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Keeping old boys in touch with MGS throughout the world
• A Welcome from Dr Martin Boulton
• Planning for 2015
• Old Mancunian News and Letters
• Forthcoming Events
Planning for 2015 Chairman’s reportOn behalf of the OMA I would like to welcome Dr Martin Boulton back to the School as he takes up the reins as its 43rd High Master.
We are very pleased to see an OM at the helm as we approach our 500th anniversary in 2015. Dr Boulton will of course be joining us at many of our national and regional events in the coming months and we look forward to getting to know him.
I am also delighted to welcome the 2013 leavers to the Old Mancunians’ Association. The OMA aims to support all OMs once they have left School. Please do come and join us at the regular pub events held in Manchester and London and log on to
www.mgsglobal.org to ensure that you keep up to date with the latest news from the School.
David Walton 67-74 & Chairman of the OMA
2015, the School’s 500th anniversary, is rapidly approaching. It has already been decided that the celebratory year will straddle two academic years, running from January to December and we are now able to share some of our initial plans with the Old Mancunian Community.
One of the main Old Mancunian events
will be the Old Boys’ Dinner which will
take place on the evening of Saturday 21
November at The Point, Lancashire County
Cricket Ground. It is hoped that this will be
the largest ever gathering of Old Mancunians
with the capacity for dinner being 1000
guests. There will also be the traditional
London dinner earlier in the year.
There are three main musical events during
the year. The biennial London concert will
be held once again at the Royal Overseas
League on Friday 13 March, with the Easter
Concert being held at a venue in Manchester.
A group of donors have commissioned
a piece of music to commemorate the
anniversary. The work, composed by Tarik
O’Regan, will be performed by the Hallé
Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall during
November 2015, although the final date
has yet to be set.
The annual Hugh Oldham commemorative
service at Exeter Cathedral will take place on
Sunday 12 July. There are embryonic plans
to have a group of pupils trekking from the
School, via the Welsh borders, to join the
Exeter service.
The Founders’ Day service will take place as
usual at Manchester Cathedral on Friday 16
October. There will be more than one service
on this day so that we can accommodate all
of our pupils as well as Old Mancunians and
friends of the School.
A new history book, MGS: A History at 500 is
now available for pre-order. Please see the
form enclosed with this edition of TOM or
contact the Development Office for more
details. A small range of commemorative
souvenirs will also be available from early
2014, with more details being published
in the spring.
Finally, plans for
a Royal Visit are
at a very early
stage. Further
details about
this event will
follow via www.
mgsglobal.org
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Top bottom: From L to R John Schofield 57-64; John Leech 59-64; Robert Shields 56-64; Richard Hargreaves 57-64 and Mike Walker 57-64
Bottom left: Pre-dinner drinks in the Memorial Hall
1980s & 90s Double Decade ReunionFollowing on from the great success of recent reunions we have now begun to make plans for next year’s event which is for Old Mancunians who joined the school in the 1980s and 1990s. This will take place at school on Saturday 10 May 2014.
The committee will begin to get in touch with you early in 2014 so, should you be interested in joining us, please make sure your contact details are up to date with the Development Office and rally your old class mates to do the same.
To do this or for further information on the event please contact Jane Graham on 0161 224 7201 ext 243 or [email protected]
Saturday 18 May 2013
1950s Reunion Dinner
There was a splendid response to the call to boys who had entered the School during the 1950s to attend a reunion event in May 2013. The writer was particularly pleased to meet up with 4 long-lost colleagues from the 14 in his science-maths sixth-form of 1961-3. We were treated to fascinating tours of the old and new facilities, expertly guided by current pupils. Pre-dinner drinks in the Memorial Hall were accompanied by photos and videos that stimulated nostalgia, excitement and a great deal of animated conversation.
After a thoughtful ‘Prologue’ (which was not a
traditional Grace) from Roger Fletcher, we
were welcomed by Maurice Watkins, one
of our cohort and current Chairman of the
Governors. The main address, a toast to the
Staff, Past and Present, was given by Geoffrey
Tattersall and this was followed by a response
from the High Master, Dr Christopher Ray.
We all wished Dr Ray and his wife bon voyage
and good luck as they were about to leave
MGS to meet fresh challenges in Abu Dhabi.
Musical entertainment was provided by
a wonderful close-harmony quartet of
boys led by Rees Webster. The School’s
fine catering department produced a most
excellent meal – probably the item that
demonstrated the starkest contrast to its
equivalent of 50 years ago!
Robert Shields 56-64
OLD BOYS’ DINNERThe dinner this year will be held at school on Saturday 23 November.We welcome Dr Martin Stephen (HM 94 – 04) as the Senior Steward and Steven Whitehead (91 - 98) as Junior Steward. Steven is a former School Captain and is Commercial Director at The Hut Group.For further details contact Jane Graham.
From the Director of DevelopmentHelen Jones has become the new Head of Careers Education at the School.
Having joined the School in 2007 to head up the introduction of Economics at MGS, Helen will now lead our careers programme in the coming years. If you would like to support the boys at the School as they consider their options in the world of work please do contact Helen at [email protected]
We are looking for OMs to speak, and take Q & A from our boys, about their field of work during lunchtimes at the School, as well as people to act as mentors and to offer work experience placements.
We have a growing number of boys looking for engineering type placements and help in this area would be much appreciated.
A recent highlight was a talk from Jim Howling 81-88, CFO UK Operations at Astra Zeneca. Jim gave an overview of the pharmaceutical industry, outlined the differing career paths at AstraZeneca and explained the rationale behind the industry changes taking place at Alderley Park.
Professor Alan Colman 60-67, Research Director in the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology and also Executive Director of the Singapore Stem Cell Consortium, inspired the boys with his presentation about the legacy of Dolly the Sheep.
Top right: Postcard from Keir Hardie, 1906
Below: Original foundation deeds, 1515
School Captain Sam Calmonson‘Professor Colman packed out the theatre - the lecture sparked debate that continued in Biology and Philosophy lessons for weeks!’
Manchester Archives Material
November 2012 saw the return to the school of c. 50 boxes of archive material which had been held by Manchester Archives since the 1980s.
With the resources to care for these records in-house, we
decided to withdraw the records permanently and reunite
them with the archive already in situ at school. Most of the
early documentation is legal in nature with the many deeds
giving a sense of the extent of the land owned
by the school around Long Millgate. We now
hold the original foundation deeds from 1515.
The archive has also acquired a run of school
admissions registers from 1730 – 1837,
complementing the series we originally held
from 1862 onwards. One of the most interesting
additions is a card from Keir Hardie to George
Benson following a mock election held in 1906
where Benson stood as a Socialist candidate.
Hardie writes: ‘Bravo! 38 votes for Socialism is a
very good record. And each year the number
will increase.’ With the collections under one
roof, we will be able to help a greater number
of researchers and enquirers, and the ‘new’
records have already been used by Nigel
Watson in writing ‘MGS: A History at 500’.
Rachel Kneale
Please contact
Rachel Kneale for
further information.
0161 224 7201
ext 361 or
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Christian’s a World Winner
Christian Owen in the Lower School is celebrating after being crowned the UK winner in a global literacy event, arranged by UNICEF, Spellodrome and the World Education Games.
He battled through five rounds of spelling
and was ranked 18th in the world and the
only pupil in the UK to reach the top 20.
A Golden First for Femi and MGS
Sixth Former Femi Nylander has become the first ever Manchester Grammar School pupil to gain the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) Gold award for acting.
Femi not only passed the challenging
grade eight examination, but he also
gained a distinction – something no
other MGS student has ever achieved.
Kai Sails Home Victorious
Kai Wolgram from the Junior School is celebrating after winning his first ever sailing trophy, one of the youngest boys in his category to scoop the award.
He picked up the award at the Optimist
National Inland Championships held at
Grafham Water, battling it out against
250 other sailors and going on to win
the 9-11 year old category.
Accenture Appoint Gap Year Students
Sixth Formers John Pyrah and Ali Qasim have earned places on a prestigious gap year programme with global management consultancy Accenture.
John and Ali will defer their university
places for a year in order to relocate
to London in September, where they
will each take up a placement in
Accenture’s Consulting Group.
Record offers from World’s Leading Universities
Offers this year include 28 from Oxford and Cambridge, 13 from Imperial, 34 from UCL, 15 from King’s College, London and 10 from LSE.
The number of students applying to international universities increased hugely this year with seven boys receiving offers from American universities, including Princeton and Stanford, along with a further offer from McGill in Canada.
The School TodayFor more stories like these visit mgs.org
From the High Master
Returning to MGS
It is nearly thirty years since I walked down the drive for my first day at MGS and whilst much has changed in the intervening years one thing that has not is MGS’s reputation as one of the leading schools in the United Kingdom. One has only to look at the catchment area of MGS, with boys travelling from as far away as Sheffield, to realise that in the minds of its pupils and their parents this is still somewhere very special.
What made MGS special for me as a pupil was the chance
to be educated with some of the brightest young men in
the North West by highly qualified teachers with an unbridled
passion for their
subject; this mix
allowed lessons
to progress into
areas generally
reserved only for
those studying for
degrees and even
then only at the
best universities.
I can clearly remember being told in my first Physics
lesson that we would not be following the syllabus; that
was something for us to do in our own time; the aim
of these lessons would be to educate us in the more
challenging aspects of the subject.
Unsurprisingly to me and I suspect to all of those who
received their education at MGS the results were remarkable.
A form of fourteen – fourteen A grades; of that form eleven
headed off to Cambridge at the end of their final year, a total
that most Schools would be boasting about today.
In the time that has passed since I left MGS there has been
much change in the education sector. A-level examinations
have moved away from terminal exams to modular courses,
with exams taken at four distinct points in the year, although
this is about to change again, yes you guessed it, back to
terminal exams. The introduction of League Tables has done
much to focus schools on their academic results although this
focus is often narrowly targeted on the measures that are used
to formulate the rankings. One would expect that all of this
would have been to the detriment of what happens outside of
the classroom, but this has not been the case at MGS, where
sport and the expeditions programme are stronger than ever.
My place at the School was made possible through the
Assisted Places Scheme; and whilst this was abolished soon
after I left MGS, the foresight of the Governors and the MGS
Trust has ensured that access to the School is still very much
based on merit and not ability to pay the fees. We are however
still some way from being needs-blind despite the fact that
we offer two hundred and forty bursaries. I hope that with
‘My PLACE AT THE SCHOOL WAS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE ASSISTED PLACES SCHEME; AND WHILST THIS WAS ABOLISHED SOON AFTER I LEFT MGS, THE FORESIGHT OF THE GOVERNORS AND THE MGS TRUST HAS ENSURED THAT ACCESS TO THE SCHOOL IS STILL VERy MUCH BASED ON MERIT AND NOT ABILITy TO PAy THE FEES.’
Dr Martin Boulton 84-86
High Master
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Bottom: Dr Boulton as a Sixth Form student, shown sixth from the left
the generosity of our alumni we will reach a point in the not
too distant future where no boy who passes our entrance
examination is turned away; the 2015 campaign that I am
sure you are all aware of is working towards this very goal.
There will no doubt be challenging times ahead, the
difficulties of a troubled economy, the challenges of frequent
educational reform driven by politics rather than pedagogy
are nothing new to a school that has been around for half
a millennium. But there will be new challenges, some of
these will no doubt come from the international stage; in the
coming years MGS will not only be competing with schools
in the UK, but as the education market becomes ever more
international pupils will increasingly be compared with those
from the Asia Pacific and the United States, particularly when
seeking places at the world’s most prestigious universities.
What is certain though is that the School is well placed to meet
the challenges ahead; the Common Room is still populated
with outstanding academics who see their role as being more
than just delivering a syllabus in the classroom, and of course
the brightest pupils in the North West are still making their way
down the drive for a truly outstanding education.
Top right: London & South East Section Golf Day
OM SectionsLondon & South EastFaisal Islam (87-94), the
economics editor for
Channel 4, was the guest
speaker at the 2013 London
Dinner held at the Oxford &
Cambridge Club in April.
He gave a fascinating insight
into the Eurozone crisis, the
‘Madchester’ scene of the
1990s and aimed a few jibes
at Manchester City along
the way.
The Old Mancunians’ Golf
Day took place at Woking Golf
Club on Tuesday 25 June. The
event brought about a 59 year
reunion between the opening
bowlers, Tony Gibbon and
Mike Richardson, of the 1954
Manchester Grammar School
cricket team, who between
them took 64 wickets during
that side’s unbeaten season.
The winner of the ‘Owl’
trophy was Alec Elmer.
Next year’s Golf Day will take
place at Woking Golf Club
on Tuesday 24 June, teeing
off at 1:00 pm.
The next event will be
the Annual Supper at
the Cheshire Cheese from
7:30 pm on Monday 4
November. The High Master,
Dr Martin Boulton, will be
in attendance on the night.
There will also be pre-
Christmas drinks at the New
Moon Public Bar, Leadenhall
Market, on Thursday 28
November from 6:00 pm.
For further details about OM
events please contact Jane
Graham [email protected]
or contact the Chairman,
Lee Gabbie at lee.gabbie@
bracherrawlins.co.uk
Midlands SectionThe summer event took place
on Saturday 20 July at the
Avoncroft Museum of Historic
Buildings in Worcestershire.
The Development Office
helped to publicise the event
to a wider audience with
responses from a decent
number of OM’s unknown
to the Section.
The AGM and lunch
in Dorridge, Solihull on
Saturday 16 November is
our next event, with the
new High Master, Dr Boulton,
due to attend. Any Midlands
based OM who is interested
in attending, should
contact Michael Kennedy
michaelkennedy@talk21.
com , telephone
0121 605 4048 or John
Wilson on 0121 475 3700.
South West
The 47th annual
Commemoration Service
in pious memory of Hugh
Oldham took place in Exeter
Cathedral on Sunday 23 June.
After the Cathedral’s
Sung Eucharist Service we
joined the congregation for
refreshments in the Chapter
House before gathering for
the short commemoration
service at the Oldham
Chantry Chapel, led by
the Dean of Exeter.
After lunch, Dr Ray and
Michael Li spoke about the
challenges facing the School
and its pupils, and looked
back over the changes that
had been implemented over
the High Master’s nine years
in office. Tributes were paid
to John Smith, who was
standing down from the
post of Section secretary
after seven years.
Our autumn event, on
Saturday 19 October, at
Buckfastleigh, features a trip
on the South Devon Railway
and lunch at Riverford
Organics Field Kitchen.
The next Commemoration
Service will provisionally be
on Sunday 22 June 2014.
Old Mancunians are always
very welcome to join us at
these events. Please contact
Secretary, Paul Gelling,
01291 62695, for details.
Football SectionThe OM Football Section
enjoyed one of their most
successful seasons in their
history last year with the first
team winning the Lancashire
Amateur League Cup for
the first time in over 100
years. Preparations are well
underway for the new season
and we welcome any new
players of any standard to
come down and join us.
Training is held at MGS
on Tuesdays from 6:30 pm
and on Wednesdays from
8:00 pm at Manchester
Academy (M14 4PX).
For further details contact
dave.p.richards@btinternet.
com or oldmancs@
hotmail.co.uk
Chess SectionThe wonders of modern
technology mean that all
of you reading this can
play through all 8 games
from the recent School
versus Old Boys match
on your computer: go to
mgsglobal.org and
select Events.
Chess players are traditionally
creative not just at the board,
but in their excuses when
they lose. There is no doubt
that, had the match been
played a day later so as to
enable Saul Richman to play
for the Old Mancunians on
board 3, and had Jonathan
Mestel not worn his hat, the
School team would have
been psyched out by four
shining heads on the top half
of the Old Mancunians’ team,
and would have crashed to
defeat. Grist to the mill for
those urging me to cut my
hair short again ...
Please get back in touch if
you have played chess for
the School!
Peter Webster
20/30 ClubWe usually meet on the
3rd Friday of the month for
lunch at the Freemasons Hall,
Bridge Street, off Deansgate
in Manchester. We would like
to meet you, so check the
date first with Alex Wells
0129 881 2886 or Jane
Graham. We will make you
most welcome, and you
might meet a long-lost friend!
Remaining 2013 meetings:
20 September Speaker – Michael Goodman
18 October
Ladies Luncheon at
Stanneylands, Wilmslow
15 November Annual General Meeting
6 December
Speakers – School Captain
& Vice-Captain
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Owl drop ins
Ginger nuts and bourbon biscuits, that is what we tempt Old Boys with. In this regard the Development Office view is endorsed by David Rowland 04-11 who revisited the school in March along with former class mate Joe Blackburn and said ‘Thanks for all. Loved the chat. Enjoyed the biscuits. Great to be back.’ His words, not just on the edibles front, are echoed by all who take that particular nostalgia trip down Old Hall Lane.
Surprisingly, there were no remarks from pupils to the
effect that the visit of Tariq Drabu 76-82 and Simon Taylor
77-83 was like pulling teeth when they came to talk to boys
about pursuing a career in Dentistry. ‘Fantastic visit to the
school. Great memories. Thank you to Jane & Julie for this
opportunity’ and perhaps more importantly ‘Great lunch.’
was Simon’s view on his day.
Peter Webster 79-85 also commented positively on his dining
experience, the high standard of the artwork by current pupils
and the upcoming challenge of the chess match against the
school later in the day. For Ken Gorman 45-52 this chess
match represented his first chance to play at school as he
first didn’t start playing until sometime after he left. Andy
Trevelyan 78-84 & Chris Izod 91-98 were also involved and
Chris made the most of his return, also enjoying a tour of the
junior school and a chance to play the school organ again.
Another returning former school organist, Ray Lester 53-60,
availed himself of the knowledge of archivist, Rachel Kneale,
when he came back at the turn of the year.
We continue to welcome many Old Mancunians back to
the school and some also bring their friends and family along
to allow them to see what they missed out on. Russell Jones
43-49 brought two guests with him, Gerald Clarke and Patrick
Pope, all three are pictured here. Gerald commented
‘An excellent visit to this one of the most prestigious schools
in the UK’. Russell himself commented on what an amazing
opportunity it had been to see how MGS had changed since
his time there.
Though not essential, advanced notice of visits would be
appreciated so we have the kettle boiling and help you
make the most of your visit. Please contact Jane Graham
on 0161 224 7201 ext 243 or [email protected]
Below: From L to R Brian Taylor 45-50; Russell Jones 43.49; Gerard Clarke and Patrick Pope
Manchester night
It wasn’t all comparing tattoos and seeing who could spit the furthest when former pupils of MHSG and Old Mancunians met up for an evening in the Albert Square Chop House in March.
Indeed, both schools were well represented by current staff and former pupils and all enjoyed a well attended and convivial atmosphere in a tastefully decorated area of the Chop House.
The night proved to be a great success with around seventy Old Mancunians
with a range of ages and a similar number from the High School in attendance. It was a great opportunity to meet new and old faces alike and enjoy the chance to share ideas and to network with others in different spheres of Manchester business.
There will be a ‘next time’ as a further event is planned for Thursday 3 October at the same venue. Please watch out for further news or contact Simon Jones [email protected] or myself John Whitfield 76-83 [email protected]
OM Letters
Ian Thorpe writes:
Martin Allinson (44-46
in the Prep. Dept and
46-52 in the Main School)
emailed from his home
in Thailand to suggest
an initiative for our
Quincentenary in 2015.
‘On the school badge,
situated just beneath
the owl, it would
be better to have
something like Gain
the wisdom to dare
or Be wise: dare.
As a lad, Sapere Aude or Dare to be wise never inspired
me – in fact it seemed plain daft. It didn’t take courage to
get information, put it together in a world view, and be wise.
Also, what was the point of becoming wise, unless you
did something with the wisdom? And by the middle of the
20th century we had left Victorian pretensions well behind
– so why still a motto in Latin?’
Martin (and I) would welcome OMs’ views about the school
motto. Should we keep it, change it or abandon it?
Ian Thorpe 62-69
Development Adviser & current editor of the OM Letters page
The Question of the Apostrophe
Adrian Dobson 62-70 and Teacher of German since 1980
writes: Recently I received a memo encouraging us to
check our reports for mistakes in spelling and punctuation.
Whilst I generally value such helpful advice, one example of
supposedly exemplary punctuation simply looked wrong:
Owls’ Nest.
Having attended MGS as a pupil during the 1960s, I had
become accustomed to seeing the apostrophe placed slightly
earlier: Owl’s Nest, implying that the rather dingy hut I can
recall at Higher Disley, was the Nest of the Owl, that bird
which somehow symbolises the school.
But no, I was firmly told, the Owls are the pupils of MGS, and
the Owls’ Nest in its renovated state is a fine wooden chalet
providing them with comfortable accommodation on the
edge of the Peak District. Furthermore, I was assured, early
Ululas would indeed confirm that the apostrophe is in the
right place at the end of the word Owl.
On investigation, I established, somewhat to my surprise,
that the first mention of the camp at Disley in 1921 indeed
described the hut as The Owls’ Nest. Subsequent reports in
the 1920s and photos of the building taken in 1939 were
captioned in the same way.
The first instance of the Owl’s Nest with the earlier apostrophe
comes in 1941 with the sentence: ‘The Owl’s Nest at Disley
was completely demolished by a bomb’. I should add that the
hut was almost certainly not being targeted by the Luftwaffe,
and that in any case nobody was inside at the time.
The hut had apparently been a Sergeants’ Mess during the First
World War, and had been transported to the site after hostilities
had ceased. Early photos suggest that renovation was needed,
though it is unlikely that total demolition was required.
The first references in 1949 to the newly rebuilt hut call it
‘Owl’s Nest’, and this new label then stubbornly persists for
several decades, leading one to assume that we might be
talking about two wholly different buildings, as indeed we are.
The fact that the new Owl’s Nest looked remarkably like the
older Owls’ Nest from both inside and outside is completely
misleading. The legacy of the bomb was that the apostrophe
moved. Apart from a few craters in the field, the shifted
apostrophe is now all that remains of this catastrophic event.
That seemed to be the end of the story, until I recently spotted
a couple of pages of photos from a family album being
auctioned on eBay, and dated April 1922. The images looked
familiar: the rickety hut with Black Hill in the background, the
kitchen with dixies perched precariously on a cast-iron range,
the solitary boy leaning on a table-tennis table. The caption
perhaps predictably read: ‘Owl’s Nest’. The good news is that
these images have now been acquired for the school archive,
whilst the moral of the tale is that in 1922 there was probably
no more clarity about the use of the apostrophe in Owl’s Nest
than there is today. It may indeed have been far less important
to MGS staff and boys in those days than the art of making
‘stodge’, twenty mile tramps and the opportunity to escape
from the unclean air of the city.
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Geoff Colton 42-49 writes:
Barry Posner’s letter in Edition 40 reminded me of my time
in II Alpha almost ten years later, when I also got to know
Mr Simkins. The things I remember were that when we
entered the classroom in the morning the blackboard would
be covered with minute, elegant, Greek script, presumably
prepared for Classical VI. If Mr Simkins travelled to school at
the same time as the pupils, he must have stayed very late
to prepare it. My own brief encounter with Greek was with
Mr R T Moore, I think.
‘Simmie’ sometimes used to organise a Latin grammar quiz
with us queuing in a line round the room, and moving up the
line if we got the answer right, and down if we got it wrong.
A boy who offered the non-existent ‘censitum’ as a past
participle was subjected to a laboured school masterly joke
accusing him of culpable familiarity with ‘Kensitas’ cigarettes
(do we remember them?). He would also read to us on a Friday
afternoon from a collection of humorous American stories.
The Biographical Register does not give any information about
his family background. As I remember him he spoke with a
slight German accent, he always said ‘tausend’ rather than
‘thousand’, and once said that in World War I he had more
relatives on the other side than on ours.
I remember ‘Simmie’ with affection; he took some trouble
to make education enjoyable for all of us.
Do you remember the School Song?
The annual rendition of ‘When August Suns are Shining’ never
fails to amuse OMs gathered at the Old Boys’ Dinner each year.
It would appear that there are few in the room that know the
melody or words. Indeed many newcomers at the event are
totally unaware that they attended a school which had an
official song. The fact that my father can’t remember the old
tune makes me believe that only OMs in their 70s have
memories of singing ‘Hurrah for the Brave Old Owl’!
Dr Thompson, the Academic Deputy Head, has recently
adapted the lyrics and our Director of Music, Robert Carey,
has rearranged the music. The 2013 version was performed
for the first time at Speech Day at the Bridgewater Hall in early
July. The new lyrics will be published in the next edition for
you all to learn in preparation for 2015!
Simon Jones 88-95
Teacher of Geography from 2004, Director of Development
from 2010.
In memoriamSince the last TOM we have been advised of the recent deaths of the following OMs: We would welcome offers to supply brief obituaries or memories for Ulula.
Derek N Andrew 44-51
Ara L Arschavir 29-34
Geoffrey S Bailey 40-42
Alan T Baker 45-51
Edmund W R Beckett 35-39
Ian E P Bethune 48-52
Ernest Bourne 53-58
Richard I Brotherton 32-36
George W Buckley 41-47
Martin C Butterworth 65-72
Neal H Butterworth 69-76
Denys W Chapman 30-37John D Cooper 49-54John M Dawson 44-52Peter Dawson 39-47Robert B Deacon 32-38Arthur L Egmore 44-50Robert D Faulkner 36-41Peter W Goldstone 37-42Harry P Guiton 23-29David A Henstock 53-60John C Hillmer 43-48Roy F Holland 34-41Richard Isherwood 54-61Ivor J B Jenkins 31-34Derek B Jepson 39-44Eric Kime 30-35Peter Kirman 45-50
Frederick A Leather 36-40Peter G Medcalf 33-37Peter A A Pepper 40-43Neville Platt 49-55Maurice B Priestley 44-51Albert S Ridge 37-41Michael H Sheard 40-45Peter S Sheard 63-70Geoffrey R Stone 29-36Christopher A Thompson 60-67Ian C Thornton 44-51Peter D Vincent 46-49Bernard L Williams 36-42John Wright 44-48
StaffGeorge Cooke 47-51Robert I Mackay 82-00
Get in touch ...
Correspondence to
Julie Wright at MGS,
Old Hall Lane, Manchester,
M13 0XT or 0161 224 7201.
Top: Julie Wright,
Tel ext 241
Left: Jane Graham,
Tel ext 243
Right: Laura Rooney,
Tel ext 571
A full list of contact
details for the OMA and
Sections can be found at
mgsglobal.org
The Director of Development
Simon Jones 88-95 Teacher of Geography from 2004, Director of Development from 2010. 0161 224 7201 ext 240 or [email protected]
EventsFounders’ Day Service. Friday 14 February at Manchester Cathedral, 11:00 am.
Philip Wade Memorial: Old Mancunians Rugby Match and Dinner. Friday 4 April at MGS. For details contact [email protected]
Stuart Dale Memorial: Old Mancunian Football Match. Friday 2 May at MGS. For details contact [email protected]
Music events
14 November Senior Recital Class. Memorial Hall, 6:30 pm.
10 December Junior School Christmas Concert. Memorial Hall, 6:00 pm.
12 December School Carol Service. Holy Trinity, Platt Church, Platt Lane, Manchester, M14 5NF, 7:00 pm.
16 December Christmas Concert. Memorial Hall, 6:30 pm.
9 February Britten’s War Requiem Performance for CLIC Sargent. Memorial Hall, 7:30 pm.
18 March Junior School Concert. Memorial Hall, 6:00 pm.
2 April Easter Concert. Memorial Hall, 6:30 pm.
24 April Guitar Concert. The Theatre, 6:30 pm.
30 April Summer Concert, Memorial Hall, 6:30 pm.
Drama events9, 10, 11 & 12 October Sweeney Todd. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim, 7:00 pm.
4 & 5 December Junior School production tbc.
12 & 13 December Beta. A magic show performed by Ryan Harris and James Pollard, 7:00 pm.
16, 17 & 18 January Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard. Drama Studio, 7:00 pm.
5 & 6 February Junior School year 3 & 4 production tbc.
27, 28 & 29 March Senior School Show tbc.
9, 10, 11, 12 and 16, 19 June year 8 Shakespeare Festival. Drama Studio, 6:00 pm.
17 & 18 June Junior School leavers production, 6:00 pm.
Dates and times of events are subject to change. For confirmation and ticket reservations please see mgs.org
NoteworthyOld Mancunian Ties
Old Mancunian silk ties are available at the cost of £20 in the UK or £22 overseas including p&p.
Please contact Julie Wright.
Amazon.co.ukMany of us are regular shoppers on the internet, and by accessing the Amazon.co.uk website through the icon link on the School’s own website (mgs.org ) up to 10% of the value of any purchase made is automatically given for the direct benefit of the Bursary Fund.
Gift AidWe are grateful to the significant number of Old Boys who donate regularly to the Bursary Fund. We are obliged to remind you that Gift Aid regulations require you to let us know if you no longer pay sufficient tax on income and/or capital gains. Please notify any changes to the Development Office.
OM publicationEmeritus Professor Brian Palmer, 43-50, has produced an unexpected publication – not an article for a learned journal, but a book of funnies about football referees! Football Referees? you must be joking!
Stop PressOld Boys’ Dinner, Saturday 23 November
This will be the first Old Boys’ Dinner to be attended by the new High Master, Dr Martin Boulton.