SPRING 2019
CHURCHER’S COLLEGE
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Remembrance Assembly
The annual Remembrance Service was especially poignant this year as we commemorated the centenary of the Armistice. The Rev’d Canon Will Hughes, joined VIP guests for an assembly which included a short film featuring Old Churcherian Ken Webb, remembering with great clarity and emotion at 92 years of age, his time serving in WW2, which you can see on our website. The special assembly was followed by the dedication of our newly constructed war memorial which remembers Old Churcherians who have fallen. Our Senior CCF cadets led the way to the war memorial, followed by a banner party where they laid wreaths in a special service of dedication led by Rev’d Canon Will Hughes while the Wind Band played alongside. Our Wind Band also played at the Remembrance Service in the Town Square in Petersfield on Sunday 11 November 2018 where the CCF (including a platoon from TPS) paraded along with Veterans, Air Cadets, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides, the Salvation Army band and other bodies. 2 • We don’t want to lose touch with you, please make sure you opt in to electronic communications.
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In the autumn we visited two OCs who had taken part in the Second World War. We filmed the interviews of Ken Webb (48) and Peter Dodd (48), they both spoke movingly about their experiences. OLD CHURCHERIANS • 3
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GCSE Results Day
In addition to the brightest smiles on display at this year’s GCSE results day, this year group also boasted: a rugby team that could count its losses over the last five years on one hand; performing arts enthusiasts with the most exceptional top Grade 8 music and drama certificates and successful Duke of Edinburgh awardees that St James’s Palace inform us exceed the numbers for any individual establishment in the county, to name but a few examples from their portfolio of success!
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Our Upper Sixth celebrated their record-breaking A Level results in style this August. As the Headmaster sums up nicely, “We have almost become accustomed to Churcher’s students exceeding expectation year in year out, but this cohort of A Level students has cleared the bar by a huge margin.”
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Farewell from the Foundation Director
In 1999 I arrived at Churcher's College, the school was deserted, it was August, thankfully a desk had been provided, however no computer. For the last 19 plus years I have had the pleasure of organising events for OCs of all ages, here are some photos of a few of the events over the years. Initially fundraising was under the banner of the Churcher's College Foundation. In 2006 we opened our all-weather pitch, partly funded by the generosity of OCs and parents. In 2010 the name changed
to The Richard Churcher Foundation to reflect the generosity of our first benefactor. Since then we have received a number of legacies and will receive more, some well into six figures, which are funding bursaries for students in financial need. Friendship has been at the core of our events and subsequent fundraising, I am enormously grateful to those who have shared our vision. The newly appointed Development and Alumni Manager, working with the Head
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of Marketing and Development, Amanda Inkley, will continue to run events and encourage greater participation in fundraising. Whether you play in the golf day or sponsor a prize, attend an event or donate to the Foundation you are all contributing to the continuing success achieved over the last 20 years. Over the years the Foundation Office has been ably supported by our archivist, Gill Clarke and volunteer Dr Tim Dilks, they have been great fun to work alongside.
donations and more over the years. I am proud of the work of the Richard Churcher Foundation and the wonderful difference it make to its beneficiaries. Once retired, I shall look forward to seeing it continue to flourish and keep in touch with the special contacts I have made on the journey. With my very best wishes, Karen Kelley Foundation Director
Thank you all for your support, friendship, OLD CHURCHERIANS • 9
OC EVENTS
The Schofield Lunch Class of 88
Wartime and 50s Tea
Former staff tea Class of 08
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The Schofield Lunch East India Dinner
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Making Connections Mark Leigh (80) is a partner at Roffe Swayne in Godalming and was keen to offer internships to OCs wanting to work in audit and tax. We contacted those who were either at the end of their university courses or had just left; several OCs showed interest. Sam Phillips (17) was about to start a degree in Criminology & Law and was interested in our article in the last magazine about OCs in the police force. He got in touch with us for further details. Following the mailing about the Richard Churcher Foundation last year both OCs and current parents have offered career advice in a range of careers, including Corporate Tax. Kester Wilkinson (88) was able to offer Sophie Habib (16) some event related work experience, she is reading Fine Art with Publishing Media at Oxford Brookes. Stephen Knowles (98) got in touch after his reunion with an offer to OCs starting
their careers who want to hear about running trade shows and conferences around the world. Get in touch with the Foundation Office to make contact with Stephen. Alice Ballard (16) wanted to make contact with OCs working in the design field, Peggy Gilmour (14) was happy for her to get in touch. Alice wrote to the Foundation Office, ‘I just wanted to write you this email thanking you for putting me in contact with Peggy Gilmour. I couldn’t have asked for better advice and support, she has answered all my questions about the field of interior design and been so lovely. Peggy went even further by asking the company she works for (Simmons Interiors) if I was able to have some experience working at a practice. I worked with them for a week and we are talking about possible learning opportunities in the future’. Hannah Gray (09) is in PR, working for an agency which is always looking for interns (either at graduate level or for
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three months during the summer) so if you know of OC's looking for PR/comms placements please get in touch with the Foundation Office for more details. Rebecca Norkett (17) who is studying Politics in Kent was one of the first to get in touch. Current students Ollie and Erin were keen to do some work experience in the Biomedical Sciences field during their summer holidays. With the help of Dr James Clark (91) who did some university mock interviews last year they were able to get this experience. Here is their story: Over the summer we were lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend a week at the Rayne Institute in St Thomas’ Hospital, part of King’s College London’s School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, to gain a rare first-hand insight into the fascinating world of medical research. Under the guidance of Dr James Clark and working alongside two physiology MSc students we were introduced to many of the techniques and methods that
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prove integral to molecular biological research, such as protein immunoblotting & gel electrophoresis to isolate specific proteins related to cardiac function. We were also provided with the opportunity to observe cardiac ultrasound of mice and laser confocal microscopy to analyse mouse heart tissue, as well as being able to experience other aspects of life within the institute such as faculty meetings discussing findings of ongoing research. The experience greatly enhanced our knowledge and understanding of both human and animal cardiac physiology and provided us invaluable insight into the world of research as a potential career path. We would like to thank Dr Clark for this amazing experience and would highly recommend it to anyone strongly considering medical research as a career option. Steve Barrett (99), Jon Hollis (74) and Will Buttery (08) met at a property event and realised that they had Churcher’s in common.
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WEDDINGS
Richard Davies (00) married Anita, at Goodwood House. It was a fantastic day with many OCs present! Two were his best men, Piers Turner and Ian Anderson. Even Harvey, the Labrador, came along for some photos! He recently took over from his father as Managing Director of Risk Assurance Management Ltd, a Group Life Assurance company. As a Lloyd’s Coverholder, they insure many corporate employee schemes across the UK and around a third of the UK Police and Fire Brigade schemes.
Richard Davies (00)
Carly Truss (05) married Sam earlier in the year, she is now Mrs Crosby. Her bridesmaids included OCs Harriet Johnston (née Dredge) and Charlotte Wattie (née Dugdale) with lots of other OCs at the wedding. Rachel Morton née Hyndman (13) is the proud mother of Milly. Rachel is shown on her wedding day, 4 out of her 5 bridesmaids were OC's: Rhiannon Llewlyn, Lilly Murphy, Kiashini Sriharan and Ellie Harris. Emily Manning (02) became Mrs White this year, marrying Oli. She is still teaching, currently Head of French and DofE Manager at Abbot's Hill School in Hertfordshire. Lara Chuter née Arnell was one of her bridesmaids.
Dani Sheen (09)
Caroline Hardy (07) married Owen and had lots of OC guests at the wedding; the photo shows Marianne Doe (née De Klerk), Lucy Bird, Jess Weiss, Annabel Wilkinson, Caroline, Hannah Lines, Ed Doe. Dani Sheen (09) married Jason in the summer.
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Rachel Morton née Hyndman (13)
Caroline Hardy (07)
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OC families Zachary Webber, Matthew Webber’s (96) son, Matthew and Melanie were married in 2017. Emily Stannard née Goodhand (97) and husband David are now the proud parents of Lucy Ellen. Jonathan Blood (97) with his wife and baby Arun.
Emily Stannard née Goodhand (97)
Gaynor McInnes née Edney (05) sent in this delightful photo of the McInnes, Tomlins, Gould and Lewis children. William Kelley (07) with his fiancée Mitzi and their son Donovan.
Matthew Webber’s son (96)
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Charitable OCs Andrew Robinson (81) takes part in Ultra Challenges and has raised money for various causes including Prostate Cancer Research, his fundraising page can be found on BT "My Donate" "Peter and Andrew's Wye Valley". Laura Zwanga (13) climbed Mt Kilimanjaro for charity last year, raising £3000 for Childreach International. She has since been working for Sky and the BBC as a script assistant and then as Production Management Assistant working in post-production. Jessica Welborn (08) completed the Amsterdam Marathon in 3h 11min, which qualifies her to run in the London Marathon. She is a commercial lawyer in London. Lucy Wood (2012) completed a half Iron Man in Mallorca in 7h 57min. She is training to be an accountant and is being sponsored to do a degree at Exeter University.
Annabel Davis (09) On 17th November 2018 she organised The Sparkle Ball a charity fundraising event in aid of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) at the Mandolay Hotel in Guildford. The event raised over £4000 for the hospital which is a national centre of excellence and a leader in the field of orthopaedics in the UK and worldwide. All proceeds raised were donated to the children and young people’s ward at the hospital. This is a cause particularly close to Annabel’s heart; she was involved in a serious road traffic accident during her time at Churcher’s College. Annabel said, ‘It feels fitting and a huge privilege to be able to give something back to children and teenagers who are in the same position as I was all of those years ago. It’s a fantastic hospital and facility for patients and I have no doubt that the money will be put to great use. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank Churcher’s College for their support in publicising the event and particularly want to thank Bill Baker and the students in the sixth form for their kind donation to the charity.’
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Armistice Day
50s Geoffrey Nellthorp (50) wrote after receiving the last OC magazine; I have been browsing the copy of the Spring OC Magazine this morning and lots of memories tumbled through my head. I started at Churcher's in 1944 and was met by my cousin Roger Steel & his friend Roy Kersley. They showed me to my class and disappeared quickly! Other relations that had come before me were Bryan Bowley and Vic Walker who were married to cousins of mine. Bryan & Vic both served in the forces upon leaving Churcher's. When I started, there was a Vickers Supermarine Spitfire parked in the front quad to the right of the clock tower. We also had Emanuel School from South London 'boarded' with us. Due to this we started quite early after Assembly and finished lessons I think about 1pm and had every afternoon for sport etc., we also attended
school Saturday mornings! The Headmaster was AHG Hoggarth at the time and the fear of the week was the English Grammar lesson which he personally took Friday afternoons in the Library (now the staff room). Clive Bleach (51) was delighted to find himself shown in the photo on the invitation to the Wartime and 50’s Tea which we held in September, shown here, he is the drummer on the right in the second row. He remembers going to Aldershot to meet the King. David Girling (52) was unable to make the Schofield Lunch, he wrote; I was saddened to see that Peter Jordan has died. For a brief time he and I were colleagues in a project to build a superfast model boat. Peter was an enthusiastic dinghy sailor, and we were inspired by reports of a real hydroplane, which sported an airscrew powered by a giant engine, and which had skimmed the length of some lake at incredible speed. I possessed a 4-volt electric motor, which we fitted with a
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language is beautiful and that when I got to NZ remember each syllable ends in a vowel. I wondered how he knew this and some years later I recalled in a physics period he mentioned at some time he had been at the Cavendish Laboratory with Ernest Rutherford the nuclear physicist who came from New Zealand.’ Michael Sweetman (54) met Rowley Foster (80) near their homes in Sussex, they became friends and realised that they were both OCs. They often come back to Petersfield.
model aircraft propeller. We built a stepped, ultra-light, balsa-wood hull, which graced the domestic bath and had practically no draught at all. The addition of the motor did produce an observable increase in this, and the further addition of the necessary battery certainly impaired the lithe outline of the craft, which now sat rather heavily in the water. When the switch was finally thrown, the vessel proceeded down the bath with all the panache of a canal boat on a Sunday afternoon, before turning resolutely to port and striking the side of the bath head-on. We decided to go back to the drawing-board – but somehow we never did... David Best (52) couldn’t get back for the Schofield Lunch, he wrote ‘A memory of Mr Schofield after I had left the College. I went to see him to obtain a reference from him a few days before I left with family for New Zealand in 1952. He asked me where in NZ he should send it and I gave him my Aunt and Uncle’s address at Paraparaumu Beach. He sat back in his chair and said Para-pa-ra-u-mu. remarking that the Maori
Tony Robinson (55) couldn’t get to Open Day he was ‘working as 'Pit Crew' for his younger son Andrew (81), who is running the first of his Ultra Challenges this year in aid of charity’. Stuart Rees (58) normally goes about his work very quietly, very humbly. And as the founder of the Sydney Peace Prize, he’s normally in the background promoting other people’s work. But last week Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees couldn’t help but be at the centre of attention after he was awarded the inaugural Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize, at a ceremony at state parliament in Victoria.
60s Roderick Smith (64) completed his third LDWA non-stop 100-mile Challenge Walk in 33 hours during the very hot end of May Bank Holiday, 48th out of 446 starters.
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Peter Nixon (64) has been in touch with another OC via a blog about cars, under the pseudonym ‘Low drag’. Here is part of the blog; We are joyfully off topic and in memory lane, but cadet force memories are numerous. As a boarder we got bored and had permission to get the very basic glider out, (remember those with a cut-out at the front to seat the pilot?) assemble it and use it. I mean, with the catapult elastic and six a side we could get it to lift off and fly at least ten yards on a good day. Except once we had a very good day. We assembled the glider, we attached it to the ring bolt, we attached the catapult elastic, and decided we'd go one step further with 12 a side and stretched the elastic until we heard strands twanging. "Release" we cried, and up the glider went; and up, and up, to the wailing of the very junior and very lightweight pilot. It climbed
over the playing field hedge, crossed the field heading for the Portsmouth/London main railway embankment. With a despairing cry the pilot heaved on the stick and hedgehopped the line by a whisker, and all we saw as it disappeared from view was a storm of cabbages taking to the air on a rough landing. Ah, the joys of youth! Peter's wife Barbara is shown modelling one of our new umbrellas! Roy Fulker (65) attended the Schofield Lunch and remembers his time under Schofield’s headship ‘While there were many different opinions on George Schofield's tenure, I look upon his reign with fond memories. I found him a fair but strict head and a first-class teacher (Applied Mathematics). My fondest memory is of his Humber Super Snipe which seemed
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incapable of starting in the usual way and, instead, required several passing boys to push it with GTS doing a bump start.’
70s Paul Martin (70) had a print accepted for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. (There were 20,000 submissions)! The entire edition of 75 sold out within weeks of the opening. Paul Chuter (74) has a quad bike dealership in Cumbria, take a look at PaulChuter.co.uk David Harris (75) was selected to represent England Masters in the O60s Hockey World Cup in Barcelona in summer 2018.
Rob Templeman (76) is still working in Private Equity buying and selling companies. After he sold Debenhams about 7 years ago, he led the buy-out of Gala Coral (bingo/casinos and bookies) as Chairman. He is now Chairman of the RAC, another buy-out, and for a while was Chair of the BRC which is the trade body for the Retail Industry. Chris Brown (76) sent an update from down under ‘Based in NSW Australia; Position: Regional GM Asia and Australasia – Inchcape Marine Survey and Inspection’ Chris Goss (79) ‘Having left the RAF in 2012 and then the civilian company I subsequently worked for in 2014, I decided to start writing full time/house husband. I am now up to 24 books published, all on aviation history, with contracts for another 10. I am also writing for UK and European aviation magazines, carrying out some TV and talking work and leading battlefield tours. The next major book to hit the shelves/Amazon is 'Knights of the Battle of Britain' which gives the biographies of all 124 German aircrew who were awarded the prestigious Knights Cross in 1940.’
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80s Jeremy Farrar (80) couldn’t attend Open Day as he was Chairing the World Health Organisation Research and Development Committee in Geneva. Innes Marlow (81) has just designed and written the new war memorial in his home town of Fareham. He is shown at the unveiling with the Mayor of Fareham. Neville Phillips (82) ‘I have my own business employing 15 people providing assurance services, consultancy and training to telecoms operators, principally to O2 as a long standing customer, but a smattering of other clients in UK, Europe and Middle East. Business has grown progressively and we look for Maths, IT or just smart graduates when we take on new work. www.symmetrysolutions.co.uk’ Rhidian Brook (82) is the author of the Aftermath, which has been made into a film by Ridley Scott, starring Keira Knightley.
Rhidian Brook (82)
Chris Parker (86) was welcomed back to speak to our sixth form, this time the subject matter was ‘Fighting for Peace’, former classmates came along to support Chris. Steve Clark (89) when not doing the day job in IT for the Open University keeps up his acting interests (following on from college productions and house plays) – performing in musicals and comedy at university and since then has done pantomimes, stand up and other comedy and directed and produced as well as performed- he helps to run www.mktoc. co.uk (stage adaptations of popular TV sit coms). He also has a writing partnership business, creating pantomimes, murder mysteries, sketches and plays which sell all over the world: www.tlc-creative.co.uk Doug Rose (89) is working at Jaguar Land Rover in Warwickshire as Chief Engineer for in car entertainment systems. Brother Andrew (92) is a Commander in the Navy.
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90s Stuart Brown (91) lives in Singapore with his family. He is Global Head of Emerging & Frontier Markets for Refinitiv, formerly Thomson Reuters.
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Mark Ayling (92) ‘I'm an OC who has recently graduated with Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service as a Wholetime Firefighter and wondered if this very alternative change of career might be of interest to your alumni. Since 2007 I have served as a Retained (On Call) Firefighter in Hay-on-Wye in Powys alongside my primary employment as a senior manager in the pharmaceuticals sector. I decided to follow OLD CHURCHERIANS • 25
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my passion of helping others and left my role in industry in September 2017 to retrain and serve as a Wholetime Firefighter based in Pontardawe near Swansea.’ Jim Bonney (96) former Major Royal Marines sent in this photo with Willem Moseley (14) 'I’m working as a yacht master instructor at Britannia Naval College - and take the new entry officer cadets for sail training. It’s rare to find another OC on my boat!' David Wheeler (96) has been working abroad for many years but is planning to come back to the UK next year. He is in the photo with his wife and children in Lagos. Miles Parker (96) is living in Frankfurt
with his wife and young daughter. ‘I'm currently speechwriter for the President and Executive Board of the European Central Bank. It's certainly an interesting job - trying to translate the technical jargon into something more digestible for nonspecialists, although we are far from "plain English"’. Steve Coombs (97) 'I have been at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University starting as a student and am now Director of Undergraduate Teaching, combining practice, research and teaching.' Phil Elliott (97) is Director of Indie Publishing for Square Enix. Toria Stone (98) suffered a setback four
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years ago when she got meningitis, she has been unable to work in her field of Chemistry, in which she had a PhD. She now makes jewellery. On her wedding day she aims to walk down the aisle on her mother’s arm. Laura Hounsome and Claire Jann née Gibson called in for a look round with the their daughters, shown with one of their former teachers, Head of Modern Languages, Kathryn Shaw. Steve Braysher (99) came across Charles Easton (01) in his business activities at Maclaren, Charles’ family run the Butser Rubber Company. Melissa Lines (99) got in touch with
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the College library to promote her first anthology of poetry, Pineapples in the Pool, find out more from her website https://melissajdavies.com
00s David Goodhand (00) is working for a big data analytics platform company specialising in Machine Learning and AI. Benjamin Long (01) ‘A lot of time recently has been working with a new chamber choir which I set up in 2016. It's an amateur 12-voice choir based in central London and we've been going from strength to strength - last year we were invited to sing evensong OLD CHURCHERIANS • 27
at St George’s Windsor Castle! Over the last year we've been working on a first of its kind project to work with a professional record label to record the works of 12 new and emerging choral composers that have never had their work recorded before, to get their music out into the world and secure the future of choral writing. Funded through crowdfunding, we recorded the pieces in May this year and launched the disc at a special concert in August which was featured on ClassicFM! And then last week... the album was released on Spotify, Itunes and Apple music. I'm also proud to say that I'm one of the composers featured on the disc.’ Ben Dimond (02) is head of EMEA for Playground XYZ, an international company whose HQ is in Sydney. Ed Packer (04) wrote, ‘Over the past few years I have been working as a commercial diver, primarily supporting operations with the MOD/Royal Navy (I'm a civi not forces though) diving on Naval assets mainly at Portsmouth and Devonport Naval bases, although also supporting operations worldwide, more recently out in Bahrain where the heat is unbearable! However in the past 18 months I've made the leap into operations and recently been promoted to the operations manager at UMC International (a division of V Ships) where we support commercial diving, ships husbandry and sub-sea engineering solutions across the globe. It would be interesting to know if anyone from Churcher’s is working in the same line of work as me, either where I could offer assistance and guidance to them or vice versa.’
Ben Smith (04) married to Alaina, an American engineer, they live in Jacksonville, Florida. He is currently working in an energy trading company. Michael Swan (04) is in charge of all the cafes in the National Trust properties and his sister Catherine (2009) helps organise garden open days for Garden Schemes. Thanks to sleuth Tim Dilks for this snippet. Sam Robinson (05) read History at Goldsmith’s before gaining a fellowship to study South American Literature at Stamford. He is now married to Natalie and hoping to develop a career in screen writing. Sarah Vickery (06) has just had her first baby. Lizzie Ace (05) is a manager at The Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project and sister Kate (07) works in HR for Boston Consulting Group. Charlotte Martin (06) is teaching drama at PGS. William Kelley (07) has been working at weekends as DofE examiner, he recently gained his Winter Mountain Leader qualification. He was delighted to find, on a visit to Ibstock Place School, that the geography teacher was Sam Robinson (00) and that former Churcher’s teacher of History, Chris Wolsey, teaches there too. William has now become a volunteer for the Dartmoor Rescue Service. Sally Barnden (07) ‘I’ve been teaching at QM and Brunel, and currently at Central School of Speech and Drama; I’ll be returning
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to King’s as a postdoc next year.’ Ed Doe (07) ‘I currently work for NOV Completion & Production Solutions, which deals with Upstream separation technology in Oil & Gas. I worked within the company as a Projects Engineer for 2 years, before moving into a Proposals Engineering role mid-2017. Our office is focused primarily on undertaking debottlenecking/Field Optimisation studies of process trains on offshore platforms around the world, although our core market is the North Sea. This study work leads into orders for design, fabrication & supply of customised Process internals to improve efficiency in separation of Gas & Oil from Water & Sand. Generally the final stage in a typical project involves offshore supervision of the installation of the new equipment on the platforms, which makes an interesting change from the desk job! I have actually just last week returned from a two week trip to a platform in the Danish North Sea which was hard work but a great experience.’ Henry Churchill (08) is Operations Director for Shore, if you need any surf boards etc he is your man. Rachel Venn (09) is working at Great Ormond Street Hospital as a senior staff
nurse on a night dependency unit for children with cancer. James Firth (09) is working in the investment management world for a Canadian firm called Wealthsimple. They started up in the UK at the end of last year, he’s looking after their sales & rm department. Ed Flint (09) is a Civil Engineer for EDF Energy working on the construction of Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station in Somerset. Mark Parry (09) When not working for Diageo, having done their HR graduate scheme, also works freelance from time to time as an Expedition Leader with Discover Adventure, and was in Chile in November leading a trip. Alex Tibbs (09) now has a PhD, it's on polarimetric computer vision, which consists of detecting the polarization of light in order to make computer systems involving cameras work better. Amelia Payne (09) is Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport. she sent in some photos.
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Tom Morgan (09) is the Director of Digital at The Spectator.
Josh Hall (10) In 2017 Josh completed his Masters in Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He has performed in major venues including The Royal Albert Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Conservatoire national superieur d’art dramatique Paris and worked with conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Markus Stentz, Jac Van Steen, PierreAndre Valade, Ilan Volkov & Michael Seal. As a postgraduate Josh has a place on the Halle Orchestra graduate scheme and will be playing with the orchestra in a professional capacity this May in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
Karen Barker former Careers Officer is Director of Recruitment and Marketing at Warwick Business School.
As well as an orchestral musician Josh has a passion for chamber music and is the Creator and Artistic Director of The
Congratulations to Tom Livingstone (09) for this amazing achievement; part of a team of three he climbed the highly sought-after first ascent of the North Ridge of Latok 1 (7,145m) in Pakistan.https:// www.thebmc.co.uk/legendary-latok-inorth-ridge-clim… Niamh Horton (09) has just finished her PhD at Liverpool University in the role of NRF2/KEAP1 antioxidant pathway in the regulation of circadian molecular clock: Implications for skeletal muscle homeostasis.
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Lasham Classical Music Festival now in its fourth season. He is also the founder of the Esseham Music Charity providing grants to local pupils and students studying classical music.
look at her riding on the You Tube clip.
Harry Suter (10) is working as a production improvement engineer working on McLaren Super cars, after working for Triumph who make airframes for Airbus.
Bryony Nellthorp (12) graduated in Criminology and is now attached to the Police doing young criminal work.
Samuel Markey (11) left university with a Masters in Engineering, then moved across to the legal side and now is working in management consultancy with BCS Consulting. Annie Forsyth (11) has set up her own business of a livery yard and event riding, www.annieforsytheventing.co.uk/ take a
Larry Golland (12) was working on the musical Bat out of Hell at the Dominion Theatre in London earlier last year.
Lucy Wood (12) competed in the Iron Man in Majorca, see photo. Bryony Woods (12) has just finished her first year teaching at Marlborough College, she teaches GCSE Religious Studies and Pre-U Philosophy, she is an assistant house mistress. Francesca Main (12) trekked to Everest Base Camp in 2016, see photo. OLD CHURCHERIANS • 31
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Penny Banham (13) A ‘Careers Bites’ lecture about careers in Conservation was delivered by Penny. She presented a highly informative and fascinating talk about her career in conservation. She completed a Masters in Biodiversity Conservation Management at Oxford University last year and prior to that a BSc in Animal Science at Nottingham. She has spent the last 6 months working for the Southern Tanzanian Elephant Project (http://www. stzelephants.org/) in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania running a research field station in the bush, collecting data on the elephants of Ruaha. During the wet season in Tanzania Penny comes back to the UK to analyse data and write papers. As well as working
as a scientist she also uses her art and photography to promote the work she does. She has realised that many of her life skills were learnt at Churcher's with the support of teachers like Mr Saralis who believed that a mixture of art and science was a positive one and Mrs Jamouneau and Mr Knowles in the Biology Department who made her believe in herself. She also feels the World Challenge projects gave her the confidence to tackle the challenges of field work that is now part of her daily life which, at times, can be both exhilarating and difficult! Alex Lawther (13) Alex’s latest film Ghost Stories was released April. In a Radio Times review, Terry Staunton says: As good as the old hands are, they run the risk of being overshadowed by the
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y (13)
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performance of relative newcomer Alex Lawther, a star in the ascendancy following his lead role in TV’s The End of the F***ing World. All three men’s flashback stories are edge-of-the-seat stuff, but Goodman’s initial interview with Lawther’s schoolboy Simon in the present day takes creepiness to hitherto unseen heights, thanks to an actor capable of prompting goosebumps with the slightest shift in his expressions. Meanwhile, it has been announced that the play Alex was in at The Young Vic in December, The Jungle, is set to transfer to the West End later this year, and Alex has confirmed he will reprise his role in this, as will the majority of the actors. Those of us who saw this play last year were hugely moved and impressed by the whole production. When she saw it, Emma
Freud tweeted “Possibly the best play I have ever seen. If there is any way you can get a ticket, it’s a game changer.” I would definitely recommend you try and see this show, it is amazing. The Jungle was at The Playhouse Theatre. Alex has just completed a film entirely in French, during which he tells us he was wishing he had stuck with his French to A Level, as he describes his grammar as “not great”, and has recently given a brief interview to Digital Spy about what he might like to see if there were to be a second series of The End of the F***ing World. Ed Locke (13) wrote ‘Having graduated from Durham with a Master of Chemistry degree June 2017, I took 6 months off to OLD CHURCHERIANS • 33
ey (15)
Kerris Mackl
go travelling (including sailing across the Atlantic), and I am now working as a Strategy Consultant in London’. Photo of Ed at the East India Dinner. Alida Lewis (13) is hoping to follow a career in the offshore wind industry after completing her Masters. She is currently a squad member in the British Keelboat Academy. Katie Hickey (13) has been busy illustrating books The Race to the Frozen North, the Matthew Henson story, is out next week. Earlier in the year she illustrated The Once Upon a Magic Book. Huon Mackley (13) is currently performing in Germany till June 2019
in the 30th Anniversary production of Starlight Express. He was lucky enough to get the role of a new character Killerwatt for this production and moved to Germany in February where he had to go to skate school for four months to learn to roller skate and sing in German....it’s all been a huge adventure...luckily he loves skating! Jack Salariya (13) got a distinction in his MSc in Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics at Imperial College London and is currently in his first placement as a software engineer in an aerospace company. Harry Champion (14) We were delighted to hear from Harry who was made Young Guns 2018, hospitality person of the year.
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OC News Kerris Mackley (15) kept on her dancing shoes whilst at Warwick reading History. She was president of the university Latin and ballroom dance team. Ben Williams (15) is shown cycling which he does in a mix of British Cycling races (road and track) and nationally recognised Time Trials (10 and 25 mile distances at the moment). He is competing in the National Circuit Time Trial championships and his next big goal is to compete in the National Track Championships in January in the Individual Pursuit event.
s (15) Ben William
Charlie Daniells (14) ‘After leaving Churcher’s I successfully auditioned for the drama school, LAMDA, to train with them as an actor. Not long after graduating I was cast as a puppeteer in a play at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and fell in love with puppetry. At the beginning of this year I retrained with the Curious School of Puppetry and am now currently lead puppeteer on a new BBC drama’. Alice Norkett (14) is studying for a PGCE at Sheffield Hallam and is sharing accommodation with OC friend Izzy Brice who is a radiographer in Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Miranda Norris (15) had a change of plan and is now hoping to join the Navy as a mine clearance diver.
Alistair Milton-Seall (15) was taken on by Red Consultancy after a successful internship. Beth Lewis (16) was in school observing in the Geography Department in preparation for a career in teaching. John Jones (16) spent some of his summer vacation from Cardiff University accompanying some of our students on the recent World Challenge trip to China. Jack Mansfield (16) Jack’s band Shadow Boxer completed their second UK tour, playing at venues in London, Leeds, Sheffield and Norwich. They have released two more singles, Casino and Waves, both available on Spotify. George van den Broek (17) is making a name for himself as a musician and songwriter, that name being Yellow Days (which refers to his synaesthesia – the ability to perceive colours while listening to music), which is how he is becoming known across the world.
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He has already played a largely sold-out tour of Europe and the US earlier this year, and received a four-star review from The Guardian for his gig at Koko in London last month, where George is described as “unquestionably one to watch”. Last week, he announced he’ll be performing in Ghent, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Copenhagen, Zürich, Milan and across Great Britain in October, followed by fourteen dates in the US and Canada in November. Yellow Days – one to look out for. And he’s still only 19….. bell (18)
Jack Camp
George is quite open about his mental health issues, talking about suffering from depression and anxiety when he was growing up, and this is reflected very much in his work. “I really love writing sad music,” he has said, as he explains how his music is his abstract way of understanding depression, as well as a cathartic ritual to cope with it. He released his first EP, Harmless Melodies, back in 2016, and his first studio album, Is Everything Okay in Your World? came out last year. Reviews of a couple of his early tracks appeared in The Line of Best Fit in October 2016 and in the March 2017 issue of DIY Magazine. Last November, an interview with George appeared in NME, and earlier this year a lengthy article about him was published in the American Billboard magazine, as one of his songs played on the trailer for season 2 of Atlanta on American TV.
Alex Andrews (18) I won a young person’s place on the Vindolanda excavation last year (2017) and was lucky enough to dig for 2 weeks. It is probably the best Roman excavation in the country. People travel from all over the world to take part. I have been very lucky again to have been invited back for the 2018 season by Dr Andrew Birley (CEO and Excavation Director of The Vindolanda Trust). It's an amazing site and a great opportunity. Last year in the two weeks I was there we found a pair of leather boxing gloves (the only know gloves to survive in the Roman World) plus more of the famous "Vindolanda tablets". The boxing gloves are now on display in the museum. Last year they also found two rare swords the week before I arrived and some Roman horse brass whilst I was there. The dig was on the BBC Alice Roberts series "Digging for Britain" earlier this year. Jack Campbell (18) is shown receiving his England U19 cap from Andy Flowers.
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In Memoriam It is with great sadness that we bring you the news that the following members of the Churcher’s community have passed away. Kenneth Parsons (40) 21/4/18
Ian Megarry (51) 14/2/18
Alex Loten (42) 5/5/18 he was a member of the 1722 Society.
Tony Fullick (52) 6/3/18
John Watts (42) 2/7/2018 Anthony Brennan (44) John Sayer (44) 23/12/18 he was a member of the 1722 Society. Ian McLachan (47) (19/8/18) John Phillips (47) (29/9/18)
David Angela (57) 15/11/18 Richard Bedford (58) 3/4/18 Noel Hardy (62) 22/7/18 Charles Wilkinson (87) 8/18 John Prestidge (48) 11/12/18 Nigel Hance (90) 18/7/18
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Dates for your diary... Reunion for the classes of 69/79/89/99/09 Saturday 30 March 2019 OC Hockey and Netball - Sunday 31 March 2019 The London Dinner – Friday 10 May, a new venue for us, the RAF Club in Piccadilly. Tickets at £45 for a three course dinner with wine are now available on our portal, Wise Pay. The Richard Churcher Foundation Golf Challenge – Friday 14 June 2019 Open Day – Saturday 29 June 2019 between 10 and 2. To purchase tickets for the London Dinner or the golf day please go to https://www.wisepay.co.uk/education/hampshire/ChurchersCollegeExt/ wisepay.htm Or contact the Foundation Office.
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