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www of Sheffield. The Hebden Medal is named after the late Dr Dennis Hebden, who coincidentally was also an Old Oundelian, leaving New House in 1939, and is presented to an individual for outstanding services in the research, development and commercialisation of gasification or bio-gasification. Chris is also a fellow of IChemE and owner of Higman Consulting GmbH, and has been in the industry for over 40 years. He has published several books, including Gasification, a key title for those in the gasification community.
As for me, this year has meant a
My eldest son, Benedict Payne (St A 18), has finished his year off ahead of starting Medieval History at Bristol University in September, leaving his younger brother in Upper Sixth and his youngest brother starting in the Third Form. All change!
Kyle White (C 06) is currently working on a farm in Poland. He has finished harvest and is now drilling next year’s crop. He is also involved in farms in Norfolk and Scotland. His next task is potatoes and then it is on to Christmas trees. His family also make rapeseed oil, dressings and vinegar as a diversification on their farm in Norfolk, called Crush, and he is involved in that as well. Away from farming, Kyle has opened a squirrel sanctuary.
Harry Coulthard (S 10) met up with Jake Banister (G 10) in The Landor in London in July. After drinks they went for a walk round Clapham Common with Zeek Osmond (G 10).
Tim Apthorpe (S 56) has twice joined forces recently with Antony Jarrold (Ldr 55) to entertain around 100 guests over lunch (more like a banquet!) in the 800-year-old Langley Abbey. Both occasions marked their eighth decades and for Tim, who heads up a lively investment club in Norwich, it was a celebration of five family milestones, but principally his and wife Jill’s golden wedding this year. Antony still
full return to working duties after my partial sabbatical to be your President for the year. My wife and I have been fortunate to be invited back to the School for a couple of functions recently, and she regularly comments “that you can take the boy out of Oundle, but you can’t take Oundle out of the boy”! As well as seeing many of the aforementioned people, I have been in touch with Mark Elliott (Ldr 81) and Stephen Bagnall (Sn 86). I also met up with Ben Curry (S 16) and Tom Curry (G 16) at the Sale Sharks end-of-season dinner recently, when it was great to
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By Matt Payne (St A 82)
enjoys his music, playing the organ at various churches in Norfolk. The lunches were attended by family who had flown in from several continents, amongst them Philly Brock (K 92) from Hong Kong and Andrew Apthorpe (S 93) from New York. Charles Jarrold (G 83) is CEO of the British Printing Industries Federation.
Peter Harris (Lx 93) has just moved into artificial intelligence, working with consumer data and also looking at breast cancer. The family are loving Norfolk life, so much so that the children don't want to leave!
Nigel Harris (St A 67) reports that in January he retired as Professor of Tectonics at the Open University and took up the post of Emeritus Professor, which allows him to continue with research activities –
see Ben receive the Players’ Player of the Year award. We all wish Tom well in this autumn’s Rugby World Cup. A more recent meeting with OOs was with Jonathan Turner, Nick Falkingham (S 84) and Richard Jackson (Sn 69) among others at the fabulous Yorkshire Charity Clay Day at Duncombe Park, Helmsley.
Once again, my thanks for all the support last year – a fascinating, enjoyable, challenging, humorous and yet at times humbling period of my life. The Club and School continue to go from strength to strength.
such as supervising PhD students, publishing on Himalayan Geology and joining overseas field trips, basically doing the stuff he enjoys! Last November he took a small group of Oxbridge alumni across Bhutan looking at both the natural history and the culture of this remarkable part of the eastern Himalayas. He continues to enjoy Cambridge life when not travelling.
Tom Goodley (G 99) has written to say that since last year he and his wife have had a daughter, called Lara. He has bumped into quite a few OOs at various golf events, such as the Halford Hewitt and the ones at Denham and Worlington. Of the Norfolk contingent, he regularly sees Ed Savory (Lx 98) and hopes to watch him stock-car racing in the East Anglian League soon. Jimmy Nicholls (Lx 00) is now semi-retired and spending most of his time golfing, but hopes to secure the voluntary position of assistant kit man for the Irish rugby team next year! Tom also bumps into James Hay (F 03) when he is in Norfolk. James is now a veteran of the World Poker Tour. Tom still works for Strutt & Parker in Norfolk, heading up the agency team. This combined with running the family farming company and helping with his wife’s horse habit keeps him fairly busy. The Royal West Norfolk Club is also a
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