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Rodbaston College, Penkridge. Now in proper retirement he is a Director/Trustee of the mental
health charity Dudley MIND (which also operates as Wyre Forest MIND). Gordon was born and
raised in the Cirencester area, then studied chemistry at university (probably Leicester). He
carried out postgraduate research, and presumably also lecturing, in the Department of
Chemistry, Manchester College of Science and Technology from the early 1960s until coming to
Dudley College. Since 1982 he has lived in Kidderminster.

504 David Frank HUGHES (1946- ) (Inducted 9.1.1984; Treasurer since 1988
following three years as Secretary; made a Paul Harris Fellow 2004; still a
member at 2022.) Accounting service. Partner, Percy & Gittins later Homer
Gittins (see Albert Gittins, member #167), Priory Street, Dudley. On leaving
Dudley Grammar School in 1965, he was articled at Percy & Gittins, formerly
Shedden & Co (see Duncan Shedden Member #20), founded in 1861 and
one of the first firms of Chartered Accountants in England. He became a
Partner in 1974. In 1988, the firm merged with Crumpton Homer who had
offices in Kidderminster and Worcester to become Homer Gittins. David
retired in 2007.
He was born and has spent his lifetime in Dudley. He is a former trustee, now Clerk to the
trustees, of The Baylies Educational Foundation and continues as a trustee of numerous local
charities including the Daniel Parsons Educational Charity, The Dudley Charity, The Reginald
Unwin Dudley Charity, The Audrey Hudson Educational Fund, The St James Dudley Foundation,
The Dudley Church of England Schools Foundation and The Old Meeting House Charity. He was
also a trustee and treasurer of the Rotary Club of Dudley Housing Association from 1999 until its
sale in 2017. David reckons he has accounted for more than £1,000,000 of Rotary money in his
time as Treasurer, and still counting!

505 Andrew Reade EVANSON (1949-2012) (Inducted 9.1.1984; left in
1986/87.) Government Administration. Manager of the Unemployment
Benefit Office of the Department of Employment, Dudley from 1978 until
about 1987. He was born in Wolverhampton, raised in Shrewsbury, then
lived and presumably worked in Telford before moving home to
Wombourne to work in Dudley. He left the club and the area on
separating from his wife. He moved to Melton Mowbray where he
remarried two years later. He lived in Melton until his sudden and early
death aged 62.

506 Joseph Kenneth (‘Ken’) WEST (1941- ) (Inducted 16.4.1984; left 21.2.1990.) Education,
Comprehensive School. On joining the Club he was Deputy Head teacher
at The Dudley School, St James Road, Dudley but took over as Acting Head
in summer 1985 on the retirement of Fred Austin (club member #454).
He started at the school as a teacher of mathematics in about 1976 (when
it was Dudley Grammar School) and left in summer 1989 when it merged
with the Blue Coat School to become Castle High. He then took on the
post as Acting Head at Coseley School for 1 year before taking early
retirement. However he was tempted back to teaching as Head of
Mathematics at the Royal School, Wolverhampton before retiring for a
second time. He is a proud Welshman and Welsh speaker. He and his wife Peggy were born
and raised in the Ebbw Vale district of the South Wales valleys. In retirement he is a trustee of
the local Baylies and Daniel Parsons educational charities.