Pink Ladies

Angie Raven (1992 – 2021) Teresa Robins (1993 – 2020) Angie and Teresa between them gave 56 years of service to Churcher’s, Angie arriving in 1992 and Teresa the year after in 1993. They have been a part of the school life of over three and a half thousand Old Churcherians. Between them the number of chairs laid out for assemblies must amount to well over half a million and that doesn’t allow for all the concerts, drama productions, house quizzes and numerous other activities that have taken place over the years! When Angie and Teresa first started, Churcher’s was a boarding school and they have many a tale of the mischief that boarders concocted. One, in particular, was the time they heard a strange ‘bubbling’ coming from one of the chimneys in a Sixth Form dormitory and on further investigation a large quantity of home-brew beer was discovered and quickly disposed of before its discovery by the Housemaster!

They witnessed the change from boarding and the conversion of the dormitories to classrooms and offices. With that, came the removal of all the beds and mattresses during one of the school holidays. Rumour has it that the quickest way to get the mattresses down from the top of Old College was to use them to ‘surf down the stairs’ – something that neither Angie nor Teresa will confirm or deny! A lot of hard work happened behind the scenes… Angie saw her team steadily grow in number as pupil numbers rose and would always find a way to achieve the seemingly impossible from the record turnaround times for events to squeezing ever greater numbers into the weekly assemblies. Teresa was instrumental in raising over £13,500 for charity from the ‘fines’ imposed for lost property in the Pound. The Churcher’s Community has much to be grateful for Angie and Teresa’s constant presence over almost thirty years and we wish them all the best in their well earned retirement.

Thank you, the original Pink Ladies!