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www passage of time – much like the Laundimer lads and other OO friends I have kept in touch with!
Dominic Medcalf: Before starting a Philosophy and Politics degree at the University of Bristol, I spent five months travelling around South-East Asia and Australia. On graduating, I moved to London and started working at American Express. After a few tough years at a big corporate, I traded my suit and tie
for a pair of shorts and trainers by joining a fintech company in Shoreditch called MarketInvoice. I still love to travel and have visited Bali, Sri Lanka and Tobago in the last 18 months. Playing cricket is still a key part of my summer agenda and I tour every year with the Oundle Ramblers. I can now be
found in Kensal Rise, where I live with my girlfriend, Josie.
Alastair Russell: Following a gap
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Chloe Ashby: Since graduating with a degree in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, I’ve been working in journalism. I started out as a sub-editor at The World of Interiors, a Condé Nast publication, and I’m now an associate editor in the books department at Monocle magazine, where I spend my days commissioning and editing, reporting and writing. I’ve travelled far and wide for Monocle – to cities such as Chicago, Lisbon and Seoul – and written about art and culture for The Guardian, Apollo, The Financial Times and others. I’m also working on a novel, which I plan to submit to publishers this year; I’m represented by Emma Finn at C&W (formerly Conville & Walsh) literary agency. I live in north London with my boyfriend, Ollie, and we’re getting married next spring. I’m still holding out for a miniature wire-haired dachshund called Ivy.
Edward Baunton: I graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Computer Science in 2012. During my time there I spent evenings and
year in India and Nepal, I studied Combined Arts at Durham University, but ended up with a degree in History & Politics, an acceptance that I should give up trying to play rugby because I was awful at it and the major accolade of having been the unused reserve for a University Challenge team that didn’t win a match! I worked in the House of Commons for two years before moving to Save the Children, where I have spent the last four years working largely as a lobbyist in Westminster, but recently returned from three months seconded to its Palestine country office as an advocacy adviser. I live in Hammersmith with my girlfriend, having graduated from sharing a flat, first with Dom Medcalf (Ldr 09) and then Alex Lavender (St A 09).
Frank Sanders: University followed Oundle with Medicine at Cambridge. Despite being mediocre, I enjoyed
rugby enough to add an extra three years on doing a PhD in Biochemistry with some undergraduate Biochemistry teaching. This allowed me to play only one more year of the Varsity Match. Unfortunately, injury caught up with me, but not before organising an excellent tour with very little rugby to Boston. I started powerlifting instead with much more success – competing decently enough. Now I have finally completed a lengthy time at university, I work as a foundation doctor in Bury St Edmunds with a hope to specialise in ophthalmology. I have a wonderful partner in Laura, who is much more intelligent, motivated, caring and highly achieving than me. Mr Susan – my cat – is still going strong and has a new pal in Ninja.
My sister and mother are both in good health, and continuing to thrive.
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weekends as an active member of the Officers’ Training Corps, continuing the experience of Oundle’s CCF. I also rose to the rank of treasurer of the jiu-jitsu club! Upon graduating, I joined Bloomberg in London as a software engineer, having interned there a year earlier. At Bloomberg I had the serendipitous pleasure of bumping into and working with Christopher Wright (C 04). After four years working in London - and living with Fergus Austin (Sc 09) - I left the UK in
summer 2016 to work at the New York office. Commuting to Manhattan daily from Brooklyn, I lead a group of engineers providing tools and infrastructure for our developers around the world. This year I’ve presented at several conferences and have spent much of my time contributing to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It looks like I am about to complete my seventh year of work at the same organisation — but no sign of monotony on the horizon.