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DIALOGUE Issue #4 2019
OGs BACK TO SCHOOL
Thank you to all those OGs and parents who come into the RGS to share their skills and experience and take part in a range of activities from lectures and debates to careers seminars, society talks and field days. Here is a selection. Jack Matthias OG 2007 visited the RGS music department. Now a successful composer Jack took time to discuss composition, particularly the inclusion of electronic elements within his work.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Sales OG 1979 gave a talk to sixth formers from RGS and other local schools on starting out in the legal profession and an insight into some of his most interesting cases.
Michael Kielstra OG 2018 delivered a well-received talk entitled Applying to Harvard: an Old Guildfordian’s experience and perspective.
Our Law seminar saw several familiar faces return to the school to share their knowledge and experience. (L-R Peter Dunscombe, Tom Lingard OG 1995, James Wareing OG 2014, Nick Bond OG 2004, Michael Mullin OG 2003.)
Nick Edwards OG 1969 returned to meet
Paul Kerensa OG 1997 is always a welcome
the Headmaster and senior prefects and share memories of his time at RGS. A keen sportsman Nick enjoyed lunch with the sports staff. (Pictured centre with RGS senior pupils.)
guest. This year he has given a talk on ‘Can we Trust the Bible?’ to the Christian Union, given a lower school assembly on the Ghost of Christmas Past and once again hosted the popular stand-up comedy night for the school’s charities.
Jack Emberton OG 2016 gave a talk to the Sceptics’ Society about his personal experience working in corporate jobs. Jack founded the Society when a pupil at RGS.
OGs Max Beech and Tom Phipps 2015 presented at Young Enterprise Finals about how their experience of YE in 2014 has impacted on their lives and careers to date.
