e-Newsletter - 3rd
February 2008
Dear Old Cambrian,
A very short e-Newsletter, you will be
relieved to hear!!
Reunion Announcement - Old
Cambrian Society (Australia)
– “Picnic on the Swan”, Perth
As part of an East
African Schools & Kenya Regiment Reunion - Sunday 2nd March 2008 from 10am.
Venue: Charles
Paterson Park,
Burswood, Perth,
W.A.
Dave McFarnell
(Nicholson 1957-63), Mike Purves (Nicholson
1958-60) and Mick Parry (Scott
1958-60) are organising the second annual gathering,
bringing together all those who went to East African schools and/or who were in
the Kenya Regiment.
For more
information and contact details, please go to http://www.oldcambrians.com/Reunion-Perth2008.html
Reunion Announcement - Old
Cambrian Society (UK) - Annual Dinner - Friday 11th April
2008 at the RAF Club, Piccadilly, London
74 of the 120 available places have been
confirmed already, so if you are thinking of attending the main reunion of the year,
please contact me as soon as possible.
The
Royal Air Force Club, Piccadilly, London is a superb venue for our
annual dinners, and as usual we have OCs coming from
all over the world to meet up with old school pals they haven’t seen for
many years. Tickets are priced at £36 each. I hope to have a new stock of OCS ties for sale, as well as OCS
blazer badges and lapel badges. Details of the dinner, menu and booking form
can be found on the web site at: http://www.oldcambrians.com/events2008dinner.html
School Crest Wall Plaque - your chance to purchase something quite special !! http://www.oldcambrians.com/Photos-SchoolCrest.html
Dave Leslie (Hawke 1960-5) has had some
school crest plaques produced in South Africa,
and is offering to have some more made for sale at the London reunion on 11th April 2008
at the RAF Club. We are refining the artwork of the impala’s head so that
it is more life-like and you can see the first draft of the design at the
following open web site link – http://www.oldcambrians.com/Photos-SchoolPlaque2008.jpg
. The plaque is approx. 7 inches long and just under 6 inches wide, and would
make a marvelous keepsake for anyone that has ever attended the school.
Guideline price for collection at the annual dinner is £25-£30,
and a proportion of this will be going to the OCS
Trust Fund. Many, many thanks to Dave
Leslie for making this whole merchandise project happen!!
For anyone not attending the London reunion on 11th
April, please let me know if you would be interested
in acquiring on of these plaques. In the coming weeks I will be working out a
price for getting the stock from South Africa and posting them
around the world, so will let you have a price once all that research has been
done.
Update on auction of
Prince of Wales School Medal
The latest (and highest) bid is £140. This is simply fabulous!! To keep an eye on the latest
bid, visit - http://www.oldcambrians.com/POWMedal-Auction.html
Honour for Old Cambrian
Michael Lawrence-Brown (Rhodes 1957-62)
has been awarded Officer of the Order of Australia in the recent Australia
Day honours list. I’m reliably informed
that this award is a kind of Aussie OBE, and the
citation reads “For
service to medicine, particularly in the field of endovascular surgery, as a
clinician, researcher and teacher, and through contributions to professional organisations”. Many congratulations to Mike.
Kenya – MPs who are
Old Cambrians
In addition to the three Old Cambrians
identified in my January newsletter who have been successful in the recent
Parliamentary elections in Kenya, I have heard that there are at least another
two…….. Dr. David Eseli Simiyu (Grigg House 1972-7) and Major(Rtd) Aden Ahmed Sugow (Tana House 1977-80).
That makes at least 5 MPs who are Old
Cambrians!!
Kenya & its people - we
are thinking of you!
The ghastly troubles that have afflicted Kenya
in recent weeks following the general elections, has truly shocked everyone.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all Old Cambrians and their families in Kenya
at this time, and let us hope that peace, calm and general law and order will
soon return to all parts of the country.
And, on that rather sombre
and serious note, I sign off as usual ……….. That's all for
now!
Steve Le Feuvre
Webmaster - http://www.oldcambrians.com
& Secretary, Old Cambrian Society (UK)
