Who? What? Where? It is always good to hear from OUs, wherever you are. Please keep the news coming in. Brian Vaughton (F 41) looks back on a successful career and despite being made redundant twice, he has been roundthe-world; and done much in between - ending up with experiences that he once only dreamt about. Compiler/editor of BBC radio documentaries, industrial documentary filmmaker, RAFVR pilot, and accredited MOD correspondent; mainly on aviation subjects – from Tiger Moth to Lightning, Buccaneer (steam-catapult launch from former HMS Ark Royal), Red Arrows, Gnat, Harrier, Victor tanker, Gazelle helicopter, Nimrod, Wellington, Lancaster, Lincoln, and Spitfire – plus four days on a submarine. He did try very hard recently to get to fly a Typhoon – but you can’t win them all!
Brian Vaughton (F 41)
Alan (Justin) Howse (F 42) has been presented with an award by the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. From the late sixties he acted as an organisation dedicated to improving dancers’ health to most of the ballet companies and professional dance schools, as well as musicians and performing artists in general. However a greater part of his time was as a general orthopaedic surgeon specialising particularly in spinal disc Alan (Justin) Howse surgery and (F 42) hip and knee replacements.
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Twenty years after being invented by Michael James (WB 44), the UK’s version of Nasaleze, Care Allergy Defence, has been accepted for public use by the NHS. Instead of giving medication for Hay Fever, Asthma and Eczema to alleviate these allergic reactions, he has found his product to be far more effective and much safer and cheaper to maintain and help restore the nasal tract’s natural air filtration system.
they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary earlier this year.
Sir John Ure’s (Hf 45) latest, and fourteenth, book was published in 2010 entitled ‘Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game’. At School, Hugh Proctor (LH 48) was taught to play the violin by Jill Bean (nee Whitehead) and his violin lay undisturbed from 1953 until he joined a small string orchestra in 2003 where he once again plays second violin. Sir James Hawley (Fgh 50) has been the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire since 1993. In 2010 he was made K.C.V.O. (Knights Commander of the Victorian Order) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Bill Hendry (B 51)
Mike Archer (WD 53) has co-edited a second edition of Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland, recently published by A & C Black Publishers Ltd. Mike leads the data management team at The Bardsey Bird Observatory, and he is also an active ringer at Gibraltar Point.
Sir James Hawley (Fgh 50)
Bill Hendry (B 51) is now a Crofter raising Highland cattle in the Outer Hebrides. He studied medicine at Glasgow University, pathology in Boston, Massachusetts and then trained in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. For 30 years he worked as a consultant urologist at St Bartholomew’s and Royal Marsden Hospital and was President of the British Association of urological surgeons from 1996-1998. He is presently caring for his wife, Chirsty Marie, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s and
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Mike Archer’s Book (WD 53)
Nigel Wilson (L 53) retired from the paper industry in 2002 after 42 years dealing mostly in waste paper. Since
