Old Raineians' Association

Rnine's Foundation School Sandra J o h n Richards Gwynneth Jackson Approach Road 9 Coddington Lane 26 Shandy Street Glevum London Orpington Stepney Kirkby Malzeard E2 9LY Kent London Ripon Tel: 081 981 1231 BR6 9DR E1 4LX North Yorks Fax: 081 983 0153 Tel: 0689 826854 Tel:0717909235 HG4 3RS

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FEBRUARY 1995

Dear Old Raineians

Once again it's time for another edition of the newsletter. As with the previous pub- lication I believe there will be something of interest for all ages.

Well that's enough of the bluh - lets get to the news!

Gwenda Belsham (Wiseman, 66-70) has two teenage children, Carolyn, 16 and Ian, 15 and is married to a Fleet Street journalist After leaving school she worked at a charity before becoming a Pemnal Assistant to a Senior hsmnce Company Executive. Un- fortunately, whilst w o w on an Open University Degree, Gwenda became seri- ously ill with Multiple Sclerosis which has left her in a wheelchair and house bound. If any friends or staff remember Gwenda from school she would be thrilled to hear from you at the following ad&ss:-

12 Osbome Avenue Hockley Essex SS5 4UJ

Tel: 0702 204374

Gwenda finishes by saying that, even to this day, she is proud of tk fact that she was once a pupil at Raine's Foundation School.

- 1944 REUNION

At the end of July there was a reunion for boys who had left the school in 1944 organised by Jack Rodin CBE who sed me the following report:

"We hadan excellentreunion. Ten hadplanned to attend but, unfovtuately, two were ill on I I

the day. We met at the Frimley Hall Hotel on the outskirts of Camberley where the School I

spent the warpars. We were able to visit oldhaunts although Beechleigh, the wunby house j which was our school base, is no longer there having been demolished to m& wayfor the / M3 motorway. I I

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Some of us had not met since we left the sixth form$fiyears ago almost to the day. &me , were unrewgnisable atjrst but after a while, the boy we once h e w could be seen, All of us have had interesting careers in business, engineering, medicine, science or the mts, built / upon a strong base we developed at Raines. Between us, we wuld wunt two CBE's, one , - FaS: two pro@ssors and a well known actor. We all remember Raines with great affection andgratitude and have#nd memories of teachers and events. We wondered if a y of the teachers of our day me still alive; gpu h o w of any do let me how."

Following is a list of those who attended, four of whom joined the Associtiox-

Leonard Kendler Cyril Hilsum Leonard Fenton Amold Feinstein Derek Lawson Albert Mason Jack Rodin Simon Kaminsky

Leonard Fenton (37-44) is an ador. You East Ender fans will know him better as Dr Legge. He trained as a civil engineer and taught maths for 5 years before discovering acting.

Cyril Hilsum (36-43) is amongst other thugs, an advisor to the Ministry of Defem. He is also an advisor to two companies and a business consultant to another.

Simon Kamhsky (37-44) is now retired but had been a Lecturer in the Clothing Department of Mamhester Polytechnic; Analytical Chemist with ICI etc etc (his words). His qdifi- cations ixlude BA (Open), BSc (London), ARCS and DIC.

Jack Rodin (3744) is a retired Civil Engineer Consultant and was praiously a Chief Executive of a Building Design Partnership. Jack was made a CBE in 1992.

Ronald Bender (71-75) is a British Gas Land Sweyor and has been manied for 11 years with a f m of 3 children

C l a k Bumws (Whiteman, 70-75) is a housewife and mother of 3 children havmg been married for 1 1 years. As if that's not enough she is also a childrens clothes de- signer, w o w from horn.

Clak keeps in touch with Rosemary Sewell (Ellis), Deborah Leary, Wendy Brown, Stephen Smith and Adrien 'Bomber' Giles.

Clm Callaghan (Attwaters, 76-81) mar- ried Sean Callaghan in 1993, who attended Raines the same yeas as Clare. She is currently working for BZW Options in the City and they keep in touch with Kerry Jod, Lorraine Skimer, Diane Reeves, Lawrence Holder and Peter Driscoll. (As fm as I can see none me members of the Association. Why not?).

Clare is despemte for a copy of the School photo takenin either 1980 or 1981 as it went on sale after she left school. Can anyone help?

Roy Catley (6066) joined after being sent the Summer Newsletter by the father of John Masson (both ex-pupils). Roy and John are two of a group of O R s who have been in loose and occasional contact for many years. Others k lude Douglas Willment, Midc Whiting and Ian Thursto~Moon (all mem- bers I am glad to add. Well it stops me moaning$. John's father, Alexander 'Stan' Masson was at the School dwing the inter-war years.

Reading hugh the newsletter Roy came across a number of names he recalled, both fellow pupils and M. He certainly E- members Wallie Spooner (his form master, 6445) and Basil Dowltng (form master, 63-64) - who stands out as being one of the nicest people Roy has met (I can safely say there will be no w e n t with that senti- menr).

There was also Messrs Calvert, -g, AlanRussellandShivas. Tkyalls tadout as charactes, and they and others often appeared as men of accomplishment. 0th- ers also come to mind; HRK 'Bfio'

Broughton, elder statesman of the sckool with Donny Lyons; Keith Torode (form master, 62-63); Mr Simmons, brilliant German teacher and, again, extremely likeable (Roys first form master, 6041). Also Mr Rosenbloom (Maths); Mr Fowler (German); 'Peter' Hanison (English); Jim Snowden (Enghsh) - raconteur and wit who used to smoke Nelson cigarettes and sent a boy out to buy them if he run out; Mr Wiles, a fierce bristlulg type, who taught Chemistry and had a appropriately selfexploding tempemnt. 'Zonk' Larnbext (an a l q s t unintelligible Belgian, who also taught C h e w , and mentioned he had many friends in the Belgian war-time mistance movement). Then there was Dr Keynes a sad, clownish and yet veIy humane 'Mittel' European man who taught French ' D e w Dudley Heniott, who taught RI (as did 'Fluff Loughborough, a C of E Father). Roy went to Edinburgh on a school trip with the two of them in August 1961. He remembers getting stmnded with Fran;is Tibbles and John Wicks near the top of '0 Sent.

Other boys Roy remembers m Alder, Bass, Campbell, Evans, Gardiner, Gore, Hoser, McNamam, Moyle, Sharpe and many oth-

OLD RAINEIANS' TIES

New ties are now available at the ri- diculously cheap price of £5.00 and can be ordered from:

Richard Hanis 34 Brierly Gardens London E2 OTE

The design has changed and the colom are light and dark blue and yellow stripes (the o r i d Old Boys tie).

ers. After so long memories m a bit hazy, but there was also Russell Stait, Keith Dylko, John Bull, John Jackson and Peter Jackson

In 1964 the 2 single sex school amalgamated and Roy recalls that the sudden influx of girls was at first d i d i n & but soon became (for him) a civilising and balancing influ- ence. In .fact he was so 'civilised' that he

was m d y arrested for trying to locate the flat of one of the girls. UIlfortunately (or perhaps fortunately!), her hther was a po- liceman and Ray was stopped by one of the father's qdleagues before he was anywhere Eartheflat

Among the gds he remembers are Ingrid Carlton, Elaine Golding and F m i s Mott He remembers playing opposite Susan Healey in J B Priestley's 'Time and the Conways'; the School play in 1965. They had a few drinks (illicitly of course) in the interval and Roy nearly enlivened p r o d - i n s in the second half by having an on-stage face slapping exchange with Susan Roy says it's strange how these scenes stand out vividly in the mind after many years.

Back to who else Roy can remember. Peter Davidson, who went off to be a policeman in Hong Kong (and whose grandfather was Archbishop Temple); Barry Walsh, who went to WO& for the Health Education De- partmenf but died young or so Roy heard (When I spoke to &u7y he was very much alive and well. To quote Mmk Twain "The report of his death was an exaggeration"!! - sorry Roy but things were gefting too se- rious). Roy last met Terry Day in the Mid 70's and Peter Wilmshurst 5 or 6 years ago. George Pinkney (brother of Robert) is now a big wheel in the oil world in Jakarta, Dave Bond, who WO&& for a time at a school for the deaf and so on

To bring the catalogue to a close Roy would like to conhibute to the 'Famous' Old

. . Rau~lans. He mentions that M i c h l Varah was one of a quartet who broke the World 4 X S80 yards relay record, running for Eng- land in the mid to late 60's. Not famous in the accepted sense, but a minor hero to Roy as a lifelong athletics fan (A4ichaelS twin brother Andew is a bespoke cabinet maker, with clients that include David Puttnam, Lord PaIwnbo and David Bailey. AA0 their father Chad was the founder of the Sa- maritans in the early 50 S.)

F i Roy himseK He has been a civil servarf s i m leaving Raines in 1966 and is now in the Personnel Management Direc- tome of the Department of Environment. After drifting through life aimlessly for so= years, Roy rnarded Hazel in 1977.

They have lived in Herne Bay for 5 years. As already medoned he follows athletics and is a stamp collector.

Copperfield Road which m along.-& canal-knownfo~yas'TheCut'-inwhich he learnt to swim (l trust h was a lot cleaner then!)

Roy made and left some good friendships at Raine's and it would be good, not to say interestin& to have the chance of seeing others who he remembers or remember him (Uental note.. must tradc down the where- abouts of Susan Healey!!!)

King Loon Chan (87-94) who left the School in the Summer has joined as an Associate Member. He is studymg at UCL for a BSc in Biochemistry.

John Dorling (6146) is a Dimtor of an Indepenht Financial Services Company. Married to Janet, they have 2 children, Maria 18 and Robed 16.

Henrietta Ferguson (Levy, 6047) is cw- rently employed at the Royal London Hos- pital as a Senior Medical Labomtory Sci- entific Of5czr in the department of Clinical Biochemistry having gained her HNC in Medical Laboratoly Sciem in 1971.

At present she is an undergraduate with the Open University, trying hard to gain a BSc a d has also taken a business school course in Management

Mamed for 12 years to Ian with 3 children the eldest of whom, SiQnie is now in Year 7 (1st year) at Raines. Henrietta's younger brother - now Doctor (PhD) - J. Braham LRvy is also a former member of the School (67-74)

Henrietta hopes to write again soon with more memories and information

Frederick Gibson (35-39) left Raine's in 1939, while at Brighton, with no qualifica- tions. He gmduated as a sergeant pilot in 1943 in the RAF flying with Bomber Command and was commissioned in 1944.

After the war he became a chemical trader in the City; travelled extensively in the Far East and finally retired as a Dkctor in 1983.

Frederick was quiet fascinated by the men- tion of the boat trip in thr Summer News- letter as he spent his younger years living in

Before the war he supplied coke to the whole of his street. But don't panic; it was the burning variety. F d r i c k had to take a wheelbmw to the gasworks and buy the weeks supply!

M i i d ~ d Gordon (Felleman, 34-39) has been the Member of Parliament for Bow a# Poplar since 1987 and is on the Select Committee for Education

Sidney Hilsum (3849 was one of the pupils who was evacuated to Brighton and then Camberley. He is now a self employed Occupational Psychologist

Guildhall Univeety where she has just completed a MA in Politics and Government

Eve Mills (Simmonds, 54-59) is a medical secretary for a Consultant Obstetrician and s ecologist.

After leaving school she did a full time secretarial course at a private college in Westminster, followed by various jobs. This was followed by a period in Devon 'for a change', where she met her husband.

They then moved to Sussex; had 2 sons and then onto Ongar, Essex. Eve started work as a medical sec~tary at St Marpet's Hospital in Epping until their final move to Ketton, near Stamford and work for Eve at Peter- borough District Hospital

Eve's husband is a Director of a shoe

REUNION FOR PUPILS WHO STARTED IN 1968

Because most, if not everyone, who started at Raine's in 1%8 will be around the 40 mark Tony Mole is hoping to anrange a reunion, somewhere in the East End in 1996.

If anybody is interested andor they know of anyone else who may be, please contact Tony dimt at the following add~ss:-

40 B a d d d Avenue Kingston-UpowThames surrey Kn 5RE

Please contact Tony as this is a good opportunity for long lost friends to meet again

Bob Loveridge (64-71) is a Chaaered Sweyor with the Woolwich Building So- ciety in Romford and is married with 2 children

Mary McCurry (7582) has just come back from spending a year teaching in Tucson, Arizona on a FuIbright Scholarship Ex- change. She is presently Deputy Head of Maths at George Green School

She mentions that her sister is worlang for the Financial T W in San Paulo, Brazil.

Kay McEachran (75-82) manied in Oc- tober 1993 but retained her maiden name. She is a Libmy Assistant at the London

company, one son works for the Daily Mir: ror and the other is a design eIlgineerina local engineering company,

Following are some of the 1A class that Eve remembes:- Brenda Kaye, Wars Zetter,

Wilikins, Maqpret Bateman, Janice Phillips and Jane Bmadbent and would love to hear from any of them. She also has a form photo somewhere (for which she is looking) h m about 1957.

Among the teachers Eve remembers n:- Miss Pany - Form Mistress/GeograpIr4p, Miss Stewart - French; Miss Hore - English; Miss Whitehead - Deputy HeadlMaths; Mrs

Youhotsky - Physics and Chemistry; Mrs Weingarten - Form M k a e d W o ~ y ; Mrs Haugh - Headmistress at the beginning and her successor Miss Mangold.

had included spells in the marketing de- partment of the London Rubber Company, 6 years at Smith and Nephew before moving to Unilever. He has been married for 14 years with 2 children - Eloise 4 and Jamie 7.

Susan Morton (Y* 75-82) married David Morton who was at the school the same years. Susan is a Radiographer at Homerton Hospital and David an Account- ant. a y have a daughter, Jane aged one. TIxy keep in touch with Peter Oliver, Steven Greeno, Gay Morgan and Andrew Rkodes.

Joan Roberts (74-81) gamed a Masters in Business since leaving Raines and is a Manager of a Medical Centre (NHS) based in Hampstead

Rosemary Sewell (Ellis, 70-75) has sold office and printjng statio~ry for 14 years. Previous to this she was a Personal Assistant to Architects on the Isle of Dogs and has just purchased a fmhi se to sell Childm personalised books.

Rosemaq has 2 Children, James 10 and Lauren 8 and mainly leeps in touch with 3aire B m w s (Wluteman) but has over the fears seen Paul Vaughars Michael Blackall, 3avid Knibbs, Teny Everson, Karen Smith, Wendy Brown and Debbie Leary. If you look at the 1973 class 3F photigraph you win see Rosemary in the top mw, third from he left.

4fkr leaving school she corresponded with 3asil Dowling for a number of years but lost ouch. (In answer to your question Baz is low living in Rye).

<osemary and Claire got quite nostalgic the )ther week and decided to tq and organise a eunion for people they know from school - opefdly sometime this year. They will also )ut their heads togther and write again with heir school memories - something tley say, hat may leave a few people quaking in their hoes. (You have been warned?

Gap 'Jim' Vanna (68-75) is Marketing Iirector of R J Reynolds who manufacture -1 cigarettes. When ra:mited from 'acific Asia Techmlogies by the company lne mgazine described him as a 'heavy- veight d e t e r ' ! ! Previously his m r

Audrey Wheaton (Edwards, 47-51) is now retired having been a Civil Servant nloIl<ing for the Inland Revenue (please, no booing) for approximately 10 years. Pre- vious to this s k had been employed by GEC (Traffic), her first full time employment after marrying and I-dising a family of 7 children

On thinking of her school days she gets a nice, calm feeling. Teachers that spring to mind ate Misses W h i t e m Foot, Grafton, MIX W e w o n and MIS Manasche. Audrey remembers among her contem- pones: Fmes Truntan, Maureen Weist, Angela Cohen and B- Mazin.

Unfortunately she has lost touch with eve- Tone since she returned to visit Arbour Square on Miss Haugh's retirement in 1955.

Newsletters always bring some response not only fmm this country but this time from Switzerland and Thailand! David Spencer was in Pakistan at the time of the Reunion, where he is walking on the geological evolution of the Western Himalayas as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. EnrouteheplannedtovisitOmanandthe United Arab Emirates. (More adventurous than hostem in the Yorkshire Dais after 0 Levels)

Reff Reffold wrote from his oriental abode (it's all light, I know it isn't a slop house!) and told of his numemus Old Raineian visitors this year. Jim Evedon and his wife were there at Easter, emuntering Humph Long with a basketball team en mute to Budapest as k y arrived back at Heathmw. Tony Groves spent a month with Reff in the Summer and Janis Fuller and Graham Wil- lett stayed for six days, diving their Far East explorations. Many f o m r cdleagues keep him up to date about the whereabouts of former M. (We are trying to remedy that

- thank you for the suggestion)

J i i Everton also met Ken Constantine whc had lots of gossip about his contempoIzuies - although he hasn't returned his applicatior form to join the Association

John Blundell is deeply *mohred with the S1 h4ay Cray Action Group and in Septembe~ he was helping with a Heritage Open Weeked among other thugs, hoping to demonstrate a way m which a r* church buildmg may be used.

Tema Rollo (O'Kavanagh, 72-78) has kindly fotwarded some personal details which she says she failed to complete on the membelship form, as she was "press ganged" into joining at her sister Pat's birthday party. (Jut what I like to hem) She was in Winterton House, with her first form teacher being Miss Clark, followed by Miss Groner (now Zippy Auehch). She re- members Father Burrows (Hcstory), Miss Ward (French), Mr Sirnmonds (German), Miss Lowes (PE), Mr Dowlmg (Engllsh - with whom she stdl exchanges Christmas cards), Mr Blundell (Art - again she is still in regular contact), Mi Hudson (Chemishy) and Mr Croom (Geography) - the last two still feature among the present Raines staff. T e r n goes on to say my patience was sorely tried taking choir practices!!

After school she joined Nat West and wodced in various areas within the Inter- national Sector, married in 1987 and later spent 3 years in Hong Kong w h e ~ she met Kim Poppy who was w o k g in a Personal Agency. Back in England, Teresa lives in Bexley, not far from Christin: and Ken Cnunp.

Alan Liddiad wrote fmm Exeter, dishcssed that the 275th Annivemry W o n clashed with a former commitment. He continues to do voluntary work for the National Tntst, but is having a years respite from his Theological Studies.

Gaf f Gillon appreciates the newsletters and enjoys the other attention amadkg addi- tions. He says he was convinced no one read his minutes of meetings and occa- sionally inserted a couple of lines of rubbish

- which even the sectt:tary typing them never m t i d He was interested to read about John Barbw, a contempomy, but says that in his day boys were ge~lemlly called only by their surnames, unless the language teachers, Domy Lyons and Alan Russell, used a name of their cxvn concoction

From Bia Richmds

The k t person to respod on the fax was Gillian Rogers (Abbott, 76-83) who reports that she is married with an 8 year old boy and a 4 year old girl. She woks for a Geotechinal Specialist Company on the Jubilee Line Extension Pmject.

Gillian's sister, Lynda (71-78) is married with2sons,liiginthe WestMidlandsand teaches in a local school.

Douglas Clarke (31-38), although a l e a life member for many yea^ sent another £15.00 saying that he had had more than good value for his praious subscription and "more skngth to your elbow" {thanks for the support).

After leaving school Douglas worked for the Government Chemist and transferred to the M i m s t ~ ~ of Supply during the war. Fmm There it was the Armament Research De- partn~nt, the United KmgQm Atomic Energy Authority and, f i d y , the Ministry of defence. Professional qualifications as a Chemist were taken in 1947 and he is now C.Chem MRSC., retiring in 1985.

He is in regular touch with Frank Morris, George Osbourne, John M S , Fred Penney and Ton Howgtll (the latter two being even older than he is!) and of murse his bmther, Frank Clarke.

Douglas was happily married but unfortu- nately his wife died a short while ago.

John C M noted the reference to Captain Turnage in the last newsletter. He lived mxt to him in Upminster b m 1937 to 1942 and the Captain was instrumental in John g ing to Raines. In 1937 John M just come back from a spell in Kenya and was attendug a veIy unsatkfactoy secretarial college and

had an interview with the Headmaster, A H Davies, 'Butch' Gee, Jim Shim and, he thinks, 'Piffle' ?????, the French Master whose pmper name escapes him He started in 1938.

He usually lravelled on the tmin Erom U p minster to Stepmy East with Pete Vail, mtudly avoiding CqWn T v . On Fridays the School hished at 2.30 and either Pete or John would dash madly to catch a train to Fenchurch Street where they would catch the Southed train to Upmin- ster. The object of the exercise was to get an empty compartment for the other party to join at Stepney East, to enable them to play their various games etc.

When the war s taed John was in Devon, w k he stayed until December 193 9, living on a farm. He rejoined Raines in January 1940 in Brighton and went through the move to Camberley etc. Memories include trips to C a d Hall for gym with 'Biffer' Bmughton and to the 'Blue Pool'; French and New Zealand troops coming and going, passingout parades at the Military College with the Cormnandant riding his horse up the steps - his 'billetdad' was a college servant. Finally, School Cedficate in June 1941 and off and away. On the whole happy days and John is very gratelid for those 3 Y--

Other masters recalled include Jim Shivas (Form Master); 'Doc' Wilkins; 'Fussy' Browning - "You must be decent"; 'Nobby' Clark (Music); 'Slogger' Luton (Physics); 'Butch' Gee, cycling back from the pub with beer bottles on the canier!; Domry Lyons; Mr Hayward 0) - "How do you spell my name, boy?" (Geography); Mr Andrews - W s tbe way round" (Mechanics); John's B t e Noir, little Mr @r?) Home, the "hornithologist", Mr DoIby (Mechanics). And of course that formidable Headmaster, Wilkirson Dagger.

The mother of Kelly Bowier (82-89) wrote in reply to a letter I sent to her daughter. Kelly lefi Rainw: in 1989 and in August of that year left England to spend a year living with a f@ in South Carolina, USA.

On m n g to Lordon she worked as a Recruitment O!Ticer in Docklands and then

as a P m n a l Assistant for a television company-

Still affected by the travel bug Kelly again left England to backpack amund the world with 3 fiiends. After travelling through Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia Kelly anived in Australia at the end of May, where she willbeuntil early 1995.

From there it is on to New Zealand and the W leg of her trip is crossing America fmm West to East, befole retuming to England at the end of this year.

Debbi King (Castle) wrote to say that her last full time job was as an assistant bye r for S W q s before she left to iook after her daughter, Charlotte, who is now 12. In 1991 she started a 2 yearHND Applied Stats and Research to be followed by a 2 year shortened BEd to teach Mathematics to GCSE level. Unfortunately after the first year daughter mmber two decided to come along fbig surprise!). Thus she is back at home looking after her (now 14 m*).

Debbie is still in touch with Genieve Sul- livan, although mt as often as she should be. She fully intended to be at the 275th Anni- versary reunion but circumstances made this impossible.

In response to John Bany's 'feat of memory' in the last newsletter Arthur Vine has writ- ten He states that he was vely interested in parts of the newsletter and the reason why onlypartscaughthisinterestisthatAahuris 81 years old and of course a lot of the names mentioned are unknown to him He does go on to say that he can certainly beat John's list since the following list is over 64 years old!

Ken Amold; Bahns; Bew; Buck; Albert Bmwq Roger Burton; John Canmn; Deau; Harry Epstein; Eric Dixon; Gordon Fquar, Forman; Glibbery-, Godward; Jack Hanis; Len House; Alan Laver, Mayblatt; Radzan; M. Steinberg R Steinbag, S~ucovitch (later changed to Harris!); George Tidd; Arthur Vine (always known as Bunny!); Len Wheeler, Willy Wiggs; George Wren (killed in action) and Zusman

Arthur will always member an incident

OLD RAINEIANS MEMORABILIA A collection of Old Raineian's Memorabilia has at last been started at the Bancroft Library. The address is: 277 Bancroft Road, London El 4DQ telephone 081 980 4366. For those who remember Speech Days, the library is at the side of the Queen m ' s College buildings, between Stepney Green and Mile End stations. The archivist, Jane Kimber, is preparing a catalogue list of the items, available soon, the reference number will be THf8623.

The archive s e ~ c e at the Bancroft Library collects records relevant to the history of Tower Hamlets. The records are stored in acid-free boxes, in an air-conditioned strongroom conforming to British Standards. They are brought up to the searchroom if requested by researchers. The searchroom is open six days a week, with two late nights, and there is no charge for use of the records (and anyone can look at them).

After a great deal of thought it was decided that the items should be deposited in the library listing the owner as the Old Raineians' Association, care of Raine's School. This ensures that ownership will be secured as long as there is an association andor a school because there is a clause that if the depositor cannot be traced after 20 years and the items have not been visited, they become the property of Tower Hamlets. Of course if someone particu- larly wishes to retain ownership of an item please feel free to do so!

Items can be deposited permanently or temporarily, and removed with one month's notice. If an item is rather sensitive in nature (your school report?) access can be restricted or closed to the public for twenty years. Anybody can photocopy or photograph items, although if someone wants to publish items, permission

must be sought from the depositor. The archivist suggested that the deposited items could be used in exhibitions from time to time, for example in the library's local history displays or a display at the school.

So what is of interest? Basically anyth~~~g. The archivist was delighted to receive the medallions fmm the 250th anniversary cake (she plans to write an article in the archivist's journal about this most unusual deposit) but she was equally interested in boys' school caps, infqrmal photographs as well as formal ones (with an explanation a& names if possible - people use these in their family searches), magazines, school reports( good and bad!), programmes for school events, blazer badges, newspaper cut- tings and school exercise books. If you have anything stored in your loft or under the bed at your parents' home, rather than let it collect dust and deteriorate why not let the Bancroft Library store it with loving care, not only for you but for Old Raineians and present pupils. And think of all that extra space and less dust!

The archivist reminded us that with each day we might be producing more records, so minutes of meetings, menus of reunion dinners etc. could be deposited when they are no longer needed.

It was with great relief that we learnt that the old rather more formal school records are deposited at the London Records Office in Farringdon, also accessible to everybody. We had thought that they were lost!

LESLIE JENSEN

concerning M Steinberg (no relation to RS.). After their Maths exam papers were retumed,theyallhadtocallouttheirmarks for Arithmetic, Algebm and Problems, out of 100, in that order followed by the ag- p@ mark Steinberg's tally was 0-1-2-3!! He never was top of the class!!

He often wonders how many of them are still alive. Bahns was the son of the Senior German Master. Brown became the Sec- retary to the Board of Governors. Cannon became an Insp&or of Taxes. The last he heard of Jack Hanis was that he had r e W toStockpoIt(AIthurwasbestmanathis Wedding). He believes House took up teaching in Stratford. George Tidd was a river pilot

Following is a list of some of the M at the

school during Arthu~'s time at Raine's (25-30). If any of them were alive today he is certain they would remember him for all his misdeeds (more please!):- W A Wilkin- son Dagger (Head); Bahns (German); A Davis (Maths); J Davis (Physics); B@ Wilkins (Chemistry); Teddy Horn (Art/ History); Yapper Curtis (English); Charles Nay (Woodwork); Juggins Andravs (En- gineering); Fussy Bmwning (Chemistry); George Tyler (hbtbs); Don Lyons (Ger- man); Jock Hayward (Economics) Skinny Coleman (Music/E@sh); Edwin Tiller (Geography); Luke, Paskoe and Muirhead (all French); Bob Turnage (PT).

Bob Turnage s h a d with Don Lyons in looking after - and refereeing - the Rugby XV. Some of the players in the 1st XV at the same time as m were Cooper,

Lassman, Bath, Reeve, V i , M l a t t , Hackett, House - although there were 15 of them, but for the life of him Arthur cannot remember the names of the rest.

David De'Athvisited the UK in 1994. He is still playing cricket and his young son (7 or 8 accodmg to Brim Chaperh) is now an enthusiast. Mentioned that he was mt re- ceiving the mwsletters. (Could be that we di'dh 1 have his present ada%es!9

E l a i ~ Cresswell @art>er, 66-72) is married with a daughter aged 8 and lives in Chelmsford. She is currently w o w as a Pesonal Assistant to the Chief Executive of a National Health %mice Trust.

Robert Taylor re;bd with interest in the item by Sidney L a z m on page 2 of the Summer

RINGING THE CHANGES IN PE AND GAMES

At the recent reunion at the House of Commons it was good to see so many former pupils that I had come in contact with over the past 30 years and to reminisce about "the happiest days of their lives. The most asked question was; "how are things in the sporting life of the School?" - especially from those for whom PE/Games/Sport was so much a part of their day to day life at Raine's. It was not easy to enscapulate the present state of play in a few words, so I thought I would try to summarize the main changes that have taken place over the past few yeas.

Firstly the personnel in the PE Department has changed. That dynamic duo - the Long/Lowe axis - no longer run the show. Severely stricken by ill-health Miss Lowes was forced to retire and the separate boys and girls departments were merged into a single unit; which is how it is today. The Head of PE is Andy Gill assisted by Linda Richardson and Mark Hutchings. Gary Northover, a jack of all trades but primarily a football coach, also helps the department whilst I go back for two and a half days a week.

A notable change in the timetable is that the seemingly sacro- sanct games afternoon no longer exists. You must all remember with feeling those afternoons when a designated year group would troop off by tube, or later by coach, to a playing field for rugby, hockey, netball or athletics. Those days are gone forever. Now years 1 - 5 (called years 7 -1 1 under the new system) each have a double PE lesson of 100 minutes as individual periods are now 50 minutes as opposed to the previous 35 minutes. A half- year group does PE which can be in the morning or afternoon, on-site or off-site. The f i t two years are mixed for all activities; separate in the next two years and brought together again when they are in the fifth year.

The PE programme - which is inevitably influenced by the strictures of the new National Curriculum - generally consists of 4 activities. The half-year group is split into 4 groups and these rotate around these activities which last for a half-term of 6 to 7 weeks. Educational Dance is now on the curriculum - mixed of course - sharing the spotlight with gymnastics. In the first 2 years the emphasis is on the acquisition of basic skills in a variety of activities which hopefully lead to a better standard of performance in later years. In the third year the sexes are split to allow them to proceed at their own pace. This is sensible because at this stage girls are often intimidated by the presence of boys and often allow, or are incapable of preventing the boys dominating the lesson On entering the fifth year there are still the traditional socially orientated activities for which the groups are in the main mixed once again.

In the Summer the emphasis is on athletics up to half-term when the district and London Championships are held. Then softball, tennis and volleyball take over. With the GCSE exams starting earlier and earlier, Summer games activities hardly exist for the

fifth year.

The general idea of the programme is that everyone gets a short taste of a variety of activities without any being taken to a very high standard because of lack of time. Most of the activities take place off-site and travelling can take up to 30 minutes of the allocated 100 minutes lesson time. This also makes the pro- gramme vezy expensive with the hiring of sports centre facilities and transport for which the school is now responsible for.

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The once major activity of rugby no longer exists - to the intense relief of some people. It doesn't really suit as mixed activity for one thing and it also thrives on extra-curriculum competition But ths depends on having access to pitches, teams to play against and reasonably priced transportation - which on Satur- days is an impossibility. SMng would also be a problem as few of the non PE have the time, energy or the expertise to involve themselves in anything other than their own subject. When I anived at Raine's 6 rugby teams were looked after by non PE staff- times have really changed in this area. Other factors also contribute in this area The division of the half-year group into activity groups usually ends up with 15 to 20 pupils in a group, which with absences and sick notes, can be reduced to 10 to 12. This makes it to have a viable team game lesson - even basketball needs larger numbers because of the tiredness factor. An attempt was made to introduce rugby league a couple of years ago as the husband of one of the school staff is a rugby league coach and was willing to give up his time to help. But this was also beset with problems.

Football is also not on the cuniculum but as every youngster is a l ~ a d y a soccer superstar when he comes to the school it is quite easy to pick teams to play other schools in friendly or London Cup matches.

Basketball is still a thriving extracurricular activity with in- volvement over 5 year-groups in South East England and na- tional competitions. The National Under 19 Championship was won 2 years ago but now there are very few good players left in the sixth form. The f i year team is strong with 2 England players in its ranks and 2 final trialists. They could reach the semi-finals but there is strong opposition around. Last season the first and second year teams comfortably won the South East England Championships - there are no nationals at this age - and look good for the future. The second year team (this years third year) are particularly strong, have never lost a match and have some players of exceptional ability, even by Raine's standads. Whether by choice or design there is little games activity on the girls side but they particularly strong in cross-country and athletics. The younger boys did well in the London Cross- Countq Championships last year but the girls are strong every year and in both the District Championships and National Milk Cup they always do well. One girl in the fifth year is an

outstanding shot/discus exponent and the best in London at her age group.

The final change that must be mentioned is the demise of the House system as a sporting entity. There are now 6 houses based on the 6 classes in each year - Foundation, Man& School, Winterton as of old plus Arbour and Jude with obvi- ous historical connections. There is no longer the frenetic inter-house rivalry as epitomised on the rugby and hockey field and on the basketball court in the packed gym There are no longer weekly House meetings with a Head of House calling for more House spirit, whipping up enthusiasm for the next inter-house activity and begging some reluctant youngster to help because a 'star' performer was absent.

pressure now in their own subjects with the National Cunicu- lum, staff meetings, department meetings, year meeting and similar calls on their time that another commitment is out of the question. There is some interclass rivalry in the Lower School but this tends to wane as the pupils move up to the third year in the Upper School.

The swimming gala has vanished as swimming is no longer on the curriculum. The Annual School Sports Day still exists and is reasonably enthusiastically supported, although 'star' personalities are lacking

That in a nutshell is a rksumk of how the sporting life of the school looks today.

Having a divided school with buildings a mile or so apart does HUMPH LONG not help to unify Houses and teachers are under so much more

Newsletter. He disagrees on one small point While there was a gradual trickle back Q London of many of those evamakd to Camberley, the School itself did not return to London until the Autumn of 1944.

Robert vividly remembers sitting the School Certificate exam at Camberley at the time of D-Day, with fleets of planes constantly passing overkid. Once back in Art>our Square, the danger as he malls was not so much from the 'flying bombs' (V-l), as from the V-2 rockets many of which fell near the school, cansing con- siderable damage to windows and on one occasion at least causing the Latin teacher, Miss Freeman, to jump right out of her chair. She was doing her Daily Telegqh crossword at the time whilst we were struggiing with Latin'translation!

Basil Dowlingwmte to send his apologies for not attending the 275th reunion He mentioned that he has been involved with 3 number of poety anthologies m New Zkaland, Austda, Fiji, Inrlla, South Af-

rica, England, Scotland Noway and the USA and in some his years at Raine's were mentioned in the typographical mtes.

3az passes on his warmest re@ to Wally Spooner, John Blundell and any ~ther old staff collegues and also to any bmer pupils who e y remember him 3e c e w remembers them with a&c- ion

He concludes by saying how lucky he was, as a New Zealander, Q have taught at Raine's for twenty years.

Bdly W (35-39) left school at the outbreak of war due to family pressuw. He trained and qm&ed as an engineer and entered the transport industry. Moving onto middle man- agement and then a directorship he subse- quently became a M i m a p g Director. The business was sold into a public conpry and for the next forty years Billy headed up Na- tional and International C o w e s speclalis- ing in shipping, &rail freight and ware- housing and distribution together with ancillary trades. This included board appointments with such companies as British Oxygen (T~anspo~t Subsidmy); Charrington Group (as part of the Coalite Group) and the Bibby Line Group.

Billy was the first lecturer (part-time) for the Road Tmpor t Industries Training Board dunng its formative years. He lectured at w o n College and later at the R?TTB Col- lege at High Ercall.

Among other strings to his bow was that for many years he was an equestrian correspon- dent, writer, farmer a d is now a professional show commentator (county and major hone shons).

In 1947 he married Betty who, apart from her conhibution to farming was a jo- sculptor, artist, broadcaster and is stdl a very popular professional public speaker.

Sam Morley (28-33) is a writer and is cunt:ntly workrng on his eighth hardback, titled '99 Years of Navy' which is due to be published in the Spring. A ce* school in A h u r Square is mentioned! He is very qualified to Wnte such a book having sewed on destroyers dunng the war.

Sam is also Chairman of the Trustees for The Lady in White Monument Fund. The Lady was Peda Siedle Gibson, who did so much for the mode of 3 million fightmg Services en route to the battlefields of North Africa and the jungle warfare of Burma in World War Two. As a mothedy-looking figure would sing to all the vessels as they entered M a n H h u r .

From April 1940 to VJ Day, August 1945, she never missed a convoy - even on the day she learned her eldest son had been killed in action

Subject to a successful fund-raising cam- paign the Monument will be a dominant feature on Duban's new Waterfront De- velopment

Eyou would like any further information on the fund or any of Sam's books I will be pleased to pass on your interest

BILL RICHARDS

275TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION AT THE'HOUSE OF COMMONS

After being introduced by Alan Johnson, the President of the Old Rainem' Association, MIS Mildred Gordon welcomed everyorr: to the House of Commons and wondered if any other Old Raineian is or had been a MP? She attended school 1934-39 and remembered the high fence between the girls' and boys' schools at Arbour Square up which girls scrambled to peer over. In order to do 2 languages they read the bible in French and in 1938 she went on a school trip to Paris, which she found to be a p a t experience. She disputes the statement that schooldays are the happiest days of your life, but agrees that they are a good part and she concluded that they were a good part. She concluded by wishmg the School well.

The next speaker was Wally Spooner who began by saying that he had always wanted to make a 'Maiden Speech' in the House of Commons!! and mentioned that they had &ven past the house in Woodford where Henry Raine had lived in 1714. He asked how many "Wozzers" (those who had left 50 + y m ago) were present (metal) and how many "Half-Womrs" (numerous). His first contact with Raine's was in 1934 and he was Mr Daggers first a p p i e n t after the 39-45 war. Mr Dagger was renowned for walking through the entire buildmg and if he noticed any form without a member of staff a pupil was sent to the staff room with his compliments!.

Continuing with the theme of the Headmasters he recalled Mr Shutt was effective with a cane, Slogge? Luton was in charge for a few months and Mr Goode arrived in the early 1%0's, but did not stay long. Donny Lyons saw the amalgamation p r o c a b through before MrStanneybecarnethefirstHe;adofthemixedschool-withan improvement in the boys manmrs! He mentioned that ronmmx had blossomed not only between ppils, but also between members of S*.

Highlights fondly remembered were the 250th Anniversary service in St Pauls; Founden Days at St in The East; Harvest parcels to locals; dramatic and musical productions.

Wally also spoke of rooms on the roof being used as a shooting range officially and by smokers and card players by candlelight unofficially. The schoolkeeper 'Chalky' White was once got out of bed by the police at 3.00 a.m when they heard typewriters tapping. The investigation proved the noise was being made by 10 gehils which had escaped fiom the labs!! Another piece of school history was the sighhng of a female member of staff arriving late and climbing the gate! (Paul Reynol& remembers the incident as he was a prefet at the time and caught the 'latecomer',) He paid tnbute to Reff Reffold and Gwynmth Jackson for their part in &aging the OR4 at a time when it was in the doldrums.

The lid speaker was Gareth Lewi, the mmnt Headmaster, who was coming to the end of sick leave. He recommended that people

going to Sp in should learn some local mdical terms lest they find themselves in hospital as he did. He ~flected that the day in 1987 when he was interviewed for the post, he was impressed by the school and surprised by Mr Ref6old's question "Are you certain you want this job?". In 1991 the School became GMS and the competition for places is extremely keen Many parents are despaate to get their child into the School and at the dewiew assure him they ~ v e r miss a Survlay Service. OIE iady, on being pressed for the name of the church at which the family worshipped replied "The one down the road, Our Lady of Consumption"! He concluded by saying that Old Raineian.4 are successful world-wide and provided some Gnance, gifts and speakers for the School.

Alan Johnson, who, along with members of the committee, was responsible for the orgdnisation of the function, stated that one of the first mentions of an Old Raineian group was in 191 1 and he hoped that the next AGM would take place in the old Raine's building in Wapping.

News fmm the Reunion

From G y n e f h Jaakson

Margaret Bertola (Page) now has a 4 month old son

Gillian O'Brien is married to Stephen Murphy, now an Insurance Broker and they have 2 daughters.

Lawrence Page is married and lives in Stamford-le-Hope.

Diane Wallis (Tinkler) lives in Nottingham and has 3 children She is in touch with Hazel Fosbray (Paul) who also has a family of thm.

Mark Tinkler works for Unilever and is at pment involved in m e a ~ h concerned with Mass Spectrometry.

Congahdations to Maria Mole on gaining her B.Ed. She has a teaching post in Twickenham.

Carady Preston (%wen) is still WO- for M & S and is applying to do a PGCE course.

Martin Carter is now a Bank Manager.

John Robe* is in moneybroking and is delighted his 2 daughters have started rowing. (Olympics 2000?).

Michelle Lineham w e a r ) is married with 2 children and works for the llngene and accessories company Arm Somers.

Diana Mann (Taylor) has a son and daughter and is at present a housewife havlng previously worked for the British Council.

Susan Wyburn a d Linda Gaubert (the Braherne sisters) are both manied, with teenage children who are keen swimmers, as were their mothers. Linda WO& with a letting agewy and Susan is Qing an Open University Youth Workers Course.

Gavin and P e w Adhngton left for Lithuania in January on a years contract - we wish them luck.

Bany Jones is exjoying teaching in Romford and Shafiq Rahman is teaching in the same school.

Bamaby Lodes, last years Head Boy annouIlced his engagement at the &on to Hannah Metcalfe also an expupil. Many congratu- lations to the couple.

Vivian Nicholas, formerly Geology teacher and manied to Ros B e d (Histoy), stiU has opportunities to play Timpani (appurently they can't arrestyou) - recently enjoying himself in a performance of Verdi's Requiem

Vivienne Dume (Waeland) sings with the Morley Singers.

Marpet Paish (Norman) &welled down from Yorkshire with her Wilf Paish the National Athletics Coach, who was de-

lighted to be recognised by some of those present. Margaret is shll in contact with Miss Edie and remembers the Music teachers Miss Mowatt and Miss Powell, who became Mrs Lord Margaret inkintends to retire from her post as Headmistress of a Yorkshire Primary School next Summer.

Keith Roberts (Dylko when he was at Raine's) lives in New zealad and is married with 2 children He taught at Tapuki High School for 4 years beforebecoming New Zealads National Athletics Coach (I wonder ifhe ever met up with WirPaish, mentioned above?)

Steve Foster thanked us for the news of John Cobom and he sees Michael Sanders now retired fmm the Police.

Roy Silvester lives on the Isle of Wight and his last reunion had been one of the llmtio~ls in A h u r Square. He cont%med that among a rugby team photo we published was Captain Turnage, who used to turn out for the second XV if they were short.

Debbie Knight, works for the Probation Service at Snambmke and sees Pat O'Kavanagh and Keny Goodall, but has lost touch with Suzanne Haritou now thought to be living in S. London (Can any W help?)

Elizabeth Athanaze recently married

Linda Hall is married and was expecting her first child in January. Linda is a Depuiy Head of a Nursery School in Peckham

Fenella Weaver (Wood) has 2 children and w o k for the Woolwich in WoohKich!

Shirvin W s h i works for the Abbey National (no not in Abbty!) and has a daughter.

Steve Everton lives in Reading and is getfing married next May. He has just designed the largest pipe line in Libya and sat his final Chartered Engineer exams.

Richard Wermerling was at no. 2 in the pop charts for several W&.

Peter ?hake recently attended the funeral of Karen Winters mother, Maureen, who was also an Old Raineian and left in the 1960's.

Christine Richardson had escaped for the weekend from b e i i house bound in Bristol with her 2 sons.

From Sue S d

Charles, Cynl and Sydney Hilsum all attended Raines. Charles was called up for service in 1939 and remembered walkmg down Briglton sea fmnt when the first siren went. Sid and Cynl joined other children in Arbour Square playground equipped with gas masks and ~membered the anxiety of not lcnowing to where would be evacuated. They wondered what happened to Mrs Freeman who taught them Biology in 1944 and Mr Hotsberg the Latin teacher.

Charles had a ateer in the old LCC Personnel Department whilst Sidney works as a Psychologist

Miss Mangold who was headmistress of the @S' school 1955 - 1%4 left Raines to become Head of St Martins in the Fields School. She retired in 1978 and lives in Richmond, Surrey. She stressed she would not have been attracted to being a Head in today's climate, but there was a lot more control and respect during her career.

She passed on a message from Mrs Weingarton who sends her love to everybody who remembers her and apologises that due to poor health she was unable to attend the mnion MIS Weingarton retid in 1974 and says Raines will always have a very special place in her heart

Paul Reynolds and his wife Joan talked proudly of their children, Charlie 3 and Emma l. Paul and Joan both jomtly nm a marketing ard design company in Surrey. Paul, at one time, had been a World Championshp rower and was almost selected for the Olympics. He has just found the t h e to row again and has the blisters on his hands to prove it!!

From Ksry G&

Debbie Vemall (Knight, (75-81) remembers when Mr Nice's trousers split in a Maths lesson They were red which was a bit of luck because they matched his face! She also remembers whenMiss Cleeve, in a Home Economics lesson, calling Miss Gosman 'Gossie'. Debbie has just retumed to work after the birth of her

second son He h.udmd aradught the night was "marvellous"

T q McCuiness (Baker, 75-80) now h& in Romford, Essex matTied in 1987 but separated in 1993. On leaving school T q WOW for NatWest, hllowed by a spell at BT and now w o h for a firm of solicitor; in the City. She is amazed that no o~le has altered.

Janet King (75-82) went into banking after leaving school. For the last 2 years she has been a finaxial consultar& travellug a lot in the Far Easf Europe and the USA

Lynn Mears (Chades 75-81) living in Cheshunf manied with 2 children, owns a pub.

possible as rnost of his £fiends still live there and always drives pas the 'Old School' w h e ~ v e r he gets the chmx.

Robert Heading worked at BBC TV for 9 years as assistant fib editor before going f r e e b as a Film Researcher. He is now ar Assistant Producer in Music and Arts.

Carady Preston (Sevren, 70-77) is still the wonde~ful person that she has always been; modest, considerate and witty.

Maria Mole Qlaniels, 70-77) still looks an absolute picture and nothing like her real age of nearly 36! Manages to maintain a full time job, husband, 2 lovely boys and a house fiom a 'How Beautiful' magazine.

Philip Madcs (76-8?) runs his own scaffolding business and w o w a g& deal in the USA.

Paul Smith (76-8?) is a school teacher. He still sees Susan Rudwick (75432) who is a fashion desigm.

Martin Lake (76-8?) works for a Custom and Excise Investigations Division (stop shakingl and has 2 children, l of each

Julie Humphreys hasn't done anythug since the last newsletter except tty to move house with which she is having a lot of has- sles. Still in the same job and young free and single.

Carol Humphreys (54-60), Julie's mum manied someone from 'm' Ifval s~hool, cooper^, has 2 CM- dren who went to Raines. She

- Susan Drawtt (Mole) is ar

OLD RAINEIANS' COMMITTEE

he Association are looking for new additions as members of the Committee. Yes I can see you now turning the page and pretending you didn't see this box, but please read on. As you know the Committe organise the Reunions, but it needs 'new blood' to encourage fresh ideas. Do you think you could do the job? It would mean attending meetings to discuss various aspects of the Association.

If any member is interested please contact Alan Johnson. Remember what Ken F Johnnedy said:-

"And so, my fellow Raineians, ask not what your Association can do for you; ask what you can do for your Association"

mnembers the He&niskss during her years was Miss Mangold, also at the Reunion. Her sister, Avril Day and sister-in-law, Joan King, both went to Raines. She has also met a number of her contemporaries..

C o w Diable (77-83) has 2 children and lives in Poplar. She is not in touch with any o x but would like to hear from any body in her year. She works as an Administrator in The Health Education Authority.

Joanne Marshall (74-81) is stil l worn at the Mile End (East London) Stadium keeping in contact with the school when lessons ard Sports Days are held at the stadium. She looks foward to that huge cuddle when Humph Long makes a visit to the stadium (&m& like News ofthe World stuflto me9

Martin Canter is living in Sheffield and works for the Midland Bank as a Manager. He still comes back to the East End as much as

ig slowly whilst being a part-time Adult Education Teacher and a full-time mother of 3 boys. Living in Bedfordshire, she is a Beaver Leader introducing scouting to the community! ! Maria Mole is he1 well established sister-in-law so any sympathy is welcome!

Adam Groves (76433) after a brief spell in Bmtungham Adam is now back in London working for a Dutch Bank in the City. He is still in touch with John Coster and bmther Carl and Sham Gibbons.

Colin Nice is still teaching in Kent and is now part of the Senior Management Team having been promoted fmm Head of Maths. Colin also remembers the splitting of his trouse~~ during a 5thyear lesson and this in only his 4th week

Andrea Diable (75-81) is working for the London Borough of Newham as a P e m m l and has a son, J o s w aged 5.

Ale& Horsup (74-81) gained a BSc in Geology and is now w o w in f m . She moved fmm banking to the Health Service and then onto Local Government @on 't mk me where the Geology

$a&res in these jobs!). Happily unmarried and happdy childless.

Marh Payne who was Head of Languages at Raines when he left in 1994 is mw waking as a Children's Work Co-ordinator for a lage Chrisfian Missiomy Society.

Elizabeth Simpson (74-81) along with J m Marshall still enjoys their 2 or 3 skiing holidays a year thanks to the inspiration of Miss Jackson and Mr Nice in Kranska Gora, Yugoslavia - although its more aprk-ski these days.

Debbie Nunn (74-81) is w o w hard yachting around Antigua m, she really is working!).

Martyn Button is presently living in Bexleyheath Well he was before tonight. Apparently he is was in the doghouse this evening for going out to the Reunion on his son's birthday and not inviting his wife!

David Mould (7582) run the Dublin h4amtbn in October in a time of 2 hours 33 minortes. He is not manied (no girl couM catch him); m kids; works for D3J Computing in the City and Eves in Bethnal Green Never sees anyone from Raines and wonders where did they all go? He did a Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Brighton

Joaime SeIby (Fox, 75-80) lives in C h e s w has 3 sons aged i0,7 and 4 and doesn't want any more! Wads for her husband in the tail trade and keeps in touch with a number of Old Raineians, most of whom were at tbe Reunion

Sue Hellen (Coster, 75-82) does modelhg and works for solicitors in the City.

Debbie Thompson (Poole, 75-82) is married to Philip Thompson an Old Rairx5an1Palmiterian Has a daughter, Rebecca, aged 1, with a second child due in June. She keeps in touch with Lorraine Wallend

( M m , 75-80) who has 2 children and lives in Brentwd

Freddie Stratford won the rafne first prize but wasn't their to pick it up. Was this because wife Carla (Mashall, 74-81) has to be remirded about eve*?

F i , some sad news. Just before the Reunion we h a d of the death of ME Creasy, long-time bursar of the School at A b u r Square. An appreciation will appear in the next newsletter.

We4 as they say, that's the news h m the Reunion My thanks go to Gwymeth, Sue and Kerry for 'gathering' in the news. f i r mdmg Kerry's section I suggest she either moves house or at the veq least goes ex-directory!!

A big thank you must also go to the various people who helped organise the event, especially Alan and Sandra Johnson Rumour has it that we looking at the House of Lords next year. Time will tell.

Please keep seIuling in the news and memories. As you can see by this msletter the response has been excellent, but that is m rzimn to slacken There must be lots of thing to write about if only you put pen to paper. Also, don't forget the fax numbers printed on the front