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A poem for VE Day
Thanks to the pandemic, the 75th anniversary of VE day was marked in unexpectedly muted fashion. Peter Cantrell, Head of English from 2002 to 2017, wrote this beautiful poem to reflect on a historic occasion.
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Victory Day
It’s balmy summer warmth and sun, Apt weather, you could say; The bunting’s out, and Union flags: Our streets are proud today.
Eleven finds me standing mute, To honour lives withdrawn; Though cars offend the solemn air, I hear a bugler’s horn.
This day in Nineteen Forty-Five Was World War Two’s VE: We’ll celebrate at two-arms’ length, For that’s the rule; we’ll see.
Back then my parents partied too, The nation all as one: In teenage glee, and still unmet, Each laughed that war was won.
The ethic of their age and class Equipped them well for war: Hard work, and thrift, and self-control, No clamouring for ‘more’.
The Queen is billed to speak tonight, And then it’s Vera Lynn; We’ll meet again will echo loud, Our spirits lift within.
The message doesn’t change with time, It’s still that steadfast tune: Do not despair, do not give up, And make it through to June.
LEAVERS
Our best wishes to the following members of the Sherborne Girls Community:
Jane Board Ella Carter Tessa Cawdron Abigail Folleat Ben Gudgeon Jane Hewitt Ros Johnson Deanne Mahony Enca Marza Natasha Prince Lucy Suttle Melissa Tillyer Georgina Toscani Katelyn Walker
President Lucy Jameson
Presidents Emeritae Mrs Geraldine Kerton-Johnson Mrs Jenny Dwyer
Vice-Presidents Mrs Patricia Barker Miss Augusta Miller Miss Sheila Powell Dr Hassan Qasrawi
Executive Committee
Chairman Alexandra White
Treasurer Lindsay Taylor
Secretary Fiona James oldgirls@sherborne.com
Peer Group Co-ordinators’ Representative Nicki Lewis oldgirls@sherborne.com
Circle Secretaries’ Co-ordinator Jane Nicholson oldgirls@sherborne.com
Co-opted Member Emily Palmer Ramus oldgirls@sherborne.com
Headmistress Ruth Sullivan headmistress@sherborne.com
Senior Management Team Representative Katherine Massey k.massey@sherborne.com 1925 – 1965 Daphne MaGuire (Thomson) 1966 – 1970 Anne Whatley-Smith (Agnew) 1971 – 1975 Jocelyn Passey (Humfrey) 1976 – 1980 Jane Digby (Auer) 1981 – 1985 Emma Burrows 1986 – 1990 Antonia Foster (Plant) 1991 – 1995 Alexandra White 1996 – 2000 Alexa Ramsay (Laryea) 2001 – 2005 Tess Cavendish 2006 – 2010 Alex Pentolfe 2011 – 2015 Louise Moseley 2016 – 2020 Imogen Andrews
Trustees of Sherborne Old Girls Bursary Fund
Joanna Gornall (Mrs Wright), Helen McLuskie (Mrs Garton)
All correspondence should be addressed to:
Miss Ghislaine Fluck, 16 Conifer Drive Meopham, Gravesend, Kent DA13 0TL ghislaine.fluck@btinternet.com
Development Officer Laura Windsor development@sherborne.com
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