Fosterian Magazine 1995 - Old Fosterians and Lord Digby's Old Girls

M.E. TREVETT (38-46) enjoyed last year's article 'Ladies First' andcomments that during his time at school, and now, he feels that teachers, aspeople, contribute much to a school, introducing a new dimension and newperspective. He seems to remember that Mrs HEWITT came for a while toreplace W.G. HEWITT when he joined the Navy and was shortly afterreplaced by Miss COAK. He was rather disappointed, whilst looking throughthe List of Members, that there are many Old Boys around who do not belong tothe Association. It is sad that their current addresses are lost to their colleagues.A.J. WILLIS (30-36) whose article 'If Only .. .' appears earlier in these pages,says that his activities are now very restricted due to his wife's declining healthand his own need to take life, physically, fairly quietly. When he wrote, inDecember 1994, he had been acting as tutor to two daughters and onegranddaughter at University and a grandson in his final year at high school. Ithad, he said, been quite a demanding year but a most interesting one, especiallyin working on English Literature, Ancient History, Philosophy and Logic.Fortunately, the results had made the effort worthwhile [Editor 'If Only .. .'hardly seems to apply to him!]M.M.C. WEBBER (6~71) wrote that his fust child was expected in August1995. He also gathered and forwarded information on the following OldFosterians who were his contemporaries, and we thank him for these detailsS. BUCKLAND: Steve was the youngest lecturer at Aberdeen University, apost he held for eight years. A further eight years were spent at the San DiegoOceanography Institute. He married and brought his wife to Scotland, where heis Head of the "Environmental, Modelling Unit". He is employed by the"McAuly Land Use Research Institute". The Instutute produces statistics toassist the North American Fish Agencies, Scottish Nature Department andInternational Whaling Commission, producing statistics on Marine MammalPopulations, fishing and its effects on stocks, Deer population andenvironmental effects. At San Diego Steve took part in the expedition to assessDolphin population within the Pacific and to reduce Dolphin kills. For a time hekept in touch with P. NILE, R. FISH and P. CHURCHILL. He now has astrong Scottish accent. He has no intention of leaving Scotland but throughwork occlsionally visits South West England.J. BURGESS: Jerry owned a successful landscaping business, employingvarying numbers of staff, depending on contract size. His business began tosuffer in the 80's recession as most of his employment had been for large "NewBuild" contracts and few of these developments were being undertaken.Reduced to mainly working on his own, he finally closed the business andjoined Parnham House (Beaminster), later to become their Head Gardener.Cutbacks at Parnham left him again with few staff but this time with a heavyworkload. Jerry was considering leaving Pamham and going abroad. He is stillin touch with GAVIN OAKLEY and GARRY COTTERILL.P. CHURCHILL: Lives at Prince George, Vancouver and works in Banking.He is in contact with PAUL NILE, and RICHARD FISH. He returns to theUK occasionally.G.COTTERILL: Garry had a successful Welding business, including Weldingdifficult/specialist materials. In the mid-eighties his business was unable tocontinue, due to lack of contracts, and was closed. A fairly long period ofunemployment followed. He returned to live with his parents but is now againworking in the welding business.26A. DEAVIN: Tony is working as Manager for the local Health Authority at theDrug and Alcohol Dependency Clinic, Poole. Funding is becoming a problemsince he now has to persuade G.P.'s to "buy" their services. He is married withtwo children and in his spare time is a keen fisherman. He keeps in touch withPAUL EDWARDS and MILES WRBBER.P. EDWARDS: Paul trained .as an architect's assistant and later joinedWestland Engineers' Department. He ran a business supplying sports shootingequipment; he also did plans for private dwellings extensions. Followingredundancy he began working for the Council and now undertakes theirlandscaping and grass cutting contracts; he loves working in the open air. Hehas recently remarried. He is in touch with MILES WEBBER and ANTHONYDEA VIN. In his spare time he still undertakes design tasks.P.FIELDS: A trained solicitor, Paddy is employed by the Crown ProsecutionService. He lives at Shefford, Bedfordshire with his wife and children. He iskeen that a form get-together should take place. He is in touch with P.NILE, R.FISH and B. GILLETT.R. FISH: Richard is a Civil Engineer and works for Cornwall County Council,where is in charge of Roads and Bridges. He married Christine Hancock (LDS,the same year) and they now have four (we think) children. He is very keen tokeep in touch and is already in contact with P. NILE, P. FIELDS, A.MA YELL and B. GILLETT.B. GILLETT: Brian is a Civil Engineer with a degree from Cardiff University.He is working in the Far East and has recently been remarried - to an Indonesiangirl. He intends to continue to work there while he is able but says that contractsnow largely go to local people rather than Europeans. He has previously workedin Poland and in Singapore. He now lives at Jakarta. He returns fairly regularlyto see his Mother at Stalbridge.N. GOODWIN: Neil is thought to be living in Cyprus.D. HOLLEX: Dave is an Inspector with Wessex Water Company; his parentslive at Stalbridge. He is not keen on formal events but would attend a form gettogether.A.N. MA YELL: Tony trained in Estate Management and has also trained as anauctioneer. He has been in touch with P. FIELDS, R. FISH and P. NILE.N. MASON: Nick took a Biochemistry degree at Warwick University in 1974and now teaches in London.S.H. NEWELL: Simon joined NatWest Bank from School and is now at HeadOffice, London. He has been with the company during some very hard timesand is now somewhat disillusioned with the large staff reductions with which itwould appear he has been connected. He makes furniture in his spare time andwould like to tum this into a full-time occupation. He is keen to keep in touch.C. NEAL: Chris left Foster's to attend a Sixth-Form College and subsequentlywent to Hatfield Polytechnic. His present whereabouts are unknown, but he isthought by MIKE CHALLONER to be a pilot in the UK.P. NILE: Phil works at Lloyds Bank at Dorchester. He is in touch withP. FIELDS and R.FISH.C. PULLIN: Clive operates a TV Repair business from home, which he shareswith his children in Sherborne. Until its closure he held the maintenancecontract for the Black Horse Hotel.P. ROBERTSHAW: Peter attended Bath University and subsequently took upa career in Banking.S. ROSS: Stuart attended Reading University and then took up various jobs,27