Old Cytringanian Autumn Newsletter 2011

President - Martin Althorpe (T - 01536 518124,  E – martin.althorpe@live.co.uk).

Senior Vice President – Stuart Welch (T – 01536 722484,  E - stuartwelch@btconnect.com)

The next Annual Reunion Dinner will take place on Saturday 31st March 2012 at the usual venue of The Masonic Hall in York Road Kettering, so if you’ve got room in your diary it will be great to see you there.  Tickets are excellent value at only £20 for a three course dinner and coffee.  Following our normal practice there will be a guest speaker to entertain and inform in no more than twenty minutes.  A raffle will be held for the usual fare including a top prize of a nice single malt. Local overnight accommodation is plentiful if required, including Pennels Guest House, run by Richard Green, who is an Old Boy. For reference Easter Sunday is 8th April.

A Memorabilia Lunch will take place at the Woodcroft Scout Centre in London Road Kettering on Saturday 26th November.  School photographs and other artefacts from the archive will be displayed and a light buffet lunch provided from 12:00 until 14:00.  Hopefully those of you that are fairly local will join us and try to find yourselves in the various line-ups.  If any of you have got your own pieces of school history that are portable and not incriminating, please bring them along.

A golf day was planned for 2nd of September, but despite our best efforts unfortunately didn’t get off the ground.  However a second attempt at what will hopefully become an annual Old Cyt’s golf day is proposed for early summer 2012 at Kettering Golf Club.  This will comprise of a competition for an Old Cytringanian Golf Cup followed by a prize giving in the bar.  We don’t intend to organise a meal, as we think it would be preferable to keep post match arrangements informal.  We’d like anyone interested in participating in this event to contact Stuart Welch or me by ‘phone or email.

We continue to support The Award for Sixth Form Studies at Tresham Institute, where we have our committee room. Stuart Welch attended the Prize-Giving evening when The Award was presented to Matthew Candlin, who hopes to study aeronautics at university, with a view to a career in the RAF.

Our Website management will be passing into new hands albeit still provided by Southfields.  We’d like to thank the team that has worked on it for the last couple of years and wish them well in their future careers.

A donation of £300 was made to the Air Ambulance and a letter of thanks received.

 Finally we regret to report those members of the association who have passed away.  We have lost two members of Staff both of whom were teachers initially at the Central School and then moved to the Grammar School and ultimately the Boys School.

Norman Barker (1962 – 95) who served on the committee for many years and also as President, he was a regular supporter of lunch-time meetings and the annual dinner.

DJI (Idwal) Jones (1962 – 90), a supporter of Association functions until his move to Malvern.

We have also been informed of the passing of D Hopkins (1933 – 38), D I Joyce (1936 – 40), who regularly attended the annual dinner with his peer group and D W Swingler (1943 – 52), a supporter of both the annual dinner and lunch-time meetings.

Thanks, as always, to David Hall of Rockingham Cars for his continued support of our postages costs.

Please remember those two diary dates:

26.11.11 - Memorabilia Lunch at Woodcroft.

31.03.12 - Annual Dinner at the Masonic Hall.

Best wishes and hope to see you soon.

Martin.