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Dear Geraint<br />
dg2813@hotmail.co.uk<br />
16th September 2014<br />
For no reason in particular I was thinking<br />
about "Four Leaf" Clover yesterday and<br />
decided to search for his name on the web.<br />
I am sure you and many other Old<br />
Stationers out there would remember him<br />
as a benign Master of Music at the school.<br />
He was in fact my first form master way<br />
back in 1957 and found him engaging and<br />
his personality infectious. I had no idea he<br />
had a doctorate, nor the extensive nature of<br />
his subsequent career after leaving<br />
Stationers. I am sending the item I found<br />
and thought you might like to include this<br />
in a future edition of the magazine. You<br />
may not, of course, but here it is anyway.<br />
Such a pity his life was curtailed so soon at<br />
the age of 49.<br />
Best wishes<br />
Dave Gordon 1957-64<br />
Dr David Clover<br />
MA, DMus, GTCL, FTCL, LTCL<br />
1930 -1979<br />
David was born in Fressingfield, Suffolk in<br />
1930. He was educated at Southend High<br />
School for Boys and Huntingdon Grammar<br />
School. He went on to study at Trinity<br />
College of Music, London, gaining graduate<br />
status. He then studied for the Master of<br />
Arts degree from London University.<br />
He was a member of The Royal College of<br />
Organists in the mid 1950s he took up his<br />
first teaching post as Director of Music at<br />
Stationers' Company's School.<br />
After Stationers' (1960) David accepted<br />
the position of Music Advisor for the City<br />
of Hull. Next, in 1967, came the position<br />
of Senior Music adviser for The City of<br />
Sheffield. He was the Founder and<br />
Conductor of The City of Sheffield<br />
T h e O l d S t a t i o n e r - N o 8 0<br />
NEWS OF FORMER STAFF<br />
Teachers' Choir and Orchestra from 1968<br />
and the Founder and Conductor of The<br />
City of Sheffield Youth Chorale from<br />
1969. On a national level he founded and<br />
conducted The British Youth Choir and<br />
Chamber Orchestra (now the National<br />
Youth Choir of Great Britain).<br />
He was an Examiner for Trinity College of<br />
Music, London from 1960 which took<br />
him abroad working in Canada, USA and<br />
NEW MEMBERS<br />
SIMON MEIR ATTAR 1962-1969<br />
Hodgson House<br />
31 Wolmer Gardens<br />
EDGWARE<br />
Middx. HAS 8QH<br />
ADRlAN DAVID BROADBENT<br />
1978-1982 Rivington House<br />
Mews Cottage, Winchester Road<br />
BISHOPS WALTHAM<br />
Hampshire S0321PL<br />
I left school in 1982 and after working in a<br />
supermarket for a couple of years until<br />
1986, I joined the Civil Aviation Authority<br />
and worked in Central London and<br />
Gatwick Airport until 2001. I now work for<br />
NATS Limited at the London Air Traffic<br />
Control Centre which is situated at<br />
Swanick in Hampshire.<br />
My hobbies are Aviation Photography,<br />
Airshows, Travel, Flying and on occasion<br />
Sailing.<br />
I remember the School fondly, the School<br />
Trips to Germany, drama and trips to<br />
Winchmore Hill in all weathers!!<br />
I have been contacted by a few former class<br />
mates down the years and look forward to<br />
being involved in the OSA.<br />
JOHN RlCHARD WELCH BSc<br />
1962-1969 Bishop House<br />
8 Egdean Walk<br />
SEVENOAKS<br />
Kent TN13 3UQ<br />
MICHAEL STUART WEST FCA<br />
1956-1961<br />
Airedale, High Street<br />
ELMDON<br />
Essex CB11 4NL<br />
ERIC ORROS BMLI<br />
1965-1969 Kendal<br />
Dunmow Road<br />
FYFIELD, Ongar<br />
Essex CM5 0NN<br />
Left 1969. Nil qualifications - did pick up 6<br />
'0' Levels a few years later. Divorced. Two<br />
children running shops in the business.<br />
the Caribbean. He regularly adjudicated at<br />
local and regional music festivals and<br />
competitions. His Compositions include<br />
various choral and instrumental works and<br />
arrangements. Some are still available.<br />
His specialist subject was music making<br />
among young people, choral, school music.<br />
He enjoyed driving, photography, and<br />
talking.<br />
Owner of Lockstock & Barrell Security<br />
Services Ltd. Three retail shops Hertford<br />
since 1986, Saffron Walden since 1994, and<br />
Stansted since 1997.<br />
Member of the Master Locksmiths<br />
Association. Chairman of the London<br />
Region of above. Left school, when asked to<br />
leave, spell as milkroundsman twice,<br />
minicab driver, had retail unit at Wood<br />
Green Shopping City. Married 1977 and<br />
moved to Harlow, Essex, then Elsenham;<br />
divorced after 25 years. Now living at<br />
Fyfield near Ongar in Essex. Partner of 11<br />
years; both love travel. Younger brother, a<br />
winner of Stationers' Company Prize,<br />
George Orros around 1965, possibly 1966.<br />
REJOINING MEMBER<br />
GRAHAM ARNOLD<br />
1953-1960 Caxton House<br />
Westcombe<br />
Old Plymouth Road<br />
KINGSBRIDGE<br />
Devon TQ71FF<br />
CHANGES OF ADDRESS<br />
HUGH ALEXANDER<br />
39 Whitecroft<br />
WILLITON<br />
Somerset TA4 4RU<br />
TONY BISHOP<br />
17 The Coppice<br />
ENFIELD<br />
Middlesex EN2 7BX<br />
GRAHAM LING<br />
5 Crofton Square<br />
SHERFIELD ON LODDON<br />
Hook, Hants RG27 OSX<br />
MICHAEL WEST<br />
Airedale, High Street<br />
ELMDON<br />
Essex CB11 4NL<br />
If any member has changed his address<br />
recently without letting our Honorary<br />
Membership Secretary, Gordon Rose know,<br />
please inform him so that he can update the<br />
records. Thanks.<br />
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