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| Old Monovians Supper 2007 Click on pictures to download |
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| Old Monovians Supper 2006 Click on pictures to download |
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| Old Monovians Supper
2004 Click on pictures to download |
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John Smiles, club secretary
provides the following information about the Golf Club. The Society at present is
composed of mainly fifty and sixty year olds, and it would be nice to recruit
some younger O.M.'s. Email:
smiles@toothill48.freeserve.co.uk |
| The Australian Old Monovian Annual Dinner was held
successfully on 15 February 2003 at the home of Howard (1946-52) & Margaret
Levin in Melbourne. This very convivial occasion was marked by the number of
OMs attending for the first time. Roger (1946-50) & Betty Woolley travelled
from Perth to participate. Roger's formerly red hair now being a shining white,
he recalled many of his escapades of fifty or more years ago, including his
high speed bicycle rides to chase buses in Chingford Road. Tony (1958-65) &
Louise Turner, having narrowly missed attending in two previous years,
journeyed from Canberra to join us this year, bringing a copy of the School
photograph of 1961 and a photo album of current School facilities prepared by
old OM friends whose son is currently at Monoux. Paul (1967-70) & Megan Logsdon, who live in Melbourne, made contact through www.friendsreunited.co.uk and were delighted to be at this dinner. Both Paul, who finished his secondary education at King Edward VIth, Chelmsford, and Megan, are architects. Paul was pleased to have his memories of Monoux revived by the contact with others at the evening. These were Howard & Margaret Levin, John Ferguson (1968-74) & Ted Boak (1952-57). John has promised to produce a CD recording of the accompaniment to the School Song in order to rectify the rather tuneless rendition which we produced! As usual the conversation ranged far and wide, and continued long, with many past members of staff being recalled with mixed feelings. There were also fond remembrances of food-related items, the Tuck Shop under the stair at the south side of the School and Table Monitors of note from School lunches. Both Reg Chasney (1935-39) & John Kerr-Stevens (1960-65) had indicated that they would be at the dinner but had to withdraw reluctantly, Reg due to Bush Fire pressures preventing him and Nell finding people to mind their horses and look after the business, and John as a result of slowly recovering health which precluded him and Cathie from travelling. Numbers of apologies were receive from both overseas and Australia: Frank Collins (46-50), Ted Cocksedge (35-40), John Beaney (53-60), Stan Piper (45-49), Steve Dinsdale (59-65), Mike Munns (37-42), Bill Brown (46-51), Robin Sen (49-57), Derek Harris (41-49), Roger Bell (54-59), Andy Hearn (82-86). The Dinner for 2004 will be held on 14 February at the home of Bill & Brenda Brown in Brisbane, please put the date in your diary for next year, more details later in the year. Also long range information for 2005 - the Dinner will be in Canberra at Tony & Louise Turner's home. Kind regards, Howard Levin |
| Sadly since the
above memo was written Howard has passed away. He will be sorely missed by all
in Australia, and fondly remembered by his friends in the
UK. Howard's legacy of the regular OM reunion dinners will be maintained, the next being as indicated above in Brisbane, hosted by Bill & Brenda Brown. For details please contact Bill at b_bbrown@bigpond.com or tel/fax (07)38291282 |
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