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2004
Kai-Ole Jensen (G, 2000-2004) writes:
‘I recently finished my doctoral thesis/
degree with the grading ‘magna cum laude
- with great honour’. It was published in
the journal Blood (Impact Factor 18). Now
my wife and I are travelling from Canada to
Chile over the course of one year with our
VW Bus ‘Grenny’. Our progress is shown
on Maybe OSE would
like to meet up along the way!’
2006
Chalumpon (Whale) Lotharukpong
(H, 2001 - 2006) recently assisted Deputy
Registrar Pamela Keeley-Butler giving a
presentation on co-education at the British
Council in Bangkok (British Boarding Schools
and Sixth Form Colleges: How to be
prepared for life at a UK boarding school)
in association with Mentor International.
Chalumpon spoke to the assembled Thai
parents about his time at Teddies and was a
fantastic OSE ambassador for Teddies, saying
‘My time at the school was one of the most
important and precious events in my life and I
have made many lifelong friends. That was the
least I could do to give back to the school’.
2008
Georgina McHardy (K, 2004-2008)
passed out at Sandhurst (Sovereign’s Parade
Commissioning course 153) in August 2016.
2011
Ed Lea (H, 2006-2011) and Sam
Macdonald-Smith (H, 2008-2013)
cycled across North America from
Vancouver to Washington D.C. to raise
funds for the Enham Trust. This is a
disability charity that works with over 7,500
individuals each year, enabling them to
have increased independence and choice
in the cornerstone areas of their lives. The
charity is especially close to their hearts
as Ed’s sister, Izzy, has cerebral palsy and
is a resident of Enham’s community in
Hampshire. The route is around 3000 miles
long and Ed and Sam cycled completely
unsupported, carrying all of their
equipment, camping gear, food, water and
clothing with them. They kept a blog along
the way to record their journey (http://
) and
aim to raise £10,000 for the Trust.
2013
Imogen Gore (M, 2008-2013) has won
the Midlands Award at the Association
of Women in Property National Student
Awards.
2016
Celia Hodgson (D, 2011- 2016) visited
the Art Department to produce a film
about visual arts at St Edward’s. Celia
co-founded the Teddies on Camera film
crew, and is now pursuing a career in
filmmaking. To watch her film about the Art
Department, amongst others, visit http://
teddies-tv/
Flora King (K, 2011-2016) competed at
the British Transplant Games in Liverpool
in July 2016. It was her first time competing
for the adult age category (18-29) as part
of Team Oxford. She won four Golds in
Tennis, Squash, Long Jump and Ball Throw
and a Bronze in Table Tennis. She has been
selected for Team GB for the 2017 Games
for Tennis, Javelin and Paddle Tennis.
V A L E T E
O S E N E W S
Chris Carey
Chalumpon at the British Council with Pippa
Watt from Mentor International.
Field House to cycle from Land’s End to John
O’Groats in nine consecutive days. This would
entail averaging 109 miles and climbing nearly
2,000m each day, and was completed on
28th May 2016. OSE riders included Alastair
Simmie, Chris Carey, Phil Shucksmith
(C, 1998-2003) and Matt Thomas-Keeping
(C, 1998-2003).
The trip turned out to be a lot tougher
than we had expected. What started as a
minor irritation in the knees or shoulders
would turn into a pretty distracting pain that
no amount of time on the roller could fix.
A friend and I also fell ill within a day of each
other with a stomach bug and fever that
we both couldn’t shake. On consecutive
nights, we both made the call not to ride the
following day. I found this extremely gutting
knowing I would not complete the course
despite so many months of training
in the cold for hours on my own. Despite
the quite formidable aches and pains
suffered by the remainder of the group, the
remaining five riders completed the entire
course to schedule.
'The scenery was endlessly breath-taking.
The banter and camaraderie held up even
at the lowest moments. The mutual abuse
never stopped to everyone’s delight, and
we only had one puncture. We sang as
we rode through valleys and epic Scottish
lochs, and cycled a naked mile in remotest
Scotland to raise extra funding, but despite
our location, we still passed a number of
startled motorists, one of which stopped to
take photos of us! She told us, “We don’t
see this very often around here!” We had
unbelievable moral and financial support
from so many friends, family and often
complete strangers.
'The charity involved supports two
scientific rockstars in the US, Dr Seth Pollack
and Dr Brian Rubin from the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Centre and the Cleveland
Clinic respectively, who are collaborating
to work on a treatment where funding is
required to run the initial stage of the trials.
Recent developments look promising and they
have already identified that immunotherapy
has been successful on similar cancers so
there is hope. Any funds that you could
spare today would make a very real, personal
impact on Milly and Alastair as well on the
future path of research in this area’: https://