Sherborne Old Girls Journal 2018

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Journal Sherborne Old Girls

No. 52 – 2018

www.sherborne.com/Sherborne-Old-Girls

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Sherborne Old Girls President Lucy Jameson

No. 52 – 2018

Presidents Emeritae Mrs Geraldine Kerton-Johnson Miss June Taylor Mrs Jenny Dwyer

Contents

Editorial Team Fiona James Anna Anthony Tim Gibson Executive Committee

Design and print Shelleys the Printers

Journal enclosures Your invitation to the 2019 Old Girls Day and AGM is enclosed.

The Old Girls Office Sherborne Girls Bradford Road Sherborne

From the Chairman

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2018 SOG AGM

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Vice-Presidents Mrs Patricia Barker Miss Augusta Miller Miss Sheila Powell Dr Hassan Qasrawi

Torchbearers News

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Executive Committee

From the President

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Chairman Nicki Whiteman (Lewis)

From the Headmistress

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SOG Charity

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Congratulations

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Development Review

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Obituaries

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Golf

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Births, Marriages & Deaths

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New SOG Members 2018

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Daughters and Granddaughters of OGs

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Circle News

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Careers Networking Service

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Features

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Peer Group News

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School News

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News from Honorary Members

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Sherborne Old Girls

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From the Secretary

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Dorset DT9 3QN T: 01935 818329 F: 01935 818310 E: oldgirls@sherborne.com www.sherborne.com/Sherborne-Old-Girls

Sherborne Girls Alumnae

Sherborne Girls

The cover photo was taken at school during the Michaelmas term 2018

Treasurer Gill Oliver Secretary Fiona James oldgirls@sherborne.com Peer Group Co-ordinators’ Representative Alexandra White (Ballard) oldgirls@sherborne.com Circle Secretaries’ Co-ordinator Jane Reekie (Nicholson) oldgirls@sherborne.com Co-opted Member Emily Palmer oldgirls@sherborne.com Headmistress Ruth Sullivan headmistress@sherborne.com Senior Management Team Representative Katherine Massey k.massey@sherborne.com

Peer Group Co-ordinators 1925 – 1960

Daphne MaGuire (Thomson)

1961 – 1965

Rosie Cox (Highfield)

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 (Ballard)

1996 – 2000

Alexa Ramsay (Laryea)

2001 – 2005

Tess Cavendish

2006 – 2010

Bella Hussey

2011 – 2015

Louise Moseley

2016 – 2020

Imo Andrews

Trustees of Sherborne Old Girls Bursary Fund June Taylor, Joanna Gornall (Mrs Wright), Helen McLuskie (Mrs Garton) All correspondence should be addressed to: Miss June Taylor, Flat 4 Palliser Court, Palliser Road, London W14 9ED Development Officer Laura Windsor development@sherborne.com

Sherborne Old Girls Office, Bradford Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3QN Tel: 01935 818329 Email: oldgirls@sherborne.com www.sherborne.com/Sherborne-Old-Girls Main school tel: 01935 812245 Email: office@sherborne.com

Sherborne Girls Alumnae

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From

From

Fiona James

Nicki Whiteman (Lewis) E’94

T H E S E C R E TA R Y Welcome to the 2018 edition of the Journal.

As was the case last year, we have produced the Journal using an in-house editorial team, with the Executive Committee taking overall responsibility for the editorial content.

Old Girls events are always at the heart of our work and 2018 saw the busiest programme to date.

I do hope that you enjoyed the OG event, especially if it is the first one you have been to – we would love to see you again.

Our Old Girls Day is taking place on Saturday, 11 May 2019 at school. We are being treated to a small concert before having lunch in the new Arts Centre. We would be delighted if you would like to join the current girls and sing together in the Abbey at Evensong. Full details are included in your Journal.

Our careers service continues to grow and strengthen, and it is testament to the strong bonds of friendship that Old Girls have for one another that at our recent careers events we had such a strong panel of alumnae.

We have received an incredible amount of news which we are delighted about and have tried to include as much as possible. Please do keep sending us your news; it is always fascinating and inspiring to read about the achievements and roles undertaken by Old Girls. We hope you will enjoy reading the articles as much as we have.

Thank you for your continued support and all good wishes for 2019.

THE CHAIRMAN As many of you already know, I am keen to ensure our organisation is vibrant, relevant and valuable for every Old Girl, and whilst there is always more we can do, I think this year we have made some real progress.

One of my aims when I took over as Chairman was to look at how we might achieve this. I was delighted that we were able to launch a Careers Coaching programme for our younger alumnae. We offered thirteen fully funded places, which were taken up. As a group, they have found the coaching to be an enormous help to them as they explore options open to them and launch their own career paths. You can read more about this programme and their feedback on page 26. As they have found this coaching so helpful, I am very pleased that we will be extending this programme to Old Girls who have had a career break and are now looking at returning to the workplace.

It has been a real pleasure to see many Old Girls and Honorary Old Girls at events, where I have been struck by the strong bonds of friendship and kind offers of support alumnae share with each other.

I do hope you will be able to join us at our Old Girls Day on Saturday, 11 May in the new Arts Centre at Sherborne Girls. It promises to be a lovely day ending with Evensong in the Abbey.

Please do keep in touch and if you know of someone who is not receiving news from us, please let Fiona in the SOG office know.

I look forward to seeing you during the year.

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2018

This year we held our AGM at The

Salters’ Company. We were very grateful

SHERBORNE OLD GIRLS AGM

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President Lucy Jameson AE’89 welcomed everyone and thanked Old Girls for coming.

On behalf of our Chairman, Nicki Whiteman (Lewis) E’94, Lucy reiterated that Sherborne Old Girls is committed to increasing engagement with our members and offering tangible benefits to Old Girls. Lucy and Nicki thanked our volunteers who give of their time to support our organisation and make it the vibrant community it is.

Former Headmistress and President Emeritae, Jenny Dwyer, gave her final address to Old Girls after twelve years as Headmistress. The school is in great heart and going from strength to strength. There are 486 girls in the school. The

to The Clerk and former parent, Captain

David Morris, for enabling us to hold our AGM at this livery company.

Director of Sport has expanded the number and type of sports available and the girls reached the National Squash finals. A new head of Art has been appointed and the very high standard of art continues. The West girls recently put on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was particularly impressive that 56 girls were involved in all aspects of the play – a great team effort.

The inner confidence gained by doing something for others is encouraged and the Adventure and Leadership department supports projects where girls help abroad. Music continues to be a strength at Sherborne Girls and the Madrigals sang in the Abbey Festival. The school is

working with Sherborne School and The Gryphon in a small number of A Level subjects and the IB programme, which SG hopes to build on for the future.

Kivukoni School run by Lucy bateman (oliff) AE’87 was nominated for charitable support.

Lucy drew the meeting to a close and thanked everyone for coming. Following the meeting, Captain David Morris gave us a very interesting talk about the history and work of The Salters’ Company, before we went on tours of the livery company. A delicious afternoon tea was served in the main hall before Old Girls went home.

Torchbearers NEWS We were very sorry to hear the sad news that two of our Torchbearers passed away this year: Verena Fairs (hoffman) DH’64 on 4 April 2018 and Margaret Mayell DH’50 in July 2018. We offer our condolences to their families and friends.

The annual lunch was held in Sherborne, in March, at the Eastbury Hotel and was well attended and a lovely occasion for everyone. This was Jenny Dwyer’s last Torchbearers’ event and both she and Katherine Massey, Director of Development & Marketing, gave updates about

the school and the progress of the new Arts Centre.

For 2019, we shall return to the glorious surroundings of Plumber Manor, near Sturminster Newton, for our annual lunch on Tuesday, 19 March. We are always keen to hear from potential new legators and welcome enquiries from those who feel that they may be able to support the school in their Will. Remembering Sherborne Girls in your Will is one of the most personal and significant ways in which you can help us change

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From

THE PRESIDENT Lucy Jameson AE’89

It often seems as if we live in a fragmented world. As disagreements about politics continue to rage, and people find solace in technology rather than face-to-face interactions, networks like the Sherborne Old Girls become vital to our wellbeing.

With an organisation like ours, there is a chance to stay in touch with the people we grew up alongside: people who were with us in our formative years, who have walked with us through our highs and lows; people who will always be our friends, because they know us inside out.

But Sherborne Old Girls provides a far broader network than that. It isn’t just a way of

keeping in touch with friends.

It’s an opportunity to join a much larger grouping, whose common feature is the association of every member with this wonderful school.

The strength of that network is seen in the way Sherborne Old Girls pull together to enhance the career prospects of fellow alumnae, across all ages. I am proud of our work in this area. It is something that I hope we continue to build on in the years ahead.

Everyone needs a break to establish themselves professionally, even if they’ve benefited from the first-class education we received. By working collaboratively and

lives, empower girls to be an influence for good, remain at the forefront of women’s education, widen access and attract talent irrespective of financial means. If you would like to find out more, do please contact Laura Windsor in the Development Office.

Jane reekie (Nicholson) E’59 Leader, The Torchbearers Society

sharing insights and connections, Sherborne Old Girls provides an unrivalled network that can help form the next generation of female leaders.

That is a legacy in which we can delight. It is of the essence of the school that formed us. It shows our strength as a group of people who have Sherborne in common, who revel in our shared sense of belonging and who want to help the next generation continue the legacy.

In a fragmented age, that spirit of community is more important than ever. It is our network, and I am delighted to be a part of it.

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From

THE HEADMISTRESS Ruth Sullivan AW’91

“Sherborne Girls are exceptional – utterly gracious, humane, kind and ferociously intelligent.”

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The words above were sent to me by Anne Fergusson, one of the judges of the Debating Matters competition, which Sherborne Girls was delighted to win last autumn (see News, page 54). They resonated with me, because they closely reflect my own impressions of the school after just a few months of working here.

The girls in this community exhibit all of those virtues my correspondent described. They are a joy to be around, contributing to an atmosphere that is supportive, caring, intellectually brave and deeply formational.

These are hard values to quantify, harder still to measure.

There is a sense that when you grasp them, you grasp them, even if you can’t fully articulate what you see. Nonetheless, I’d

like to draw your attention to just a few signs of the health of our community.

Alongside our victories in competitions such as Debating Matters, where we triumphed over seven other schools in a rigorous contest that stretched participants and judges alike, we continue to enjoy considerable academic success.

Our results in IB, A levels and GCSEs were outstanding, with 27 per cent of all students sitting the reformed GCSEs, achieving the highest possible grades.

In addition, 12 of our pupils have been invited to Oxbridge for interviews and many more will be offered places in Russell Group universities or prestigious specialist colleges of art, drama or music.

These are indices of success of which we can be proud. They reflect the care, dedication and attention of Sherborne Girls’ staff, who give hugely of themselves for the sake of our pupils. I have been struck since arriving here by the vital contribution staff make to the ethos of the school. They fully support our desire to perpetuate a culture of ambition among our girls and develop their leadership talents. In their very ways of being, my colleagues help bring such a culture to life.

My theme for this year is health and wellbeing. I see the girls’ development and growth in broad terms. So while I am delighted with our performance in academic endeavours, I am similarly pleased to see how well our girls do in co-curricular

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pursuits, as well as in their social action and outreach.

Five girls have been selected for England Lacrosse and another for the Wales U15 squad. Two are joining England Hockey performance training camps.

Our intermediate girls came ninth in the National CrossCountry Championships, meaning they are in the top tier of the country’s runners.

These measures of our community are important. So is the vibrancy of our music and drama, with a beautiful production of The Wizard of Oz being a recent highlight for the school. Meanwhile, anyone who heard our girls singing carols at Waterloo Station before Christmas, in aid of the Sherborne and Waterloo food bank, would have felt a surge of pride in our school and for all we represent.

Other impressive altruistic feats in which our

girls have been involved include a Sherborne Schools tour to India that raised money for medical care and higher education programmes in the slums of Delhi, as well as fundraising for charities such as St Margaret’s Hospice, Great Ormond Street, Evie’s Gift, The British Heart Foundation and the Sherborne Voluntary Hospital.

These are the means by which we give expression to our commitment that each and every girl in our community becomes all that they hope to be and makes a difference to the world around them. They are shared practices, shared successes, in which we all revel, and which help each of us achieve our ambitions.

I believe we are preparing our pupils for a bright future. It is a profound joy to be a part of their journey.

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The reed bed and ‘SOG Shamba’ area

Warm wishes all the way from Kenya, where we are enjoying our sunny Christmas season.

I write as a ‘Sherborne Old Girl’ from Kivukoni School here in Kilifi, where we now have 180 pupils from all walks of life happily enjoying an enriching and empowering education.

I would like to thank Sherborne Girls on a few fronts: Primarily for providing me with an education that not only empowered me to take on the role I now have here, as founder and director of the school, but also for facilitating the wealth of opportunities that are integral to my

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SOG CHARITY

Lucy Bateman (Oliff) AE’87

understanding of what a rewarding education should consist of. There is rarely a day when I am not drawing from my own inspiring education I was lucky enough to receive a few decades ago!

And then more recently and more directly, we all at Kivukoni School are hugely thankful for the SOG donation to our science fundraising program. As a school with environmental sustainability central to everything we do, we have tried hard in the past to develop a vegetable garden for the children to experience the practice of growing

things, discovering first-hand the processes of germination and pollination, and along the way, hopefully delivering some organically grown products to the school kitchen! But every year, the monkeys, Egyptian geese and baking sun all convene against us, and the hard work of the children never ‘bears fruit’ (excuse the pun). Thus, when we were fortunate enough to be the recipients of this year’s SOG funds, we were thrilled finally to be in a position to put into place the priority on our science ‘wish list’: a covered garden. This will be an area with raised beds, (built with recycled plastic bricks) covered with shade netting to keep out that intense sun and hungry wildlife. It will be drip irrigated by our ‘green water’ reed bed system, that naturally filters and re-uses kitchen and classroom water run-off.

And… it will be called the SOG SHAMBA! (‘shamba’ being the Swahili word for small farm).

Progress to date – we have moved the banana grove, to create ‘banana circles’ (also up-cycling waste water and organic matter), and that has created room for the SOG Shamba to be built.

Having now received the sustainably grown gum poles, the building will be ‘work in progress’ next term, in time for the Year 2’s farming project during Term 3.

We will very much look forward to keeping you updated on its progress!

With huge thanks from us all – and sending you some sunshine.

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rosanna butler AW’04 graduated from Exeter University with a First Class Honours degree in Arabic.

Wendy Fitch (betteridge) AE’61 won the Dan Poynter Global E-book Award with her first book It’s Your Thoughts that Count – how to use your thoughts to transform your life. In 2018 she received a Civic Award from Porirua City in New Zealand.

amelia Jannoe RH’13 graduated from the University of Bath with a First Class Honours degree in Business Administration.

Liz Juniper AE’64 was awarded the honour of being named a Giant of Chest Medicine by the American College of Chest Medicine.

Joanna Udal K’82 received the Cross of St Augustine award in recognition of her unparalleled service to the Anglican Communion from the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace. claire Dickinson (hardy) A’03 was included in Management Today’s 35 Business Women Under 35 List (July 2018) which was featured in the Sunday Telegraph. She was also shortlisted as Women of the Future (business leadership category) by the Women of the Future UK Awards in November 2018.

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Lottie hayton RH’14 graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honours degree in History. ella Mountbatten WD’14 graduated from Bristol University with a First Class Honours degree in Anthropology.

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Development sherborne Girls

Foundation

The Sherborne Girls Foundation was set up to assist the school in developing its social responsibility activities, and to help stimulate philanthropy to support the growth and development of the school. Thank you to everyone who has contributed this year – your support really does make a difference.

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To help us achieve our vision, we are looking for Old Girls who will give their time and expertise to offer careers advice, mentor, provide work experience, attend our careers events (such as Women in Leadership event, see page 24), and talk to the girls at our inspirational speaker series.

We launched sherbornegirlsconnect.com last year, an online platform for connecting Old Girls with one another and with the school.

Please sign up if you haven’t already done so.

Inevitably, there is also a fundraising objective and our key priority is closing the gap on the Arts Centre Appeal. This is the biggest and most exciting

development the school has ever undertaken. It includes a new recital hall with 305 fixed seats, the conversion of the Stuart Centre to a new drama school, exhibition space and multi-functional social areas.

We have raised a staggering £2.3m thanks to the generosity of our Sherborne Girls community. Thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far. Our focus now is on reaching our £2.5m target before the Arts Centre is officially opened in June.

We are also committed to our Candlelight Bursaries. These are full, transformational bursaries for girls whose challenging home lives means a boarding education can be life

changing for the girl and her family. We partner with the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation to identify girls who would really gain from our help. We currently have five girls in the school on Candlelight Bursaries and it is our aspiration to increase this each year.

Through the Sherborne Girls Foundation, we hope to widen access, change lives and send out into the world girls of character who think clearly and creatively, choose wisely and who have the courage to make a difference. We would be delighted to hear from you if you would like to support this vision.

Thank you.

Katherine Massey (Prideaux-Brune, A’91) Director of Development & Marketing E: k.massey@sherborne.com T: 01935 818215

OBITUARIES

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sheila sandilands (elgie)

Dh’27

Sheila’s nephew, Richard Smallshaw, writes: sheila was born on 18 October 1912 in Winchester, the third daughter of Dr John Sandilands MC MD DPH and Marion Sandilands. Her father served as Medical Officer of Health in Bombay, India, between 1919 and 1929.

Sheila entered Sherborne Girls on 12 May 1922, into LIVA, joining her elder sister Molly DH’26. Her brother Donald was at Sherborne Boys.

Sheila left the school in 1930 following the early death of her father. She qualified as a physiotherapist and continued practising into her nineties.

Sheila married Mac Elgie on 15 June 1942 and they had three children – Donald, Jean and Alison – seven grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Mac died in October 1999. Latterly, Sheila lived in Muswell Hill, London, and died in the Meadows Care Home there on 13 February 2018.

Verena Fairs (hoffman)

Dh’64

Verena’s school friend Jacqui Rose DH’64 writes: Verena was born in Northumberland and baptised in Hexham Abbey. She was an only child and her home during her school days was Compton Abbas Rectory where she and her mother lived with her uncle, who was the rector.

Verena won a scholarship to Sherborne Girls and worked hard during her time there. She stayed in touch with her friends from Dun Holme, especially hilary Thomas (boyd) DH’64, Jane symons (Thornton) DH’64, cecily Gardner (Kohler) DH’64 and me all her life.

After graduating from Exeter University with a degree in German and Russian, Verena worked in London as an editor on the International Who’s Who and the Annual Register.

At Exeter, Verena met her future husband, Tom. They married in 1971 and moved to Kent where their son Alexander was born in 1975. In 1981 they moved to Old Curteis in Biddenden. Verena managed their holiday let, became involved in village life and was a member of the parish church. Her deep faith remained throughout her life.

Verena died peacefully at home on 19 April 2018. Her family arranged a service of thanksgiving for her life at All Saints, Biddenden.

Tom Hoffman writes: The Service of Thanksgiving for Verena’s life was attended by many friends, including a number of her Sherborne contemporaries. She adored her time at Sherborne, making lifelong friends and generally immersing herself in books and work in order to avoid having to go anywhere near the sports field. In her Will, Verena left a legacy to the Sherborne Old Girl’s Bursary Fund to help those less fortunate than herself.

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OBITUARIES

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Valerie Pollitt (Harlow)

Mary Shaw (Phillips)

Valerie’s sons, Roger, Clive, Garth and Oliver, write:

Mary’s daughter, Elizabeth Phillips T’67, writes:

Our beloved mother Valerie, known as Vee, was the adored wife of Humphrey and a doting grandmother to Giles, Rupert, Will, Alex and Melissa.

Mary died peacefully in her sleep on 17 September 2018. She was 96 years old, a qualified doctor who worked in Africa and Arabia and who in retirement drove for the Meals on Wheels for 30 years until she retired from this in 2014 at the age of 92.

ae‘47

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Vee was known as an inveterate hobbyist. She listed silk painting, batik, stained-glass making, knitting, pottery restoration, quilting, gardening and bridge among her many interests. She was also a wonderful cook.

But above all, Vee was devoted to her family.

She is much missed by all of us.

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As a medical student in 1940, Mary discovered that Sherborne was rare for those days in providing science teaching of a good standard for girls. Most of her fellow medical students (Royal Free was all female then) had had to seek science coaching after leaving school before they could take up their places. She was house captain of Thurstan but left in May 1940 before completing the term in order to work in the Land Army before starting her medical course.

OBITUARIES

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Louise Thomson (Suggett)

Elizabeth Rought (Peake)

Louise’s daughter, Clare Suggett (Davis) A’93 writes:

Elizabeth’s husband, John, and daughter, Cathy Peake (Madgin) K’72, write:

Louise died peacefully at her home near Dornoch on 1 October 2017. Louise followed her aunt, edith Thomson (Dickson) AS’25, cousins sheila Dickson (Morgan) AE’50 and Diana Dickson (burleigh) AE’53 and her sisters betty Thomson (Milligan) W’58 and Margaret Thomson W’59 to Sherborne.

elizabeth was born on 26 March 1924. She died on 11 July 2018.

W’62

After school she trained as an occupational therapist and then as a primary school teacher in Scotland. She married Gavin in 1971 and brought up their three children in rural Perthshire. Louise kept up Sherborne friendships including Bice Crichton-Miller (1931–1934, History teacher and AW House Tutor; 1948–1970, House Mistress Wingfield), Prudence Patton (steck) W’62 and members of SOG in Scotland. The connection was further continued through clare Morgan (Jenne) W’82 and her Campbell and Morgan cousins.

Louise will be remembered for her lovely garden, delicious food, selfless interest in others and her bravery in the face of debilitating rheumatoid arthritis. She is sorely missed by Gavin, Clare, Gordon and Katie, her wider family and by many friends throughout the UK and the US.

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After leaving Sherborne Girls, Elizabeth went to Newnham College, Cambridge, to read Geography. She gained blues in tennis, hockey and squash.

On leaving Cambridge, she worked in London for two years in The Office of Strategic Services – a precursor to the CIA. After the war, she returned to Cambridge and worked as assistant to Professor Frank Debenham at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI).

In 1953, Elizabeth married John, who was at Clare when she was at Newnham. They lived in Peterborough and had a daughter, cathy, and a son. Elizabeth taught geography, and later maths as well, in the senior part of their school.

In 1969, she and John moved to Melbourne, Australia, for four years, before moving to Saginaw, Michigan, USA for three years. When John retired in 1985, they enjoyed holidaying in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and throughout Europe.

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Diana sommerville Warren (allison)

T’55

Diana’s daughters, Anna Crawford (Seton Coad) T’79 and Caroline Crawford (Woollard) T’81 write: Diana was born on 26 August 1938. She died on 21 June 2018.

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Diana enjoyed a full life of tennis, horses, dogs and golf and particularly loved her connection with the Avon & Somerset Police Mounted Constabulary when her husband, Ian Crawford, was Chairman of the Police Authority.

Ian and Diana enjoyed more than 40 years of married life together and took great pleasure from their four children, anna, caroline, James and Duncan, her six grandchildren, and her two great-grandchildren.

After Ian’s death in 2002, Diana found happiness again with a longstanding family friend, John Allison. Diana and John moved to Wedmore and enjoyed many adventurous holidays together.

Sport and music were Diana’s passions at Sherborne and she loved her years at the school. She would have been pleased to see so many Sherborne girls attending her funeral: her sister Virginia Warren (Tidmarsh) T’60, nieces Josie stock (Missick) A’76 and Lottie stock (Fenton) A’79, god-daughter sarah McWatters (Galea) T’80, Diana McWatters (Darwall) W’81, caroline Davis (Patterson) DH’57 and Philippa read (cowles) T’79.

belinda rudd (Penney)

Dh’49

Belinda’s longtime friend, Tricia Jones, writes: belinda was born in Chatham and lived in many different places and met people from all over the world. She learnt to swim in Valetta Harbour in Malta and loved the sea at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight where in retirement her father was House Governor and where her sons had wonderful holidays. She met St John in 1952 and they were married in Weymouth, the nearest town to Portland Naval Base. They moved to Bishop’s Castle in 1954.

Belinda was very much part of the local community and wife of the local doctor. She was a founder member of the Young Wives Group, active in the Mothers’ Union, and Mayoress of Bishop’s Castle eleven times. She was also a great supporter of the Old Castle Land Trust, which was set up to protect some local land from development and keep it as open space for local people to enjoy.

Belinda was a person of gentle wisdom and a deep faith, well read and interested in many things. She was great at cutting out articles from papers and magazines and passing them on to those people who might be interested.

She had trained as a librarian and had worked at the library in Newtown for some years where she kept a bicycle and would go for a ride in her lunch hour.

OBITUARIES

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Jane rew (cazalet)

hazel edgar (Douglas)

Jane’s husband, Sir Peter, and son, Charles (Peter), write:

Hazel’s daughter, Jody Douglas (Wallington) T’82, writes:

Jane was born in London but spent some of the war years with her mother in Canada. In 1944, she was sent to Sherborne Girls.

hazel died on 16 May 2018. She was born on 2 July 1924 in Swanage and attended St Leonard’s prep school before arriving at Sherborne Girls at the age of 14.

Dh’50

She was a county level tennis player and a trialist for the Olympic ski team. Dancing and music were followed in later life by cycling trips along canals in France and trekking in Bhutan. One of her first jobs was at the BBC as a secretary, keeping Ned Sherrin in order.

Dh’42

The war started while Mother was at Sherborne and from the start girls had to help out with various tasks and chores. She helped with the school pigs and washed milk bottles at the local dairy, for which she was handsomely rewarded with ice cream.

Jane married Peter in 1957 and their life together was full of great events: most importantly the arrival of Charles (who many of us know as another Peter), and then Andrew, and then William.

Mother’s love of music developed at Sherborne.

She played the piano and organ and loved singing in the choir, especially in the Abbey. She was always very modest about her musical ability, but quietly went on to achieve concert grade.

As part of her role as a businessman’s wife (Sir Peter was deputy chairman of BP), Jane launched six ships. At the celebrations that followed, she would sometimes speak or sing in the appropriate language: Japanese, Swedish, French. She was a fine musician, a pianist and a guitarist and a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music.

After serving as a photographer in the Wrens and then training as a radiographer, Mother moved to Singapore in 1955. She met my father the week she arrived and they married three years later. My sister Louise was born in 1961 and I followed in 1964.

First and foremost, Jane was a wonderful mother. She loved family get-togethers and also found time to be involved with Cancer Care UK and its great carol service in St Paul’s. In addition, she ran her own business: Jackarew in Revelstoke Road, Tooting.

Ultra-high achiever though she was, Jane is remembered for her character, her care of others and her impeccable good manners.

In 1972 they moved back to Dorset and my mother discovered her passion for gardening. We were self-sufficient in vegetables and fruit and her greenhouse bulged with exotic aubergines, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes.

When my father died in 2001, Mother moved to Dorchester. She rediscovered her love of travelling at the age of 77, visiting incredible places including Antarctica, Easter Island and Pitcairn. She rounded Cape Horn on a boat on a number of occasions.

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SOGGOLF

2018 Golf Report from

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Our first get-together this year was a thoroughly enjoyable game at Sherborne Golf Club on Tuesday, 27 March against Cheltenham Ladies College. It made a change to be able to play on a golf course that was not knee deep in mud! The result was an honourable draw 2-2.

Foursomes with Janice and Ali returning a winning card of 39 points for the best 18 holes. Sadly, Susie and Anne could not replicate but also returned a respectable card and were pipped to fourth place by one point. Looking at one time to be under threat, we understand the Tassie will take place again at The Berkshire next year with the probable format of 4bbb.

This year’s team (photo taken in rather blustery conditions) was comprised of: Left to right: hilary Peterkin (Younger) W’64, Valerie Worth (Thomas) E’73, barbara Dalrymple (savill) W’70, susie Pym (King) DH’68, hilary Park (Dennes) E’65, Joan bond T’60, anne agnew and caroline Davis (Paterson) DH’57.

Photo left to right: Janice buswell T’54, anne agnew, ali Preston (aldred) A’81 and susie King

The annual match v the Old Shirburnians, which was originally scheduled for 30 April, had to be postponed due to the weather and then, unfortunately, the rearranged match was also postponed due to injuries! This match is scheduled to take place at Tidworth Garrison on Monday, 10 June 2019.

Our Autumn Meeting was held at West Byfleet Golf Club in Surrey with 18 players.

Needless to say the course proved challenging, but we had a lot of fun and were treated to very good soup and sandwiches for lunch. This club boasts a very good Pro’s shop for ladies clothing, should anyone be interested.

The Tassie was held on Monday, 11 June at The Berkshire. The Tassie proved yet again to be a great day out – wonderful conditions, lightning greens and delightful playing companions for both pairs. This year the format changed to St Andrew’s

We played a three ball bowmaker and this year’s winning team was ali aldred, candida harris (Woolley) E’70 and hilary Glynn (Thomas) DH’67 (75 points) with Jane Kinnersley (ellen) K’69, anne Kinnersley (boyle) and sarah Kinnersley

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(stonehouse) K’65 (aka The Kinnersleys!) coming second (74 points). sarah won the Longest Drive and hilary Dennes Nearest the Pin. hilary also scooped the spoils for the ‘Two’s Pot’. Once again we were indebted to Gill buzzard (blenkinsop) DH’62 for zooming around in a buggy, attempting to hurry people along but also taking the photos.

It was also good to see Trudi hubbard (harris) DH’58 who joined us for lunch.

very happy occasions, whenever and wherever we get together.

The WiNNers Winners: Left to right: candida Woolley, ali aldred and hilary Thomas Left to right: Gill blenkinsop, Trudi harris, buzz blandy (Francis) E’62, susie King, Fiona stern (corben) E’62, Josie Kemp (Mather) DH’62, anne agnew, Katharine Martin (stringer) DH’78, Jane close (honorary old Girl), Mary Monro (o’Dwyer) A’59, Jane ellen, ali aldred, anne boyle, Valerie Thomas, hilary Dennes, Kenah cryer DH’80, sarah stonehouse and hilary Thomas. (candida Woolley and hilary Younger absent from photo) On a personal note, I have thoroughly enjoyed my five years organising the fixtures, getting to know a lot of people and playing golf at different clubs.

I am very happy to hand over to Katharine Stringer, whom many of the younger SOGs will know and who, I hope, will be able to entice the next generation to participate in what are always

The rUNNers-UP Runners-Up: Left to right: Jane ellen, anne boyle and sarah stonehouse

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BIRTHS

MARRIAGES

caroline campbell (Knapic) A’96 and Dylan had a daughter, Pippin Rose, on 27 June 2018

caroline cook T’99 married Andrew Miller on 8 October 2016

Nina Poulsson (balfe) K’97 and Lorne had a daughter, Marnie, on 26 March 2018

emma Talbot baker W’02 married Christopher Ford on 12 August 2017

caroline cook (Miller) T’99 and Andrew had a daughter, Sophie Nancy Amelia, on 17 April 2018

sarah Kipling AW’03 married Tim Bradley on 19 May 2018

Katie hickmet (Prideaux) K’02 and Alex had a son, Freddie, on 6 October 2018

harriet hawksley DH’04 married James Excell on 2 June 2018

connie Jackman (anderson) A’02 and Ross had a son, Finn, on 6 May 2018

Jemima Lofts DH’04 married James Edwards (Wallace 2009) on 7 April 2018

camilla Lofts (Gosling) AW’02 and Robert (OS 01) had a daughter, Harriet, on 25 July 2018

Gigi Mak A’04 married Nathan Walker on 12 June 2016

annabel Tucker (chow) T’02 and Garry had a daughter, Margot, on 11 August 2018

olivia eadie RH’08 married Ed Orr-Ewing on 28 July 2018

Jessica Wicker T’02 and Rohit had a daughter, Zara Amelia Malliwal, on 14 March 2018

samantha Lee K’08 married Alexander Jerram on 9 June 2018

Poppy swann (hall) AW’03 and Nicholas had a son, Massimo (Max) Jonathan Holland, on 5 October 2018

emma oxenbridge RH’08 married Andrew Stirling-Martin on 25 August 2018

Gigi Mak (Walker) A’04 and Nathan had a son, Luke, on 11 September 2017 Lucy stewart-richardson (Lukas) K’05 and Simon had a daughter, Ida, on 7 September 2018 Jessica entwisle (habershon) K’08 and William had a daughter, Henrietta Elizabeth Rose, on 8 November 2018

Thea Wellband DH’08 married Jimmy Carroll (Green 2000) on 7 July 2018 Laura bartrum RH’09 married Jake Grave on 21 April 2018 Mathilda crawley K’09 married Shenandoah Neville-Clarke on 1 September 2018 alice Dudgeon AE’14 married Samuel Young on 7 July 2018

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DEATHS sheila sandilands (elgie) DH’27 died on 13 February 2018

belinda rudd (Penney) DH’49 died on 8 September 2017

Joan branfoot (alderson) W’36 died on 17 May 2017

Margaret Mayell DH’50 died on 24 July 2018

Joyce skelton (Neale) K’37 died on 28 August 2017 anne Williams (raworth) A’39 died on 10 January 2018 elisabeth Gurney-Dixon (ratcliff) K’40 died on 18 March 2018 Doreen Payne (creighton) K’40 died on 2 September 2013 Margaret Percival (Kempton) W’40 died on 23 February 2018 Mary shaw (Phillips) T’40 died on 17 September 2018

Tamaris Morshead (Parke) E’50 died on 20 February 2018 Jane rew (cazalet) DH’50 died on 7 September 2018 anne hubbard (Wigglesworth) DH’51 died on 9 January 2018 susan Nicholls (Leaver) K’51 died on 2 December 2017 susan Milne (burgess) E’53 died on 21 September 2018 Diana Warren (allison) T’55 died on 21 June 2018

Pamela Vandermin A’41 died on 7 December 2018

Virginia barrington Prowse (shankland) AW’58 died on 31 January 2018

hazel Douglas (edgar) DH’42 died on 16 May 2018

Louise Thomson (suggett) W’62 died on 1 October 2017

elizabeth rought (Peake) K’42 died on 11 July 2018

Verena Fairs (hoffman) DH’64 died on 19 April 2018

sheila Wilson (somerset) T’43 died on 9 March 2016

Tessa seeman (Ferguson) DH’65 died on 1 December 2018

Pamela Gilley (beard) T’45 died on 31 August 2017

elizabeth anne (Lizanne) Page (McManus) A’71 died on 26 November 2018

Valerie Pollitt (harlow) AE’47 died on 29 September 2017

rachael Williams AW’77 died on 5 April 2018

Gillian Dawson (Drummond) DH’49 died on 8 November 2018

Jane Dawson (Williams) T’81 died on 26 November 2017

Prue hyland (howard) E’49 died on 1 May 2018

susan Tuke (baldock), Biology teacher 1958 – 1971, died on 25 November 2018

Judith Nosworthy (Peto) AE’49 died on 5 February 2018

Donald Mathewson, Chemistry teacher 1983 – 1994, died on 19 December 2018

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NEW SOG MEMBERS

Welcome to the following ‘new’ Old Girls, who left school in summer 2018 Olivia Andrews Ella Bathurst Omodunni Bello Charlotte Blake Olivia Brink Emily Browning Dorothea Busby Ka Hey Chan Man Sin Cheung Pandora Covell Grace Cruz Ella Cunningham Lottie Dalley Jane Daniel Tomisin Delano Zanny Evelegh Amelia Fortescue Candela Garcia Armbruster Isabella Garrett Cecilia George Charlotte Given

Jennifer Guy Sophie Hall Sylvie Hammond Isabella Harding Annabel Harris Isabel Hunt Chloe Katon Suubi Kimuli Laura Kwiatkowski Hoi Ying Lam Juliet Lawrence Flora Leach Alicia Lee Harriet Lees Nicole Leong Ruby Livingstone Georgina Luders Melody Lulu-Briggs Wing Hei Ma Natalya Malikova Fenella May

Charlotte Maynard Celia McCormick Tamsin Miller Emily Mitchell Tilly Moorhouse Sophie Moorhouse Elysia Moseley Ottilie Mundy Tara Newman Tara Noble Katie O'Donoghue Avery Owen Kayleigh Parker Charlotte Payne Phoebe Price Flora Ramsden Insha Raza Maisie Sansom Anna Schwinge Allegra Simpson Agnes Yu Ka So

Holly Stephens Grace Storrie Araminta Stubbs Emma Stubbs Aisling Taylor Stephanie Teale Charlotte Tincknell Anoushka Towler Flora Toyne-Sewell Kate Treacher Anna Von Contzen Georgia Watson Poppy Weldon Sophie West Emilia Wharton Eleanor Whitbread Emily Williams Alice Wong Felicity Woodhams Sophie Wurfbain Honor Younger Chenying Zheng

Daughters and Granddaughters of Old Girls in the school

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aLDheLMsTeD WesT Tilly Garton Mary Monro, Grandmother aLDheLMsTeD easT Flora Williams Vicky Bartholomew, Mother

Agatha Palmer Zoë Phayre-Mudge, Mother Grace Tucker Antonia Tozer, Mother Penny Hockley, Grandmother

WiNGFieLD DiGbY Tilly Cripwell Emma Pocock, Mother Electra Marshall Kate Gregor, Mother

DUN hoLMe Anna Cleveland Louise Noel, Mother

Charlotte Welch Jane Wilkinson, Mother

Matilda Massey Katherine Prideaux-Brune, Mother

Emily Wood Fiona Stern, Grandmother

Emily Nokes Anthea Ottaway, Grandmother

Annabel Drummond Louise Taylor, Mother

reaDer harris Eva Contomichalos Melissa Charrington, Mother

Alice Pearman Jill Dams, Grandmother KeNeLM Petra Deacon Alexandra Dickson Leach, Mother Joanna Osmond, Grandmother Isobel Ellis George Hardy, Mother Lucy Knott Jane Royston, Mother Artemis McMaster-Christie Sarah Tory, Mother Diana Hamblin, Grandmother

Jemma Craig-Cooper Bertie Simpson, Mother Christa Cripwell Emma Pocock, Mother Cecilia Darwall Diana McWatters, Mother Emma Kitson Caroline Jones, Mother Isabella Schwinge Clare Matthews, Mother

Tatiana Wharton Rebecca Courtenay, Mother MULLiNer Lucy Holcroft Anthea Malim, Grandmother Emma Kitson Rosie Kitson Caroline Jones, Mother Portia Manson Caroline Wilson, Grandmother Sacha Nokes Anthea Ottaway, Grandmother Elsa Williams Vicky Bartholomew, Mother

If you know of other mothers and grandmothers with daughters currently at SG, please let us know by sending an email to: oldgirls@sherborne.com

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To book your place and for further details, please send an email to Fiona in the SOG office at: oldgirls@sherborne.com or call: 01935 818329. As with all Circle events, Old Girls from other areas are more than welcome to join us. We do hope you will join us.

CIRCLE

Joint Secretaries: Liz Whitley (Pybus) AW’58 and sarah Pybus (Moody) AW’80 are delighted to invite you to Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, on Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 12.30pm for lunch at 1pm.

NEWS

1A DEVON & CORNWALL

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, Exeter, Devon EX9 7BJ.

2A DORSET Secretary: anne Walsh (colquhoun) E’69 The Old Girls Dorset Circle met on Wednesday, 19 September in the sumptuous drawing room at Mulliner.

Twenty-two Old Girls mingled happily with Honorary Old Girls and staff for a most enjoyable evening of chat, laughter, and refreshments. The evening started with a short piano duet from two talented L6 pupils. They played with huge maturity and will go far, I am sure. It was an enormous pleasure to meet the new headmistress, Dr Ruth Sullivan (an Old Girl), who gave an inspiring insight into her role at Sherborne Girls. She had only been there for two weeks, but already seemed very settled, and was mastering all the girls’ names – quite a feat in itself. I always enjoy these gatherings and am always so pleased to meet friends old and new, and in particular, Gussie Miller, my old house mistress.

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2B SOMERSET

Secretary: Katharine Martin (stringer) DH’78 20

Katharine writes: ‘I was delighted to welcome Old Girls to our third reunion. We had a really delicious two-course meal, preceded by aperitifs and canapés at the wonderful Crown Hotel in the market square in Wells. There was continuous talking and laughing while we reminisced about old times but it was also good to hear how well the school is doing now. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.’

Attending the lunch were anne Whatelysmith (agnew) K’70, amanda salmon (harris) DH’85, Fiona strang (Keane) W’66, hilary Park (Dennes) E’65, barbara Dalrymple (savill) W’70, Katharine stringer, elizabeth Dolman A’54, sara Whitehouse W’55 and Honorary Old Girls Carol Price, Lindsey Spears and SOG Friend Judy ArnoldBaoke and Old Girls Secretary Fiona James.

As we had such a good time, everyone felt we should hold the 2019 reunion again at the Crown Hotel, Wells.

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Having laid on the most memorable reunion for us in 2014, at her home near Salisbury, I was amazed and delighted when ailsa Morris (McLeod) E’56 said she would like to repeat the occasion in 2018. Ailsa and her husband Rob worked very hard to set it all up, then on the day we were treated to the three sporting Morris girls (they all shone at games) serving us from behind a long table laden with delicious food prepared by a catering friend of Ailsa’s. We thought we did well last time but this time was even more spectacular with a tremendous atmosphere and lots of happy chatter, often between OGs who’d never set eyes on each other before. It was so typical of the Sherborne spirit we were celebrating.

Veronica Dare bryan from France. We were very pleased that our secretary, Fiona James, the Development Officer, Laura Windsor (Fiona’s predecessor) and the Director of Development & Marketing, Katherine Massey (a fellow OG) were able to be with us and update us on the current state (excellent!) of the school.

CIRCLE

Secretary: Jane reekie (Nicholson) E’59

NEWS

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As last time, the reunion was primarily directed at the Wiltshire Circle but OGs from far and wide joined us with one (Janet schmidt) coming from Australia, another (Lizzie byrd) from Canada and Those attending were: Diana hoare (hony) E’42, alison Watney (Parkinson) E’49, rosalind stock (Gay) A’49, elisabeth Le breton (richmond) E’51, Gill Morris E’55, hilary Lawrence E’55, Margaret Underdown (sandall) E’55, sally Dufty (sandys-renton) A’56, ailsa Morris (McLeod) E’56, harriet chapmanandrews (Meikle) E’57, ruth startin (Marshall) E’58, ann Morgan (sturt) E’58, heather caverhill (White) E’58, Marion birch (Griggs) K’58, Janet brodie (schmidt) E’58, Diana Lentaigne (Prain) E’58, caroline Foot (stranack) E’59, Gill bainbridge (heath) E’59, Virginia cadbury (reekie) E’59, Libby byers (Gaff) E’59, Lizzie Norman (byrd) E’59, Veronica Goldsworthy (Dare bryan) E’59, sue Willmott (Teale) DH’59, Mary Monro (o’Dwyer) A’59, Jane reekie (Nicholson) E’59, rosy brook (cramsie) A’60, bubby Morris (henderson) E’61, Linda Dixon (campbell) K’68, and Verity Vickers (coleman) DH’68.

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LEICESTERSHIRE, RUTLAND, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE

Secretary: Josephine hepburn (blake) A’69 We would like to hold another informal reunion during the summer of 2019. If you would be interested in joining us, please could you let Fiona in the office know at: oldgirls@sherborne.com

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16 SCOTLAND Secretary: rosemary ellison K‘58 Rosemary writes: ‘In February, we were delighted that Fiona James (Old Girls Secretary) and John Harden, her counterpart at Sherborne School, put on a lunch party at the Cafe St Honore in Edinburgh which was a great success, and hope this could become a regular event.’

Rosemary has decided to step down as Scottish Circle Secretary and Louise bishop (cluness) AE‘83 has kindly agreed to take it on. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Rosemary so much for all her support of SOG.

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Fiona, Rosemary Ellison K’58 and Rachel Harvie-Watt (Fraser) DH’62

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Victoria cutchey (harding) K’86 organised a reunion lunch at Doyle’s on the Beach at Watson’s Bay, Sydney, on Friday, 19 October. Victoria writes: ‘Thankfully after several days of sustained tropical rain, the sun came out for us. The setting was idyllic and all enjoyed catching up with old friends and meeting new ones – there were so many fascinating travellers’ tales – we should write a book! Special thanks to Janet brodie (schmidt) E’57 and Wendy Fitch (betteridge) AE’61 for making the extra effort to travel from Canberra and New Zealand respectively.’

Alison, Wendy and Hilary

Pictured (top right) from left to right: Judy Lowe (ernst) T’52, hilary Leonard T’54, Janet schmidt, Victoria harding, Wendy betteridge and sitting elizabeth Lloyd (barnicoat) K’46, Jennifer holmes (Darvall) A’43, alison Lansdown (copeman) DH’53, sabrina Miethke RH’09, Katy barnicoat (Fletcher) K’83.

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JerseY recePTioN

susan Lloyd (black) AE’59 very kindly hosted a reception at her home in Guernsey on 23 April. The weather was warm and sunny so we were able to gather outside in Susan’s beautiful garden. We were joined by the Old Shirburnian Society, former, current and prospective parents. It was a lovely and most enjoyable evening.

Secretary: emma campbell (Le Maistre) T’89

On 3 May, staff from Sherborne Girls and Sherborne School were over in Jersey to attend the secondary schools fair at St Michael’s School. In the evening they held a reception at the Grand Hotel in St Hellier for Old Girls and OSs as well as current and prospective parents.

CIRCLE

GUerNseY recePTioN

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It was lovely to see a number of Old Girls there and speak to the staff about what is happening at the school. Judging by the number of prospective parents present during the evening, the school is obviously thriving!

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Pictured left to right: Jill Todd (bishop) AE’68, Gillian harvey (Freeman) DH’57, susan Lloyd (black) AE’59 and elizabeth Johnson (Delaney) DH’56.

Pictured left to right: claire Vellacott (Gibson) AW’96, claudia Whitson (rogers) AE’89, emma Le Maistre and alex Wilsey (bellew) W’95.

23 HONG KONG A reception was held in October at the Hong Kong Club. Everyone enjoyed the reception, catching up with each other and hearing about the school.

CAREERS

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sherborne Girls and sherborne old Girls inaugural Women in Leadership event proved a huge success.

On Wednesday, 11 April 2018, the Lansdowne Club in Mayfair hosted an important event. This was the first ever Women in Leadership event – and it proved to be an inspiring evening for Sherborne Old Girls and current pupils alike.

“The focus of the evening was on showing the diversity of career options available for women in the 21st century and to celebrate women in leadership roles,” said Sherborne Old Girls Secretary Fiona James. “We drew on our extensive contacts to provide talks, workshops and networking opportunities.”

The event was the first in a series that will involve

ongoing collaboration between the school and Sherborne Old Girls. “We hope Women in Leadership will become an important part of our alumnae relations,” Mrs James continued. “It is vital that we continue to inspire the next generation and celebrate the outstanding achievements of our former pupils.”

At the heart of the Women in Leadership event was a variety of TED-style talks including Old Girls chairman Nicki Whiteman (Lewis) E’94 and president Lucy Jameson AE’89. Both women have enjoyed highly successful careers in the media and creative industries. Along with finance

specialist Louise ellam (hall) E’84 and energy expert holly Pattenden T’97, they encouraged the audience to aim high in their aspirations and work hard to achieve them.

Sherborne Girls governor Juliet Blanch, who works full time as an arbitrator, and current parent Lara Morgan, who is a successful entrepreneur, completed the line-up of keynote speakers. Between them, they demonstrated the breadth of expertise in the wider Sherborne community, benefitting every generation involved in the school.

Around the main speeches, attendees hived off into smaller, industry-

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The focus of the evening was on showing the diversity of career options available for women in the 21st century and to celebrate women in leadership roles.

Fiona James

sherborne old Girls secretary

specific groupings, where Old Girls, parents and other friends of the school offered expertise, insight and encouragement. Sectors covered included finance, digital technology, law, engineering and architecture, the media, art, not for profit, and medicine and veterinary.

Sherborne Old Girls was also delighted to launch a careers coaching programme at this event which has proved to be extremely valuable to attendees. You can read more about it on page 26.

Nicki Lewis added: “We were delighted to co-host this exciting event with the school. We are fully committed to our careers programme and to helping Old Girls excel in the workplace and realise their full potential.”

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careers coachiNG ProGraMMe

CAREERS

With offering real tangible value for membership together with wanting to make a difference so that Old Girls can excel in their chosen field, at the forefront of our minds, we were delighted to be able to offer 13 fully funded places to our younger Old Girls. Each place was taken up and we are thrilled with the feedback we have received to date, some of which we have included here.

EVENTS

amelie Jannoe RH’13 “My coach has been a pleasure to work with, he’s very engaging and open. Thanks to him I feel more liberated and confident in my career choices. I have included a list of the topics we covered: – Self-awareness: identifying my strengths and values, and articulating my personal brand – Exploration: realising and pursuing practical steps for my career – Focus: forming concise and worthwhile career development goals – Resilience: building confidence, e.g. via mentors and professional network 26

– Vision: clarifying my idea of ‘success’ “I am grateful for my coach and Sherborne Old Girls for this opportunity.”

Kate scott-Underdown W’02 “The coaching programme was really fantastic, and the coach has been wonderful at making me step back and revaluate what is important, and where I need to focus. He’s a great person and I feel I learnt so much. I cannot thank you enough!”

emily summerhayes WD’17 “I have found the coaching really useful and my coach has been exceptional in helping me with my internship applications. Mark was great in really helping me to highlight my personal strengths and teaching me how to articulate these strengths in a way which helped me to best stand out. I am so grateful for the opportunity.”

In fact, this programme has been so well received that we are now extending it to Old Girls who have had a career break and would like to return to the workplace. We will be offering twelve fully supported places and look forward to further helping Old Girls in what has become a very challenging but exciting workplace.

BUILDING NETWORKS, FIRING AMBITION our busy programme of careers events continued in 2018 and they were as ever very well attended by old Girls and members of the old shirburnian society.

One of the key elements of the work of the Sherborne Old Girls is to facilitate networking and careers opportunities among our members. It is a privilege to see so many of our alumnae give of their time and expertise to this cause. I know how much these events mean to people, as well as the difference they can make to a person’s career prospects. I am proud of their success and hope they continue for many years to come.

Fiona James, old Girls secretary

On Thursday, 13 September, Old Girl and school governor Louise ellam (hall) E’84 hosted a careers event that focused on the City and finance. The event was held at Investec in London and was aimed at former pupils considering a career in finance, or those already working in the sector who wanted to expand their networks. The panel of experts on hand to offer advice and support was made up of Old Girls and Old Shirburnians and the event attracted a significant number of attendees.

Law Event

“The City and finance event was very informative and has helped me find out which areas of finance I’m more interested in and the next steps I can take,” said octavia cooper RH’15.

A careers event focusing on the legal profession was held at the London offices of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. It was hosted jointly by Sherborne Old Girls and the Old Shirburnian Society and attracted a large number of alumni from both institutions.

Old Girls including annabel Pyke W’91 and stephanie Vicic AW’05 joined Sherborne Girls’ Friend Penny Madden QC and Old

Property Event

City and Finance Event

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Like our other events, the property careers event was held in collaboration with the Old Shirburnian Society. It was hosted by OS James Higham at Savills on Monday, 26 March, and attracted a large group of former pupils from both schools.

The focus of the evening was intended to empower those considering, or at the start of, a career in the property industry. The panel was made up of 14 industry insiders, including a number of Old Girls, who shared advice in an informal atmosphere over drinks and canapés.

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Shirburnians Paget Dare Bryan, Rory Carter and Charles Rix on the panel. Between them, they offered expert advice on pursuing and building a career in law, as well as an opportunity for attendees to enhance their networks and experience. Thanks to their diversity of specialisms, the event provided something of relevance to anybody who is at the start of a career in law.

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CAREERS

ALUMNAE PROFILES aN UNUsUaL roUTe To acaDeMic sUccess sherborne old Girl Professor elizabeth (Liz) Juniper ae’64 has recently been honoured for her research into the evaluation and treatment of asthma, yet she’s only ever completed one university course – 20 years after leaving school. she tells us about her unconventional career journey.

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When the American College of Chest Medicine named Liz as a Giant of Chest Medicine, many in her profession saw it as a fitting accolade for work that has had a profound impact on the way clinicians evaluate and treat asthma both in adults and children. Liz has a publication record of which any senior academic would be proud. She has led a number of high-profile research projects that have changed the lives of asthma patients the world over and her Asthma Control Questionnaire and Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire have become the globally recognised methods for assessing asthma in clinical practice and research.

Yet when Liz left Sherborne Girls in 1964, she says many of her teachers were surprised that she passed her A levels. What is more, because she struggled with academic study, she did not

pursue a conventional route from school to university.

“I qualified as a physiotherapist when I first left school,” Liz explains. “After that, I joined the Hammersmith Hospital in London as a junior lab technician. While there I did a day-release programme at Ewell Technical College, from which I gained an HNC in Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement.

Until I did a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics some 20 years later, when I was already an assistant professor, that was my only academic qualification.”

This speaks of the unusual route Liz has followed in her career. While most of her contemporaries accrue a whole raft of academic qualifications, she has focused on practical research, building her knowledge through projects that

View the video celebrating Liz’s career: https://journal.chestnet.org/article/s0012-3692(18)30140-5/fulltext.

involve problem solving and observation of patients.

“I have dyslexia,” Liz explains, “which was never identified when I was young.

That is why I am much better at working things out for myself than learning from books. It was listening to patients that made me realise that we needed to take their problems, fears and limitations into consideration when treating them. I then worked through how it could be done.”

Liz’s achievements are impressive to say the least. A video has been made to commemorate her recent honour from the American College of Chest Medicine. It charts the development of her career, leading to her status as an expert in her field. You can view the video by following the link at the end of this story.

Meanwhile, Liz is keen to

encourage others who do not feel that university is the appropriate path for them. “A university degree is not essential for a successful and fulfilling career. The route I took would probably be classified today as a series of apprenticeships.”

Liz is only the second woman to be awarded the honour of Giant in Chest Medicine and joins 27 other specialists (all physicians) who have attained the accolade. She attributes her success to a strong culture of team working in her field and to the mentors who guided and encouraged her along the way.

“Little did I realise when I started at the Hammersmith that I had landed in a department at the cutting edge of respiratory research in the world,” she concludes.

“That shaped my career, enabling me to enjoy some wonderful opportunities and work with brilliant people. I shall always be grateful for that.”

oLiVia acLaND K’09 FreeLaNce JoUrNaLisT aND PhoToGraPher Olivia moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo in July 2018.

Her work appears regularly in The Economist’s Congo Correspondent, as well as a host of other prestigious publications and media outlets.

These include The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, BBC Africa and Reuters.

“Since arriving, I have been travelling all over this vast country on little aeroplanes,” says Olivia. “I report on everything from Ebola to politics, conflict, mining and cheese making. I was very privileged to interview Dr Denis Mukwege a couple of days after he won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping women raped in war. He was one of the most remarkable and inspiring people I’ve met and it was a real honour to talk to him.”

Olivia says the Congo is a fascinating place to work as a journalist, because there is so much to report on. “For example,” she observes, “the country has more than a half of

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the world’s cobalt, which is used in mobile phone batteries, laptops and electric cars.”

She has been busy lately covering Congo’s election. It was the country’s first ever peaceful transition of power (all former leaders were either assassinated or fled). Olivia was excited to interview outgoing President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled for 18 years, during his last month in office.

Working in a remote country poses challenges, not least relating to logistics and security. But Olivia relishes these, and says that the Congo is a highly rewarding place to work, with stunning scenery.

“I’m still in touch with many friends from Sherborne and catch up with them when I go back to London,” Olivia says. “One good friend from school has just moved to Kinshasa [the DRC’s capital city] for work, which is a strange and wonderful coincidence.”

Find out more about olivia’s work at www.oliviaacland.co.uk

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ALUMNAE IN FOCUS: DR TSUE ING (IRENE) YAP DH’90 ciViL serVaNT, brUNei DarUssaLaM

after leaving sherborne in the summer of 1990, irene attended the University of southampton to read accounting and economics. as with her schooling, irene’s studies were sponsored by the Government of brunei Darussalam in exchange for five years of service with the government upon graduation.

So it was that Irene returned to Brunei Darussalam in 1993 and worked as a finance officer in the Treasury Department under the Ministry of Finance.

In June 1996, she moved to Brunei Currency Board, another department within the Ministry of Finance, where she became Head of Finance and Accounts.

In 2007, Irene received the Government of Brunei Darussalam’s in-service training scholarship to pursue a Masters degree in International Economics and Finance (Advanced) at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. She was listed on the Dean’s Honour Roll at UQ and thoroughly enjoyed campus life after working for more than a decade.

Upon her graduation in 2009, Irene headed home and

resumed office. Besides working in the Monetary Research and Management Unit, she handled international matters and spent a lot of time travelling overseas to attend meetings. “For nearly two years, I was given additional responsibility to be the Head of Mint where Brunei coins were struck,” she says. “I was also one of the key members in the working committees responsible for forming the central bank of Brunei Darussalam in 2011.”

Irene went back to Australia in 2011 to complete a PhD at Victoria University in Melbourne, under another inservice training scholarship.

She focused on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling within the Centre of Policy Studies. She built a dynamic CGE economic model for Brunei Darussalam to study

impacts from various policy scenarios.

“After my PhD, I resumed work in December 2015 at the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD), which acts as a central bank for Brunei Darussalam, where I currently head its Economic, Research and Statistics Unit,” she says. “I was recently promoted to become an Executive Director at AMBD.” Irene says she visited Sherborne in March 2018 during a European holiday with her husband Robin – the first time she’d returned since leaving in 1990. “It was wonderful to see my old school and boarding house and remember old times,” she says. “I was glad to have Fiona James show us around and to catch up with my old friend from Dun Holme, sophie blair DH’90.”

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FEATURES Art & Music Profiles

The WorLD aT her FiNGerTiPs sarah Graham aW’91 has built a successful career taking artistic inspiration from the natural world.

As Sherborne Girls prepares for the opening of its landmark Arts Centre, we are reminded of the many wonderful artists who have passed through the school over the years. One of these is Sarah Graham, who now works out of a studio in Chelsea, London. She creates highly regarded pieces that draw on the natural world, including ink drawings of flowers and insects such as cicadas, beetles and butterflies.

Sarah exhibits primarily in London as well as in New York and Aspen, Colorado. Her shows sell out and critics and collectors routinely heap praise on her work. She works full time, juggling her career with life as wife to art dealer James Holland-Hibbert and mother to Daisy and Molly.

When Sarah left Sherborne Girls in 1991, she returned to her home city of Edinburgh to complete a brace of Masters degrees. These were in the History of Art and Fine Art, and she studied at both Edinburgh University and the Edinburgh

Photographer: Stephanie Wolff. Image courtesy of Lyndsey Ingram, London

College of Art. Leaving college with a 2:2, with which she was very disappointed, Sarah gave up the idea of studio life and went for adventure instead. She answered an advert from the Royal Geographical Society to make a film about travelling the Old Silk Road on horseback with a stranger that was later screened on the Discovery Channel. But the life of penniless adventurer didn’t suit, so she took up a glamorous role in the antiques world.

Sarah’s vocation as an artist proved too strong to resist. After a Damascene moment, she set up in her first studio in 2004, gradually establishing her reputation with collectors and art enthusiasts in the UK and the US. For Sarah, inspiration comes from her deep and enduring fascination with natural history – from her mother an appreciation of architectural plants, and from her father, insects and snakes. Her studio is full of specimens from plants,

trees and insects – some of which are borrowed from the Natural History Museum. Over time, she has developed a distinctive style, rendering these natural objects in strong ink and pure graphite drawings that have a powerful impact in both galleries and private properties.

The natural world doesn’t only provide Sarah with her subjects. Ironically, it is also the source of her materials – the ink she uses is extracted from plants and fish. Sarah’s influences at the start of her career included artist Graham Sutherland and German photographer Karl Blossfeldt.

When not working eighthour days in her studio, Sarah enjoys sharing her love of nature with her children and accompanying husband James to exhibitions and museums around the world. She says the search for inspiration never ceases.

Visit www.grahamgallery.co.uk to find out more about sarah and view examples of her work.

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Dame emma Kirkby e’65 Professional singer

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Emma says that her singing career came as a surprise.

“As a student of Classics at Oxford, and then briefly as a teacher, I seized on any chance to sing,” she says.

“Then in Oxford and London, I was fortunate to meet pioneer professional groups, with the expressive voices and period instruments – lutes, baroque wind and strings – that I have loved ever since. I am equally lucky to have spent decades singing all over the world, in beautiful and appropriate acoustics.” Nowadays, Emma’s focus is more on teaching than performance.

She loves to see future generations inspired by beautiful music. Last year, she taught at five summer schools in four different countries. She also enjoys performing in recitals, especially with the

lute or harpsichord, and an array of voices.

Classic FM listeners voted Emma “Artist of the Year” in 1999. She was

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Art & Music Profiles

way of making music that values ensemble, clarity and stillness above the more common factors of volume and display. Above all, I am

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As a student of Classics at Oxford, and then briefly as a teacher, I seized on any chance to sing.

awarded the OBE in 2000 and became a Dame in 2007. She received the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2011.

“I am amazed by all this,” she says, “but I’m glad of the recognition it implies for a

grateful still to be sharing this marvellous repertoire with talented performers of every age.”

Visit www.emmakirkby.com for more information.

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charlotte Trepess K’08 opera singer Charlotte recently completed a postgraduate degree and diploma in Vocal and Opera studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. During her time there, Charlotte was the RNCM Gold Medal Winner, as well as winner of the Elizabeth Harwood Prize and Frederic Cox Award. Charlotte was

(Cosi Fan Tutte), Gabrielle (La Vie Parisienne), and Pamina (The Magic Flute). In 2013, Charlotte made her Opera North debut as Emmie in Giles Havergal's production of Albert Herring.

Work with other companies since has included Athole Still Opera, Nevill Holt Opera, Longborough Festival Opera,

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Charlotte owes a huge gratitude and appreciation to SG for her musical development that allowed her to develop her passion for performing.

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generously supported by the Mona McGlone Award, Hilda Collens Award, a Dame Eva Turner Scholarship, and a Kate Snape Scholarship.

Charlotte performed numerous lead roles in RNCM productions, including Despina

and Buxton Festival Opera.

Charlotte is a member of early music ensemble Sestina and performed the title role in Handel’s Theodora with them and the Irish Baroque Orchestra in 2018. She will be performing as soloist with the IBO again this

April in Handel’s Esther.

Charlotte also returns to Opera North in 2019 in a touring production of The Mini Magic Flute and will be joining Garsington Opera Festival in Offenbach’s Fantasio and covering Esmeralda in Smetena’s The Bartered Bride.

Charlotte is a Samling Artist, and has worked and recorded numerous times with the BBC Philharmonic, as well as recording with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and the Zelkova Quartet. Charlotte also works in education and outreach with the Royal Opera House, Opera North and The Concordia Foundation, bringing opera into schools and early years workshops across the country.

Charlotte owes a huge gratitude and appreciation to SG for her musical development that allowed her to develop her passion for performing. Huge thanks in particular to John Jenkins for his support and encouragement that inspired her to lead a career in music.

For more information, visit www.charlottetrepess.com.

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FEATURES End of WWI

The War To eND aLL Wars The end of the First World War seemed to herald a new era for sherborne Girls, as for the country. at least, that’s what the staff and pupils believed at the time.

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“The future is opening out many possibilities to us as a school. A new day is beginning for England and the world... In spite of many anxieties, we are confident that ‘The night is far spent, the day is at hand.’ Many voices call us to go forward with courage…”

Miss Beatrice Mulliner, Headmistress of Sherborne School for Girls, wrote these words in a letter to pupils in February 1919. It is impossible to read them now without remembering how short-lived the post-war optimism would be.

Even so, Miss Mulliner was undoubtedly expressing the widespread relief felt throughout the country at the end of four long years of violence. Although Sherborne was relatively unscathed by the war, its shadow hung long over the town, and its schools in particular. Many boys from Sherborne School went off to fight, and the girls’ lives were touched by worry about a sibling, parent or other close relative fighting, or the loss of a loved one.

It is no surprise, therefore, that the school community felt an urge to celebrate at the end of the war. On the Saturday

after the Armistice, the staff invited the whole school to a special ‘entertainment’ in the hall that included singing, dancing, and skits from the teachers.

A pupil concert followed in December, to which 70 wounded soldiers from the Yeatman and Castle Hospitals were invited.

Such revelry was of course replicated throughout the country, as the nation marked the end of four years of unthinkable bloodshed and catastrophic loss of life. That spirit of hope articulated so eloquently by Sherborne School for Girls’ headmistress proliferated, yet within just a few years it proved to be unfounded.

The dark night of the First World War may have been spent, but storm clouds were already gathering, auguring yet more violence for the years ahead.

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Peer GroUP NeWs 1925–1960 Peer Group Co-ordinator: Daphne MaGuire (Thomson) T’59 Frances Podmore (berrill) A’48: I have enjoyed helping with Prayers for Parliament, and would love it if another OG felt able to step in now I am unable to be involved. It is a monthly commitment when the House is sitting but it is very interesting and worthwhile and something I believe should be encouraged.

Please do show your support, if you are able.

In other news, my husband and I received a card from the Queen congratulating us on our Diamond (60) Wedding Anniversary. We held a lovely lunch party with friends.

When I left school, via Art School and work on a plant nursery, I went to Reading University to study Landscape Architecture. It was a wonderful career that I can thoroughly recommend for a woman.

Jill Packer (Geser) AE’48: I arrived at Sherborne Girls in 1946, from Alexandria, Egypt where I had been born and lived until then. I was 14. My house was East.

I have some precious memories from my two years at Sherborne that have made an imprint on my life. Amongst these was being in the school choir. We had a brilliant music director. The choir sang at Sunday Evensong which was

held in the school hall every week. This was a beautiful and comforting service.

Another good memory was the Massed Gym that took place every year at Commem. The whole school took part out on the field, watched by parents.

With aertex shirts in our house colours, we marched and did exercises in precise formation to music. It must have been very impressive and for us it was exciting.

Jill with the diving cup

After leaving school I lived and worked abroad for many years. I have lived in London for the past 40. For 25 years I was a history lecturer in adult education, specializing in London history. I have three daughters. I have kept in touch with Faith carter (Wilson) AE’48 who was my best friend in East. We see each other occasionally, which is a great pleasure. bridgett Greenhough (Wilson) DH’51: A few OGs met up in London as alison Lansdown (copeman) DH’53 was over from Australia. We met at the

Sloane Club in London for lunch on 18 September 2018. The people present from left to right are: Janet Macpherson (richardson) W’53, Tricia bell (rawson) DH’54, ann Whitfield (Kendell) DH’53, Gillian atkinson (Williams) T’52, Frances boas (bouchier) DH’53, bridgett Wilson, caroline baird (spragge) DH’53 and alison copeman.

Dorothy byrt (ahrens) K’55: I had a busy summer this year as most of my eight grandchildren came to stay at different times.

My daughter susan ahrens (carpenter) K’85, who still lives in Bahrain, also visited us and I have just returned from a holiday in Florida with the whole of her family. We were eight people in total and rented a house in the Gulf of Mexico.

Since my husband died, my younger son is sharing my house here in north Germany as his wife died two years ago. We are kept on our toes with a Collie, eleven canaries, two aquariums, a large house and garden with a lovely large lake at the bottom. hilary stagg (Leonard) T’54: I enjoyed meeting old and new friends at the Sherborne

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Peer GroUP NeWs Reunion held in Sydney. My husband and I spend a fair amount of time cruising the world. This year much time was spent around the UK and I was able to catch up with two friends who started school together aged four and a half and graduated to Sherborne in 1951.

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The photo was taken at morning tea with anne Pugsley (Glendining) K’56. Unfortunately I was only able to talk on the phone with Jennifer hamlin (Grater) T’54, as well as with her elder sister susan hamlin (stanier) T’53. Also, in the same month I bumped into Diana hamblin (Tory) AW’60 on the Windjammer Sea Cloud ll sailing around Ireland, as per the photo below. Diana has a granddaughter at Sherborne Girls.

Two years ago I met up with caroline shaw (MacDonald-haig) W’62 when she was lecturing at a Sydney ADFAS meeting (see following photo). I greatly look forward to

meeting more Australian Old Girls at future reunions.

Jane Pople (adley) A’55: Mary Munro (o’Dwyer) A’59 and her husband Sean spent three lovely days with me earlier in the year. I also would like to mention that I often see Jane butler (browne clayton) A’54.

Meanwhile, Mary Latter (Gray) K’53 lives next door to me in Corbridge. The following picture shows me during a lovely walk in the Eastern Pyrenees in 2018.

Janine smiter E’49: I visited Sherborne in the summer and had a wonderful time looking around. It brought back many warm memories. I now live in Ottawa, Canada, and have a lovely oil painting of Sherborne Abbey hanging in my study. I was honoured to read a lesson at the Evensong Service on Sunday, 12 August. This was held in Sherborne Abbey on the occasion of the Ottawa Anglican Chorale singing there.

Wishing you every

success at the Old Girls Day in May in the exciting new Arts Centre. Regret not to be with you then.

Jean Lynden-bell (Grieve) DH’49: I have been fortunate to discover, first through the experiences of my two younger children, the teaching methods of Shinichi Suzuki. His emphasis on teaching families, not just the child, and on bringing up children of fine character through music is very attractive to me. Another important part of the training in the method is that teachers are expected, and always do in my experience, share their ideas. I am a part, now, of a community of teachers that has grown gradually over the past 30 years. The Oakville Suzuki Association now has eight violin teachers, four cello, three piano, one flute and one guitar.

sally MaGuire (Judd) T’55: I am now living in Brighton as my husband sadly died at Christmas after 54 years of marriage. We finished our farming life, after Ireland, in Wales where we were for 27 years and loved it.

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I see my two sisters, Daphne MaGuire (Thomson) T’59 and Penelope MaGuire (stanley-smith) T’61, regularly and we celebrated my mother’s 103 years of life this summer. olivia birt (Pittet) W’57: After spending years of my life working on other people’s books, both in British and American book publishing and as a freelance editor, I am finally bringing out a book of my own: The Camino Made Easy: Reflections of a Parador Pilgrim (please also see ad in this issue).

Since this is a travel memoir, I hope my contemporaries will want to read it, if only for curiosity’s sake! However, I believe that OGs of all ages will enjoy the book’s special dual focus on the advantages of doing the Camino on a walking tour and on the cultural legacy of this medieval pilgrimage route also known as the Way of St James.

As a former medievalist whose enduring literary interests hark all the way back to A levels at Sherborne, I am also a 20year veteran of group walking tours in Europe and North America – in fact, I met my second husband, Michael Crowley, on one of them!

Virginia Warren (Tidmarsh) T’60: The following photograph was taken on 15 March 2018 when our Thurstan year met up for a lunch together with spouses at The Woodspeen, near Newbury. Unfortunately,

on this occasion rosemary White (edwards) T’60 and her husband were not able to join us but we met again on 2 October 2018.

This year I have seen a number of Old Girls: my niece and god-daughter, Lottie stock (Fenton) A’79 visited from Sydney, Australia, and my niece, Josie stock (Missick) A’76 organised a Family Decade Party on 1 July to celebrate her 60th together with other family members also celebrating decades of age! It was especially good to see ros stock (Gay) A’49, Josie’s and Lottie’s aunt. Ros lives in Alresford, not far from Winchester, and has a daughter in New Zealand and a son living nearby. My two Crawford nieces were also present – anna crawford (seton coad) T’79 and caroline crawford (Woollard) T’81, along with their families.

Pictured in the photograph above, from left to right: cynthia courtney (chignell) T’59, Joan bond T’60, Liz barry (Tyzack) T’59, sheila Vanrenen (ellis) T’60, Virginia Tidmarsh, Diana bell (Kruger) T‘60.

On 9 April, antonia Peck (Mayhew) T’60 came and stayed again at the B & B next door to us in Bristol. Pip Wilson (Nalder) AE‘60 and her

husband, Mike, called on us on 29 April. I am in close contact with Pip: in 1960 I was a paying guest with her family in Woking where we both attended the Tante Marie School of Cookery, learning to make fondant and fancy cakes! cynthia chignell (courtney) T’59: The following Thurstan year group photo was taken at a lunchtime get-together at the Woodspeen Restaurant near Newbury on 2 October 2018.

From left to right those present were: Joan bond T’60, Liz barry (Tyzack) T’60, Diana bell (Kruger) T’60, rosie White (edwards) T’60, sheila Vanrenan (ellis) T’60, cynthia courtney and Virginia Warren (Tidmarsh) T’60.

We have managed to meet once a year, together with husbands, for some years now with the exception of 2017 when most of us were too busy celebrating our 75th birthdays!

So this year we made up for it by meeting in March and again in October.

Jackie Merriam (Paskow) T’59: I am an Old Girl from the United States who was at Sherborne for

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two years, from 1954 to 1956, living in Thurstan. I currently live in Southern Maryland, about two hours south of Washington D.C. I was a professor of French and German and my husband a professor of philosophy at a liberal arts college here. We retired ten years ago and shortly after that he died of cancer. I have one daughter who teaches painting at an art academy in Brooklyn, New York, and she has one son. I am including a photo of me and him (below) taken in September on my 77th birthday in Brooklyn. I would very much like to hear from or about some of my pals from Thurstan, especially: carley (caroline) Lowe (sitwell) T’58, Daphne MaGuire (Thomson) T’59, Deborah Thomas (Woods) T’58, Toni Graham (smyth) T’59, Jenny basset (holland) T’57, Judith atkinson (Towill) T’59, carol atkinson (Mellor) T’56, elizabeth MontaqueJones (Moon) T’59 and anthea ottaway (shaw) T’58.

Penny Faulks (austin) AW’57: I celebrated my 80th birthday in 2018 and decided to contact my West friends to organize another small reunion, which we had in May. We met at Luscombes near Henley for lunch. It was such fun to meet

up again. We all looked very healthy and good for our age!

Those who were able to come were: Gillian burtt (Lucas) AW’54, sandy sinclair (Morfey) AW’56, Wendy rotherham (eliot) AW’54, Priscilla Forester (Vereker) AW’57, caroline Ferard (McNeil) AW’57, sally Taylor (Walker) AW’57, alison barlow (Mudford) AW’58, Jane Gange (rooksby) AW’57. Liz Whitley (Pybus) AW’58, Jenny Wingfield Digby (rowe) AW’57 and Nicola roper (barraclough) AW’56 were unfortunately unable to come.

rosemary hoysted (Fraser) A’56: My son and daughter-inlaw moved to Bloomington, Indiana, in 2017. While spending Christmas at their new home, I met up with antonia steadman (Matthew) A’56, who has lived there for decades. We hadn’t seen each other since we had regular reunions of our Aylmar year many years ago. My husband and I gathered 18 members of the immediate family together in August for an idyllic week in a country farmhouse in Le Marche, Italy.

This was to celebrate our 80th and other significant family birthdays.

1961–1965 Peer Group Co-ordinator: rosie cox (highfield) DH’63 Rosie would like to step down from her role and we would like to take this opportunity to thank her so much for all her hard work and support of SOG. Dione Wright (Johnson) A’65: I have retired from my school counselling work and child psychotherapy practice.

I have just been trained by Care for the Family to offer parenting courses, which I hope to offer to parents of very young children. I now live in the village of Hartley Wintney and my two daughters and their families live nearby.

I regularly see harriet Morgan (Tupper) A’65 and Jane reekie (Nicholson) E’59.

Jane symons (Thornton) DH’64: I am still travelling, catching up on Europe including learning about the history of Eastern European countries as I travel around. I also visited Greenland in June and met several Inuit which was fascinating. My eldest granddaughter has just started at Guildford High School, which brought back many memories of my start at Sherborne including having to learn all the words of the carols my first term! Very sadly, in June I attended the memorial service in Biddenden of Verena Fairs (hoffman) DH’64 with Jacqui rose DH’64.

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Jacqui and I caught up as though Sherborne was yesterday, not nearly 50 years ago, and we just wished it was under happier circumstances. I also visited Janey ingram (Lindsay clark) DH’64 and met her husband Tim in their wonderful new home on the family farm in West Camel.

Wendy Fitch (betteridge) AE’61: I live in New Zealand, but having played hockey for England in the 1960s, I gladly accepted an invitation to the Vitality Hockey Women’s World Cup in London on 31 July 2018.

Along with about 80 other players from various decades, I was treated to an extraordinary celebration of women’s hockey before being invited to reserved seats in the stands to watch England beat Ireland. What a memorable occasion it was!

Pictured with me are Barbara Harvey, centre half for England at the same time as me in the 1960s and her daughter Michele.

1966–1970 Peer Group Co-ordinator: anne Whately-smith (agnew) K’70 caroline brett Young (Palmer) AW’67: In the last year I’ve brought out another local history book, which is going out well. I am planning to work as

a volunteer with Camborne Pool Redruth Foodbank, as the area is one of the most deprived in the UK. I have been on the phone to my sisters clare Whitley (rendle) AW’60 and Liz Whitley (Pybus) AW’58.

Gillian alcock (Ford) AE’67: I visit romie Leveritt AE’67, who was head girl in 1967, and is in a very good care home in Norwich. I stay with her sister Maggie Leveritt AE’70, three years younger, who is an absolute rock as she does everything for Romie.

2018 was so sad as Peter, husband of Pru Nahum (Tatham) A’63, died at the end of the summer.

The good news is I had my second grandchild in October, a little boy. I now have a granddaughter Camilla aged four and Freddie. He is my eldest son Harry’s baby and Romie is Harry's godmother.

I still play tennis and swim and play bridge and still try to be creative.

I see buzz blandy (Francis) E’62 at art events and she still plays tennis. I also see the Mackies: Mary E’73 is an amazing artist and I went to the jolly 60th party of sally AE’75 in the summer and a wonderful Christmas party.

I saw Jane chesters AE’70 when visiting Maggie Leveritt; she hasn’t changed a bit and I hear of Fiona Mackenzie DH’70 and her sister Kirstine Mackenzie DH’74.

Verity Vickers (coleman) DH’68: Verity sent us this photo which shows Gill Morris E’55, ailsa Morris (McLeod) E’56, bubby (Margaret) Morris (henderson) E’61 celebrating the wedding of Margaret’s daughter Anna, plus the vicar.

Left to right: Jill, Ailsa and Margaret and the vicar

1971–1975 Peer Group Co-ordinator: Jocelyn Passey (humfrey) K’73 ann Fortescue (simon) AE’74: This photo shows three Sherborne Old Girls getting together in New Zealand. I am on the left, my daughter Vicky simon A/RH’07 is at the back in the middle and sarah roberts (Dixon) AE’74 is on the right. Back left is Sarah’s husband Ross Dixon and back right is my husband and Vicky’s father, Charles Simon. Sarah lives in New Zealand. We were

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carys stephens (Davies) DH’74: Having lived abroad (USA & Germany) for over 40 years, and being married to a German, I very happily took German dual-citizenship a few years ago. My husband and I bought an old farmhouse (built in 1754) in the countryside near Bremen, 20 years ago. Over the years we have held many concerts and events in the barn and garden. I not only found the love of my life here, but also my perfect job: I teach English to adults in companies and institutes all over northern Germany.

My son Robin (35) is also an English teacher, and will marry his German fiancée this summer.

He is Pipe Major of the City of Bremen Pipes and Drums and competes very successfully internationally. My daughter Laura (39) is a marine biologist, and lives in the jungle in Sabah, northern Borneo, married to Riko, a member of the Kadazandusun tribe. They have three children aged 10, 8 & 4 and visiting them twice a year is a huge joy for me.

The photo shows us all at the tribal 'sundown ceremony' on the beach near Kota Kinabalu.

cathy Peake (Madgin) K’72: I retired in 2013 after nearly 30 years based at home doing tax work as a chartered accountant.

For a while afterwards I did some volunteer work for Tax Help for Older People, a charity supporting older people on lower incomes who cannot afford to pay for professional tax advice. Mike and I travel when we can and have just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary while on a wonderful holiday in Namibia. We have two daughters, Melanie, who was married in 2017, and Miranda.

This year we saw Mary hallett (Nation) K’72.

1976–1980 Peer Group Co-ordinator: Jane Digby (auer) AW’80 Jane writes: Having moved from London, we spent a fair bit of 2018 unpacking boxes and rearranging our new home.

We spent the glorious summer of 2018 in the garden, a revelation after the diminutive one we’d had in London.

Christoph, having just retired, quickly became an expert at lawn care and mowing. The kitchen garden is still a work in progress, as is a new orchard.

I see anna Green (anthony) T’77 and bel hunter W’80 who both live nearby and am still in touch with Leonie Fox-Pitt (Gibbs) AW’80, Victoria holland (elvidge) A’80,

sarah McWatters (Galea) T’80, Jill Passey (eyre) K’80, Vicky Talbot rice K’80, angelica von hase (Laird-clowes) AW’80 and Judie Zannetos AW’80.

I’m starting to think about our 40th Anniversary Reunion in 2020 – please do get in touch if you want to be involved in the planning.

Nicky carroll (rogers) DH’77: I retired in August from my role as headteacher of Southgate Special School in Huddersfield, where I had been for nine years.

For many years I was a teacher in mainstream comprehensives, a head of English and then an educational consultant before I went into the special school sector. The unexpected blessing of my only son, who has some form of autism, led me down this fascinating, unexpected route. He gifted me with knowledge I never knew I lacked. He now lives independently round the corner from us and we are very proud of him.

My husband and I ride motorcycles (mine is a Harley Davidson), and we have some long road trips planned in our retirement.

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Nikki Livingstone-Learmonth (Knox) K’76: Our family is still living in Hong Kong where our eldest son, Charlie (25), now has a full-time job in the insurance industry. It looks as though our connections to this part of the world will continue long after we have left! Our second son, William, has just secured a training contract with a large law firm in London for 2020 and our youngest, Sebastian, is in Madrid for his third year at Manchester University, studying Spanish and Portuguese.

This summer I was at the 60th birthday party for corinne Gueterbock (Van rensselaer) K’76. Several Old Girls were there: Julie ault (comet) K’75, Fiona Lynch (hughes) DH’76, susie stocker (boissier) K’75. School friendships forged all those years ago and still going strong!

Vicky (Victoria) Talbot rice K’80: I am delighted that my niece Kate Talbot Rice joined the LV in Reader Harris in September. I am still very much in touch with my friends from Sherborne.

Sadly my mother died in September this year, however, the wonderful support of my old school friends from Kenelm, many of whom remembered Mummy, has been really comforting.

I look forward to attending some good concerts and hopefully, a confirmation service in the Abbey... I found my confirmation photos recently.

They were taken outside the

Abbey. It was a proud day for me that I will never forget. rachel Dann (Green) E’78: I have been living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the past four years with my husband Tim. We are involved in church-based discipleship across Asia and with refugees in Malaysia. My exciting news was becoming a grandmother for the first time to Hannah (born July 2018). emma bulley DH’79: I left Sherborne in 1977. I enrolled at City of London Polytechnic in 1987 to study painting. I soon realised I had found the career I had been looking for. I went on to do an MA in Fine Art and then a PhD examining the relevance of spirituality to contemporary art. I went on to teach in higher education for more than 20 years and now teach art behind bars I undertake commissions and my work is held in the National Collection and private collections in Europe. Working in the arts is rewarding but you need to be resilient, selfmotivated and prepared for a fluctuating income. www.emmabulley.co.uk

Emma Bulley ‘Complementaries’ 2016, 50 x 55 cm, Oil on canvas

1981–1985 Peer Group Co-ordinator: emma burrows AE’83 Joanna Udal K’82: As former Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs for the Archbishop of Canterbury, she has been awarded the Cross of St Augustine for Services to the Anglican Communion by Archbishop Justin Welby. She served under both Rowan Willams and Justin Welby before stepping down in 2014.

The award was in recognition of her ‘unparalleled service to the Anglican Communion’.

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susan ahrens (carpenter) K’85: My mother, Dorothy byrt (ahrens) K’55, still lives in Schleswig-Holstein and is in regular contact with sally Kühl K’51, and her daughter Philippa Kühl (Golling) K’84 , who lives in Switzerland.

In the meantime I have now been in Bahrain for seven years with my family, working as a physiotherapist. I have four children: Benjamin (23), Jessica (21), Rebecca (16) and Stephanie (14).

I am still in contact with Victoria Wood (robinson) K’85 and charlotte brown (stansfield) K’85. I would love to

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Peer GroUP NeWs hear from anyone who wants to get in contact. Please could you contact the SOG office (oldgirls@sherborne.com) who will pass on my email address to you.

1986–1990 Peer Group Co-ordinator: antonia Foster Plant AE’91

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alice case DH’86: I left Sherborne in 1986 and read Classics at Manchester University, followed by an MA in Museum Studies at Leicester University. After a varied career path, I have for the last couple of years been co-ordinating a Classics Hub in Liverpool, where I have lived and raised a family for the last 25 years. The Classics Hub is part of a nationwide network funded by a charity called Classics for All, which works to increase the provision of all forms of Classics in state schools.

I have one son, who has just completed his first term at Oxford University reading History (very proud mum!). In my spare time I am governor at a local all-through state boarding school. I still have family near Sherborne, and have a nephew

at Sherborne Boys, and am in touch with a number of friends from my Sherborne days. caroline Furze AW’86: Last year, I fulfilled a long-held ambition and donated a kidney.

My neurologist wasn’t keen – I am wheelchair dependent due to multiple sclerosis – but I decided the high probability of considerable benefit to someone else more than outweighed the slight possibility of harm to me. It was an ‘altruistic’ or ‘non-directed’ donation, meaning I didn’t know (and had no choice in) the recipient. I now know, because he has written to thank me, that it went to someone about my age, with a wife and two young children. It turned out to be one of the easiest things I’ve ever done and I would do it again in a heartbeat if only I could. For those who are interested, I wrote a little about it in my blog: see thisisjustaletter.blogspot .com and look for the label ‘organ donation’.

clare Ferguson (cotterell) E’87: I met with helen stacey (Moriarty) E’87, caroline

symington (de Minvielle) A’87, rebecca courtenay (Wharton) A’87, Ginny Jory (clover) A’87 and Toppy Wharton A’87 at Helen’s house in Somerset for the weekend.

We are looking forward to lots of celebrations this year as we all have big birthdays!

Clare has agreed to share duties as year group rep with susie brabner (sutter) E’87.

Left to right: Caroline, Ginny, Helen, Rebecca and Toppy

irene Yap DH’90: Here is a photo of me taken at Dun Holme front door 30 years ago...

Katie scorgie DH’87: Happily living in North Dorset with my 2 daughters, now aged 14 and 11 and working as an equestrian and canine artist as well as

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finding time for yoga, tennis and, more recently, local panto! Any Old Girls passing through the area, do please drop by. My website is www.katiescorgie.co.uk

1991–1995 Peer Group Co-ordinator: alexandra White (ballard) A’95 emma Pocock (cripwell) E’92: I really enjoyed coming back to school to talk about my life working in travel PR.

been quite an adjustment but I have enjoyed being more involved, particularly during this not insignificant transition for the children. My youngest, Clara, started school in September so it will soon be time to find a new challenge!

I’m still regularly in touch with amanda claydon (benbow) T’92 (Seb’s godmother), alex Dickson Leach K’92 (Ben’s godmother), Faye sirman (Farrant) K’92 (Clara’s godmother), annabel Meggeson K’92, Viv Pidgeon (Thurstan) W’92 and have recently met up with sarah Musson (Mccowen) A’92 whose younger son goes to the same special school in Bath as my son Sebastian – the most incredible coincidence, having not seen Sarah since we left school.

In the summer I enjoyed a scorching hot day at Sherborne Girls, feasting on a picnic whilst watching my god-daughter (Petra Deacon) on her sports day, followed by being a special guest at a play where the girls recreated some recorded Old Girls interviews, including one between myself and Alex.

Georgina Kraunsoe (Menko) K’92: Having moved to Bath in July 2016 we are now firmly settled and loving it. Since leaving London and my City career at BlackRock, I haven’t been working but have taken time out to settle us all in. It has

1996–2000 Peer Group Co-ordinator: alexa ramsay (Laryea) E’00 caroline campbell (Knapic) A’96: Pippin Rose was born on 27 June 2018 by emergency Csection one month early. She’s arrived in our lives after 10 glorious years of marriage together. She has red hair and blazing blue eyes. She’s on instagram as pippinroseknapic.

We are absolutely delighted with her. I run a video production company in California at thehivestudios.org. cherry chayaporn roengpithya AW’99: On 26 January 2018, my family and I launched a new international branded hotel in Bangkok.

Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Soi Soonvijai is the nearest Inter Continental Hotels Group (IHG) hotel to the Suvarnabhumi International Airport. I look forward to welcoming any of the Sherborne Girls family who visit Bangkok. www.holidayinnexpres ssoonvijai.com

Cherry, pictured 4th from the right

Alex and me outside ‘new’ Kenelm in the summer

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Peer GroUP NeWs rachel henley A’96: I currently look after sponsorship at Barclays – managing relationships with rights holders and setting the activation strategy for the UK retail bank. I also have an outdoor teak furniture business, Teakunique.

I am in touch with a lot of Sherborne girls – Lucinda ross (bryers) A’96, heather sclater (balmain) A’96, Lettice Moore ede (hagan) A’96, ellie bayliss A’96, Katherine Gaillard (Floyd) A’96, Fiona Verdon-smith (John) A’96, claire allen T’96, Louisa east E’96, alexa birt (saunders) E’96 and clem clive-Ponsonby-Fane (Davies) T’96.

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2001-2005 Peer Group Co-ordinator: Tess cavendish A’02

hunter (Paine) AW’48, mother helen strong (Talbot baker) AW’74, and two aunts caroline strong (de Marsh) AW’75 and Kate strong (Paton) AW’79.

My bridesmaids included two Old Girls – Mary Gandell (Porter) W’02 and Louisa White (huntington) A’02.

Other old Sherborne girls and boys who attended were: Andy Morley-Smith, Rob Gosling and camilla Lofts (Gosling) AW’02, annabel owen AE’02, Yuko Yabe (burrows) E’02, alice everitt E’02 and James Morfee.

Photo credit: Andrew Morgan photography

camilla bartholomew (Vickers) DH’03: I had my second boy last September called Archie and I already have Freddie who is three and a half. We’re living in Wandsworth and I work from home as a freelance illustrator. emma Talbot baker (Ford) W’02: I married Christopher Ford at All Hallows, Woolbeding, Midhurst on 12 August 2017. The reception was held at our family home and I was particularly pleased to ride to the reception on my horse, Big Boy, who I have had since Lower 5th.

There was an impressive turnout of family Old Girls (see photo): my grandmother Marion

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Frankie De Watts DH’05: After teaching pre-reception at Abercorn School in North London for two years, I moved back to Hong Kong last year and taught Year 1 at Kennedy School ESF. I have now been appointed as pre-nursery teacher at Malvern College Preschool.

Photo credit: guyhearn.com

alice Dodge A’01: I have worked in television for 14 years.

I am a producer/director and have worked on all things including The Great British Bake Off, The X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing, Don’t Tell the Bride

and DIY SOS The Big Build. I’m due to work on The Great British Bake Off again this year.

I got married two years ago to Oliver Cox and have a 28month-old son called Teddy. He is funny and mischievous, following the legacy of his mother.

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The photo shows me with my brother Leo. I’m in the middle, and on the right is an old Shirburnian friend, Desmond Wong. We were part of the groom’s party of our good friend Alex Wilkins who got married in July.

Gigi Mak (Walker) A’04: Nathan and I have now been married for two years, and have had a hectic time since. The wedding was in Hong Kong, followed by my pregnancy and the arrival of our son Luke. The photo shows us as a family in June 2018: Luke is nine months old and we are living happily in Nottingham.

harriet hawksley (excell) DH’04: I married James Excell on 2 June 2018 at the church of St John the Baptist in Tisbury.

Jemima Lofts (edwards) DH’04 sang beautifully for us during the service – keeping the old Sherborne Girls music alive!

One of my bridesmaids was Jessica Filbey DH’04.

Jemima Lofts (edwards) DH’04: Like my sister camilla Lofts (Gosling) AW’02, I married an Old Shirburnian, James Edwards. We married at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. It was the most wonderful day and lots of Sherborne friends were there, including harriet hawksley (excell) DH’04 who was one of my bridesmaids.

I’m currently Director of Music at Kew House School and enjoying the challenge that running a busy music department brings.

Lindsay Lamb (Taylor) AW’02: I’m still living in beautiful south Somerset with my husband, Matt, and two daughters (Tessa is four and Kitty nearly two). I have started a modern calligraphy business taking on wedding stationery, commissions, notelets… anything I can write on! It’s been lovely writing for a few OGs for their weddings this year. I’m also holding workshops for people who want to learn calligraphy.

You can see examples of my style on Instagram @tmcalligraphy, Taylor Made Calligraphy – I’ll be launching a website soon!

I was on holiday in Majorca with Kate scott-Underdown W’02, elizabeth Durnford (Leigh) AE’02, rose Kingscote (hicks) K’02, Jessica Gibbs (allen-back) A’02, Katherine Ferrier W’02, suse odgers A’02 and claire brown (clarke) K’02.

The photo shows me with a table plan I did for a wedding.

Mindy Kraunsoe W’03: After spending several years working as an intensive care nurse, my husband Justin and I decided to take some time off to see the world. By bicycle. It was Justin’s idea, as he is a keen cyclist. sportography.tv

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Peer GroUP NeWs I cycled a couple of miles to work each day but that was about the limit of my experience. Our trip soon morphed into an 18-month trip through Central and South America, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.

We have been on the road now for almost eight months and have cycled through 14 countries. We still have 11 months and at least another seven countries to go. But for now our main target is to reach Ushuaia in time for Christmas.

Follow our journey at: www.robinsonkraunsoecycling. wordpress.com/

firms and we recruit for a variety of roles. www.orielpartners.co.uk sophie barford DH’03: I work as a music examiner, specialising in piano, cello and singing. The photo shows me with John Jenkins and Bernard Barker, who was Assistant Music Master and Organist from 1977–1981.

2006–2010 Peer Group Co-ordinator: bella hussey A/RH’06 emma oxenbridge (stirlingMartin) RH’08: I got married to Andrew Stirling-Martin on 25 August 2018, at my Portuguese home in Santa Catarina. Thea Wellband (carroll) DH’08 was a bridesmaid and Jesse entwistle (habershon) K’08 was also there.

Andrew and I met at Nottingham University and now live in London. I work in an art gallery in Mayfair and Andrew has a job in the City.

Left to right: John, Sophie and Bernard

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olivia James (coughtrie) AE’05: I recently launched Oriel Partners, a boutique PA and administrative recruitment consultancy based in the heart of Mayfair, London. We work with clients across all sectors, both corporate and creative, in a business and private capacity.

Our clients range from global multinationals to small boutique

rosanna butler AW’04: I graduated from the University of Exeter in 2008 with a First Class Honours degree in Arabic.

Following that I spent another year at Exeter to complete a Masters in Marketing.

I now work across pet food brands as a digital marketing manager for Mars which I love as I can take my pug to work!

I’m also busy planning my summer wedding this year to Jedd Jenkins at Grittleton House near Bath! connie Jackman (anderson) A’02: We welcomed Finn into the world on 6 May 2018, a baby brother for Fergus (2 years) and Eliza (3 years). We are living in Leuchars, Fife, for the next two years and still see a lot of our Sherborne friends, and hope to tempt lots of them to Scotland to stay with us soon.

izzy Lockhart RH’07: I am currently four years into a sixyear PhD in English at Princeton, including involvement in teaching. In addition to leading discussion sessions with undergraduates, I have been able to teach incarcerated students through the Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative – undoubtedly the most meaningful experience I have had so far as a postgrad, and

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one of the main reasons why I selected Princeton in the first place.

Before Princeton, I spent a year abroad at a liberal arts college in Oregon as part of my BA at the University of East Anglia, and another year doing an MA at the University of Pennsylvania (thanks to a Thouron Award). Since my BA, my research has focused on settler colonialism and contemporary Native American and Indigenous literatures.

degree in Chartered Management, funded by the company. I am looking forward to that.

Laura bartrum (Grave) RH’09: Jake and I were married on 21 April 2018 at St Mary’s Hartley Wespall Church followed by a reception at my parents’ house.

Tanya Lawrence RH’09 was a bridesmaid and sang Ave Maria during the signing of the registers. clare Punter DH’09, alice chitty RH’09, iona Woods RH’09 and Georgia stevenson RH’09 were guests. We all had a wonderful day.

sopwith AE’08, Jo Dorey RH’08, char Tongue RH’08, Nancy Daniell AE’08, Georgina archer RH’08, sophie bolesworth W’08, Teddy Gregory-Page RH’08, alice evans-bevan RH’08, izzy Findlay RH’08, edwina elkington RH’08, Tara strachan RH’08, rosie Martin RH’08, Gaby brewer DH’08, charlie stuart-Grumbar DH’08, chloe anderson RH’08, india carins DH’08, my sister izzy eadie RH’09 and then Nick Batchelor and Theo Jenkins from the boys’ school.

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Kathryn halliday AE’09: I’m enjoying an endlessly challenging but fulfilling time completing a PhD in Population Health and Epidemiology funded by the Medical Research Council and facilitated by the University of Edinburgh. This summer I'm hoping to present at a major conference in New Zealand about my work behind an upcoming publication – something of terror and excitement in equal measures!

Katie alexander W’07: I am currently a production merchandiser for SuperDry at its head office in Cheltenham. I am just in the process of enrolling at Gloucester University to study a

Photo credit: Simon Biffen Photography

Leila Mather RH’09: I have shifted careers (away from opera) and am in the middle of three years of formation/training for the Anglican Priesthood at Westcott House in Cambridge. I will be ordained, God willing, in the summer of 2020, most likely in Salisbury Cathedral. Music was my primary occupation while at Sherborne Girls and continues to be so here, leading worship in my colleges’ chapels. olivia eadie (orr-ewing) RH’08: I got married over the summer.

The photo is of me with alice

Thea Wellband (carroll) DH’08: I married OS Jimmy Carroll on 7 July 2018 at Chiesa di San Tommaso, Umbria, Italy. It was an incredible weekend surrounded by our nearest and dearest.

Photo shows, left to right: samantha Lee (Jerram) K’08, Jessica entwisle (habershon) K’08, Thea carroll, bella rigby WD’08, Flora Davidson-houston AE’08, emma oxenbridge (stirling-Martin) RH’08.

Photo Credit Chris Jelf - http://chrisjelf.com/

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Peer GroUP NeWs 2011–2015 Peer Group Co-ordinator: Louise Moseley K’11 catri Foot DH’14: I have been living in Berlin for the past two and a half years and I am trying to make it as a creative. I just recently hit my first blogging milestone on my poetry and photography Instagram account with my first 10,000 followers.

You can find me under the username @curiositykilledthecatri.

I also recently self-published a book of this and hope to sell it by continuing my blogging growth.

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charlotte Garton WD‘14: I graduated in June this year from the University of St Andrews with a 2:1 degree in English Literature (see photo, below).

Since then I have been working for the BBC in Oxford as a Broadcast Assistant. I’m living in Oxford, and absolutely love working for the BBC, which is challenging, but lots of fun.

I see a lot of emily Parker WD’14.

Dianne Wong DH’11: The photo shows me making a donation on behalf of my solicitor’s firm to the Chinese Welfare Association. Firstgeneration Chinese immigrants founded the association after arriving in Belfast in the 1970s in search of a better life.

olivia van Grutten WD’15: I graduated from the Royal Agricultural University this summer with a 2:1 in International Equine and Agricultural Business Management (see photo, below). I now work for the topclass insurance brokers Weatherbys Hamilton in their Bloodstock Insurance department dealing with highprofile clients in the horseracing industry.

Phoebe sharp DH’15: After graduating from Newcastle with a degree in Geography, I’m now back to complete a Masters in International Relations. I’d love to work for the humanitarian side of the UN, and hope my

MA will help me to achieve this ambition.

emma Pickup RH’12: On 14 April 2019 I will be running the Brighton Marathon, to raise money for the Special Boat Service Association, in memory of my father, Richard Pickup.

Ten years ago, when I was fourteen, my father died at only 48 years old from cancer. During his time as Commanding Officer of the SBS, my father set up the Special Boat Service Association, a charity providing benevolence and welfare support for wounded and injured servicemen and their dependents. Following this tragedy, the SBSA provided unwavering support for me, my mum, and my two brothers. This, along with constant support from family, friends, and SG itself at the time, made a huge difference.

I will be posting my progress on Instagram (emmapickup55), so do follow the updates. uk.virginmoney giving.com/Emma_Pickup_Bright on_2019

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Tatiana Guinness RH’14: I’m moving out to New York in midJanuary to work in the Hotel Chocolat team as it kicks off its American expansion. Very exciting!

Lily colfox WD’11: I have been painting pictures of homes for a number of years now for private commissions. I use watercolour on paper and can either paint it in situ or anywhere in the world.

I also paint houses from photographs. aurelia Paul AE’14: I recently graduated from Boston University with a dual degree in Chinese and Comparative Literature. I am currently working at a tech start-up in Taipei, Taiwan.

2016–2020 Peer Group Co-ordinator: imo andrews WD’16 annabel harris K’18: This summer I took part on a fiveweek expedition to the Indian Himalayas with the British Exploring Society (see the following photo). The expedition was spent at above 5,000m exploring the Zara Valley near Tanglang La – the second highest pass in the world. Along with leading my fire (team) up a 5,817m peak and eating numerous dehydrated ration packs and curry in Leh, I had the opportunity to hear the Dali

Lama speak whilst he was visiting Leh and to see the Perseid Meteor Shower. I am now planning on doing my mountain leader qualification, which will allow me to lead expeditions and discover new places.

Annabel pictured on the left

araminta stubbs DH’18: Training for the Target Sprint National Final has not been easy due to moving up to Oxford, meaning that during the term I can’t train with Wimborne AC. So the training has been completely self-directed.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to do much shooting, apart from some training at home, but I competed in the Confined GB championships on the Friday before Nationals to gain some race practice.

At the moment I am very driven to continue after my recent success in the Nationals and try to make it back into the GB squad over the next selection period.

claudia Zheng AE’18: I am currently studying Urban Planning and Design at UCL, with Spanish as my minor. I like the course because it links to both Economics and Politics.

Also, I have always wanted to study a fourth language and Spanish seems to be a good choice, because I have many friends from Spain and South America.

I am in touch with many Old Girls including stephanie Teale AE’18, Melody Lulubriggs AE’18, anna Von contzen AE’18 and Juliana Ma RH’18.

Flora Wordie DH’17: In March, I spent five days living ‘Below the Line’ to raise money for Sport Relief. For five nights we went without hot water, slept on a basement floor, and lived on a budget of just £1 a day to cover all food and drink. The challenge coincided with March’s unseasonal snowfalls, meaning the temperature in the basement where we slept was at minus two degrees!

Flora pictured centre

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rosanna Miller RH’17: I was lucky to feature in ‘The Third Degree’, a comedy programme on BBC Radio 4 that pits three undergraduates against three of their professors in a challenging but entertaining quiz.

My episode came from Merton College, Oxford, where I am an undergraduate. The rounds varied between specialist subjects and general knowledge and involved questions on a range of topics, including everything from history and current affairs to sport and pop music.

The BBC crew were great fun to work with and the producer (David Tyler) and host (comedian Steve Punt) were lovely. It was a really enjoyable experience!

Frances budd DH’17: I successfully completed the Mongol Rally this summer. I drove with three boys from Sherborne School: Jeremy Newman, Edward LillingstonPrice and Christian Robson. We drove from Sherborne to UlanUde in Russia in a 2004 Skoda Fabia Estate. We travelled through 18 countries in 49 days across Europe followed by Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, then took a ferry over the Caspian Sea to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia! En route we had a gearbox failure but luckily managed to buy a replacement in Almaty. Overall we had ten flat tyres, two

towings, six police stops and a broken windscreen! We met so many generous people, slept in yurts, ate local food and camped in some weird and wonderful, beautiful places.

To find out more, check out our Facebook page: the Silkroad Savages.

Grace Gardner RH’17: I was lucky enough to be awarded a financial grant from Sherborne Girls towards a three-month trip to Argentina. I spent half my time volunteering on a remote eco-tourism farm and half of it travelling the country. I am now studying Hispanic Studies at Bristol University.

We flew to Buenos Aires at the beginning of January 2018 and stayed for a couple of days to acclimatize before taking a four-hour flight down to El Calafate. This was followed by a five-hour bus ride to the ecofarm where my friend and I would spend the next eight weeks.

While on the farm, we were given daily tasks such as gathering firewood. They seemed very basic at the start, but we soon realised that when you are outside the entire day, up against the elements in some of the purist air you’ve experienced, simple tasks turn

out to be very tiring.

After leaving the farm we explored a bit more of the country, going to one of the only forward moving glaciers in the world, ‘Perito Moreno’ in Calafate. We then flew back up to Buenos Aires, where we spent two weeks enjoying the city before flying even further north, to the Brazilian and Paraguayan border to visit Iguazu Falls. We then travelled on to a small city almost bordering Bolivia, called Salta. There we were able to visit the salt lakes and some of the local villages.

Marina Lawrence DH’17 received her Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award at Buckingham Palace on 24 May 2018 (see photo below pictured with robyn carty WD’17).

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Peer GroUP NeWs: UNiVersiTY VisiTs robyn carty WD’17: This is a photo of me at Everest Base Camp after a trek through the Himalayas.

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10-Year reunion

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The leavers from 2008 met for their 10-Year Reunion on Thursday, 7 June 2018 at The Clarence, London. Old Girls and Old Shirburnians enjoyed catching up with each other and renewing old friendships.

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5-Year reunion

Nearly 100 leavers from 2013 gathered for their 5-Year Reunion on Saturday, 22 September, held at The Black Dog, Vauxhall, London. It was a great reunion and enormous fun.

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20-Year reunion

The leavers of 1998 came back to have a look around the school on Saturday, 13 October before holding their reunion in Sherborne.

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News from the

School SUCCESS FOR ARMY SCHOLARS Two U6 students have been awarded highly coveted army officer scholarships. Lottie Holford and Isabelle Keating are two of just 73 people in the whole country to receive the scholarships, which provide financial support for university study.

Lottie hopes to read medicine and go on to become an army medic. Isabelle, meanwhile, intends to read Geography. Both girls will serve in the Army after graduating.

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Representatives from Sherborne Girls won a regional debating competition in the autumn term, beating seven other schools to top honours.

Debating Matters is a nationwide programme for sixth formers. Its purpose is to encourage young people to develop their public speaking skills.

Independent judges – often people with a high profile in public life – deliver their verdict on the performance of the teams before the winners of each heat progress to the next round.

Sherborne Girls made it to the final, where they met Gillingham to debate the motion: ‘Humanity should fear advances in Artificial Intelligence’. They went on to win the competition, and were commended by a judge for their ‘ferocious intelligence’. Speaking about the competition, Head of English Louise Troup said: “The ability to engage in and listen to a balanced discussion is especially vital in a world dominated by social media, where our individual feeds are tailored to suit our pre-existing opinions. Researching topics for debating requires real in-depth research and reading and so improves pupils’ academic skills, too.”

GIRLS LEARN NEW SKILLS TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER Sixty girls from the U5 and L6 are enrolled on a programme that develops their listening skills.

The ‘Listeners and Supporters’ are encouraged to provide pastoral care to their fellow pupils. In order to prepare them for their role, they undergo training in active listening, assertiveness and body language, as well as managing situational stress and developing social confidence.

The programme helps support the school’s commitment to outstanding pastoral care, at the same time as enhancing the skills of our pupils.

This will make them better equipped for life beyond school, where the ability to deal effectively with other people is a valuable skill.

FAIRY GODMOTHERS SPREAD KINDNESS IN DUN HOLME A special ‘Fairy Godmother’ week gave residents of Dun Holme a much-appreciated pick-me-up in the midst of the autumn term.

The initiative, which originated in West, involves girls and staff serving as Fairy Godmothers to a specific pupil. They perform an act of kindness for that person each day.

Examples include making their bed, giving them a bar of chocolate or writing them a note of encouragement.

“The results were genuinely amazing,” said Dun Holme’s Housemistress Hayley Garnsworthy.

“Compassion and kindness flowed through the house, and girls went off to lessons feeling buoyant and uplifted. Even better, the positive vibes rubbed off on other houses, so everyone benefitted!”

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HOUSE DRAMA COMPETITION SHOWCASES TALENT

CHOIR SINGS FOR FOOD BANKS AT WATERLOO

The annual House Drama competition took place in October, showcasing the wonderful acting talent throughout the school.

Performances were varied and included Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, The Woman in Black adapted by Stephen Mallatratt, and People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan.

Overall victory went to Dun Holme, thanks to performances of Annie by Thomas Meehan and Alligators by Andrew Keatley.

“The standard of performance was extremely high this year,” said Director in Residence Zosh Skowronska. “It was great to see the Houses’ efforts pay off on the night with some spectacular displays of talent.”

Sherborne Girls senior choir joined pupils from The Gryphon School to sing carols at Waterloo Station and raise money for food banks in the run-up to Christmas.

“This annual festive performance is a hugely worthwhile endeavour,” commented Director of Music John Jenkins. “It gives pupils a chance to perform in front of an appreciative, but unusual, audience, while also piquing their awareness of those who are less fortunate than themselves. It is always an activity of which I feel very proud.”

L5 LIGHTS UP THE STAGE WITH YELLOW BRICK ROAD

A group of girls headed to France last summer as part of the expedition component of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. The girls cycled along the Atlantic coast on Le Velodysee between La Barre-de-Monts and Royan.

Alongside the physical challenge, the girls had to deal with running repairs on their bicycles, blisters, navigation and the rigours of camping. They were self-reliant for four days, sleeping under canvas and cooking on open stoves. They carried everything they needed with them.

To help prepare for the feat, the girls (Thea Berry, Ella Beaumont, Annabel Mortimer and Hannah Shirley) completed a variety of training trips throughout the year. This meant they were fit and ready for their French adventure, during which they covered a distance of 300km.

The L5 production of The Wizard of Oz proved a theatrical triumph, with the school hall transformed into a magical land where anything could happen.

The performance involved a cast of 30 girls and music was provided by a professional-standard orchestra featuring a number of pupils. Local costume designer Anna Dixon helped with dressing the stars, while Head of Drama Lizzie Nurse used innovative stop-start animation to create the famous tornado at the beginning of the musical.

Expressing their delight in the performance, one parent wrote: “Congratulations to the girls on a truly wonderful production. The standard of singing and acting was so impressive and it was lovely to see the girls clearly having so much fun. [The show was] a real heart warmer in the run-up to Christmas.”

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News from Honorary Members President Emeritae Jenny Dwyer Headmistress 2006–2018

Life after Sherborne

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When I made the decision to step down from being Head at Sherborne Girls, I did not have a plan. I knew that I wanted to have more time for my long-suffering family, and that I would definitely want to work!

I tried to analyse what I loved about my career to date and realised that I wanted to work as part of a team, to use my knowledge of education and to learn some new skills. Having been placed at Sherborne Girls by Executive Search firm Saxton Bampfylde 12 years ago, I was delighted to be headhunted by them once more, but this time to join their team. Over the summer I met key members of the firm and also had to undertake a battery of psychometric tests, something I had not done for a long time!

branching out into supporting clients who are looking for nonexecutives and CEOs in other spheres. I have loved learning about the world of Executive Search and spent the first three months working in each section of the firm so I understood the research methodology. It was both terrifying and exhilarating to initially be so out of my comfort zone and I had to remind myself of all the times I urged the girls to take risks and to push themselves. I am lucky to be working in a firm which is totally employee owned, has a strong Christian ethos and is values driven.

There is flexibility as to when, where and how we work as long as the work is done, so I spend some time each week in London or travelling to clients countrywide but now have weekends at home in Norfolk.

Since September I have been working four days a week as a consultant in their education team, supporting clients in their appointments of Heads, Executive Heads, Principals and Chairs of Governors of schools and now am

There are so many things I miss about Sherborne, mainly the people and the whole school events which punctuate the school year, but feel very fortunate to be using the knowledge I gained as a Head to help other schools.

OTHER STAFF LEAVERS: Rebecca Ayers-Harris Alex Bird Karen Chapman Mark Felsted Sue Francis Tom Fremlin Gill Henderson Richard Hill Diane Kirby Annemarie Lees Lydia Lowndes-Northcott Jo Massey Ian McCarthy Maggie Nightingale Gil Nutland David Thompson

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Sherborne Old Girls President Lucy Jameson

No. 52 – 2018

Presidents Emeritae Mrs Geraldine Kerton-Johnson Miss June Taylor Mrs Jenny Dwyer

Contents

Editorial Team Fiona James Anna Anthony Tim Gibson Executive Committee

Design and print Shelleys the Printers

Journal enclosures Your invitation to the 2019 Old Girls Day and AGM is enclosed.

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From the Chairman

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2018 SOG AGM

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Vice-Presidents Mrs Patricia Barker Miss Augusta Miller Miss Sheila Powell Dr Hassan Qasrawi

Torchbearers News

2

Executive Committee

From the President

3

Chairman Nicki Whiteman (Lewis)

From the Headmistress

4

SOG Charity

6

Congratulations

7

Development Review

8

Obituaries

9

Golf

14

Births, Marriages & Deaths

16

New SOG Members 2018

18

Daughters and Granddaughters of OGs

18

Circle News

19

Careers Networking Service

24

Features

31

Peer Group News

35

School News

54

News from Honorary Members

56

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Sherborne Girls Alumnae

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Treasurer Gill Oliver Secretary Fiona James oldgirls@sherborne.com Peer Group Co-ordinators’ Representative Alexandra White (Ballard) oldgirls@sherborne.com Circle Secretaries’ Co-ordinator Jane Reekie (Nicholson) oldgirls@sherborne.com Co-opted Member Emily Palmer oldgirls@sherborne.com Headmistress Ruth Sullivan headmistress@sherborne.com Senior Management Team Representative Katherine Massey k.massey@sherborne.com

Peer Group Co-ordinators 1925 – 1960

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1961 – 1965

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1966 – 1970

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2001 – 2005

Tess Cavendish

2006 – 2010

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2016 – 2020

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