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WOOLCOTT – On 16th November 2014, Chris Woolcott (B, 1971-76), in Africa. His brother Justin provided the following obituary. My brother Chris was in Sing’s from 1971-1976. He wasn’t particularly academic. He didn’t aspire to be so. He was good at sports without trying. I remember watching him win the school diving medal three years in a row, by simply showing up at the old outdoor pool, walking on his hands to the end of the high diving board and then dropping in - without a splash. Above all he loved the camaraderie at school and built many lifelong friendships. The highlight of the week for Chris was to nip down the canal towpath on a Saturday afternoon for a pint or two at the Vicky in Jericho and then spend the rest of the afternoon at the Nosebag, nursing a single pot of tea with his friends.

Chris’s true love was always Africa. We lived in Zambia when we were at Teddies. As soon as we got home for the holidays, Chris would march off into the bush, airgun across his shoulder, two very happy dogs in tow-and not be seen again until the sun set. After Teddies, Chris went to Cirencester Agricultural College. The goal was to allow him to return to Africa. It worked. He returned to Zambia, where he met and married Jeanette. Then they moved to Botswana, with Chris starting as a farm manager. They soon bought a farm in Ghanzi -on the edge of the Kalahari and Okavango. There, after starting with a dairy - where no refrigeration meant milk in the morning, yogurt at lunch and cheese by nightfall - the business evolved to become a bush camp. Together Chris and Jeanette, and their children Samantha, Hayley and Laurie, created

Please help us by submitting notifications of OSE obituaries. Short obituaries, ideally with a photograph, can be send to the Editor in the OSE Office. warm, creative and caring spirit will be missed by many. He is survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters. YOUNG – On 4th July, 2014, Bradden Hamilton Young (C, 1988-1993), aged 39. The obituary is taken from the Washington Post . Bradden Hamilton Young, born in Oxford, England, passed away suddenly at his home in Washington, DC. He was the Founder and CEO of Young & Inspired, an events and promotion company based in New York, Executive Producer of the Global Poverty Project Citizen Festival, and the Chief Strategy Officer of Noise 4 Good. His passion was to promote and raise support for worthy causes including Many Hopes, an orphanage in Kenya, Charity Water, Film Raise, and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Foundation. His a little oasis in the desert. On November 16th, close to home, Chris’s life ended early in a car accident. He was buried on the farm, in Africa where he belonged.

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