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charity currently employing 590 staff with an annual income of £12.2m. The Society achieved considerable recognition for its philosophy of assisting those marginalised in the community. It is exploring a new homes project to assist more in the future. I will be continuing as a Trustee as well as a member of the Property and Development Committee and as Link Trustee for St Martins and Greensted. I will remain as a member of the Abbeyfield South East Regional Council and as Chair of the Abbeyfield Kent with Sussex Borders Cluster Group.” 1965 Jon Dance (E, 1960-1965) is currently in the middle of his first year as President of the Rugby Football Union. Teddies was home to Jon, his two brothers, and his two sons. At School he played rugby and rowed. After leaving St Edward’s he went on to Law School and became a solicitor, then worked at Hoover and Calor Gas, where he was Company Secretary. Jon played rugby at hooker for Grasshoppers in London, and then Bracknell Rugby Club and Berkshire, playing 1st XV on a regular basis. He was forced to retire with injuries, and from there began his rise up the administration ladder, with club, county and now country. He loves St Edward’s, and has pictures of the Quad, Apsley and the School displayed in his house. Jon continues to keep an eye out on the School’s sports results, and is currently involved in the Six Nations. Jon’s family are immensely proud of his achievements and wish to celebrate his success with all who know him.

developed an art teaching system for small children now used in many primary schools in Sweden. I have also used painting as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of veteran soldiers and militiamen suffering from combat PTSD. These men were immigrants with several years of battle experience from Lebanon, the Iraq-Iran war and the first Gulf War. This experience led me to study what is known about the workings of the brain, especially in regard to memory, a key issue in PTSD. Finally, I worked for ten years as an illustrator in a scientific project exploring the relationship between the sun and climate, another fascinating subject of study. Throughout this time I continued to paint. Since the year 2000 this work has almost exclusively focussed on portraying the ‘English’ 18th-century royal park at Drottningholm, visible from the windows of my studio, in all weathers and seasons. I have to thank my time in the art room at Teddies and my first art teacher Lawrence Toynbee for my interest in landscape art. Lawrence was a lovely man; wine gums and gentle encouragement combined with a critical comment or two is a fine teaching method for the young and inexperienced painter. On my website www.petertucker.se you will find a presentation of my landscape art, as well as a journey into the inner workings of the solar system, and a strange story about a couple of cranes.” 1962 Robert Barnes (G, 1957- 1962) after the ‘Rhubarb Goes to Town’ event in London last year kindly provided an update: “I am a Chartered Surveyor and was a partner in Porter & Cobb, the largest firm of Charted Surveyors in Kent at the time. In 1987, we succumbed to an offer from General Accident and sold up for what seemed like silly money at the time. From then on, I never had a regular office job although I continued as a Consultant in property matters for a bit. I got involved in local politics and had a fascinating time as Chairman of the Maidstone and Weald Conservative Association and was deeply involved in three general elections with Ann Widdecombe. My other great interest was in Abbeyfield, a charity looking after the elderly. After 14 years I have just handed over the Chairmanship of the Kent-wide

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Peter Eveleigh (G, 1961-1965) “I make bespoke cider mills and presses and have managed to win what became called the ‘Battle of Brogdale’ and attach some photos of the event having ‘munched’ our way through 200kg of apples in the two hours. I have to express some surprise at this because the other technique (juice and strain) is certainly much faster to begin with. On a different tack, I recall an occasion whilst at Teddies, in Spring term in the Shell dayroom at Segar’s – probably 1963, some of us decided to contact the famed Radio Luxembourg Sunday evening request programme – after the Top 20 which was compulsory listening in those days. We asked the 208 to “please please us by playing ‘Please Please Me’” (Beatles) and asking any ‘nice girls out there’ to write to us. The letters started to stream in on Monday’s afternoon post and by the next day we had more than 50 and an interview with Bill Veitch!! “Wazza-form boys?” Whilst he was clearly quite amused, the Warden (FFF) took a different view, banning us from receiving any further letters on the basis that he would respond personally!! I believe there were over 300 letters eventually and from the content of some of those that we received, we’re fairly sure they would cause a raised eyebrow or two. There is also a post-script; Easter CCF camp in the Brecon Beacons (DofE silver expedition etc). Evening inspection at our campsite near Sennybridge by Mr Cochrane drew a comment from him related to a number of girls on the bridge about 50 metres away – by appointment!”

Nick Dance, Mary Dance and Jon Dance before the England v South Africa game in October 2014