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T h e O l d S t a t i o n e r - N o 8 1 Anyone who studied economics under Joe Symons and his predecessors will recognise the role our school played in training and supplying bright chaps to work in the worlds of banking and finance in the City of London and beyond. While, the majority of us are now retired, one can continue to enjoy the linkages with both history and the City by applying to join the Stationers’ Company as a Freeman. Currently, there are 37 Freeman and 17 Liverymen who are old boys of the school. Many of them joined the Company in 2006 as Freemen when a special discount scheme was offered to members of the OSA. Recognising that a new generation of members has joined the OSA since that time, the Stationers’ Company is pleased to offer a new programme to encourage a new wave of applications. The current fee to join the Company is £381 as a Freeman and the annual membership fee is £88. The joining fee has been reduced temporarily to £281 for all members of the Old Stationers’ Association. To take advantage of this offer, you should first approach Hon.Secretary Tim Westbrook who will confirm your OSA membership and arrange for the application forms to be sent to you. This offer will close at the end of this year. Freemen can attend the many social functions organised by the Company Livery Committee, the Annual Lecture, archive evenings, industry seminars, concerts in the Hall, the Ash Wednesday service in St. Pauls and the twice yearly golf events. It is often said that people get out of membership as much as they put in. This discount scheme is designed to encourage many more OSA members to join the Company and take an active part in its programme of events. Tony Mash OSA welcomes our new Honorary Secretary We congratulate Tim Westbrook on his recent election to Honorary Secretary following on from his service as Committee member since 2003; supervision of the two year project for digitising the entire archive of Stationer’s School Magazines and The Old Stationer magazines going back to 1884; as well as publishing adviser initiating the move to all colour printing for the OSA Magazine and currently overseeing the set up of direct distribution from the printer to our world-wide membership. Plus unofficial photographer for OSA events. OUR OLDEST STATIONER? Harold Perry celebrating his 90th birthday this week. 18
Hi Geraint perring32@btinternet.com 3rd January 2015 Happy New Year to you and I hope your weather today is better than ours. Its dull with constant drizzle and the hill above us is shrouded in mist. Soon it will soon be spring again. A couple of years ago you published a letter from me in which I gave a brief outline, as far as I knew, of the careers of the six Stationers, including self, who joined the PLA (Port of London Authority) in September 1954. One of these was BRUCE HOLLOWAY whom I last heard of some twenty five years ago when he was working for an estate agency in the Southend area. However, this Christmas I had a card from EDDIE DENNISON who had run across Bruce some time last year. Have copied Eddie's card to you and no doubt you can use it in some form in the next mag. unless Eddie has already told you the same. Regards Lucien 7th January 2015 Further to my recent e-mail concerning Bruce Holloway, I have now received an e-mail from Eddie with a little more detail. The picture he refers to I found on the internet, and is of Bruce being presented with the Seniors Trophy at Boyce Hill Golf Club which is at Benfleet, Essex, picture attached, date not known. Regards Lucien Perring 1949-1954 Lucien 7th January 2015 eddie.dennison@btinternet.com Thanks for the picture. It certainly is our Bruce and I have no idea why I did not recognise him because upon reflection he has hardly changed and of course I have no objection to you informing OS of his existence or our meeting. I always knew of his interest in jazz because when we were at school I remember he bought a trumpet and had professional lessons from a jazz tutor. If I see him again, which I hope that I do, I will tell him of your interest and get his address for you. I will keep you updated. Best wishes Eddie Edward Dennison 1949-1954 T h e O l d S t a t i o n e r - N o 8 1 (Another talented musician in the OS, in this case a jazz player. How many jazz players do we have? Ed.) Hi CORRESPONDENCE 18th January 2015 perring32@btinternet.com Further to my earlier info re. Bruce Holloway, looking at the Boyce Hill Golf Club site it would seem that Bruce is a keen golfer as since 2005 (the earliest results they have on line) his name has appeared in the results of their Senior competitions on a number of occasions, has won one competition and figured in several others. Lucien Bruce Holloway being presented with the Seniors Trophy at Boyce Hill Golf Club in Benfleet, Essex. Members of the OSA who are contemporaries of those mentioned above: Peter Clydesdale 1949-1954; Peter Engledow 1949-1954; Peter Evans 1949-1954; David Hill 1949-- 1954; Kenneth Hills 1949-1956; Brian Humphreys 1949-1956; Brian Moir 1949- 1954; George Sprosson 1949-1954; John Wheeler 1949-1953. Hi Gordon 566, Wolf Grove Road ALMONTE Ontario K0A 1A0 February 18th 2015 Just back from our local OS luncheon featuring ART MOREWOOD and JOHN BATHURST. Some talk of the Academy project and more talk of John's Prince Shoal Lighthouse made for a very entertaining afternoon at the Whispers Pub. I was back in Britain last year for the Yorkshire stages of the TdF (Tour de France) and did a circle tour on the bike which included a couple of days on the IoM (Isle of Man), finishing up in Worthing to join brother Ray, RAY HUMPHREYS 1954-1960 and RUSSELL PLUMLEY 1956-1964, for a couple of days by the sea. Before returning home I attended a reunion of the class of '52 in London. Please find my subscription enclosed, best regards, LesHumphreys 1952-1959 Prince Shoal Lighthouse. Les Humphries on the Isle of Man 26th February 2015 roy.turner@telkomsa.net Greetings Geraint I trust you arrived safely back home after your SA (South Africa) sojourn. We appreciated and enjoyed your visit and it was good to spend some time together and hear some OS news. I trust that the rest of the trip enabled you to relax after the beach walks and swims on the KwaZulu Natal shore of the Indian Ocean. 19
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