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www back to China from time to time, both on business and to see family.
Jingyuan ‘Joanna’ Gao (D 14) has recently graduated with an MSci
Jonathan Garner (S 82) continues to work for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong in a Pan-Asia role. He and wife Helen have a second child, Ben, at Oundle currently.
Angus Slater (N 91) has been enjoying life in Hong Kong since 2017 and is Country Managing Director for Bupa. He plays occasional tennis with Ben Dickinson (N 93) and recently visited St Andrews University together with Peter Southby (Lx 91) and their respective sons. They were kindly shown around by Professor Jason Konig (LS 91), who is now Head of the Classics faculty there and who remains as clever as ever. He has been going to lunchtime high- intensity interval training classes in Hong Kong with Tim Robinson (St A 95).
Jeremy Bolland (D 79) tells me he really appreciated being part of the Oundle Society's East Prussia tour in May. He has also written another book. It starts as a sort of autobiography (including stories about real heroes in his family), but ends up as a rant against the western medical system. Oundle gets a few mentions, but he assures me that they are all positive. Now he just needs to find someone brave enough to publish it!
Jerry Yao (C 89) has completed some 10 projects for Hirsch Bedner Associates in under two years, but he quit his position with them towards the end of 2018 to concentrate on personal and family matters. Since then he has been travelling around the globe, visiting ageing relatives and seeking potential real estate investment opportunities. He is currently in semi-retirement mode, despite the fact that he is only in his 40s, but he will start a new project with a friend in October 2019 – an
Theoretical Physics degree from Imperial College London. Prior to that, she attended Falmouth University in Cornwall for a UAL foundation
Hong Kong
By Mark Reeves (C 80)
NGO for stray animals – tentatively titled ‘Animal Outreach HK’. This year marks the 30th anniversary since he left Oundle and though there were seemingly no reunion gatherings organised among the Old Crosbians in his year, he has continued to keep in touch with them through social media. He may instigate something when he visits London in January 2020. He heard from Aravinthan Selvavinayagam (C 89) in June 2019 that he has relocated to Singapore from Sydney for a couple of years due to work.
He will try to catch up with him now that he is based in Asia too.
Ben Dickinson is still in Hong Kong with his family. Ben had the pleasure of catching up with Andy Appleby (Sn 93), Dom Epton (St A 93) and Toby Coles (N 93) this summer whilst back in London.
George Cautherley (B 61) says the achievement of the year as far as the Cautherley family was concerned was that the feature film Clemency – which his son, Julian, produced – won the US Grand Jury Prize, Drama at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Since this has an anti- capital punishment theme and is somewhat morbid and therefore not exactly entertainment, he won’t
diploma in Art and Design.
As for me, I got married in May.
My wife and I are now living in Shanghai.
entreat OOs to rush out to see it if it happens to come to a cinema near them. On a somewhat more uplifting note, his Bramston geriatrics group managed to meet twice during the past 12 months – firstly in October 2018, courtesy of Barry Morgan (B 60) when nine of them gathered at his restaurant, The Waterfront, at Barton-under-Needwood. The second occasion was in May at The Red Lion, East Haddon, where they added Patrick Cooper (B 61) to their group.
Ronald Taylor (Sn 62) writes that while world news this year has been of the protests in Hong Kong, he will say nothing about them, as soon after they started in earnest, he was off to Brisbane to visit family on a trip planned months before. Visits to Australia and England to see family have been the continuing pattern of his life since retiring, but Hong Kong remains home, where he enjoys hiking when not involved with voluntary help to a number of low- key organisations. While in England, life changes from that in a busy city to one in a quiet Cotswold village, from where he is close enough to volunteer on the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. Other travel last year included a cruise down the Rhine, an excellent way to see an area which he had never previously visited. Next year a cruise in the South Pacific and a cruise down the Danube are already planned.
Jeremy Pong (Ldr 83) has travelled a lot more on vacation in 2019 than in the past couple of years. He and his wife have been to Auckland and Vancouver, and visited the UK twice in the past eight months. Jeremy did manage a day trip to Oundle and was very impressed with the new
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