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Anyone flying to the far east give me a shout and I'll look after you!! Congrats Semi on being a father and it reminds me that I'm now over 30!

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Having a clean-out in my sewing room (the nerve centre of the house!! I am addicted to patchwork and quilting) and came across the 2003 Magazine, and realised it was ages since I had been on the message board. So if there are any from my year (1961 - 1968) out there reading this, I would love to hear from you. Been living in Auckland now for 33 years next month, how times flies, wouldn't live anywhere else in the world, but love visiting family back in England. Had 2 trips there in 2003, the first in February ( I had forgotten how cold England can be!) to look after my mother and we had a wonderful 3+ weeks together, and then back in August for her funeral and to help sort out her house. My boys are now 23 and 20, both of them are electrical apprentices! Ben, the older, has been engaged to Michelle who he met at school for nearly 3 years, but no sign of a wedding yet. They own their own house (a very Kiwi thing) and have 3 cats. Sam still lives at home, we are still in the same house on 10 acres of native bush on the outskirts of Auckland. Ross and I will have been married 31 years next month! He is a very keen golfer on a handicap of 4, and his job is sales rep for a golf equipment company run by his best friend!! I have just become President of the local patchwork and quilting club with a membership of about 70 - 80. I am a quilt competition junkie - over the past 10 years I have been in for over 40 competitions and won a few prizes, had quilts travel around New Zealand and go to the States and UK. I also have a pet feeding business, and feed people's pets when they go away on holiday, mostly cats (have 70+ of them on my "books"). And finally I also work for the local real estate agent, delivering flyers promoting houses for sale/forthcoming auctions. I love this job as I get paid to exercise!! Look forward to hearing from anyone who remembers me, though I have to admit I have changed a bit since those days at Walden - not nearly as shy now!

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In response to Nigel's suggestion of a 30 year reunion, yes, why not, please organise! Sally Wright (Godfrey) and Lucy Taylor (Sutton) met up with me today and we would love to meet up with everyone perhaps in our 50th years i.e. 2006. It was such good fun to look through photos and talk about our time at FSSW. Is there anyone out there in a position to organise something in Saffers or anywhere that suits?? Sally's email address is: jchwright@hotmail.com

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Hi Richard. I too have had hard disk failure and I am living on borrowed time pending replacement very soon - find it hard to live without access to internet etc, seems like a computer is as essential as other household goods and needs replacing when iot wears out! You are doing a good job of keeping us all in touch. Thanks PS Sutton Coldfield Quakers are walking the Navigation Way in ten easy stages over the next three years - canals of the Midlands. Please e-mail me if anyone is interested in joining us.

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As a fellow Suttonian, I also haven't left any messages for over a year - but my PC was down with hard disk failure! For Jan & Judy, I'm in contact with three siblings of Old Scholars from about YG68 if wanting to trace any: Colin Bell, Maggie LeMere & Dave Gaussen all live in Edgbaston, Birmingham. As does Sarah Evans, the exFSSW head following John Woods, and now at the King Edwards School where my youngest is about to start!

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Havent left a message for over a year ! I certainly remember Susan Dalrymple and the peanut in the lung ! Didnt you want to be called Terry - like the pop song of the time. Judy Holt (Kemp) and I meet up from time to time as we live nearer than I have ever lived to a school friend -about 6 miles. For such a big place there are surprising few FSSWOS in Birmingham but if anyone is ever near, do get in touch. Also been meeting up with OS at Quaker Camping Club.

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Hi - is there anyone out there from the 1978 year group or thereabouts going to the 2005 reunion?

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Sorry can't remember the year group far too long ago! Just a short note to say I look in here from time to time, but don't always post - I havn't much to say apart from inane chatter about me me me, so I resist most of the time. Work over the past few years has been very patchy for me a freelance IT and Sales Trainer. However, in the 'off' periods, I have been playing with 'boys toys' in the workshop. Just because I'm feeling smug about it, here's a link to the GTM kit car I finished and registered early this month. It took 2 years to build, and now I'm told that I've got plenty of jobs to do on the house! (I've done 1 track day in it already) http://www.drawmer.net/libra/librabuild.htm

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Anyone for the Sept party? Would love to meet up with old faces - could pop to the lilly pond or young farmers field! Belive it or not i will be a MRS by Sept, have been tamed by a georgeous Fin. Hope to hear from ????????

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30 year reunion any body?

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hi to anyone who knows me. Just to say I had a little girl Oriana in October. We are all doing fine.

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Hi Sympathise with the man who talks about conditions and bullying at the school. I cholse to leave after taking my O levels in 1966. I got eight. Barbie Norden with the frizzy hair in the upper 6th then used to talk to me. They had Mars bars all around the picture rail in their common room. I am an artist and guitarist living in central bristol. Is Oriole Parker Rhodes about or Nina the guitarist or Barbie? Or the girl with make up and short blond hair. I was on a scholarship started school in jan 65. Also glad to read news of the Greaves brothers I remember I think. Didnt like nearly choking on a peanut shell and getting whisked off to sanatorium and hospital. Then a psychiatrist in Cambridge!

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Congratulations to Semi who became the father of a healthy boy this morning.

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Hi to any of you living / working in Birmingham. I recently wanted to reconnect to Quakers but going to a meeting regularly on Sundays does not suit. I have discovered a Thursday evening meeting at 6pm at Bull Street Meeting House in the centre of Birmingham. My first visit suggests it is a very small gathering but perhaps there are others like me who, if they knew about it, would attend. Get in touch with me or check the Warwickshire Friends site if you plan to come along.

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Hi all, Long time since I spoke to many of you... christ, I'm 30!!! Whens the next re-union so we can swap stories?

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Dan, No indication of who you are or your year group ? Sabbie

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Sabbie, I know he was a good guy, and probably still is - but why so specifically Iowerth John? I'd be interested to know, yes he is / was a fine person.

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At this time of the year it seems appropriate to wish all my friends good health, a merry christmas, a happy new year and may your families prosper. My particular thoughts go to Iorwerth John, a splendid human being. Sabbie.

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My Grandfather William Irving Gibbs was a student here approx 1889-1903.He was born in Colesberg,Cape Colony,South Africa 1888 and was sent to the Friends School Saffron Waldon. He won many swimming medals. He also had a younger bother Eric Swift Gibbs who also may have gone there. I am trying to do my families geneology and would love to know if you could verify Williams dates at your school. As I do have an old post card of the school and one old class photo.He is long since passed away and his daughter my Mother is in here late 80's and has a patchy memory of her fathers school days. When he left school he sailed to the US and then sailed up to Canada where he pioneered the west coast of Vancouver Island. Other Quaker cousins were William Herbert Dann and Eva Jane Dann (sidcot Scholar 1897-1902 and 1903 at Mount School.) Arthur John Dann(Ackworth Scholar 1893-6), Reginald Dann (Ackworth Scholar 1893-97),Margaret Dann(Ackworth Scholar 1895-97),Ernest Dann (Ackworth Scholar 1896-7), Thomas Tully Dann (Ackworth Scholar 1896-7 were he accidently died), Robert Horniman Dann (Ackworth Scholar 1903-5), Henry Dann (Ackworth Scholar 1903-7), John Dorland Dann (Ackworth Scholar 1906-7). There were also other Dann's and Heald families but I have no record of them going to Quaker schools. I would love to have any information you have recorded about my Grandfather. Thank you. yours in Christ. Susanna t Bell

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Those who knew him will be saddened to hear of the sudden death of Michael Ellis (1953-1960) in Devon in August '04. John Barnard, Peter Fraenkel and I attended his funeral in Kenn. Our thoughts are with Nina, Gian and family.

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Sabbie,you always were a ruffian!!. My one and only injury over a period of many competitive years was you knocking out one of my front teeth playing hockey on the boys playground outside of the library. Paul glad to see you are around,what are you doing in Gatehead??

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Paul - I really have no idea if it was you I fouled or even if I did foul anybody but the fact is that it still burns me up at the injustice of it all - 45 years later !! He never explained, despite my entreaties. Sabbie

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Sabbie Was it me you fouled? Great ref, Mr Lucas!

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Goodness, thought I would say hello and see if there are any old classmates kicking around out there. I seem to have misplaced a few.... Cheers, Sarah

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Does anyone have contact details for adrain allen?

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Hi, Carola. Try getting a copy of the book 'School on the Hill' ~ lots of memories and pictures. I guess the School could let you know where you can get a copy. Last Sunday a group of us met (Jill Hanson, Clare Sinker, Libby Duffill, John Pilgrim, Ian Thomson, me) and we brought you to mind. Hope all is well with you, and good luck with the next book.

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Looking for historical info! I write a mystery series set in the 1920s and I'm thinking of setting the next one at FSSW. If anyone knows anything about what life at the school was like then, please contact me. I'm 90% certain (the brain-cells ain't what they was) that my mother gave me the unpublished memoirs of someone from that era, but can't find it anywhere. Maybe someone else has a copy?

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Hi guys! Just wondered if there were any messages from my year group but I guess not! Anyone who wants to e-mail me for a quick 'chat' feel free!!! Hi Philippa! Hi Nathaniel! Hi Ben Stratton-Woodward! Long time, no speak!!!

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Woah! Havn't you all been busy in the past couple years now! Whats all this getting married without me business! Many congrats to Lee and Semi-think you make a wonderful couple! Also to Tom and my old friend Jenx-hope your doing good-just come accross a whole heap of old cheery bubbly letters from you-and my replies-oops!-hope I remembered to post some at least! Now, seriously, Mister B-hen-will you please stop henning around and do some work! Hen-nest-ly! this is meant to be a contact site not a pecking ground! -Jo

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Hi guys, thought I'd mention on here that in a fit of misguided enthusiasm I’ve posted some old school photos of the ‘Class of 1982’ up on the Friends Reunited website. Go to our school site - then '1982' - then click on my name. I found a packet of negatives and a few aged photos – and couldn’t resist. It only took one evening. Just pray I don’t ever find the big shoebox full I once had! Anyone else got any photos? Why not scan them and post up? Then all you have to do is lie back and wait for the letters from the lawyers to roll in!

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Interested to hear news of anyone in the 1975 year group. I moved down with my family to Somerset from Sussex 2years ago and have happily settled in this lovely part of the country. Married with an 18 and 16 year old. Sadly still playing lots of sport including hockey and still drinking cider - legally now..

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No A levels in my day! If there is any O.S. out there who left Walden in '42 please get in touch. The association is trying to collate info on all O.S's in order to create a dossier of things of interest that we may have done. I am attempting to contact some of the above leavers and being lazy I would like to find as many as poss. with e-mail ads! apart from this I would be interested to hear from you on a personal level Nen Batten nee Needham

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Richard Smart is having a do in Abingdon this August Bank Holiday. Please see the 1970 web site for more details. Cheers to everyone.

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Hi, Just wondering how everyone is doing now, I am living by the sea in Suffolk working as a diagnostic consultant for an american veterinary company.It would be great to hear from some more people, I still keep in touch with quite a few people but I wonder what happened to everyone else!!

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I have just discovered this site- and have been glued to the screen for hours going through all the messages and photos - so many familiar names and faces that bring back many happy memories. Phillipa (Sutton) I remember sneaking out of Hillcroft for midnight walks! Greetings to all 1970' ers wherever you are.

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lUCKY BASTARD MARTIN, I`M STILL STRUGGLING ON HERE IN ABINGDON. WHEN IS THE NEXT REUNION, IT WAS GOING TO BE IN ABINGDON BUT I CAN THINK OF A BETTER VENUE NOW. DONT GET TOO SMUG RICHARD SMART

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Hi to all the 1970 gang. We are moving to Lanzarote in mid August, as I have a job in the Colegio Hispano-Britanico. Will send more details later. Best wishes Martin and Jill

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Are there any other antiques out there? I get back to the UK every year or so, unfortunately not at Reunion time; but if I knew that I wouldn't be alone I might make a special effort. l would love to hear from contemporaries.

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Looks like I might have miscalculated with 1968 being my yeargroup so I'm trying 1969 as well and copying the same message! Not having been back to any of the reunions since 1996 when I was between leaving Zaire and moving on to work in Burundi, I have been woefully out of touch. Just to let those that are interested know that I am now based in Blantyre, Malawi with an Irish NGO called GOAL as their Country Director. I am with my Liberian wife, Oretha, and our two children, Sally (3) and Jamie (6 months). Hoping to secure a future here for GOAL for a few years we're distributing food and humanitarian assistance to the Malawian people. Always good to have news from anyone who cares to send any, will try and use this forum to update people more regularly!

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Not having been back to any of the reunions since 1996 when I was between leaving Zaire and moving on to work in Burundi, I have been woefully out of touch. Just to let those that are interested know that I am now based in Blantyre, Malawi with an Irish NGO called GOAL as their Country Director. I am with my Liberian wife, Oretha, and our two children, Sally (3) and Jamie (6 months). Hoping to secure a future here for GOAL for a few years we're distributing food and humanitarian assistance to the Malawian people. Always good to have news from anyone who cares to send any, will try and use this forum to update people more regularly!

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John, Libbby and others. I am on the road at the moment - in "darkest Peru" no less, and do not have my OS mag with me. However, I am pretty sure that there is someting planned for a Friday in late September (the 20th??), a dance or something, that we could use as a reference point and get together around that and the following day for lunch perhaps.

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I beleive that I can make it. Someone had better pick a date to focus on, unless there is something special going on that I am not aware of!! My OS magazine arrives by snail mail so have not seen a copy yet.

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Hi Libby and all of you. Thank you , Libby, for the support and encouraging the idea of getting together later this year. Is anyone else interested? September seems like a long way off, but with summer holidays in the offing, my guess is the time will fly by. Ian

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Anyone know John Wighams telephone number please.

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Anyone know John Wighams telephone number please.

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Anyone know John Wighams telephone number please.

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Anyone know John Wighams telephone number please.

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Hello all - Especially Jill, Ian, John and Mollie Sorry I could not make it on 22nd of this month, busy times. But as Ian said, we should try to get together to celebrate 40 years of staying alive and well(are you sure it is 40 years and not 20? seems to have passed too quickly.) So, who's up for it? Who knows I might even be able to persuade Mike to come which would be really great. Any takers ?

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Just seen the banner advertyising this saturdays reunion, Obviously it'd take me a miracle to attend at this stage though I would have loved to, but all I want to say is. HAVE A GREAT DAY!

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I'd happily give you my number Ben but I doubt it'll be of much use. I am looking to get in touch with Ben Ingle so if anyone could get him to send me an email. Congratulations Giles on your engagement, hope all goes smoothly and you have lots of children.

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No I am the real Hen! Beware of imitators! I have come back to rule the roost!!!

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I AM THE HEN.

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Calling all those who would have left in 1972. Last chance to meet up with your year group for a joint 50th birthday weekend at Charney Manor starting 14/05/04.If you've not been contacted yet ring me on 0161 881 9826. It is still possible to drop in for part of it or stay if you want to.

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Hi. In answer to John Pilgrim's remark about the weather: you got that right! We got down to -35C, then this month we had 25C, then -3C, and Tuesday it snowed off and on all day! OK, so you lived in South Africa - I lived in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. So is either of us sane? Never mind, the trees are beginning to show a little green now and my spirits rise accordingly. Hope to see you soon John. And my love to the rest of you.

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I have lost all my phone numbers - if anyone can help it would be appreciated. Planning a weekend of madness this summer The Real Hen

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Greetings one and all. Thanks Mary for your kind remarks re my engagement - u r now lined up to recieve some wedding cake when the big day comes! How are all the oldies from 93? It has been long time since i spoke to any of you and wonder what you are all upto. Congrats to lee who just got married.

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Congratulations to Lee Hawkins who got married last weekend. Andrew: The offer stands, mate. Semi: Spurs are crap. Ben: Right on, brother.

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Hi Jill, John P. Libby and all of you. Oh yes, I too enjoyed the latest OSA magazine. No I will not be able to make the reunion on May 22. In truth the year has flown by and I am up to my ears in work right now and have long ago agreed to be in Peru on that date. But September is another matter. I have been wondering if that could be a time to get together. It is our 40th year from graduation - quite and achievement and worth paying atttention to each other over. September is a time I can plan for, my schedule is open then and I would joyfully commit to being there if others are interested in making up a group that might meet for more than the ball - say lunch or brunch the day after as well so we can talk??. What do you think???

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Just to say thank-you to those I haven't been able to contact personally for sponsoring me. I haven't been able to get your e-mail addresses off the web page. Yes, I did complete the London Marathon!! We have so far raised over £2000 for the Multiple sclerosis resource centre and the numbers are still rising!! Thank-you all Peter M

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64-ers - Libby, Mollie, Paul, John, Ian et al - FSSW reunion on 22nd May - if we go will you? And what about The Olympic Ball on 24th September - depending on cost of course?! Enjoyed pages 37-40 of latest FSSWOSA magazine!

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Cricket on Friends and Family day, need any more players?

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Flying through Heathrow over easter on my way to Germany on a hockey assignment I was able to meet up with Libby (Duffill) for an extended lunch. Great to catch up on all the news. Ian Thomson and I talk by phone quite frequently and we will be visiting the island for a few days later this year so we can meet up again. Spring has arrived on the east side of the rockies at last so we are looking at some green grass as opposed to snow for the first time in some months. This has been a long winter but fortunately we missed out this year on the extreme cold that can occur here. -30 is a fairly regular occurence with -40 on occasions.....!! That is when I question my sanity in choosing to leave South Africa as we did so many years ago. I have been in touch with Naomi Stinson and hope to meet up with her the next time that I am in Edmonton.

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stumbled across this site only to have floods of miserable memories gush back. what did i persue the temptation for. god it was a horrible time of my life!

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PS Is anyone from our year going to the reunion in May? It would be great to get together!

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Where are you all? Please get in touch!

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This is to inform you of my new address and contact details. I am a lifetime old scholar.

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6 ? I don't ever remember being that young !! I passed on your message to Sue, but don't expect a rapid response. She still thinks the cleft stick is pretty neat and quill and parchment will never catch on !!

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Nice to hear from you, John Toplis, and glad things seem to be going well for you. I must admit that when I saw you briefly at the September 2002 reunion I was so stunned because I don't think I had seen you since you were about 6! Here in Canada we have just got through the untrustworthy month of March with a temperature spread of 35 degrees Celsius and are hoping April means Spring. Usually we have to wait a bit longer. Greetings to all.

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Greetings from Downunder ! Autumn is beginning to creep in to these Southerly latitudes and the heat of summer is just about over. We have had the hotest summer for 50 years but, fortunately, there were hardly any bushfires this year after last year's devastation in Canberra. Being "upside down", we tend to get a lot of plants, bushes and trees flowering this time of the year, so it is quite a colourful time and as most of our trees are evergreens, we don't get the terrible starkness of the northern winter. By the same token, spring is hardly noticeable when it arrives in September. I'll be over in July (9th to 13th) for a quick visit to SW to see aged mother (95 this year and still playing rugby) so if anyone is going to be around, get in touch !

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Hello I have been researching my family history and have discovered that my father's family were Friends' attending Islington and Saffron Walden Schools. My gg grandfather was Thomas Frederick BALL he married Ellen Hayes WITHERS, their children that I know of were Arthur Bedford BALL, Frederick J BALL, Thomas A BALL & Francis BALL. Ellen Hayes WITHERS was the daughter of James and Eliza WITHERS and two of her brothers were Archibald Henry WITHERS & Joseph James WITHERS both of whom were Old Scholar Members. Joseph's children were Edith, Ernest, Harold, Ethel & Mabel. Arthur Newton BALL & Laura's children were Patrick, Edward and Doreen. I would love to hear from anyone who recognises any of these people, please email me. Also; Thomas Frederick BALL was an author and I know of 4 books that he wrote, I would love a copy of a book that he co-wrote with William BECK in 1865. It is called "The London Friends' Meeting's" If anyone can help please let me know. Regards Julie

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There must have been some special energy in the air sitting here in Dallas airport, en route to an assignment in Bolivia. I finished looking at email and had a strong feeling that I should check the FSSW site. And there were these good messages from Mollie, Libby and Jil. I think of all of you quite often now, and talk to John (Pilgrim) from time to time. The reunion brough many things together for me and I am gratefull for it all. Mollie - I will be on the Wwest Coast or at least based there for ever, I think. My family is deeply dug in to Island life and unlikely to wander far. I asm the peripatetic one, wandering off to work in South America like a trans-continental commuter. And Libby, will you make it out to the Pacific side of Canada??? I do hope so. AS Jill pointed out. Better write someting every time you visit. Much love to yyou all. Ian

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Sitting at my desk, 'burning the midnight oil', and thought to check the message board. Greetings to everyone who was at the 300th. Love to Libby (saw your message, thanks), Jill (are you settled in your new home? if you come to Bury St Eds, let me know), Ian (I hope I can make it to Vancouver before you move somewhere else ! It was great to see you again), Loveday, John, Martin, and many others. I enjoyed connecting again. I continue to delight in leading the Buddhist Group here. May you all be well and happy. Love from DHAMMAPATTIYA (ex-Mollie) x

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Hi all - well over a year now since I looked properly at the message board. Time definitely does go faster as you get older! For anyone who is interested, I am still going strong - working locally nowadays and hoped that would give me more "free" time. Doesn't seem to work that way though! Jill - I'll be in touch soon and good to know your move went well - I have some happy memories of The Wick. I'm also impressed to see that Peter Mercer is running the marathon this year - Hope you get lots of support for your Charity Peter and good luck on the day. Best regards to all, Libby

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I thought I might let everybody know I am "running" in the London Marathon this year. Anybody who remembers me and even those who don't might drop into my web page and see whats going on and maybe even contribute on-line. I'm running for the Multiple sclerosis resource centre which provides support and advice for sufferers world-wide. Marian's Dad suffered for many years which provides a very good reason to continue this foolish escapade. The benefits of the training will become apparent if you look at the web page. So please go to www.justgiving.com/petermercer and take a look and even see if you can spare a few pennies!! Thanks to all Peter M

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Red Express fans should try: www.boat-race.co.uk/galleries/20031122_redExpress.htm for the latest exclusive photographs of Jumbo & friends. After all these years I still can't tell my lower from my upper case! Louis

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Congratulations to Jumbo Barker (YG 73) who recently played bass guitar with the re-formed Red Express. Red Express are the seventies funk experience who once tried to save music from punk rock! Then and now photographs at: www.redexpress.net/ and www.boat-race.co.uk/galleries/20031122-redExpress.htm

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Signing the visitors book on the way out....Hi all - I'll look back again.

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Happy New Year - especially 1964ers. Can't believe how long it is since I looked on this site but I know Libby's message from January 8 2003 is new to me and the answer is obviously "no sorry"! Also agree with John (Pilgrim) it's no good logging on, reading and logging off as I intended to do - hence this message. And for Paul Fry - apart from great to read your news - please don't forget "Bird up on my Bike"! One reason for absence is our move from Surrey to sunny Suffolk 2 weeks before Christmas - not to be recommended as a good time to move - but we now live in the house next door to one my father built back in 1964. Will endeavour to change FSSWOSA address list. Wishing all Old Scholars a peaceful 2004. Jill

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While the Admirable Webmaster is using his red pen, would he/she please note that I now have my own e-mail address and would like it recorded as such. Thanks and greetings to the rest of you 61ers. Hope to see you all, May 22. Support our President!

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helo evry1. at the moment ive left year 11. jus a lil' msg 4 ne1 dat cn read dis. fssw is da bomb. missin u guyz big time. big up sall & jackie who wer & stil r in dis skul!!! screw u ppl who dissed me coz im beta dan u lot now. me & martin r doin gr8 in the bedroom department. thanx 4 readin. proper BO SELECTA!!

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Dear Webmaster (?) Would like to suggest following alterations to class lists: MALCOLM HARVEY - should be listed under 1955 (not 1956) ROBERT DUNSTAN - should be listed under 1955 (not 1954) DONALD ATKINSON - should be listed under 1955 (not 1956) JANET BURLINGHAM - should be listed under 1955 (not 1956) JEANETTA MABBOTT - currently name is mis-spelt PETER DUNSTAN - should be listed under 1959 (not 1958) Hope these corrections can be made by whoever can make the changes

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Having received the updated address list I decided to have another look at this site. Come on all you 68ers - where are you ? Or are you just 'lurking' and not leaving a message. I would love to get in touch with any of you in the Birmingham area at any time. I dont look at the past very often but we do have things in common which are still interesting !! Or e-mail me. Cheers Jan

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Hello again Somehow the list of missing e-mail addresses didn't stick to my earlier message. Here they are. Vicky Maitland (Bussant now) Vickybussant@onetel.net.uk Tony Weatherhead tonyweatherhead@batian.co.uk Greta Hansen (or Hooper) ghooperhansen@msn.com Joanna Griew (Niecho) i@indesignrecruitment.co.uk Melanie Barber. melanie@mbarber2.free-online.uk Any updates please! John Ashby

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I sent a Christmas greeting to all of our year's e-mail addresses collected last September, most of which seem to have got through but the following people have not received it because their e-mail address was rejected. So if anyone knows the correct version(s) please could you let me have it/them? Don't be offended if I don't say thanks immediately, we're going to be out of touch for a few days to be with our elder daughter while she has her first baby! Anyway, let's hope it is born into a more peaceful and kinder world (fat chance). Very best wishes for the New Year to all.

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Just to say a quick hi to anyone out there from the old gang. Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. With lots of love!! Chao

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Just thought I'd have a quick look. Haven't checked the noticeboard for a long time. And more importantly, I wish all old friends a wonderful Christmas and a better New Year with some hope (forlorn though it may be) of some peace in this world

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone from my year group was about. Would be great to hear from you, i'm down in Plymouth and don't go out in Walden when i'm back so i've lost contact with you all. Email me. Gail.

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hello ne peeps here that i would know?

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Just in case anyone might want to contact me sometime (perhaps about that reunion we all agreed, at the Tercentenary, we should have!) the latest OSA Outreach Directory has my details wrong. My Email is as above (Rowena's no longer exists) and my phone number is 622583 not 633.

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Many Congratulations Giles on your engagement. I don't think you missed much at the May Old Scholars - I don't know of anyone from '93 who went...!

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OK. It's been a year or more since I looked at the website, and I am suitably consumed with guilt a. for not turning up to what was obviously an good nostalgic tercentenary weekend, and b. for logging off without messaging. Thanks to John (Pilgrim), Libby and Jill (among others - some via brother Andrew) for stirring my consience. As a retired person I have no excuses, other than I'm having a lot of fun - not least reliving my youth and playing the guitar again (for those who vaguely remember 'The Nomads'): actually going into the recording studio next week, but will resist doing an up-dated version of "Fried Bread and Bacon Blues". Happy to communicate with anyone who cares so to do.

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Hi guys, Hey these follow-up mini re-unions or year-group things i.e meal in Walden are a good idea! Any takers for yr.'69? Its difficult aint it cos we all so scattered around world now. I'm amazed and have been nicely re-assured by reading some of the messages, cos i was unhappy but at the time, & for years afterwards, thought i was the only one! Some of us did have issues about girls/not mixing well/lack of academic progress then! Its funny that at the time we could not talk about these things, there was so much 'pressure' to conform, to be macho/sexy/thick/brainy etc and 'mature' (whatever that meant) and admit these things after veritable ages have passed! What a waste of time and 'feelings-energy'! It would be great to think there may be a 'chill-out room' at the school where ppl with inner-issues that are bugging them can can meet up with the guidance of a trusted older-but-cool person to share stuff (i dont mean moans about which team to be in or the colour of school uniform etc). It would help alot to make schooldays happier and more productive, & save hassle in later life. If i'd been happier at school i would have probably passed my GCE's, stayed on to the 6th form(s), gone on to Uni or a decent college without having to waste as much time & not had a fear of rejection asking girls out etc etc, & probly would have kept my x-c going (for what it was worth)& not started smoking! So if there aint one yet, someone shuld get off their butt & create one!! Cheers guys catchup l8tr.

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Hi everyone who was in my year, sorry to have missed the may reunion (I am sure I was missed - NOT).... Anyway news update for one and all - I am now engaged and will be getting married in 2005 (money permitting earlier knot tying). So for all those who thought I was a loser you know what you can do and all those who actually liked me then I look forward to seeing you all soon. Giles

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Kevin, judging by the Tercenterery, everyone remembers each-other - although I for one wouldn't have recognised every face! As far as I know, even those that were unsure about going to the Tercentenery, thoroughly enjoyed it-and that is why this follow-up is being organised. Some, that were unhappy at FSSW, even buried a few ghosts from the past. If some are planning to come from half way round the World, are you able to make it from Ealing! Regards to you and your wife, if you cannot make it.

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Thinking about the year '72 50th do, FSSW and you all: I must say it's a bit daunting, 32 years is a long time, will we recognise one another? Will we remember the good and bad of Walden or is it just a distant fog? My world there held too much of Pink and not enough development. Truth is I could never settle in and get anything done at Walden, academia was not for me and a jaded view of females made me evenly unbalanced in that area before I arrived at FSSW in 6(1). I hope you will have all either forgotten of forgiven my inept behaviours? Actually my wife still notices some of them even now so you may be reminded, I hope not. Does anyone remember me, perish the thought that noone will respond, but perhaps that would not be so bad, my youthful foible's really need no exposure in middle age! My admiration goes out to Cathy,Celia and the others (Dunno who) that are organising the thrash.My regards to any of the gang who see this, long may you prosper in your chosen worlds.

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exactly 20 years after starting at fssw, back in the UK for an MBA at Durham, got married August 2nd, 2003. Last name now Onadeko-Osayande. Would like to find out where calss set are now and how everyones doing. Moved back to Nigeria after college in Rhode island. Own beverage business in Nigeria. Where is jenny Moore ?

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50th birthday get-together. Whole of class of 72 invited. E-mail me or ring Celia Nickalls on 01641 521345 for more details. Weekend of 14-16th May 2004 at Charney Manor. Come for whole weekend or just drop by. 3-line whip - you've got to come. No excuses accepted.

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I was delighted that rejoining the OSA around a year ago meant that I was made aware of the tercentenary celebrations - easy for me to attend as I live only just down the road. These celebrations were particularly interesting as I had attended those fifty years earlier. The idea of the Friday evening dinner in the Eight Bells for those of my vintage was an excellent idea and I was surprised not only by the high turnout, but by the number of people I remembered and how many of those were instantly recognizable. At the tercentenary celebrations I very much missed the presence of Richard Wright and was pleased to have been able to attend his memorial service earlier last year. Until some eight years ago, although living in Cambridge, I had been a member of the Saffron Walden Choral Society so had seen Hildegard each week and Richard slightly less often. He had always seemed to me to be a strong symbol of the continuity of the school quite apart from everything else he was involved in. I well remember being an assitant at SW summer schools in 1949 and 1950 which he ran with great success. I have recently sold my Cambridge business centre business to give me more time for other things, especially for my year as Mayor of Cambridge, which will continue until 24 June 2004. Being mayor of any city is a very rewarding position to hold, but in the case of Cambridge is particularly special. If any OS are coming to Cambridge at any time I shall be delighted to welcome them to the Guildhall. However, please contact me first by e-mail or phone (office 01223 457023) to check on my availability. Greetings to all David

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Hello! a few of us are arranging a get together for Saturday 29th November. The idea is to meet for an evening meal, somewhere in the Walden area, for some good food, good wine and even better company. Anyone interested in joining us from around our year group, please let me know.

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Greetings. I have just launched my new web site, you never know, somebody might be interested! If you have any old leather you want restoring give me a try! Cheers, Theo

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hello to anyone from my year.

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Morris, D. hit wicket ! Sorry Sabbie! Very red-faced apology on its way! All best mate.

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hi sabbie sweetie, thanks, just take care; love at this time Dav x

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Dave, Many many thanks for your thoughts and condolences. Yes, we are feeling the loss keenly and I'll be sure to pass on your wishes to Charles and Sarah next week. Once again, thanks. Sabbie

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Hello Sabbie, as ive been scribbling on the board lately i felt it right to join in expressing sadness at Rebecca's loss. I didnt know her but i & other '69ers would have been 3 or 4 years junior so we would remember her brother Charles whom i think was a year or two ahead of us. i dunno what to say really, it is always sad when there is a passing so please tell her family that they are not alone at this time.

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Further to my recent note about Rebecca Hutton (Year Group 1966) the following are the details for anyone who may be interested. The funeral will take place on 9th Sept. at 3.30 pm/1530 Hours at Altrincham Crematorium, School Lane, Dunham Massey, just outside Greater Manchester - followed by tea at Dunham Massey Village Hall. If anyone wishes for directions, please e-mail me and I will provide further details. Regards, Sabbie.

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Hi Robert, great to hear from you & thanks for your compliments! Yep i remember you with lots of fair hair and a big smile and sense of humour! So wat you up to these days, i gather your in France, thats cool!, & do hope things are going well for you. I liked the bit about 'pleasingly subversive in a quiet way'! i think by the 5th form i was coming out of myself more, but i wish it hadnt taken so long! Still basically very laid-back, but i branched out alot with the horse work, socially, etc, have a great bunch of mates playing pool, watching footie over a few beers etc but still too 'single'(!), hoping my ex g/f & me will get going again but just dunno yet. Isnt it great how much has changed for the better since rather grim mono-chromatic 1960's days of some of my memories: end of cold war, Berlin wall down, Chowshesku (phoenetic, cant spell it)& others bumped off, many more personal freedoms etc now. Still alot wrong with the world but i cant help feeling things are getting better. I guess, and would hope, that things are better at the school now but i dont know cos i havent been back there yet. I hope the food is much better & that different diets are catered for & that ppl can dress more as they want & that hopefully there is a skateboard park & there are entertainments & clubbin gigs etc to compliment the academic side, & far more 'civilised' approach to the running of the school i.e. proper general loos, duvets instead of having 'hospital corners' checked and decent beds/mattresses, good hairdressing salon catering for all tastes, etc etc. I'm really stirring it arent i?! Okay Rob better go, thanks again mate, do e me bak if you want, very best wishes, Dav.

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If anyone knows anyone from the class of 1932 - which includes my Mum, Joan Mulholland, - please email me and I will pass the message on to her. She is active and well and visiting me in the United States.

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This message is posted on behalf of Sarah Hutton and her family. It is with deep sadness that I have to tell you that Sarah & Charles Hutton's sister Rebecca lost her long battle against cancer and died peacefully in her sleep on Thursday 21st August. I do not as yet have funeral details beyond the date, which is 9th September. As soon as I hear from Sarah with fuller details, I will post it on this message board. It will be in the Manchester area, where she lived. Regards, Sabbie.

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Hello Dave You were sallow, lean and hirsute. Pleasingly subversive in a silent sort of way. I remember you reading DH Laurence in fact that's who you looked like at a tender age when I still liked Biggles; or was it A Huxley (who later went on to become one of my heros maybe too late actually). Well anyway it's nice to see your well-balanced message on the message board. I wonder if the deafening silence since the unlucky conflict between the peace march and the 2002 reunion is in fact a quakerly response from those who felt the peace march was throttled in too heavy handed a way by the powers that be. Being dashed down by the authorities was indeed a bitter pill to swallow though perhaps an appropriate one as it conjured up such a realistic echo of the past. It was perfectly easy to attend both on the same day and I was certainly not alone in doing so. Oh well. Good luck with the horses. Robert

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Hiya ppl! Well it seems a good time has been had at re-unions and things and i nearly made it last year but stuff happened so i didnt. Firstly apologies to any masters or mistresses who may be reading this for colloquial abbreviated computer-speak; secondly to those who maybe saying "who's this" (or even musing upon the identity of the author), i am the quiet one (or one of them) who struggled in the later stages of academia and was even worse at sport except x-c! but its okay cos i made up for it by becoming a horse trainer and riding instructor. Having cart-wheeled into this FSSW site i'm finding it really interesting to see what some of us have been up to, and in a way i cant get over the passage of time since those morning "get-your-asses-out-of-bed" bells, gongs summoning starving pupils to tables creaking under the weight of delicious meals, and yes...those romantic strolls up and down the Avenue with our heads full of ideas for articles in the magazine...erm well something like that anyway. You younger guys, whats the food like now, i hope its better for you cos in those days it was an absolute disgrace...but then that was the enlightened enfranchised liberal nineteen sixties! Okay so well done all of you who supported the peace marches and voted against having a war etc (i really mean that) but what does one do with these tyrants and despots (i'm not talking about headmasters sportsmasters latin teachers or even school meals caterers!)but the international political consequences are quite brain-teasing. End of social history lesson. I've been bumming around with a backpack doing some travelling in europe lately - fascinating, practising my french etc. Right thats it folks gotta go, n e 1 wishes to float me an 'e' it'll be replied to! Best wishes, Dave the rave or wateva i waz called.

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Just to let all the other 1970 crowd that were unable to make Anne Breeze (now Glenn)'s BBQ FSSW weekend gathering yesterday, that the weather was fine, the food was great and the company was excellent. Rich Smart introduced us to Boules (& competeitive as he was 33 years ago!) and Steve Willson introduced us to some real ale from the Hogs Back Brewery. Next year's event is hoped to be more central (Oxford or north of Watford or more volunteers?) and so accessible to some who thought the south coast is too far!! Txs to Anne for holding it and to everyone who made the journey.

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Happy birthday Ben. See you Saturday. The Real Hen

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My alter ego (Ben Martin) is having his 30th Birthday party this weekend (9th August) at On & On in Piccadily Circus. Everyone is invited and if you need further info then please phone 07764 205015 or 07958 982286

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Good luck Semi, hope all goes well

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Good luck Semi, I'm sure you'll have a great day. Patti

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Good luck to Semi who gets married on August 2nd. The Hen.

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Anyone have any news of the whereabouts or welfare of Katie Salmon? I tried to contact her the 70's but she had gone to France.

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Just a brief note to let all who knew her know that Alison Northrop(Bennett) passed away peacefully on 5/7/2003 after along illness. Funeral in Eastbourne 16/7/2003.

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My computer is dying and I`ve not managed to contact the 1970 lot re the BBQ in August. Could someone please contact me via the above hotmail address

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Should any of my old friends feel the desire to communicate I will be delighted to read of their current interests and their memories of the past.

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Hi, hope everyone is doing wicked. has anyone out there got contacts of any of the Tufnells(ed, jos or mathew). please let me know! anyone heard from sam , richard, kelly, alex, nathan, fran? etc?

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Last weekend the international Book Expo America was held here in Los Angeles. In the directory I found a listing for a publisher in Saffron Walden so I visited the booth – to find that the publisher’s daughter, Genevieve Miller, is an old scholar. I had a very pleasant encounter! I'd enjoy hearing from other Old Scholars who visit LA.

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Hello All On the spur of the moment, just thought I'd log on to see the latest messages. Otherwise - greetings and best wishes to all my contemporaries from a wintery Australia Robert Dunstan

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Many thanks to Hilary and the other who have organised the os weeknd after such a big one in September. Sorry I cant make it this time. Keep in touch. The message board seems to have gone quiet. Cheers jan

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Sorry not to be with you this time - have a good one! Hope to see you next time. Be in touch - any one who remembers me! Please! AND I am still asking - does anyone remember Karen Eister? And more to the point does anyone know anything about her or where she is!? Bye for now Sue

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Just a word of encouragement for any of our peers undecided about May 17th - Rita (Miles) and Jill (Baker)had to miss last Sept so are determined to make it on the 17th, and we'll be meeting by the swimming pool at 1pm.

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To any Old Scholar who arrived at the school in September 1950. Having got this far with the system I am in a position to ask how you all are. I was'nt able to get to the 300th due to a family wedding. Having read the OS Magazine I can see it was a good do. All good wishes to all of you. COLIN.

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This is a long shot I know, but I'm trying to find someone who was in about year 10 when I was in year 4, so would be 20-23 now. He always said hello to me, and he had a rabbit in the pet shed. at that time I thought he was japanese or korean, he had bleached blond hair. that was pointless. I'll never find him.

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Anyone who met up at last Septembers reunion or from my year group etc,drop me a line if you visit Bangkok!!!!!!! Pat

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Is anyone from our year group likely to be at FSSW on May 17th? After the September reunion, my daughter was curious to see the school for herself and find out about the place that shaped many of the ideals she's inherited through her mum (she was on the march in London on that Saturday, shouting for both of us!). So I may have to revisit, if only to show her where Brighton Beach is!

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Jan, just picked-up your message about Sunday. No can do but call me and let's arrange a date in the future. Love to Barbara & Andy - have a great lunch. Sabbie.

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Hello to Phil Stigwood-would love to see the college and get together for a beer. Hello to anyone from my year- hope to see you on the 17th. Hello to Tom- keep up the strong voice. Would love to see you. Also hello to Jonathan Smith- left 1983- read your message in the O.S. mag. Great to hear of you after all these years. Get in touch if you are still out there! Love, Careyxxxxx .

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Hello to Phil Stigwood-would love to see the college and get together for a beer. Hello to anyone from my year- hope to see you on the 17th. Hello to Tom- keep up the strong voice. Would love to see you. Also hello to Jonathan Smith- left 1983- read your message in the O.S. mag. Great to hear of you after all these years. Get in touch if you are still out there! Love, Careyxxxxx .

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Just wondering who from around '93 was planning on being at S/W for the Old Scholars weekend on 17th / 18th May?