| A | | Ashby. Colin. 1963-70. I am involved in A level chemistry examination work for Edexcel and Educational Consultancy. I have constructed a very basic website that needs finishing, but it has had some hits and work keeps finding its way to me. www.aecas.webeden.co.uk.I have been a Vice-President, for the Independent Schools Association, since my retirement April 2008, so I am keeping quite busy, but at a much slower pace.My wife Tric and I are getting in as much travel as possible, since having my two hips replaced so we are enjoying more leisure time.I was in touch with Mark Bryant, in Australia recently and suggested we might try and get members of our year together some time. He comes over occasionally to see his mother and meet up with Ian Angel and others who are still living in Gloucester, where my sister is now. (Last updated 2010) | | B | | Bulled. Martin. 1978-83. I am currently employed as a Social Worker in the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Referral and Assessment Team. I am still involved on the Old Richian’s Association Committee and have taken on the role of updating the Old Richian’s Website. If you have any items to add to the Website then please let me know.(Last updated 2010) | | G | | George. Glyn. 1971-1977. Glyn has taught mathematics to engineering students at the Memorial University of Newfoundland for over 20 years. Before that, he worked in Surrey and in Bahrain. His enthusiasm for the subject started at STRS, thanks to one recently retired deputy headmaster, Mr. McBurnie. Glyn now serves as a member of the University Senate and as Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. In his spare time he has served on two local school boards, on the executive of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of School Councils (NLFSC) and as Secretary and Chair of one of those school councils. In 2005 the NLFSC conferred an honorary life membership on him.Leisure interests include history and science fiction. Glyn would be pleased to hear from other Richian’s of the 1970's.(Last updated 2010)Godwin. William. 1993-2000. Married Emma before Christmas and are happily settled back in Brunei where I am still posted with 1RGR. Due to return in the summer when the battalion is moved to Folkestone to prepare for a return to Afghanistan in the spring of 2010. In the mean time enjoying the chance to travel and eat our way round East Asia. (Last updated 2009) | | J | | Johnstone. Nick. 1964 -1972. So now here is a 35 year potted history. When I left school in 1972 I joined the Dowty Group as a student commercial apprentice. With me were Richard Hemming and Richard Thwaites. As part of my apprenticeship I took a HND in Business Studies at Portsmouth Polytechnic. For my final year I shared a house with Richard Hemming and one of the Bartleman twins.In January 1976 I married Joy Gregory, she had been to Denmark Rd High School. Her father, John, was an Old Richian. He had been at the school 1941 to 1946 and owned the florists on the corner of Stroud and Bristol Rd in Gloucester. We have three children. Ben and Robin live in England. Alex, our youngest is in his final year at the University of South Carolina.After completing my HND I studied the CIMA exams at Gloucester Tech. Alan Beard and Harry O'Leary were studying at the same time. The most recent news I have on Alan Beard is he now has a senior finance position in the Post Office in London. I left Dowty in 1993. By that time I was Finance Director and Company Secretary of Dowty Seals at Ashchurch. The Technical director at Dowty Seals was Alec Phelps. He had been at the Rich's around the time that my father in law was a pupil.After Dowty I joined Atotech UK in Birmingham, a subsidiary of TOTAL Oil that makes chemicals for the electroplating and surface finishing industries. During my time there I was lucky enough to be involved with setting up companies in Sweden and Indian. On 1st 2001September I transferred to Atotech USA as CFO. The company is in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Being a stranger in the USA during the time of 9/11 was an eye opening experience. As I said in my previous e mail, we intend to stay in the USA for a while though the lack of universal affordable healthcare for all is a concern.I keep contact with one Old Richian, Tim Lord, who left the school in 1971. We exchange Christmas cards. This time last year he was living in Clevedon and worked for BAE in Bristol.There must be other Old Richians in the USA. It would be good to hear about them.(Last updated 2010) | |
| M | | Middleton. Graham (Staff) 1965-Present! (Still supply and Exam Invigilator)Full time Rowing and Physics teacher (1965-1986)-In that order! Returned to site manage the swimming pool rebuild in the early 1990’s- stayed to teach English for 3 years, then a move to Crypt, thence to Hereford, returning to teach supply and exam invigilation currently. Non- stop rowing coaching throughout, running coaching courses in London and winning prolific national medals, including grandson Daniel, Son of Old Richian Kevin, Grahams son, who was selected for Great Britain in 2007. (Last updated 2009) | | P | | Page. Malcolm. 1937-1944.In July I attended the 30th triennial Conference of the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League in Accra, Ghana. I was there as an Appointee of the Grand President (HRH The Duke of Edinburgh) and representing the Republic of Somalilana! . (Last updated 2009) Perks. Professor (the Baron) Anthony. 1946-1951; School Captain, 1950-51. Dr Perks continues to teach in the Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Canada, where he is Professor Emeritus. He returns to Longlevens every summer, to his house near the school. He now belongs to the Probus Club in Churchdown, where he was introduced by Old Boy, Gordan King, and where David Joseph, former teacher also goes. Dr Perks gives talks on topics as varied as Stonehenge, Mary Magdalene, and the functioning of foetuses! He, and his old school friend, Dr Garth Lancaster, attend the 'Three Choirs Festival' regularly, this year in Worcester. He is writing this in the middle of an Arctic Overflow snow-storm, at a temperature of -17C! Help! Despite five degrees, spanning Cambridge, Oxford, and St Andrew, he still cannot spell. (Last updated 2009) | | T | | Taylor. A.A. 1941-1948.... (Known to some as Tony and to classmates as Tom). During the war years one of my mother’s brothers who made Calgary his home returned to England with the Canadian army. He sold me on joining him when I left Tommies. At that time Calgary was a community of approximately 75,000 souls but has enjoyed a remarkable growth since then; now numbering well over a million and has become a world leader in the oil and gas business. I joined Imperial oil as a lab tech in both Calgary and Norman Wells N.W.T. until I decided that my years at STRS would gain me entrance to any N. American university and I could seek to enter the faculty of dentistry at the University of Alberta. While at Norman wells I met a Canadian Airline stewardess who later became my wife and mother to our four boys. I lost her to cancer thirty three years ago. I later remarried a lady who also had a son so her complaint was that our house was like living in the YMCA. I practiced dentistry until my back caused an early retirement; bad backs being an occupational hazard. We moved to a spot west of the city with a panoramic view of the Rocky mountains. It was a great pleasure about nine years ago to have an old classmate, John Bodenham visit us for a few days. Health wise my back is not what it used to be, although I quit smoking my lungs are compromised and not what they used to be, my memory is not what it used to be.....one other thing my memory is not what it used to be! (Last updated 2009) |
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