Old Lawrentian News 2010/11

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
• Top, we all enjoyed our Tower Reunion at
the Grand Hotel reminiscing with our former
Tower housemaster
• Right, Christopher Throndsen and Peter
Webley (Tower 1982)
got together at the Grand Hotel
in Eastbourne to honour our old
housemaster and friend
Christopher Throndsen.
We had a wonderful candlelit
dinner in a private dining room
and a big thank you must go to
the General Manager, Jonathan
Webley (Tower 1977), for
organising such a splendid
evening.
If there are any other year
groups who would like to
organise a special dinner, or a
reunion, then Jonathan would
be more than happy to sort this
out for you at The Grand.
The OL tennis and cricket
matches against the School
ended in good wins for the
College, but sadly the OL girls’
hockey and netball matches
had to be cancelled.
We really do need to get more
OL girls involved in the OL
Society and it would be
wonderful to have more
females on the Committee to
encourage their peers to come
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
back and participate. OL events
are more fun than you think!
The new Sports Centre was
opened in September by the
England rugby coach, Martin
Johnson (see Headmaster’s
Update, page 6) and along with
Kirby House there is no doubt
that the College can boast
some first-class facilities.
Please note that there is a
10% boarding fee discount
available to any OL or OL
grandparent, and with the fast
train link from London/Euston,
Ramsgate is only just over an
hour away.
We had yet another splendid
OL Dinner at the College in
November.
This year we were lucky to
secure the services of
Humphrey Hawksley (Grange
1972), the BBC overseas
correspondent, who gave a
wonderfully amusing speech.
Highlights on page 12.
It was very sad that we lost
Christopher Stunt (Lodge 1958)
two years ago now, but I do not
think it should go unnoticed that
he left an incredibly generous
legacy of £100,000 to St
Lawrence College.
There were three Stunt
brothers at the College; the
others being Philip and Timothy,
and I was delighted that Philip
was able to join us as a guest at
this year’s OL dinner.
It was encouraging to see the
first OL reunion in Hong Kong
take place in December.
The database shows there are
123 OLs based in HK so
hopefully this will become an
annual event along the same
lines as the very successful
Australian reunions.
Thanks must go to Henry
Chan (Manor 1973-78) for
organising this.
If there are any other OLs who
would like to organise a
regional reunion then please
get in touch with the OL
Secretary, Kerry Brown, who
will help you.
Finally, I would draw your
attention to the fact that OLs
can now advertise their
businesses in the OL News.
This annual magazine is sent
to more than 3,000 OLs
throughout the world, so please
get in touch with Kerry Brown,
kerry@olsociety.co.uk, who will
give you more details.
Nick Marchant,
OL President
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