Richard Robinson – Chairman

It was a pleasant and somewhat daunting surprise to see so many of you turn up for Chapel and AGM on Sunday. Many of you had made significant journeys, and this clearly demonstrated the interest of OD’s both in the school and the OD Club.

I personally felt suitably interrogated on the day for my actions to date as treasurer and webmaster; I have carried out these jobs in my spare time and given as much as I can to them.

Having achieved the change-over to an active website with easy and regular updates, the back end database with its incomplete links looks very poor by comparison. The overwhelming message from those present was to sort the back end database to match the quality of what has been achieved on the front pages. This is therefore one of the completion tasks for the new committee this year.

We have a challenging year to come. I am confident that we as a committee will succeed with the support of the College and ODs. I look forward to seeing as many of you again at the next OD gathering in January 2012 at the RAF Club.

Mark Copson – Treasurer

I would like to take the earliest opportunity to thank the number Old Dovorians who voted in favour of my undertaking the role of Treasurer of the OD Club, a most humbling yet invigorating experience. There are absolutely no illusions as to the challenges and responsibilities that lay ahead, however one would hope that with the support and input of ODs of all ages, based both domestically and abroad, we can continue to develop the club into a position of which we are all proud.

I very much look forward to working on behalf of each and every one of the Old Dovorians and will endeavour to help drive the club to future and sustained success.

Paul Hayes – Secretary

Well, now that the excitement of the elections and AGM has passed I can muster the energy and focus to finally put pen to paper (or digit to keypad these days). My humble appreciation goes out to all who voted for me as Hon’ Sec’.

I am looking forward to working with my fellow officers and committee members to further develop the interests of the OD Club, build on the relationship we have with the school and the Headmaster and progress the points raised by all OD’s at the AGM.

What an exciting day, yesterday! It had it all – drama, food, sun and sport… The photos below feature the wonderful gift presented to Stephen Jones (the retiring Headmaster) by John Widgery on behalf of the OD Club, the OD lunch in the Refectory and cricket at Upper Maxton.

See A message from your new Officers of the Committee

OLD DOVORIAN CRICKET CLUB
Old Dovorians v Dover College
The Team
Jack Fuller – Gerard Grofton-Martin – Sunil Devalia –  Matt Jay –  Jack Woods – Ashley Burton – Antony Stanley –  Teddy Easthope – John Brasier – Andrew Walsh – Mike Walsh
Umpire: John Widgery
Scoresheet: ODs v DoverCollege 03-07-11

OLD DOVORIAN CLUB

Dover College  Dover  Kent  CT17 9RH

Notice of Annual General Meeting of The Old Dovorian Club
to be held in
The Learning Resources Centre, Dover College
on Sunday 3rd July at 11.30 am

Download this (Vs.2) as a PDF

1. Opening and Introduction by the Club’s President, John Widgery
2. Apologies for Absence
3. Minutes of the Previous Meeting held on Sunday 27th June 2010
4. Matters Arising
5. Chairman’s Report
6. To Consider and, if thought fit, to accept and adopt the following changes to the OD Club Rules:
   1. Rule 4 (c) to receive add “(to the extent not already listed on the website of the Old Dovorian Club)”..delete “lists of members”….
   2. Rule 5  …registered in the lists..add “held by the Old Dovorian Club or otherwise registered on the database of members of the Old Dovorian website”..delete “furnished by the Honourable Secretary” …..
   3. Rule 17 ..or unpaid agents….add “The Headmaster of Dover College shall be entitled to attend (but shall have no vote) meetings of the Old Dovorian Club, unless the Committee shall resolve otherwise.”
   4. New Rule 19 add “The Old Dovorian Club shall be entitled to operate, maintain and pay for a website for the benefit of its Members. Members shall be entitled (to the extent the website permits) to register such information with respect to each such Member as such Member deems fit, recognising (and therefore providing consent in relation thereto) that other Members registered on the website may be able to view such information.”
   5. Old Rule 19, now Rule 20 ….delivered if add “(i) they are listed on the official website of the Old Dovorian Club and/or (ii)”…
   6. Old Rule 25, now 26 ..in force. add “For the avoidance of doubt a copy of the rules shall be deemed to have been made available to every Member if such rules are listed on the official website of the Old Dovorian Club.”
7. Treasurer’s Report and formal adoption of accounts
8. Website Report
9. Elections
   1. Election of Club Officers 2011 – 2012.   The nominations are:
      • Chairman – Richard Robinson or Roger McHardy
      • Secretary – Paul Hayes or Nigel Pittam
      • Treasurer – Mark Copson or Sunil Devalia
   2. The following retire by rotation and seek re-election to the Committee for 2011 – 2014 or are new candidates:
      • James Gatehouse
      • John Sinclair
      • Richard Upton
      • Richard Robinson
      • Mark Copson
      • Alex Wood
   3. Election of Honorary Vice President, nominated:
      • James Ryeland

   NB Any further nominations must be notified, at least four weeks before the
   meeting, that is before Sunday 5th June 2011 to secretary@olddovorians.com
   or in writing to Chairman OD Club, c/o Dover College, Dover, Kent CT17 9RH

10. War Memorial & Endowment Fund Report, election of officers and formal adoption of accounts.
11. Report by the Headmaster, Stephen Jones
12. Any Other Business

John Widgery, President.                  John Sinclair, Chairman of the Committee.

From the Chairman

Dear Old Dovorian

December 2010

I am pleased to report that it’s been a very good year for the Old Dovorian Club and I have highlighted here only some of the more significant happenings during 2010.

You will be pleased to learn that one of our most distinguished and active ODs, John Turnpenny, received the well-deserved honour of becoming a Freeman of the town of Dover.   Congratulations John!

The OD Trust, www.odtrust.org, the charity arm of the club, managed, after protracted legal machinations, to secure the GH McMillan legacy, enabling it, at last, to make more significant disbursements for the benefit of Dover College and its students.

The club has a new and magnificent website which receives a significant number of “hits” and is proving invaluable in keeping ODs in touch, specially now there is the facility to post on-line messages.  It is truly inter-active.  Don’t forget to register if you haven’t already done so!

Sadly we lost some friends during the year, most notably Admiral Sir Peter White, who died in May,
aged 91.   A tribute to Peter and other friends can be seen on the website.

Dover College has a new headmaster!  Gerry Holden will take over from Stephen Jones in September.  Stephen and Katie have done a great job for the school and will be sorely missed.   We wish them both every happiness and success at St Edwards.   Gerry will be joining us with a wealth of experience from Rendcomb College and we wish Gerry a very warm welcome.

The party this January should be magnificent.  Stephen and some of the senior staff, together with the school prefects should be up from Dover and we are hoping that Gerry will be able to join us, too.  Stephen will be auctioning the painting of the gatehouse by our artist OD, Dick “dot” Bates, for the benefit of our charity.   In addition we are  hoping that Julian Lloyd-Webber, who is to open College’s new music school in the new year, will be able to put in an appearance.  Unfortunately, we have had to increase the party ticket price but there will be no compromises on the quality and quantity of the refreshments!   It will be well worth it, I promise!

Finally, this will be my last newsletter, as I shall be standing down as chairman next summer to make way for younger blood!  But I have had a tremendous time and have very much appreciated all your support. Thank you!

Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year!

John Sinclair
The School House 1962 – 67
chairman@olddovorians.com

OLD DOVORIAN CLUB
Dover College Dover Kent CT17 9RH

From the Hon. Secretary Richard Upton

Notice of Annual General Meeting to be held on Sunday 27 th June 2010 in the Learning Resources Centre at Dover College at 11.30 am

The outgoing President of the Club, James Ryeland, will open the meeting and then introduce his successor who will chair the rest of the proceedings.

Agenda

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the previous meeting, held on 28th June 2009
3. Matters arising
4. Treasurer’s Financial Report and Adoption of the Club Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2009
5. Election of Officers for 2010 – 2011
   • Nominations: Chairman John Sinclair
   • Treasurer Richard Robinson
   • Secretary Richard Upton
   • Any variations to the above nominations will be posted on the OD Club website www.olddovorians.com closer to the date of this AGM.
   • Any additional nominations must be submitted to the Club’s Hon. Secretary by 28th May
6. Elections to the Committee 2010 – 2013
   • Nominations: Ashley Burton
   • Any variations or additions to the above will be posted on the OD Club website closer to the date of this AGM.
   • The following retire by rotation: Sunil Devalia, Niall Sullivan
   • Devalia seeks re-election
7. War Memorial and Endowment Fund
• Adoption of the Accounts and Report of the War Memorial and Endowment Fund
8. OD Trust
9. Any Other Business
• Luncheon will be in the Refectory after the AGM. After lunch there will be an informal meeting of the Committee. The Cricket match at Maxton will start at 12.00.

Richard Upton, Hon. Sec – John Sinclair, Chairman

Link to original pdf

FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Dear Old Dovorians

Welcome to what will probably be the last OD Newsletter in this format, more of that later.

This has been an interesting year for the Club.  Gerald Kityakara who had served the Club so well over so many years as a Committee member, Treasurer and finally Chairman decided that he needed to spend more time with family and friends so stood down from his post in June.  We will miss his wise counsel and steady hand on the tiller.  And Maureen Cross, dedicated to the Club for many years, retired.  I miss her at this moment, as she used to put this Newsletter together, which I am now doing and it is no easy task!

We are in difficult economic times with an uncertain future and schools like Dover College are under siege from all sides, not only from the government and the Charity Commission, but with less money in our pockets, it can be very difficult for parents, out of already highly taxed income, to find the extra for school fees. So it is especially important now for us to support our old school as much as we can.

Few older ODs visit the College these days and many have no idea about how it is now.  I have had comments like, “I hear the Close has been completely built over” and “did you know that St Martin’s House is now a girls’ House?” “Priory House is now a big hole in the ground, the school is unrecognisable!”  I visit our old school frequently and I think it has never looked better.  The Close is as lovely as it always was.  OK, Priory House has gone, along with the old gym, but basically it looks the same as it always did, but cleaner and tidier. There is a “buzz” amongst the pupils. It is a happy place, you can feel it.  So have you thought about Dover College for your own children and grandchildren?  It is now well worth considering. Come and see for yourselves.  We have the OD weekend in the summer and the OD Club AGM and you can meet the Headmaster, Stephen Jones and his team who are doing such a good job. As for St. Martin’s, of course, it was always a girls’ House!

Concerning the future of this Newsletter, it was decided by the OD Committee and at the AGM, that there would be one more paper version after the setting up of the new OD website. The printing and posting of the Newsletter are the Club’s biggest annual expenses. The website has now been running for over a year and has generally been a success.  It has just been re-vamped and we have dropped the £10.00 registration fee.  The site will be backed up by the OD main database, with over 5000 names, addresses and details, and by registering you will also be bringing the database up to date, as well as giving us your email addresses, which could enable us to send you the Newsletter electronically each year. This Newsletter will be posted on the site and will be used as the basis of a permanent feature that can be continually up-dated.  So OD news, sports fixtures and events such as parties and reunions will appear on the site straight away.  Any OD will be able to contribute, it’s just a matter of contacting the webmaster

The London party at the RAF Club in January was a great success and we will be there again this coming January. It would be lovely to see as many of you there as possible with your families, and of course in Dover. We are also planning to have a summer party, perhaps in Dover.  The details, when finalised, will appear, in due course, on the website

.I would welcome feedback about any of the subjects I have raised, particularly about the Newsletter and the website and perhaps with suggestions about the proposed summer party.  I can be contacted at the email address below.  You can obtain a Prospectus from the Headmaster’s office. Please look at the website and register if you have not already done so.

I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.  Let’s hope that 2009 will be a little better than the year we have just had.

John Sinclair
School House ’62-67

chairman@olddovorians.com

Website:  www.olddovorians.com.

FROM THE HEADMASTER

Dear Old Dovorians

What a fantastic year we have had here at College – an excellent Independent Schools’ Inspectorate report, first class A level results – the best ever, and I’m sure OD’s were pleased to see us ahead of S. Lawrence, Dukies, King’s Rochester and Sutton Valence in the Telegraph league table – not to mention the beating of numerous local grammar schools! This year we achieved 54% of A levels at A or B grade with 75% at A, B or C. Well done the latest crop of Old Dovorians.

College was inspected for the best part of a week by a team of seven inspectors (mostly current Heads or senior teachers in Independent Schools) and their report spoke highly of us in all areas. They opined that College was clearly meeting its aims of educating the whole child and providing a broad and balanced curricular and extra-curricular programme with high academic expectations. They came to the conclusion that “pupils are provided with a broad range of educational opportunities and grow up to be well rounded individuals whose spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good”.

The Inspectors’ report also noted that “the quality of pastoral care is outstanding” and that “a particular strength is the school’s careful nurturing of all pupils by dedicated staff who know their pupils well and often provide extra teaching and support out of hours, going beyond what might normally be expected”. Overall we are very pleased indeed with the report; it is gratifying to see that the hard work of all in our community – the pupils and the staff as well as the parents and the Governors – has been recognised and written about in such glowing terms”.

(The full report will be available soon on the ISI website www.isi.net. Hard copies of the report can be obtained from College.)

Prize Day was another excellent occasion this year – the first year with Joe Sullivan as Chairman. Joe succeeded Chris Hare who retired as Chairman, and from Council, at the AGM last December. We were delighted to be able to host Dame Ann Murray – hot foot from singing in the Marriage of Figaro at Covent Garden – as our guest of honour; she distributed the prizes and spoke in a wonderfully warm way to the pupils about her own youth in an Irish boarding school. We were delighted too that she agreed to sing Bob Chilcott’s Irish Blessing in Chapel – a real treat for all who were there.

On Prize Day I paid tribute to those members of Common Room who were leaving – not many this year, and we said goodbye to Christobel Dunbar from the English department and Deborah Collis from Individual Needs. We also said farewell to Grant and Jennie Heppleston who ran the maths department and Duckworth House respectively, and to Paul Turner who had run the School House. Mark Algar, head of Business and Priory Housemaster was the longest serving of the leavers – it is always a sad, perhaps rather a bittersweet day for Common Room and pupils.

Out and about in College we have had a great year of music with our new Precentor, Paul Young, who has done many splendid things culminating in an excellent Summer Concert. We were served a wonderful and rich programme featuring works by Ralph Vaughan-Williams – it is the fiftieth anniversary of his death – and Antonio Vivaldi. Of particular note were the excellent solo pieces by Aimee Mullan, Emily Coles, Elspeth Robertson and Stacy Lin in Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the extraordinary and virtuoso playing of Elspeth in Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Minor – we could all see why she has been awarded a scholarship by the Royal College of Music.

Music has been at the forefront of current College development too, for we have recently purchased the last house in the original Effingham Crescent, next door to the Headmaster’s House, and have thus expanded our boundaries; this will enable us to develop a new Music School in the current Headmaster’s House, and to give the whole of Menzies over to Drama. More broadly, work has also been under way on the new Lecture Theatre behind Leamington – the George Eccleshall Lecture Theatre in honour of George whom we have always viewed here as Father of the School. Phase one is complete.

The broad sweep of year has included some excellent work in the extra dimension of drama, art, design – and of course the games. Highlights this year include particularly good performances from the cross country runners with Ben Hadman and Shusanta Rai coming first and second respectively in the Kent county league and leading the U15 boys runners to first place; Millie Gaskin coming second individually in the league, heading our Open Girls’ team who were a very close second place behind King’s Canterbury; and Ollie Gaskin being unchallenged in the county throughout the season in the U17 boys.

There has seen some outstanding drama not only from the Houses, but particularly in IJD Christmas production and the AS and A2 exam shows, and we have had some excellent Art and Design; last year’s UVIth leaver Clare Perry’s egg shaped bantam coup – her A level design piece – was a particularly astonishing piece of design.

In the Junior Department the big change has been a large influx of pupils from Folkestone. Many of you will have been in the Junior School when it was in Folkestone – the old Westbrook House. This school separated again from us over ten years ago but finally closed this summer and around half of the pupils joined us here in our new IJD, along with some of the teachers from Westbrook. It is a great sadness to see Westbrook finally fold, but all from Folkestone have settled well here and are enjoying life in Dover. It is extraordinary how things turn around and around…

On the OD front it has been excellent to see the club in such good form. The London Drinks at the RAF Club in Piccadilly has been growing annually and is excellent – do try to be there this time round on 16th January 2009. Canon Nigel Nicholson, now vice Chairman of Council, has been running a tremendously successful annual dinner near Cranleigh, and the London Group drinks now seems to last from lunchtime and on into the evening! Do look at the OD website too – and try the link to visit the new College website.

So finally, I am very pleased to report to you all that College is in excellent heart and looking forward to closer links with London and the South East as the new fast train from St. Pancras come into service next year – central London will then be only one hour away! I would finish by quoting to you the last words of my final assembly to College in the summer

“Now I would really like to talk about the last two weeks or so here. I wrote list of things that went on here, starting with the Yr 5 week in Priory and moving through to: trips to the Ardeche for Priory and to Aosta for the fourth form; the fifth form leadership week under canvas; the Lower VIth futures week; the Medieval week for the third form (and any spares); the Old Dovorian weekend with Chapel and Cricket; Cricket Week itself; the Choir singing for the flower festival at Alkham; the Leavers Dinner and dance; the IJD Campover. At the bottom of that list I wrote the words “What a fantastic school!” ”

That busy-ness, and the sense of coherence and purpose at a time in the year when many schools are idling is the epitome of why College is a great school and I am very proud of the efforts of all – I hope too that you all also remain very proud of your old school.

Yours sincerely

Stephen Jones

OD CLUB COMMITTEE NEWS

The new OD website was set up in the summer of 2007 following comments from various ODs that the old site, which was attached to the school’s, was inadequate and not kept up to date.  So a professional web design company was commissioned to produce a modern stand alone site dedicated to ODs.  The set-up costs were going to be reconciled by discontinuing this version of the Newsletter, which is expensive to produce and post world-wide. Then, following representations from some ODs, it was decided to publish one more paper copy, so this is the last Newsletter that will be posted to you.

It is hoped that the website will become the main conduit for ODs wishing to get in touch with each other or search for old friends, as well as giving out all the information ODs would need, such as news of events and reunions, parties and sports fixtures, news of Old Dovorians, contacts at the OD Club and the school, as well as the Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths.  This is a completely free service to all members of the OD Club.

Club Committee meetings have generally been well attended this year.  The best attended is of course in January as it has a party attached to it!   There is now a Student Representative on the Committee, which this year is the Head Girl, Corriene Miller.  New members are encouraged, particularly those with a skill or service they can offer as well as a commitment to the Club.  Needed at the moment are some IT enthusiasts to join the webmaster rota. Committee meetings take place four times a year, one in Dover after the AGM and three in London, one of which is at the RAF Club, immediately before the drinks party.  If you wish to become a member of the Committee, please contact the Hon. Secretary for details.

Future plans include a summer party to complement the January party at the RAF Club. The Mentoring scheme needs to be developed, this requires more volunteers.  Discussions have taken place about giving grants to some of the regional and international groups to help them to promote more social interaction and networking among ODs. Long term, it is hoped to set up a fund to help ODs wishing to send their own children to Dover College

A VIEW OF LIFE AT DOVER COLLEGE TODAY

by the Head Girl, Corriene Miller

Life at Dover College is a fantastic experience for anyone, whether a boarder or day pupil.  The family community which encompasses the school enables everyone to receive close pastoral support.

I was fortunate enough to be one of the Infant and Junior Department’s founder pupils and making the jump into senior school life was made so much easier knowing that I had the help and support of my junior school teachers close by.  When I moved over to Priory I had the advantage of knowing my way around the school and knew many of the senior school teachers.  During my two years in Priory House I was encouraged to challenge myself, and my abilities, academic, sporting and dramatic, were stretched, helping to make me the person I am today.

Moving into St Martin’s was also another step forward in my journey through Dover College.  Although I had the security of having my elder sister in St Martin’s with me, I was always expected to be independent and discover new things for myself.

The Sixth Form has been the icing on the cake.  My peers and I are enjoying the prestige of being School or House Prefects.  As Head Girl I have the opportunity to meet the Headmaster every week to discuss the daily business of school life and develop my leadership skills.  Our prefect meetings and Sixth Form events advance our personal growth, whilst Common Room assist us to start to make the huge step into university life.

As my final terms at Dover College pass by, I am looking forward to making my speech on Prize Day.  I feel Dover College has given me a solid grounding, both academically and personally, which will enable me to move on to the exciting new opportunities of university, with confidence and pride.

NEWS OF OLD DOVORIANS

SASHA BOWERS writes “ I just graduated from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, with a 2:1 in Film and Media, where I made two short films, one of which was about female gang violence and the other, honour killings.  Both were screened at an independent cinema, The Filmhouse, in Edinburgh.  I also briefly worked as a runner on the BBC series Flog It for an upcoming show.  I am currently doing my Masters in Directing (Digital Film and Television) at Bournemouth University and am a presenter for Nerve TV Music, my university’s own online TV channel.”

ZARA DAWN BROADLEY was Called to the Bar in 2008.

VERITY CATT is living in Surrey BC, Canada saving North American Wildlife.

SIMON CHARLIER became an Admiral on February 6th. 2008.

JOHNNY CHU is teaching English in China to under-privileged teenagers in High school.  His E is  J_C_Y_C@hotmail.com

PATRICK DUDGEON (staff) was 80 in February 2008.  He held lunch parties in Kent and London.  John Lee OD hosted a dinner for him in London and Ralph Townsend (staff) hosted a lunch at the Athenaeum.  ODs attending events included Mr & Mrs Martin Wright, The Rev Richard Wood, John Francis, David Ross, Nick McConnell, Sandra Hignett-Jones, Michael Thomas, Charles Nettleton and Pava Sukhdev.

DANAE KATHARINE JOHNSON  writes “Well I’m now living the life in sunny Sydney.  I have been here for 16 months and was permanently offered my job…so I’m here to stay!  I’m working for an LPG shipping and trading company in the operations and trading side, it’s a great industry and very social.  Have managed to do a fair bit of travelling with it too….New Caledonia, New Zealand, most of Oz….and off to Singapore early next year as well as a trip to the head office in Geneva in January….No babies though, thank goodness!”

DAVID KEELER writes “…just finished recording my new album with top producer Chris Sheldon (foo fighters)…toured America…lots of European tours also!…I’m the drummer…the band called ‘the walts’!…..and Mr Blunt said I would never do it! Haha!

LIAM McNICHOLAS writes “I have finished uni now and am working for a production company in London making factual TV documentaries.  Its wicked fun…..well I have only just qualified, I got a 2:2 from media college.  I am working on my first credit, hopefully will get one in the new year, its only a placement at the mo just to get some more experience.”

MATT MERRICKS writes “I’m living in Chile with my girlfriend and working as a carpenter building houses.  I was teaching English which was fun but I wanted to work on site…and we are expecting the birth of my son at the end of November….my girlfriend is a Chilean so she doesn’t really have any problem communicating but I have learnt a lot of the language since I arrived…I can have a decent conversation with someone now.”

RYAN MARTIN writes “Got a daughter of 11 months old called Molly.  Working on Wicked, Mama Mia, Avenue Q, Jersey Boys, Grease and The Lion King. I was the drummer on Daddy Cool in 2006 and Fame in 2007. I also played on Will Young’s new album called Let It Go!  I was the Musical Director and drummer for Pop act Booty Luv, ex Big Brovas’ front girls.  I also played for Pixies’ new album due out next year sometime.  Apart from being rushed off my feet with Sessions I am very well.”

EMMA LEWIS, now McCOUBRIE is to become a teacher at Dover College, starting in January 2009.  She will be a housemistress in Priory House (girls and boys, years 7 & and teach English.  Emma was previously at Sevenoaks School.  She is married with two small children.

MICHAEL M PENNING writes “Let it be known that I’ve found another ‘side-line’ and opened a restaurant in Brussels.  Actually it’s my daughter and son-in-law (since September 2007) who took over a charming little establishment….and of course we’d be delighted to receive anybody with connections to Dover College….And especially ODs of any generation!…information can be gleaned from www.mandivass.be …I’d be glad to translate or explain any feature or look after visitors to Belgium who need advice or help of any kind
Contacts: Tel/fax. 32 2 374  55 25  M. 32 475 616041. E  penning@skynet.be

MATTHEW SOLLEY was a finalist in the National Farmers’ “ Manager of the Year”.

ELIZABETH TRESSIDER is now teaching History and Geography at Dover College.  She graduated from Hatfield College, Durham in June 2008 with a  Combined Honours in Arts, Class II Division 1.

SARAH VAUGHAN writes “…I had Bryn in March this year so I am enjoying a year’s maternity leave before going back to Christ Church Uni to do a PGCE in primary teaching….I still see HANNAH HOLMES (now Hannah Agar) who also has a baby boy called Barnaby…and HANNAH CHRISTIAN (now Waller) who has a baby boy, Christopher….as well as INIGO DODD, TOM O’CLEE and NIAMH SULLIVAN. They are all doing well.  Tom lives in Liverpool and Inigo and Niamh are now an ‘item’ and live in Folkestone doing lots of arty things!”

Have you informed us of your changed postal address or email address?  Do you know of any ODs not receiving this newsletter?  The club would like to up-date the master database of all ODs.

Please contact the OD Club webmaster at webmaster@olddovorians.com

ENGAGEMENTS

Mr & Mrs Gordon T J Kitney have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their daughter, Emily, with Captain Edward Thompson QGE.

Emily was a sixth former in Duckworth in 1999 and Edward was Head of House in Leamington in 1999.  Edward’s mother, Yvonne, was a Housemistress in St.Martin’s.

MARRIAGES

Brenton Amadee got married at Dover College on Saturday 12th.July.  The Ceremony was a joint effort by Katie Jones and a family friend, Mike Barnard.  There was a Drinks Reception on the Close with a steel band playing sweet Caribbean music.  There was a small marquee and a bouncy castle on the Close to entertain the 40 or so children.  The food was a Caribbean buffet, served in the Refectory, prepared by a chef from London, but Gerry and the school staff were fully involved with the preparation and serving of the food and drink.  The tables were named after Caribbean islands

There were four Best Men, two of whom were ODs, Adam Sims and James Ledger.

Photographs of the day are on the website, www.olddovorians.com.

Alex Bradley (School House 92-97) married Tracey Pye in Adelaide, South Australia on 11th.October 2008.  They both now live in Gawler, South Australia.

BIRTHS

CHEUNG  to Henry and Wai Yee, a daughter, Stephanie, a sister for Sophie

IN MEMORIAM

SIMON ATHERDEN  (S 1973 – 77)
Patrick Dudgeon writes;

Simon started as a Day Boy in School House but became a Boarder for the VI form.  He was very popular and contributed largely to the running and the social life of School House.  Another Housemaster, talking of Simon, said, sourly “All the nice boys go in to School House.”

After leaving, he read Law and graduated with an LL.B. After qualifying he became a Partner in a firm at Tamworth where he continued until his death.

He was a keen runner and ran in the New York Marathon when he raised £18,000 in sponsorship for Cancer Relief.

He leaves a widow, a daughter of 15 and a son of 12.  His brother, Nigel, is an OD.

LT. COL. CHARLES E BOOTH-JONES

Charles E Booth-Jones died on 16th  January 2008, leaving a wife and two children.  His son, Christopher, was also at Dover College.

He was at Dover College from 1933 to 1937 in Crescent House.  Afterwards he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, subsequently attaining a commission in the Royal Corps of Signals.

After war service in the Middle East, the army sent him to Cambridge University where he gained an Honours Degree.  He then served in the Korean War and at SHAPE, near Paris.

He then qualified as a schoolmaster and taught at several schools, also writing four little books on Maths for children, before retiring to Somerset.

MAURICE GORDON CRAWFORD
Born 14.12.1932  died 10.11.2006

St Martin’s House  ’46-‘50

Maurice enjoyed his time at Dover College playing Fives and was capped for rugby.  His close friends were Johnny Pearce and Peter Alderton.

On leaving Dover, he went to work in Fleet Street for the publishers John Dickinson as a trainee journalist before being called up for National Service with the City of London Royal Fusiliers, serving in Korea.  On his return he went to Devon where his parents had retired after running the Northern Star pub in New Southgate.  In Devon he went on to run his own successful reclamation and packaging business until his retirement.

A loving husband, father and friend, he loved to throw parties and barbecues to entertain them. Throughout his life he enjoyed rugby, riding and equestrian events, fishing, golf and travel, especially holidays in France where he used his French linguistic skills, having gained a Distinction at Matriculation in French at  Dover College!

Sadly Maurice died of cancer.  He is survived by his wife, Sylvia and four children, Beverley, Rebecca, Paula and Iain, and nine grandchildren.

NB  If anyone recalls memories of Maurice, we would love to hear – please contact his daughter Beverley Delve – Telephone 01392 447339 Exeter, Devon.

MICHAEL TONY FLICK   ( St Martin’s 1949 – 1952)
Always known as Tony, died of liver cancer on 11th.March 2008.  His older brother, Peter Flick (St.Martin’s 1946 – 1950) writes “Although becoming decrepit, I am – thank the Lord – still fit and well, and beg to remain on the List for a little longer.”

PETER GREGORY  (St. Martins 1937 – 1940)
Died 13th. February 2008.

JOHNATHAN FRAZER SUNDERLAND  ( “Big Balls”)  Priory 66 – 70
Suddenly, on 10th.September 2008.  He leaves a son and daughter, Louise and Tim.
Sadly, his ex-wife, Sandy, pre-deceased him by a couple of months.
Among the many mourners at his funeral were Robert Stingemore (P 65 – 70) and Graham Wessel (P 66 – 70) two of his best friends at Dover.  A larger than life character, in many ways, he will be profoundly missed.

THE COLLEGE CHAPEL

The College Chapel is available to Old Dovorians and Staff for Marriages.
After the Marriage Ceremony, why not hold your reception either in the Refectory or on The Close.
For details of Marriages and Wedding Receptions (and other functions), please contact Rick Sullivan in the Bursary who will be pleased to give you details.
His telephone number is 01304 205969 extension 208.

ADDRESS LIST

The price of £5.00 includes postage and packing to a UK address.
Overseas purchasers: The price of £5.00 includes postage and packing but please enclose payment by sterling cheque drawn on a UK bank or sterling notes or local currency notes to the equivalent in pound sterling.
Please send the form below with cheque payable to:  ‘The Old Dovorian Club’ to:
The Old Dovorian Club, Dover College, Effingham Crescent, Dover, Kent CT17 9RH and mark your envelope  – ADDRESS LIST
This form can also be used to inform us of your change of address.

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THE LONDON CITY GROUP

The London City Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at lunchtime in the Cock & Woolpack, a charming little pub in Finch Lane, just behind the Royal Exchange Building and two minutes’ walk from Bank tube station.

The meetings are generally well attended with ODs from every age group coming from far and wide.  Among the regulars are Tony Bunting, Gerald Kityakara, Richard Robinson, Richard Upton, Paul Hayes, Chris Cox and Arthur Ryser to name but a few.  Recently Mike Lightbourn (all the way from the Bahamas) and Peter Coulson, Head of English at Dover in the Sixties, attended.

For more information call John Sinclair on 07984 278476 or email chairman@olddovorians.com .

DOVER GROUP

We meet at 12.30 on the last Saturday in the month (except December) at the Brewer’s Fayre Restaurant, Premier Lodge/Travel Inn, Marine Court, Marine Parade, Dover.  This is at the eastern end of the Sea Front
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The regulars are mainly ex staff, so there is a better chance that visiting ODs will know someone.  Lionel and Nicole Gay, Peter Kershaw, George and Penny Matthews, Rosemary Rottenbury, Klara Stefan-Nelson, Jean Tuckwell and Pearl White are usually there.  The Nickalls family come when they can.

Apart from the “Last Saturday” meetings, we have had visits from Tony Bunting, Ray Dias and Mike Lightbourn.  At the time of writing we are expecting visits from Patrick O’Donnell (Director of PE and assistant Geography master 1968-71) and Richard Townend (Modern Languages 1968-70) to celebrate 40 years since they started teaching at Dover.  They will be joined by Colin Sumner.

For further information, please telephone 01304 206905 or email me j.turnpenny@talktalk.net .

John Turnpenny

Jess Howe and Shirlej Gabbai are hosting a reunion party at the Cricketers Pub, Crabble on Saturday January 10th. From 7.00 pm to 4.00 am.  Details will be posted on the website.

WEST COUNTRY GROUP

The annual West Country reunion was held at Stanton Manor, Chippenham, on 9th. May 2008 , and, as ever, proved to be a very enjoyable occasion.  It was unanimously agreed that these reunions should continue, and the date of  Friday 8th.May was decided upon for the next function.  It will be held again at Stanton Manor, Chippenham.  This lies just off Junction 17 of the M4 and is very easy to find, only a few minutes from the motorway.

We get together between 12.00 and 12.30pm, enjoy a drink, order our lunch from the menu, catch up on any news from the College, and drift away throughout the afternoon.

Anyone wishing to attend should let me know in order that numbers may be given to the Manor in advance.

My telephone number is 01761 463163 and my email address is lf10@talktalk.net (not as previously)

Being in such a convenient location this venue enables Old Dovorians from a very wide area to meet together and we do hope that officers and staff will join us in order that we might be more directly acquainted with the progress of our Club and our school.

Leslie Fox

REUNION DINNER IN SURREY

Over the past four years, because we seem to have gathered a great crowd of ODs in the  Surrey/Sussex area, we have been meeting for a most enjoyable dinner at the Punchbowl at Oakwood Hill, near Ewhurst, Surrey.  We have entertained nearly 20 people and always look forward to new members joining us.

If anyone would like further details, please contact Nigel Nicholson, telephone number 01483 273620, or e-mail stnicoloff@aol.com .
Nigel Nicholson

OLD DOVORIAN GOLFING SOCIETY

The AGM was held at Knole Park G.C.,  Sevenoaks on 10th October 2008.  Thanks were given and a small presentation was made to the outgoing President, John Turnpenny, for his unstinting support.  Graham Turner, a past captain and long standing supporter was elected the new President of the Society.

Graham Turner retained the Quantock Salver at our Spring Meeting at Littlestone G.C.:  37 points on a blustery day with a 3 club wind was impressive.

At our Summer Meeting at Tandridge G.C. the wind and long grass took its toll but Jack Fuller took the Crescent Salver with a creditable 32 points.

Charlie Scott won the Turnpenny Jug at rain lashed Redlibbets with 37 points.

On a fine autumn day at Knole Park, David Walter played some stunning golf to take the Dawes Cup with 42 points.

The annual Triangular Match against St Lawrence College and Kings Canterbury this year was dominated by the Old Laurentians.

We meet with the Old Laurentians for a full diary of fixtures in 2009 as follows:

April 17th        Triangular Match at Royal Ashdown G.C.
April 24th        Spring  Meeting at Littlestone G.C.
July 9th            Summer Meeting at Tandridge G.C.
September 4th        Meeting at Redlibbets G.C.
October 9th        Autumn Meeting at Knole Park G.C.

A total of seventeen golfers contributed to a very successful season with our five trophies being shared by four different pairs of hands.

We welcome new members.  If you would like to join us please contact Tony Röbin on 01483 276959 or tony.robin@btinternet.com
Tony Robin (Captain)

THE OLD DOVORIAN CLUB LONDON DRINKS PARTY

FRIDAY 16th. JANUARY 2009
At the Royal Air Force Club
128 Piccadilly
London
7.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m.

You are invited to come with your spouse, partner, friends or guests

Dress: Jacket and Tie

Ticket Price only £29.00 per person
(includes Sparkling Wine, Orange Juice and food served during the evening)
Please complete the form below and return with your cheque to:

Richard Robinson
Hon.Treasurer,
OD Club
12 Towerside,
148 Wapping High Street
London E1W 3PF

Tel:  0207 702 9103
Fax:  0870 285 8580
Mobile: 07887 520411
Email:  rrr@3rconsultants.co.uk

Please try to send applications to arrive as soon as possible, but, in any event, not later than Friday 9th January 2009
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Applications will be acknowledged by Email, Fax. or  Mail. Please circle your preferred means of receiving acknowledgement and ensure that the appropriate contact details are entered in the form below

Please supply……..…tickets at £29.00 each.   I have written the names of any extra guests below.

I enclose my cheque for £………………made payable to The Old Dovorian Club

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OLD DOVORIAN MEMORABILIA

The following items are available from the School Shop
Description                    Price inc. p&p for UK Sales

Cufflinks – (Silver and boxed see Page 15)            £25.00 per pair
Town Tie – (Narrow Stripes on a Black Background) Silk                    £18.00
Country Tie – (Broad Grey/Red/Blue Stripes) – Silk        £18.00
Burgundy Tie with College Crest – Polyester    £7.50                     £ 2.50 each
Ladies Pendant – St. Martin emblem    (Gold)    £7.50                     £ 2.50 each
Ladies Pendant – St. Martin emblem    (Silver)    £7.50                      £ 2.50 each
Prices as at June 2007

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Nee:-                    (if applicable)

Address

Postcode

Send to
Mrs Brenda Barber School Shop Dover College Effingham Crescent Dover, Kent CT17 9RH

I enclose a Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank for £    Payable to the “Old Dovorian
Club”.  (add  £1.00 for any overseas orders.)
We regret that for reasons of administrative costs, we cannot accept
non-Sterling cheques, bankers drafts drawn on overseas banks or credit cards.

OLD DOVORIAN SILVER CUFFLINKS

Prices as at October 2007.  Overseas purchasers please add £1.00 for postage and enclose payment by Sterling cheque (payable to  the Old Dovorian Club) drawn on a UK bank or Sterling notes or local currency notes to the equivalent in £ Sterling. We regret that for reasons of administrative cost, we cannot accept non-sterling cheques or bankers drafts drawn on overseas banks.
Other College Memorabilia available: A set of prints of Dover College at a special price of £32.50. For this item cheques should be made payable to “The Friends of Dover College”.

Mrs Brenda Barber, Dover College, Effingham Crescent, Dover, Kent  CT17 9RH

Please supply the following:

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The Great Explosion
by Donald Stephenson (1936 – 39)

When I was at Dover College, all the boys were required to be in the OTC, which meant a weekly period of marching, rifle drill and the periodic firing of rifles at the County Rifle Range up on the cliffs above the school. The OTC was equipped with First World War Lee-Enfield Rifles which fired .303 calibre bullets.  Surprisingly I was found to be a good shot and was made a member of the school Shooting Eight competing at Bisley (an annual English Public School Rifle Shooting Competition). Because of that we practised once a week with a generous allocation of .303 rounds.  I managed to accumulate a number of these rounds (which should of course have been handed in after each practice) and kept them hidden in my locker.

At the end of one of the Christmas holidays, (which I used to spend with my sister Kathy at the Warren School in Worthing when our parents had moved to Malta) I had to return early to Dover before the other boys had gone back, sleeping in my ‘dorm’ but being fed by my Housemaster’s wife.

Having not much else to do during the days, I found that the .303 bullet fitted exactly into the round hole of the metal handle of my dorm window, and that with sufficient pressure I could thereby twist off the bullet’s brass casing.  Inside were thin, tightly packed sticks of cordite.  Using some sort of instrument, I removed the cordite from a number of rounds, packed them tightly into a glass bottle, and threaded a long fuse wire through the cordite and the cork stopper, which sealed the bottle.  There were about 20 feet of tarmac path between the School House and the Housemaster’s home, and one afternoon, when I thought I was alone, I attached one end of a length of two-ply electric cable to the fuse wires on the bottle and the other end to a power point inside the back door of the School House.  By extending the bottle-end cable, I found that it almost reached the housemaster’s back door.  Now since term had not yet started, I thought I was alone in the area – so, looking around to make sure, I then threw the power-point switch.

Immediately there was an almighty blast, which shattered the windows and scared the living daylights out of me. I pulled in the cable as fast as I could and hid it behind the door.  And it was just as well, as at that moment a very flustered Housemaster came shooting out of his back door, demanding to know what the hell the bang was.  Fortunately the glass had shattered into so many small pieces that it left no evidence of the explosion at all, so I was able to look as surprised as he did, and pleaded ignorance.

The story that I nearly blew my housemaster up is one that I could dine out on, but is not quite true! I am pretty sure he thought I was responsible for the colossal explosion, but without proof he had to let it go and (probably by the skin of my teeth) I remained at school.

Minutes of Annual General Meeting of the Old Dovorian Club
Held at Dover College on Sunday 29th June 2008

Here are the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Old Dovorian Club held at Dover College on
Sunday 29 June 2008.   The Meeting was initially presided by Richard Foxwell.

1.    Apologies for Absence
These were received from Jean Tuckwell, Niall Sullivan, Gerald Kityakara and Richard Upton.

2.    Minutes of the Previous Meeting
These were confirmed as accurate by those who had attended and were duly adopted.

3.    Matters Arising
These were deferred to the appropriate agenda items below.

4.    Club Finances
Sunil Devalia, Hon. Treasurer, reported that the Club finances were healthy and the income good. There was enough cash to keep going for two years without income. In the accounts he had capitalised the website set-up costs.
Guy Nickalls asked why the reserves were so high. Sunil Devalia stated that the Club had a liability of up to 70 years and had to consider the situation if the income were to cease for whatever reason.
The Headmaster stated that the relationship between the Club and College would change with a closer merger of financial commitments.
John Sinclair stated that the Committee was currently discussing the future of the nature of the Club’s investments.
The Club accounts and the War Memorial and Endowment Fund report would be published on the website.
The accounts were approved and adopted.

5    Election of new President of the Club
Richard Foxwell thanked James Ryeland for his tremendous help over the years in different roles in the management of the Club. James Ryeland was then proposed and seconded and duly elected as President of the OD Club. At this stage James Ryeland took over the Chair and in a short speech thanked Gerald Kityakara (the outgoing Chairman of the Committee) and his wife Pam as well as Sunil Devalia, the retiring Treasurer, for their wonderful contributions to the running of the Club over the years. The Club’s relationship with the school was the best it had been for a considerable time.

6.    Election of Club Officers
The following were proposed, seconded and duly elected unanimously as officers of the OD Club Committee for a term of one year;
John Sinclair (Chairman)
Richard Upton (Hon.Sec)
Richard Robinson (Treasurer)

7.    Elections to the Committee
James Gatehouse offered himself for re-election to the Committee having retired by rotation. He was proposed and seconded and duly voted onto the Committee for a further three-year term.
Kanatta Kyazze stood for election for the first time and was duly proposed, seconded and elected for a three-year term.

8.    Dover College War Memorial and Endowment Fund
Richard Foxwell, as Treasurer, explained the nature of the Fund whose income all reverts to the school.
The Fund had no liabilities. The income for the period 2007/8 was £1952.71 which was to be spent on new stage lighting in Menzies Hall. The previous year’s income had not yet been utilised by College.
M.Harrington was unanimously re-elected for a further four-year term onto the Committee.

9.    Any Other Business
James Ryeland praised the contributions made by Maureen Cross to the Dover office of the Club. She had seen the Club through some difficult times. She was presented with a large bouquet of flowers and some garden furniture.  The Headmaster spoke of some achievements of the school over the past year and of his plans for further integration of the Club with the school to create a “cradle to grave” service for students and ODs.

Lunch was taken in the Refectory after the meeting.

An informal meeting of the OD Club Committee was held after lunch.

Richard Upton    John Sinclair
Hon Secretary    Chairman

OD ACCOUNTS

DOVER COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL AND ENDOWMENT FUND 2008

Trustee:    The Corporation of Dover College,
Dover,
Kent  CT17 9RH
Hon. Treasurer:    R.D.S. Foxwell Esq.,
Doune House,
56, New Wokingham Road,
Crowthorne,
Berks.  RG45 6JJ
Committee (from 25/06/06)    R.D.S. Foxwell Esq.
S. Schilder,
M. Harrington,
G. Kitiyakara

Report for the year ending 5th April 2008
The charity is governed by an indenture dated 30th September 1926.  It is registered as a subsidiary charity of Dover College.  Its Charity Commission reference is 307856-0004.  Its Inland Revenue reference is X24872.
The College is entitled to the whole of the gross income from the trust fund, which amounts to £1,952.71 for 2007/8.  This may be applied towards any special purpose selected by the Committee, so long as it is legally charitable and for the benefit of the College, or otherwise must be paid to the College for its general purposes.
A request has been received from the College for the funds to be applied to should go towards sound and lighting equipment for the stage in Menzies Hall, to replace the current very old equipment.  The Committee have agreed, and transfer of the money will be made shortly.   The Fund does not have any liabilities.
Members of the Committee retire every four years and are eligible for re-election.  No member retired in 2007, and Michael Harrington retires in 2008.  He has agreed to stand for re-election.
Note that the bank charge reported last year of £21 was subsequently refunded by the Bank, so that the whole income of £1,803.63 was available for distribution.  The College requested that the 2006/7 income be assigned to help with the refurbishment of the Maxton pavilion, and towards the cost of dinghies for the sailing club.  This was agreed by the Committee, and the transfer of funds was made on 14 August 2007.

CAPITAL ACCOUNT
Assets as at 5th April 2008
7782.64 units    Treasury 5 1/2% 2008/12          £8,019.82
Cash from donations                       £50.00
2290    M&G Charifund income units (wide)          £4,029.00
Total Book Value        £12,098.82

On 5th April 2008, the securities were valued at £30,686 (M&G) plus £7,801 (Treasury), total £38,487. Net capital on account equals £56.62.

INCOME ACCOUNT
Receipts
M&G Charifund                      £1,390.50
Treasury                             £513.03
Deposit Account (Interest)                       £49.18
£1,952.71

Committee of four, each retiring in rotation every four years:
R.D.S. Foxwell            2009
S. Schilder                2010
M. Harrington    2008 (standing for re-election)
G. Kitiyakara                2009
Banker:                National Westminster Bank PLC,
25, Market Square,
Dover,
Kent CT16 1NQ
Telephone 01304 201308

THE OLD DOVORIAN TRUST

The Old Dovorian Trust was set up over 20 years ago to provide a channel for ODs who want to help support and develop the College. Thanks to the generosity of many of you, and in particular a major donation from the late Gordon Fowlie, the Trust has been able to contribute over £25,000 in the last decade alone to fund a large variety of projects ranging from the a grand piano, CDT and sports equipment and contributed to an all weather surface on the gravel. It has concentrated on helping the College obtain some of the smaller capital items on its wish list which had been hard to come by in fairly tough years.  Thanks to you, the Trust has therefore been able to make a real difference to the quality of experience of pupils at the College.
At present despite the hazardous nature of stock market investment, the Trust has assets of around £60,000.00 and an income of slightly more than £2000.00 per annum.
Because of the tax changes and low interest rates income has been static for a couple of years and it would be an excellent idea to boost the capital now so that it can start to grow again!  This could be a very good time to invest! All donations of any size would be most welcome! Cheques, CAF, cash, standing orders, we are not fussy.  If you are taxpayers we can get another 25% or so from the Revenue which is an added bonus.  Rest assured that the benefit all goes to the charity, all donations are invested and the income distributed as requested.   There are no expenses as the trustees have donated their time and handle all the administration.  Please send donations to:
David Walter, Cotman’s Ash Farmhouse, Cotman’s Ash Lane, Kemsing, Kent TN15 6XD
The bank is Natwest, sort code 60-07-04, account no. 59273992.   Thank you.

As well as the Old Dovorian Trust, the Dover College Trust exists for the benefit of providing scholarships and capital project contributions to the College.  During the year, the Dover College Trust and the College set up a combined Foundation Fund with the aim of accumulating sufficient money to enable comprehensive upgrading of College buildings including the boarding accommodation.  It is possible that the Fund will be used as the basis for an appeal, in due course.  Meanwhile, any contributions or testamentary dispositions would be welcome.  Remember, that if you are the sole beneficiary of a pension fund, the new rules allow you to donate the residue, on death, free of tax, to charity – much better than giving it to Gordon!

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL  MEETING
SUNDAY 28th June 2009 at 11.45 a.m.( provisional date, to be confirmed)

AGENDA

1       Apologies for Absence

2.      Minutes of the previous meeting – 29 June 2008

3.      Matters Arising

4.    Treasurer’s Financial Report and Adoption of the Club Accounts for year ended 31st December 2008

5.      Election of Officers for 2009/2010
Nominations:    Chairman:  John Sinclair
Treasurer    :  Richard Robinson
Secretary    :  Richard Upton
Any variation to the above nominations will be posted on the OD website (www.olddoovorians.com) closer to the date of the AGM.

6.     Election to Committee 2009/2012  – Nominations will be posted on the OD Club website
(www.olddovorians.com)m closer to the date of this AGM.

Notes:   (i)  Committee members are elected for a 3 year term of office
(ii)  On completion of his/her term of office, a committee member may
seek re-election for a further term

7.      War Memorial and  Endowment Fund
(a)  Adoption of the Accounts and Report of the War Memorial and
Endowment Fund
(b)  Members of the War Memorial and Endowment Fund committee hold
office for a four-year term

8.       Any other business

There will be a meeting of the OD Club Committee after lunch.

Richard Upton                                                                                  John Sinclair
Hon. Sec.                                                                                           Chairman

OLD DOVORIAN CLUB INFORMATION

President    J Ryeland    M 76-81    01304 381497

Committee
Chairman    J C Sinclair    S  62-67    01707 652228
Secretary    R Upton    P  55-59    0208 673 1879
Treasurer    R Robinson    L  80-85    0207 702 9103
A J C Bunting    S  60-65    0208 866 4647
G Conlon    S  92-97    07769 660954
Mrs. J. Dixon    D 81-82    01304 823370
J. Gatehouse    S  76-81    0207 350 1808
K. Kyazze    S  92-97    0207 537 1140
N. Sullivan    L  97-2000    01303 241295
S Devalia    M 75-80    0208 202 1190
Student Representative    Miss C Miller    Current

Office Administrator        Office    01304 205969
College Representative    Mrs. H J Tresidder    Staff    01304 205969

Contacts
Cricket        Staff    01304 205969
Golf    A. Robin    M 61-66    01483 276959
Hockey    R D Kilbee    C 58-62     01303 276754
Football    G R Hill    Staff    07786 85 84 82
Old Dovorian Lodge    S Devalia    M 75-80    0208 202 1190
West Country Group    L F G Fox    P 48-53    01761 463163
West Midlands Group    T M Bosher    L 61-64    0121 6054040
Priory House Group    L F G Fox    P 48-53    01761 463163
Old Leamingtonians    I McLean    Staff    01304 205969

The Old Dovorian Club, Dover College, Effingham Crescent, Dover, CT17 9RH
Tel: 01304 205969. Email; info@olddovorians.com

Chairman:  chairman@olddovorians.com

Old DovorianClub Website: http://www.olddovorians.com

FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Dear Old Dovorians

Welcome to the Winter 2009 Newsletter in its new electronic format. I received a large number of letters and emails last year about this new system, the majority of them in favour of it. However, there are inevitably some ODs with no access to a computer. I have a short list of these to whom I will send a print-out. If you know of any ODs who are now out of touch as a result of these changes I would be grateful if you could either print this out yourself and provide them with a copy, or email me at the address below and I will send one out.

It has generally been a good year for the Club. The website now has over 500 ODs registered on it, with more joining each day, many of whom are now in regular contact with others through its email facility. This is very encouraging. But since the website in future will contain the main database of ODs, as the old system can no longer be used, we are encouraging all ODs to register, which only takes a few minutes and will enable the Club to keep in touch with you. Unfortunately the old members’ address list is no longer available, would you believe it, for legal reasons!

The January party at the RAF Club was a great success. Some ODs were still in the bar at nearly midnight! This coming January the party will be in the ballroom at the RAF Club which has a much greater capacity, so I do hope that many more of you will be able to come. All ODs, that we have addresses for, will by now have received the party details by post. If you have not received the letter, then we do not have your address.

The Summer Ball, held on the Close at Dover College was also a resounding success. There was live music and a great number of you had a fantastic evening. The OD Annual General Meeting, also held in Dover, in the Learning Resources Centre, was not well attended. It would be good to see more of you at this. It can be a very good day out and there is the opportunity, of course, to revisit your old school, have some lunch in the Refectory, as well as to have some say in the running of the Club. If you want to come along in 2010, please let the Club know so that we can organise the right number of lunches. The catering at Dover has certainly improved since my day!

The London City Group continues to thrive, but is always looking for new members specially those who are willing to buy the odd round of drinks!

The OD Committee met regularly throughout the year. Use was often made of the wardroom of HQS Wellington, the Headquarters ship of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, moored on the Thames in central London, which is a wonderful location for meetings.

It’s been a bad year for the country again, but Dover College is thriving with more pupils now than last year. There was some trouble obtaining visas for some of the overseas students for a while, but this has now largely been resolved. With the new fast train service to Dover from St Pancras things may well improve some more.

Have a Merry Christmas and take care.

John Sinclair
School House 1962 – 67
chairman@olddovorians.com
Website: www.olddovorians

NEWS OF OLD DOVORIANS
ALICE WHEELER
I have graduated from The University of Notre Dame, Australia with a Bachelor of Education (ECE) and I am now engaged to David Jancso.

TIMI JOSEPH
Timi is working as a Financial Management Consultant at IBM (International Business Machines), started in September after graduating from University of Hull studying Business and Management with a Professional Experience. He is also doing a CIMA professional qualification to become a qualified management accountant over the coming years.

MALCOLM MANEKSHAW
Malcolm Manekshaw graduated from Loughborough University studying Economics and is looking forward to joining KPMG’s corporate tax department in the new year.

JAMES HEATH
No kids yet, been married for 5yrs though, who’d have thought! Living up in Edinburgh working for a wine wholesaler. It’s 14 years since I left!!

CIARRAN O’SULLIVAN (aka COS)
He is married now with 2 kids! Should be on Facebook.

AARON DISBURY
Working as a Quantity Surveyor based in Chatham. Relaxing at weekends by running a Sunday league football team.

MATTHEW SOLLEY
Just moved back to East Langdon from Stansted. Still in shock at winning the NFU Farm Manager of the Year Award! Still getting sleepless nights with the two children but the dog is very well behaved!!

ALEX BRADLEY
I am happily married to Tracey and we had a baby – Henry James Bradley. He was born 22nd September 2009 at Gawler Hospital in South Australia. Weight 8lb 15oz.

JAMES TELFORD
(Written from a church during a wedding!) Working hard as manager of an Insurance Broker in Australia. James and Lou are expecting their first baby on March 25th.

CLAIRE HALL
Delighted to report the arrival of Henry. A wonderful addition to the family.

SAMATHA CHEUNG (Duckworth)
I am now a mother of one Girl named Audrey and I am expecting another baby due in June. I am hoping one day I could bring my children back to Dover College and see the changes. I often sing songs to Audrey and somehow I remembered a few songs that we sung in the Chapel and I would sing those songs to her. It was such a great time at Dover College.

MARK COPSON
I have moved on, job wise, from Commercial Underwriter to a Structured Finance Analyst for a company called Commercial First and just finished my land law qualification, which makes me ask myself why I did not study at school and avoid the hard work later on…? fool…

IAN CHEUNG
My wife (Samantha) and I had our first born child (Skye Cheung) on Christmas eve of 2008. We are both working at one of the largest reference clinical laboratories in California that help the state of California to identify H1N1 flu patients via clinical testing.

PAUL-PHILIPPE FRANCKEN
I’ve started on my 2nd Masters in International Trade Law. I’m still working as a Special Constable (this is not PCSO, but voluntary police with all powers the PCs got). I’m getting married next year in Monaco.

RAYMOND HADORN
Has had a show in Lausanne, Switzerland of his collection designed and sewn by him of tennis and different inspirations. Enjoying life in Switzerland.

EMMA JANE RICHARDS
Emma reports that Shanta Simmonds has had a baby called Alfie.

SIAN McNICHOLAS
I’m really well and have just moved from Birmingham after 9 years to Lo ndon to begin working for Young’s Brewery PLC as Marketing Development Manager. It’s a great, well respected company so I’m very pleased with how it all worked out.

MAXIME BUDD
My son Hugo is 6 years old and my daughter Maddie is 17months old.

KATHARINE POPIEL
Distraught that she cannot make it back to Dover for OD football but she is happily living in New York.

CHRIS ELLIS (Staff)
Moving from Taunton to teach at Cheam from January.

BRENTON AMEDEE
Had a baby girl called Lexi on 28th September.

PAUL ROSHAN
I am married with two daughters 5 and 7 months. I have a property company and have developed over 50 luxury flats in central London, website is www.affluenthomes.co.uk. Still see John Park regularly – we play fifa 10 on playstation!! I am unfit right now 16.8 stone and smoke (sorry Helen), so no OD football this year but I will be on a regime and will come down to DC and play next year!!

MILES THOMAS
I’m starting a job on the 1st of December….. as you may well know I’m a chef. After 7 years of hell, working with the UK’s most well known Chefs, I’m now a Sous Chef at Cotswolds House which has 1 Michelin star and 3 Rosettes.

TERENCE YAP
I have 3 kids already (5, 7 and 9)….so don’t think I will have any more new babies anytime soon. Love to all at DC.

KEITH TANG YAU CHANG
I’m the same as Terence Yap, I also have 3 kids (2 months, 6 years and 9 years).

RIES QUIN
I now own my own carpentry business and things are going well despite the credit crunch! I will be taking a year out to live/ travel in New Zealand in May! Sorry I won’t be available for OD cricket!

GARETH DUGGAN (ex-GAP student)
No long working in newspapers and instead I’ve jumped the fence and am now communications manager at a big hospitals trust in Birmingham. Loving it!

IN MEMORIAM
Sir Donald Luddington Priory 1934 – 1939 1920 – 2009
Secretary for Home Affairs, Hong Kong and later Governor of the Solomon Islands which he guided to independence.

A truly distinguished Old Dovorian, Sir Donald Luddington was born in Edinburgh on 18th.August 1920, but spent his early childhood in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where his father was a civil servant and his mother’s family were tea planters near Kandy. He was sent home to England for his education, firstly in Harrogate and from 1934 at Dover College.

War saw him commissioned in 1940 into the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was later posted to India, having transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, and subsequently was on active service in Burma. He was mentioned in despatches, when as a troop leader in a tank unit, he led it against a Japanese ammunition dump.

Following the war and demobilisation he went to St Andrews University and then joined the Hong Kong civil service in 1949. He rose to become Secretary of Home Affairs in 1971.

In 1973 Luddington became Governor of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, which included being High Commissioner for the Western Pacific covering the Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Tonga and the New Hebrides. Luddington’s job was to oversee the transition of the Solomons to self-government and independence, which was finally achieved in 1978 two years after Luddington’s departure and return to Hong Kong, where he was, firstly chairman of the Public Services Commission, and later the head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) where he stayed until his retirement in 1980.

Sadly, Luddington’s wife Garry, whom he had married in India in 1945, died in 2002. They are both survived by a son and a daughter.

Ian Kenneth Gale Sandercock Priory 1940a – 1944b 1926 – 2006
John Took writes;
In January 1940, the College’s first term at Poltimore, I got off the freezing train at Exeter St. Davids to find the school bus. Another small boy was already inside; he was even smaller than me, a ll rusty hair and freckles. In a few years he became the tallest boy in the school, Head of Priory, Head Prefect, CSM of the corps, Captain of the Shooting VIII and a redoubtable member of the Modern Languages Sixth. His rather formal bearing and military style resulted in his being referred to as “the General” although inevitably he was known to all as Sandy. He was liked and respected, a good example to all; and Tusky Munns (who had been at the College at the same time as H.G Sandercock, Sandy’s father) said that no housemaster could hope for a better head of house. George Renwick
doubtless had the same sentiments, from headmaster to head prefect.

At the end of the summer term 1944, Sandy joined up into the Indian Army entry. He (and I) went to Maidstone Barracks for four months of square bashing and learning Urdu before embarking for India and OTS at the end of the year. A little story from Maidstone is worth telling. We were on the range, mostly a bunch of hopeless shots, and Sandy put five shots into a one-inch group. The sergeant-in-charge would not believe this and claimed that there were only three holes and that two had gone wide. Sandy very politely asked the sergeant if he could try again and if the sergeant and all of us would carefully observe tell-tale signs of bullets going wide. The sergeant reluctantly agreed – and Sandy put five shots once more into the one-inch circle. After that our fearsome NCOs
treated him rather respectfully.

He was commissioned into the Sikh Light Infantry where he served with distinction, much of it on the North West Frontier. He had hoped at the end of his Indian service in 1947 to transfer to the British Army, but it was not to be. The Army lost a good officer.

Sandy was, however, selected for the Colonial Administrative Service and posted as a District Officer to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). After two years he was seized by ill-health, a wretched misfortune which dogged him thereafter, and he returned home, where he took up business as a wine shipper. Some years later he obtained a grant to purchase land in Kenya where he set up to farm coffee. This demanded many years hard work before a first crop was produced. It was not a great business success and, after further ventures in Australia and Zimbabwe, he returned to England where his beloved wife, June, died and he then retired in South Africa.

Sandy, the news of whose death reached us only recently, was a most engaging companion and raconteur, a fine shot, keen fisherman and all-round countryman who loved music. Our friendship, formed in Priory House nearly seventy years ago, embraced many adventures both at school and at home and abroad. He was a fine representative of his school. He died in September 2006, aged 80.

Squadron Leader Gordo n Henderson DFC L 1936 – 41
Peter Henderson writes;
Gordon Henderson passed away on 23 May 2009 after a short illness. He served bravely throughout the war and is greatly missed by all his 225 Squadron comrades. Gordon was a marvellous father to his three children, Liz, Gerry and Peter.

A Dawes
Priory 1939. Died on 21 May 2009.

D E Charlier
Leamington 1939. Died on 22 May 2009.

M D Carr
Priory 1943.

Peter Johnson
An Honorary OD, Governor and Chairman for some years. Died 4 August 2009.

Patrick A M Hughes
Junior 1927 C 1931-1936. Died aged 91 on 3 August 2009.

A D Booth-Jones
Junior 1933 C 1933-1937.

Robin Goldthorp
Started in Leamington House, moved to School House. Left in 1943. Head of School, XV, XI, 2nd Hockey, Half and Full Blacks. Died aged 84 on 27 October 2009.

Mrs Celia Cobb
Celia died in November 2009. She was the widow of T H Cobb, former headmaster and housemaster of School House. She was much loved by ODs of School House.

Mr Tom Boorman
Tom died in November 2009. He was the father of Justin and the late Jason. He was a model parent. He organised the refurbishment of the Head Boy’s room in School House.

NB Should you wish to place an obituary notice here or expand on any existing notices please contact chairman@olddovorians.com

BIRTHS / MARRIAGES
We have received no notifications in this category. Should you wish to place an announcement here, please contact webmaster@olddovorians.com

THE COLLEGE CHAPEL
The College Chapel is available to Old Dovor ians and Staff for Marriages. After the Marriage Ceremony, why not hold your reception either in the Refectory or on The Close.

For details of Marriages and Wedding Receptions (and other functions), please contact Rick Sullivan in the Bursary who will be pleased to give you details. His telephone number is 01304 205969 extension 208.

THE LONDON CITY GROUP
The London City Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at lunchtime in the Cock & Woolpack, a charming little pub in Finch Lane, just behind the Royal Exchange Building and two minutes’ walk from Bank tube station.

The meetings are generally well attended with ODs from every age group coming from far and wide. Among the regulars are Tony Bunting, Gerald Kityakara, Richard Robinson, Richard Upton, Paul Hayes, Chris Cox, Rod Glyn Thomas, Roderick Murrey, Roger McHardy and Arthur Ryser to name but a few.

For more information call John Sinclair on 07984 278476 or email chairman@olddovorians.com

DOVER GROUP
We meet on the last Saturday each month (except December) at the Brewer’s Fayre Restaurant, Premier Lodge, Marine Parade, Dover.

We normally have ex members of staff: Lionel and Nicole Gay, Peter Kershaw,George and Penny Matthews, Rosemary Rottenbury, Karla Stefan-Nelson, Jean Tuckwell and Pearl White. The Nickalls family (Guy and Kit, Helen and Michael Blackwood) come occasionally.

This year we have also had visits from Gerald Kitiyakara, Tony Bunting, Mike Lightbourne, Andrew Holmwood, Richard Peters – although not necessarily on one of these Saturdays.

We have welcomed Spencer Hogg from Lyme Regis and his son, George. Alan and Brenda Walker have returned to live in Dover and have now joined us. John H Turnpenny 01304 206905 – email: j.turnpenny@talktalk.net

WEST COUNTRY GROUP
A very succesful and enjoyable luncheon was held at Stanton Manor, Chippenham on Friday 8th.May 2009.

This year we agreed to include the wives and partners of ODs which proved to be a great success. This will continue to be the norm from now on. Those attending included Mr and Mrs Michael Ryan, Mr and Mrs Leslie Fox, Anthony Lousada, John Gilpin and Robert Reckitt. Apologies were received from six Old Dovorians. We met at noon for drinks, before moving into the dining room where we spent two hours indulging in fine food, reminisences and the creation of a new world order. We eventually dispersed after three and a half hours of most convivial friendship. It was agreed that this function should continue and encouragement given to other ODs to
support us. It would be particularly encouraging if a member of the OD Committee or a member of staff together with their partner could join us and bring us up to date with our old college.

The date for 2010 is set for Friday 7th.May at Stanton Manor, Nr Chippenham, Wilts. SN14 6DQ, two minutes from junction 17 on the M4.

Interested members may contact me at 4 Swanscombe, Blagdon, North Somerset BS40 7SL or on 01761 463163 or email lf10@talktalk.net Leslie Fox

SURREY/SUSSEX GROUP

Over the past five years, because we seem to have gathered a great crowd of ODs in the Surrey/Sussex area, we have been meeting for a most enjoyable dinner at the Punchbowl at Oakwood Hill, near Ewhurst, Surrey. We have entertained nearly 20 people and always look forward to new members jo ining us. If anyone would like further details, please contact Nigel Nicholson, telephone number 01483 273620, or e-mail stnicoloff@aol.com .
Nigel Nicholson

WEST MIDLANDS GROUP
Please contact Tim Bosher on timbosher@lightingreality.com for details of this group

OLD DOVORIAN GOLFING SOCIETY
The AGM was held at Knole Park G.C., Sevenoaks on 9th October 2009. At our Spring Meeting at Littlestone G.C., Graham Turner’s usual 37 points was not enough to retain the Quantock Salver, which was won with an outstanding 40 points by Charlie Scott.
With neither the wind nor the rough as severe as last year, the scores at our Summer Meeting at Tandridge G.C. improved. Simon Pentecost took the Crescent Salver with a creditable 36 points.

We were spared the rain this year at Redlibbets G.C. and Richard Owen won the Turnpenny Jug with 39 points.

On a blustery autumnal day at Knole Park G.C., David Walter retained the Dawes Cup with 35 points, decided on a countback with Tony Röbin. The winner of the B J Salver for the Best 3 Scores of the year was Richard Owen with 107 points, just beating Andy Hitchcock’s 106 points.

In the annual Triangular Match against St Lawrence College and King’s Canterbury, we were not able to cope with the extremely wet conditions at Royal Ashdown Forest G.C. and came a poor third.

We meet with the Old Laurentians for a full diary of fixtures in 2010:
Fri April 16th 50th Anniversary of the Triangular Match
Fri April 30th Spring Meeting at Walton Heath G.C.
Thurs July 8th Summer Meeting at Tandridge G.C.
Fri September 3rd Meeting at Redlibbets G.C., near Brands Hatch
Fri October 8th Autumn Meeting & AGM at Knole Park G.C.

A total of sixteen golfers, including some new faces, contributed to a very successful season, with our five trophies, once again, being shared by four different pairs of hands. We always welcome new members. If you would like to join us please contact Tony Röbin on
01483 276959 or tony.robin@btinternet.com
Tony Robin (Captain)

THE OLD DOVORIAN CLUB PARTY
At the Royal Air Force Club
128 Piccadilly
London
Friday 15th January 2010
7.00pm – 9.30pm
You are invited together with your spouse, partner, friends or guests. Dress code: smart, men must wear jacket and tie.
Ticket price £29.00per person
(includes sparkling wine, orange juice etc. and delicious finger food)

Please complete the form below and return with your cheque to;
Richard Robinson, Hon.Treasurer OD Club Email: treasurer@olddovorians.com
12 Towerside
148 Wapping High Street
London E1W 3PF
Please try to send applications to arrive as soon as possible, but in any event not later than Saturday 9th. January.

Please book for….person(s) at £29.00 each. I enclose my cheque for……… made payable to;
The Old Dovorian Club.
Name (block letters)………………………………………………………………………………………..
nee (if applicable)…………………….House………………….from………..to…………..
Address…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Fax no…………………..Email…………………………….Tel no…………………………
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Applications will be acknowledged by email, fax or mail. Please indicate with an asterisk
preferred method, above.

OLD DOVORIAN MEMORABILIA
The following items are available from the School Shop
Description Price inc. p&p for UK Sales
Cufflinks – (New design. British hallmarked sterling silver). £55.00 per pair
Town Tie – (Narrow Stripes on a Black Background) Silk £18.00
Country Tie – (Broad Grey/Red/Blue Stripes) – Silk £18.00
Burgundy Tie with College Crest – Polyester £7.50 £2.50 each
Ladies Pendant – St. Martin emblem (Gold) £7.50 £2.50 each
Ladies Pendant – St. Martin emblem (Silver) £7.50 £2.50 each
Prices as at December 2009
Please supply the following:……………………………………………….…………
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Name House Year
Address
Postcode
Send to
Mrs Brenda Barber School Shop Dover College Effingham Crescent Dover, Kent CT17 9RH
I enclose a Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank for £ Payable to the “Old Dovorian
Club”. (add £ 2.00 for any overseas orders.)

We regret that for reasons of administrative costs, we cannot accept
non-Sterling cheques, bankers drafts drawn on overseas banks or credit cards.
Other College Memorabilia available: A set of prints of Dover College at a special price of £32.50. For this item
cheques should be made payable to “The Friends of Dover College”.
Mrs Brenda Barber, Dover College, Effingham Crescent, Dover, Kent CT17 9RH
Please supply the following:
Quantity Description Price (Each) Total
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I enclose a Sterling cheque drawn on a UK Bank for £…………. payable to:
The Old Dovorian Club…………………….
or Sterling notes or local currency notes equivalent to the Sterling amount.
Name…………………………………………….House…………….From………………To……
Address……………………………………………………………………………………………
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THE OLD DOVORIAN TRUST
The Old Dovorian Trust was set up over 20 years ago to provide a channel for ODs who want to help support and develop the College. Thanks to the generosity of many of you, and in particular a major donation from the late Gordon Fowlie, the Trust has been able to contribute over £25,000 in the last decade alone to fund a large variety of projects ranging from the a grand
piano, CDT and sports equipment and contributed to an all weather surface on the gravel. It has concentrated on helping the College obtain some of the smaller capital items on its wish list which had been hard to come by in fairly tough years. Thanks to you, the Trust has therefore been able to make a real difference to the quality of experience of pupils at the College.
At present despite the hazardous nature of stock market investment, the Trust has assets of around £60,000.00 and an income of slightly more than £2000.00 per annum.
Because of the tax changes and low interest rates income has been static for a couple of years and it would be an excellent idea to boost the capital now so that it can start to grow again!
This could be a very good time to invest! All donations of any size would be most welcome! Cheques, CAF, cash, standing orders, we are not fussy. If you are taxpayers we can get another 25% or so from the Revenue which is an added bonus. Rest assured that the benefit all goes to the charity, all donations are invested and the income distributed as requested. There are no expenses as the trustees have donated their time and handle all the administration. Please send donations to:
Richard Robinson, OD Club Treasurer, 12 Towerside, 148 Wapping High Street, London E1W 3PF. Cheques should be made payable to the Old Dovorian Trust.
The bank is Natwest, sort code 60-07-04, account no. 59273992. Thank you.
As well as the Old Dovorian Trust, the Dover College Trust exists for the benefit of providing scholarships and capital project contributions to the College. During the year, the Dover College Trust and the College set up a combined Foundation Fund with the aim of accumulating sufficient money to enable comprehensive upgrading of College buildings including the
boarding accommodation. It is possible that the Fund will be used as the basis for an appeal, in due course. Meanwhile, any contributions or testamentary dispositions would be welcome.
Remember, that if you are the sole beneficiary of a pension fund, the new rules allow you to donate the residue, on death, free of tax, to charity – much better than giving it to Gordon!
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SUNDAY 27th June 2010 at 11.30 a.m.( provisional date, to be confirmed)
AGENDA
1. Apologies for Absence
2. Minutes of the previous meeting – 28 June 2009
3. Matters Arising
4. Treasurer’s Financial Report and Adoption of the Club Accounts for year
ended 31st December 2009 including the accounts of the OD Trust
5. Election of Officers for 2010/2011
Nominations: Chairman: John Sinclair
Treasurer: Richard Robinson
Secretary: Richard Upton
Any variation to the above nominations will be posted on the OD
website (www.olddovorians.com) closer to the date of the AGM.
6. Election to Committee 2010/2013 – Nominations will be posted on the OD
Club website (www.olddovorians.com)m closer to the date of this AGM.
Notes: (i) Committee members are elected for a 3 year term of office
(ii) On completion of his/her term of office, a committee member may seek
re-election for a further term
7. War Memorial and Endowment Fund
(a) Adoption of the Accounts and Report of the War Memorial and
Endowment Fund.
(b) Members of the War Memorial and Endowment Fund committee hold
office for a four year term.
8. Any Other Business
NB There will be an informal meeting of the OD Club Committee after lunch.
Richard Upton John Sinclair
Hon. Sec. Chairman
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