After leaving the college in 2011 I decided to pursue my lifelong ambition of becoming an airline pilot. I chose not to go to university and instead started at the prestigious Oxford Aviation Academy based at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, spending six months in ground school. Things went well and I managed to achieve first…
DetailsI didn’t retire until I was 75. My main reason for the delay of 10 years was that I rather enjoyed my job working for a distribution company as a sales manager and nearly as important I couldn’t afford to retire!! I found that continuing to work has kept me active both physically and mentally…
DetailsR.T.D. Tryon (54-57) died in July, 2013, aged 73. He had been living near Marciac in the Gers region of SW France for the last 24 years. His daughter Nico writes: “Dickie was born on 16th February 1940. As a result he did not see his father, who had been taken prisoner of war, until…
DetailsMalcolm Walker (66-71) and his wife Nellie and Chris Simon (62-66) came to lunch recently when the Walkers were in Sydney (photo is in the Gallery section > reunions). Chris (first editor of the OP magazine back in 1969) was a well known television presenter in Sydney and has recently become a Marriage Celebrant which…
Details“As a rather belated celebration of my 74th birthday, and to raise some beans for the ‘Help for Heroes’ charity, I have done a 13,000 ft skydive, jumping in tandem with the Red Devils of the Parachute Regiment. Fortunately the spades that friends had bought to dig me out weren’t needed. It was an absolutely…
DetailsI am still working at the Oratory School as a teacher of economics and business. I saw Andy Ethelston (80-83) on Sunday and will see him every Sunday as our boys play rugby together. Bumped in to Chris Scudds (80-85) in Polzeath, and see Will Skinner (82-87) frequently as our boys are in the same…
Details“Our main news this year is that we have moved from a nice house to being scrunched up in a smallish flat. It’s because we’re getting older and were finding that taking care of a large house was using up too much of our time and energy. But downsizing is HARD WORK! Still in Saint…
DetailsThey live on opposite sides of the world. But Robin Paine (based half of the year in the UK and half in New Zealand) and Peter Griffiths (based in Canada) managed to meet up at the College after 52 years on Founders’ Day 2013. Both were cadets on the brand new British India ship ‘Bamora’…
DetailsShaun writes from Johannesburg: “Henley this year was very special for my wife Megan and I. We married 33 years ago and I promised her that one day we would ‘do’ Henley in style. And so it came to pass in 2013. We arrived at Leander Club on the Thursday morning and remained cocooned in…
DetailsHurricane Sandy has been the main event in my life these past few months. You will recall that this superstorm hit the New Jersey shoreline on October 29, 2012, causing much damage. My little riverfront house (it started life as a duck-hunting shack in the 1950s) had four feet of water on the property and…
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