, a commitment to a life in another country, and the courage to fight a huge battle against evil and injustices, a fight to win that battle against Apartheid.

Trevor went to South Africa in 1943 in the middle of the war. It was not until after the war that his family saw him again and only then on his infrequent visits home. He saw his Father, Stepmother and my Mother as many times as he could. I remember we met in Devon and have a photo of him in the garden with his Father - he a thin ascetic man, a monk and a committed socialist - and my Grandfather very much the Sailor and a servant of the Raj almost complete contrasts in their lives and yet had both a love and respect for each other.

Trevor was able to come to my Confirmation and gave me my first Communion at my school in Malvern. I and my brother got to know him well. I had a deep love and respect for him, and over the rest of his life, carried over a long correspondence with him. Indeed his personal letters and newsletters from South Africa kept me much involved in his battle over there, not only in Sophia Town, but with the South African government.

He returned home in 1956 and in due course because Bishop of Masai in Tanzania, Bishop of Stepney and Archbishop of the Indian Ocean. His life was dominated by his determination to overthrow Apartheid. He told us on numerous occasions, not to expect this to happen in his lifetime.

Meantime, he managed to spend time with his Father and other members of his family. Two of our daughters had their weddings conducted by him, grandchildren were baptised by him and he was there to take the funerals of his Father and my Mother. There were occasions when he and Cecil had some pretty good political discussions, and on one such occasion turned to him and said “Cecil, I think you are trying to convert me, I must tell you that I am a professional converter!”

Our three daughters knew him well despite his busy life, and he played a small but significant role in their lives, both when times were good and bad. This was exemplified when Mary became very ill. This is an except from a letter he sent me at that time.

Indeed, although we seem never to meet, I do hold you all in my daily prayers. I am so truly sorry about Mary, for I know what a great worry and anxiety it must be to you both. But of course it isn’t all that

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Lancing Club Sport It is pleasing to see that the various reports from the OL Sports sections confirm that they are all in good health and providing fun and competitive sport to their members.

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ost of the sections are self sufficient in that they fund their different sports by subscriptions from their members, however The Lancing Club has increased its financial support over the years, mainly to assist with travel costs and other costs for students and recent leavers. A supply of new young members is vital for the health of all the sports sections and often whilst earning power is limited, a little help is needed for longer journeys and overnight stays.

Without wishing to single out any particular sport, I feel mention should be made of the Lancing Rovers and their performance in winning the Cricketer Trophy. After several years of under achieving, they have emerged with a talented, enthusiastic squad and will be looking to retain this Trophy once more in 2014.

Sport is a great way to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues from your days at Lancing and all are made very welcome to participate and support the sport concerned. If you would like to express an interest please contact the Sports Secretary whose details will be found on page 5 of this Magazine.

Nick Evans (Sanderson’s 53-57) Sports Coordinator

Lancing Old Boys Football Club

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he 2012-13 season was one not without its successes for Lancing Old Boys. The First XI, under the stewardship of Simon Wright, established themselves as the second best team in the Arthurian Premier League, finishing 12 points clear of the team in third place, and were only bettered by an undefeated Old Carthusians side who won the double. The team played some excellent football, helped by the injection of some new blood into the side, and also the benefit of the coaching skills of Nigel Bennett. A closely fought first round defeat to eventually winners Charterhouse in the Dunn was compensated by an excellent run in the AFA cup, a competition entered by all the amateur clubs in London. The LOBs reached the fourth round, and

were the last Arthurian League team standing, which is no mean feat in a tournament that contains many of the best amateur sides in the country. All in all a very positive season and one we are building on this season.

Jordan Sriharan’s second team experienced two types of form in a topsy-turvy season – league form and cup form. League form was erratic to say the least, with fantastic had fought wins against the likes of Wellington, Charterhouse and Haberdashers mixed with some abject performances the same sides in the return fixtures. In a very tight division, where most sides were capable of beating each other, eventually the LOBS finished mid-table, but only to points above the relegation zone. It was a different story in the cup, where LOBs marched to the final of the Junior League Cup to face the Carthusians (again…), with an array of fantastic, hard fought (and occasionally fortuitous) victories. In a very even final, Lancing were finally felled by a wonder strike in the last minute of the game, having had a goal of their own unjustly disallowed a minute earlier.

However the club were not to be denied silverware, and this came in the form of the Derrick Moore Veterans Cup. Jon Carr’s team asserted themselves as the best Vets side in the league with several dominant displays, culminating in a comfortable 3-1 win on the final against Old Salopians.

The season was wrapped up with an excellent end of season tour to Budapest, organised by Chris Williams and attended by 16 LOBs, which involved two games against local sides, who provided excellent opposition and hospitality. The destination for 2014 is still to be confirmed….

All in all another thoroughly enjoyable and positive season for the club. We benefitted from getting through several youngsters to breathe new life into the side. New players and recent leavers are the lifeblood of our club and so anyone who wants to get involved, please do contact get in touch with me or the development office and would be great to get you involved.

Gareth Allen (Chairman LOBC)

Lancing Old Boys Lawn Tennis Club Founder’s Day

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he Founder’s Day match on 25th May was a great success, with eight pairs including two ladies’ pairings. Our players were Jonathan and David Greenyer, John Lewisohn, Richard Blackburn, John Camping, Richard Patching, Richard Rawlings, Peter Marland, Dick Baker, Simon Strange, Oliver Harris, John Scott, Sally Blackburn, Kath Baker (nee Bowen), Sally and Linda Podlasinka. It was a close result, with in Pool A the OLs triumphant with a 5 – 4 win. Pool B was a draw with the last match between the third pairs drawn. This was our first match on the resurfaced courts which played well, apart from rabbits having grazed on courts 5 and 6! James Cowie (Head Groundsman) advises that the courts will be overseeded again this year.

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Lancing Old Boys Golf Society

L We appreciated the lunch provided prior to the match, as well as the tea which was enjoyed by the players and spectators. Our grateful thanks go to Kelly Edwards and Jan Hayward-Voss for all the arrangements, as well as the College’s excellent catering and hospitality. This year’s Founder’s Day match will be on Saturday 24th May, preceded by the LOBLTC AGM at 12.45 in the Tennis Pavilion.

D’Abernon Cup Oli Tritton and Mike Simpson represented LOBLTC at the first of two round-robin fixtures on Saturday 13th April at Stoke Park Golf and Country Club. Matches were played versus Oundle, Harrow, Bromsgrove, Eton and Bradfield, with the outcome only being settled in the very last round. Match wins, sets, games and even points won were totalled to decide which two sides went through to the next round.

Lancing came within one point of going through to the quarter finals.

Harvey Rawlings will continue to manage the D’Abernon Cup side, so if you are one of our top players wishing to be considered, please contact him: Harvey Rawlings 01273 229 883, email: harvey.rawlings@ charles-stanley.co.uk Other fixtures Regular matches include annual fixtures against the Grasshoppers LTC, which offers both mens’ and ladies’ doubles, plus some mixed doubles.

The day has the feel of a tennis party with players and supporters enjoying the atmosphere and special setting at Lancing. The 2014 fixture is on Sunday 20th July starting at 11.30am.

The Old Carthusians fixture always offers a high standard of tennis, so we encourage our potential D’Abernon players to play in this match.

This year’s Charterhouse match will be on Saturday 9th August.

The Weald had brought a strong side on 27th July in the hope of reversing recent results, but rain affected the match, so we all retreated to the tennis pavilion to enjoy an early tea, but the match had to be abandoned. This year’s Weald match will be on Saturday 26th July.

We are very keen to add more players (male and female) to the potential playing list. All standards are welcome, so if you wish to play on any of the dates given above, please contact Richard Blackburn on 07973 264 699, email blackburn.r@btinternet.com.

ancing Old Boys Golf Society (‘LOBGS’) has enjoyed another hectic year with some terrific golf played and the two main society events in May and September benefiting from faultless weather.

The year unfurled as follows.

The 10th March saw the curtain raiser for the LOBGS season with the Halford Hewitt trial at Royal St George’s organised by scratch captain Mark Gurney. With an abundance of talent at his disposal Mark’s only difficulty was in deciding who to leave out and in his own words “I was privileged to have the strongest squad to pick from in my time as Captain.” After a highly competitive day the five pairs selected for this scratch foursomes event were Ross Gilbert/Scott Baker, Martin Slumbers/Chris Pettie, Olly Kenning/Matt Thompson, Mark Gurney/ Justin Higgo and Robert Harker/Nigel Munn with Peter Earl and Shaun Scade narrowly missing out but travelling as subs.

Roll on one month and one day and LOBGS finest were reconvening at Royal Cinque Ports (Deal) on a bleak April Thursday morning with a strong cold continental wind blowing in from the Channel. The old adversary in this first round derby was Brighton College, weaker perhaps on paper but like the school itself, on the up. They will need however to wait another year for success as Lancing’s blend of youthful fireworks and cool headed experience maintained control throughout and despite a strong finish from an untiring rival LOBGS won out by 3½ matches to 1½.

An early finish on the Thursday could have caused problems with the team having most of the afternoon and evening to entertain themselves but the skipper managed to keep the lid on revelries and it was a primed LOBGS who were out second match against the Midland’s Trent College again at Deal on the Friday morning. The weather had deteriorated further with light rain being added to the cold wind but the standard of golf remained high and urged on by a large OL contingent including Colin Herbert, Nick Evans, Chris Martin, Society Captain Donald Parvin and Matty Rogerson, Lancing largely controlled events winning by the same margin as on the previous day.

With Lancing right at the top of the draw luck would have it that the 3rd round match was also to be played on the Friday. The opposition was Merchant Taylors’ a step up in quality as measured by the Anderson Scale. This was a real tussle with all matches close throughout. In all four games went to the last hole from which Lancing was only able to come away with 1 point. The cut and thrust of those closing holes were the only difference between the sides and in a match that could have gone either way LOBGS ended losing out by 3 ½ matches to 1 ½. A mark of the quality of this performance can be seen from recent news that continued >

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Merchant Taylors’ went on to win the Grafton Morrish later in the year.

Special mention should go to Ross Gilbert and Scott Baker playing top who won all their matches. We wish Scott well in his new life down under, his golf shoes will take some filling.

In other Tournaments golf results were mixed: • In the Mellin Salver Peter Earl led the Lancing team to victory in the 1st round against Bedford. Peter was joined by Simon and Jon Lincoln, Richard Ibbetson and Andrew Baker, and the Mellin President himself, David Hargreaves. In the 2nd round Colin Herbert took over from Peter with Lancing narrowly losing out to Downside 2 matches to 1.

Running concurrently the Peter Burles Salver for over 65s saw our team of Chris Martin and Jon Burrough and Tony Hudson and Paddy O’Connor lose in the 1st Round to Bedford, but then proceed to win through into the Final of the Plate. David Hargreaves took over from Chris for the Final where Bradfield proved a little too strong. In the Bunny Millard Salver for over 75s our team of John Giggins and Michael Hughes, who in 2012 had reached the Final, lost out on a semi-final place. All in all it was a successful Mellin year, but we are aware that we need to find some new players for the future, having been reliant on the same “old faces” for quite a while; • In the Sussex Schools Challenge at Walton Heath in August Brighton turned the tables on LOBGS pushing our Society into third and just managing to pip Hurstpierpoint for top spot after a “putt-off”; • LOBGS did not make the previously mentioned Grafton Morrish finals at Brancaster. At the qualifier in May a number of players were off colour at Knole Park and form was not helped by some foul weather mid-round; and finally • after a couple of years on the sidelines the Society was once more invited to field a team in the Royal Wimbledon Public Schools Putting competition on a balmy evening in July. The weather proved hotter than LOBGS’ putters, suffice it to say we will need to wait another couple of years before we’re invited back again.

Turning to the main Society events, the Spring Meeting was held at Worplesdon in early May with the Autumn Meeting taking place at West Sussex at the start of September. The venues were superb and the intention is to return to both in 2014 at around the same times of the year.

Worplesdon on a perfect Spring Day shone forth like a vision of Blandings Castle. In the morning singles Tony Hudson conquered local lad Justin Higgo on a count back to win the President’s Cup and a marvellous Captain’s Prize donated by Donald Parvin. Another Worplesdon member Martin Slumbers performed brilliantly in the afternoon Greensomes and he and his partner, new Society Secretary Charles MacKendrick, stole victory despite the latter’s efforts to deposit it firmly back in the jaws of defeat.

At West Sussex in the Autumn Meeting the golf was as warm as the weather with Halford Hewitt star Ross Gilbert knocking it round under par in the morning enough to win the Macalister Trophy for best scratch score but being pipped for the Autumn Cup for best handicap score by Oliver Harris again on a count back. Ross’s partner Adam Jannece took the guest prize and the pair then teamed up in the afternoon Greensomes and ran eventual winners Neil Grainger and guest Iain Clark a close second for the Macadam Trophy.

The Society also holds annual fixtures against three other Old Boys teams which, while still competitive, provide an opportunity for an excellent social day’s golf. A mid-Spring outing at Littlehampton

versus Sherborne was slightly marred by torrential rain but the course stood up to the weather and the standard of golf somehow remained high. Sherborne proved stronger on the day but new member Nick Mukherjee playing with stalwart and match organiser Oliver Harris provided a ray of LOBGS sunlight in the gloomy conditions with a convincing win. Next to Woking at the end of June to take on Radley and this time a well earned victory for the OLs with Nick and Oliver picking up two further points. Finally onto Walton Heath in August where David Hargreaves got together what seemed a strong side to face Eastbourne. Sadly however for the fifth year running we were unable to wrest the Lanbourne Trophy from Eastbourne’s grasp with the only bright spots being Danny Hewitt’s half in a singles match against the formidable Brian Meaby and Donald Parvin and Neil Grainger achieving a fine win. Perhaps next year when the event is to be moved to the end of September at West Hill we will have better fortune.

Plans for a golf day with pupils from the College together with us providing support for a School Championship did not quite come to pass in 2013. However golf at the College is going from strength to strength and LOBGS is keen to support its development and will definitely do more in this respect in 2014.

Thanks must go to all those who were involved in organising these events without whose help the Society would cease to function and a special mention to Scratch Captain Mark Gurney who has now carried this responsibility for 6 years.

Finally a message to any OLs not currently members of our Society but keen perhaps to play a bit more golf in friendly company on some great courses – if you want to find out more just send your email address to charlie@mackendrick.plus.com and we’ll take it from there.

The Lancers Rugby

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e experienced a bit of a chastening during the 2012/2013 season after our promotion to Kent 1. Seven senior players left due to parenthood or relocation and we struggled all season just staying up after a hard fought victory over Kings College.

We have fared much better during our second season in Kent 1 with good victories over Shooters Hill, Hastings & Bexhill, Kings College & Sittingbourne. We are able to field 3 regular men’s teams and are well known for our enthusiastic running rugby. The club is in a healthy position sitting in the top half of the table but we don’t quite have the structure in place to take the step up to London 3 and be competitive.

Photo above: the Lancers after an opening day victory over Shooters Hill.

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Lancing Rovers Cricket Little did we know when we fell to a potentially career defining one hundred run defeat to the College 1st XI on Founder’s Day, that the season would end on such a massive high two and a half months later.

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ith the future in mind it’s always tactically astute to let the College win, but fine forties from skipper Crane, Ballamy minor and Fazakerley laid the foundations for a competitive score of 198-8 off 52 overs, the pick of the Rovers’ bowling came from Jamie Betts with 4-43 off twelve overs. But the Rovers never got going and a top score of 22 from Sam Salameh points to a total of just 98 all out, Crane again leading from the front with 3-30, one for the future I would suggest.

Next up came the Old Monmothians in the quarter final of the Cricketer Trophy played at Lancing. Batting first we kept the scoreboard ticking over, Steve Crosby and Mike Johnson both with 45, and George Holman with 55 took us to 268-6 from our 50 overs. Nine catches in the OMs innings indicates their rather frenetic approach to the chase, and with just one significant innings they fell 36 runs short, skipper Yo Salameh doing most of the damage taking 4-23, our first ever victory in the short life of this tournament.

So we marched into the semi-final a fortnight later, again at home, and found ourselves playing the Denstone Wanderers, a fellow Woodard School, but one with clearly different values. Only one of their players arrived on time, and we eventually started forty minutes late against ten men! We stuck them in thinking they were in complete disarray, but to their credit they fought their way to 230-6, more competitive than we had anticipated, Yo Salameh again the pick of the bowlers with 2-30 off ten overs. With plenty of gaps in the field though we chased down their total with relative ease, A classy 67 from Joe Shinners up front, followed by a marvellous 57* from Mike Johnson, saw us home with over eight overs to spare, we were in the final, which I’m pretty sure is a Rovers first.

We played Steyning CC the following day, the first official day of Rovers week at Lancing, and still riding on a high, we put them to the sword, batting first we declared when George Holman reached his maiden “first class” century, a magnificent 105* out of a total of 211-6, which, having been 13-2 is a decent score. Steyning never came close, and apart from a fine 61 from Jones, they were all out for 161 in just 36 overs. Mike Johnson took out the middle order with 3-13 and the President rolled back the years taking 1-0 in five overs.

Uppingham were our guests on Tuesday, and with no senior pros on parade, the future of the club deemed it an unnecessary exercise to fill in the score book, legend has it that Uppingham batted first scoring in excess of 300 runs, and we batted out for a comfortable draw, with George Holman in the runs once again.

The cream of Sussex, in the form of the Martlets rocked up on Wednesday and promptly racked up 260-9 off 52 overs before declaring, their key innings being a half century by Dutta who was finally snared by Jamie Ballamy, but Jaime Betts did the most damage, cleaning up the tale taking 4-58 from 13. In reply, wicket keeper/batsman Steve Crosby opened up with a superb 85 but it wasn’t enough, and despite

a fine 44 from the aforementioned Ballamy, we were bowled out just 33 runs shy, a much better game than the previous day though by all accounts.

Not much to report for the game against the Old Malvernians apart from the fact that they didn’t turn up, or contact us to say so. We subsequently found out that they had decided to play elsewhere that day!!

Next up was a new fixture against the Wanderers, played at Esher CC. Despite the London location, and contacting no fewer than 72 players, we turned up with ten, which included two “ringers”, one of them a Commonwealth Games 800m bronze medalist. That said, we batted first and a fine century from Steve Crosby, 103*, and 45 from George Holman, both also talented wicket keepers, we declared at 223-4. Unfortunately, being one man and half a dozen bowlers short we lost by 9 wickets, the one success coming from a Shrewsbury Hermit!

So, the Cricketer Trophy Final played at Gerrards Cross CC against the Old Georgians, the last match of the season, and a glorious opportunity to create Rovers’ history. With Rob Wakeford and Joe Shinners unavailable for selection, we drafted in Brandon Hanley and George Campbell. The OGs rocked up in chinos and school ties, we didn’t, they had loads of support, we had four, but that would only make the victory even sweeter. We won the toss and decided to field first, and a wicket in the second over vindicated that decision, in fact after sixteen overs we had them 61-5 and the Rovers’ twitter account (@LancingRovers) was going into overdrive, even though most of our followers were actually playing! Unfortunately their skipper decided to take things seriously and put on 62 for the 6th wicket which was finally broken by the subtle off breaks of George Campbell. We then took wickets at regular intervals, and they managed to drag themselves up to 211-9 from their 50 overs, and that includes 30 wides! a pretty good effort when 150 looked par half way through. Brandon Hanley was exceptional with the new ball, bowling with pace and bounce from his 8 foot frame, he finished with fantastic figures of 1-27 from his 10 overs, but even more impressive were Yosef Salameh’s dollies, he was given far too much respect by the batsmen, and his figures of 10-3-1-23 are awesome, but everyone chipped in, Robin Frean’s leg spin accounting for their skipper for a fine 47, and two wickets each for Jamie Ballamy and Campbell.

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Standing (L-R) Jeremy Green, Brandon Hanley, Mike Johnson, Jamie Betts, El Presidente, George Campbell, Steve Crosby, Statto (scorer).

Kneeling (L-R) Jamie Wood, Robin Frean, Yosef Salameh*, George Holman (wk), James Ballamy

And so to the run chase, we genuinely batted down to 9, and had every confidence in 10 and 11 should it come to that. Steve Crosby and Jamie Wood opened up, but found things tough going, the latter going LBW to his third ball, perhaps a tad unlucky, and Steve played on in the third over, 11-2. But that brought Jeremy Green to the wicket, he owed us runs, and he paid up in full, smacking their “quickies” to all parts of the ground, and out of it on a couple of occasions, and with George Holman they put on 69 in very good time for the 3rd wicket to put us back on track. When George chipped one to mid off for an incredibly patient, but vital 7, that brought George Campbell to the crease, who’s last major contribution to the Rovers was a century against Charterhouse in the Cricketer Cup a decade or so ago. George put on 23 with Jez before he went LBW for 51, 14 with Mike Johnson, unluckily run out when the umpire was looking the other way, 46 with “Boom Boom” Hanley and an unbeaten 52, appropriately enough, with the skipper, to finish 71*, a great knock.

So the Rovers won by four wickets with over six overs in hand, not exactly a stroll in the park, but as comfortable as you could make a final.

Queue scenes of wild jubilation from the crowd of four, and the first piece of silverware in Rovers’ history had been secured.

All in all a fantastic season, played 8, won 4, lost 3, drew 1. The most pleasing aspect is that on most occasions the average age of the team was below 25, not only does this make it easier to “hide” some of us oldies, but we now have the nucleus of a side that really enjoy their cricket, and each other’s company, and that augurs well for the future.

We’re not as fortunate as the football club for example in terms of resources but I really think we’re heading in the right direction, and with the work that Raj Maru is doing at the College, we should see some real success over the coming years, and long may that continue.

Finally a quick thank you to Midge and Statto our scorers, and to Raj Maru, James Cowie and the catering staff at Lancing, without whom we’d be in an awful pickle.

We would also like to thank the Lancing Club for their continued support to cricket at the college, which has been and continues to be so crucial to the future of the Lancing Rovers.

STOP PRESS – The Draw for the 2014 competition has just been completed and Lancing Rovers face Old Leightonians at Lancing College on 22nd June

The OL Eton Fives Club – Review of 2012-2013 season

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he Lancing Club had its most encouraging season for many years.

A number of new younger players have started to play for the club and some former players are finding their way back to London and taking up the game again. That has meant that we fulfilled easily our fixture list of 23 matches and the percentage of our regular players who are Lancing former pupils has increased remarkably. The match managers are now finding it a lot easier to get sides and this has encouraged us to increase the number of fixtures to 30 for the 2013/2014 season .

We finished the season with a mid-table place in League Three. Our priority is that players of all standards take part in the matches, so we are happy with this result. We have 3 or 4 players who play regularly in the higher leagues for other clubs and we are not yet at the point when we could raise enough players of the requisite standard to compete in higher Leagues, but that point may be not too far away. We are delighted that a number of ladies play regularly .

We were eliminated in the Barber Cup by a strong Old Salopians side who made the trip down to Lancing. One of the matches was very close, going to five games and one of the other matches was closer than may appear from the score in games. We had our best side out that day and we are hopeful that we will be able to progress further in the forthcoming season, as one or two high-calibre players are expected to return to London and play .

Perhaps the highlight of our season was the tremendous achievement of a club member, George Campbell, in reaching the final of the Kinnaird, a feat not achieved by an OL in living memory. George has truly set standards and provided an inspiration for us all.

Rosie Scott had a successful season, winning the Festival Competition at the Midland Tournament and also the Mixed Universities competition, representing the London Law Schools .

We are always looking for new members.

If you would like to play for our club, please contact Richard Black on richardblack555@btinternet.com home telephone 01932 770325, mobile 07715 179280 or Nigel Cox on nigelcox50@gmail.com

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Old Lancing Rifle Club

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ancing Old Boys Rifle Club has always been OLRC but last year we finally sorted out that discrepancy when we renewed our Home Office approval as Old Lancing Rifle Club. We’ve also updated our other official paperwork and rifles and added to our inventory of jackets etc. All this has been made possible by efforts of your Committee and especially Ian Robinson (Sanderson’s 47-52) who successfully negotiated a contribution from the Lancing Club to fund our equipment upgrades and a grubstake for the Chairman’s Shooting Fund. This year we’ve been able to apply this fund to its prime objective, sponsoring our younger student members and tempting them up to Bisley on a more frequent basis to shoot for OLRC. Shooting results show significant progress for OLRC this year, we’re turning in competitive scores in our fixtures against the other “Old Boys” clubs and some individual OL shooters have been encouraged to branch out and enter Bisley club open meetings and the Imperial Meeting. This year we welcomed a new OL, Franklin Neathercoat (Seconds 07-12) was the first Bates Prize winner in 2011, he made an impressive impact in his first year shooting for the OLRC with a string of good individual scores and some steady wind coaching. We were also pleased to welcome Hope Levin (Fields 10-12) on the firing point when she popped in en route from the Bahamas to shoot with us at the “Q Match”.

The OLs got thoroughly soaked at the Long Range Match but still managed best team score at 900yds, the overall result was looking good until we were defeated at 1,000yds by even worse weather and imminent childbirth that called away our Hon. Sec., however John Mulcahy (05-09) cheered us up by taking away best individual score of the day. Congratulations from us all to Adam Brownson (Fields 92-97) on the arrival of his baby daughter. At the “All Day” Match, Ed Glanville (Gibbs 05-10) gave testament to our improved standards by clocking up a very impressive 100 on the Century Range (a possible at both 300 and 600 yards!).

Exam pressures on shooting master Alistair Coakes’ LCRC team meant that we were obliged to skip the annual LCs vs OLs 600 yard match but we did get to compete alongside his team at the Surrey Schools and Veterans match in May – a new fixture in 2013 for OLRC. We continue to support Alistair Coakes as and when we can and we’re planning additional fixtures shooting alongside the College team in 2014.

The OLs convened with the LCRC team at the climax of the Schools Meeting and the 2013 Richard Bates prize was awarded to Louis S. by our erstwhile Hon. Sec. Ian Robinson on behalf of the Bates family, and at the same event the OL Tankard for best under 16 match average was awarded to Henry H. OLRC fielded two teams of five for the Schools Veterans Match afterwards, despite some notable individual performances we didn’t make the prize lists – better luck this year we hope!

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his season’s annual fixture between the OLs and Petworth House Real Tennis Club was, as always, an enjoyable day. The fixture is very popular with the OLs who return each year to play some doubles and enjoy the hospitality of Petworth House Tennis Club.

There are now two separate doubles tournaments for school alumni.

The Henry Leaf Cup, which is the scratch doubles championship, and the Cattermull Cup, which is a handicap event and is open to both old boys and girls. These events will be held over different weekends, probably in late January 2015.

Angus Williams OL (telephone 0033 7 78045367) a real tennis professional, is running the Paris Real Tennis Club and would welcome any OLs there. The club also has squash courts, which were originally the first squash courts in France.

Please let me know if you would like to play in the fixture at Petworth Real Tennis Club or in either of the doubles events.

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First came the plan for a cruise up the West Coast of Canada and USA to Alaska: then how to get to Vancouver? Going ‘the long way round’ seemed a good idea. That way I could revisit some of the places where I had worked or visited on earlier trips – plus some new ones on the way.

There was also a ‘gold’ theme to the adventure: I carried some of my gold-panning gear and was able to use it in several places.

First stop Dubai – where I could stay with a former Peat Marwick colleague. Huge changes since my previous visit, high-rise buildings everywhere including ‘the world’s tallest’ Burj Khalifa Tower that I visited at sunset. Good to find the ‘abras’ still busy crossing the creek for about 20 pence the trip and to see an ‘old friend’ – the QE2 – in the Dubai Port.

India – The next flight was to Mumbai. The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel is one of the world’s top hotels: the view from my window of the Gateway to India and the ships in the bay was worth the money all on its own. The Royal Bombay Yacht Club welcomed my reciprocal membership with the Royal Naval Club in Portsmouth and proved a useful watering hole. Visits were made to Elephanta Island, Dhobi Ghats, Hanging Gardens and Victoria Railway Terminal – there were some superb curry dinners during a three day stay.

Hong Kong – staying at the Mariners Club in downtown Kowloon. The crowds and the shops showed that the ‘one country, two systems’ arrangement with Beijing is working well. A day trip to Macao, a ferry ride to Lantau Island to see the ‘big Buddha’, a visit to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, a junk ride around the

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Australia – I was in Western Australia for two weeks.

In Perth I stayed at the YMCA, met several old friends, visited the Royal Perth Yacht Club, the Fremantle Marine Museum and took two cruises on the Swan River. The second week I rented a car and drove to the SouthWest – Albany, Cape Leeuwin, Margaret River, Bunbury, Mandurah and back to Perth.

Next stop Melbourne, where I stayed with Lancing friend and contemporary Thane Prance (Second’s 195459) in Surrey Hills – before and after a trip to Tasmania.

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the island. High spots were the ‘Wilderness Train Ride’ from Queenstown to Strahan (staying the night aboard a 60ft yacht) and the Port Arthur Penal Settlement. Back in Melbourne I hired a car (Rent-a-Bomb) for a trip into the goldfield areas of Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine.

With no rain for several months, gold-panning in Slaty Creek near Ballarat proved a bit difficult, but I had more luck in the Forest Creek near Castlemaine – winning as much in two hours as I might find in Scotland in a day or two (though only a few grains in fact). On the way back to Melbourne I stopped at the famous ‘Hanging Rock’ – certainly as weird and fascinating a place as the film suggested. My last night was back at Thane’s home – then off to Sydney.

Just one night in the Sydney area – at the Backpackers Hostel in Manly – as my plan was to visit fellow Daimler Dart drivers in and around Newcastle. This worked well: I was invited to stay the night in Newcastle and accompanied my host next day to the start of the Port Stephen Race at the Newcastle Cruising Club. On my last day I drove up to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.

New Zealand – In Christchurch I booked into the YMCA and later explored the ruins of the city centre.

Several blocks of the downtown area were still ‘offlimits’ following the earthquake which destroyed so much including the cathedral. It was very sad to see so much of this fine city reduced to so much rubble.

Rented a car and drove South, first to Dunedin, then to Arrowtown, Queenstown and up the West Coast to Greymouth and back to Christchurch. Gold-panning in Arrowtown proved singularly fruitless, but I had a bit more success at the historic gold town of Ross. By now it was Autumn and the weather was poor, but the colours were brilliant, particularly in Arrowtown. High spots of the South Island stay were the Taieri Gorge Railway trip through spectacular scenery and historic gold country to Pukerangi from Dunedin, the drive to Glenorchy (‘Top of the Lake’) and the Haast Pass and Gorge. Sadly the

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I flew to Auckland on ANZAC Day, arriving midafternoon and checked into the YMCA. That evening I was down at the waterfront, to see the America’s Cup Challenge Yacht NZ1, and take the ferry over to Devonport for a drink at the Yacht Club. The weekend was spent mainly in anticipation of a sail aboard one of the America’s Cup Challenge Yachts in Auckland Harbour – but sadly this was cancelled on the Saturday (too much wind) and again on the Sunday (not enough punters). I rented another car and toured the North Island, stopping at Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula, where a spell of gold-panning in Tinkers Gully resulted in just a couple of specks. The drive to Coromandel itself was spectacular – much of it within the bowls of ancient volcanos – then to Waihi where I joined a tour of the massive opencast pit operation at the Newmont Goldmine – then through the Karanghake Gorge to Rotoroa and the steaming volcanic Waimangu Valley. My last day in New Zealand was spent among the boiling mud pools and sulphurous vents of the Waitapou Valley and at the Lady Knox Geyser before returning to Auckland Airport for the flight to Vancouver.

Canada – The long flight from Auckland to Vancouver was notable for several reasons: crossing the Equator, the International Date Line and from Autumn into Spring on a ‘double Wednesday’. Here I was booked into the YWCA (old men also welcome) and spent the evening exploring the city which I first visited over 50 years ago.

The following day I visited the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club for a guided tour and a beer on the balcony. Then the start of the great Canadian adventure – by hire car through British Columbia, the Okanagan Valley and the Rocky Mountains into Alberta via the Crow’s Nest Pass, continued >

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then north to Calgary and Edmonton to my first objective, the small town of Wabamun.

In 1960, shortly after leaving Lancing, I went to Canada and ended up in Wabamun working on the building of Unit 3 of the Wabamun Powerhouse. I was there again in 1964 working on Unit 4. Sadly there remained no trace whatever of the Powerhouse. However, my working location for 1963 – the Brazeau River Hydro Powerhouse, beyond Drayton Valley, was still there - humming away generating power for Alberta.

The next stop was Jasper National Park, then along the Icefield Highway to Lake Louise and a stop in Golden, BC. I was last there in 1963 working briefly at the Kicking Horse Forest Products sawmill (night shift on the greenchain – I have never had to work so hard since).

Golden was then a very small place but nowadays it has expanded dramatically and is a centre for skiing, climbing, biking, rafting, skydiving – you name it. Continuing on the Trans-Canada Highway through the Rogers Pass, I stayed the night at Lytton, ‘where the clear waters of the Fraser River join the muddy waters of the Thompson’ then drove through the Fraser Canyon stopping at Hell’s Gate to marvel at the Spring melt torrents below. Then back to Vancouver for a second visit to the RVYC, to Stanley Park and the Capilano Canyon.

Cruise to Alaska – Boarding the Holland America Zaandam for the cruise to Alaska, leaving the fabulous Vancouver Harbour beneath the Lions Gate Bridge, then north through the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway and Glacier Bay before docking at Seward for the train ride to Anchorage. My shore excursions and adventures were Zip-lining in Ketchikan, Gold-panning and Glacier Tour by seaplane in Juneau, the White Pass Railroad and Mountain biking in Skagway.

Alaska – I booked into the Backpackers Hostel for five days, intending to spend my time panning for gold in Crow Creek. Sadly, the creek was still frozen up and no panning was possible, so the time was spent in and around Anchorage with trips to Hope, Talkeetna and Wasilla.

USA – Departing Anchorage in the dusk at midnight, flying overnight to Denver, Colorado. With only one day here it was time to seek advice: Trip Advisor suggested a drive to the top of Mount Evans (14,265feet) – it was an exhilarating drive and the views were spectacular. I returned to Denver through the old gold towns of Idaho Springs, Black Hawk and Golden (home of Coors Brewery) for an overnight stop at an airport hotel – then off to New Orleans the following morning.

Three nights in New Orleans was just long enough to take in most of the sights and sounds of this amazing city. The French Quarter is fascinating, though Bourbon Street is nowadays a bit tawdry. I was quite happy to sit by the great Mississippi River and watch the swirling waters and the endless passage of ships.

The last US flight was to Boston, where I arrived after dark – which complicated the task of finding the motel booked for the night. Next day I drove north to Portsmouth, New Hampshire then back south again via Gloucester, Manchester and Salem – via the centre of Boston at rush hour to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Here I saw the Plymouth Rock, but sadly the Mayflower (replica) was missing, away for repair. On to Cape Cod, then Mystic Seaport and finally to Shelton, Connecticut where I stayed for two nights with my nephew and his American wife.

My final drive was back to Boston, with just time to visit the Boston waterfront, the Bunker Hill Monument and the USS Constitution, before checking in for the overnight flight coming to Heathrow.

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here are 109 Livery Companies within the City of London with a membership of about 26,000 Liverymen who donate over £40 million pounds to charity each year, half of which goes into education. Notably the Mercers, Haberdashers and Merchant Taylors are Livery Companies that are well recognised for their philanthropy in this sector.

The Livery Companies were formed out of Guilds which arose as a sort of trade union of merchants or craftsmen in the same trade, partly as a system for training apprentices and maintaining the quality of workmanship and materials and partly as a friendly society which looked after widows, orphans and the aged. Guilds began to be recognised as legal entities in early mediaeval times with the grant of charters by the ruling King or Queen. The oldest Livery Company is the Weavers which was granted its charter in 1155. The Feltmakers are relatively young having been granted their Charter by King James I in 1604!

All Liverymen are Freemen of the City of London and they form the constituency that annually elects the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs at Common Hall, held in the Guildhall. The Lord Mayor’s main role is, as it has been for centuries, to represent, support and promote the businesses and the people of the City of London. Today, these businesses are mainly in the financial sector and the Lord Mayor is seen as the champion of the entire UK-based financial sector regardless of ownership and location within the country. As head of the Corporation of the City of London, the Lord Mayor is the key spokesman for the local authority and also has important ceremonial and social responsibilities.

The Lord Mayor is apolitical, which gives added credibility at home and abroad when representing the financial sector.

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Each year a new Master, Upper Bailiff or Prime Warden is elected for each Livery and over the years OLs have included Alan Edwards (Gardeners, Head’s 50–54) Iain Pulley (Saddlers, Second’s 56-61).

Commander Robin Bawtree (Teme 55-60) is currently Master of the Worshipful Company of Carmen and His Hon. Judge Peter Birts (Head’s 59-64) is destined to become Master of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters.

Anthony Phillips was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers for 2012/13. The Feltmakers support the hatting trade and raise funds and make donations to selected charities. He had a very full year supporting the Livery activities and representing the Company within the City. The Master Feltmaker presents the Lord Mayor with the ceremonial tricorn hat with black plumes at a small ceremony at the Mansion House. This is the hat the Lord Mayor waves with such gusto at the Lord Mayor’s show each November and wears on formal civic occasions.

He organised a charity race-day at Ascot, attended by some OLs including Sir Michael Darrington (Gibbs’ 55-60), Brian Triptree (Gibbs’ 53-58), Anthony Pearce ( Field’s 55-59) and Richard Rawlings (Head’s 55-58 ). The event raised £51,000 for the Spinal Injuries Association and Oracle Cancer Trust. Two of his guest speakers at Livery Dinners during the year included Rear Admiral Sir Robert Woodard (Olds 5257) and Christopher Saunders, Headmaster Lancing College 1993-98 (Sanderson’s 53-59).

Other charitable events included supporting Treloar College in Hampshire which provides education, care, therapy, medical support

and independence training to young people with physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas. Their aim is to prepare handicapped young people for adult life, giving them the confidence and skills to achieve their full potential. The Lord Mayor is an honorary trustee.

Each year the Feltmakers sponsor an international Hat Design Competition for students who are in full time education or apprentices in the Millinery trade. The competition is organised by the Queen’s Milliner and Liveryman Rachel Trevor-Morgan. There are clearly defined guidelines for the criteria of the designs and a requirement is that the hat is made out of or incorporates felt. The Lady Mayoress and the consorts of the Sheriffs are invited each year to join the judging panel alongside Fashion Editors of the UK press.

The Worshipful Company of Feltmakers has an affiliation with HMS LANCASTER a Type 23 frigate in the Royal Navy, launched by the Queen in 1990 and is known as “The Queen’s Frigate”, the Duke of Lancaster being an honorary title of the Sovereign. She has recently undergone a £22m refit including new weapon systems. Typically when on deployment, you’ll find her either in the Caribbean drug-busting or east of Suez ensuring freedom of the seas. On returning from those deployments she is greeted, wherever possible, by a Lancaster bomber of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, which provides a fly past over Portsmouth Harbour. The Master Feltmaker is invited to sail on board the ship when not on deployment.

After standing down as Secretary of The Lancing Club to focus on his year as Master, Anthony has now been co-opted back onto The Lancing Club Committee and looks forward to supporting the Club and its activities.

Photos: Anthony Phillips – Master Feltmaker Presentation of the Lord Mayor’s Hat Feltmakers hat competition, winning design 2013 The Rt Hon Alderman Roger Gifford and Anthony Phillips Speaking at the Mansion House with the Lord Mayor. (Does anyone recognise the young OL in the foreground?)

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“the Battersby Duo has performed 6 times for The President and First Lady at numerous White House functions”

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hat do you get when you mix country rock with fun lyrics and melodies for children, and throw in a ‘Brit’ a teacher and a famous drummer? Answer... An awesome new Kids CD called Hide and Seek that the Tampa Tribune says. “Kids go bananas for.” The Battersby Duo has been performing to kids since 1983. We have appeared at the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, and The Straz Center in Tampa, and have now performed in 47 of the 50 United States, including six times at The White House. We have performed on Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and The Today Show, appeared with Kevin Bacon, JK Rowling, Art Garfunkel, Robert DeNiro and many other well known performers. Nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010 for Sunny Days, in The Best Children’s Album category.

1983 was a significant year for Children’s music. Raffi had been popular for some time, and of course the music that was being recorded

by Disney© was always popular. However, in the shadow of both Raffi and Disney©, young artists were suddenly springing up around the US. On the west coast artists such as Parachute Express, Hap Palmer and Greg and Steve were suddenly becoming noticed, as were Cathy and Marcy, The Battersby Duo, The Big Bear Band, Barry Louis Pollisar and Trout Fishing in America on the east coast. In those days acts tended to be more regional because of the lack of social media, and it was a full decade before all of us met face to face, at, of all places, The White House, where a bright young entrepreneur named Gary Jacob of Eventmakers had the brilliant idea of inviting us all to perform to the children of Washington before the President of The United States.

Many of us had been teachers prior to forming our bands, and had discovered that our developmental ideas for children translated easily into intelligent songs that helped kids understand academics in a fun but educational way. Sadly, back in those days there was a deep-rooted prejudice about children’s music. Nationally known music journalists refused to review children’s artists for fear their readers might ridicule

them. In our case it took a journalist who came to his daughters’ Parents Night at her preschool and had such a fantastic time, that he wrote a glowing article about us and our music in the Washington Post (much to the chagrin of his editor) the following week coining the now well-known phrase “Going to a Battersby Duo concert reminds me of “Monty Python meeting Mary Poppins.” All of us trailblazers have similar stories. But, thank God Children’s music has finally come of age so that young artists can nowadays be treated with the respect that they deserve, and thankfully get reviews from legitimate Journalists that help them further their careers, and get their music into America’s living rooms.

Terry a la Berry also draws from his vast experience with many talented musicians. We have known Terry for 25 years. We first met while appearing at The White House, for The President and First Lady, at “Easter at The White House”. Terry was performing with another popular kid’s band called The Big Bear Band. They’ve remained friends ever since. In Terry’s other life, he has been Arlo Guthrie’s drummer for 40 years. He played on the Grammy nominated Arlo Guthrie album “Grow Big” and has also recorded with Pete Seeger, and appeared with Carly Simon, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, John Prine, John Mellencamp, Levon Helm, John Sebastian, David Bromberg and John Denver and appeared in the movie, Alice’s Restaurant as, what else, “a hippie, “He also appeared with Anne Bancroft and Frank Langella in “A Cry of Player. Terry performed with Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger in 2012 at Carnegie Hall for the 4th time and has performed with The Detroit Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hide and Seek, our latest album, was first conceived 5 years ago after writing the title song Hide and Seek. It was an immediate hit with all the kids we performed it to. Over the next year we wrote 9 more songs and tried them all out on our young audiences. We got a great reaction from the kids and eventually the songs were chosen to be on Hide and Seek. Some of the songs were initially more popular when

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performed to 4th and 5th grade kids, and others were immediately world. Our thanks to Terry, and all the old school players on Hide and loved by preschool young’uns “We’ve always tested out new songs on Seek. the very people that we write for, because we’ve always found their Bobby Susser, a great American songwriter who worked with Phil honesty to be 100% pure.” And so, Hide and Seek was conceived with Spector learning and using Phil’s “Wall, Of Sound” recording techniques permission from the ones we love the most…The Kids. and also worked with his childhood friend Paul Simon, writing songs in Most of us in the music business nowadays have “home studios,” the famous Brill Building in NYC. Bobby became a perfect editor and and with the advent of digital recording it is possible to email music sculptor on many of our songs on Hide and Seek. His knowledge of tracks around the world without any loss of quality. Our “band” is early childhood education, (he has a Masters degree in early childhood spread all over the world, all making excellent livings playing music development from Columbia) was invaluable as we spent hours and and accepting “side jobs” from chaps like us. Our cello player is a Scot hours writing songs, ensuring that our messages remained kind, our (his full time gig is performing with a symphony orchestra in Scotland) rhythms stayed strong, and our resolve stayed honest. In April 2013 whose extraordinary performance on Curiosity Journey to Mars was Bobby Susser MA, received the prestigious Distinguished Alumni very emotional. We also used several experienced friends and session Award, from Columbia University, for his work, as a renowned, players from Nashville, who brought their expertise to the world of American songwriter, performer, and record producer. Bobby has sold children’s music, recording multiple tracks of bass guitar, piano, Dobro more than 5 million of his albums, and has had numerous hit records, and fiddle to add to the general happiness of the project, and finally, we including “Motorcycle,” his first Billboard Top 100 hit produced by him had our good friend Terry add drum tracks. He brings such love and and Paul Simon in 1961, and then produced hits for Trini Lopez, and generosity to everything he does.LCpages Truly some of the finest rhythmic Florence DeVore. So, when Bobby offered his feedback on Hide and NEW 2011 20/03/2011 12:31 Page 12 patterns I’ve heard in my 40 years as a professional musician. It’s always Seek, we were delighted. When we sent him a song, and he said... a treat to work with Terry. His new album is called “Braver’ to be “That’s a good song.”... The Battersby Duo knew it was a wrap!

Kind,” which as the title suggests, offers uplifting messages to kids. It’s Each one of the 10 songs on Hide and Seek has been “kid tested”– in a wonderful album and worthy of beingMenjoyed performance for over 2 years. You can’t help but squeal when you A G A Z by I Nkids E around the listen to Porridge sprinkled with Elephants toenails, or sing along with the infectious Mac and Cheese and dance along with the catchy country Dictionary of Oriental Literatures as to launch him on new literary flavor of Let’s Move. For the older kids and parents along comes a token of our esteem for him and journeys that will give him pleasure Curiosity, the story of NASA’ s historic Journey to Mars. Hide and Seek is our gratitude for his services to and satisfaction for the next 10 years a fun and interactive Game Song.

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From Ludlow to Lancing

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rom 1940 to March 1945 Lancing was spread over four “Stately Homes” in Southern Shropshire. The main campus was at Moore Park, where both Olds and Gibbs’ Houses were located. The houserooms, quiet rooms, communal pitts and house captains’ rooms at Moore Park were all used as classrooms during the mornings. Some classes held in the Richards Castle rectory. We used the laboratories of Ludlow Grammar School for Physics and Chemistry practicals. Because of the distances between the boarding houses, classrooms and laboratories bicycles were essential. The mid morning break, was fairly long to enable us to move between venues and we were each given a bun that always had only one currant.

One or two afternoons during the winter terms, those of us who were not particularly good at sport were allocated to Estate Work and cut firewood instead of participating in “Clubs”. School and House Cricket and Soccer matches as well as all athletics took place on the Burway Ground in Ludlow. After participating or watching, we would call at De Grey’s cafe for coffee or visit to what we called The Rubber Bun Shop. Because facilities were limited cross-country running was the main sport for those not particularly good at soccer or cricket. I really enjoyed it although I was not particularly good. I ran the annual “Five Mile” as part of the Olds House team in three consecutive years There was a hilarious incident early in the Summer Term of 1944.

At the end of 1943 after the threat of invasion passed, the signposts were replaced at road junctions having been removed in 1940. The Lancing College sign was placed at the gate to the Moore Park grounds.

There was a large contingent of the US army encamped nearby and one evening a group of rather happy GIs misread the rather fancy L on the sign and entered the grounds looking for the Dancing College!

On the morning after Rome fell to the Allies, Mr Handford came into the classroom and without saying a word wrote on the board “Urbs capta est”. I don’t remember any competitive swimming, but swimming competency tests were held in the River Teme at Ashford.

One room in each of the Stately homes was used as a chapel and the Sunday Sung Eucharist was held in the Richard’s Castle parish church.

The annual Carol Service and major performances by the school choir took place in the magnificent Ludlow Parish Church. For four terms in 1944 and 1945, Christopher Chamberlain who was housemaster of Gibbs’ acted as housemaster of Olds as well. That must have been quite a daunting task as the two houses were very different.

There were still plenty of extra-mural activities. The Moore Park Gramophone and Play Reading Societies were active Groups of us kept poultry, ducks, geese and rabbits. We were encouraged to explore the countryside, so the bicycles were an asset and sandwiches could be ordered for lunch on a Sunday. On one of the last Sundays in Shropshire, Mr Chamberlain led the whole of the two houses on a walk along the Teme Gorge then over High Vinnals and back to Moore Park.

On our return to Lancing in May we really appreciated having proper facilities and it was wonderful to attend services in Chapel. Estate work then involved removing all the air raid protection: brick blast screens had to be broken up and the rubble carted away and blackout paint scraped off windows.

My time at Lancing has influenced my life. A love of the countryside and my enthusiasm for science that was encouraged by Dr Barbara Russel-Wells and Ken Saw led to a very rewarding career as an Agricultural Scientist in Southern Africa. I graduated with a BSc(Agric) from the University of Nottingham and was a awarded a PhD in Animal Science by the University of London and a PhD in Applied Mathematics by the University of Cape Town. I still have a research post at UCT, we Old OLs still keep going. My late wife and I always attended Sunday Eucharist at the local Anglican Church wherever we lived.

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Telling the Parents: Letters and Reports to home Richard Beck (Sanderson’s 62-66)

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n a recent train journey a fellow traveller on a mobile phone spoke long and loud to her son, evidently away at school, about his life in general and academic progress and prospects in particular. Sandwiched between their conversations, she discussed the same topics at great length with his housemaster. Some years earlier, clearing out my parents’ house, I discovered that they had kept all the letters I had written when away from home, starting when I went to Lancing in 1962 as a 13-year-old boarder, together with all my school reports. Although I was surprised they had been kept, the letters’ existence was not that remarkable – fifty years ago this was how we kept in touch. (I do recall the existence of a single coin-operated telephone box, down below the dining hall; but few of us expected to use it to talk to parents other than very exceptionally.)

Listening to the train-travelling mother, and remembering the bundle of schoolboy letters, I reflected on the radical change in our expectations for sharing personal and official information as a result of developments in communications technology and social networks (on which pupils change their status much more frequently than our generation changed their detachable shirt collars); and I pondered also the great transformation in the triangular relationship between parent, child and school from when I was a pupil. Many of us, especially those who lived a long way from Sussex, did not expect to see our parents during term-time, except for brief half-term breaks; and they did not generally expect to have much contact with school. Their knowledge of what happened there was largely drawn from end-of-term reports, occasionally from official communications accompanying them, perhaps

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from a brief exchange with a housemaster on Founder’s Day, and more randomly and less reliably from what we chose to write in letters home. How different from the world of the train traveller on her mobile phone, who could probably see her son more or less any time via Skype, and who clearly expected to be able to grill his housemaster without notice and at length.

What did our parents really know about our school lives? Were those letters home helpful, reassuring, tantalising, or just dull? I dug mine out and re-read them. Initially they contained enough information, including a detailed timetable for the week, to give my parents some idea of my day-to-day existence – how good to know I was scheduled to have a bath each Friday evening! I offered translations of unfamiliar terms like ‘evening school’, ‘the groves’ and ‘underschooling’ (including the hazardous ‘butt’ and dismal ‘dyke’ varieties of that role). Language is often a daunting aspect of any new environment – vernacular, nicknames, acronyms – and schools are particularly challenging in this respect. I had met such a challenge at lunchtime on my first full day: sitting at the Sanderson’s House table in the dining hall, I was addressed by a House Captain with a clipboard, who barked the single word “Clubs”. No doubt I looked as baffled as I felt, so he expanded: “Clubs – what clubs are you going to sign up for today?” I remembered having read in an issue of the College Magazine about an organisation that involved pupils and staff gathering to talk about literature. This sounded a good club to sign up for; so the answer I tentatively offered to the person with the clipboard was “Elizabethans”. How was I to know that this was a society for senior members of the school, admission to which required election by one’s peers, whereas Clubs meant sport or similar activities? My interrogator’s mirth and that of others around us were as great as my sense of mortification.

Of course I did not refer to this when writing home: a kind of amour propre held one back from admitting to such a discomfiting experience.

However, I was indignant enough to tell my parents when I received my first ever ‘lines’ punishment – “for taking more than one pat of butter”.

(Re-reading this after so many years conjured forgotten images of school food, including the butter cut into absurdly dainty rosettes and piled up on a small plate, from which we were expected to extract one and only one, in spite of the fact that their separation required a surgeon’s skill, particularly in warm weather.) Discomfort of another kind may have been inferred from the letter telling my parents, in what was probably the worst winter in living memory, that “the groves are frozen up and expected to remain so for a month”; though I did add that we were permitted to wear jerseys and socks in bed.

A letter at the beginning of my fifth term reported in some detail, and I regret to say rather smugly, how few of us had passed enough O Levels to progress immediately to the XL. Since these exam results were evidently not distributed to the whole cohort’s parents (as results were when it came to A Levels), this is perhaps a rare example of a pupil’s letter home being genuinely more informative about an aspect of Lancing’s academic life than the school itself chose to be – a situation inconceivable in today’s world of exam league tables and glossy school magazines. But it turned out to be an increasingly rare piece of information-sharing on my part, as my initial enthusiasm for describing school life, and indeed for writing letters at all, seems to have diminished rapidly: the parental bundle contained over thirty from my first four terms and barely any from the next four.

Our parents had another source of information about how things were going, however, and probably a more reliable one. The individual

pages of assessment from each teacher that appeared in our termly reports were on the whole considered, pertinent and based on close knowledge of the pupil concerned; indeed I have been told there was almost a competition between some of the staff to show that a pupil’s personality could be captured in a deft and preferably amusing phrase. Thus, my parents did not need to learn from me about the (less than glorious) period leading up to my first attempt at A Levels: my housemaster Ken Shearwood reported ruefully that I was too busy with my efforts to become ‘one of the lads’; Willie Gladstone could find little more to say in his Headmaster’s report than “I hope he will wear out his crinkly drainpipe trousers in the holidays”; and even the normally encouraging Monkey Chamberlain struggled to work much optimism into his customary reference to our shared East Anglian roots, writing “A famous Norwich teacher said ‘Norfolk boys have brains and solid character’. True of Richard probably, but I’d like more evidence in the immediate future.” This part of the bundle of letters and reports included a letter from my housemaster to my father, evidently in response to one he had written: “Yes, Richard did make a mess of his A Levels”, Ken wrote, going on to advise about re-sit possibilities and concluding without enormous conviction “He should be capable of reaching a university”. As far as I can tell, this was the only occasion my parents sought to discuss my progress directly with the school. continued >

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Perhaps the intervention worked, for after this my school reports certainly improved. And also in my last few terms I wrote home as frequently as I had in the first few. Something that struck me on rereading this material was how little I referred in any of my letters to what was happening in the wider world. During term-time we lived in a kind of bubble, and probably all that our parents looked for in any communication from us was enough detail of life within that bubble to reassure them it was not about to burst. So the bulletins from my final year or so at Lancing may have been insular and unremarkable, but were perhaps more reassuring than the comparative silence of the preceding terms.

They included my illustration of the dreadful haircut I had received on a first and only visit to ‘Slasher’ Parsons, the Shoreham barber. I reported the reorganisation of chapel services whereby they were no longer all compulsory, adding my view that “poor old Nathaniel Woodard would turn in his grave”; and spoke of visits by President Kaunda of Zambia (I was much impressed) and Lord Beeching (unimpressed). I disdainfully recounted Classics teacher ‘Joe’ Higginbotham’s explanation for wearing

a pair of startling red socks on the day after the local elections: “I have been reading the municipal election results and now I am treading the Reds well and truly underfoot!” I mentioned my administrative chores as Head Librarian and my labouring role in Willie Gladstone’s grand scheme for realigning College Hill alongside the Chapel; my involvement in visits to and from the ‘school mission’ in Camberwell; participation in a Third League football match against Gibbs’ House that had been abandoned after a riot; and, riotous conduct notwithstanding, my appointment to various offices. And (with a pleasing circularity, as if in silent vindication of my response to that question about clubs on my long-ago first day at school) I discussed a paper I was due to deliver to a meeting of the Elizabethans.

As his housemaster cautiously hoped, Richard Beck did manage to get to university. His degree in English Literature from York was followed by a career in higher education administration that took him to the universities of Salford, Oxford, Essex and East Anglia. On retiring from UEA after more than twenty years as its Director of Personnel he completed a Master’s degree in its Law School.

Members of the “Lower Field Club” I think the date would have been Summer 1952. The “Lower Field Club” was a scratch side made up of those who enjoyed playing cricket, but not making the full commitment of a College XIs. We used to play the local village teams. Always good afternoon teas and occasionally something a little stronger! We only played at the weekends and were excused Evening Chapel.

I can only remember Simon Page (front row left) and Clive Walker (back row sixth from the left). I am front row, extreme right.

Michael Warrack Second’s (48-52) Are you there? – [ed]

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I happened to Google the name of one of my former Lancing contemporaries, Gary Manning (Olds 69-73), and discovered that he had passed away in 2008.

The following extracts are from an article published in The British Dental Journal.

Gary came to Lancing from his Prep school, Milbourne Lodge in 1969. I remember his older brother, Nick (Olds 67-70), in the house as well. I still have some photos of Gary and most of the rest of the Olds house captains on the lawn outside the Olds Pitts in the summer of ’73, and one of him as part of the school rugby team.

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ary Manning died in January 2008 after a brave battle against cancer.

Gary was very much part of a dental family having a grandfather, father, mother, uncle and sister all in the dental profession.

At school he was an all round scholar which gave him an early dilemma as to the best career path to follow. Luckily he decided to study dentistry. His ability to devour books on all subjects, particularly those concerned with people motivation, added to the very particular quality of the relationship he had with his patients and to the motivation of colleagues. He never blindly followed orthodox beliefs, always challenging and testing ideas to the full. In his professional life the needs of each patient were paramount. Gary was one of the first dentists to really move away from the NHS, successfully converting his practice in Fulham in 1983 following one of his many postgraduate trips to the States. He later moved his practice to Harley Street where it went from strength to strength.

Gary also had a strong sense of right and wrong and this drove him, even in the later stages of his illness, to pursue the truth about the ultimately unsuccessful treatment of his wife Jane who tragically died of oral cancer.

Her death in May 2002 at the age of 43 left an irreplaceable hole in his life and that of his two children.

It was at this stage that he moved his practice to nearby Thayer Street to join up with a larger group of clinicians. He developed a very close working relationship with all those there.

His sense of fun, the ability to make the best of all situations, and his thirst for knowledge will be only a few of the things his family and friends will miss. He was so proud of his children Henry and Lucy. He had been able to travel with them and guide them to becoming young people who have clear and positive views on how they want to live their lives. He was a wonderful son to June, and brother and uncle to Nick and Julie’s families. At 51 his life was too short, but he brought something special into the lives of all who knew and loved him.

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From The Archives Anne Drewery

A Chance Encounter

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hat links the aunt of a nineteenth century schoolmaster and an English-born South African chemist and historian?

The one was Mrs Sparshott, her nephew the Rev Henry Samuel Cooper, and the other Sir George Edward Cory.

Public documents show that Cory was born in Stoke Newington in June 1862, the son of George Nicholas Cory, at various times described as a clerk, carpenter and as a ship broker, and his wife Emma Susannah Flowers, the daughter of a cheese-monger. The 1871 census records him as a scholar, age 8, boarding with James and Sarah Neville. She was described as a schoolmistress. This is probably where he received his earliest, elementary education..

A second email followed containing extracts from Cory’s autobiography, now housed in the National Library of South Africa.

Cory wrote that his brother served as a page at Lancing and that he followed him there.

Lancing College is a beautiful place; everything about it is spacious and magnificent. I used to feel that the most uneducated mind could not but be impressed and experience a sense of veneration for everything connected with it. After a short absence, it always gave me the greatest pleasure and pride to get the first glimpse of the college from the Shoreham Road, and feel that, although only a page boy, I actually had duties to perform in the general working of the place.

He must have been an extraordinary college servant and he quickly attracted attention.

The Rev Henry Samuel Cooper was born on the island of Malta in October 1846, the third son of John Cooper, a naval man, and his wife Elizabeth Harriett Davis. He moved to England in April 1857 to continue his education at Hurstpierpoint College. At the age of seventeen in 1863 he left for All Souls’, Oxford, where he was awarded an MA degree in Mathematics and Science. In 1872 he came to Lancing College as Assistant Master, becoming Second Master in 1875.

Mrs Sparshott was born Elizabeth Cooper near Lynn in Norfolk, probably the daughter of a Norfolk farmer. In September 1842 she married Samuel Sparshott, a naval commander, her senior by twentyseven years. By 1861 she was a widow.

The college archives hold a late-nineteenth century photograph taken in Second’s House garden. The photograph is of Cooper with two of his sisters believed to be Mary and Harriett Ann. I have always assumed that the fourth figure, a rather pleasant-looking Victorian lady, was his mother, Elizabeth Harriett. However, a recent enquiry from South Africa has led me to question this attribution. This may be an image of Cooper’s aunt, Elizabeth Sparshott.

In December 2013, I received an email from Dr Sandra Shell. I quote the following extract : “I have been commissioned by Rhodes University in South Africa to undertake a critical biography of Sir George Edward Cory. He was employed as a page at Lancing in the 1880s and was sponsored by the Rev W Awdry.”

Mrs Spaeshott then took considerable interest in me and once or twice asked me up to her drawing room and talked to me. She seemed to think that I ought to have the opportunity of getting more schooling. I don’t remember how the idea was started, but I was told of St John’s College, Hurstpierpoint. This was the second class school, so to speak, of these Woodard Schools. Lancing was the first class, where sons of well to do people were educated. Hurst was for the sons of people whose incomes were roughly £150 per annum, while Ardingly College at Haywards Heath was the third class school – a kind of prior school, tho’ the buildings were on a large and ecclesiastical scale. At Hurst they had a class of serving boys called servitors. They got their “education” free in return for a lot of domestic duties performed. It was suggested that I should be one of these. But before this could happen the headmaster of Hurst would have to be consulted and further there was still a question of expenses – as tho’ there would be nothing to pay for the education there was the question of clothes, and I had no money but what I earned.

It was at St John’s College, Hurstpierpoint that Nathaniel Woodard, in addition to a teacher-training facility, had created a system by which boys from poorer backgrounds might gain an education. “They were the college-servitors; intelligent working-class boys whose education was sponsored by various church vestries or individuals. They worked for the college cleaning knives and shoes, scrubbing tables and sweeping floors but in return they had three hours teaching a day in Divinity, English and Arithmetic, with some Geography, History and singing lessons.”

[Peter King ‘Hurstpierpoint College 1849-1995: The School by the Downs’] William Awdry was headmaster of Hurstpierpoint College from1872 until 1880 when he became Vicar of Amport in Hampshire.

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January 1879, I was about to leave Lancing. I was supposed to have shown some promise and to have been worthy of more Education. Mrs. Spaeshott, the aunt of the Rev. H. S. Cooper, the second master was exceedingly kind to me. As soon as it was decided that I was to go to Hurst as a scholar, she most kindly interested herself in my wardrobe, which was limited - and my small wages would not permit me to enlarge it. So Mr. Cooper gave me some of his cast off clothes and paid a tailor in Shoreham to alter them.

Mrs. S bought me some necessary linen etc. Mrs. S also gave me some books. On Jan 18 it was when Mr. Blackmore told me definitely that I was to leave Lancing on the last day of the month and go to Hurst. During the month I carried on my usual work - lighting the chapel fire, going to Shoreham as post boy - bringing back loads of parcels waiting at table.

Cory was a Woodard success story. After leaving Hurstpierpoint. he began work as an assistant telegraph engineer at Siemens Brothers in Woolwich. In 1886 he was admitted to the University of Cambridge as a non-collegiate student, graduating with a BA in 1888, taking honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, becoming a member of King’s College and appointed a demonstrator in Chemistry. He was awarded an MA degree in 1891 and emigrated to South Africa in the same year. He became vice-principal at the Grahamstown Public School and went on to become lecturer in Chemistry at St Andrew’s College. When Rhodes University College was established in 1904, Cory took up the post of Professor of Chemistry. He died in April 1935.

The Rev Henry Samuel Cooper left Lancing in 1887 to become the Vicar of St Mary’s, Upchurch, North Kent and then Rector of St George’s, Canterbury in 1898. He died in November 1899.

His aunt, Mrs Sparshott, was in Bath by 1881 when the census enumerator found her living at 10 Piecepoint Street with Cooper’s third sister, Emma Sarah Margaret. She was still living in Bath at the time of the 1891 census and died there in 1897.

Sometime in the late nineteenth century two people met at Lancing College. This chance encounter was to change significantly the life of one of the two. Cory remained in contact with the Rev William Awdry, his sponsor at Hurstpierpoint. The 1891 census shows him as a visitor in the Awdry household in Southampton. Perhaps he was staying with Awdry before embarking for South Africa. I would like to believe that Cory and Mrs Sparshott also remained in contact. Perhaps Dr Shell’s forthcoming biography and the archives of St John’s will reveal more.

I am greatly indebted to Graham Redman for his research into the Cooper family, to Dr Sandra Shell for the extracts from Cory’s autobiography, to Peter King the historian of Hurstpierpoint College and to Sue Hastings for help with the genealogy.

Photos: George Edward Cory. Lady Cory nee Gertrude Blades of Northwich.

The Rev Henry Samuel Cooper in Second’s House garden late 1870s.

Sister Mary on the left; sister Harriet Ann on the right; Mrs Spaeshott or mother.

Friends of Lancing Chapel

‘How the west end of the Chapel could look with your help!’

When the west wall and rose window were dedicated in 1978, the Chapel was still unfinished. Since then the focus of the Friends has been to conserve and beautify the existing building. In this important endeavour we have had very generous support from a large number of OLs as well as other friends and grant-making organisations.

However the exterior of the west end has remained incomplete, unsightly and unwelcoming. The Committee of the Friends of Lancing Chapel and the College are now determined to put this right by building the magnificent porch designed by the celebrated architect Alan Rome as the most practical and economical solution.

We are looking for a total of about £3 million. This is a relatively modest sum to build a substantial gothic structure in stone and oak using traditional crafts to complement and complete the existing remarkable building. Some money has already been given and we have the promise of more, but there is a great deal still to find. We need your help, however much or little you feel able to contribute. The best way to support this project is to become a Friend of Lancing Chapel.

This will keep you in touch and give us tax advantages.

Many OLs are Friends already and for this we are very grateful. If you are a Friend, you might wish to consider increasing your annual donation or making a specific gift to this project. If you wish to become a Friend, you can do so by making an annual, gift-aided subscription of as little as £10 (preferably rather more!). Just send your name and postal address to Jeremy Tomlinson (Hon Secretary of the Friends) at the College and you will receive the necessary forms. rjt@lancing.org.uk Lancing College, LANCING, West Sussex BN15 0RW

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Club Members and friends enjoy a pre-theatre supper A number of us, on one of what has now become familiarly known as a ‘mini-social event’. Before moving on to the Shaftesbury Theatre and the musical, From Here to Eternity, written by our President, Sir Tim Rice, we enjoyed a supper at the Mon Plaisir restaurant on Covent Garden’s Monmouth Street (as a matter of interest – London’s longest-serving French restaurant).

From Here To Eternity – Shaftesbury Theatre The famous novel by James Jones, From Here To Eternity comes to the West End as one of the latest musicals to take to the stage of the Shaftesbury Theatre, where audiences can relish in this gripping adaptation from Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson. Set during the Second World War around the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour, the story has been held in high regards ever since its publication in the early 1950s, from its initial success as a novel to its movie adaptation released in 1953 and starring Burt Lancaster, and this popular feeling will almost certainly translate into a must-see show.

Those with theatre tickets are transported back to 1941 and we explore the lives of members of the military company on Oahu, Hawaii. The narrative spans the period prior to the attacks and also during as we meet Captain Holmes, First Sergeant Milt Warden and Private Robert E Lee Prewitt, among others.

Warden is conducting an affair with Holmes’ wife Karen, whilst Prewitt refuses to box following a previous altercation in the ring left someone blind.

The movie version, which emerged only two years after the novel, is one of the great films of the 1950s, with a cast that included Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift and Ernest Borgnine, among others, plus numerous Academy Awards, so the story clearly resonated with both readers and viewers.

Lyricist Tim Rice is a well known talent in the West End as he has worked on an array of productions across the capital. He worked with Elton John to create the musical numbers of The Lion King, the London version of which is at the Lyceum Theatre, and he also worked on Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and, more recently, the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of The Wizard Of Oz, which recently appeared at the London Palladium. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic, ensuring that From Here To Eternity is in safe hands. boxoffice.co.uk

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Friends of

Lancing Chapel

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he Founder famously insisted that the Chapel should be in its very prominent position although the Architect initially said it could not be built there. Woodard got his way and rightly so.

The Chapel is an outward and very visible sign of the Christian identity and witness of Lancing College. It also serves to arouse people’s interest and announce the presence of the College. It has almost literally put Lancing on the map and it is a much loved landmark in Sussex. This has been very evident in the past few months when the floodlighting has been out of order for the first time for half a century. The hillside seems bereft after dark, with a black hole where the Chapel should be.

We have received many enquiries from the public as to why this is so.

Combined funding from the College and the Friends has now allowed us to replace the perished cables and power source and new lamps, much more economical in the use of electricity, are in place.

Woodard knew about ‘marketing’ – even ‘branding’ - but the advantages of the Chapel’s geographical position may not have been part of his plan. Lancing is now very easily accessible by road from all over the south east. It is also strategically near the middle of a vast

diocese stretching from west of Chichester to beyond Rye, with its cathedral tucked away at one corner. So it is not only easy for members of the public to visit the Chapel, which they do in very large numbers all the year round; it is also an excellent venue for important diocesan occasions. Events such as the DAC seminars and every few years the Blessing of the Oils take place here; many charities hold fund-raising concerts and carol services, local state schools have end of year services, the Scouts and Guides like to have an annual service and victims of war are commemorated. At the Friends’ Festival in 2012, the Dean of Chichester, the Very Revd. Nicholas Frayling, preached the sermon, strengthening our links with the cathedral. Former pupils quite frequently ask to hold their weddings or have their vows renewed in Chapel and we welcome this but ask that they make a lasting commitment to the Chapel by becoming Friends. This seems to have been well received and is a great benefit to us.

As well as the daily and weekly celebrations of the Eucharist, the College itself uses the Chapel in many ways. Choral and other concerts, dramas, carol services, confirmation, the Remembrance Day parade and the marking of significant events in the school year are held in Chapel, which this year included Palm Sunday. In June 2013 there was a magnificent service to mark the centenary of the birth of Fr Trevor Huddleston CR OL, the anti-apartheid campaigner whose influence on world history would have pleased the Founder. Fr Nicolas Stebbing CR preached a memorable sermon and the choir was in excellent voice.

The College and the Friends owe an enormous debt to Neil Cox and his colleagues and the Choir who maintain such a high standard of music. Sadly Miss Nikki Dragonetti leaves Lancing this summer having made an outstanding contribution to the school and to Chapel music.

For the Friends, the duty of conservation and maintenance has been dominant this year. In addition to the new floodlights, we are about to re-wire the chandeliers – a very painstaking and complex process – and to install new emergency lighting and fire escape signs. These are vital improvements, but need to be done sympathetically and to the highest standard with all the necessary permissions. We have recently petitioned for a faculty to replace the flat roof at the southeast corner of the narthex. This is where the Dykes Bower design incorporates the Verger’s office and the steps to the War Memorial Cloister. To prevent further leaks the whole roof will be remodelled behind the balustrade and given a new downpipe. Ted Fisher continues his invaluable inspections of the high roof and gutters and does the routine maintenance which is endless. Thanks to Ted and the architects and Andrew Waring, our structural engineer, the Chapel is in good order and we have completed almost all the urgent recommendations continued >

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of the 2009 quinquennial inspection. Anthony Feltham-King from the St Ann’s Gate practice carried out a high level inspection in the summer of 2012 and made a very thorough report. We keep an eye on literally every stone in vulnerable areas.

In April the conservation of the last of the south aisle windows was carried out to the usual high standard. This completes the campaign to conserve all the windows on the south elevation of the Chapel.

The work was awarded a ‘highly commended’ certificate by the Sussex Heritage Trust to add to the award given for the clerestory contract.

Congratulations to Michael Drury and his assistant Louise Rendell and to Cathedral Works Organisation (Chichester) Ltd, the contractors whose masons have done such good work here.

Although it is not obvious from most viewpoints, those who work in and around the Chapel can never forget that it remains unfinished.

It is the absolute commitment of the Friends to build the porch designed by Alan Rome. Planning permission has been renewed and there is widespread support for the scheme. Behind the scenes, we are identifying grant-making bodies and individuals who will support us when the time comes. Regular donations, payments for publications, collections and generous legacies appear in heartening amounts and we are able to give significant support to the College in its responsibility for its Grade I listed heritage. Should anyone wish to make a specific personal donation, the Chapel is urgently in need of new hymn books. £100 would purchase ten ‘words and melody’ books and £200 ten choir books and there would be the option to remember a donor or a loved one with a book plate. Completing the west end will require an altogether different level of fund raising!

The crypt still has great potential and the parts of it which were the Art School for more than fifty years are in need of sensitive

development, almost certainly for musical use. When the Art School was created in 1954, Basil Handford, on behalf of the Friends, wrote: “The beauty of the Chapel is a sacred trust and any permanent building in connection with it (the Art School) should be treated as part of the Chapel construction” The challenge remains for all of us and even more so now that we are under faculty jurisdiction!

The most important development for which we shall soon be seeking a faculty is the completion of the west end. A stunning design for a porch already exists and has widespread support and local planning permission. The Friends and the College are now agreed that it is time to move this project forwards. A fund-raising committee has been set up under the Chairmanship of his Honour Peter Birts QC OL. The total cost will be in the region of £3million and the committee is approaching public funding bodies and private individuals to add to funds that are already in hand. Once the full working drawings are complete and some substantial donors have been identified, a wider public appeal will be launched. Right from the foundation, the College and the Chapel have had many benefactors, some large and many small.

Together they have built a great school and a truly outstanding Chapel which now deserves to be finished. We would urge as many OLs as possible to support this exciting project. Further details may be found on page 51.

Lancing Chapel is an important landmark in Sussex, in the diocese and in the life of every pupil at the College. For the many thousands of visitors who come to the Chapel each year it is a place of worship and the heartbeat of a thriving school.

Jeremy Tomlinson - Hon Secretary and Steward rjt@lancing.org.uk

Photos: The high vault, triforium and clerestory.

The Verger leading the choir out of chapel.

2013 Confirmation and Baptism candidates with Bishop Lindsey and the Chaplin. John and Janet Ebdon at the Huddleston Centenary service.

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Obituaries

Beresford Robert Charles Marcus Beresford (Second’s 47-50) died March 2013 aged 80.

His wife, Fay, writes: On leaving Lancing, Marcus attended Trinity College Dublin. In 1954 he emigrated to Canada where he joined Alcan in Montreal. Marcus was transferred to New York in 1968 and in 1971 worked for Alcan in Jamaica, W.I. In 1975 he returned with his family to Canada. He joined Reynolds Aluminum Company in Toronto where he worked until his retirement. We were married for 45 years and he is survived by his children, Vanessa and James and grandchildren, Henry, Chloe, Robert and Harry.

Butler-Smith The Reverend Basil George Butler-Smith (Second’s 44-47) died October 2013 aged 83.

Below are extracts from an obituary from the Henley Gazette, Rev Basil ‘Bob’ Butler-Smith, a priest of the people.

The Reverend Basil Butler-Smith, the only son of an English clergyman and a Greek mother.

At 14, he was sent to Lancing College in West Sussex and from there went on to do his national service in the Royal Artillery. He then joined the Metropolitan Police in London where he spent a lot of his time as a Greek interpreter at the Old Bailey.

After hiis marriage to Ann, “Bob” worked for Pan American Airways at Heathrow before establishing his own air courier business.

Bob was the rector of two parishes, Norton and Tostock, and was also a chaplain at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. In 1976, he became rector of Rotherfield Peppard and that of chaplain of Peppard Hospital, a role which he loved and where he spent many hours with the patients. In 1979, he also took on the responsibility of rector of Rotherfield Greys.

During the very happy and fulfilled 26 years as rector of the Rotherfield parishes, Bob conducted hundreds of weddings and baptisms, including those of his own children and grandchildren and became a well-loved and much respected figure in the community. In 1992 he was diagnosed with cancer which he fought with remarkable stoicism, winning his battle and making a full recovery. He continued as rector for another 10 years, only retiring in 2002 when he and Ann moved to Sonning Common.

Bob was a man who gave his time and love to all who knew him and spent many hours visiting the sick and lonely. He was always available to those in need.

He was hugely respected by his parishioners and much loved by his friends and family; wife Ann, three children, Simon, Chris and Fiona, and six grandchildren.

Copithorne Richard James Rudwick Copithorne (Gibbs’ 85-90) died July 2013 aged 41.

Dowrick Christopher William James Dowrick (Sanderson’s 43-47) died October 2013 aged 83.

Foulerton Ian Michael Foulerton (Gibbs’ 44-47) died October 2013 aged 83.

His cousin, Hugh Foulerton, writes: I understand that Ian played cricket for Lancing. After leaving school he went to Cirencester Agricultural College and then Edinburgh University, and then spent his life working as a dairy specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture. After University he did a short service commission in the Army and fought in the Suez crisis, where he got a bullet through his knee for his troubles. He never married. After retirement he lived in Chichester and moved to Worthing in 2000.

Hodgson John Whitlock Hodgson (Second’s 41-43) died October 2012 aged 87.

His Son, Christopher, writes: After Lancing John volunteered to join the Royal Navy, in which he served until the end of the war seeing active service from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

He spent his school years at Caynham Court near Ludlow in Shropshire, cycling to Moor Park on a daily basis for lessons. He often recalled his happy days at Lancing, sleeping outside on the lawn overnight in the summer term, enjoying sport, working with the local farmers and being in the School Home Guard. He was in the Junior Training Corp (JTC) and achieved his War Certificate ‘A’ coming 3rd out of 20 cadets.

On leaving the Navy he joined the family architects practice in Guildford passing qualifying exams to become a member of the Royal Institute of Architects, eventually taking over the practice from his father in 1963. Retiring in 1992 when I, his son, became principal, the third generation to run the practice.

He was very proud to be an OL and often returned to Lancing for Founders day.

Jermyn David Hugh Jermyn (Head’s 69-74) died August 2013 aged 57.

Kennedy Michael (Ben) John Kennedy (Olds 53-58) died July 2013 aged 73.

Edited extracts from his obituary in the Geological Association of Canada follows: Michael John Kennedy, known universally as ‘Ben’, died suddenly in Dublin on 24th July 2013. Born in London in 1940, his university education was at Trinity College Dublin where he took his BA (Mod) degree and his PhD in Geology. On completing his PhD in 1966, he was awarded a National Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship to carry out research at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa.

In 1967 he took the post as Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Four years later he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 1974 was appointed Professor of Geology. While at Memorial, Ben became a favourite of students for his tutoring on identifying tectonic fabrics in rocks, his mentoring and pedagogical generosity, and his inclusive and bonhomie style of treating students and faculty alike. Ben also contributed to Newfoundland geoscience by being a founding member of the Newfoundland Section of the Geological Association of Canada.

In 1976 he moved to the Department of Geological Sciences at Brock University, St Catherine’s Ontario where he held the post of Chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences. During his four years at Brock University Ben was instrumental in revitalising teaching and research in Geological Sciences and in instilling an ethos of excellence and collegiality.

In 1980 Ben moved back across the Atlantic to take the Chair of Geology at University College Dublin (UCD) and the Headship of the Department of Geology.

His international experience and infectious enthusiasm transformed the Department of Geology at UCD. He was an extraordinarily supportive Head of Department and mentor to all his colleagues at UCD. His door was always open for advice, encouragement and support.

In 1999, he was elected Dean of Science at UCD, a position he held until his retirement in 2005. Following his retirement from UCD in 2005 Ben worked for several years as co-ordinator of the Irish Geoscience Graduate Programme, an initiative on graduate training among all the Irish universities. He enjoyed this immensely as it allowed him to continue his role as a mentor and enthusiastic supporter of geosciences teaching and research training throughout Ireland.

Ben was much more than a scholar and a gentleman. All who knew him learned an enormous amount from him and owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.

Knapp-Fisher Peter Knapp-Fisher (Field’s 47-52) died August 2013 aged 80.

Peter, beloved husband and father, died peacefully at Charing Cross Hospital after a long illness.

One guest book entry at his funeral, read: “Peter was a great friend of my beloved uncle, Kit Molloy, and through him (and John Scott) helped us buy our family home at auction in 1987, where we’ve lived happily ever after.”

Lester Michael Edwin Lester (Olds 28-32) died November 2012 aged 98.

His son, Jeremy, writes: My father never said much about his past, but he was born to Walter Edwin Lester and his wife Gertrude Mabel Lester (nee Button), in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. His father was a solicitor in the town.

He attended Lancing College, after prep school in Broadstairs. He described life at Lancing as preparing one for most things in life, very cold in winters up on the Downs.

He said he was a very keen sportsman (including swimming) – but made no claim to brilliance at more academic aspects of school life.

The School Chapel seems to have made a big impact on him, as he attended Anglican church services throughout his life, if somewhat irregularly.

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Following Lancing, he hoped to go to Cambridge University (with the aim of earning a Blue for swimming) – an idea which did not meet with his father’s approval, on the grounds that he would spend all his time swimming which would waste the money his father was being asked to spend on improving his education (presumably at Law).

So, instead, he became an Articled Clerk, with a view to training to be a solicitor (which took a minimum of 5 years). I believe he was admitted as a solicitor at about the beginning of World War ll.

While studying to become a solicitor, he continued to swim competitively in the Midlands, and was expected to be called to be part of Britain’s swimming team at the 1940 Olympics.

After trying to join the army (in a cavalry regiment) and the Air Force – both of whose lists were oversubscribed and immediately closed – he sought to volunteer as an Ordinary Seaman for the Royal Navy, in the DEMs (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships).

From there he was picked out for Officer training (having impressed his CO by his confidence – no doubt a result of his time at Lancing – by asking for 4 days’ shore leave at a time when, (unbeknown to him only one day at a time could be granted). He was dispatched to join HMS Bonaventure, the fastest and most modern cruiser in the Royal Navy. In Bonaventure, he saw service as an ordinary seaman in the Norwegian theatre of war, and then in the Atlantic chasing the Bismarck, followed by convoy duty in the Mediterranean in 1941, helping to keep Malta in British hands, and keeping supply lines open to the army in the Middle East and North Africa.

Shortly before HMS Bonaventure was sunk, with substantial loss of life, in the Eastern Mediterranean, he was directed to return to the UK via the Cape of Good Hope. On his return to the UK, he found to his surprise that his officer training was to take place at his old school!

After his first posting on a small vessel in the Irish Sea monitoring weather conditions etc., he was posted back to the Mediterranean as an Officer in a Tank Landing Craft, where he saw further service, before being posted to a ship in the Norwegian theatre of war again in 1945. During this time, he married his fiancee Denise Wadsworth Dowling, (only daughter of Horace Dowling, Rear Admiral, Engineering).

After the end of the war, he returned to legal practice in Birmingham, for a short while, before returning to Nuneaton to join his father’s firm, then known as Lester, Dixon and Jeffcoate (and still in existence today). He had two sons.

Marshall William (Bill) Michael Marshall (Gibbs’ 44-49) died December 2013 aged 83.

His son writes: My father was a pupil of the school in the 1940s and I understand revisited the school a couple of years ago. I am sad to say that he died on 22 December after a long illness. A Thanksgiving Service for him was held at Ely Cathedral on 2 January.

Metcalfe George Ralph Anthony Metcalfe (Olds 50-53) died April 2013 aged 77.

Missen Anthony John Bartley Missen (Gibbs’ 49-55) died December 2013 aged 77.

His wife, Janet, writes: John was born in Wigan in August 1936 but because his father was appointed Education Officer in East Suffolk just two months later, he grew up in East Anglia – and never lost his ability to use the distinctive Suffolk accent. His mother, daughter of Robert Alstead MP, was a talented writer and actress with an enviable gift for making friends – abilities she passed on to her sons; his father, a WWI veteran, encouraged both boys in wideranging interests and independence.

John’s prep school was St Edmund’s in Ipswich, and he then went to Lancing College in Sussex in 1949 where he was later joined by his younger brother, David. He had already developed a keen interest in ornithology and coin collecting and during his first term his housemaster, Sheppard “Sam” Frere, “looked at my coins and said it was quite a good collection”. No doubt it was through Sam too that John acquired his interest in archaeology, and he was later one of the many volunteers under Frere’s supervision at the excavations at Verulamium. Birds were a continuing interest, and a birthday present from his father saw John at Eric and Dorothy Ennions’ Bird Observatory & Field Research Station in Northumberland for a week in 1952. He continued with his bird observation throughout his time at Lancing, and contributed Ornithological notes to at least six issues of the Lancing Magazine from Lent 1953 to Advent 1954. John was also Chairman of the Young Farmers’ Club and of the Motor Club, secretary of the Badminton Club and the Shakespeare Society, and a founder member and secretary

of the Linnaeus Club. He was also an Assistant Librarian, and editor of the Lancing Magazine from Summer 1954 to Summer 1955. John was a House Captain from 1953, a College Prefect in September 1954 and Head of House in May 1955. He won his house colours for shooting, was appointed Drum Major and CSM in the CCF and retired in 1955 as Senior NCO. In spite of all this activity, John achieved 8 GCE (O level) and 6 A levels before leaving Lancing in 1955 with an East Suffolk County Scholarship for Christ’s College, Cambridge.

The summer he left school, John and some friends enjoyed a week at Stratford upon Avon. On Thursday August 16th they cycled from Tuddenham St Martin to Cambridge, a distance of 57 miles, with some sightseeing on the way. Three days later, on Sunday, they continued on via Bedford, Stoney Stratford and Buckingham to Brackley – some 63 miles – where they stayed the night. The following day, with 30 miles left to cover, they set off at 10 am, enjoyed a sandwich lunch at the top of Edge Hill and then completed the run to Stratford, arriving at 3pm (a total distance of 150 miles). Five plays were attended and John never forgot the performances of Keith Michell, Anthony Quayle, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; his reviews of the plays are a pleasure to read today. The return journey was slightly less onerous, John cycling to Bicester, taking a train to Cambridge and cycling thence home. Total distance travelled – 325 miles!

Following in his father’s footsteps by entering Christ’s College, John studied for the Natural Sciences Tripos and his three years at Cambridge were busy and eventful. He sang in the Christ’s chapel choir, was President of the Milton Society, and was a founder member of The Goat Club in March 1956. He was also part of the 1956 Christ’s Poppy Day team which put on a small revue with songs and sketches, and in his final year John donated his 1926 Riley 9 tourer for the Poppy Day Rag Week charity.

Having passed his pre-clinical exams, John arrived at Bart’s in October 1958 together with William Shand and other Cambridge friends; there they met a similar group from Oxford which included his future wife, Janet. John qualified MB BChir in 1961, Janet BM BCh in 1962 and they were married in the church of Bart’s The Great in September 1962. Various house jobs followed and necessary exams were taken, such as the FRCS (1967). A General Surgical Registrar post at Redhill was followed by a Senior Registrar post at Bart’s in 1969 where he was also appointed a Lecturer in Surgery in 1970 and was the Cattlin Research Fellow for two years until1972.

He had been interested in medico-legal matters for some years and became an Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner London North in 1972. Concurrent with this post he was also Consultant Surgeon at Hackney Hospital from April 1974 to November 1976, returning to Bart’s as Surgical Tutor in 1977, and from 1980-1984 was in charge of the teaching programme of the new surgical unit at Whipps Cross Hospital. He wrote numerous research papers and presented more than seven to learned societies during this period. He was awarded an MD by the University of Cambridge in 1981.

In 1984 he became an Assistant Secretary/Medico Legal Advisor with The Medical Defence Union and stood down as a Coroner in 1986.

During his twelve years with the MDU, John became a highly respected and much appreciated member of the staff. His wise counsel, calm but effective management and the twinkle that betrayed his gentle sense of humour were the support of many, not only fellow members of staff but also of those seeking his help on medico-legal problems. He wrote several papers supporting MDU principles and one presenting his own views on “request for medical treatment” rather than “consent” (Journal of the Medical Defence Union 1992 Number 1). John finished his article on Consent with the following passage: Nobody knows how much of Henry VIII was written by Shakespeare.

There follows a recently discovered fragment by an unknown hand.

Enter the King and Dr Butts in consultation.

Butts: Consent? – I consent thee not my Lord!

Right well hast thou been counselled and advised. Thy questions all most solemnly appraised And detailed answer given; Wherefore I entreat your Grace Consider well the options and make thy request.

John retired from the MDU in 1996 and was able to turn his attention fully to Livery Company matters. He had been a Liveryman of both the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and the Worshipful Company of Barbers for some long time, and was also a member of the Court of both Companies, where his wise and measured counsel, patience and clear mindedness made a valuable contribution. In 1997 he was elected Master of the Barbers’ Company and, despite suffering a small stroke in April 1998, represented the Company most excellently during his year of office. In the following years he enjoyed historical research and producing various papers, lectures and presentations. He had been a connoisseur of wine, silver, clocks and vintage cars for many years and created a splendid collection of Livery silver.

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John continued a staunch supporter of the Livery for some considerable time, and was pleased to see his daughter Clare and his son Andrew become Liverymen in their turn (Clare an Apothecary and Barber, Andrew a Glass-Seller and Barber). Regretfully, the blood supply to his brain deteriorated over the next few years, resulting in the gradual onset of advanced dementia, but he was still able to enjoy social gatherings in a limited way and even attended the International Bugatti Rally in Holland in 2012, although he spent most of the time in the Bugatti asleep! He was a most talented man with a wide diversity of skills, knowledge and interests, but he was also easily approachable and possessed of great warmth - one of the kindest and gentlest of men. He died peacefully on December 21st 2013.

Payne Richard Payne (Head’s 49-52) died December 2012 aged 77.

An extract from The Eastern Daily Press follows: Inventor of food machinery and Queen’s Award winner.

An inventor of a resealable food label, Dick died peacefully after a long illness, built up a major engineering business in Norwich.

The Thurne Food Sealer, launched in 1979, gained a worldwide reputation as the safest method to seal plastic bags for products including bread.

When Europe insisted that food labels had to include printed safety details, retail giants including Tesco and Marks & Spencer were quick to insist on the technology.

As new orders arrived, Thurne Engineering embarked on major expansion and by 1984 was employing 78 staff at Delta Close on the Vulcan Road industrial estate.

Earlier Mr Payne’s team had developed high-speed slicers for the food industry – initially for bread and then later bacon and other meats. With capacity to produce up to 800 slices of meat and cheese a minute and vary thicknesses by 0.01mm, it was truly cutting edge. And when the Thurne’s Polyslicer won the Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement, staff were invited aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia in March 1989 for the award celebration. Two-thirds of the machines, which could cost as much as £250,000, were exported around the world.

Born in London, Richard, was educated at Lancing, and then joined De Havillands as a student apprentice. He worked on aeroplane engines and later became an engineering consultant and member of the Instititue of Mechanical Engineers.

He had moved from Buckinghamshire in 1968 and a year later started Thurne, named after the Norfolk river, to design and make food packaging machinery. It expanded and in 1970, bought the long-established Norwich business, Ernest Hines, then added in 1976, Estuary Engineering, of King’s Lynn. Subsidiaries in the US and Germany became part of the group, now named, Bronpole, in 1984. Until 1986, he was managing director and then became chairman.

By 1990, Mr Payne estimated that 90% of the UK bakery market used its machines –which had formerly been imported from America or Germany.

Always of an inventive frame, his patented Food Sealer is still found on almost every supermarket shelf around the world. After he retired, he travelled widely as an international engineering consultant.

He was concerned too that Britain had failed to encourage young people to consider a career in engineering, which would help to support British industry.

Ski-ing in winter and sailing were his main relaxation. He sailed a Kinsman, originally at Barton, and then later off the North Norfolk coast at Morston.

He shared an interest in art with his Lancashire-born wife Ann, who is a professional painter. A couple of years ago, he was featured in a television tribute programme about the celebrated East Anglian painter and his friend Edward Seago.

A churchwarden at Bale for many years, he is survived by his widow, Ann. They were married for more than 50 years. He leaves a daughter, Annabel, sons Matt and Alexander, and three grandsons and two granddaughters.

Scopes John Anthony Scopes (Field’s 57-60) died May 2013 aged 69.

John had a career in leather and a life in cricket and to a lesser extent rugby. He devoted decades of his life to the support and development of Isham Cricket Club where generations of young people were inspired to take up the game. He was also Chairman of Northamptonshire Cricket Club for a number of years. Above all he will be remembered by OLs for his generosity of spirit, his ready wit and his courage in coping with his debilitating condition. RIP. Sharpe Thomas Ridley Sharpe (Olds 42-46) died May 2013 aged 85.

Born in London in 1928, Tom died in the coastal town of Llafranc in north-eastern Spain.

Tom wrote 16 novels, including the Wilt series of comedy books and Blott on the Landscape in 1975, centred on the proposed construction of a motorway in a fictional rural county in England, which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, starring David Suchet.

“Tom Sharpe was one of our greatest satirists and a brilliant writer: witty, often outrageous, always acutely funny about the absurdities of life,” said Susan Sandon, Sharpe’s editor at Random House.

“The private Tom was warm, supportive and wholly engaging.”

Porterhouse Blue, published in 1974 told the story of Skullion, the head porter of a fictional Cambridge college Porterhouse. The story, a satirical look at Cambridge life, was later made into a television series on Channel 4 in 1987.

His wife, Nancy Looper Sharpe, said she would remember her late husband’s sense of humour, his sense of morality and his love of travel.

Nancy married Tom in 1969, said his ashes would be scattered in Llafranc, Cambridge, and a church in Thockrington, Northumberland, where his father and grandfather came from and where he spent summers as a child.

The son of a Unitarian minister, Tom was educated at Lancing and Cambridge.

During the 1940s he spent time in the Royal Marines, serving overseas. Tom moved to South Africa in 1951, working as a social worker, teacher and photographer, and writing anti-apartheid plays during the 1950s. However, he was deported to Britain in 1961.

His experiences in South Africa inspired him to write his debut novel, Riotous Assembly, in three weeks in 1971, and his second novel, Indecent Exposure, in which he mocks the apartheid regime.

His wife said Tom, who died from complications arising from diabetes, recently suffered a stroke. He had been living in northern Spain for two decades.

See our Tom Sharpe article, page 38 The Lancing Club Magazine 2013 Spurdle John Spurdle (Catering Manager 73-99) died April 2013 aged 68.

Patrick Cable-Alexander, writes: John came to Lancing after Assistant Catering Manager appointments at Hurstpierpoint and St John’s Leatherhead. As his employer for 14 years I have many very happy memories of my time working with him.

John will have been known to generations of OLs, a man large in size and in character, a big personality, a man who loved food, who loved his job, who loved Lancing, and who loved life and lived it to the full. He was immensely loyal to his staff, and to the College. Initially obtaining kitchen staff was not easy, but John always backed whoever he appointed provided they did their job, and behaved properly. But he could be very tough with those who didn’t pull their weight. He looked upon his staff as very much part of his family, even inviting those with no home of their own to his house for Christmas dinner. He was meticulous in his standards of health and hygiene and always passed the local authority’s snap inspections with flying colours, something of which he was very proud.

In the time John was at Lancing, catering changed enormously. Although he sometimes seemed resistant to change – he could be very obstinate – he oversaw major alterations to the daily menus. The increase in the amount of girls in the school meant a demand for lighter foods, for more salads, more fruit, and generally a wider variety of choices. The expectations of pupils and their parents had changed and he had to reflect this. He appreciated that whatever he did he couldn’t satisfy everybody all the time, but he also appreciated the vital importance of a healthy and balanced diet. He didn’t enjoy the Catering Committee which he felt was often misused and abused by the House representatives, but accepted it had its place and loyally tried to implement suggestions whenever possible, or at least give a reasoned (and polite!) response to some of the more far fetched ideas. The standard of catering was consistently high (whatever some pupils said!), and the vast majority of those who ate in the dining hall appreciated this.

The challenge of catering for functions was one that John relished. He often referred to two in particular: the opening of the Rose Window by Prince Charles; and being presented, with his wife, to Princess Anne on the occasion of the College’s 150th Anniversary. Founder’s Day, too, gave him a lot of pleasure. He enjoyed the detailed planning required, and the satisfaction of a job well done. He was a perfectionist in all he did, whether it was the day to day feeding of the College, or catering for a large function.

John was a character. He was funny, with a childlike sense of fun. He was generous with his time. He was always ready to help even at some inconvenience. Many a member of the Common Room will remember being rescued by John when they had forgotten to order ‘Spurdle Specials’, or a late meal. To him, ensuring the pupils were fed was paramount. www.lancingclub.org | 57

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John is sadly missed by his family, and by his very wide circle of friends, as the attendance at his funeral showed. He was held in great affection, and with much respect by all who knew him. We shan’t see his like again.

Swales Derek (Tony) Antony Swales (Gibbs’ 44-48) died February 2013 aged 83.

Despite his many talents and achievements Tony Swales remained a modest, unassuming man, whose quiet, dry, wit made him a popular companion.

At school he was a Prefect and Head of House and an outstanding sportsman.

Herepresented the College at cricket (Vice Captain for 2 years), soccer, tennis and squash. His captaincy of the all conquering squash team was further embellished by his triumph of winning the Drysdale Cup (the under 19 Squash Championship of England) in 1948.

After Lancing Tony opted to do his National Service and spent it in Kenya. On his return he took up his place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and began his medical training.

Tony won a Squash Blue in 1951 and 1952, when he was made captain; he led the University Squash Team on a tour of Universities on the East Coast of America. He later became a member of the successful OLs’ Londonderry Cup Team.

In 1953 Tony began his clinical medical training at St. Thomas’s Hospital, but still found time to captain the United London Hospitals Squash Team. Whilst at St. Thomas’s he met his wife, Jennie who was a student nurse. After various hospital appointments Tony joined a General Practice in North Nottinghamshire and worked there for 33 years. He was greatly loved by his patients. He retired in 1990 to the West Coast of Scotland and was able to pursue his love of fishing and his general love of the outdoor life. He enjoyed a very happy and active life until April 2011 when he suffered a severe stroke. Tony spent the last two years of his life being cared for in a wonderful home in Mallaig, he died peacefully on 27t h February, 2013.

Theodosius Richard Francis Theodosius (Sanderson’s 49-53) died August 2013 aged 84.

Wallis David Wallis (Gibbs’ 35-40) died October 2013 aged 91.

Jon Wallis writes: David died in hospital on 8 October 2013 after a short illness.

He is survived by his 3rd wife, Jean, and four children – Jon, Richard, Neil and Hannah. David also had eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

David was born in Maidstone to a branch of the established family building contractors, G E Wallis & Sons, founded by his great-grandfather. David was educated at Lancing College, where he made friendships, some of which lasted all his life, and was then the first of his family to go to university, taking an engineering degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

He went straight from Cambridge into the wartime army where he was part of a unit recovering and repairing damaged vehicles during the invasion of Europe, travelling east into Germany until VE-day. Following the war, his building career started in Reading, then took him to Maidstone where the family business was based. He lived in Kent for the rest of his life. David’s work was varied with roles as a surveyor, building a missile testing range in the Outer Hebrides and being loaned to another company as acting MD for 5 years.

In 1966 he took over from his father to run Wallis’s Maidstone works, where his main love was the company’s high quality joinery work. Major projects, several of which won national awards, included the Old Bailey courts extension, the new Museum of London and restoration of the wooden ceiling of the House of Lords. David served on the board at Wallis’s until retiring at the age of 60.

David’s life was enhanced by his many interests and enthusiasms: • Music was always a passion and David followed his parents into choirs starting in Maidstone; he continued as a bass for many years in both choral societies and church choirs.

• He learned to sail as a teenager, sailed while in the army, taught his children to sail and then went on to do volunteer work helping disabled people to sail on both adapted dinghies and yachts.

• As well as his professional joinery work, David was a keen woodworker himself, building model yachts then moving on to marquetry.

In recent years, David’s sight started to fail. He learned a technique for overcoming the limitations of his macular degeneration and worked for the Macular Society teaching many others how to use this technique, only stopping a couple of years ago.

A school friend of David’s at Lancing College, Bill Thomas, shared this story:

He told Hannah [David’s daughter] how four or five of them all joined Lancing in 1935 and formed a close group of friends throughout their school days. He said that ‘David was a very close friend from the moment they met at Lancing’.

He also remembered that they were among the older boys of the school when it had to leave Sussex half way through the summer term in 1940, ‘our last term at the school, three Houses going north to each of the two Woodard schools of Ellesmere in Shropshire and Denstone in Staffordshire. During this major operation, all done in just a few days by the the Headmaster, Frank Doherty, he made David his personal assistant in these most involved and urgent preparations for the evacuation’.

Ward Ray Ward (Master 66-93) died January 2014 aged 85.

His wife, Ginny worked at Lancing for 20 years and wrote the following eulogy.

Ray was born in Gravesend; he spent his first few years in a tied cottage in the village of Shorne with his chauffeur/ gardener father Charles, mother Phoebe and elder brother Stan, moving to West Malling in Kent when he was about six. They seem to have regularly visited some unmarried aunts in south London – Ray recalled being there and seeing the flames when the Crystal Palace burnt down. Even as a small boy he seemed to have an idea of how things should – or should not – be done. An occasion when his mother tried to clean some smut or other from his face brought forth the oft-reminded comment: ‘I WON’T be washed with spit!’.

He was baptised a Methodist but became an Anglican after joining the local church choir.

He gained a scholarship to grammar school in Maidstone, where for some time teaching was mornings only because the onset of the war meant sharing the school premises with a school evacuated from south London. They were rarely bothered by bombs until the advent of the doodlebug. Ray told me that on more than one occasion, General Certificate exams were interrupted by sirens and all the pupils had to move to sit in silence with their backs to the walls of the exam room – I don’t suppose there were any ‘special circumstances’ in those days.

After school he worked briefly in a library before being called up for national service. He was in the Army Education Corps based at Eltham Palace and enjoyed taking advantage of free tickets for servicemen to attend concerts at the Albert Hall.

He also discovered a taste for beer – once confessing to having been able to drink 8 pints in an evening!

In 1949 he went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to read Modern Languages.

Here he learnt to row, and was in his college’s first eight in his last year. He was a keen viewer of the boat race each year – one of the rare occasions when, because I was born and brought up in Oxford, we supported opposing sides. This meant that we watched in comparative silence, particularly after the year when, the Thames being somewhat choppy, I made a reference to the occasion some years before when Cambridge caught a crab. This was ignored with the practised disdain that I’m sure generations of irritating schoolboys would have recognised...

After Cambridge he did a PGCE and then went to teach French and German at Lord Wandsworth College, at Long Sutton in Hampshire. Amongst other activities he ran the RAF section of the CCF and learnt to fly gliders. It was during this time that Ray married Shirley and their son Simon was born. They moved to a school property with its own garden, which Ray loved to maintain. He and his neighbour, Bill, decided to build a sawhorse. It was a great construction, apparently, the only problem being that, having built it, they couldn’t get it through the shed doorway into the garden. There were other memorable DIY events: the day at Long Sutton when, standing on a plank over a water butt to attend to a problem with a drainpipe, the plank gave way and Ray went straight down into the water butt, somehow managing to keep his cap on his head and his pipe in his mouth. Then, many years later when he lived in Henfield, a closer encounter than he might have wished with the contents of a septic tank!

Ray became a housemaster and enjoyed the role, but it brought personal difficulties, and so he looked for employment elsewhere and was appointed as Head of Modern Languages at Lancing. Here he threw himself into all aspects of school life – this time taking charge of the Navy section of the CCF, and eventually being in overall charge of the whole unit. He was best at organising equipment and meals, recognising this for himself when, after volunteering to go to Snowdonia to help with Arduous Training and joining the troops with some trepidation on the planned hike up Snowdon and around the Horseshoe, he found himself spread-eagled on the lower slopes of Crib Goch.

He joined in theatre productions, not only acting, but also singing in several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. One of my earliest memories of Ray was in a Founder’s Day production of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, when members of staff played the ‘rude

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mechanicals’. I can’t remember exactly which part Ray had, I just recall it involved him making his entrance in very wobbly fashion on a bicycle, with a gormless look on his face, and wearing a pair of emerald green flares!

He also, of course, took pupils to France. His first trip, early on in his time at Lord Wandsworth, was marred by a fire in the hostel in which he and the boys were staying, and in which a boy from another school died. On one of his last trips, having driven 400 miles north through France in a minibus, and about to enter passport control, a small voice from the back said ‘ Sir, I think my passport’s in my room in Perigueux...’

Marriage to Jane brought involvement in the school farm – building pigsties and fencing as well as helping to look after the animals: sheep, pigs and even some cattle.

He also kept bees for some years. And at home there were cats, dogs and a horse, and there were two step-children, William and Philippa. William recalls Ray as a producer of home-made wine of possibly dubious quality, always busy at his work bench, but always there to collect him from school at 10 o’clock every night, and who tried to help him improve his O-Level French result. On a farm it is of course never possible to entirely ‘switch off’. One cold wet winter Sunday evening the phone rang: ‘Please sir, there’s a pig lying on its back in the mud with its legs in the air and it looks a funny colour...’

Changes in his personal life meant that Ray lost contact with Simon for some years, but later discovered him married to an American girl and living in Los Angeles. Thus began frequent trips across the ‘pond’ during school holidays.

Ray did what he could to support Simon (and his wife Susie) through the recurrence of Hodgkin’s Disease, spending part of one October half term hooked up to a machine extracting blood products to support Simon’s bone marrow transplant. Sadly, the transplant was not a success and the following March Ray had to make the long flight back to LA, arriving in time to join Susie in the decision to switch off life support. He continued his visits, helping to complete various DIY jobs, and I know Susie will miss him greatly.

During his last two or three years of teaching, Ray was put in charge of public exams, and that is when we started working together; I remember beautifully neat hand written seating plans. His reaction to the later advent of electronic seating plans was simply relief at not having to use the computer program to produce them himself when after retirement he continued to invigilate exams each summer. His time in the Sports Hall led him to say that if ever he wrote his autobiography it would be titled ‘The Seagulls Wore Boots’.

Over some years our relationship gradually changed. After two failed marriages, Ray understandably took his time in deciding to chance marriage a third time, but to my great joy he did, and we married in July 1996. He seemed to accept a second set of step-children with equanimity, calmly going out at 2 am one late December night to collect Ed, who had - not surprisingly at that time of night - found all the petrol stations to be shut after his motorbike had run out of fuel on the way home from work in Brighton.

If I had any concerns about how Ray would occupy his time while I was at work, they were soon allayed. He did the shopping and much of the cooking, always keen to try out new recipes. He made bread and marmalade. In the first few years, as well as everyday decorating and gardening, he built floor to ceiling bookcases, a dresser and window seat, did some basic electrical work, turned the garage into a shed, demolished the old (too small!!) shed, moved the greenhouse, built a pergola, constructed a waterfall and dug a large fish pond. Our home being on the slope of the downs, he said he was going to dig down to the chalk. At 2 ft 6 deep, and needing a stepladder to get in and out, he decided that perhaps it was time to stop. Ray’s nephew and niece, Richard and Sue, have commented on his hospitality and his love of cooking and gardening, as have many former colleagues and friends. Richard has also said how Ray inspired him to apply to university.

Having got our house and garden organised, he turned his attention to S. James’s churchyard extension in West Lane, mowing and strimming there until about five years ago.

He enjoyed cryptic crosswords and taught me how they worked. Matthew remembers crosswords at breakfast and word searches at supper. If Ray was cooking the evening meal, I was expected to work on any unsolved crossword clues. At church Christmas parties he would recite Stanley Holloway monologues. He enjoyed Flanders and Swann, Gerard Hoffnung and Pam Ayres. He enjoyed singing with the College Singers and did regular duties as a Chapel Guide. He enjoyed travelling – experience showed us that self-organised tours worked best if I chose the route and Ray the hotels. When travelling, I drove, he map read – but I learnt early on to study the map thoroughly first, as he regularly confused left and right when giving me instructions; the invention of the satnav saved a lot of stress. Was there anything he couldn’t do?

Well, yes, there was, but we’d been married a year before I found out. He couldn’t,

and wouldn’t, dance. Any attempt to get him on to the dance floor caused him acute discomfort and embarrassment.

You never quite knew how he would respond to things, which was often very amusing. As his illness progressed he would get quite anxious if I was going out as to how long I would be and what time I would get home. But on this particular evening, when I told him and the sitter that I would be back by about 10.30, there was a flash of the old Ray in his response: ‘I should think so too!’ in a tone which made me feel like a teenager with a curfew!

He never talked about his Christian faith – something that past experiences must have severely tested. It was only when, at the end of a pilgrimage to Walsingham about three years ago, he was given a wooden cross on a string, and he put it around his neck and kept it there, that I knew just how deep his faith was.

I have had so many letters commenting on his professionalism, kindness, generosity of spirit, wide-ranging interests and sense of fun. They have also kindly commented on the happiness of his later years. He was modest and self-deprecating, and enjoyed being gently teased – even towards the end that was still possible. I am grateful that he never got to the stage of not knowing who I was. He enjoyed visitors of all ages, even though at times he struggled to remember exactly who they were.

Early on after his dementia was diagnosed he had moments when he was aware enough to be frightened by the realisation of what was happening to him, but he never got angry and railed against fate and, perhaps fortunately, the more the dementia progressed the less he understood how much he was deteriorating mentally.

Having to tell him that he could no longer live at home upset us both, but he quietly acknowledged the necessity.

He may have been ‘a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief’ but he made the most of life, endured to the end and is now at peace.

Webb Michael Henry Puzey Webb (Olds 47-52) died October 2013 aged 80.

Michael was a pupil at Lancing College from 1947 to 1952, a member of Olds House.

The son of a GP who died at only 50 in 1949, he grew up in Rottingdean, and used to sail his dinghy Peregrin along the coast to school. Through the language skills he developed at Lancing, he was selected in 1952 for a special National Service programme; he joined the Royal Navy as part of a scheme to train Russian language interpreters during the Cold War and received a commission.

For well over twenty years he remained in the Royal Naval Reserve, disappearing to Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth for two weeks each year to keep his Russian going, ultimately receiving the Reserve Forces Medal.

After National Service he went up to St Edmund, (‘Teddy’) Hall at Oxford University, where he studied Modern Languages and represented his college in rowing and rugby.

There followed a long and successful career at the Bank of England, much of it in the now defunct Exchange Control section, and thereafter as a senior officer in the Banks’s pension fund. He retired early at the age of 54.

Michael married the girl next door, Elizabeth Lawford, in 1961. They were together for 44 years until her premature death in 2005. Initially living in Leigh, near Tonbridge, they settled permanently in Tunbridge Wells in 1966 A working life in London gave Michael the opportunity to engage in perhaps his greatest love, music. He joined the Philharmonia Chorus, made many friends, and sung with some of the worlds great orchestras and conductors. He is remembered as having made a significant contribution as Secretary then Chairman, guiding the Chorus through a particularly tricky period in its governance in the 1980s. After nearly 40 years as member, perhaps his proudest achievement was his transliteration of the Russian for the Rachmaninov Vespers, which was recorded by the chorus and performed many times. Having settled in Tunbridge Wells, he also conducted and sung with local and church choirs.

A keen sailor and cricket lover, Michael was a lifelong supporter of Sussex Country Cricket Club. For many years he also played with the Loadicean Cricket Club, a very social side earning the nickname ‘Barnacle’ through his dogged determination to retain his wicket.

He was unlucky enough to suffer a stroke in 2000, and a second a few years later, which severely hampered his movement and made speech difficult. Yet he remained mentally astute and was able to maintain an active involvement in the world through the internet. He was a much loved father to his three children and inspirational grandfather to five grandchildren. He is survived, too, by his younger brother Richard.

Wightwick Charles (Christopher) Brooke Wightwick (Sanderson’s 45-49) died March aged 81.

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THE LANCING CLUB INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2013

INCOME Dividends and Interest Subscriptions

Income £

Capital £

Year to Monday, December 31, 2012 £

24,536 34,950 59,486

22,773 29,205 51,978

12,590 2,887 (7,382) 8,095

12,590 2,887 (7,382) 8,095

10,432 3,267 (7,487) 6,212

Donation to Lancing College Donation to Lancing Foundation Spomsorship of Sports Centre Fund Raising Dinner Contributions to sports clubs activities Cost of ties,scarves and bracelets Investment management fees Insurance Events (Note 3) Contribution to Over 60s Lunch OL events in Hong Kong and Edinburgh Leavers leaflets Paypal costs Website development Committee expenses AROPS costs Sundry expenses

2,000 2,000 1,670 2,500 1,658 264 162 11,608 1,185 275 140 1,466 28 119 33,170

2,000 2,000 1,670 2,500 1,658 264 162 11,608 1,185 275 140 1,466 28 119 33,170

2,000 2,000 6,287 1,575 300 157 11,241 872 1,183 280 116 160 1,496 28 63 33,970

OPERATING (DEFICIT)/SURPLUS

(8,633)

26,317

18,008

EXPENDITURE The Magazine Productions costs Postage Advertising revenue

24,536

Total £

24,536

34,950 34,950

34,950

Less: Loss on sale of investments

(173)

Less: Tax on interest (Note 4)

(366)

(DEFICIT)/SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR Transfer between Funds Balance brought forward Balance carried forward

(8,633)

34,950

26,317

17,469

8,633 -

(8,633) 445,218

445,218

427,749

-

471,535

471,535

445,218

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THE LANCING CLUB BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2013

£ INVESTMENTS (at cost) CURRENT ASSETS Stocks Sundry debtors and prepayments Cash at banks

Less: Sundry creditors

£

(note 2)

################## £ £

459,566

1,179 3,085 7,704 11,968

426,507

1,879 1,196 16,233 19,308

-

11,968

597

18,711

471,534

445,218

471,535

445,218

REPRESENTED BY : Accumulated Funds Approved by the Committee on 10 February 2014 Capt. G D B Robinson - Chairman

D Rice - Treasurer Reporting Accountant's Report I have compared these accounts of The Lancing Club for the year ended 31 December 2013 with the books and records presented to me by the treasurer, without carrying out an audit, and can confirm that these accounts are in accordance with those books and records.

S K DEXTER, FCA 13 February 2014

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THE LANCING CLUB

1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS Year to 31 December 2013

1.1 Basis of preparation The accounts are prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, except that investments are shown at cost on the Balance Sheet.

1.2 Incoming resources Investment income and donations are accounted for when receivable.

1.3 Resources expended Expenditure is accounted for as incurred.

1.4 Stocks Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

1.5 Income and Expenditure The Club meets any deficit on its ordinary activities by utilising part of the subscription income and profit, if any, on the sale of investments it receives each year. The club is trying to build up a sufficient investment portfolio to enable the income generated to meet all its annual costs.

2 INVESTMENTS Cost at 1 January 2013 Purchases during year Cost at 31 December 2013

Total £ 426,507 33,059 459,566

Equities £ 361,937 18,133 380,070

Gilts £ 20,366 20,366

Bonds £ 44,204 14,926 59,130

Market value 31 December 2013 1 January 2013

611,850 512,643

520,051 433,768

21,396 22,340

70,403 56,535

Net cost £ 5,045 5,063 1,500 11,608

2012 £ 4,691 5,559 800 191 11,241

3 EVENTS Annual Reception Annual Dinner Carol Service/Christmas party Young OLs

Expenditure £ 5,045 8,573 1,500 15,118

Income £ 3,510 3,510

4 CORPORATION TAX The Club is a mutual body and so is not liable to corporation tax on any surplus from transactions with its members. It is, however liable to tax on interest receivable and interest on Government stocks and overseas income less donations made to Lancing College The Club is also liable to Capital Gains Tax on any gain on the sale of investments.

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