Events and Reunions TO BORROW FROm ThE FOOTBALL PuNDITS, 2021 WAS A YEAR OF TWO hALVES. Following a full programme of virtual events in the spring, we were delighted to be once again able to hold live events from September. Three events in three days got us well and truly into the swing of things. Starting with the launch of our LGBTQ+ group at The Yard Bar in Soho, followed by School House OS coming together at The Black Dog, Vauxhall for Trish Cant’s leaving drinks and then the next evening we were back at The Black Dog for the Class of 2015’s delayed 5 Year Reunion. The Class of 2016 celebrated their 5 Year Reunion at The Black Dog the following Saturday. October saw the much postponed 30 Year Reunion for the Class of 1990 finally taking place at The Department Store Brixton. Thank you to Richard Robinson (h) and Henry Squire (g) for organising the event. This was followed by a lunch at the Ironmongers’ Hall for Bow Society (OS who have promised to remember the School in their will) and Q (OS who left the School over 50 years ago). The same evening, we hosted around 100 OS and Sherborne Old Girls at Dirty Bones in Soho for the Classes of 2010 and 2011’s Ten Year Reunion. Dirty Bones, but this time in Shoreditch, was the venue the
As you will see in the calendar, we are already planning the 2022 OSS programme.
following day for the annual Volunteers’ Lunch. As always, we are very grateful to Cokey Sulkin (m 97) for letting us use The Black Dog and his Dirty Bones restaurants. Our last event in October was a joint 15 Year Reunion with Sherborne Old Girls for the Classes of 2005 and 2006 at another old favourite, The Clarence in Dover Street. The final year group reunions of 2021, were held on the same evening in early November; the 45 Year Reunion Dinner at the Lansdowne Club for the Class of 1976, organised by Charles Diehl (c) and Anthony Pralle (g) and a burger and a beer at Bill’s Restaurant Soho followed by Espresso Martinis into the small hours for the Class of 2001 celebrating their 20 Year Reunion, organised by Alex Beattie (a). November also saw our only overseas event when Adrian Ballard, released from Sherborne, briefly visited Geneva and hosted a dinner for local OS. The OSS autumn programme concluded with the 20th Media Lunch at The Groucho Club on Thursday 25 November and the London Carol Service at St Olave’s Hart Street on Monday 6 December.
