Lusimus Issue 29 June 2014

Jonathan Sinclair – page 7Foundation – pages 3-5 Johnny Hunt – page 9 Charities – pages 10-13 Sport – pages 18-20

LusimusTHE RADLEY BROADSHEET

www.radley.org.uk Issue 29, June 2014

Mike Hopkins25th September 1954 to 17th February 2014Mike joined the Modern Languages Department at Radley

in 1980, was Tutor of E Social from 1989 to 2003 and then Senior Master from 2003 to 2012.

He was appointed Sub Warden in 2012. Over 660 people attended Mike’s !anksgiving Service

in Chapel on 25th March.

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Above and le": scenes from the !anksgiving Service on 25th March. !ere was a video link to the Mansion for those who could not be seated in Chapel. A"er the Service refreshments were served in Clock Tower Court (the new Old Gym). A full appreciation will be in !e Radleian later in the year.

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Foundation – !e Armed Forces FundRadley College in partnership with Downe House and St Mary’s Calne

THE WIFE OF AN ARMY SERGEANT WRITES:

“My husband is one of the most seriously injured servicemen to survive Afghanistan

and we have two daughters aged seven and "ve. !e girls have been bullied and

teased at our local school about their Dad’s condition and our family has been

subjected to negative comments where we live. As a result we decided to withdraw

our daughters from their school and move house. My husband and I are now looking for kind and caring schools where the girls

can #ourish while all of us rebuild our lives.”

!e Armed Forces Fund exists to help families like this

Please help us to help them

Latest NewsWith 453 service personnel killed and an estimated 3,500 injured in Afghanistan alone, there is going to be strong demand for AFF bursaries for many years to come. Our ultimate target of £5m will fund the education of between 5 and 15 children annually in perpetuity, depending on the size of their means-tested awards.

Initial target of £1,000,000 reached on schedule as a result of the Silver Ball in 2011

£1,369,000 raised to date; £460,000 from the Silver Ball in 2011

Next target is £2,500,000; Silver Ball 2014 announced to help achieve this

20,000 lea#ets distributed to Service families a$er close liaison with the MOD

9 families with 21 children (16 girls and 5 boys) have approached the Fund: 2 fathers killed in action and 7 seriously wounded; 7 from the Army and 2 from the RAF; 5 from ‘the ranks’ and 4 o%cers

1st and 2nd awards committed to two young children; 3rd award, the "rst Rupert !orneloe Bursary Award, given to an 11 year old girl to attend St Mary’s Calne

4th award, the "rst Dougie Dalzell Bursary Award, likely to be made shortly if funds permit

Sandroyd School has committed one prep school education as part of the fund; a family charitable trust has pledged one whole AFF education at Radley; ‘Families of the Fallen’ has agreed to fund extra school expenses for children of those who have died

!e Armed Forces do a magni"cent job to help families, but they cannot do everything. !ey need our support.

Foundation Team NewsWe are very sad that Jan Glover, our superb Events Manager has decided, for health reasons, that she must relinquish the role. Jan will continue to be part of the team but she will reduce her hours and take on a few tasks that can be tackled from home. In due course, at her request, we will recruit a successor for her original job as Events and Alumni Manager.

!e Development Director, Anthony Robinson, who will be 67 next year, is preparing to retire in July 2015. Hamish Aird and Jock Mullard think he is far too young and far too good to consider retiring but also appreciate that he has hardly been home for the last six years and may need to spend more time there. During the next year Anthony hopes to oversee the introduction of a new Director – if there is an OR who is interested in taking on the post, please let us know.Jan Glover Anthony Robinson

Lieutenant Colonel Rupert !orneloe, MBE, Radley 1983-1987 Died in Afghanistan, 1st July 2009

Lieutenant Dougie Dalzell, MC, Radley 1996-2001Died in Afghanistan 18th February 2010

!eir names at the National Memorial Arboretum in Sta"ordshire


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. THE RADLEY BROADSHEET

THE CURRENT FUNDS WITHIN THE RADLEY FOUNDATION

Entry Bursaries and Scholarships:

SILK FUNDA capital fund to widen entry and fund talented

boys whose families could not otherwise a"ord the fees

RICHARD MORGAN AWARDAn ‘immediate use’ fund to widen entry and fund talented boys whose families could not

otherwise a"ord the fees

ARMED FORCES FUNDFunding the education of sons and daughters of Forces Personnel killed or wounded while

serving their country

SCHOLARSHIP & BURSARIES FUNDAn opportunity to name your own scholarship or

foundation award a#er a loved one

Helping current parents:HUGO RUTLAND MEMORIAL FUNDHelp for current Radley parents facing

unforeseen crisis and $nancial di%culty

Helping current boys:MALCOLM ROBINSON MEMORIAL FUND

Providing awards for Radleians in the Sixth Form to travel to William and Mary College in

the USA to study American History during the school holidays

Sport:ROWING CENTRE FUND

A rowing tank and training facilities on the main campus

CRICKET NETS FUND!e addition of all-weather surfaces in the

main cricket nets

Spiritual:CHAPEL FUND

Improving the beauty of the building, the quality and sound of the organ and the comfort

of the worshippers

General:ENDOWMENT FUND

A long-term home for legacies and capital gi#s

TRUSTEES DISCRETION!e Foundation Trustees decide how to make

the best possible use of your gi# in line with the priorities prevailing at the time

Foundation Progress Report from Anthony RobinsonRecord levels of Bursary Awards; Foundation now funding 37 boys through Radley; Rowing Tank to be built later this summer; the Rugby Centenary and the Silver Ball

!e &ooded boathouses during the Lent term

!e Round Pavilion

Endowment

Alongside these wonderful gi"s that we can use immediately is a determination to build up our Endowment Fund, which is small for a school of Radley's size and importance. !e combined endowment of the College and the Foundation is currently £14 million – much smaller than our main competitor schools. If we can build this up to £50 million as a #rst step, the annual income can be used to fund Foundation Bursary Awards. Legacies and bequests will be vitally important.

I am frequently asked why our endowment is not greater. !e answer is simple: Radley is a young school (167 years old) in comparison with others that have been in existence for over 400 years and all of the available resources have gone into developing the campus. !at in itself has been an extraordinary achievement as, in 1847, there were only three buildings on the Radley Estate: Mansion, the Cottage and the Barn that was to become 'School' and is now the Library. Much of what we see today has been built as a result of the generosity of many generations of parents and ORs. We are the bene#ciaries of that generosity and it is only right that we, in turn, provide for those who will follow us and our sons.

!e building up of our 'Endowment' is one of the three original objectives of the Foundation together with the funding of more 'Scholarships & Bursaries' and the development of the campus – 'Buildings'. !ese three core aims have been expanded into the list of Foundation Funds summarised to the le". Buildings only matter if they facilitate an improvement in the education on o$er; the new !eatre has revolutionised Drama at Radley and Clock Tower Court has enhanced History, Politics, Art, Music and many other important aspects of Radley life. It feels already as if Clock Tower Court has been with us for years, not months.

Bursaries

!e year 2014 will go down in history as a memorable one for the Radley Foundation. In September the number of Radleians funded (to varying degrees) by the Foundation will increase from 29 to 37 – the highest number ever achieved in the life of the College. None of these boys would have been able to come to Radley without the help of thousands of Old Radleians and parents, past and present, who continue to support the Foundation magni#cently. !is achievement belongs to them; it is their generosity that has opened up a Radley education to a wide diversity of families.

!is is exactly what our Founders, William Sewell and Robert Singleton, would have wished. One of the #rst things they decided in1847, a"er obtaining a lease on the Radley Estate, was that one in ten boys should receive a free education. In spite of several valiant attempts, notably by Warden Wilkes in the 1950s, we have never been able to a$ord more than a few Bursary Award Holders – until now.

With over 680 boys in the College today, Council and the Warden are keen to achieve the original aim that 68 should receive a free education. As means-testing results in a whole range of Bursary Awards from 10% to 100%, the number of boys actually receiving Foundation Bursary Awards is likely, ultimately, to be closer to 120 than 68. A #gure of 37 looked completely out of reach #ve years ago, but it is hugely encouraging that we are now making such swi" progress.

Another past Warden who will be delighted is Dennis Silk who, with his wife Diana, reinvigorated the drive for more Bursary Awards when they created the Silk Fund in 1991. He himself had received a full bursary education at Christ's Hospital in Sussex which launched him on the path to Cambridge, Marlborough and then 23 years as Warden of Radley. Nobody understands the life-changing bene#ts of a Bursary Award better than Dennis.

For 37 Bursary Awards to be sustainable, the Foundation will need to increase its Bursary Funds signi#cantly with a fresh intake of 'whole education' gi"s that #nance boys through the #nal two years at Prep School and #ve years at Radley. In round terms, each 'whole education' gi" needs to be £200k. An increasing number of ORs and parents have been o$ering help in this way and we are immensely grateful to them. !ere is now a real urgency to accelerate this type of giving.

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We record with deep regret the death on 8th February of Michael Melluish, OBE, a member of the Radley Council from 1982 to 2004, Chairman from 1992 to 2004 and a great friend of the Foundation. Developments under his inspired Chairmanship included !e Richard Morgan Library, Queen's Court and huge improvements to Chapel, Common Room (a"er the #re), the Rae Smith Building and the Kitchens.

Anthony RobinsonDevelopment Director, OR and Former Parent

!e Warden, Angus McPhail

Important thanks

!e Foundation is indebted to the Council of Radley College for #nancing the running costs of the Foundation throughout 2014. As a result, every pound raised has gone towards the Fund chosen by each donor. We are also deeply grateful to the Warden, Angus McPhail, for his unfailing support and encouragement throughout the fourteen years of his Wardenship and we wish him and his family every possible happiness during his retirement.

Finally, I would like to reiterate my heart-felt thanks to all of our donors, past, present and future, without whom the Foundation would not exist.

Clock Tower Court

Buildings

!e Foundation has made signi#cant contributions to the building of the new !eatre (£895k), the Round Pavilion on the pitches (£207k) and Clock Tower Court (£214k); it looks increasingly likely that the Foundation will be able to fully fund Phase One of the Rowing Centre on the main campus. £372k has been raised to date. !is will be a covered rowing tank that will enable oarsmen and scullers to learn their cra" or to #ne-tune their technique and togetherness all the year round. Regular %ooding down at the river makes this development absolutely essential if our wet-bobs are to compete e$ectively against schools that row for all three terms of the year. !e tank will also be a practical way for our rugby players to keep in touch with their rowing during the autumn term.

Planning permission has now been obtained for the tank to be sited between the Shooting Range/CCF and the Running Track, and construction is expected to begin in July. !e ingenious Russian design closely simulates rowing or sculling on a river, and John Gearing, the 1st VIII Coach, is con#dent the tank will have a very positive impact on Radley rowing across all age groups.

Sewell and Singleton wanted their new College to be a rowing school and they chose the Radley Estate partly because of its proximity to the River !ames. !e Radley College Boat Club was founded in 1849, only two years a"er the College itself, and it is one of the oldest school Boat Clubs in the country. Indeed the #rst schoolboy race to be recorded at Henley was between Radley and Eton in 1858.

An artist’s impression of the new Rowing Centre

A rowing tank similar to the one to be built at Radley

Events

!ere are two exceptional events coming up that I would encourage you to attend: one is the Centenary of RCRFC (Radley College Rugby Football Club) in September and the other is !e Silver Ball in London on 28th November when we will be attempting to raise a further £500k for our Armed Forces Fund. Details of both events can be found elsewhere in this edition of Lusimus.


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Tim has worked for SodexHo at Radley for 25 years He started as Head Chef in 1978 but le" in 1980 to teach cookery skills at a Training Centre for underprivileged boys. He returned to Radley in 1989 as Catering Manager, a position he held for 10 years before moving out of the o&ce to take on a more hands-on role as

Leavers – Tim Morris a$er 25 years

Deputy Catering Manager. He has helped to raise the standard of Radley food to the highest level and he has been a power behind the scenes in most of the Reunions and Old Radleian events at Radley. He has served Radley with decency, humanity and a great sense of humour and we wish him a very happy retirement.

Will Stinton (2003) at the Palace

Will Stinton (the tall one) passed out of Sandhurst in August 2013 and then attended the Infantry Battle School before joining the Coldstream Guards in January. He has now deployed with Operation Herrick 20 in Afghanistan (see top picture)

Andrew Copeman (1993) & Sir Andrew Motion (1966)

Andrew Copeman and Sir Andrew Motion at the 2014 Poetry by Heart National Final. Sir Andrew Motion, founder of this nation-wide competition to promote both enjoyment and con$dence in the recitation of

Henry Sessions Hodge (1990) – Recycling

On BBC News in February: Henry Sessions Hodge shows how Black-Ram Recycling can compress old tyres to make bales suitable for supporting access track for use in &oods

Randall Martin a$er 29 yearsRandall started work at Radley in 1984, sorting and delivering the post on his moped. In any spare time he used to repair bicycles in the Bike Sheds and cut the grass at the Swimming Pool. He moved on to become Manager of the Sports Centre and then Laundry Manager. He was a great ‘taxi’ driver, for three Wardens, transporting them to meetings and events around the country. In fact he has driven every Radley Warden – he took their portraits from Hall to be cleaned by experts in London.

Randall and his wife Lyn (Gordon Hill’s daughter) will be greatly missed and we wish them both well as Randall goes to work at BMW.

ORs in Kabul, May 2014 – from le" to right: Acting Captain Rupert Budge, Grenadier Guards (2001), Lt Hugo Codrington, Coldstream Guards (2001), Lt Col Toby Till, MBE, Coldstream Guards (1986), Major General Richard Nugee, CBE, Royal Artillery (1976), Major Richard Broadbent, Royal Logistic Corps (1979), 2Lt Will Stinton, Coldstream Guards (2003)

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poetry, chaired the judging of this year’s $nal, which included a pupil of Andrew Copeman’s from Ibstock Place School, who was awarded the runner’s-up prize. !ere was a strong $eld of more than 300 schools across England.


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From the review of Tartu$e in Cherwell: !e titular Tartu$e is played by Tommy Siman to sinuous perfection; he slithers across the stage, %irting and prostrating with an obsequiousness that is fascinating to watch. From the review of !e History Boys in !e Oxford Times: !ere are also strong performances from the pupils, in particular Luke Rollason as the vulnerable Posner, Tommy Siman as heartthrob Dakin, and Nathan Ellis as Scripps.

Tommy Siman (2007) – Tartu&e and !e History Boys

Tommy Siman (le# in both pictures) with members of the cast of !e History Boys

Harry Bicket (1974) & Oliver Wilson (1984)

Oliver Wilson played with !e English Concert, conducted by Harry Bicket when they performed !eodora by Handel in the USA and Europe in January and February. Michael Church of !e Independent described the performance at the Barbican as &awless and upli#ing.

Harry Wallop (1988) Shop Secrets

In March and April Harry Wallop presented the Channel 4 Series Shop Secrets: Tricks of the Trade in which he revealed how vulnerable we are to both legitimate and shi#y sales techniques

Jonathan Sinclair (1984) has been appointed British High Commissioner to New Zealand – he will take up his appointment during August 2014

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Jamie Laing (2002) – Famous, Rich and Hungry

Jamie Laing of Made in Chelsea took part in Famous, Rich and Hungry for Sport Relief

David Mackenzie (1979) & Jonathan Asser (1977)

!is #lm, released in March, was directed by David Mackenzie. !e screenplay was written by Jo Asser.

Daily Mail: Starred Up – the title is a reference to the process of prematurely sending a youth to grown-up prison – deserves a place alongside all the best and most powerful #lms that show our prison system to be

hopelessly %awed, while at the same time, frankly, making us grateful that people like Eric are inside.

From an interview with David Mackenzie :

“Asser was a bit of a pioneer in Wandsworth prison, because the control-problem prisoners weren’t given any sort of

treatment for their violence,” Mackenzie says. “You had to prove you weren’t violent to get any sort of therapy. But Asser went in there and sat down with the men considered the most dangerous. He was told there was going to be blood on the walls, but there never was. He was able to do that, essentially, because he identi#ed with these guys in some way.”

Dennis Silk on Country"le

Simon Wolfson on Question Time

in March. He stayed with a single mother and her three children in Croydon and later

with a family in She&eld who had a budget for food of £3 per day.

Simon Wolfson (1981) was on the panel of Question Time in March

Dennis Silk (Radley Warden 1968-1991) talked about Siegfried Sassoon on Country$le in March.

Will Hubbard (2006) – Eggheads

Will Hubbard (on the le#)) was a member of a Newcastle University ‘Toon Raiders’ team which took part in Eggheads on BBC2 in January


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Johnny Hunt (1989) aka Buddy – True Tube

Maverick Engineer Tim Shaw and his human Guinea Pig, Buddy Munro (Johnny Hunt), set out on a mission to uncover the truth behind the Internet’s most dangerous and outright stupid stunts.

!ey wanted to track down the amateur daredevils, #nd out whether their stunts are fake or not and recreate them to uncover the hidden science behind each one.

!eir #rst challenge is !e Human Catapult: #rst built by adrenaline junkies in Utah, 2003. It’s a dangerous stunt but the chance to be among the

fastest accelerating humans on the planet is worth the risk.

In their next challenge, Tim and Buddy explore the sort of G-forces that a #ghter pilot goes through but on a kids’ roundabout, using a moped to rev it up.

!ey then take on one of the legends of YouTube. In 2007, a young Norwegian skier dared to ski down the longest escalator in the UK; a sixty metre drop into London’s Angel Tube Station. As the boys prepared to take it on, one thing troubled them: How did the Angel skier do it and stay alive?

!e Human Catapult

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Charlie Langton (1996) – Marathon des Sables

Charlie Langton ran a six day ultra marathon across the Sahara Desert in April. !e distance is about 254 km or 156 miles. !e longest stage is about

91 km or 55 miles, which must be covered in one day. It is said that many competitors cut the handles o$ their toothbrushes in order to save weight. Charlie

aims to raise £10,000 for the British Heart Foundation in memory of his father.www.justgiving.com/Charlielangtonmds

Charles Spelina (1997) – 30 Marathons

Charles Spelina completed 30 marathons before he turned 30 on 19th May. He hopes to raise $30k for Actions for Children.

!e #rst 25 Marathons were:2011: Reykjavik

2012: New York, Marrakech, Malta, Two Oceans (South A"rica – 35 miles), Paris, London, San Diego, Round the Rock (Jersey – 48 miles), Helsinki, Berlin, Brussels, Athens

2013: Miami, Myrtle Beach,Washington DC,

Boston, Toronto, Royal Parks (London – 50km), Chicago, Marine Corps (Washington DC), Malibu, Philadelphia, JFK (Maryland – 50 miles)

2014: Austin

!e #nal #ve marathons were completed in #ve weeks: London Marathon13 April3:09:31

Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon19 April3:04:56

Nashville Marathon26 April3:24:19

North Face Endurance Challenge (New York State - 50 miles) 3 May10:22:16

!e Woodlands Ironman (Texas – 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and a 26.2 mile run)17 May12:58:40

www.justgiving.com/ Charles-Spelina

!e Full Monty Tour

Monty Wates (1988) writes:!e Full Monty Tour – it’s not what you think!

I am preparing to embark upon one of the toughest sporting challenges in the world, I am cycling this year's entire 2,200 mile Tour de France route. Having never cycled anything like this I will be pushing my body and trusty old bike to the limits in an e$ort to raise £50,000 for the William Wates Memorial Trust, which was set up in memory of William (1990).

As many of you will know, William was killed at the age of 19 whilst travelling in Honduras in 1996. My family subsequently set up the William Wates Memorial Trust in his name to allow disadvantaged young people to realise their potential, something William was tragically unable to do.

I am the #rst representative from the charity to take on the full route and am set to embark on 27 June at the o&cial race start in Leeds, seven days ahead of the o&cial start of the Tour de France on 5 July.

A route that tests even the most experienced riders, the course will take me through all 21 gruelling stages of the race, including those in Leeds, Harrogate, York, She&eld, Cambridge and London. !e race traverses the Pyrenees and the Alps and is scheduled to end in Paris.

Since 2006 a number of the charity’s representatives have

completed sections of the Tour de France course, collectively raising over £1.5m for the Trust.

To take on the entire Tour de France route is as daunting as it is exciting. It is going to be an enormous physical challenge but it is for a cause that is extremely close to my heart. !e support I have so far received has been incredible and it is all made worthwhile by the fact that the money raised will make a huge di$erence to the lives of young people.

!e trust was established to celebrate the life of my brother William. He was a very passionate and giving person and through the voluntary work of the trust we are keeping his philanthropic spirit alive by working together to create opportunities for disadvantaged young people and keep them away from crime and violence.

!e William Wates Memorial Trust (WWMT) provides grants to UK charities that engage young people through the mediums of sport, art and education. For further information about the trust, please visit www.wwmt.org

Would-be contributors can visit: www.bmycharity.com/fullmontytourFor more information on Monty’s challenge visit www.wwmt.org/fullmontytour

Amateur cyclists are able to take part in chosen sections of the Tour de France through the race’s Tour de Force initiative.For more information please visit www.tourdeforce.org.uk.

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Sid Keyte (1984) – Marathon

Sid Keyte ran as a telephone box in the London Marathon to raise money for Mind. His time of 5 hours 54 minutes

and 52 seconds is a new Guinness World Record (for the fastest marathon dressed as a telephone box)

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Adrian !eed – for the Blind

Adrian !eed (1983) completed the Black Death Run in May to raise funds through the Cordwainers’ for the Royal London Society for the Blind. !e cross-country course of 11 miles included overall climbs of 3000 feet.

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B Social Helen Clarke Heptathlon

With donations on the JustGiving website together with cheques and cash received from wristbands, the hog roast and bar, B Social raised over £14,000 with a Heptathlon in May for the Helen Clarke Fund.

One of the B Social boys writes:In August 2012, Helen Clarke, wife of Stephen our Precentor and mother to Louisa and to Matthew who was entering his $nal year at Radley, lost her brave battle with cancer.

Helen had always been a proud supporter of B Social and made a point every year, with a view to getting to know the Shells, of inviting the boys to her house for her legendary carbonara evenings.

Since losing Helen, Stephen has been striving to raise £150,000

Will Swi" and his 6.1 team of Archie Wilson, Rory Hanna, Charlie Purton, !or Winkler von Stiernhelm and Ed Sayer will ride from Geneva to Paris (570 km) in early July to raise money for both Cancer Research and

Will Swi$ and his 6.1 teamGeneva to Paris

Save the Children. !ey hope to raise £7,500 for each charity.

www.justgiving.com/teams/GenevatoParis2014

!is has links to two pages – one for each charity.

to fund a speci$c research project into the disease that took Helen from us. With that in mind, the B boys were keen to do their part in an attempt to raise money towards the project.

!e response from boys, in their immense physical e"orts, and from parents and friends, who have shown an unbelievable level of generosity, made our 'Helen Clarke Heptathlon' day a truly memorable occasion.

!e e"orts and emotion, which inspired us to take on six physical challenges in a six hour window, made the occasion one of the proudest days of my Tutor's life. !e boys were outstanding in their attitude and e"orts – it really did bring the best out of them. !ey pushed themselves and inspired each other and I know that Stephen was deeply

touched. As a Social, we ran the distance of travelling to Aviemore, rowed to Falmouth (where Matthew is at university), mountain-biked to Prague, did enough chin-ups to stretch eight kms upwards, completed press-ups to the equivalent of bench-pressing 350 tonnes and enough sit-ups for several six packs…

It was a day that we shall always remember and the e"ort was worth every bead of sweat because we raised over £14,000. Once again, thanks must go to the parents and friends who supported the cause.

!is wonderful e$ort, together with the concert at Garsington, means the Helen Clarke Fund is getting closer to its target of £150,000.

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Alexander Hanbury (J Social) for the Lieutenant Dougie Dalzell MC Memorial Trust

John Pritchard (Current Parent) – Mississippi MillionIn summer 2014 former Cambridge Blue Rower and Olympic Medallist John Pritchard will row the length of the Mississippi River in a Victorian ski$ to raise $1m for Right To Play.

2320 miles, 10 US States, 86 days, a challenge that will mean rowing up to 30 miles a day. He won’t be doing it alone though and you have a unique opportunity to join this truly Herculean challenge. !e journey from the source of

the Mississippi at Lake Itasca to its end in New Orleans is split into a number of two-day stages.A limited number of places are available for intrepid adventurers who would like to help reach the formidable $1m target.

Alex Hanbury had Easter Holidays with a di$erence. On 3rd April 2014, Alex set out from the town of Coldstream on the border with Scotland to walk the 400 miles to London.

Alex followed the route taken by General Monck and the men of the Coldstream Guards in January 1660 when they made their historic march on London to restore King Charles II to the throne. !is route is roughly straight down the A1 but Alex managed to plan the trip so that it took in plenty of country roads and tracks.

Alex’s father James and grandfather, Ben, both served in the Coldstream Guards which Alex himself hopes to join a"er university. He used the 400 mile walk to raise over £10,000 in aid of the Dougie Dalzell Memorial Trust.

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If you prefer to contribute by cheque please make it payable to Lt Dougie Dalzell MC Memorial Trust and send it to:Mrs PM Morris, Secretary DDMT, Causeway Farmhouse, Woolavington, Bridgwater, Somerset TA7 8EQ

Lieutenant Dougie Dalzell, MC, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.At Radley from 1996 to 2001 in A Social. Killed in Afghanistan on 18th February 2010, his 27th birthday.

Alex Hanbury at Wellington Barracks in London at the end of his 400 mile walk from Scotland.

If you would like to row a stage of the Challenge, you can apply online. Right To Play is a global organisation that uses the transformative power of play to educate and empower children facing adversity. It was

founded in 2000 by Johann Olav Koss, a four-time Olympic gold medallist. !rough sports and games, it helps children build essential life skills and better futures, while driving social change in their communities.

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Alex Ledger (1997) – Flying for Heroes

Andy Ilie (2007) – Barefoot

Andy Ilie took part in the London to Brighton Challenge (100 km) in aid of ACE Africa. One of the programmes that Ace runs is the eradication of

pick up Jiggers when walking barefoot. !is can seriously a$ect both their health and education. With just £70 you can treat up to 50 children, enabling them to walk again and attend school regularly.

Andy had intended to run barefoot but, a"er needing some surgery and treatment, doctors told him not to run. Determined not to let ACE Africa down Andy planned to walk the 100 km course – barefoot without any stops.Andy reported:!e London to Brighton Challenge has proved to be incredibly di%cult and a#er a consultation with the medical team, I decided to stop a#er 56km and 14 hours of walking barefoot without any breaks. My feet split open a#er about 10km and the terrain was tricky to say the least. I fell short of achieving my goal and I hope you are not disappointed. Sometimes you have to realise and accept that you have limits. I wanted to raise awareness and I hope I have managed to do that. Ace Africa inspired me and allowed me to push my limits beyond excruciating pain and it was all worth the sacri$ce. So far, £945 has been raised in aid of Ace Africa and there are a few more weeks until the deadline. A huge thank you to everyone at Radley for your support.

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Krispy Kreme for Gehandu

Mark Jewell and his team organised for Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be sold in College in aid of Gehandu School, our partner school in Tanzania. 1680 donuts were bought (presumed eaten), an average of 2+ per person.

Total calories: about 373,000. £1060 was raised for Gehandu School.

At ‘Mu"i Day’ (non-uniform day) in May almost £900 was collected for textbooks for Gehandu.

Jack Austin (2008) at Gehandu in July 2012

Alex Ledger is running a project called Flying for Heroes in association with Help for Heroes. !e Dougie Dalzell Memorial Trust have kindly sponsored the event.

Flying for Heroes is a not-for-pro#t enterprise providing pilot training scholarships for wounded services personnel and veterans. It has launched this year with an initial

eight trainee student pilots. A"er training these newly quali#ed pilots will be televised attempting to %y Para-trikes and Para-motors across Kenya in partnership with Help for Heroes.

Expedition leaders Alex Ledger and Neil Laughton on the Aiguille de Midi in 2012 prior to launching their Para-gliders o" Mt. Blanc.

Starting at Mount Kilimanjaro on the southern Kenyan border with Tanzania, our %ying heroes will make an epic three-week journey to Mount Kenya in the North.

!e team driving support vehicles will traverse the Ri" Valley and encounter other tough challenges. During their three week expedition the team will sleep in the bush.

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Dmitri Kasterine (1945) – American Cool

Dmitri Kasterine writes: American Cool is the name of the current exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. My photograph of Jean-Michel Basquiat is included in the exhibition. !e photograph was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery for their permanent collection in 2010.

I $rst saw Jean-Michel Basquiat one summer’s day in 1986 sitting on the iron steps of Dean and DeLuca on Prince Street in Soho. He was sitting

Rolf Richardson (1947) – Exhibition

In April Rolf Richardson held an exhibition of his travel photographs (three are shown

in a way not unlike the pose he adopted in this photograph. He was eating Devonshire Cream with a spoon straight from the bottle.

I took this photograph some months later in his studio on Great Jones Street. When I arrived his assistant said, “He’s upstairs getting ready; if you wouldn’t mind waiting?” Murmuring voices and laughter, male and female, dri#ed down the stairs and I welcomed the time to look for a background.

It only took me $ve or ten minutes to decide on one. I prepared my camera and sat down. A#er half-an-hour I heard footsteps on the stairs and my spirits rose. It was his assistant. “Oh good, you are still here,” he said, “He won’t keep you a moment.” I thanked him and he went back upstairs. I resumed listening to the chatter. Five minutes turned into ten, then twenty and then thirty. An hour past. I was getting hungry. !en I heard footsteps again, di"erent ones this time. Jean-Michel appeared, smiled and asked, “Where would you like me?”

above) at the Old Fire Station Gallery in Henley-on-!ames.

Clive Carr (1947) – Exhibition

In March Clive Carr held an exhibition of his new and retrospective work – Africa,

Landscape, Life Study, People, Still Life, Sport – at the Piers Feetham Gallery in London

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Vyvyan Hope Lunch at Radleypostponed until 2015

– meet the new Warden

Radley Rugby Centenary Event Saturday 20 September

Shell Parents Drinks Sunday 21 September

Silver BallFriday 28 November

Calendar of Events 2014Radleian Society & Foundation

Andrew Nairne (1973), Director of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, opened the Oxford Art Society Spring Exhibition at the Sewell Gallery in March. !e exhibition included eight watercolours by his father, the late Sir Patrick Nairne (1935).

Andrew Nairne – Oxford Art Society Exhibition

Sandy Nairne opens Clock Tower Court

Sandy Nairne (1966), Director of the National Portrait Gallery, opened Clock Tower Court on 7th March. Sandy is one the sons of Sir Patrick Nairne (1935) who opened the Sewell Centre in 1979. !e new building received the highest accolade at the Civic Trust Awards in March and it has also been shortlisted for the RIBA Awards 2014.

!e new building provides ten new teaching classrooms over two levels to enable History and

Politics to be taught under one roof. !ere is an impressive new light and spacious exhibition area, the Sewell Gallery. A new double height social space with a café has been created with wonderful glass walls and a new brick colonnade facing Clock Tower. !e new building has signi#cantly improves this area at the heart of the College. !e architecture responds sensitively to its surroundings and draws inspiration from the original buildings in scale and materials.

!e ‘boy’ was Dick Usherwood (1937-2008), Radley Common Room 1960 to 1997, Tutor of H Social 1974 to 1989, Head of Chemistry.

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!eSilver Ball

in London with Downe Houseand St Mary’s CalneFriday 28 November

in support of!e Armed Forces Fund

www.silverball.org.ukA message from William Stone (200&) to Hamish Aird:

I thought I’d send you a quick email to let you know of a couple of Radley Linkedin success stories – using contacts found on the Radley Lawyers subgroup of Radley for Life, I have enjoyed spending some very informative time at two solicitors #rms in London (Morgan Rose Solicitors and Shearman & Sterling LLP) during the Easter vacation, for which I am very grateful. In such times when it is very di&cult for graduates to #nd jobs, any work experience I am able to add to my CV is invaluable, and I owe thanks to the Radley for Life network which has provided me with a platform on which to establish connections with ORs in the sphere I’d like to enter.

Radley for Life

Radley RugbyCentenary

CelebrationsSaturday 20th September

All ORs are warmly invited to attend the Radley Rugby Centenary Celebrations.

Please note the change to the date

previously published.

Lunch will be available at 12 noon.

OR All Stars game at 1.00 pm.

Matches v St. Paul’s: Colts & Seniors at 2.30 pm

1st XV v St Paul’s on Bigside at 3.15 pmTea will follow

We hope many rugby teams from the past will return for this celebration.

!ere will be no charge for this event.

Online booking will be available a little later in the year.

!is Facebook page allows everyone to encourage their team members to attend: www.facebook.com/pages/Radley-Rugby-

Centenary/271990446315227

Singapore Dinner – May

James Behrens (1982), Sam Belcher (1992), Oli Dick (1995), Will Hermon (1993), James Holloway (1999), Andrew James (1989), Mark Le Blanc Smith (1994), Simon Le Blanc Smith (2000), Matthew Law (1996), Paddy Milburn (1994), Wold Palmer (1967), Nick Stoop (1996), Michael Webster (1988), Hugo Walkinshaw (1983) and Justin Young (1979) attended a splendid dinner organised by Struan Ridgwell (1984) in Singapore – another dinner is planned for later in the year

Piers Hugh Smith (2008) – Round Britain and IrelandPiers Hugh Smith is hoping to take part in the Round Britain and Ireland Race in August. !is is about 2,000 miles non-stop. He is hoping to become the youngest person to sail the race two-handed and will attempt to beat the course record for a 40 foot boat.

!is will be an expensive project so anyone who may be able to sponsor him is asked to contact him at:

[email protected]

Royal Maundy Service at Blackburn

!e Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with Julian Henderson (1968), the Bishop of Blackburn and others, outside Blackburn Cathedral in Lancashire a#er the traditional Royal Maundy !ursday service on 17th April

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Cross CountrySailing

!e ORSA crew, captained by Piers Hugh Smith, crewed by Jules Facer and James Dodd

!e Radley boys in action, skippered by Chris James with Archie Goodwin, Michael de Winton and Dominic James

In March on Farmoor Reservoir and in winds gusting to 47 knots the two teams from Radley, one current boys and the other an OR crew beat the two teams from St Edward's.

At Radley in March an OR team managed to beat the boys by a very small margin.

Rowing

Tom George at a boat dedication to the 1952 Princeton crew where he met Colonel Daniel Du&eld who came from Kent School to Radley for a year in 1947. Both rowed for Radley and Tom rows in the same position (4) in the Princeton crew that Daniel Du&eld occupied in 1952.

Alex George (2006, Yale), Tom George (2008, Princeton), Arthur Sants (2007, Dartmouth), Charlie Shaw (2007, Princeton), Ollie Wynne-Gri&th (2007, Yale) are all rowing in American university crews

Athletics

At the 150th Athletics Varsity Match held at I'ey Road in May, George Gundle (2007) was a member of the Oxford team which won the Men’s Blues match on the last event of the day. George won the individual 400m (centre, above) in a new best of 48.27s, came second in the 200m and was part of winning Oxford 4x100m and 4x400m teams

Henry Tufnell (2005), currently at Brown University, has quali#ed for the 800m National Collegiate Athletic Association Finals in Oregon with a time of 1:47:99. He will compete in the UK Championships in Birmingham at the end of June.

Ollie Wynne-Gri%th (2007) rowing at 7 in the Yale Heavyweight crew – beating both Columbia and Princeton with Tom George (2008) to win the Carnegie Cup in May. Princeton got their revenge at the IRAs.

Back row (L to R): Jamie Turner (1987) , Simon Robson Brown (1986), Rob Clegg, (1984)Front row (L to R): Benedict Pollard (1986), Chris Tufnell (1982), Tom Horsey (1985)In the team but not the photo: Justin Mandeville (1988)

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Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation – No 10 Reception!e Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation is a charity building a future for cricket in Rwanda. Despite having an extremely dedicated and enthusiastic core of both male and female players, at present the development of cricket in the country is severely limited by a chronic lack of facilities. !ere is just one uneven, termite-infested ground held on a short and precarious lease from a local technical college. !e aim of the RCSF is, therefore, to build and manage, on a not-for-pro#t basis, the #rst dedicated international cricket ground in Rwanda. !is facility will not only provide a base from which cricket can continue to grow, but also promote the game as a way to inspire and bring people together in Rwanda a"er a troubled past.

!ere has always been a strong Radley link to the charity. It was set up in memory of the late Christopher Shale, father of Alby Shale (2004) and stepfather of Edo Mappelli Mozzi (1997), who, along with mother Nikki, are deeply involved. In addition, Oli Broom (1993), famous for his cycle from Lord’s to Brisbane, worked as Project Director from 2012-2013 and has now been replaced by Ed Pearson, a former member of Common Room, as the man on the ground in Kigali. Alby recently broke the Guinness World Record for the longest-ever individual cricket net – 26 hours – and all the boys in K Social raised close to £18,000 with a 24-hour charity basketball match on the last weekend of the Lent term.

Above: !e PM with Nikki Shale and Ed Pearson, former member of Common Room and now Project Director for !e Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation

Right: Alby Shale a#er his 26 hour cricket net last July

Le#: Niall Murphy, Tutor of K Social, with David Cameron

Below: some of the K Social 24-hour basketball team who raised £18,000 for the Stadium

!e Prime Minister with Brian Lara and RCSF patrons and committee members including Alby Shale, Nikki Shale, Ed Pearson, Edo Mapelli Mozzi and Oli Broom

So far the charity has raised half its £600,000 target for the construction of the ground. To mark the launch of its “Pavilion Appeal”, the drive to raise £200,000 to fund the ground’s beautiful pavilion, the RCSF were hosted by Prime Minister and RCSF patron David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on 31st March. !e event, which proved an excellent evening, was attended by a number of cricketing greats, including Brian Lara (RCSF patron), Mike Brearley and Mike Gatting, along with representatives from the MCC Foundation, the England and Wales Cricket Board and many other organisations who have helped the project so far. Support also came from Andrew and Olivia Bloom#eld (Former Parents), Philippa Wiggin (Current Parent), Nick Kaye (1973), Rowley Edwards (2004), Indy Singh (1997) and Niall Murphy (K Social Tutor).

Development of a 4.5 hectare site on the edge of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, is due to begin in July this year. !e plans include a high-quality pitch and out#eld, practice facilities and a beautiful and environmentally sensitive pavilion. If you would like to know more about the charity or lend your support you can visit the website at:www.rcsf.org.uk

and a #nal message from Ed Pearson:Building on K Social’s fantastic basketball exploits, I am taking on the heat, hills and hypoxia of the Kigali International Peace Marathon to raise money for the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation. If my training is anything to go by it should be a real challenge, so any support you can lend me and the charity would be hugely appreciated.

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Radley College, Abingdon, OX14 2HR Web: www.radley.org.uk

Anthony Robinson, Development Director Tel: 01235 543151

Email: [email protected]

Lucy Johnsson, Administrator &PA to Development Director

Tel: 01235 548543 Email: [email protected]

Kim Charlton, Database Manager Tel: 01235 543172


Hamish Aird, Foundation Philosopher Tel: 01235 548574


Jock Mullard, Publications Tel: 01235 543103


Contact Details

!e Radley Foundation – Registered Charity No. 272671 !e Radleian Society – Registered Charity No. 309243

Cricket Nets

Above and below: indoor nets at Radley – February 2014 – Simon Dalrymple (1996, Master i/c Cricket), Andy Wagner, Jason Gillespie, legendary Australian Test cricketer and coach of Yorkshire, and Jamie Dalrymple (1994), England One Day and Twenty20 International. Right – March 2014: John Emburey, England Test cricketer and Captain.

... and here are just some of the star cricketers who Andy Wagner has brought in to help: John Childs (Essex & England), Alan Coleman (Middlesex Academy Director), Nick Compton (Somerset & England), Rory Coutts (Transval), Jamie Dalrymple (Glamorgan & England), John Emburey (Middlesex & England Captain), Angus Fraser (Middlesex & England), Jason Gillespie (Yorkshire Head Coach & Australia), Richard Johnson (Somerset & England), Harry Latchman (Nottinghamshire), Jeremy Lloyds (Gloucestershire), David Malan (Middlesex), Raj Maru (Hampshire), Gary Palmer (Somerset), Toby Radford (West Indies Batting Coach & Glamorgan Head Coach), Sam Robson (Middlesex & England Lions), Ben Scott (Worcestershire), John Simpson (Middlesex), Tom Smith (Gloucestershire), Andy Stovold (Gloucestershire), Andrew Strauss (Middlesex & England Captain), Robbie Williams (Leicestershire).

Golf – Halford HewittHugh Mackeown (1955) became the #rst Old Radleian to play 100 Halford Hewitt matches. We went to Deal in April with Hugh on 97 matches – we needed to get through two rounds which we did beating Taunton and Haileybury but succumbed to Tonbridge narrowly for the #rst time in the history of the tournament. We should not have lost!

It is reported that there are three ORs who have made the “#nals” of the Sports Writer of the Year Award 2014: Andrew Strauss (1990), Brough Scott (1956) and Jonny Henderson (1958).

Sports Writer of the Year

Documents

Lusimus Issue 29 June 2014