e-Newsletter - 19th
October 2010
Dear Old Cambrian,
We’ve had a glorious summer here in
Jersey (Channel Islands, UK),
and autumn is now well and truly settling in. Time for me stay indoors more and
get back to my desk and to do some catching up with posting of articles, photos
and Alumni registrations on the web site. Winter is always a time when I try to
clear my Inbox and my “to do” pile, so over the next few months I
will get completely up to date.
There are many events and reunions taking
place in the next few days and weeks, and whilst they have been advertised on
the OCS web site for some time, I thought it was only right that I give them
some specific publicity by way of this newsletter. Here goes
………..
Charity Golf Tournament - Old
Cambrian Society (Kenya) - Friday, 22nd Oct 2010 at the Royal Nairobi
Golf Club
Organised to raise money for the school’s Music Department, please
support this very worthy cause. For a copy of the poster, go to - http://www.oldcambrians.com/OCSGolfTournamentPosterOCT2010.jpg
and for more details - http://www.oldcambrians.com/Events-NairobiCharityGolf2010.html
If you’re on Facebook
- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134632376582471#!
Reunion - Old
Cambrian Society (Australia) – 11th All East
African Schools Annual Picnic, Sydney
– Sunday, 24th Oct 2010
One of the highlights of the year
“down under”, for more details - http://www.oldcambrians.com/Events-SydneyPicnic2010.html
Reunion - Old
Cambrian Society (Australia) - Luncheon Reunion on Sunday,
31st Oct 2010 in Perth,
W. Australia.
Mike
Purves and Mick Parry are
planning the next annual Perth
luncheon reunion, and full details can be found at http://www.oldcambrians.com/Reunion-Perth2010.html
E-mail contacts: Mike
Purves (mapurves@iprimus.com.au) or Mick
Parry (mickandval@iinet.net.au)
Reunion - Old
Cambrian Society (South Africa) - Luncheon Reunion on Saturday,
13th Nov 2010 in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa
Dave Leslie is once again opening up his
marvelous property, and the invite is open to anyone how attended a school in East Africa. Naturally, it is still mainly an Old
Cambrian event, but anyone with East Africa
connections is most welcome. For further detail, please go to - http://www.oldcambrians.com/2010SAReunionInvite.pdf
- and contact Dave if you are interested in attending.
Reunion - Old
Cambrian Society (Canada) - Luncheon Reunion on Sunday,
14th Nov 2010 in Mississauga, Ontario
I will be in Ontario for a few days in mid November, and
will be attending this informal curry lunch reunion at the Host Restaurant, Square One Mississauga
(12noon to 4pm). Price Can$15 for the buffet. To book
places please e-mail Dave Allen (dallen@cogeco.ca)
or Zahir Dharsee (dallen@cogeco.ca).
I look forward
to seeing you there!!
Reunion - Old
Cambrian Society (Kenya) – Annual Dinner Dance on Friday,
19th Nov 2010 in Nairobi
(at Nairobi School Hall)
This annual
event will be a fund-raiser for the one of the computer labs at the school, and
looks like being the OCS social event of the year – one not to be
missed!!
For more details
go to http://www.oldcambrians.com/Events-2010NairobiDinnerDance.html
Reunion - Old
Cambrian Society (UK) – 50th Anniversary Annual Dinner
& Reunion on Friday,
8th April 2011
at the RAF Club,
Piccadilly, London
More details will be available from
December 2010 when I will publish menus and ticket price, but for now please mark
this date in your diaries. I welcome Old Cambrians from all over the world to
attend this special landmark dinner, with 2011 marking the 50th
anniversary of the formation of the UK branch of the Old Cambrian
Society.
Request - Information regarding All Saints
Cathedral, Nairobi.
Paul Mpungu (Clive
1972-1975) ……. one of my class mates
and a fellow Clive House inmate!! ….. well, Paul
has been commissioned to do
an Ecclesiastical heritage Inspection of All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi. Paul is a
Conservation Architect and would like to appeal to friends of ASCC overseas for any archival material they may have. He
has so far managed to acquire some documents and drawings, mostly of the
outbuildings, from the City Council Archives Room but none of the Main Sanctuary
- the Cathedral. Paul is looking at gather old photos, letters, architectural
drawings, lithos, stories, incidences; anything at
all that will contribute to building a materials archive for this Heritage
project.
If you can help in any way please contact me (webmaster@oldcambrians.com)
and I will put you in touch with Paul.
Book by an Old Cambrian - “Patch” by Mucheru Njaga (Serengeti (Nicholson) House
1993-1996)
The book will be officially released in mid October via M&K AuthorHouse publishers
based in San Francisco.
A note from the author: "Patch" is dedicated to
all Old Cambrians, past and present and I hope it will serve as a testimony to
what it means to be "Patcharian". The
publishers will produce a limited signed Alumni edition book that will be
distributed via the author page.
For more details go to Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Patch-Assumption-crime-Mucheru-Njaga/dp/0615378773
or Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=294957071885&v=wall&ref=nf
Sadly, over the past few months a number
of Old Cambrians have passed away. I will publish a list of those that I am
aware of in the next Newsletter which I hope to send out in the run-up to
Christmas.
I make my usual plea........ If you are
planning a gathering/reunion of Old Cambrians, please let me know so that I can
advertise it in an e-Newsletter and on the web site. Once your gathering has
taken place, send me a photo and short report to be published on the Reunions
page - http://www.oldcambrians.com/PhotosReunions.html
That's all for now!
Steve Le Feuvre
Webmaster - http://www.oldcambrians.com
& Secretary, Old Cambrian Society (UK)
