Old Pauline Club News

150th Anniversary Dinner

On Thursday 23 June, the 150th Anniversary Dinner was held at The Tabernacle, Notting Hill. The evening gave OPs of all ages the opportunity to socialise with old friends and new, celebrate 150 years of Pauline alumni engagement and raise funds for the OPC 150th Appeal.

The evening began with a drinks reception, at which guests enjoyed martinis made using Dima’s Ukrainian vodka (produced by Dima Deinega (2002-07)), whilst being entertained by jazz standards performed by The Greg Davis Trio.

Over the evening, diners heard from the High Master and the OPC President, with further contributions from Jonathan Kydd (1967-72), MC, and Lizzie Holmes, soprano.

The 150th Appeal was the central focus of the evening and video testimonies were shown from bursary recipients, Tom Adeyoola (1990-95), Noah Zhou (2014-19) and Kiki Ajayi (2016-21), who shared their experience of the power of bursaries to change lives. The Appeal will run throughout Ed Vaizey’s presidency – until June 2023 – and will raise money for the school’s bursary fund. £80,000 was raised from the evening, and the OPC is incredibly grateful for the generosity of those who contributed to that total.

150th Anniversary Dinner

£80,000

Old Pauline Club Vice Presidents

Five OPs have become Vice Presidents.

Tom Adeyoola (1990-95) is a School Governor. He is a technology entrepreneur, advisor and investor with 20 years’ experience in new media, disruptive technology and business strategy focused on positive society and climate related projects.

Neil Fitch (1955-60) has been the Hon Secretary of the Old Pauline Golf Society for the last 20 years. Without him the Society would not have survived and become the thriving body it is now. In earlier years he was involved with Old Pauline rugby and cricket.

Sir Simon Fraser (1971-75) is a former School Governor. He is a retired diplomat who served as the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2010 to July 2015, having served as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from May 2009 to August 2010. He is currently Deputy Chairman of Chatham House and serves as Adviser to the Europe Programme. He is also Managing Partner of Flint Global.

Geoffrey Mathews (1972-77) is a Governor at St Paul’s Girls’ School and was a member of the OPC 150th Anniversary Committee. Geoffrey has worked in not-for-profit management for nearly thirty years, as Commercial Director for the National Gallery and The Prince of Wales’s Charities and as a Creative Director in the National Theatre and the Foreign Office Communications Department. He is currently CEO of the Chelsea Arts Club. In his early career he was a strategic consultant and an army officer. He was a Classics scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Nog Norgren (1981-86) was chair of the OPC Governance Working Party in 2021. He was an elected member of the OPC Main Committee (from 2017 to 2021), is a member of the new Executive Committee as the 50s Decade representative. He trained and worked as a solicitor at Freshfields before moving on to in-house roles at Merrill Lynch and then a specialist finance company, ETV Capital. In 2011 he set up Norgren Legal. He has three OP sons.

Old Pauline Lodge

David Cons (1955-57) reports that the Old Pauline Lodge met for its second meeting of the year in the Montgomery Room at the School on the 23 March.

This year’s Master, Rabbi Zvi Solomons (1981-85) took the chair for his final time as Master and installed his successor Nigel Codron (1969-73). Zvi was appointed Lodge Secretary taking over from Nigel Young (1964-68) who completed twelve years as Secretary.

At the meeting a new member, Paul Baksh (1982-85) was admitted and initiated. The meeting was very well attended with several visitors from other school lodges. After the meeting we enjoyed dinner in the Milton Room. There are 32 Public School lodges meeting in London and every year one of them hosts a Public School Lodges Festival at their School to which members of the other Schools are invited with partners. Last year, Cheltenham College hosted the festival and in June this year Ardingly School in Sussex will be host.

The OP Lodge has four meetings a year at Barnes with the kind permission of the School and is exclusively for OPs and members of staff. The Lodge was founded in 1919 to encourage friendship between Old Paulines of different vintages and over 100 years later is still admirably fulfilling this remit, as well as raising funds for the benefit of the School and Paulines.

If any OP is interested to have more information or a meeting he should contact our secretary Zvi Solomons: secretary@oldpaulinelodge.org.uk The Pauline Memory Project

At the Earliest Vintage Lunch held on 31 March, Ginny Dawe-Woodings then the OPC Archivist launched The Pauline Memory Project.

Approaching 100 OPs attended the EVL all of whom spent part of their time at School during the 1950s and 1960s. While the war years at Crowthorne are well documented, there is a shortage of memories from the final two decades at the Hammersmith site.

The Pauline Memory Project seeks to capture and record the personal, student, and ephemeral history of life at St Paul’s School. While the archives of both the School and the Old Pauline Club reflect both the professional and organisational memory of the institution, there is a paucity of personal, ephemeral, and ‘un-official’ memory.

This project will populate these gaps with memories sourced from the alumni community as a way of adding to the history of the School.

Once the 1950s and 1960s are covered the intention is to move on to the 1970s and so on. The Pauline Memory Project, once it has started, will be an ongoing project collecting the memories of Old Paulines. If you would like to take part, please send your name, dates of attendance and contact details to: Archivist@stpaulsschool.org.uk Old Pauline Club

Autumn 2022

President

The Rt Hon the Lord Vaizey of Didcot

Past Presidents

C D L Hogbin, C J W Madge, F W Neate, Sir Alexander Graham GBE DCL, R C Cunis, Professor the Rt Hon the Lord McColl of Dulwich, The Rt Hon the Lord Baker of Dorking CH, J M Dennis, J H M East, Sir Nigel Thompson KCMG CBE, R J Smith, B M Jones

Vice Presidents

Professor D S H Abulafia, T M Adeyoola, Rt Revd R W B Atkinson OBE, Professor M D Bailey, P R A Baker, R S Baldock, S C H Bishop, J R Blair CBE, Sir David Brewer CMG, CVO, N St J Brooks, R D Burton, W M A Carroll, Professor P A Cartledge, M A Colato, R K Compton, T J D Cunis, A C Day, S J Dennis MBE, Sir Lloyd Dorfman CVO, CBE, C R Dring, C G Duckworth, A R Duncan, J A H Ellis, R A Engel, D H P Etherton, The Rt Hon the Lord Etherton of Marylebone PC, Sir Brian Fall GCVO KCMG, N J Fitch, Sir Simon Fraser CMG, KCMG, GCMG, B R Girvan, The Rt Hon the Lord Godson of Thorney Island, T J R Goode, D J GordonSmith, Lt Gen Sir Peter Graham KCB CBE, The Rt Hon the Lord Greenhalgh of Fulham, Professor F D M Haldane, S R Harding, R J G Holman, J A Howard, S A Hyman, S D Kerrigan, P J King, T G Knight, J W S Lyons, I C MacDougall, G C Matthews, Professor C P Mayer CBE, R G McIntosh, A R M McLean CLH, I C McNicol, J D Morgan, A K Nigam, N H Norgren, The Rt Hon George Osborne, Sir Mene Pangalos FRS, T B Peters, D M Porteus, R M Rayner, The Rt Hon the Lord Razzall of Mortlake CBE, The Rt Hon the Lord Renwick of Clifton KCMG, A M Rind CVO, B M Roberts, J M Robertson, J E Rolfe, M K Seigel, J Sherjan, J C F Simpson CBE, D R Snow MBE, S Strauss, A G Summers, R Summers, J L Thorn, R Ticciati OBE, Sir Mark Walport FRS, Professor the Lord Winston of Hammersmith, J Withers Green

Executive Committee

Ed Vaizey (President & Chairman of the Committee), Jeremy Withers Green (Deputy President), Sam Turner (Secretary), Nick Brooks (Treasurer), James Grant (40s Decade), Sam Hyman (Co-Opted, Surveyor), Brian Jones (Co-Opted, Strategy), Elizabeth Monro-Davies (Parent), Nog Norgren (50s Decade), Ali Palmer (Governor), Rishi Patel-Warr (20s Decade), Jehan Sherjan (Thames Ditton), Ellie Sleeman (Development), Simon Strauss (Overseas), Nick Troen (Staff and AROPS), Jack Turner (Sports), Neil Wates (30s Decade),

Nominations Committee

Ed Vaizey (Chairman), John Dennis, Brian Jones, Peter King

Strategy Implementation Committee

Brian Jones (Chairman), Nick Brooks, Michael Colato, Simon Hardy

Sports Committee

Jack Turner (Chairman), Rob Rayner, Jehan Sherjan, Nick Troen

Advisory Council

Chairman John East David Abulafia, Richard Atkinson, Peter Baker, Simon Bishop, Jon Blair, Paul Cartledge, Michael Colato, Ross Compton, Richard Cunis, Tim Cunis, Alan Day, John Dennis, Charles Duckworth, John Ellis, Robert Engel, Brian Fall, Simon Fraser, Dean Godson, Mike Graham, Stephen Greenhalgh, Richard Holman, Peter King, Charles Madge, Alan McLean, Jon Morgan, Francis Neate, Robert Rayner, Tim Razzall, James Rolfe, Mike Seigel, Rob Smith, Nigel Thompson

Archivist

Kelly Strickland

Accountants

Kreston Reeves LLP