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Edward David
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Edward David
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Ted |
| House: |
Clive |
| Years: |
1952-1956 |
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Memories: Very happy days - I think of the fabulous grounds and the 30-odd playing
fields that we enjoyed!! Eton cannot compare!!!
It took us 4 days to get to school - leaving Dar-es-Salaam on Monday evening @ 10 p.m. traveled
by train/bus/train to arrive in Nairobi on Thursday morning!!! I remember it well!!! Years
later we would fly on EAAC DC3’s - Nairobi-Mombasa-Tanga-Zanzibar- and finally arrive in
what a wonderful place - Dar-es-Salaam in about 4 hours!!!!
A stream of memories, .....how the Herd brothers 'swiped' the cakes on a Saturday night
at Loreto Convent while the girls were watching a movie....etc., etc. - one could write a book.
The boys 'borrowing' Mr. Goldsmith’s Ford Prefect to go the The Equator Club at night...
..next morning he would complain that he did not recall leaving his car in the spot that he
found it....!!!!
SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR EXCELLENT FRENCH TEACHER’S POETIC TRAITS
Our French teacher - great guy - Baldy Lamont - went to JAIL [!!!!] in Nairobi for publishing
the FIRST BOOK OF DIRTY POEMS IN KENYA!!!!!! It reminds one of Lady Chatterley’s lover law s
uit with Penguin books in London in the 1960’s.....or maybe Lord Carson prosecuting Oscar
Wilde!!!!!! WOW, how times have changed and how the world has made so much 'progress'.....
Special events: Sailed in the Massachusetts - Bermuda race in a Benetton 42 - some 100
competitors - 600 miles of ocean racing - which was very exciting and tiring - 3 hours on and
three hours off for three nights and four days to finally cross the finishing line at St.
David’s Light on the east coast of the island. Boy, did we sleep .... and party once we
arrived!!! Bermuda is really such a beautiful island - and the sailing fraternity certainly is
most hospitable!!!
Recently, we attended the 150th anniversary of the America’s Cup Race Week in Cowes.
My upcoming safari - I will be sailing from Cadiz - Gib - to Barcelona from August 22 to September 7th 2003.
PROFUMO SCANDAL - CHRISTINE KEELER......NEEDLESS TO SAY OLD CAMBRIANS WERE PRESENT
WHEN 'HISTORY' WAS MADE.....Peter Hays will confirm that we used to frequent the BRUSH & PALLET
in Queensway in about 1963-64 at the time that Christine Keeler, who worked/performed there as a
nude model, was introduced to Profumo by Dr. Stephen Ward.... [then there was Randy Mice-Davies,
excuse me Mandy Rice-Davis].....their pictures are all available on the Profumo web site.....
Living in New York, so if any OC is passing through The Big Apple, I would be happy to meet
them.....and provide any help that I can......provided that I am in town....
(Registered - 8th September 2003)
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If anyone wishes to contact Ted, please e-mail webmaster@oldcambrians.com
to obtain his contact details
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