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6many years of faithful support and we thankthem for their efforts and hope to see them asusual at out events.This year we will have an additional event.The <strong>Old</strong> Girls Association of the SGHS haveinvited us to a joint dinner on the Saturday27 th September at the Palm Court Hotel. Thisevent will be open to spouses as well as membersof both Associations. You will find anapplication form for tickets in this issue.One of the benefits of being your Secretary isthat I get to correspond with many of you.You have interesting stories to tell about howyou have translated the broad education thatyou received at the School into a rewardingcareer. Wherever possible I pass these lettersand communications on to David for inclusionin Summer Times. Please keep the letterscoming!Peter Robson (1945-53)SecretaryTREASURIALThere is very little toreport on the financialfront since the last editionother than that weare still solvent and thatsubs are still trickling inalbeit at a slower rate.A small profit wasmade on the ScarboroughChristmas Dinner and the running expensesof the organisation continue to be veryminimal.We have recently lost three of our regularadvertisers in Summer Times and if anybodyknows of any possible replacements we shallbe grateful if you will let us know. The cost ofa full page in any edition is £50 and £30 forhalf a page.Chris Found (1951-59)TreasurerSPORTING EVENTSGolf Competitions - 2003The golf days for 2003 are as follows:-Dr. Meadley Thursday 5th JuneT.A.Smith Thursday 17th JulyFor the latter event the first tee has been reservedfrom 2.30 to 3.30 p.m. and we are hopingthat all entrants will agree to start duringthis time, wherever possible, so that playingfours can be pre-arranged by the organisers.Chris Found (1951-59)Golf SecretaryOLD SCARBORIANS WEBSITE REPORTOwing to other commitments,I have madevery few changes oradditions to the website since the last editionof Summer Times.There are still a numberof photographs ofprefects, drama productionsand some sporting events in thebacklog.One significant addition, however, is the 1942school photograph, for which EricThomlinson (who now lives in Cambridge,Ontario) kindly provided a fairly wellpreservedoriginal.Graham Rew has scanned and sent the 1958school photograph, which I may have addedby the time you read this. Based on the years Iwas at the school, I had been under the impressionthat whole-school photographs werealways quadrennial events. Given that wenow have both 1958 and 1959 photographs, Irealise that hasn’t always been the case.If you have submitted photographs and arestill awaiting their appearance, please accept
7my apologies for the delay.For the technically inclined, I am graduallyconverting the site to use cascading stylesheets. For pages for which I have done this,loading is marginally faster. However, selfinterestis my main motivation, as the timerequired for site maintenance and additionswill be considerably reduced. Those who arenot technically inclined should feel free toignore this paragraph.Bill Potts (1946-55)WebmasterCOMMITTEE PROFILESMick Bowman (1954-61)B. Phil. NewcastleMy formative yearswere spent at Crossgates,which in thosedays was a long threemiles from town. I waseducated for a shorttime at Lisvane beforereturning to SeamerPrimary where I wasone of four boys, EddieWilmore, Alan Haig and Martin Wilson (latermy Best Man), to move on to the High School.The first five years, 1954-59, were spent at theold school where my father, George, and twoUncles, Douglas and Kenneth Coe, had beeneducated. I was surprised as a first former todiscover how many of the staff had taughtthem and were still there. I also met andplayed rugby with Peter Taylor whose fatherhad been at school with mine playing soccertogether in the days before rugby was established.My sixth form years were at the newschool where I received an invitation to theOpening Ceremony. This was as a member ofthe Caretaker’s cleaning staff; I had spent thesummer holidays working with them preparingthe new building.On leaving school I went to what is now SheffieldUniversity and later to Newcastle Universitybefore spending thirty seven yearsworking in secondary schools in Cleveland.I hope to celebrate thirty eight years of marriageto Vivien this summer having met her atcollege. We have a son and daughter and agrandson and granddaughter.At the moment I am enjoying the freedom ofretirement and am spending a lot of time ongolf courses taking pleasure in the exercisebut suffering extreme stress when confrontedevery few yards by a little white ball with amind of itʹs own.Ron Gledhill (1936-44)After leaving schoolin 1944 I joined theRoyal Corps of Signalsand served inIndia, Malaya andThailand as a WirelessOperator.In 1948, and until1951 I studied at HullTechnical College,qualifying as a Graduate Member of the Instituteof Electrical Engineers, and in due coursebecame a full Member and a Chartered Engineer.From 1951 to 1957 I was employed by YorkshireElectricity in Hull, initially as a GraduateTrainee, and subsequently with the EngineeringStaff.Between 1957 and 1965 I was with BlackburnAircraft Ltd., later to become Hawker SiddleyAviation; later still to be known as BritishAerospace. I worked on Buccaneer aircraft asan Electrical Design Engineer and was eventuallypromoted to the post of Chief ElectricalDesign Engineer, based in Brough.From 1965 to 1968 I lectured in Electrical Engineeringat Hull Technical College. It wasthere that I discovered just how much I didNOT know. It is true to say that the best way
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