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briefly retired, but was then invited to be a
non-executive director at his son-in-law’s
soon-to-be-launched agency, Initials. Roger
spent 10 years with Initials, helping it grow
from its launch to a pre-eminent position
in the marketing communications industry
today, with 50 employees and a blue chip
client list. Roger cites his competitive nature
and his drama skills learnt at St Edward’s
as having contributed significantly to his
business career. He represented Teddies at
seven different sports, played scrum half in
the 1960 unbeaten rugby side, and starred
in both school and house plays. He became
the go-to person for public speaking in
his agency, and was frequently invited to
speak at conferences to audiences ranging
from a roomful in Bournville to 1,200
delegates at the International Marketing
and Sales Conference for South African
Breweries in Sun City! He also published
articles in the marketing trade press, and
latterly contributed to the development
of the Initials agency brand with pieces in
the media and on their website. He lists
his retirement interests as golf, foreign
travel, music and, naturally, the theatre and
watching major sporting events.
Tim Plant (B, 1957-1961) let the OSE
Office know that to celebrate 40 years of
mural painting, he and his wife Ana, who
painted the mural in the Dining Hall, have
published a new catalogue containing
more than 70 colour plates of murals
painted by them in various parts of the
world over the past four decades.
If you are interested in this kind of
work, further details can be seen on
1963
Michael Hodson (E, 1959-1963) is
arranging a reunion expedition to
Morocco in May 2019 for those OSE who
went on the School expedition in 1969.
Currently Peter Jones (F, 1964-1968),
Keith Page (D, 1963-1968), Richard
Greenway (D, 1964-1968), Jeremy
Watson (C, 1965-1969), Geoff Hand
(G, 1958-1963) and Jeremy Fardoe (D,
1964-1968) have signed up. We have not
heard from, or been able to get in touch
with, everyone. Bob Brock (B, 1965-
1969), Richard Goddard (C, 1964-1968),
Richard Goodall (D, 1965-1970), Mark
Howell (E, 1967-1969), Russell Samuels
(E, 1965-1970), David Trow (A, 1964-
1969), Brian Williamson (F, 1963-1968)
there is still time to join! Please contact
the OSE Office if you were a member of
the original expedition. Michael writes that
“We shall be thinking of Noel Cash (F,
1945-1950), Peter Mallalieu (CR, 1937-
2017) and Charles Massey (D, 1964-
1969), who sadly have passed away.”
1956
Brian Greenwood (E, 1952-1956), who
is an expert on global malaria control, was
the keynote speaker at the Global Health
event at the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh in February 2018.
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Chris Brockbank (E, 1955-1959) told the
OSE Office that from the days of wearing
short trousers, flying with the RAF was
his intended career (his father was an RAF
MO in the War). However after two years
in the RAF he reached different career
conclusions and then served eight years in
the RAFVR helping run ATC Squadrons,
and also flying glider tugs at weekends.
Most of his working life has been with
multi-national companies, Kodak and Bunzl,
followed by ESV plc, in marketing and
business management roles. Some Kodak
remits included marketing research, aerial
and satellite photography, and advising
Keele University’s Air Photo Library
project. Latterly, he worked with Allied
Dunbar and Zurich in financial planning for
business. Chris became associated with the
Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial
(LBCM) Trust in August 2012. Following
the digital archive interviewing training
in November 2014, he has conducted a
fascinating range of veteran interviews of
ground personnel and aircrew, with some
amazing tales of the unexpected.
1961
Roger Hyslop (G, 1956-1961) has
finally retired from business (for the third
and last time!) at the age of 74. After
spending five years at Nestlé learning the
skills of marketing, he transferred to the
agency side and in 1975 founded Triangle
Communications with three colleagues.
Triangle specialised in the emerging
discipline of sales promotion, creating
many award-winning campaigns for famous
companies and brands, including Cadbury,
a relationship Roger enjoyed continuously
for 27 years. As one of the industry
pioneers of creative sales promotion, he
was made a Fellow of the Institute of Sales
Promotion in 2003. When the business,
by this time a group of five companies
with over 150 employees, was acquired
by the French Publicis Group in 2005 he
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