The Arch Autumn 2016

THE ARCH

Nº 329 Autumn 2016

OLD REPTONIAN NEWSLETTER

Inside this issue

The Cross Reunion - Page 14

OR Vets - Page 20

The Great War 1916 - Pages 24 - 26

Officers of The Old Reptonian Society 2016 President: James M Ross (Hall 1968) Vice President: W M Alastair Land (Headmaster) President Elect: Nick C Walford (Brook 1969)

Welcome to The Arch President of The Society 2016 James Ross (H’68)

Chairman: Nick R S Smith (Brook 1969) Treasurer: John S Wallis (Latham 1971) Governors’ Representative: Matthew J C Needham (Priory 1980) Old Reptonian Secretary: Nigel Kew (Staff) Old Reptonian Society Officer: Jan Cobb (Staff) Elected Committee Members J M Guy Levesley (Hall 1975 & Staff) - Appointed 2009 Sarah E Fearns (Field 2001) - Appointed 2013 Edward T Sloane (Priory 1997) - Appointed 2013 Lloyd A Evans (Orchard 2002) - Appointed 2014 Tom Poynton (School 2006) - Appointed 2014 Andrew J Churchill (Priory 1982) – Appointed 2015 John F M Walker (Hall 1946 & Ex Staff) - Life member Ex Officio Members Simon D Armstrong (Cross 1963) - Lancs & Cheshire Sanjiv Basu (Orchard 1989) - Fives Anthony E Bishop (Priory 1972) - Golf Society James W Blackwell (Priory 2000) - Pilgrims Benjamin D E Dewhirst (New 1996) - Yorkshire Martin L Jones (Cross 1997 & Staff) - Hockey Nicholas P Le Poidevin (Cross 1964) - Law Society Jamie R Muirhead (Cross 2009) - Tennis Club Mark R Norton (Mitre 1986) - Masonic Lodge Thomas R Pepper (Hall 1949) - Midlands Edward R U Rhodes (New 1995) - Squash Club Alex Evans (New 2004) - Football Club (Captain) Cathy Twigg (Staff) - Marketing & Development Director In order to put some balance into our Committee meetings we are keen for female Old Reptonians to join the General Committee. This body meets once a year on a Saturday morning, most usually on OR Football day at the beginning of the Michaelmas term. Please contact njk@repton.org.uk or jcobb@repton.org.uk for further details.

The Old Reptonian Society The Hall, Repton School Repton, Derbyshire DE65 6FH Tel. 01283 559320 Email: jcobb@repton.org.uk Editorial Team: Nigel Kew & Jan Cobb

DEADLINE for articles for the next edition (Spring 2017) is 31st March 2017 Front Cover: Repton Olympians Shona McCallin (A’08) and Georgie Twigg (F’03).

Back Cover: 2016 Leavers outside Pears School.

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I shall not be alone in basking in the afterglow of the Olympics and being proud of the fantastic achievements of our Reptonian hockey ladies, Shona McCallin (A’08) and Georgie Twigg (F’03), who won gold medals for Team GB. Joie Leigh (G’09) and Ellie Watton (M’05) were travelling reserves. In addition Charlotte Stapenhorst (A’11) won a bronze medal playing for Germany.

Congratulations to you all, we very much hope to see you at OR events in the near future. Martin Jones (C’97) the Master in charge of hockey and Simon Clague his predecessor deserve much credit too. Martin and Simon typify the calibre of staff that Repton possesses. Be it sport, the arts, music or in the classroom there is a dedication and enthusiasm that breeds a mutual respect between staff and pupils. The Olympians give a high profile to Repton, but there are many unsung successes at all levels. The mutual respect has long been part of Repton life. I have on my mantelpiece an invitation to the joint80th birthday lunch for Barry Downing and John Billington, both distinguished masters, and appropriately the lunch takes place in Pears School.

I attended Speech Day this year and was immediately struck by several things.

The school had its best clothes on. I have never seen the facilities and grounds in such immaculate condition. The Bursar, Carl Bilson, and his team are to be thanked for their endeavours and attention to detail. It was also one of the happiest events that I’ve attended at Repton, thought-provoking speeches from the Headmaster and guest speaker Guy Richardson, smiling faces abundant, a joyful concert rounded off with a convivial lunch. A memorable day.

Repton is constantly striving to achieve the best and be ahead of the competition. In doing so it provides a wonderful backdrop for pupils which I’m sure they will cherish for the rest of their lives. Not often mentioned are the Governors who deserve huge credit for continuing to drive Repton forward and for the initiatives overseas. Without looking on the website, most of us would struggle to name too many of them. In an understated way, under the cheerful and charming leadership of Sir Henry Every, they have ensured financial stability and have blended in new buildings to sit comfortably alongside historic Repton.

In 2009 as Chairman I had the shared distinction of unveiling a plaque in St George’s Church, Ypres, in memory of the 355 Reptonians who lost their lives in World War One. This year as President I shall be laying a wreath in the Garth as we remember not just the 355 but also of those 54 who died at The Somme. Both of these events give me cause to reflect my good fortune and to be saddened that so many had their lives cut so short. I’m certain, though, that they, like me, were immensely proud to be a Reptonian.

I still have several events to attend in my year of office and I thank you all for your continued support of our thriving OR society. Nigel Kew, Cathy Twigg, Jan Cobb, Nick Smith and the committee are a devoted team to ensure all our events and publications are enjoyable and informative. Finally, forgive me for being repetitive, but being President of the Old Reptonian Society is something I value greatly with huge pride.

School Calendar of Events Chairman of The Society 2016 Nick Smith (B’69) I want to extend a warm welcome to this year’s leavers and hope that you enjoy the first of many editions of The Arch. As an Old Reptonian you have access to a large network which extends across the UK and beyond. Whether you want to play sport or music, act, or simply enjoy our lively social events, you will find a branch or club that can help you do so.

Please don’t hesitate to contact any of the secretaries or the OR office for further information.

When many of us were at school we had little knowledge of the world of work and, at least in my case, assumed that something would turn up. That is in no way meant as a slight to the careers staff of the time, who tried to steer a course, but often found sixth formers more interested in frivolous activities! For most of my contemporaries things turned out alright, and we somehow negotiated our way through the various challenges of earning a living. Of course, things are now very different and it is extremely important not only to try for the best possible grades, but also to have some plan or idea about a career that might be appropriate and enjoyable. However, as the job market changes at great pace, it is quite likely that those leaving Repton now and in future will work in several different environments and disciplines. Within the ranks of ORs we have a vast network of hugely experienced people who can provide advice and guidance to current and Old Reptonians. The Society is keen to harness this wealth of experience and knowledge, and we are currently looking at the best ways in which to do this. In due course I hope many of you will feel able to give some form of support to such an initiative.

The Society is doing well, and you will read about our progress and successes elsewhere in this edition. Our Olympic medallists thrilled all at Rio and made us very proud. Alongside them we have enjoyed several other highpoints this summer: a poignant and powerful production of Equus from the young RepTheatre cast at The Edinburgh Fringe, another wonderful display in the D’Abernon Cup by our tennis team, and a good, though ultimately frustrating, run in the Arthur Dunn Cup. Old Reptonians continue to strive hard in all areas and, whether it culminates in glorious success or mild disappointment, do so with good humour and a sense of enjoyment. I am sure that our new ORs will continue this tradition; I look forward to hearing about your progress in future issues of The Arch and to meeting many of you at our social events.

Addendum – Spring 2016 issue, School News, Pedants 2016 should have read Stephen Hazell-Smith (O’67) who writes an occasional column in The City Grump. Apologies to Stephen and Peter.

OCTOBER 2016 30 Half-term ends NOVEMBER 2016 1 Girls’ 1st XI v Oundle at Loughborough University 2 Boys’ Hockey XI v KES Birmingham Concert Series: Michael Petrov: Cello, The Beldam Hall,

7.45 pm 3 Choral Day, The Music School, 10.00 am 5 Sale of Work 6 Coffee Concert, Beldam Hall, 11.15 am 8 Boys’ 1st XI v Charterhouse Informal Concert, Music School, 9.05 pm 11 National U11 IAPS Hockey Finals 12 Boys’ 1st XI v Millfield (a) Girls’ 1st XI v Worksop College Memorial Service for Donald Carr (OR), Chapel, 2.30pm OR Society AGM, 6.00 pm followed by OR Society Annual Dinner, Pears School, 7.30 pm 13 Remembrance Sunday: Morning Prayer 10.05 am 16 Concert Series: Pupils from Chethams’ School of Music,

The Beldam Hall, 7.45 pm 19 Girls’ 1st XI v Uppingham (a) 24 School Play: Great Expectations, 400 Hall, 7.30 pm 25 School Play: Great Expectations, 400 Hall, 7.30 pm 26 Boys’ 1st XI v Kimbolton Girls’ 1st XI v Oakham School Play: Great Expectations, 400 Hall, 7.30 pm DECMBER 2016 1 Informal Concert, Music School, 9.05 pm 2 Michaelmas Concert, Beldam Hall, 7.30 pm 3 Boys’ 1st XI v Shrewsbury (a) 4 Repton School Music Society: Mozart’s Requiem, Pears

School, 7.45 pm 11 Carol Service for Parents, Staff and Parish, 6.30 pm,

followed by reception in the 400 Hall Foyer 14 Christmas Bands Concert, Pears School, 7.30 pm 16 Term ends JANUARY 2017 9 Lent term begins FEBRUARY 2017 10 Half-term begins 19 Half-term ends MARCH 2017 9 Drinks In The City at The Landsdowne Club, London 24 Term ends, 1.00 pm APRIL 2017 18 Summer Term starts JUNE 2017 PROVISIONAL 10 Gaudy. Years to be invited are 1956-1963, 1987-1996 and Sixth Formers 1998, 1999, 2000

All dates and times are correct at time of going to print.

Please check the school web page. www.repton.org.uk

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Forthcoming Events Saturday, November 12th 2016 DONALD CARR (L’40) MEMORIAL SERVICE The Memorial Service for Donald Bryce Carr (L’40) OBE will be held at Repton School Chapel on Saturday, November 12th at 2.30 pm.

Please would you advise Jan Cobb by email jcobb@repton.org.uk or phone on 01283 559320 if you are planning to attend.

DRINKS IN THE CITY Thursday March 9th is the date for the 2017 Drinks in the City event. This is proving to be the most popular event in the OR calendar and we are going to a venue new to the OR Society; The Landsdowne Club, London. We are delighted to keep the prices the same as last year. For ORs and non-OR guests who left the school prior to 2017 the cost per ticket is £30.00. For ORs who left the School in 2007, or after, the ticket cost is £25.00.

You will be able to enjoy a free bar between 6.30 and 9.30 pm accompanied by delicious canapés.

Please see the enclosed booking form and sign up for what should be another wonderful evening.

ANNUAL DINNER & AGM The Annual General Meeting will start at 6.00 pm in The High Chamber. Spouses and Partners are once again warmly invited and they will be very welcome to relax in the Library whilst the AGM is in progress. Reception drinks will be served in The Library at 6.45 pm. We will then move to Pears School for dinner at 7.30 pm.

As many ORs will be attending the Memorial Service and staying in the village for the AGM and the dinner the dress code for men will be suits and not black tie as in previous years.

The cost of a ticket for the evening is £45.00 and includes pre-dinner drinks and a three-course meal with wine and port. For ORs who left the school within the last ten years the cost of the ticket is reduced by £10, therefore if you left the school in 2006 or after the cost is just £35.00.

If you would like to gather a group of your contemporaries to join you at the dinner and you need any help with contact details, please call the OR office on 01283 559320 or email jcobb@repton.org.uk.

AGM AGENDA 1. Welcome & Apologies 2. Approval of minutes from Annual General Meeting November 14th 2015 3. Matters Arising from meeting on November 14th 2015 4. President’s Report 5. Chairman’s Report

EAST ANGLIA LUNCH The next East Anglian regional lunch gathering is being planned for late April or early May 2017, subject to venue availability. ORs in the region should look out for further details by email later this year.

Nicholas Newton (H’75)

GAUDY The provisional date of the 2017 Gaudy is Saturday June 19th. Years to be invited are 1956-1963, 1987-1996 and Sixth formers 1998, 1999, 2000.

GERMAN OR REUNION Save the date: The next German OR reunion will take place on the 14th of October 2017 in Düsseldorf at the Steinberger Park Hotel.

VISITING THE SCHOOL We always welcome visits to the School by ORs. If you are planning to come please would you email to let us know. We will ask you to go into the Lodge where you will get a visitor badge. We are more than happy for ORs to come and have a look around the estate, but unfortunately not go into the Houses and classrooms.

6. Secretary’s Report 7. Treasurer’s Report 8. Future Events 9. Election of Officers 10. Any Other Business 11. Date of next AGM If you would like a group of your contemporaries to join you at any of these events and you need any help with contact details, please do not hesitate to call the OR office on 01283 559320 or email jcobb@repton.org.uk.

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OR News: Snippets Robert Cawdron (L’77) has been appointed Director of Investments at the British Business Bank plc (the UK’s economic development bank) building on his earlier career as a corporate finance lawyer and venture capital fund manager. He has responsibility for the Bank’s direct equity investment portfolio and is currently working on bringing the £250 million Midlands Engine Investment Fund to market.

Tom Chambers (N’90) is playing Bobby in Crazy For You. www.crazyforyoutour.com, having also appeared with George Rainsford (M’96) in Casualty.

Fiona Culley (A’99) has released her first single, On anywhere with you, which has been chosen to be the title track to a new film called ‘Life on the Line’, starring John Travolta, Sharon Stone, Devon Sawa and Kate Bosworth.

Charles Fry (H’53) has been elected Honorary Life Vice President and Chairman of MCC. Richard Harrison (H’92) has been awarded the Derbyshire Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 award.

Tom Hird (P’00) has a new series on ITV – Fishing Impossible.

Adam Maxwell (M’80) is now an Australian Citizen.

Tom Poynton (S’06) has retired from first class cricket due to an ankle injury. He has been awarded the ‘The Spirit of CricketDerbyshire Award’ for his contribution to DCCC both on and off the field.

Hamza Siddique (S’07), former Derbyshire batsman, is forging a new career as an actor and has appeared in the BBC series Doctors.

Jess Stewart (A’07) has created an online tool for those considering applying to study Law or Medicine at university. www.aheadmed.co.uk builds on A-level Science knowledge and gives users the chance to experience what it is like to be a doctor and www.aheadlaw.co.uk. introduces students to basic legal concepts and teaches them how to apply these to factual scenarios.

Anthony Turner (H’68) attended the Thomas Hardy Conference and Festival and read from Hardy’s work to members of the conference on the field as follows, Wessex Heights near Bulbassow and a passage from Tess of the d’Urbervilles at the ancient monument of Stonehenge. He also participated in country dancing on the lawn at Waterston Manor, the site of Bathsheba Everdene’s farm in Far from the Madding Crowd.

Births James Cobb (B’90) and Linda are delighted to announce the birth of Harry Elliot on May 12th 2016.

Alex Cockram (M’99) and Georgie (née Sheldon) (G’96) are delighted to announce the birth of their second child, Reuben Joseph Thomas Cockram on the 5th January 2016.

George Rainsford (M’96) and Jaimi are delighted to announce the birth of Zack on June 14th 2016, a brother for Kit.

Fiona Harold (née Harding) (A’93) and Tom are delighted to announce the birth of Oscar Peter Harold on May 9th 2016. Brother for Florence and Sebastian.

Ed Rhodes (N’95) and Vanessa (née Whatley) (A’99) are delighted to announce the birth of Alice Heather Whatley Rhodes on May 16th 2016.

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Weddings Katie Badger (G’96) married John Clother-Sinclair on September 12th 2015 at Chartwell Castle Johannesburg South Africa. ORs in attendance were Ollie Badger (O’99), Lucy Burns (née Chilton) (G’96), Jasmin Smith (G’99) and Bill Auden (O’72).

Matthew Hillier (S’99) married Katie Potts on July 16th 2016 at Cranstoun Church, Oxenfoord, Edinburgh. The reception was held at Oxenfoord Castle. Among the guests who attended were, from left to right, former staff Richard and Elaine Hillier, Owen Dacey (S’97), best man Edwin Hillier (S’02), Andrew Silvey (P’96) and former staff Adrian and Maggie Mylward.

James Kilby (N’04) married Celia Richard on May 28th 2016 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. ORs in attendance (from left to right in photo): Jack Williams (S’04), David Scarrett (P’04), Luke Lacey (C’07) (Usher), James Leavesley (N’04), James Kilby (N’04), Jack Golding (P’04), Alex Evans (N’04) (Best Man) and Alex Paget (P’07) (Usher).

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Emma Elizabeth Roberts (A’99) married John Micheal Greaves on August 1st 2015 in Repton School Chapel.

Their reception was held at Tissington Hall, Tissington, Ashbourne.

Old Reptonians and staff in attendance: from left to right: Tom Naylor (Housemaster of School House) and his wife Vicky, Alex Cockram (M’99),Henry Cooper (O’00), Nicholas Gardner (O’00), Richard Cooper (S‘98), Susan Wareham (G‘99), Jeremy Baker (O’98), Lucy Baker (G’94), Rosie Gardner (A‘00), Jack Kay (S’00), Will Bucknall (S’98), Ollie Badger (O’99), Jemma Dwyer (A’02), Tiffany Stephens (A‘99), Sam Gardner (N‘93), Clayton Penny (P’97), Euan Corbett (P’01), Nick Cashmore (P’98), Jessica Womersley (A’02), Charlotte Gardner (A’99), Amelia Gilman (F’02), Jodie Whitehead (F’02), Alexandra White (G’99), Emma (A’99), Edward Sloane (P’97), John Greaves (groom), Isabel Bucknall (A’99), Lydia Wilkinson (F’99), Fiona Culley (A’99) and Michael Roberts (S’95).

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Weddings

Charlotte Rowles (G’03) married James Stainforth on November 21st 2015 at Beverley minster, East Riding of Yorkshire. The reception was held at Rowley Manor, Cottingham, Yorkshire.

ORs in attendance were brothers Alex Rowles (P’03), Jonathan Rowles (P’07), Keeley Walker (G’00), Victoria Finn (G’97), Sarah Parker (F’02), Rachael Parker (F’03). Flowers were supplies by Chris Ablett (N’93) of Miss Elle’s Design Florist Ltd.

Rachel Whiteley (F’02) married Dan Storey in the Chapel at Mount St Mary’s College in Spinkhill, Sheffield on August 13th 2016.

ORs in attendance (l-r): Dan Townley (S’00), Thomas Whiteley (S’00), Emma Smith (F’02), Harriet Potter (Foremarke Hall), Suzie Chamberlain (A’02), Ashlie Caddick (G’05), Susie Gilbert (F’02), Sarah Blackwell (A’02), Rachel (F’02) (Bride), Dan (Groom), Sarah Fearns (F’01), Alasdair Fearns (P’05), Emily Fearns (F’03), Emma Greatrex (F’02), Anna Driver (F’02), Annie Smith (F’02), Archie Village (S’00), George Dunnicliff (S’00) and James Bishton (L’02).

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Death Notifications CROSS

ORCHARD

John Elphinston (C’38) on May 28th 2016.

John Thornley Newall (C’47) on April 25th 2016.

Raymond Berkeley Boddington (O’40) on May 5th 2015.

David Robert Kay (O’67) on August 26th 2016.

HALL

PRIORY

Robert Anthony (Robin) Horniman (H’49) on June 19th 2016.

Peter John Cooper (H’56) on April 22nd 2016.

Peter Richard Winter (P’39) in November 2015.

Thomas Hugh William Devas (P’49) on May 12th 2016.

Peter Kerry (P’49) on April 14th 2015.

LATHAM Gerald Brett Lanceley (L’49) on July 29th 2016.

Antony Francis Carline (L’52) on September 13th 2016.

Mark England (L’68) on April 24th 2016.

MITRE David Shennan Hume (M’48) on August 30th 2016.

Hugh William Waters (M’54) on June 9th 2014.

NEW Alan Jeffrey Carlisle King (N’63) on April 6th 2016.

Roger David Dickson (N’40) on May 4th 2016.

Roger’s daughter recalls: “My father’s experiences at Repton in 1942 and 1943 training with the RAF during the school holidays led to a life-time career attached to the aeronautical industry, followed in his retirement by involvement with Aerobility after he lost an arm in a road accident”.

FORMER STAFF W S Blackshaw, Staff 1955-1971. He was Master i/c Cricket and Head of the Modern Languages Department and Housemaster of the Orchard from 1966 - 1971. After leaving Repton he became Headmaster of Brighton College.

He died on 28th May 2016.

Hall ORs of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s will be sorry to hear that their matron, Joy Walford has died at the age of 93.

After leaving Repton, she went to Sherborne to keep house for her brother when he became a Housemaster. She was the aunt of the late Chris Walford (B’59) and Nick Walford (B’69).

John Walker (H’46)

Obituaries Donald Carr (L’40) J F M Walker (H’46) (Staff 1957-91) writes - There is no doubt that Donald Carr stands very high in the list of Repton’s great sportsmen. The Daily Telegraph obituary printed below rightly concentrates on his impressive career in cricket both as a player and administrator, but only briefly mentions the part he played in the success of Pegasus, the combined Oxford and Cambridge football club which so captured the public’s imagination in the early 1950s. I was lucky enough to be at Wembley on both occasions when they won the Amateur Cup in 1951 and 1953. The two finals were played before crowds of 100,000 and Donald played a key part in both games, scoring twice in the 6-0 defeat of Harwich and Parkestone in 1953. The correspondent of The Times described him as acting “as the perfect foil in keeping a swift attack flowing through the centre and down the flanks”.

Repton cricket was badly affected by the war. Travel difficulties and the suspension of many clubs meant a much smaller fixture list. There were only three Malvern matches in the six war years (including one at Blenheim and another at Harrow) as Malvern had been evacuated.

Donald was in the XI for three seasons and captain in 1944 when he scored 453 runs and took 35 wickets.

When The Cricketer Cup was started in 1967, Donald was the obvious choice to captain the Repton Pilgrims. Masterminded by brother David, the strongest available side was collected, which included no fewer than seven players other than Donald who had already or who would in the future play first class cricket. The Pilgrims won the final convincingly against Radley Rangers, who were captained by Ted Dexter.

This success owed much to Donald’s calm and experienced leadership.

Donald’s total of 19,257 runs in first-class cricket comes second only to C.B. Fry’s 30,886 among Repton cricketers, but his total of 500 catches is unchallenged.

Donald remained a loyal Reptonian all his life. He enjoyed playing in the Pilgrim Week if he was available; he missed a Derbyshire championship match to play for the Pilgrims in the quatercentenary game against the school in 1957 and he was a regular member of Arthur Dunn teams, appearing in three finals in 1947, 1957 and 1958. He was President of the OR Society in 1988, of The Pilgrims from 1979 to 1981 and of the OR Football Club from 1966 to 68. It was always a pleasure to see him at any Repton function, and no one meeting him could fail to be impressed by his modesty and natural charm.

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Obituaries Donald Carr (L’40)

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EXTRACTED FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Donald Carr, the cricketer, who has died aged 89, was an astute captain of Derbyshire, and in one Test led England; after retiring as a player in 1962 he continued to serve the game as an administrator.

His first-class career began in July 1945 when, only 18, he was invited to play for England (captained by Walter Hammond) at Lord’s in the third “Victory” Test against the Australian Services. Coming into bat after Keith Miller had uprooted the middle stump of Len Hutton, who had scored a century, the teenager was not unnaturally overawed, and soon had his own wicket shattered by Miller.

As a batsman Carr remained stronger on potential than achievement. He was, nevertheless, a fine player, stronger on the on-side than the off, preferring to play off the back rather than the front foot. He was particularly good against fast bowling, which he would hook, cut and pull with time to spare. His batting also profited from his quick running between the wickets. Right-handed at the crease, Carr bowled slow left-arm, sometimes with expensive, occasionally with deadly, effect. Beginning as a finger spinner, at Oxford, under the influence of Hafeez Kardar, he took to bowling chinamen and googlies. In addition he was one of the best close fielders of his era.

In 1951-52 Carr was vice-captain on MCC’s tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. He played in the first Test at Delhi, sharing in a five-hour partnership of 158 with Alan Watkins (Carr himself scored 76), which enabled England to escape with a draw. Yet, when Tom Graveney, who had been injured, returned for the next Test, it was Carr who had to step down, though his batting was immeasurably superior to that of the captain, Nigel Howard. Carr did not regain his place in the England side until the fifth Test at Madras in February 1952, when he took over the captaincy after Nigel Howard had been afflicted with pleurisy. King George VI died during the match. England went down by an innings and eight runs, enabling Carr to boast that he was the only England captain to lose a Test against India. Ted Dexter relieved him of this distinction in January 1962.

Carr had a still more testing experience of leadership when he captained MCC’s “A” team in Pakistan in 1955-56. It was no disgrace to lose the unofficial Tests by a margin of 1-2; and the tour was generally happy. During the third “Test” at Peshawar, however, the players’ high jinks got out of hand when Idris Baig, an umpire who had given several decisions which the England players regarded as misjudged, was soaked during a prank in a hotel. At first Baig seemed to take the incident in good part; he had, after all, for some weeks been been enjoying a running joke with English players about the water treatment. But Hafeez Kardar, the Pakistan captain, decided to be mortally offended.

Carr had been in the Oxford University side with Kardar in 1949. Earlier in the tour, however, he had upset his opposite number by telling a joke about the way Kardar’s university nickname, the Mystic of the East, had been mistranslated as the Mistake of the East. Now the Pakistani captain treated the hydration of Baig as an insult to the pride of Pakistan. At Lord’s, Lord Alexander of Tunis, President of MCC, offered to cancel the tour. In the upshot MCC issued a statement placing full responsibility for the incident on Carr, which in any case he had already gallantly accepted.

By his own admission, Carr had been party to the jape, along (as he divulged 45 years later) with Brian Close and Roy Swetman. He did, however, have the comfort of Michael Melford’s reflection in The Daily Telegraph, that “his reputation as captain is such that he is better fitted than most to bear the blame.”

Carr captained Derbyshire from 1955 to 1962, and except in 1956 the county always finished in the top half of the table, the best achievement being fourth in 1957. While captain Carr was paid £850 a year as Assistant Secretary of Derbyshire, a salary that led to queries about his amateur status. An MCC committee, however, found that his duties as Assistant Secretary were genuine and upheld his amateur standing. The distinction between amateurs and professionals was abolished in 1962.

Conditions at the Chesterfield ground in the 1950s were spartan. Yet neither the peeling paint nor the inadequate changing facilities – nor even the prospect of facing Les Jackson on a green wicket – prevented visiting teams from enjoying the hospitality of Derbyshire under Carr, who was always played the game in the best spirit.

Morale among the Derbyshire players was high. Yet they knew who was in charge. Carr retained a certain military edge, and could be severe on whatever he perceived as sloppiness. The habit of command was in-bred.

Donald Bryce Carr was born on December 28 1926 at Wiesbaden in Germany, where his father John Carr was stationed as a regular officer in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. John Carr had played cricket for the Army and Berkshire, as well as soccer for Oxford, and hockey for the Army. Not merely Donald, but both his elder brothers, would be keen sportsmen.

Early in 1927 the family moved on to a posting in India. In 1931, however, Mrs Carr and the children returned to live in the New Forest area of Hampshire, while John Carr remained in India. So Donald began to watch Hampshire at Bournemouth. He remembered in particular a match against Essex, when, still a small boy, he was jostled to the back of the queue in the hunt for the autograph of Kenneth Farnes, then the fastest bowler in England. Farnes noticed the boy’s disappointment, and invited him into the pavilion where he was able to obtain the autographs of all the Essex players, who also treated him to an orange squash at the bar, and bought him a box of chocolates.

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In 1936 John Carr retired from the Army as Lieutenant-Colonel, and took up the post of Bursar at Repton, at once ensuring the education of his boys at the school, and inaugurating the family connection with Derbyshire. Coached by the former county professional Garnet Lee, Donald won a place in the Repton XI at 15, and captained the side in 1944.

That summer at Lord’s he led The Rest to victory against Lord’s Schools, and then played for the Public Schools against a Lord’s XI. During the latter match a flying bomb fell less than 200 yards from the playing area, so that soil fell on the pitch.“The break in the game lasted little more than half a minute,” Wisden reported, “and the spectators, some of whom had thrown themselves flat under seats for protection, showed their appreciation of the boys’ pluck with hearty hand claps.”

Donald Carr left Repton in December 1944 and joined the Army on New Year’s Day 1945. In February 1946 he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment. That summer he played for the Combined Services, and made his debut for Derbyshire against Kent at Chesterfield. Though out for a duck, he had the satisfaction of claiming the wicket of Leslie Ames.

In 1947 Carr was away with his regiment in Burma. Whether or not it was because he missed his cricket, he decided to leave the Army and take up a place at Worcester College, Oxford, in April 1948.

He failed to win his Blue that summer, but blossomed in 1949, when he scored 821 runs for the University. Oxford went to Lord’s as favourites, only to disappoint. Though it seemed for a time on the third day that a stand between Carr and Clive Van Ryneveld might stave off a Cambridge victory, Carr’s run-out proved a crucial turning point.

As captain of Oxford in 1950, Carr inspired a happy team. As a batsman he did even better than in the previous year, while his side, with some help from the rain, managed a draw against what was then an exceptionally powerful Cambridge XI. “His bowling alternated between the expensive and the deadly” Indeed, while Carr was hitting a forceful 55 in Oxford’s second innings it momentarily seemed that victory might be on the cards. He also had the satisfaction of dismissing David Sheppard (then on 93) with a googly. His bowling alternated between the expensive and the deadly. “The fact that Carr was able to take 6-39 does not speak highly of the Lancashire batting,” wrote one critic in 1950.

In 1951 Carr helped to win the Varsity Match with innings of 34 and 50. He also won a soccer Blue at Oxford, and in 1951 and 1953 was a member of the Pegasus teams which won the Amateur Cup Final at Wembley.

Carr’s early batting for Derbyshire was disappointing. From 1955, however, he exceeded 1,000 runs in every season save 1956. His best year was 1959 when he became the first Derbyshire player to score more than 2,000 runs for the county in a season (his total was 2,092 @ 49.80). In 1960 he was chosen as one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year.

When Carr retired from county cricket in 1963, he had played 446 first-class matches and scored 19,257 runs (including 24 centuries) at an average of 28.61. He had also taken 328 wickets at 34.74 apiece, and held 500 catches. In his two Tests he made 135 runs @ 33.95 and took two wickets for 140.

Unlike many former county players, Carr was keen to carry on playing in club cricket, turning out for Radlett in Hertfordshire, where he lived, well into his 50s.

Carr managed MCC’s tours to South Africa in 1964-65, to India and Pakistan in 1972-73, and to the West Indies in 1974. From 1962 to 1974 he was assistant secretary of MCC, and from 1973 to 1986 Secretary of the Cricket Council and the Test and County Cricket Board.

He proved as popular in administration as he had as a player.

Between 1991 and 1994 he was referee at nine Tests and 19 one-day internationals.

Donald Carr was appointed OBE in 1985.

He married, in 1953, Stella Alice Vaughan Simpkinson; they had a son and a daughter. Their son, John Donald Carr, born in 1963, was a considerable batsman for Middlesex.

Donald Carr, born December 28th 1926, died June 12th 2016.

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Obituaries Brigadier Robert Wallace Strachan Hall (O’52) Robert Hall was born on the 4th June 1939. He entered The Orchard in September 1952. During his time at Repton he was in the swimming and basketball teams. He got his 2nd XI hockey colours, and became Head of House. At the 1957 celebrations Robert escorted The Queen to the 400 Hall. It is no surprise that Robert elected to follow in his Father’s footsteps on leaving Repton and immediately went to Sandhurst where he passed out fifth in 1959 and was commissioned into The Royal Artillery like his Father. He quickly made his number as a first class officer and was rewarded with a posting to 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. He had a variety of postings including being an instructor at Mons Officer Cadet School and MA at a NATO HQ. He was delighted when he was selected for an M Phil degree course at Magdelen College Cambridge in 1986. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies and his last posting was as a Brigadier in Arms Control in the MOD. He retired from the army in March 1993.

November 2006. He had become interested in politics around this time and was elected county councillor in 2005; he went on to become Chairman of Wiltshire Council, a position he filled until 2012. He also took over the responsibility of Chairman of the Wiltshire Fire Authority! He eventually retired from politics and public life in 2013, settling down to a well earned rest in Manningford Abbots in Wiltshire.

He was selected as Commander of St John Ambulance for Wiltshire on 24th June 2000 and was appointed to the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem as a Serving Brother in

Robert died following an accident in his home on 17th June 2016.

His hobbies included horse racing and his other interests included shooting, swimming, theatre, bridge and international relations.

Robert married Jenny in 1965 and they had a son and daughter, but sadly Jenny died from cancer in 1988. He married Lorna in 1990 who had a son and daughter by her first marriage.

He was a great husband, father, and step-father and a man of great integrity and intensely loyal to his friends. He was excellent company and a proven raconteur.

John Cann (O’49)

Ian Russell (N’53) (4th August 1939 - 26th April 2016).

Ian had a long and successful career within the hotel industry, with postings to France, Bermuda, Jamaica and Canada as hotel manager, then returning to London to manage a number of top-class hotel catering establishments, including Crockfords in Mayfair, before leaving to run his own hotel in Norfolk for a number of years. He then moved out of the hotel industry and worked within a number of organisations including Tyco and Marshalls in Cambridgeshire, which were within easy reach for his home in Royston.

He was twice married and divorced, he has four children, two of whom have settled in Australia, and now seven grandchildren, all below the age of 10.

The picture, right, is of the Queen at the 400th anniversary of the school. Ian is second on the right.

Simon Campbell (Nephew)

David Bingham Matthews (H’57) David was always exceptionally proud of being an Old Reptonian, and frequently talked about life in the Hall, the Grubber, and on the sports fields of Repton. His favourite story was about his time in the Repton fire service, and how on the one occasion when they were called to action, they caused far more damage with their hoses than the fire did. He followed his father, Gordon Matthews (H’22) to Repton, and enrolled Montague (H’90) at the age of six months to ensure the continuation of a family tradition. All three had the school number H50.

After Repton, David studied architecture at Kingston College, before marrying Diana (née Pattinson) and moving to Windermere, Cumbria, where he lived the rest of his life. He designed a number of significant buildings throughout his career, including the Windermere Steamboat Museum, almshouses, a number of churches, and many private houses. David also helped run the family building business and charities, which followed the principle of local business and institution’s serving the local community.

He played a key role in founding and running the Windermere Steamboat Museum, and developed a competent knowledge of boats, and oversaw the restoration of some historically important museum pieces.

David was always very affable and sociable, and had an instinct for bringing people together. He played a leading role in many local clubs and groups, and served as chairman of such organisations as the local Conservative Association and the Cumbria Gardens Trust. David also exercised his passion for public speaking by research, and gave historical talks to community groups in the UK as well as abroad. He was a keen wood turner with the result that many of his buildings bore examples of his woodturning skills.

David died on 17th February 2016 and is survived by his wife Diana, daughter Rachael and son Monty (H’90).

Monty Matthews (H’90)

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OR Events Gaudy Years: Pre 1955, 1964-1971, 1997-2002 and Sixth Formers 1972,1973, 1974, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

The 2015 Gaudy dawned bright and reasonably warm, enabling the 120 or so guests to gather in the beautiful surroundings of the Garth for the pre-lunch Drinks Reception, accompanied by an excellent jazz group of current pupils. After a delicious buffet in Pears School, during which guests were addressed for the first time by the Headmaster, Alastair Land, a good number of guests took advantage of tours of the School and the Boarding Houses, given by pupils, followed by tea for those who still had room. Others, meanwhile, took themselves to boundary’s edge on the Square to enjoy the 1st XI’s fixture against Nottingham High School, or took the opportunity to close their eyes for a contemplative few moments in the warm sunshine. It was lovely to see such a range of ORs present, with the oldest having entered the School in 1940 and the youngest in 2002. It seemed to be a day greatly enjoyed by all, and, as ever, it was a great pleasure to welcome them back.

NJK

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OR Reunions The Cross – Mini Reunion in Dorset, June 2016 After more than sixty years, three of us from The Cross still meet on an annual basis – Pat Vaughan (C’52), Mike Potts (C’55) and myself Gerard Wyllys (C’52). We last met in June at a pub in Dorset. I am wearing my Repton Blazer, still intact after sixty years, and indicating this on a photo of The Cross Winners Senior Cricket Cup 1956, below.

The names on the photograph are:MB Tetley (C’53), DCM Vaughan (C’52), WG Wyllys (C’57), REC Rayner (C’52), AMC Jenkins (C’51), PWS Rowland (C’55).

PJ Darley (C’51), AWS Robinson (C’51), PH Vaughan (C’52) (Captain), JRH Sale (C’50), TCH Sale (C’53).

Hong Kong OR Celebrations of Achievment in the Rio Olympiad Richard Kan (C’66) hosted a dinner gathering in Hong Kong on Saturday, 10th September, to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the several ORs who participated in the Rio Olympiad. Richard says: “Apart from the medalists Georgie Twigg (F’03), Shona McCallin (A’08) and Charlotte Stapenhorst (A’11), Mel Marshall (current Repton staff) should be applauded for nurturing the amazing Adam Peaty who broke the world record in the 100 metre breast-stroke event”.

Left to right – Simon Yip (H’ L-Z ‘73), Mrs Angelina Tam, Robert Tam (L’70), Umberto Bombana, master chef at the Otto e Mezzo where the dinner took place, Richard Kan (C’66), Eddie Niem (L’66) and Desmond Cheung (N’70).

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Left to right – Desmond Cheung (N’70), Eddie Niem (L’66), Richard Kan (C’66), Simon Yip (H’ L-Z ‘73) and Robert Tam (L’70).

Repton Mallorca Music Reunion An impromptu OR music lunch was organised in May on the island of Mallorca.

Nick & Trina Firth (former Repton staff), Jonny Greenall (O’89), Steven Greenall (C’87), Kate Greenall (née Rogers) (G’96) and Pat Salter & Michael Salter (former staff).

60th Birthday Reunion Jon Luddy (N’71) has recently celebrated his 60th birthday. ORs helping him are (L to R): Ian Bench (B71), Dave Taylor (L’71), Jon Luddy, Guyon Ralphs (H71), Frank Russell (O’69), Jeremy Ogden (P’71), Rich Wood (H’71), Nick Smith (B’69). (Front): Jerry Frost (P’76) and Michelle Frost (née Ferneyhough) (A’79).

Presidents’ Boards The OR society would like to thank Robert Bond (P’68) for his very generous donation to the Presidents’ Boards. They are now hanging in the Common Room in The Old Priory.

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A Snapshot of the Rio Olympics Our Five Olympians recall their experiences Joie –“Looking back on Rio it was an amazing and unique experience I’ll never forget.

This was my first time at an Olympics and experiencing all the things people talk about from just casually walking past famous sports people, to the size of the dining hall, to what it’s like being in the bubble of the village, to all the kit you get, to the special feeling you get of being part of and among a bigger Team GB. The Olympics definitely had a different feel to any other tournament I’d been to and you experience such a mix of emotions from day to day, week to week... it was all so exciting and such an honour and achievement to be there, but it was also a serious emotional roller coaster and battle at times too. Despite knowing you are at the Olympics, we were very aware it was just

Shona –“ If I’d have made a wish before we went out to Rio about what I wanted to happen it would have been the following: Win all 8 games, meet the Netherlands in the final, and beat them 5-0.

Very close to what actually happened! I’m still in dreamland. It’s crazy to look back at how well it went for us. For me it was all about the whole team.

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another hockey tournament, and as a team we very much tried to look at it and keep it that way. We went in very prepared, very together, the whole squad’s (of 31) four years of hard work, virtually everything covered....and the team executed. Gold. It was an unbelievable feeling, and a night I will never forget. It was just a dream tournament for us, from the first game to the last, and I am so proud to have been part of it, experiencing everything... the highs are definitely worth all the tough moments! It is also truly amazing to see how the nation took to that final, what the impact the gold medal has had more widely with people getting back into our sport, taking note of our sport and being excited and interested in it. That experience, of knowing my part and everyone involved in our team’s part, in creating that impact is what will stay with me beyond the experience of being in Rio alone.”

Joie Leigh (G’09)

The whole team pulling together, bringing what we needed to to the pitch, executing tactics down to a ‘T’ and leaving absolutely nothing on the pitch.

It’s not really sunk in yet, it’s starting to though. Hockey is now very much out there and now finally a ‘cool’ sport. That’s the biggest winner for me. Yes, the medal is amazing, but what is truly incredible is the fact we moved the 10pm News on BBC1, had nine million people watching our game and the nation now knows what the game of hockey is all about; having fun, running hard, enjoying yourselves, showcasing skills and most of all it’s an exciting game!”

Shona McCallin (A’08)

Georgie –“Wow, what a fantastic experience! We could never have believed things could have gone quite as well as they did going into the tournament.

We really were in a complete bubble whilst out there, and I think that was a good thing considering how many people ended up watching the final! In total we were out in Rio for a month, having got out there early to settle in

and then a few days at the end to celebrate! Team GB looked after us so well - they kitted out our apartments to make them feel more homely; they’d taken over the British School for recovery days (and better food!); we had a physio, medical and stretching area for just GB athletes and many more things. It was brilliant that nearly everyone had family and friends out in Rio supporting, and it meant when we won that gold we could celebrate with them, especially as they’d all played a huge part in our journeys to get there. Words can’t describe how special it was receiving our medals and standing on the podium singing the national anthem. I don’t think it’s properly sunk in yet and I’m not sure it will for a while.”

Ellie –“For me Rio, 2016 was a little bitter sweet. To have had the experience of going to an Olympic Games is something that I never thought I would achieve, but to be so close to winning an Olympic gold medal and not actually receiving one along with the rest of the girls was frustrating to say the least. Going to the Olympic games as a

reserve athlete meant that I got to experience the fantastic Olympic environment, meet all of the famous faces in the Olympic village and enjoy some great events like attending the opening ceremony, but I didn’t actually get to step out and play hockey with the rest of the girls; instead I was watching from the stands with butterflies in my stomach and sweaty palms, willing the girls to win each game.

Charlotte - I didn’t think I would get there in the first place!!! Olympic games, a dream come true! When we first got to the village, I couldn’t stop marvelling at it. Everything was so big and there were so many other athletes. Three weeks living, eating, and spending a lot of time with athletes from all over the world; whether it was Nadal, Djokovic, Usain Bolt or a no-name athlete from Germany (me), everyone had the same mission, winning a medal for their country.

all for nothing?! So we had to decide; obviously the answer was easy, let’s win this! We won, and now we are so close to this medal that no one even dared to dream about. We played a really good semi final against the Dutch team; unluckily we lost in the penalty shoot out. That loss was really hard; we were so close to winning this match. Well the hockey god wasn’t with us, so we had to get back up, refuel and win the most important match in our whole careers, the Bronze medal match. Easy peasy.

Georgie Twigg (F’03)

To say that I have been part of an Olympic gold medal winning squad is amazing, but not quite making the final 16 man squad has spurred me on, and I will be doing everything I can to get my name on the team sheet for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.”

Ellie Watton (M’05)

BRONZE medal, wow who would have thought that.

Living in the Olympic village for three weeks with such an amazing team, traveling around Rio to the stadium, and people cheering for us, even when you lose, that has been the greatest time of my life. I am really thankful to everyone who has been a part of my journey and made this win even possible.

Charlotte Stapenhorst (A’11)

On the day of the quarter final everyone was so nervous. In or out, do or die!!! You either go in to the semi-final of the Olympics and get so close to a medal or you lose! Four years of hard work,

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OR Publications Nick Campion (N’86) has written up a short interview with former team mate Jon Batty (L’90) in the All Out Cricket magazine Jon Batty, a former client of our resident psychologist Amanda Owens, shares his experiences of sports psych.

THE PRO PLAYER’S VIEW I realised that doing something for a living when it used to be just for pleasure changes everything.” So says former keeper-batsman Jon Batty, who retired three years ago with a 19-year county career behind him, including over 13,000 runs and 992 dismissals across all formats. It was a couple of years after he became a regular for Surrey that Batty realised he wasn’t enjoying the game as he used to, and was not performing as well as he wished.

“I had always loved cricket but it had always been my escape.

Now it was my job. My livelihood depended on my performances – and they were suffering.”

So in the year 2000, Batty found our resident Psych Club expert, Amanda Owens.

“I got some stick from the dressing room at the start because almost no one else was doing this back then – well, no one in cricket. Other sports where it was all about the individual – golf and tennis for example – had embraced the idea years ago and many of the most successful players swore by it.

“Initially it was all about relaxation, visualisation and working out what my ideal performance states were – and how to reach them.

We looked at what I was doing, both physically and emotionally, when I played well rather than the usual thing players do, which is to pore over their poor performances.

Jon Batty was an early adopter of sports psychology in cricket.

“I also really focused on how to switch off, both outside of the game and during it. You’d think that being an opening batsman and keeper, which I was during my most productive years, would

be difficult in terms of concentration and fatigue, but I found it far more tiring to bat at No.7 and live every single ball for maybe 300 runs until I needed to go in. With opening, I’d be straight back into the zone. I worked on my fitness to ensure I could do it physically and on my ability to switch off between deliveries so I could do it mentally.”

Batty, along with Amanda, developed a visualisation that he used before and sometimes during games that combined relaxation with recall of some of his best performances and shots. He used this to put him in the right mood for the match. As if to demonstrate just how important it was, he takes out his phone and within seconds is holding it up: ‘Visualisation’ it says on his phone. It’s 20 minutes of Amanda talking him through his pregame visualisation routine.

Batty is a man who has thought a lot about his game and how to make the best of what he has. It goes without saying that as well as a lot of thinking, he’s also done an awful lot of practising and become as fit as he could be. He went into every challenge knowing that he had prepared for it as best he could. So what did sports psychology add on top of that?

“It brought self-awareness, which allowed me to improve my game. It gave me confidence, and with confidence comes calmness, and with calmness comes the clarity that allows you to play your best, most instinctively, and without overthinking.”

Batty had his most successful period after adopting Amanda’s techniques. He is a fairly unassuming pioneer but he led the way in making sports psychology an acceptable weapon in the pro cricketer’s armoury. He certainly has no regrets: “It just seems so obvious to me,” he says. “Players practise for hours and hours on end but in cricket it’s the space between the ears that matters most. I continued to see Amanda right up to my retirement and I’m sure I wouldn’t have had the career I had without her.”

Branches of the Society OR Ladies Football Calling all girls who formerly played football at Repton!

In an effort to broaden the OR sports societies for females, we are working to establish the girls’ wing of the OR Football Society. In the first instance, this will involve a fixture against, or combined with, current Repton footballers early in the Lent Term. The provisional date is Saturday 14th January 2017, which should be before university terms start again.

teams currently at Repton have been going from strength to strength, even reaching the National ISFA Final in the 2015/16 season. It would be wonderful to celebrate all that has been achieved by Repton teams by bringing together the old and the new and hopefully set up a permanent date in the OR calendar as we move forward. We hope that a meal, or at least drinks, will be on offer afterwards for the ORs. Mary Hunter (G’11)

It will provide the perfect opportunity not only to socialise with some old team mates, but also to visit Repton again. The girls’

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If you are interested, call the OR office on 01283 559320 or email jcobb@repton.org.uk.

Branches of the Society Pilgrims 2016 has been (aside from the Cricketer Cup campaign) a very successful year both on and off the pitch. We enjoyed a wellattended dinner at the East India Club in February which saw many new faces.

The match managers are already looking for players for next year’s Cricketer Cup and Pilgrims Week fixtures, please contact Ed Sloane (edward@homelifedirect.co.uk) or Jim Blackwell (bsjwb1@hotmail.com) if you are interested in being selected.

The Cricket Week was over subscribed for the first time in over 10 years. The committee are now considering adding more fixtures for 2017/18 which is a great indication that the club is moving in the right direction.

The Pilgrims are also updating its contact database, so please email Jim if you would like your email address adding to any Pilgrims communications.

A comfortable victory in the opening round of the Cricketer Cup against Old Amplefordians by a strong Pilgrims side unfortunately gave false promise. Due to two rained off fixtures Chris Paget was forced to select four sides in four weeks. The last of these was an away fixture at Malvern that coincided with the first weekend of club cricketers’ County Cups. Thanks to those that did make yourselves available for any of the four weekends.

Next year’s fixture cards will NOT be posted out. However, the fixtures will be communicated by email and published in The Arch magazine.

There will be a committee meeting at Repton on Saturday 12th November.

J Blackwell (P’00) Performances

Date

Location

Opposition

Result

Scores

12th June

Repton Cricketer Cup 1st Rd

Old Amplefordians

Pilgrims won by 34 runs

Pilgrims 197-8 OA 163

3rd July

Malvern Cricketer Cup 2nd Rd

Old Malvernians

OM won by 8 wickets

Pilgrims 82 OM 83-2

6th July

Repton Pilgrims Week

Abbots Bromley CC

Pilgrims won by 1 wicket

ABCC 240-4 Pilgrims 242-9

M Wood 2-20 C Wall 56 J Wilkins 51

7th July

Repton Pilgrims Week

Lincs Gents

Pilgrims won by 3 wickets

Gents 195 Pilgrims 199-7

Oppenheimer 55

8th July

Repton Pilgrims Week

Staffs Gents

Match drawn

Pilgrims 273-9 Gents 207-6

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Football Another fantastic OR football day on September 3rd. The ORs were able to field five teams, with around 70 ORs descending on the school for a successful weekend of football. The unusual setting of dark clouds and heavy rain in the morning greased up the hallowed turf at Repton for the ORs to strut their stuff and roll back the years against the exuberant, youthful school sides.

1st XI The stage was set for a fantastic contest on the famous slick Square surface. The ORs had one of their strongest sides available in recent years and were able to hand debuts to recent leavers Jamie Slack (C’14), Dan Hudson (O’11) and Marcus Clague (C’12). They all contributed to a great win and added immense quality to the roles allocated to them. In a first half of few chances the ORs found themselves trailing 1-0 at half-time due to an uncharacteristic goalkeeping error. As a result the ORs had some choice words for each other and came out fighting on the front foot from the beginning of the second half and turned the balance in their favour. The ORs were moving the ball quicker and with more penetration with Alex Evans (N’04) and Simon Duggan (O’00) pulling the strings in midfield to release the pacey wingers Clague, Samra (N’02) and Clarke-Dowson (P’06). The team got their rewards for their endeavour through two headed goals securing victory. Towards the end the ORs had chances to get a third and fourth but were resolute in their defending and

saw the game out to record a first win in over three years against the school. Goals from Luke Duggan (O’05) and Mike Watson (P’04) saw the ORs home.

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Branches of the Society Football continued 2nd XI From putting the 2nd XI together on paper, the team was one of the strongest OR 2nd XI sides I’ve seen for a while and could have easily been a second 1st XI side any other year. This was reflected by the score line with an emphatic 8-0 win for the 2nd XI. Special mentions to Callum McIntosh (P’06) and Chris Carlile (L’01) both securing hat-tricks for themselves in the win.

3rd XI A more competitive game, it seems, under the stewardship of Repton’s very own “Roy of the Rovers” James Kilby (N’04). The self-proclaimed “fox in the box” sadly had an off-day and wasn’t able to get on the scoresheet, ruining many Accumulator bets up and down the country. However, the ORs were able to get the job done in the end with a convincing 5-3 victory.

A very competitive game down on Chapel Hall kept the fans happy (three spectators and a dog) throughout.

Summary: 1st XI- 2-1 win 3rd XI - 5-3 win

2nd XI - 8-0 win Vets vs OR 4th XI - 4-3 win

OR VETERANS & OR 4th XI On Lower Tower the OR Veterans played the OR 4th XI in a cracking game. The Vets (average age 45) feared the worst after the 4ths (average age 22) scored their first goal after two minutes and with a second following only five minutes later. The first resulted from a long-range speculative shot deceiving Nathan Corden (H’86) in the Vets’ goal and bouncing back off the post to be slotted home from close range, whilst the second saw the 4ths pass the ball neatly between Richard Darby (H’81) and Charlie Divall (O’86) in the Vets’ defence before shooting low past Corden.

Despite this setback the Vets soon found the best way to progress was to give the ball to Rick Basnett (O’86) with Joey Ascott (C’85) doing just that to play him in for the first of three superb

goals. The 4ths scored their third following a foul by Craig “I didn’t touch him” Sanders (N’85) before two further Basnett goals (the second a fantastic lob) and one from Simon Oborn (O’89) saw the Vets end the first half with a surprising 4-3 lead.

The second-half was somewhat less frenetic as the Vets relied on experience to cover their slowing legs. Nick Sreevalsan (H’85) marshalled the defence superbly with Pete Ascott proving an excellent stand-in left-back. In midfield, Rob Bishton (C’84) and Jonathan Scutt (H’82) covered a huge amount of ground whilst John Lake (B’79) provided the support up-front, setting up two of the goals. The end of the 90 minutes saw a much-relieved Vets team reflect on what was one of the best matches they’d been involved in over the previous 25yrs+ of playing OR football.

Simon Oborn (O’89) Overall another fantastic day for the ORs and it was great to see so many players coming back. No other sport has as much popularity with the days put on against the school and the OR football remains a huge connection for the OR society as a whole when we leave the school.

A great day to see old faces, catch up with teachers and show the young “whippersnappers” there’s life in the Old Dogs yet…

If anyone is interested in playing for the ORs and would like to enquire further, please email captain@oldreptonianfc.com Alex Evans (N’04)

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Football: Arthur Dunn Cup 1st ROUND The ORs were drawn at home to Old Wellingtonians in the Dunn Cup 1st round. However, after Old Wellingtonians were unwilling to make the trip up the M1 to the school, the fixture was called off with the Old Reptonians being given a win and a walkover into the next round.

2nd ROUND With a place in the quarter finals at stake the ORs made the trip to Bradfield School on a mild Saturday morning. The ORs started the game very impressively, looking extremely dangerous when on the attack. Within the first five minutes the tone was set after some hefty challenges from the Bradfield centre back, most notably on Matt Gooderick (C’92), and he wasn’t shown a card of any colour. Simon Duggan (O’00) gave the opposition some of their own medicine with a trademark slide tackle which resulted in a large coming together from both sets of players before the ref restored order.

The ORs took the lead in rather fortuitous circumstances when Gooderick’s cross was helped in by the wind. 1-0 to Old Reptonians. However, the lead was short lived. The hosts replied with two goals before the break, one from open play, the other from a conceded penalty that Oli West (P’10) managed to save but the taker was able to pounce on the rebound and volley home.

The ORs had lost control of the game after the first fifteen minutes but started the second half with intent. As he has done so many times before, Gooderick, scored a goal from nothing to get the ORs firing again. Alex Evans (N’04) had been quiet in the first half by his standards, but he was finding much more joy after the break. His delivery had been excellent from corners and when a free kick was awarded to the ORs he stepped up, lifting the ball over the wall and beating the keeper from 30 yards. 3-2 to Old Reptonians.

Bradfieldians fought back to level the scores with 20 minutes to go. The ORs called upon Gooderick once again to grab his hat-trick and ultimately the winning goal. 4-3 win, ORs through to the QF.

QUARTER FINAL The ORs made it into the semi finals for the second year running with a gritty 1-0 win against a combative and experienced Old Haileyburian side. With a few players unavailable, most notably Matt Gooderick, whose last round hat-trick saw off Bradfieldians, and a couple of players not at full strength due to injuries and illnesses, this wasn’t going to be a walk in the park.

The first 20 minutes were very hectic, neither team playing any real football, compounded by the rather poor 3G turf. The ORs finally managed to knock the ball about for a few minutes, overloading the opposition on the right flank allowing Nicky Samra (N’02) to nod over a defender and find Al Evans unmarked on the penalty spot. Evans, however, fluffed his shot into the ground and watch it bounce into the keeper’s arms.

Haileyburians tried to play the long ball up front; despite their best efforts they couldn’t get round, over or through the man mountain of Andy Evans (N’06) at the heart of the OR defence. The only goal of the game came from Nicky Samra and Alex Evans linking up for the second time in the game. Both had been below their best all afternoon but it was Nicky Samra’s harassing that managed to rob the dilly-dallying defender and poke the ball into Evans’ path. Evans’ shot flicked off the defender’s head past the keeper.

The last three minutes did call for some last-ditch defending but again, the back five were able to manage the situation. Whilst it was not a glamorous performance (it probably would have been

last on MOTD!) it was a great result from a side that now have three clean sheets on the bounce and have become very hard to beat.

SEMI-FINAL The ORs were drawn against Old Tonbridgians on the famous Square. We hadn’t played them since they were promoted to the Premier Division a couple of years back. The last two fixtures against Tonbridgians finished 1-0 to them, which included the infamous 2012 Arthur Dunn Cup Final, which saw them awarded a late penalty to clinch the trophy in very dubious circumstances, and a game that finished with the ORs down to nine men due to poor discipline.

The ORs had assembled a strong squad, with a good mix of youth and experience. Five of the squad remained from the 2012 final team whilst six were in their debut season. They knew it would be a tough battle, with an emphasis on containing the opposition’s captain and tricky winger.

It was hard work for the ORs who had to keep their energy levels high to make sure they didn’t lose their shape against the wellorganised Old Tonbridgians. The visitors had a good spell of five minutes keeping the ball well around the ORs box and finally managed to slip a pass through and turn the OR defence. The Tonbridgian striker fizzed a hopeful cross across the six-yard box.

Despite Alex Urwin’s (L’13)best efforts to clear the ball it ended up in the back of the net.

The ORs reacted well and began to get the ball wide and hit the channels. Their closest effort came when James Bishton (L’02) broke down the left and pulled the ball back initially for Matt Gooderick who left it for the oncoming Nicky Samra. His left foot curling effort from the edge of the box crashed against the bar with the keeper well beaten. Gooderick flashed a shot wide whilst his cross was an inch away from Duggan’s toe.

The ORs changed things in the second half to introduce Luke Duggan (O’05), who was recovering from a bad injury he picked up in an earlier round. This gave the ORs more options up top and they certainly posed more of a threat. Neither side created any real clear cut chances, but it was the ORs who looked in control in the final 20 minutes. Tonbridgians defended resolutely and looked like they may nick a goal on the counter, but Oli West was at his best to keep them out, smothering a one-on-one easily.

The ORs had a couple of half chances to level the scores. The final few minutes would have been nervy times for the visitors but it just never looked like going in for the ORs and sadly it was not meant to be.

Overall it was a closely fought game in which both team’s gave away few chances. Tonbridgians played lovely football and at a tempo that only a Premier Division side can; their energy and fitness did cause problems. It is disappointing not to have made the final but we stuck to our game plan, made things difficult for them and had a bad piece of luck. We may not have deserved to win the game but we certainly didn’t deserve to lose it.

SUMMARY: For the second year running the ORs reached the semi-final losing out to eventual winners Old Tonbridgians to end a successful league campaign and another strong cup run. The ORs can take comfort from beating the subsequent Cup Champions however.

The boys are more determined than ever to go that one step further and reach the final to contest for the Silverware.

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Branches of the Society Golf O.R.G.S. v O.R.F.C. 4 September 2016 LITTLE ASTON G.C. Having flexed their thigh muscles on the pitch on Saturday afternoon and clearly over-flexed their drinking muscles in a variety of Derby watering holes on Saturday night, nine footballers arrived to play at Little Aston on Sunday morning; the day after OR football day.

After coffee and bacon rolls, some colour started to return to the cheeks of the over-indulgers and a refresher course on the putting green seemed to be galvanising thoughts of a good walk being beneficial prior to the drive back to London.

In the spirit of House yard football we picked teams. To split up the two Leavesleys, James Jnr. was appointed captain of the ORGS and James Snr. captain of the ORFC. We then played an individual Stableford with the cumulative scores of each team member counting towards the total.

James Leavesley Snr. and David Sharpe hadn’t seen each other since New House in 1980 but they rolled back the years and talked all the way round - just how Repton golf should be.

By 3pm all 14 players were off the course and ready for a palatecleansing ale in the sunshine; following that, a hearty high-tea meant everyone was well-fed for their journey home.

A successful start to this new addition to the fixture list and it will definitely be on the calendar for next year. I only hope that more participants can be attracted.

Tony Bishop (P’72)

The teams and scores were as follows: O.R.F.C.

O.R.G.S

Player

Score

Player

Score

James Leavesley Snr.(N’75)

28

James Leavesley Jnr. (N’04)

32

Nicky Samra (N’02)

37

James Bishton (L’02)

25

Rory Farquharson (N’02)

30

Luke Samra (N’05)

25

David Scarrett (P’04)

35

David Sharpe (N’75)

32

Mike Watson (P’04)

33

Alex Needham (N’10)

30

Will Swann (N’10)

30

Tony Bishop (P’72)

40

Total

193

184

Longest Drive on 16th:

James Leavesley Jnr. (N’04)

Nearest the pin in 2 on 17th:

Tony Bishop (P’72)

David Scarrett (P’04), Luke Samra (N’05), Mike Watson (P’04), Alex Needham (N’10), Will Swann (N’10), Nick Samra (N’02), Rory Farquarson (N’02), James Leavesley Jnr. (N’04), James Bishton (L’02), David Sharpe (N’75), James Leavesley Snr. (N’75) and Tony Bishop (P’72).

OR Lodge The OR Lodge, with Chris Platts (P’83) as its head this year, met as usual near Repton, and, by kind permission of the new Headmaster, dined afterwards at the School. The annual September meeting provides an excellent opportunity for members to catch up and renew friendships with a mix of other members, friends, partners and staff at the School.

Being back at Repton is a highlight for many of the ORs, and this year drinks in the Garth was no exception as conversation, banter and Prosecco flowed in equal measure! This was followed by a delightful four-course dinner in the warm charm of Pears School. Although the OR Lodge has much in common with other OR Societies, it is different to the extent that all members are part of a charitable organisation that extends across the globe. At the September meeting, Lodge members were delighted to donate £1,000 from the Lodge charity account to Heart Link, the East Midlands Children’s Heart Care Association based at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester (www.heartlink-glenfield.org.uk).

This year is the build up to the United Grand Lodge of England’s 300-year anniversary. As part of the celebrations, there will be a Grand Ball at the OR Lodge’s regular meeting place, Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street in London.

This iconic Art Deco building is very popular and has been featured in numerous films and TV productions, providing a splendid backdrop to any great celebration.

Freemasons Hall is open to the public and offers tours Monday to Saturday. For more information see www.ugle.org.uk/freemasons-hall/tours 22

If you would like to find out more about the Lodge, visit our website and contact the Lodge.

Mark Norton ( M’86)

Tennis In the third year since our restoration as a society, OR tennis continues to go from strength to strength. The highlights from this year include new school tennis leavers pushing our mailing list numbers to over 100 for the first time, holding our inaugural match against the current school team, and regaining the D’Abernon Cup trophy, crowning us Public Schools Old Boys’ National Champions for the second time in three years. It has been busy! Alongside these achievements the Old Reptonian tennis society continues to be a friendly and welcoming place for

those of all levels to maintain their love of tennis and connection with the school, while continuing old friendships and forging new ones. Once again, if you are interested in getting involved, please send me an email on muirheadjamie@gmail.com Our spirit was perfectly exemplified on the 24th May this year when we took on the current team for the first time. The old boys team of Julian Harrison (S’02), Andrew Brigham (C’07), Will Reay (S’06), Dan Cottier (L’99), Phil Brindley (N’02) and Alistair Wright (O’06) found themselves well matched against a strong current team on the hallowed tarmac courts at Repton. After the first round of singles matches they found themselves 4-2 down.

Going into the doubles they had their backs to the wall but dug in well and pulled together to win three close matches leaving the overall score at 5-4 to the Old Boys. A special mention goes out to Dan and Will who won all of their matches and also to Alistair who stepped in at the last minute to win the vital rubber.

We are really grateful to all those who played and watched, and particularly to James Rushby, who organised the fixture. It was a hugely enjoyable day which we all hope will be repeated next year.

D’Abernon Cup As finalists last year we were seeded number two for this year’s D’Abernon Cup and after receiving a surprise walkover in the quarter finals past KSC we faced Westminster in the semifinals for the second year running. Improving on our previous performance, we convincingly dismissed our adversaries 4 rubbers to 0 to progress into the final. This meant for the third year running we would compete at Wimbledon for the honour of holding aloft the prestigious trophy, first awarded back in 1929 when Charterhouse won the first tournament.

On the 10th September the team travelled down to London in anticipation of an exciting day’s play against St Paul’s on the well-worn Wimbledon grass. Unfortunately, as we drew closer, it became clear that the weather at least was not in our favour.

We did not, however, let this dampen our spirits as play began inside. The support from the Old Reptonian community was excellent, with over 60 people making the journey to watch and support some excellent tennis, soak up the atmosphere and take the opportunity to look around the iconic venue. Once again this made a massive difference, as all three Repton doubles pairs fought back from a set down after a slow start in the first round of matches. For Dan Cottier and Phil Brindley, Julian Harrison and Mike Llewellyn (N’96) this momentum shift proved pivotal and they did not look back, clinching both matches in a third set. Jamie Muirhead (C’09) and Alex Grocott (S’10) however faced sterner resistance, as their match went the distance. They fought hard but eventually lost 7-6, 6-7, 10-8. The second round followed a similar pattern with Repton winning two out of the

three matches to leave the score at 4-2 going into the final round.

With all pairs finding their stride, all three matches went our way to leave the final score as 7-2 to Repton. This was no mean feat considering that St Paul’s had narrowly put out the defending champions, Reed’s, in the semi-finals. Special commendations must go to Dan Cottier and Phil Brindley who won all three of their matches on the way to our second victory in this national competition in three years.

The match was followed by tea and cakes for players and spectators, along with a presentation ceremony. Our sincere thanks go out to all those who came to support, you really did make the day particularly special, and it is a real pleasure to play in front of such an excellent crowd. We also extend our thanks to the Public Schools Old Boys Lawn Tennis Association and to the All England Lawn Tennis Club for being such excellent hosts once again. The standard of the competition continues to go from strength to strength and I am sure that many other schools will be hot on our heels next year as we endeavour to continue our momentum.

I hope that next year will bring as much success and tennis-related happiness to everyone as this year has done, and that the society continues to flourish. I also hope to see many of you out on court or at one of our socials in the coming year, and once again please do get in contact if you would like to be involved.

Jamie Muirhead (C’09) (OR Tennis Chairman)

Mark Boulton (O’68), Nick Smith (B’69), Nick Walford (B’69) and James Ross (H’68) taken in the Royal Box. 23

Commemorating the Great War Remembering the Great War: 1916 “Slowly, but none the less surely, the net is closing round Germany. We have reached the stage when Germany is at last completely hedged in by enemies or neutrals controlled by the diplomacy or the strength of her enemies. We have always heard that the power of endurance, in matters military and economic, will be the winning factor of the war. For eighteen months we have tested Germany’s military endurance, and we believe that our doggedness and tenacity in the field, when weighed in the balances, will not be found wanting.”

Editorial, The Reptonian, February 1916

The editors of The Reptonian were characteristically sanguine in their assessment of Britain’s position in the opening months of 1916. Little did they suspect what trials of endurance lay ahead that summer and the devastating impact the campaigns and offensives that year would have on the significant numbers of Old Reptonians serving in the armed forces. Of over 1000 of them in action that year, 87 Old Reptonians fell in 1916, 55 of them on the Somme, and the remainder largely in Ypres and in Mesopotamia.

Within the safety of the Arch, the boys and the masters tried as best as they could to foster a spirit of ‘business as usual,’ though, with the weekly announcements of casualties and deaths, and the increasingly intensive training of the O.T.C, this became almost impossible at times.

Still, they tried. The boys started the year taking advantage of a hard frost by spending their leisure time ice skating on Crewe’s Pond, and in March the heaviest snow fall seen in Derbyshire for many years presented them with the great opportunity of tobogganing on the hills around Repton. The motions dissected by the Debating Society that year ranged from the merits of flogging prisoners, the proposed abolition of Tails and Etons, and the evils of ‘magazines and inferior literature.’ The Literary Society read Ibsen’s ‘Wild Duck,’ the Headmaster got engaged to Miss Rosamond Forman, and Aldous Huxley and Victor Gollancz arrived as temporary Repton masters, in the place of those who had enlisted.

Whilst the former considered the boys a ‘set of Calibans’ and couldn’t wait to leave, the latter would soon be instrumental in trying to improve the intellectual life of the School, and launched a ‘Civics Experiment’ which would sadly lead to two divisive years within the Common Room and pupil bodies, censure by the War Office, and his eventual dismissal

by Geoffrey Fisher.

However much they tried to ignore it, for the boys of Repton there were repeated reminders of the conflict without – their lectures, activities and even their entertainments were often tailored to that purpose; and on special occasions, such as Speech Day, the remembrance of those who had so recently sat with them in Chapel and in Pears School became almost too much to bear:

“As the long list of Old Reptonians, who have been killed since last Speech-day was being read, with the names of some one knew well among them, one’s thoughts would be brought back from their fleeting visions of former years by the sound of the cars outside, and one would look up and see the gaiety in front. “It is inconceivable that there can be a war,” one would think, “with every¬thing just as it was in former years—the rows of cars outside the arch, waiting for the service to end, to start their rush to Derby for lunch—the rich and elaborate dresses…”; then the voice would break in again with another name one knew, and one would return to face hard facts, convinced in spite of all, that, whatever the conditions were in Repton, the War was a stern reality.”

Editorial, The Reptonian, July 1916

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Gratias Ago For work and youth and friendships worth the prizing, For health and hope and strivings after right, For all ideals past our realizing, For books and music and the stars at night, For all things honourable, all things pleasant, The dream that lingers and the thought that flees, For past and future and the abiding present, Come what come may, I render thanks for these.

No sweeter joy than that succeeding sorrow, No kindlier sun than that which follows rain, So, on some splendid bright far-reaching morrow, The earth will smile and skies be blue again.

Meantime, though earth and skies alike are riven, I thank the Gods for all that they have given.

John Louis Crommelin-Brown, March 1916

Biographical note: Crommelin-Brown was a Repton master from 1911 to 1949, and Housemaster of Brook from 1934. He served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and was invalided home from France in March 1916 as a result of shrapnelwounds and shellshock. Although he suffered handtremors for the rest of his life, he went on to play county cricket for Derbyshire in addition to gaining repute in many other fields of sporting achievement.

A most clever and versatile man, he seemingly excelled in all he did as painter, poet, sportsman and scholar.

His model of Repton in its pre Reformation days is still on display in the Old Priory, and in recent years several of his poems have been included in anthologies of the Great War.

FOUR OF THE FALLEN OF 1916 Captain Thomas Irving Ward Wilson, M.C., Old Reptonian and Repton Master, was killed in action on November 28th 1916. He came to Repton as an Entrance Scholar in 1897, and left as George Denman Scholar in 1901. He was a member of the Cross, and head of it in his last year.

A Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge, a First Class-man in the Classical Tripos, he turned to what had been his father’s profession, and after a term at Marlborough took a mastership at St. Paul’s. At the beginning of 1907 he returned to his old School as Upper Sixth Master - a position he held till he left for active service at the end of the first term of the War. As a teacher, he was extraordinarily thorough - patient, painstaking, and, above all, modest. It was said that no man ever made less parade of his qualities. He neither asked, nor even expected, that they should bring him any outward reward.

At Cambridge he was a good oarsman, rowed in the Trial Eights, and became a “Leander”; and it was always his regret that Repton could not find full use for his gifts in this direction. He made of them, however, what use he could, taking at one time a little band of enthusiasts over to Burton for coaching.

A letter from Capt. T. I. W. Wilson, 21st Manchester Regiment, January 1916: “I have been under fire, and I haven’t felt afraid! Fact is, it was not very dreadful; we went into trenches for a week, attached to another Regiment for instruction. They naturally sent us to a quiet part of the line. Both sides seemed to have half forgotten that there was a War on. Every now and then the Germans sent a few shells over to liven us up, but they never hit anyone. With luck, they knocked down a bit of parapet, or spoilt the roof of a dug-out. An hour or two later, our guns would retaliate with two shells for one. Desultory sniping went on all day - as you moved about behind the front line, you heard the bullets round your head, but you were in dead ground, and took it quite calmly. Of course you did not put your head over the parapet in day time—that is suicide. At night -lit the sentries look over the parapet, and it was their custom to shoot from time to time at nothing in particular—a silly custom, and bad for discipline, which we don’t propose to follow when we have trenches of our own.

Parties go out from both sides to repair the wire. Sometimes they work within fifty yards of each other, and don’t come to blows; it is a sort of tacit understanding that it is not worth while interfering, but of course each party has a few men out with bombs to cover them in case of accident. The officer on duty goes up and down the trench visiting the sentries, and now and then sends up a ‘star-light,’ which casts a sickly glare over the wire entangle¬ments and the space between. This, going on all along the line, makes rather a pretty firework show. One night, when I

was on duty, there was some excitement because some of the sentries thought there was a hostile patrol meddling with the wire. When I got to the place, you could hear something happening to the wire, and I put up a firework, but there was nothing to be seen. There was a rat squeaking, however, and we decided that it must be caught in the wire, and be the cause of the trouble. Rats are a plague. They eat your equipment, and any food they can find in your haversack, or elsewhere. They used to walk over my legs at night in bed. The M.G. section are said to have slain a dozen in one night, by training the gun on a bait which connected with the trigger. The trenches were frozen hard when we arrived, but there came thaw and rain, and when we left, they were dissolving into porridge. Fatigues work day and night on revetments and dump-holes and pumps, but they can’t keep up with the process of dissolution, and they return wet, and caked with mud to the waist. I lived in a palatial dug-out with the officers of the Company to which we were attached. It had doors and windows, and three rooms with chairs, and tables, and stoves, and bunks of straw to sleep in—rather like an Alpine Club but in the degree of comfort. The men’s dug-outs, too, were filled with bunks, but they were not so well constructed, and some leaked, and were beginning to collapse. One was always muddy, and seldom washed—never more than face and hands in a canvas bucket of cold water. One is not supposed to undress, but I used to take off my boots when I went to bed.”

Evelyn Marshall Evelyn Marshall was the sixth of the seven sons of Canon E.T. Marshall (OR) of Sutton Ely, all of whom were at Repton. He was in Latham from 1901 – 1905.

On leaving School he passed through a three years’ course at Camborne, and having gained a Mining Scholarship, went out in 1908 as mining engineer on the Knight’s Deep Mine, where he afterwards was made assistant manager.

The war broke out while he was at home on leave, and he enlisted as despatch rider in the Imperial Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, and was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in January, 1915. He landed in Gallipoli at the end of June, and took part in both the evacuations at the end of June, and those at the end of the year. From there he joined the Mesopotamia Relief Force, where he died of wounds on the 6th April 1916. I reporting his death, his Colonel wrote of him: “We are all most deeply grieved. He led his company most gallantly at Felahiyeh, and in no small measure contributed to the brilliant success and capture of the Turkish trenches. He was one of the noblest men I have ever known, brave to a fault, modest, warm-hearted, cheerful when everyone else was depressed, enduring and the most capable of men. His company was devoted to him and all wanted to stay by him on his stretcher.”

Evelyn Marshall is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. His elder brother, Captain John Marshall (Latham 1895) was killed in France on March 30th 1915.

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William Crozier William Crozier (Orchard 1886) was one of five Old Reptonians who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. As he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

“He gained an Entrance Exhibition at Repton and had a very successful career at School. He got his Cap of Honour in 1891 and his 1st XI colours in the following summer. On leaving Repton, he entered Trinity College Dublin, and won an Exhibition and afterwards a Scholarship. He also represented the Varsity at Cricket and Association football. He then became a member of the Irish Bar and was very well known and popular in Dublin.

Henry Burton (Priory 1907) Henry Burton (Priory 1907) was the son of a notable writer of occasional verse, whose contributions signed ‘Touchstone’ were very familiar to readers of the Daily Mail before the war. Henry followed in his father’s footsteps, and wrote as ‘Touchstone Junior’ for ‘The Mudlark’ also known as The Bedfordshire Gazette) which was produced by the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment whilst on active service “somewhere in France.” He was killed in action at Delville Wood on the Somme, on the 27th July 1916, aged 23. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

He was one of the founders of the Irish Branch of the O.R. Society, and was always a most loyal and devoted Reptonian. When war broke out he joined the Tyrone Volunteers, 9th Inniskilling Fusiliers and was killed in action in France, July 1st 1916.

Editorial, The Reptonian, February 1916

“We deeply regret to learn that the greatest fears are entertained for the safety of Lieutenant William M. Crozier, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who, as we announced yesterday, is reported missing. It is known that Lieutenant Crozier was hit twice before he reached the German wire, but he continued to advance gallantly till he reached the first German trench. He was seen to try to take cover in a shell hole, after which no more is known of his movements.

The report which has reached us of his coolness, courage, and devotion to duty will surprise no one who had the privilege of his friendship in Trinity College and at the Irish Bar.” Irish Times 11th July 1916

“He was born in 1893 and was educated at the Oxford Preparatory School, where he was head boy; at Repton (Priory) where he was head of the school; and at Wadham College, Oxford, to which he obtained a leaving exhibition from Repton, and also an open exhibition. He won his oar in the Torpids of 1913 and was elected captain of his college boating club in the following year. He was at the end of his second year at Oxford, where he was a member of the University O.T.C., when the war broke out, and was gazetted second-lieutenant in the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment on August 14, 1914. He was attached to a regular battalion of the same regiment in May, 1915, and went out to the Front, where he fought till his death. He was gazetted lieutenant in 1915 and obtained the rank of temporary captain shortly before his death.

Captain Burton was to have been married during his next leave.”

Irish Life 11th August 1916

TWO POEMS WRITTEN ABOUT THE LOSS OF HENRY, BY HIS FATHER, CLAUDE BURTON: Killed In Action

An Unknown Grave

The world seems full of you, now you are gone.

You were, of all these dear familiar things, Part of our daily life that still drags on, And still around small, trivial objects cling The sweet and subtle fragrance that is you, Half balm, half torture to the stricken heart, That knows high courage is a hero’s due – That we, like you, must strive to bear our part.

Though the blood drips unseen from wounds within, That even length of years must leave unhealed You bid us conquer pain that we may win To that high goal your passing has revealed.

You gave your life, and if we too must give Our very flesh and blood - a sacrifice That that great cause that claimed you still might live; Surely the gift is fitting in God’s eyes.

Somewhere beneath the stars he lies, Whom Earth has taken to her breast, Nor ever may our tear-dimmed eyes Behold where now he takes his rest.

No cross records his well-loved name, No tomb in days to come shall tell In golden letters of the fame That crowned him even as he fell.

Somewhere beyond the range of mortal sight We know you strive as nobly as of yore, A soldier still amidst the Hosts of Light Though we may see your well-loved face no more.

Oh! pity us if from these realms unknown Your eyes look down upon our mortal pain And plead for us before your Captain’s throne, That we may reach those heights you died to gain 26

Yet he is here with us today; A thousand things his touch reveal, Sweet evidence no cumbering clay, No unknown sepulture conceal.

In many a heart his grave is green And sweet with flowers we planted there, Dear memories of what has been A wealth of fragrant blossom bear.

What matter if no sign may show Where rests at last his honoured dust, Whose life and death have bid us know The strength of perfect love and trust?

“Tis ours to bear before the world Our part until the goal be won.

The banner that his hands unfurled Still flies triumphant in the sun!

Who? What? Where? When?

James Shires (S’09) FIREFLIES TOUR I can’t help but feel that, sitting here at home in the serenity of a summer evening, I will never be able to do justice in words to the sheer savageness of the Fireflies Tour.

Simply put, the Fireflies Tour is an annual 1000km charity bike ride, from the shores of Lake Geneva to those of Cannes in the South of France, over the course of seven days. The ride crosses 18 of the highest Alpine passes made famous by the Tour de France, climbing more than three times Everest’s height. It is all done in support of Bloodwise, a charity whose aim it is to raise funds for leading research to beat blood cancers. The Fireflies is inspired by the courage it takes to fight cancer, and is a celebration of life, love and friendship.

I have known about the Fireflies for several years now, as my brother Ed Shires (S’04) has completed three previous iterations.

This year, he was supporting his fiancée and myself on our first attempts. He had warned us that it would be the hardest, yet most rewarding challenge we could set ourselves. The Fireflies are composed of people from all walks of the media industry from across the world (Ed works for a post-production company in New York), and arrives every year in Cannes in time for Cannes Lions, the annual international advertising festival. As a young student medic, I was honoured to be given one of the 30 places this year and it was with apprehension that I lined up on the rainy start line in June in Geneva. I have so many amazing memories from the experience that followed, but here are some personal highlights that encapsulate the essence of The Fireflies.

Our first few days were dominated by rain. A lot of rain. It was endless. Every night was a battle to salvage dry kit for the next day. Hotel rooms became like rain forests, sodden clothes hanging from every hook, nail and chair with condensation fogging up the windows. Pulling on damp kit before another relentless day wears you down mentally, and on reflection Day 3 was the point at which it nearly broke me. We were to tackle the infamous Col du Galibier (2,642m). The 35km relentless climb became steeper and steeper, and soon Ed and I were isolated from the world in thick cloud. I had unremitting pain in my legs, freezing sleet battering my face and no idea how far was left until the top, leaving me in deep mental torture. When, eventually, the sign at the top emerged from the cloud and sleet, the emotion and relief of that moment really choked me. Tears are not a rarity on the Fireflies.

No sooner had we arrived at the top, we were shivering down the other side in order to seek refuge in a mountain restaurant. I was shaking so much it was hard to hold my bike in a straight line. On arrival, the bemused owner produced fluffly dressing gowns and towels, and as each successive rider staggered in on the edge of hypothermia, fellow riders helped them pull their wet clothes off, wrapped them up and gave them hot drinks. Once we felt human again, we would join the effort to help the next rider. The

camaraderie shown at this moment is the lifeblood of the Fireflies, where everyone is accounted for and no one is left behind.

That evening over dinner, the tradition is for each rider to stand and give an insight to the group as to why they are riding. Every person has a personal connection to cancer, and sharing these stories bonded us together. We were strangers two days before. Now we were firm friends sharing a challenge.

As the days passed, the mountains continued to come thick and fast. At last the weather improved with every pedal stroke southward, and soon rain jackets had been replaced with sun cream. It was around this point when I reached a strange realisation; I didn’t want it to end. I’d fallen in love with the Fireflies’ experience.

This may sound strange, and I can see why. What is enjoyable about rising physically tired early every morning, knowing in the day ahead you’ll endure searing leg pain and exhaustion once again? The mountains are brutally hard, but cresting each one brought such a huge sense of achievement that I’d almost want to be at the bottom ready to ride up the next Col. I’d also come to appreciate the sense of family that the Fireflies radiated. No Col was taken on alone; instead you rode, laughed and shared stories with people who were there for the same cause as you; raising money to help cure cancer. This feeling of family explains why many riders have retuned time and time again, with some riding their 10th Tour in 2016. The combined effort of every Firefly tour over the years has so far raised £1.7 million for Bloodwise. Long will it continue.

It was with sadness that we closed in on Cannes. On the final day, following a celebratory beer on the beach, we followed our police escort along the Croisette to the finish line at the Palais des Festivals, where our family and friends greeted us, and our journey came to an end.

Given the chance, I would do it all over again in the blink of an eye. Ed was right when he said it would be the hardest yet most rewarding challenge I have done, and the Fireflies family is very special to me. However, my suffering is incomparable to that of those whom we rode for – the cancer sufferers, and until there are no more cancer suffers, we will continue to ride.

If you would like to find out more, please do visit: www.thefirefliestour.com James Shires (S’90)

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Careers Corner Having retired in July, I’d like to take this opportunity firstly to thank ORs for their continued support while I’ve been in charge of careers guidance at Repton, and also to highlight a few key events, and to introduce you to my successor.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish Melissa a happy and well deserved retirement and to thank her on behalf of the staff and students of Repton School for her invaluable contribution to careers guidance over many years.

Reflecting over the past ten years in the post, I feel privileged to have been able to build up a collection of really strong contacts who have provided our Repton pupils with a constant stream of expert advice, informative career talks and many work experience opportunities. We have had three or four presentations each term offering pupils invaluable insights into the professional world and highlighting the skills that employers are seeking. I have been overwhelmed by the willingness of ORs to give so generously of their time and expertise to current Reptonians, several commenting that, as alumni, they feel it a rewarding experience to be able to give back to the School in this way. Many go to enormous trouble to offer their services (without recompense!) and their efforts are hugely appreciated, giving the students the equipment to be able to navigate towards their future choices and career paths. Others have put time and effort into arranging worthwhile work placements- in the legal profession, engineering, journalism, banking, product design and even helicopter lessons in Majorca – to name a few specific areas. Our pupils’ career aspirations are rich and varied!

It is an exciting time to work with young people as there are so many opportunities for pupils who have academic ambition, a willingness to make the most of their potential and an understanding of the future in terms of the demands of a rapidly changing employment market. The aim is to raise awareness and to encourage each pupil to think positively about their future and to help them develop their own research.

In June we held another very successful Careers Forum, where twelve ORs returned to give presentations and conduct Q & As with groups of Lower Sixth pupils, many of whom wrote letters expressing their appreciation and asking for follow-up contacts.

Our new Headmaster, Mr Alastair Land, hosted a sumptuous dinner and discussions continued in an informal atmosphere.

This link between ORs and current pupils I know will go from strength to strength as I hand over to my successor, Mr. Kevin MacDonald. Kevin joined the Mathematics Department from Ashby School in 2015 and at the end of the academic year was appointed to promote careers guidance throughout the school.

He brings a wealth of experience from his previous posts and I know that he has already put in place plans to develop the Careers provision at Repton. As he establishes himself in the role, he would greatly appreciate the continued help, advice and support from the OR network. I am sure that he will be introducing himself to many of you at the next Drinks In The City or another OR occasion.

In the immediate future, two career talks are already in this term’s diary – the first from Daily Mail sports columnist, Charles Sale (B’70) and the second from parent Tim Archer (Deloitte LLP), on Careers in Accountancy and Management. These promise to be well-attended, popular events!

Plans are also in place to visit local business and Higher Education provision. Andrew Churchill (P’82) has kindly offered to host a group of enthusiastic potential engineers at JJ Churchill Ltd Precision Engineering and a visit to the University of Loughborough to enjoy the world class Physical Education and Sport facilities is a must for our sporting elite!

I look forward to meeting you in the near future but please contact me at kpm@repton.org.uk at your convenience if you have any ideas, suggestions or offers of help to support our impressive Repton students.

Kevin MacDonald Head of Careers Guidance

In signing off, I would like to once again thank Old Reptonians for their friendship over the years.

Melissa Blain

In the Autumn 2015 issue Melissa wrote and asked if any ORs would come to Repton to talk to pupils, or offer work experience. We are pleased to report that some current Reptonians have benefited from your expertise. The annual Lower Sixth Careers Forum continues to flourish and we would like to invite as many ORs as possible to become involved either in the forum, offering work experience or coming into School and talking to the pupils.

If you are interested please see the link below. http://www.repton.org.uk/update-your-details

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School News Letter from the Headmaster What a great pleasure it is to be writing this Letter from the Headmaster in The Arch for the first time, not only as it is a great honour to be able to do so, I feel a great sense of privilege and responsibility to be Repton’s thirty fifth such, but it allows me to thank the Old Reptonian body at large for the warmth of their welcome. It was a boon to get my feet under the desk at the start of the Summer Term as it enabled me to enjoy The Gaudy and to begin to get to know the OR Community more broadly. Since then I have greatly enjoyed the OR Lodge Dinner and I anticipate enthusiastically the OR Dinner in November preceded by the AGM and Donald Carr Memorial Service. I am looking forward to renewing acquaintances and making new ones at these occasions.

Further summer pleasures enabled me to see Repton in all her glory and to appreciate what a fine aspect the boys and girls enjoy as they go about their schooling, and that you reflect upon with fondness, and, indeed, in these early days of autumn we continue to bask in balmy conditions. Speech Day was such a fine day and enabled us to celebrate the achievements of leaving and current Reptonians in a wonderful setting; the high level and breadth of such endeavour was to the relative newcomer remarkable in its own right and made all the more engaging by the calm, understated manner in which it was worn by those who had earned it.

Between that end of term and now, the start of the new school year, we have had much upon which to reflect, not least the A-level results of those leavers and the GCSE outcomes of those who have been promoted up into the Lower Sixth. All the grades achieved were born of sustained diligence and sense of purpose on behalf of the boys and girls and a precise, firm and yet kindly exhortation to consolidation and revision from their teachers. To the cohort of ORs who will be starting university this October I wish them all the best, and fondly so, as they go onto universities across the UK and indeed the world. I hope that as they make this transition to a different tempo of learning with a new emphasis and direction they will keep to mind all the encouragement and insights into learning and looking after themselves that they received from their teachers, tutors and Housemaster or Housemistress.

Work of a different kind has been going on for some months now on the Main Teaching Block, overlooking The Paddock. This top-to-toe renovation, all but completed, has yielded world-class teaching spaces for English, Classics, History, Government and Politics, Ethical and Religious Studies and Learning Support. Under the supervision of The Bursar, Carl Bilson, the results for pupils and teachers alike are outstanding. The rooms are bright, airy and inspiring, and many historic features, lost in earlier alterations and developments, have been restored. Writing as someone who has walked around classrooms all his life, I can say with honesty that these ones are worth visiting in their own right.

Main Teaching Block, taken together with the Geography and IT Block (I am considering some more poetic names for these buildings) cause us to look towards the northern boundary of that open square: Pears School and the Cloister classrooms beneath. This fine Victorian building, constructed to the memory of Repton’s second founder (whom I note with wry interest served as a master at Harrow before coming to Repton), is used for many functions throughout the year. It is an essential venue for concerts and whole school events, for dinners and celebrations and of course for the thrice termly delivery of Lists. It also serves through its honours boards and stained glass as a lived-in archive of who we were and what we are. Given its multipurpose and heavy duty

service it comes as no surprise that this building at the heart of the heritage of the School is in need of attention in lighting, heating, sound system catering facilities and more. A full-scale restoration is required. You will be hearing from me again in depth on this project later on this term.

Old Reptonians should also be aware that, subject to planning approval and sanction by The Governors, a redevelopment of the Sports Centre will be getting underway for first actions on site to commence in just under a year. This very significant upgrade will see a whole new Sports Hall (large enough, amongst other things, for indoor hockey, netball and badminton) and a brand new strength and conditioning suite to support the athletic development of our most promising boys and girls.

Considering the world far removed from the Arch, this summer has certainly seen the world fully engaged in the terrible teens of this century: Brexit, terrorism, civil war, mass migration and natural disaster. It is into this world that the new generation of Old Reptonians are studying, then living and working. I am concerned, to a degree, for them. Reptonians, to a man and woman, tend to sport a doughty calm and cheerful resilience of purpose when faced with any form of adversity. I think, though, a little more is called for, especially since multiple recent surveys suggest that the current young (anyone younger than me) will be the first generation to have it tougher than their parents, since measures of this kind have been undertaken. In this context I think the network of Old Reptonians is an organisation which should stand up for its members, and I would encourage strongly those who have recently left to ensure that they are an active participant, to join in regional gatherings, professional and sporting clubs and to encourage their friends to do the same.

For the Old Reptonians who are in a position to do so, and I am immensely grateful to those who already do so – thank you, please do offer work experience, careers education advice and even internships. Whilst in exhortation mode could I encourage ORs who have the enthusiasm for it, to start up (or reinvigorate) professional groups and sporting clubs that do not yet operate, to give more ways for Old Reptonians to associate and support each other. In all these initiatives do not hesitate to be in touch with me or Jan Cobb in the OR Office so that we can assist and help get a group off the ground. You will read elsewhere in this edition of The Arch of a web based enquiry form that will help us to get Old Reptonians better connected together. In terms of how this affects current Reptonians, Kevin MacDonald, who has taken on the Careers Education mantle from Melissa Blain, will be working with the OR Office to develop links between ORs and Sixth Formers.

Furthermore, in our academic provision we are developing a new strand of cross-curricular activity to encourage boys and girls to think of what they study outside the confines of separate subjects and how they come together in real-world industrial, professional and business settings.

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The summer has also inspired and entertained us with the Olympic Games. Few schools could have had such grounds to be so uplifted by the performance of its alumnae. I celebrated OR Olympians Georgie Twigg (F’03), Shona McCallin (A’08), Joie Leigh (G’09), Ellie Watton (M’05) and for Germany Charlotte Stapenhorst (A’11) in Lists at the start of term. We have focussed on what it means to be a competitor at this level, the levels of training, the test of body, the intelligence in preparation and the strength of will to achieve a gold medal. Furthermore, we have reflected on what challenge we lay down at our own feet when we say that we are inspired by OR Olympians. We have also had the chance to celebrate the astonishing record breaking gold of Adam Peaty (100m breaststroke) and the bronze of Lewis White (S9 400m freestyle), both swimmers for the City of Derby who train in the Repton pool.

These considerations of Olympian endeavour, together with observations of the challenging world outside Repton, taken alongside the serial changes and reforms to GCSEs and A Levels make one think very carefully about what life at School should be about to prepare best the young people in its charge. A much more distinguished and wiser schoolmaster than I once stated “education is that which remains when all that was learned has been forgotten”. And whilst there is more than a hint of nemesis in this statement, it does give the proper sense of what should underlie our work at Repton and what should endure for the good of Reptonians when they have left. We have done some work on the Values and Aims of the School and these will appear shortly in the Blue Book, and are examining they ways in which we can encourage the development of character as much as the collection of qualifications. Such a purpose has been at the heart of schools like Repton since their foundation and it is good to refresh an enduring principle. Indeed, in assisting with the training day for the new School Prefects, I was much heartened by the sense of integrity and overt moral quality that was in evidence amongst our leaders in the pupil body. Emphasising that the whole human being is valued, that we respect what people are, not what they have achieved, and that learning is an incremental,

collaborative life-long process are aspects of education that suffuses all we do. These notions are inculcated as much in Chapel, the House, the rehearsal room, CCF and D of E and on the pitch as they are in the classroom. I think that in stressing these values and in aiming to build high aspiration, integrity and resilience, Reptonians, along with their qualifications and achievements, will be able to meet the world square-on.

The start of a new year means new members of staff whom we have been keen to welcome and induct. We have appointed those new to work, new to teaching and new to Repton. I hope that many of you will come to know them. In particular I want to introduce Father Neil Roberts, Chaplain; Oliver Walker, Director of Music and Fiona Bardsley as Director of Drama. As you make your visits back to Repton in the coming months I am sure you will have a chance to encounter them in person. Whilst mentioning those joining the staff I should also accord my thanks and good wishes to those who left us at the end of last term, we wish them well as they go on to new appointments or look to new challenges in retirement. In particular, reference should be made to Mike Keep, a very long-serving and valued colleague who has served Repton with inspiration and kindness for more than thirty years – Bravo.

In closing I want to thank those who have made me quickly and fully a part of the operations of the OR Society in the Executive and General Committees, in particular James Ross (H’68), Nick Smith (B’69) and Nigel Kew. With my best wishes, and those of Madeleine too, for the academic year ahead. intende prospera

ps. Maurice has started at Foremarke, it is a lovely sight for me to see him every morning and evening wearing the Sir John Port arms.

2016 Prefects at the Leavers’ Ball: Francesca Doughty (G), Tristan Howle (L), Samantha Allsop (F), Kitty Froggratt (A), David Glanville (O), Giles Davis (L), Kevin Hynes (N), Mr Alastair Land (Headmaster), Ben Mann (P), Emily Mitchell (M), Dominic Lea (S), Mrs Sarah Tennant (Second Master).

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Congratulations to our new ORs Our A-level students achieved outstanding results this year, with 18.9% of the entries receiving an A* grade and 54.6% being awarded an A* or A grade.

Rebecca Williams (M), secured her place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge with five A* grades and will read Veterinary Medicine. Rebecca has also won a Choral Award. Four other Repton pupils had places at Cambridge confirmed as a consequence of their results: Liza Hartley (F) to read English, Charmaine Tam (A) to read History of Art, Roddy Freeman (C) to read Law and, and Maxim Hibbs (S) to read Modern and Medieval Languages. Thomas Croghan (C) achieved the grades he required to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University.

Special mention should go to those pupils who achieved three or more A*s in their examinations. Four A*s were achieved by Sarah Hignett (who will go to Leeds to read Medicine) and Willem van der Schoot (who will read Electronic and Information Engineering

at Imperial). Three A*s were achieved by Roderick Freeman, Zechi Gan (who will go to Warwick to read Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics, Economics), Cordelia Richardson (who will go to Durham to read Geography) and Hannah Chantler (who will read Business Management at Edinburgh).

Commenting on the results, Headmaster Alastair Land said: “This year’s A-level examinations have seen Repton School pupils awarded grades of which they can be very proud. The achievements are the result of the diligence of pupils and the meticulous care taken by teachers both in class and through oneto-one support. The significant proportion of A* and A grades reflects high achievement in all subjects and reiterates Repton’s abilities across the curriculum. Most boys and girls have achieved the grades necessary to gain admission to their first or second choice university course: a commendable outcome for their years of studying at Repton.

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Achievements and Activities in 2015/2016 u Arkwright Scholarships for Design and Engineering have been awarded to Edward Salisbury (L6N), Matthew Clark (L6N) and Julian Patient (L6P). u A number of Repton pupils have attended the competitive Gifted and Talented courses run by Villiers Park: Sarah Hignett (U6A): Neuroscience and the Brain; Willem van der Schoot (U6S): Physics: How the Universe Lives and Dies; Ella Clowes (L6A) and Edward Sheasby (L6S): Environment and Society: Living with Uncertainty?; Kevin Hynes (U6N) and Amelia Stewart (L6A): Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Jamie Langan (L6L): Geography: Geographical Imaginations; Georgia Hair (U6G) and Charlie Wright (L6L): Drama and Theatre Studies: Aspects of Performance; Liza Hartley (U6F) and Kyoko Canaway (L6G): English Literature: Texts and Contexts; Daniel McGarrity (L6N): Computer Science; Abbey Lloyd (L6G): Art and Design; Maxim Hibbs (U6S): French: Language and Identity; Hannah Sherry (L6G): Spanish and Latin American Society, History and Culture; Pranathi Yannamani (L6G): Forensic Science; Madeleine Sanders (U6F) and Lauren Davidson (L6M): Mathematics: Chaos or Clear Cut? u Laura Bramall (L6A) and Rachel Hedley (L6F) were awarded places at the Cambridge Sixth Form Law Conference. u Manon Allen (L6F) and Celia Newstead (L6M) were both awarded places to represent the School at the two-day Rosalind Franklin Conference, held at Newnham College, Cambridge on Cyber Security – Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? u Lydia Johnson (L6A) and Rachel Hedley (L6F) were both awarded places on the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz Project. Lucas Pringle (4P) and Parras Joshi (4P) became Holocaust Memorial Day Youth Champions and attended the national Holocaust Memorial Day Youth Champion ceremony. u Lucas Pringle (4P) delivered a TEDx talk on ‘An education beyond the classroom’. u Joseph Cook (U6C) set up his own business for the national Tycoon in Schools competition, run by Peter Jones from Dragons’ Den. He made personalised onesies for the girls’ boarding houses and split his profits between two charities. He went through to the top 21 teams in the country, and narrowly missed out on a place in the final.

u Kevin Hynes (U6O), Terence Lim (U6O), Will Davies (L6O) and Bradley Sharratt (L6N) represented the School in the regional heats of the Bank of England’s Target 2.0 competition. u A number of Extended Project Qualifications were completed this year. The diverse range of topics included Melissa Clough (U6M) on the extent to which the manipulation of the protagonist by other characters is the key driver of their tragic downfall in Shakespeare’s tragedies; Susie Crisp (U6A) on the extent to which the female characters in nineteenth century literature empower themselves via rebellion; George Newstead (U6S) on how far Skinner’s operant conditioning theories suggest that our environment can affect our actions; Laura Bramall (L6A) on whether Frege’s criticism of Descartes’ onotological argument undermines it so completely that it becomes invalid; Kyoko Canaway (L6G) on why Milton’s Satan is the most compelling character in Paradise Lost; and Lauren Davidson (L6M) on whether number theory was invented or discovered. u This has been a year of unprecedented success for the Debaters. Mimi Tarrant (L6M) and Laura Bramall (L6A) qualified for the Oxford Schools Final, whilst Maxim Hibbs (U6S), Liza Hartley (U6F), Lucas Pringle (4P) and Annie Gerard-Pearse (L6M) reached the finals day for the Cambridge Schools. Both of these were firsts for the society and there was further success in Debating Matters where the team, led by Maxim and Sammy Allsop (U6F), qualified for the National Finals, reaching the semi -finals and being in the top four in the country’s 280 schools. u There can have been few years in the School’s history in which the Ramsey Society has enjoyed a more wide-reaching or challenging spectrum of topics. Papers dared to identify the root of the charismatic nature of Evil, and to question whether girls are disadvantaged in the teaching of Science, and grappled with issues ranging from Brexit to the West’s response to Terrorism, from the global threat of Digital Espionage to the ambivalent value of modern Technology, and from the value of 21st Century Space Exploration to Patriarchy in Genesis. u Lucas Pringle (4P) won the Institute of Chemical Engineers East Midlands Essay Competition entitled To Frack or Not To Frack?.

Amelia Wigglesworth (4G) was Highly Commended.

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School News Achievements and Activities in 2015/2016 continued u There have been many school trips. The Sixth Form designers visited the Design Museum and the V&A in London. The History department took 40 A Block pupils to the First World War battlefields and 80 B Block pupils to the Imperial War Museum North. Lower Sixth Economists attended the annual Marshall Society conference at the Cambridge Union. The A block Geographers ventured to Iceland were they negotiated the crevasses of Snæfellsjökull glacier, and climbed on the icebergs at Jökulsárlón lagoon before relaxing in the world famous hot springs of the blue lagoon. The Sixth Form were treated to a slightly more tropical environment with their expedition to Costa Rica. There was also a seven-day Classics trip to Rome, Latium and the Bay of Naples. u Academic societies continue to flourish at Repton. MFL Society has spent evenings discussing foreign literature and film. The Hampshire Philosophy Society was led to new heights of success and popularity due to the leadership of Mary Hunter (U6G) as Secretary, George Newstead (U6S) as Deputy, Rochelle Blakeman (U6G) as Editor, and Lucas Pringle (4P) as Head of the Junior society, Hamlets. The Ferguson Society, Repton’s Mathematical Society, has had a very active year with lectures and an away day to MathsFest 2016 where several Lower Sixth pupils unexpectedly discovered how Mathematics underpins such areas as bell ringing and juggling. u In the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge, open to O Block and below, Thomas Hvass (5O), Arnav Rai (5P), Serena Cole (4F), Shuchen Ge (4G), Sophie Palmer (4A), Marcus Tarrant (4S), Hengyi Cheng (4P), Florence Schneck (3G) and Kian Modhwadia (3N) all achieved gold certificates. Subsequently Thomas, Shuchen, Sophie, Marcus, Kian, Florence and Katie Fulford (3F) were invited to take part in the Kangaroo follow on rounds, where Sophie was awarded a merit. Serena Cole was invited to take part in the prestigious Olympiad paper, meaning she scored one of the top 500 scores in the country. u There was also success in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge open to O Block and above where Zechi Gan (U6O) and Felix Thomas-Davies (U6P) both achieved gold certificates. The school also entered the Junior and Senior Team Maths Challenges, with the following representing the school with distinction: Katie Fulford (3F), Florence Schneck (3G), Joel Holmes (U6L), Daniel Yung (U6S), Rhys Methven (L6P) and Stephen Richardson (L6N). u The Chemistry Olympiad competition is an opportunity to stretch and challenge pupils by testing their chemical knowledge. Silver awards were won by Rebecca Williams (U6M); Joel Holmes (U6L) and William Foley (U6N). Bronze awards were made to Zechi Gan (U6O) and Jonathan Vincent (U6O). u The Lower Sixth Conference saw the pupils take up the traditional Repton entrepreneurial challenge: they created a brand, decided what it did, and then pitched their idea in competition with other teams. This year they paid particular attention to the words brands use – and how to use words to make a big impression, whether it’s explaining a new product, or writing a CV. Writer and language consultant Nick Parker worked with us to guide the pupils through a series of workshops designed to get them thinking about how to use words in life beyond Repton. u Ten ORs and friends of the School spoke about their professions to the Lower Sixth at the annual Careers Forum. Sixth Form and O block pupils have enjoyed a variety of career talks from ORs this year, on a diverse range of topics including law, the charity sector and successful CV writing.

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u The following CCF Cadets have achieved their RYA Powerboat Level 1 Certificate: Emily Attenborough (5F), Aimee Bankhurst (5F), Hannah Bond (5F), Edward Sheasby (L6S), Hermione Wright (L6G), Abbey Lloyd (L6G) and Sam Benson (L6P). Finley Saunders (U6O) has passed Levels 1 and 2. u Rochelle Blakeman (U6G), Maxim Hibbs (U6S), Justin Fong (U6S) and Anna Zadorina (L6F) have been awarded ‘Instructor Cadet’ status by Headquarters Air Cadets, RAF Cranwell. u The Summer Term 2016 saw the 150th anniversary of The Reptonian magazine, and this year’s bumper issue pays suitable tribute to that milestone, with articles by ORs and from the Archives accompanying those by current pupils and staff.

Masterminded by Sophie Wilbraham (U6G), the usual review and celebration of the School year is interspersed with a wide range of challenging feature articles, addressing issues both within Repton and “Beyond the Bubble”. u The Sale of Work in November raised £18,000 for national and local charities. u The Diamond Duke of Edinburgh team, of Lucy Brierley, Francesca Doughty (both U6G), Emily Mitchell and Joanna Musty (both U6M), Thomas Croghan (U6C), George Newstead (U6S) and CSD raised £1,231.32 to enable under-privileged children across the country to take part in the DofE Award, by carrying out a three-day expedition in School in February. The following Reptonians and ORs achieved their Gold DofE Awards this year: Thomas Lake (U6O), Daniel Oppenheimer (P‘14), Grace Bolshaw, Alicia Anderson (both F‘15), Alistair Robson, Alex Urwin (both L‘15), Annabel Findlay (A‘14), Marcus Schneck (N ‘15), Lucy Coombs (A‘15), Ankit Rai, Oliver Edwards, Matthew Storer (all P‘15), Sarah Hignett, Annabel Hardwick (both U6A), Henry Shirley (N‘15), Polly Oates (F‘12) and Lucy Turner (G‘11). u The School Play was Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Junior School Play was an adaptation of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Drama scholars and enthusiasts presented a piece on the theme of Time for the Junior Show Reel. Current pupils and young ORs performed Equus by Peter Shaffer, firstly in Repton and then at the Edinburgh Festival. u The Lent Charity Cabaret raised over £14,000. u The Art department held a challenging and exciting sequence of high-calibre exhibitions in their two contemporary galleries, including key group exhibitions of students’ work and a solo photographic exhibition by Piers Henderson (L6L), Point and Shoot. u The annual David Wilkinson Memorial Lecture was entitled What is the Point of Art Criticism and given by Oliver Basciano, editor of the UK’s foremost contemporary Art magazine ‘Art Review’. u The Fashion Show this year was a wonderful celebration of Repton’s creative talent. Over 80 garments were made and designed by 34 pupils from across all school years. ‘The Road to Rio’ themed event was devised and executed by the fashion show committee Elizabeth Price, Lucy Knight and Olivia Brown (all L6M) and Ella Clowes (L6A) and the show raised over £2000 for the New Futures Nepal Charity. u The musicians have had a busy year. Chapel Choir sang Evensong in Lincoln Cathedral. The Chamber Choir gave a joint Evensong at King’s College, Cambridge. Mus. Soc. performed Handel’s Messiah. Coffee Concerts included a performance by Charmaine Tam (U6A) of Beethoven’s Moonlight piano sonata, and a performance by six boys: Edward Mansfield (5L), Matthew Jankinson (5L), Liam Karai (U6N), Connor Wright (L6L), Daniel Walker (U6C) and Dominic Lea (U6S) of the Beethoven song cycle An die Ferne Geliebte.

u The Girls’ 1st XI hockey team defeated various universities and National League teams this season and won the National Title in impressive fashion. The U16s, despite Hannah Davey (5F) scoring an equaliser with just 40 seconds remaining in the National Final, lost on penalties but should be very proud of winning their silver medals. The U14s won a bronze medal after Jenna Lloyd (3G) became a penalty shoot-out hero. u Whilst it was always going to be difficult to match the achievements of last year, our Boys’ Hockey teams performed superbly again this year. The 1st XI produced their best performance of the season to defeat Whitgift 3-0 in the National semi-final before beating Oakham 5-2 in the final to retain the National Title, with Harry Bennett (L6N) scoring a hat-trick. The U16 Squad impressively defeated KES Birmingham 3-0 in their National Final. Our U14s ended with a fourth-placed finish showing plenty of promise for the future. u This year we retained both Midland League Titles. These Leagues include Trent College, Uppingham, Oakham, Oundle, Stowe, Bedford, Rugby and tally the results from all teams from the 1st XI to the U14Cs, highlighting the strength and depth that our pupils are now showing. u More Reptonians have been involved with international squads this year than in any other previous season: Esme Burge (L6G), Mimi Tarrant (L6M) and Elliot Hibell (U6O) have been training with the England U21 and Senior Development squads.

Matthew Steventon (U6P), Simon Claris (L6N), Ollie Rogerson (L6C) and Harry Bennett (L6N), Esme Burge (L6G), Mimi Tarrant (L6M) and Nicole Bowen (L6F) were all selected for their respective England U18 squads and Fenella Scutt (5G) made her England U16 debut against Holland at Easter. Charlie Collins (5P) and Ben Foxley (L6P) represented Wales U18 against Switzerland and George Rice (4N) has now been selected for the Welsh U16 Squad. Stuart Kentwell (4N) continues to represent USA U21s and played in the Pan-American Games in Toronto. u Five Old Reptonians were at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Georgie Twigg (F’03), Susie Gilbert (F’02), Shona McCallin (A’08), Jo Leigh (G’09) and Ellie Watton (M’05) - played with the Great Britain Hockey squads and Charlotte Stapenhorst (A’11) played in the German Senior National Team. u The 1st XI football team won a total of 27 out of 30 games, scoring a record 157 goals along the way. In the process they secured no fewer than five titles, starting with the ISFA Sixes title for only the fourth time in our history and ending with the ISFA Northern League title for the fourth consecutive season. We also won the ISFA Northern 8s title for the third time in four years, as well as avenging the final defeats of last season with victory in both the Derbyshire and Staffordshire County Cups. u The U16A team had a tremendous run to the semi-final of the ESFA Small Schools Cup before cruelly going down 2-1 in extra time after a thrilling match. The U14A team managed to lift their first piece of silverware at Repton with an exciting victory in the Burton & District Cup final at St. George’s Park. u On an individual level, 1st XI Player of the Year Marcus Clague (U6C) broke the 1st XI appearance record after playing 89 games in the maroon. He also managed to score an astonishing 70 goals in those games, which is only one behind the overall goal scoring record. Jack Bywater (U6C) also managed to beat the previous record after amassing 80 matches over his three seasons in the 1st XI. Goalkeepers Willem van der Schoot (U6S) and Lewis Jones (U6C) kept 15 clean sheets between them during the season, equalling the record from last season, but in four fewer games. u The ISFA representative teams contained several Reptonians.

Josh Riley (U6P), Tommy Speed (U6P), Willem van der Schoot (U6S) and Ed Jackson (U6P) all represented ISFA U18. James Parton (5C) represented the ISFA U16 team.

u The girls’ football team has had success this year across the competitions. In October they reached the semi-finals of the national 7-a-side tournament at Charterhouse, narrowly losing on penalties, despite not conceding a goal in the tournament.

They retained the Midlands league title, becoming the first team to do so, and also reached the final of the ISFA cup, losing 1-3 to King’s Taunton in a very close encounter. Five girls were selected to represent The Midlands in the ISFA regional tournament at Harrow School. Fenella Scutt (5G), Emma Williamson (L6F), Abbey Lloyd (L6G), Isobel Emmett (L6M) and Anna Jowle (L6M) helped the team retain the title that they had won for the first time in 2014-15. Of these girls Fenella, Isobel and Anna also represented the ISFA national sides at U16 and U18 level respectively. u At the time of writing the cricket season had already seen three centurions. Joss Morgan (U6S) made his third 1st XI hundred in April against Derby College, and Martin Thomas (4O) and Harry Hey (4L) made centuries in the U15 teams. The only 5-wicket hauls of the term to date was taken by Jack Bull (L6O) and William Tomalin (3N). James Sookias (L6S), , Callan Harvey (L6O), Tom Buffin (4S), William Hobson (3S) and Molly Dytham (3M) have all represented Derbyshire age-group teams this term, and Joss Morgan has represented Derbyshire Academy. William Wright (3O) has represented Lincolnshire. u The annual School Steeplechase was a record-breaking one.

Fenella Scutt (5G) broke her own record to claim her third successive junior girls’ title, and Maisie Bird (L6F) won the senior girls’ event, where the first three finishers all passed the previous long-standing record. William Norcross (L6S) claimed the senior boys’ title, with Finlay Dearsly (5C) taking the junior boys’ event. u It was another successful season of tennis. The senior boys’ 1st team had another fantastic season, including a victory against Cambridge University, and competed at Queenswood in July with the top 16 schools in the nation. The junior boys’ and girls’ teams won their county stage of the national competition and now enter the knockout phase, which was due to start in September. The senior girls’ 1st team has dominated all other local rivals. A number of Reptonians were selected to represent their counties at junior and senior level: Joseph Cook (U6C), Elizabeth Allwood (5A), Dominic Lea (U6S), James Murphy (3S), Claudia Johnson (L6A), William Davies (L6O), Martin Thomas(4O), Mae Fitzgerald (3M), James Finnigan (U6N) and Alex Ottewell (3N). u Cross Country Captain Olivia Mair (U6F), Hermione Wright (L6G) and Jack Bywater (U6C) competed at Wollaton Park, representing Derbyshire in the England Schools Cross Country Championships. u In athletics, James Parton (5C) and Jessica Lee (L6G) both broke long-standing school records (1998) in the intermediate boys’ 400m and senior girls’ triple jump. James’ time of 52.7s was also an English School-qualifying time. Fran Cole (3F) equalled the junior girls’ 1500m record. The girls’ 4x100m relay team, consisting of Emily Mitchell (U6M), Sarah Pope (U6G), Jessica Lee (L6G) and captain Alicia Turner (U6F), remain unbeaten. Alex Kingston (U6C) and Angus Edwards (5O) picked up a gold and bronze medal respectively in a regional heptathlon tournament.

No fewer than 30 Reptonians represented South Derbyshire in the Derbyshire Schools Athletic Championships. u Jess Richardson (5G) was selected for the GB Judo team to compete in the Czech European Cup in Teplice, and is ranked number one in her category. She has won numerous medals throughout the year and was awarded the Performance of the Year Trophy at the British Judo Council Annual Awards. u Will Hingley (U6N) took third place in the 15 Hand category of the Horse of the Year Show.

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School News The Dreamland Trip Arabella Heap (L6M), Claudia Atkinson (L6S), Hannah Sherry (L6G), Ciara Allen (L6A), Mia Foster (L6G), Hugo Swaby (L6C), Bradley Sharratt (L6N) and Dominic Nield (L6O) were in high spirits as we travelled to Manchester Airport to begin our adventure south to a truly remarkable country. Everyone was excited and had managed to recharge their batteries after successfully completing the extremely demanding Sportathon challenge just a few days earlier. Knowing we had raised almost £4000 inspired us to now go and see how this could be put to good use in Ghana.

The final event was a Dreamland Staff vs Repton Student relay – our team of Heap, Mia and Sugar absolutely destroyed the three staff who suffered a fall half way around the course, and we were worshipped like Olympic medal winners!

With a 5am flight time, the group could be forgiven for being a little grumpy, but this was absolutely not the case – with an aura of excitement and a sense of nervous expectation the group arrived in Accra, where they were immediately met with great humidity. After meeting up with our driver, the legendary Mr Francis, we began the short journey to the hotel – a daytime arrival enabling us to get a good look at some of the different sights one can see in Ghana: people selling things at traffic lights, women with babies tied to their backs, and people carrying extraordinarily heavy objects on their heads. Our dinner on the first night was simply chicken and rice (this became a theme) but the location was stunning; a small restaurant on the beach – we had arrived in our little spot of paradise.

The weekend brought a break from the teaching and we travelled to Pastor James’ church to take part in their ceremony – if you think Chapel is long then you have experienced nothing! Here we were invited to sing again, and the girls performed with such style and quality. After this we ran an arts and crafts session for the children at the church. Ciara and Hannah led on facepainting, Dom and Brad on paper aeroplanes and there was a collective effort on loom bands and some other activities. As well as these festivities it was also Mrs Nield’s birthday, and the group took a stroll around the market each buying her a gift from the vast array of stalls.

The next morning we headed to the school where we were met with a tremendous welcome. There is always an element of nerves as the bus turns up the red-soiled drive to the school; these nerves dissipate as soon as the first child catches a glimpse of the vehicle and then, like the start of a marathon, hordes of people flocked to the bus! The afternoon was one of cultural sharing – some music from both schools (we sang Oh Happy Day and You Raise Me Up, led by Arabella and Claudia, while they chose Justin Bieber’s Sorry; an advert for his global success!), a play and then a dance, all housed in their newly built multi-purpose structure, funded by money from Repton. This was a welcome like no other and the entire school took part. We had very much arrived.

On Sunday we undertook a Herculean task of decorating and furnishing a staff room for the teachers at the school – this does not sound too difficult but the room had seemingly been used as a storage facility for anything and everything the school deemed unnecessary. After battling the dust and some mice, the room transformed into a beautifully painted, comfortable environment for their teachers to have some privacy and relaxation time.

On top of this we were able to drive into the community and donate some spare books to local schools, which, due to a lack of investment, have absolutely nothing in comparison to Dreamland.

This really put Repton’s work into context and there was much discussion that night about what we could be doing to help in the Akumadan area, which led on to whether Repton should now be looking for opportunities to help other schools beyond Dreamland.

Over the next few days our students paired up and delivered fantastic lessons ranging from Spanish to Biology, theoretical PE to the Physics of paper aeroplanes.

Sadly a sickness bug ravaged the group and we had to battle illness which hit the students one by one – only Hugo (who the Ghanaian kids called Sugar – they couldn’t pronounce his name) and Brad escaped the bug. Credit to the group who did not complain once and simply got back to their task, even if they were not quite fit enough to do it.

Friday afternoon held the now traditional House Sports Day and this was as competitive as ever. The School Shop donated a large number of old house shirts and the Dreamland students wore these with pride as they competed in running, sack races, bean bag on head and the ill-fated three legged race; the last one was clearly a novel idea for them and their technique was interesting and potentially fatal!

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Monday saw the annual school trip to the waterfalls, and brought our time at Dreamland to a close. This excursion is entirely funded by our students and to see such enjoyment on the faces of the Dreamland classes is a really humbling experience. We also used the time to give the staff some Repton kit as well as donate some teaching resources to the school. In return Pastor James presented each of us with a banner bearing our names, as a gift of thanks to us all.

The next day we travelled to the Messiah International School where we were given a royal welcome with singing and dancing, once again. Here our students taught more lessons and Hannah and Claudia gave a memorable music class, whilst Heapy and Mia taught practical drama – the laughter and applause echoing from their classroom meant they always had a large audience watching from the empty window spaces. It was a truly remarkable day and everyone left on a real high… that is, until we discovered two of our bags had been stolen from the bus by a gang of local thieves.

If this was England we would report it to the police and then never see the bags again. But this was not England. Fairly quickly two suspects were determined and, through some unknown power, they were brought to the headmaster. Searching for a confession the two were taken through the community and the crowds began to assemble – imagine the music video to ‘Is this the Way to Amarillo’ with more and more people joining in. It was group vigilante justice as its best. By the time the suspects were dragged into the police station there must have been a crowd of 250 people. Remarkably, even though we had to leave that night, the bags were found and all of the possessions recovered! There are now six people facing two years in prison as well as being expelled from their community by the Chief of the Village.

Wednesday was less dramatic but equally as moving – we visited the Cecilia Blessing School and again were met with a fantastic welcome. The students are very young at this school and proved to be a challenge to teach, but a challenge our students rose to once again. After donating huge amounts of teaching resources and more clothing for staff and students, we were given traditional African clothing as a gift! This school will become another focus within our whole Ghana project.

And so on to the coast. Here we visited the Elmina Slave Castle and Kakum National Park, whilst having an opportunity to recover from sleep deprivation and to relax a little bit – a treat that was very well deserved. After a brief return to the capital to peruse the markets – Apprentice-style! - and buy Ghanaian products to sell as part of our ongoing fundraising efforts, we said our farewells to Mr Francis and boarded a plane home.

It was a privilege to work with such an outstanding group of young adults. Their maturity, determination and company was of the highest quality and we know they will all take a lot back from this trip.

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Societies: The Hampshire Society Hampshire Society, so called after the OR philosopher Sir Stuart Hampshire, has been meeting weekly to discuss philosophical matters since 2012; since, we have approached such ultimate questions as ‘Are we robots?’, ethical paradoxes and questions of objectivity in fact and history. Most recently, Hampshire organised a series of discussions with focus on the Meaning of Life and Descartes’ approach to the five senses.

On the 4th of March in the Summer Term 2015, we tested the reliability of our five senses; sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

The main argument from Descartes is that we cannot trust our senses and that we may even be living in a dream world where nothing can be proven to be true. This activity involved us moving around five different stations, each focused on one of the sensesthe ‘sight’ station included a variety of optical illusions and tested whether what we saw initially was actually the real picture/figure.

The ‘smell’ and ‘taste’ activities also proved that our senses could sometimes be mistaken when we can’t use our sight. Students found it difficult to distinguish the brand of sweet and flavours of crisps without seeing the packaging of the items beforehand. All

these activities made us question ‘Is everything we see in the world an illusion?’

In May of last year’s summer term, Alex Kingston (U6C), Liza Hartley (U6F), Maxim Hibbs (U6S) and both Mr Hill and Mrs Jones debated what they understood to be the ‘Meaning of Life’- a fundamental question in philosophy. With arguments exploring the nuances of the absurdist, humanist and nihilistic notions of the question, the panellists translated complicated concepts into persuasive language with impressive elocution and technique.

I hope I speak on behalf of the ever-growing society when I say that Hampshire, and our exploration of philosophy in such diverse and accessible ways opens our eyes to new and interesting discussions. The ways in which conversation and debate progresses from the start of a meeting to genuinely enlightening conclusions by the end is often a substitute for a term’s worth of lessons, and we are hugely grateful for everyone’s efforts.

Emma Williamson (U6F)

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School News Valete LUIS PARÉS Luis Parés arrived in 2011 to take up the position of Head of Keyboard, a year later becoming Assistant Director of Music (Instrumental) and a Tutor in The Cross. A practising musician of international repute, his dextrous digits and passionate performances have wowed audiences, while his committed teaching, faultless accompaniments and innovative programming for concerts have benefited a generation of Repton (and Foremarke) musicians. He leaves to join Dulwich College as Head of Keyboard, as well as pursuing a more active concert and examining career.

NICK CROMBIE Nick Crombie has contributed to so many areas in just five years at Repton. As a teacher of English his classroom has been a place of fun and creativity. He has been a supportive Academic Tutor to both Sixth Formers and Lower School, and a first-rate Resident Tutor in The Cross for the last four years. He has nurtured sports teams in all the major boys’ sports, and captained the Staff Cricket XI. Above all this stands his passionate fundraising for the Dreamland School, Ghana, and his raising of the profile of the Debating Society – with unprecedented success in regional and national competition, as well as instigating the inter-House competition. Nick leaves to become Second in Department at Caterham School.

DAN CLARK Dan Clark arrived as Head of Ethical and Religious Studies in 2008, making an indelible impression on the whole Repton community in his eight years with us. An outstanding teacher, he engages and inspires, the popularity and exam success in RS soaring during his tenure. He has run the annual Sale of Work event since he arrived and masterminded the Dubai Exchange since 2010 and the timetable since 2012. An occasional coach of girls’ hockey and cricket, he is more often a regular face on the sidelines. Dan takes an all-round interest in his pupils and tutees, and was a first-class Resident Tutor in The Cross, before moving to be equally effective as The Priory’s Boarding Tutor. His quick wit and infectious laugh have brightened up many a dull moment in the Common Room, and Marlborough College can be assured they are gaining a wonderful schoolmaster and great friend to all.

JOHN BOWLEY In a decade as Director of Music, John Bowley has brought the aspirations and expectations of the professional music world from which he and wife, Nicki Kennedy, arrived. Chapel Choir has expanded to become the largest ‘team’ in the School, with challenging and diverse repertoire; the ABRSM results are filled with Distinctions at Grade 8; the close-harmony group The Reptiles was founded, and the Unison and Harmony competitions have vastly improved in their consistency of quality. John has drawn together a highly impressive team of full-time and visiting music staff, augmented by many a visiting professional to adjudicate competitions, give concerts and offer masterclasses. The lure of the Norfolk countryside and a fresh challenge leading the music at Gresham’s sees John, Nicki, Effie and Jack head eastwards with our best wishes.

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ADAM WATKINSON Adam Watkinson has spent just over ten years making the Chapel, and the School more generally, a place that combines hearty laughter with deep reflection, his own homilies exemplifying his spirituality, compassion, warmth, sense of humour and profound emotional intelligence. His desire for current pupils and ORs to see the Chapel as their spiritual home has seen many OR marriages and baptisms under its roof. Adam values Reptonians’ conversational skills and the way they welcome strangers: in the last ten years, 162 preachers have visited the Chapel and been overwhelmed by the friendliness and hospitality they have received. It was in the Chapel that Adam met his future wife, Sue – and where later he proposed. As Adam heads to Charterhouse, to be nearer to Sue, his successor quite simply has a giant’s shoes to fill.

MELISSA BLAIN Melissa Blain has taught French for the best part of 20 years at Repton, in particular effectively running the A Level course. Her results have been consistently excellent; her command of the language is exceptional, and she has shown outstanding energy and drive in supporting her pupils. She has been a driving-force behind the MFL Society and organised a number of trips and exchanges. In her tutoring she again puts the pupils first, with 15 years’ distinguished service in The Abbey, before transferring to The Garden. She has run the Community Service scheme, urging pupils to understand their responsibilities, and latterly taken charge of the Careers Department: her boundless energy and sociable, outgoing personality has ensured that Reptonians today have more avenues than ever before open to them in their initial forays into the world of work. She finally has the chance to draw breath and, we all hope, enjoy many, many happy years of retirement with Jeremy!

JOHN PLOWRIGHT John Plowright – “Johnny P” – is quite simply what Reptonians call “a legend”, combining sharp intellect (a First in History from Peterhouse) with disarming humility; as much at ease talking about the latest cinema release as about the repeal of the Poor Law. John came to Repton as Head of History in 1987, stepping aside in 2006 to become Master of the Scholars, all this time also being a favourite Tutor in The Abbey. A string of other responsibilities over the years has ranged from the sublime (running Debating, Oxbridge Admissions and the Archives) to the ridiculous (Master i/c Half Term Buses). More recently, he has overseen the B Block, A Block and O Block Temple Societies and inaugurated the Law Society. He is an author of several history books, as well as editing and writing the lion’s share of Repton to the End, while few will forget his various star turns in Pedants. Retirement, with his beloved Sue, beckons, but we are glad that, for the time being at least, he will remain a presence in the village.

MIKE KEEP An Old Reptonian, Mike Keep was completing his degree at Cambridge when he received a phone call from his old Headmaster, inviting him to return to Repton to teach Economics. After two years, Mike left to do a PGCE, only, at an OR Dinner in November, for a new Headmaster to beg him to return. He has therefore taught for 37 years without ever having had to apply for a job! In 1985 he became Head of Economics, a position he held for the next 30 years, the subject growing in popularity under his leadership, also overseeing the introduction of Business Studies to the curriculum. On the pastoral side Mike has been a popular House Tutor, in Brook House for 17 years, and Field House for the last 20. Mike has produced something in the region of 15 House plays, the last four self-penned. He has coached both tennis and boys’ hockey, run sailing, spoken many times in Chapel and run Confirmation classes and retreats. His involvement with Christian Forum has brought probably the most pleasure: opportunities to meet informally with pupils and colleagues to read and discuss the Bible. Retirement will give Mike the opportunity for more involvement with Church work and, of course, more time to spend with his dear wife, Nicky. We wish him a long, happy and productive retirement.

We wish all our leavers the very best for the future.

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Pigeon Post THE ARCH, Issue 328, Spring 2016; page 21 NEW HOUSE HOCKEY TEAM circa 1953

New House Hockey Team from about 1953.

L-R Back row - (Haldane)/S Edge, Hewetson, Porteous, J R Fletcher, F Scott.

Middle row - JLA Barnes, J Marsden, Beresford, ?

Bottom row - Weir, Waldron?

Dear Editors With reference to The Arch, 328 Spring 2016, page 21. On the middle row left end next to J Marsden is my deceased brother Jeremy L.A. Barnes (N’49). He died at the age of 28.

Dear Editors Regarding the picture in The Arch, 328 Spring 2016, page 21.

I believe on the middle row is Jeremy Barnes and next but one to him is M Beresford.

Regards Jonathan A. Barnes (N’58)

James Rushton (B’50)

Dear Editors I am writing to you about the photograph of the New House hockey team circa 1953 on page 21 of The Arch.

I arrived at Repton in January 1953 and I must say I do not recall anyone at New House then by the name of Haldane. Standing in the back row from left to right are Stan Edge, Hewetson and Porteous. I do not recognise the person standing in between Porteous and Fletcher but confirm the name Fletcher is probably correct. Definitely Scott is Scott! His younger brother is quite often in The Arch. Their father was at New House with my father in the 1920s. The family came from Kent. In the middle row from left to right is Jeremy Barnes and as you say Marsden and Beresford. I do not recognise the person sitting on the end next to Beresford. Weir is seated in front of Barnes and at the other end maybe Waldron but I am not totally sure about that. I could be wrong. Jeremy Barnes sadly died in the 1920s from a terminal illness. He and his two younger brothers, who were also in New House, came from 38

Faversham. You may recall that both Stan Edge and his younger brother Jo are now deceased. I wrote to you about them a while ago. Joe was a close friend of one of my best friends at Repton David Kerr. His father was with my father at New House in the 1920s. He also now lives in Kent.

Turning to page 33 I am informed that Richard Overend died about 10 years ago. Henry Burkinyoung was at the New House centenary celebrations in 2009. He lived at Rickmansworth in Herts and I have his phone number if you wish to contact him. I have no knowledge of Furness. His family were farmers near Bakewell. Nor do I know anything about Higginson or Herbert. They were all at New House.

Yours sincerely Richard Wenger (N’53)

Dear Editors I was most pleased and interested to read the letter from Lindsay Scott-Wood (M’42) in The Arch. I was in Brook House from1953 to 1958 and came across Bill Blaxland as he was nominally in charge of the Model Aeroplane club which was on the top floor of the Old Mitre. I remember Bill talking about his time in the RFC and I built a 41inch span, free-flight scale model of his Nieuport 17c. Another boy, Sweatman, built an FE8 which was a pusher and Bill recounted how he came out of a spin in it. In those days spins were usually fatal as what was happening to the airflow wasn’t understood. For example being in a spin, despite the nose down attitude the airflow over the wings is stalled. The way to Dear OR Society Secretary In 1936, before WW II, as a refugee from Nazi Germany, I entered Repton as a student. My name at the time was an unpronounceable ‘Klaus Friedrich Bachrach’ and with that name I became a member of Latham House. By 1939 I obtained an Oxford and Cambridge School Certificate and continued at Repton for some time.

In 1940, during the war, my family and I left for the United States.

Upon entering the USA my family changed its name and I became Claude F. Baxter. In the USA I first worked as a practical farmer, but in 1944 I enlisted in the US Army and became a US citizen.

In the military I had the good fortune to be selected for training as an officer and returned to Europe as a replacement officer into what had been Patton’s Third Army. I left the Army in 1947 as a 1st Lt, having spent much of my time in the military doing intelligence work.

Back as a civilian, I entered the University of California and obtained a BS degree in Animal Husbandry. Having decided that practical farming was not a permanent profession for me, I continued my studies at the University of California, Berkeley and obtained a PhD degree in Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, launching my lifelong career as a researcher in agricultural, theoretical and medical biochemistry. In Berkley I also found my companion, now of more than 60 years, my wife and mother of our three children.

I concluded my last 27 working years as Chief of Neurochemistry Labs of the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in Sepulveda, CA, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California in Los Angeles.

recover is to push the stick forward whereas the intuitive reaction is to pull it back. Bill said he was nose down in a spin in the FE8 and he thought that if he was going to hit the ground it would be better if the Lewis gun mounted in front of him wasn’t there to hit him in the face ! So he leant forward to undo it from its mounting and in doing so pushed the stick forward, whereupon the plane swooped down, came out of its spin and was flying again. He said he and his mates worked out what must have happened over a pint that evening.

Yours Anthony Amitage (B’53)

During my career I published more than a hundred research papers, abstracts, book chapters etc., mentored graduate students, was elected Secretary and then President of the American Society for Neurochemistry, organised scientific meetings and co-edited two scientific books.

Since retiring for health reasons in 1990 (two spinal surgeries), I have written and published four volumes of autobiographical stories. (Lulu Press) For all of this time Old Reptonian literature has followed me.

Originally a gift subscription to me from Mr. Grundy, the Housemaster of Latham House, it has outlived him by many years.

I have been receiving it now regularly since right after the end of WW II, a remarkable achievement that deserves my thanks to all those responsible for its production. I have visited Repton on two occasions since WW II, both times on holidays when no one I knew was in town. Professionally, my path crossed that of two former Reptonians when they visited the USA in the late 1900s. (If memory serves me correctly their names were Porter and Swallow). But it was the OR literature that kept me updated as Repton became coeducational, strengthened its science curriculum, and adding new buildings.

But this letter, which I write at the age of nearly 92, is intended to say ‘Thank You’ to those who have kept me in touch and let them know that a Reptonian education (except the Latin) has been put to good use. Once again my sincere thanks for your role in keeping me up to date.

Sincerely yours Claude. F. Baxter (L’36) (formerly Klaus Friedrich Bachrach)

Dear Editors I was saddened and surprised to read the letter from my contemporary in the Hall, Alan Ambrose, seeking to traduce the reputation of our then Headmaster T.L.Thomas in the context of corporal punishment at Repton, Arch No.328 p.29.

It is, of course, a fact that in those days caning did take place at Repton and in a good many other schools as well. However, the use of words such as “mercilessly” and “torture” are totally inappropriate and gratuitously pejorative. Contrast the letter in the same post from John Walker. His comments about T.L.T accord exactly with my feelings.

I have only happy memories of my time at Repton and consider myself fortunate to have been supervised and taught by a Headmaster such as T.L.T, Housemaster Frank Fisher and others on the staff, John Eggar, Dick Sale, Bill Blaxland, the list goes on. (At least three of them in the photograph on p.21, Arch No.328).

Yours sincerely Jim Blood (H’48)

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Pigeon Post Dear Editors 21st July 2016 It is with a considerable degree of disappointment and sadness that I recently witnessed a humiliating defeat of the Repton Pilgrims by the Old Malvernians in the 2nd Round of the Cricketer Cup at Malvern. The Pilgrims were forced to turn out a very much weakened XI, and were consequently bowled out for 83 runs which their opponents knocked off with almost contemptuous ease in a mere ten overs, the game ending by mid-afternoon.

No blame whatever should be attached to the players representing the Pilgrims, who gave of their best but were simply outclassed by an admittedly strong Old Malvernain XI. The fixture had to be re-arranged from the previous weekend at Repton owing to the adverse weather, and this resulted in the withdrawal of several key players who were required to represent their club

Dear Editors, In response to Alan Ambrose’ (H’48) letter regarding corporal punishment at the hands of the headmaster, T.L.T. was not alone in doling out thrashings. Every Housemaster at that time meted out canings, as did every prefect. Maybe a slight abuse of the word “canings” as only the Head of House caned, while the prefects on duty “flapped” with a slipper, which in my experience, was just as painful. Several nights each year I would hear a youngster weeping into his pillow far into the night following a thrashing.

I have been teaching in British Columbia since 1969 and at no time were any of the boys or girls in my school caned. We managed to maintain a level of discipline by other means, mostly one-on-one talks and, as a last resort, the parents became involved.

Dear Editors The photograph sent by Peter Tubbs (The Arch, issue 328, page 21) of the staff football XI has aroused much interest with many ORs having difficulty in identifying all the players. The picture in fact shows the 1951 side and not the 1953 one, which no doubt has confused people.

The players are as follows (those asterisked later became headmasters).

Standing l to r: David Carr* (then on the Foremarke staff), Peter Tubbs, Len Hollins, Kim Taylor*, Dick Sale*, Douglas Argyle, John Eggar*, B A Thomas (at Repton for one year teaching Modern Languages).

Kneeling l to r: Tom Drury*, Frank Fisher*, Johnny Stow.

Looking for: The OR Office has been asked if any ORs are in contact with the family of Maurice Oliver Allwood (C’46). Maurice’s son was possibly called William.

Photographs of the Allwood family have been found when tidying up the estate of one of Maurice’s friends.

Please contact the OR office .

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sides, leaving the captain desperate to raise eleven players shortly before the match.

In days gone by the Pilgrims were able regularly to call upon players of outstanding ability in this very prestigious competition.

It is indeed true that circumstances are now very different with much greater demands made upon them by their club sides, but the match at Malvern was an embarrassment for the supporters of Repton cricket present, and I believe every effort should be made in future to avoid a repetition as it did the reputation of the Pilgrims and Repton cricket little credit.

Yours sincerely Roger Gillard (P’50)

We can say a thankful good-bye to many wrongs that were perpetrated on sinners. Capital punishment, corporal punishment, imprisonment for homosexual activity and girls are no longer sent home for wearing jeans to school. Prior to 1970 girls had to wear skirts or dresses to school even when it was thirty below zero.

I should be interested to learn what the teaching staff at Repton now do about pupils who misbehave, fifty years later? I recall that canings would be administered for poor grades on a report card.

Sincerely, Ed Monro (C’56)

The match was played in the Michaelmas Term 1951 (incidentally my last term) and resulted in a 2-all draw. There is a full report in the November 1951 Reptonian. Max Cropper (H’47) scored both Repton goals and the scorers for the staff were Carr and Drury Two comments particularly amused me: “Taylor in goal was most entertaining” and “Hollins was sly beyond all comprehension”.

(Len Hollins was a Cambridge blue).

J F M Walker (H’46)

Lost Contacts We have a long list of ORs with whom we have lost contact. Below is the list from Orchard House. The full list is available on the OR website http://www.repton.org.uk./keep-in-touch. If you are in contact with anyone on the list, perhaps you would like to ask them if they would like to receive copies of The Arch and correspondence from us. They can email, post, or fill in the form on the web page with their current details.

First Name/Surname Peter Bailey Gibson Alan Davidson Dunn William Roland Lawson John Stuart Nuthall Robert Arthur Dobbin Crawford Alan Lyell Charles Hugh Christopher Lloyd Richard Mark Joseph Gundry George White Denton John Edward Hammond Arthur John Richardson Harold Colin Hargreaves Richard Johnson Martin Jacques Hassan Terence Malcolm Rouse John Wyckham Scofield Wyckham John Tunstall Lamb Charles Robert Pope-Hattersley Henry John Fredman Roger Ralph Orchard John Edgar Rowland William Henry Claxton Peter Frederick Maurice Warlow David Denis Aldridge Rudolf Harold Herbert Peter Duncan Crokatt Ian Reynold Bliss John Denham Austin Anthony Fergus O’Sullivan Jonathan James Spilman David Arthur Oswald Williams Geoffrey Robert Hallam Roger Douglas Bliss Michael Kitson James Michael Arnold Jones Anthony John Thompson Robert Whiteley Donald Stuart Muir Colin Hugh Jeaffreson David Maurice Higgins John Michael Stewart Halliday David Gordon Neill John Walker John Richard Anderson James Christopher Nelson Barry George Reynolds Geoffrey Christopher Green John Peter Charlson John Hamilton Brooks Christopher Ruthven St Quinton Anton Paul Redfern Bradburn Neil Paddon Smith David Nicholas Garbourne Mason John Michael Noguera Anthony Duckworth Barlow David Howard Cottrell Mervyn Peter Power Andrew James Haig Anderson Timothy James Baily Gibson Richard George Bradley Peter Stephen Jones Peter John Charles Michael-Phillips David Martin Henry Dunkley Roger Humphrey Jones

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ORCHARD HOUSE First Name/Surname John Martin Kippax Peter Richard Hazell-Smith Stephen John Berry Nigel Stuart Orr Peter Robert Lowe William John Leslie Day Peter Maurice Fraser Thomas Edward Evan Kinsey Julian Mark Turner Ashworth Philip Hugh Davies William Harry George Wells Anthony Joseph Noguera James Adam Scorer John David Catto Peter Markham John Neil Leadbetter Christopher James Snow Hulland Robert Michael Heathcote Lawrence Wilson Pak-Cheung Louey William John Martin Delaforce Subir Kumar Chatterjee Robert Trevor Dunkley Nicholas Brook De Redman Exham Christopher Simon Bright Jonathan Mark Taylor David Noel Womersley Paul Philip Kendall Charles Edward Walter Tweedale Jonathan David Oliphant Down John Kim Davis Simon Frederick Hodgson Hugh Courtenay James Goodman Peter Edward Davis Justin Frederick Devereux Hardy Henry Robert Neil Gillespie Graham Robert Skinner Charles Robert Elliott John Jeremy Simon Greenwood Sumit Kumar Chatterjee John Leslie Martin Fletcher Thomas Jeremy Ricketts Julian Alexander David White Wayne Richard Asquith Marcus Richard Peel Geoffrey Faint A H Steele N W Pearson C Finn D J E Roberts Nicholas Andrew Ramsden Pollard A R Charlesworth Charles J Darby K Shenoi Nicholas R Bates James R F Riley Zahid Majeed Timothy Richard Grew Paul S Weaver Jonathan F Rhodes M Haq Andrew Ho Simon Horsman Richard L Vaughan Iain James Nelson

Year 1960 1960 1961 1961 1962 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1963 1963 1963 1963 1964 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1966 1966 1966 1966 1966 1966 1967 1967 1967 1968 1968 1969 1970 1970 1970 1971 1971 1972 1972 1973 1973 1973 1973 1973 1974 1974 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1977 1977 1978 1978 1978 1979 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980

First Name/Surname P Michael Wood Toby E L Cohen Timothy J Ingles Christopher Tandy Simon Carfoot Simon J Kelly William J Morgan Ian Hayward Simon David Neill Charles A Adeogun-Phillips Ashley P Morgan Arved Schumann Paul Lucas R Simeon Bowring Stuart N P Nelson Michael J Hunter Edward John Spencer Aron Au Martin G Linthwaite James E Dixon Andrew Lomax Jeremy D Saul William S Valentine Benjamin J Rathbone Jonathan Stott Stuart G Dixon Thomas G L Cohen Peter K Phillips Andrew Bancroft Matthew W S Waine Simon P Andrew Anthony Yu Thomas E Golland Jonathan R H Heath David J Kent Christopher James Haseldine Rupert Alexander Pedley Oliver James Kimberley Richard William Bullock Thomas H Bolton Benjamin R Newcombe David W J Slater Donald C Ward Sebastian M Cavill Timothy Paul Thornhill Edward J M Adkins Freidrich Brandi Hoi Ming Li Simon Paul John Duggan Oliver J Bates Wei Shi Robert John Dann Frederik Sokolowski Hao Feng Li Johannes Lehmann Leo Andrew Watton Declan Blackwood Tristram Aidan Thaddeus Fane-Saunders Jan Meid Sam L J Armstrong Chun Yin Li

Year 1981 1981 1981 1982 1982 1982 1982 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1985 1986 1986 1987 1988 1988 1988 1989 1989 1989 1989 1990 1990 1991 1992 1992 1992 1993 1994 1994 1994 1994 1995 1996 1996 1996 1996 1998 1998 1999 1999 1999 2000 2001 2001 2001 2003 2003 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2008 2009

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is a full list of those ORs who have volunteered to be ‘Overseas Links’. We are very grateful to those who Overseas Contacts Below have volunteered, but there are many gaps in the list of countries. If you would be willing to act as an Overseas Link Country AUSTRIA AUSTRALIA Queensland Perth Sydney Victoria (Melbourne) Victoria BELGIUM BRAZIL CANADA Alberta British Columbia Eastern Ontario & Quebec Toronto Western CHILE CHINA CYPRUS DENMARK EAST AFRICA (Uganda) EAST AFRICA (Kenya) ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY (East/South) GERMANY (North/West) HONG KONG INDIA INDONESIA ITALY JAPAN JORDAN MALAYSIA KUWAIT MOROCCO NEW ZEALAND NIGERIA NORWAY (Oslo) PHILIPPINES PORTUGAL QATAR QATAR SAUDI ARABIA SINGAPORE SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town Natal SPAIN South & Gibraltar Madrid Madrid Mallorca SOUTH KOREA SWEDEN (STOCKHOLM) SWITZERLAND TANZANIA THAILAND THAILAND TRINIDAD TURKEY UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED ARAB EMIRATES USA All All Arizona California Chicago Florida Los Angeles Massachusetts New York New York North Carolina Ohio Texas Washington WEST INDIES All Cayman Islands Jamaica YEMEN ZAMBIA

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in a country not already covered, please contact Jan Cobb on jcobb@repton.org.uk Telephone House & Yr Email Name +43 650 9686865 contact@chaletexperiences.com New ‘01 Doug Fletcher David Miller Frank Smith Natalie Wynne Simon Q Crabtree Vanessa Twigg Hadrian Coulton Susan Hawkins

Hall ‘59 Orchard ‘53 Abbey ‘95 Orchard ‘90 Abbey ‘76 Mitre ‘82 Abbey ’98

Rev Martin Hattersley Ed Monro Tony Houghton Kamil Alam David Laing Nicolas Ibanez Scott Jipeng Li Richard Sale Mathilde Juul Mark Dudley Philip Hechle Kadi Lilis Saar Roger Smith Rev James Barnett James R Chapman Beate Erdmann Severin J B Zilg Eddie Niem David Poon Tom Goodall John Syed Julie Daniels Natsuko Sato Toby Fricker Ian Grout Tim Wilkinson Martin Robinshaw Richard Hedley Ibrahim Dikko David Llewelyn Paul Bleckly Alistair Fairclough Steve Targett Lizzie Tebbs (nee Waller) Tracey Washer Richard Coventry

Orchard ‘46 Cross ‘56 Latham ‘51 Mitre ‘88 Latham ‘70 Latham ‘70 Field ‘97 Hall ‘61 Abbey ‘91 Priory ‘91 Hall ‘50 Garden ‘09 Priory ‘66 Hall ‘57 Hall ‘83 Abbey ‘99 Mitre ‘01 Latham ‘66 Hall ‘85 New ‘93 Brook ‘83 Abbey ‘89 Abbey ‘96 Priory ‘88 Brook ‘81 Cross ‘75 Latham ‘78 Hall ‘66 New ‘83 Orchard ‘63 Cross ‘67 Orchard ‘46 Cross ‘76 Abbey ‘92 Abbey ‘88 Brook ‘73

Ryan Brews Peter Hall

David.Miller@airgroup.asn.au frank@happygardener.com.au nataliewynne@hotmail.com simon@afps.net.au vtwiggb9@gmail.com notharry@googlemail hawkinsusan@gmail.com hilnedmonro@yahoo.ca dtbears@kingston.net kamilalam@gmail.com dlaing@endeavourfinancial.com richard@edacen.com miss@matty.dk mark.dudley3@gmail.com philipandroshechle@gmail.com kadiliissaar@gmail.com noelsmit@.jyu.fi james.barnett@wanadoo.fr jim@chapmans.de beate_erdmann@hotmail.com niemeyf@netvigator.com dgkpoon@gmail.com jj9749@gmail.com info@juliedaniels.com violino7@hotmail.com tobyfricker@hotmail,com groutid@hotmail.com tcmwilkinson@hotmail.com or-overseas-link-morocco@outlook.com r-s.hedley@xtra.co.nz iydikko@hotmail.com davidlle@online.no paulbleckly@yahoo.co.uk

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Mitre ‘00 Latham ‘57

ryanbrews@gmail.com peter@cookingbear.co.za

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Mark Smith Luke Allen John Wilcox Jonny Greenall Ga Jeun Lee Peter Stones Andrew Neville Charles Adeogun-Phillips Jom Salakshana Charles Ostick Omar Hadeed Huseyin Yardimci Charles Neil Sandy Farquharson

Orchard ‘78 Orchard ‘87 Mitre ‘82 Orchard ‘89 Abbey ‘02 Latham ‘05 Hall ‘69 Orchard ‘83 Mitre ‘06 Orchard ‘75 Priory ‘99 Hall ‘83 Priory ‘65 New ‘97

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Jane Roy Mark Wilhelm Verheyen Mike Jolley Edward Huson Robert Perks Andy Hilton Ash Johsi Andreas Graham Anthony Edgar James Kirtland Russell Elliott Douglas Balchan Shaheen Ladhani Christopher Huson

Abbey ‘86 Cross ‘77 Orchard ‘47 Hall ‘70 New ‘71 Brook ‘68 Latham ‘82 Mitre ’83 Orchard ‘90 Orchard ‘88 Mitre ‘93 Orchard ‘71 Cross ‘89 Hall ‘72

jroy@uab.edu mverheyen@comcast.net MnJJOLLEY@aol.com eahuson@gmail.com robertperks@earthlink.net andyh@totallybrilliant.com ash@caprity.com andreas.graham@verizon.net ajedgar@me.com james.kirtland@gmail.com russelliott@gmail.com djbalchan@aol.com shaheenladhani@gmail.com mrhuson@mindspring.com

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Edward James Hutson Elliot Charles Reid Gordon Sharp Huw Thomas Samuel Chibale

Mitre ‘68 Hall ‘64 Priory ‘54 Latham ‘73 Mitre ‘95

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Your Contact Details In the OR Office we are keen to ensure that we keep our records updated for all ORs. To this end we would be grateful if you could contact us if any of your details change, such as address, email, telephone numbers etc. We are also delighted to hear your ‘good news’ such as engagements, marriages, births, qualifications gained, new jobs etc. We will only publish such information in The Arch with your agreement.

Would you prefer to read The Arch on line and not receive a paper copy?

Please advise us if this is the case.

Please email the office: jcobb@repton.org.uk or or@repton.org.uk

Old Reptonians can now keep in contact with the OR office and fellow ORs via Facebook – go to www.facebook.com/ ORSociety and click ‘Like’

Or telephone: 01283 559320 Or write to us at: The Old Reptonian Society The Hall, Repton School Repton, Derbyshire DE65 6FH

The editorial staff retain the right to edit any submissions.

Thank You!

We would like to send invitations to our events out electronically. If you do not currently receive emails from us, please email jcobb@repton.org.uk

Repton School Shop - Memorabilia NEW Silver Charm We are delighted to announce that we now have a beautiful silver charm for ORs to purchase. The charm can be bought on its own or with the silver bracelet. We have only had them on sale since June this year and they have already proved very popular as birthday gifts and leaving school gifts.

OR Ties:

House Scarves:

Miscellaneous:

Silk

The Priory

Large Glass Crested Goblet

Non Crease

School House

Crested Red Wine Glass

Bow Tie

New House

Glass Crested Paper Weight

Latham House

Crested Cuff Links

OR House/Sports Ties:

The Orchard

Crested Key Rings

Brook House

The Mitre (Girls)

Brass Buttons

The Hall

Cross

Repton cards

The Priory

The Abbey

Large Teddy Bear

School House (Polyester)

Field House

Repton Cricket Caps

New House

The Garden

Leisure Socks

Latham House

Large Golf Umbrella

The Orchard

Miscellaneous:

China Mug

The Mitre

Repton Crested Silver Charm (to fit all pendant and bracelet chains)

Repton China Coin Tray

Repton crested Charm with Bracelet

Repton Register 2007 Book

The Cross OR Football OR Hockey OR Golf (striped) Cambridge Pilgrims Tie New silk ties for Old Reptonians for all of the Houses are now available.

Pint Glass Crested Tankard

450th Anniversary Book Repton To The End Repton Register 2007 CD

Half Pint Glass Crested Tankard Champagne Crested Flute All items are available from the Repton School Shop, The Paddock, Repton, which can be contacted for price details and to place your order on: Tel. 01283 559323, or by email: shop@repton.org.uk 43

Leavers 2015-2016, on the steps of Pears School

The Old Reptonian Society The Hall, Repton School Repton, Derbyshire DE65 6FH

Telephone: 01283 559320 Email: jcobb@repton.org.uk / or@repton.org.uk

Website: www.repton.org.uk