Events this month
Newlands Triennial House Dinner
Wed, 08 Jul 2009
19:15 - 23:30
Recent Events
Bradbys Triennial House Dinner
Thu, 04 Jun 2009
18:45 - 23:00
Harrow Vs Eton at Lords
Sat, 27 Jun 2009
10:00 - 19:00
Old Harrovian Law Society Summer Drinks
Thu, 02 Jul 2009
18:30 - 21:00
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| HARROW ASSOCIATION NEWS | Recent Old Harrovian obituaries in the pressA number of obituaries for Old Harrovians have appeared in the press recently. Click on each name to read their obituary online: Colonel John Boag (Small Houses and West Acre 19241)
James McConnel (Elmfield 19432)
Major Sir John Griffin (The Park & Rendalls 19373)
William Close (Bradbys 19382)
HA NewsSeveral OHs have appeared in the news recently. Go to the OH News section for more. This year Association Day will be on 10 October and will coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Harrow Rifle Corps. A full parade on the High Street will take place to celebrate and bless the new HRC colour. If you have a military background or any connection to the HRC we hope you will come and join us for this fantastic day back on the Hill. The Harrow Association network has held a number of events in 2009 so far. Click here for more. At Lord's in the baking heat and on a batsman's wicket, Harrow won the toss and put Eton into bat. Eton then made 268 for 7 in their 55 overs. Harrow then made 158 for 4 with captain Tom Tennant making 72, his highest score this season, in a steady performance which provided a good backbone to the Harrow innings. With a strong Harrow tail to follow, master-in-charge Mr Simon Halliday was hopeful of making the Eton total in the 16 overs left when torrential rain stopped play and the match was abandoned as a draw, leaving Harrow unbeaten in this fixture for five seasons in a row. For a full match report and the 1st XI cricket season report, look out for your Harrow Record in October, or read the first issue of The Harrovian online next term. Several OHs have returned to Harrow this term to give lectures to current Harrovians. Alastair Fothergill (Moretons 19732) gave the Rayleigh Lecture in March in the Old Harrovian Room. The executive Producer of the popular wildlife documentary programs the Blue Planet and Planet Earth spoke about his past and future television and film projects to a thrilled audience.
Julian Metcalfe (Elmfield 19733) gave this year’s Business Studies Lecture in the Old Harrovian Room in April. In this much anticipated lecture he spoke about his highly successful business career as founder of well known high street brands Pret à Manger and Itsu to a full room and fielded a range of questions from a number of aspiring entrepreneurs.
Richard Curtis OBE (Rendalls 19702) was the guest speaker for the Rattigan Society in May. A packed Ryan Theatre heard the creator of Black Adder, The Vicar of Dibley, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Boat that Rocked speak about his successful television, film and charitable careers.
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Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust The Trust will consider applications for educational grants to support current and former pupils who have attended Harrow School at any time since 15 September 2001. Beneficiaries will have to be aged between 18 and 30 on the date at which the Trustees make their first payment to them. The deadlines for applications for the different types of grants for the academic year 2009-2010 vary but the earliest deadline is 30th April 2009. Please see the Trust website at www.scast.org.uk for details of the grants available and the application process. All enquiries should be made directly to the Trust and not through Harrow School or the Harrow Association. |
New books from Old Harrovian authors Father and son Hugh and Robert Dunsterville (The Knoll 19283 and 19591) have published a book about the "Freikaiserwagen" car - a legendary and record-breaking hill climb and sprint special, a challenging vehicle to drive, which performed with distinction and success during the late 1930s and into the 1940s. Freik - The Private Life of the Freikaiserwagen, edited by James Fack (The Knoll 19592), details the conception, building and achievements of this 1100 class hill climb racing car. Click here for more information. Simon Montefiore (The Knoll 19783) gave a fascinating insight to his new book Sachenka at the new Daunts Bookshop in the Fulham Road late on Tuesday night. He is well qualified to write his first fictional Russian epic as he has previously written factual historical books on both Stalin and Catherine the Great. Click here for the review in The Spectator. Tom Avery (Elmfield 19893) has launched his latest book, To the End of the Earth. The book chronicles his record-breaking expedition to the North Pole in 2005 and is being released now to coincide with the centenary of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson’s disputed conquest of the North Pole on April 6th 1909, whose expedition they recreated.
"I know I speak for my fellow teammates when I say the expedition was the hardest of our lives, with almost daily dramas of unstable pressure ridges, dogs falling through the ice, sled collisions, some of us getting lost in blizzards, food supplies running out, the constant threat of polar bears, our own falls through the ice and ice floes disintegrating before our very eyes. The fact that we managed to survive, let alone reach the Pole in a new record time is a miracle – particularly as when the expedition’s seed was sown, most of us had never driven a dog team before," says Tom.
The expedition had a real purpose: to try to uncover the truth about the final expedition of the pioneering and incredibly brave duo of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, by travelling in their footsteps by the traditional method of dogs and wooden sleds. "I believe we have shed a huge amount of new light on their epic journey," comments Tom. "I hope that our expedition, and To the End of the Earth, goes a long way to painting them in a much more favourable light."
Buy it on Amazon or signed copies are available on Tom's website.
Richard McColl (West Acre 19903) is one of the authors of the new V!va Guidebook to Colombia - available on amazon.com. Click here for more information.
Oliver Chittenden (Rendalls 19893) has written and produced a beautifully illustrated non-fiction book, titled Inspire, with interviews, quotes and specially commissioned portraits of some of the UK’s most heroic individuals, including Sir Ranulph Fiennes, John Simpson, Sir Matthew Pinsent, Terry Waite, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, Sir Clive Woodward and Bear Grylls. Inspire offers valuable lessons and insights, a foreword by Sir Richard Branson and, as the title suggests, aims to inspire the reader through the images, stories and words of these remarkable characters. For further information and to order go to www.theinspirebook.com or email oliver@londonspeakerbureau.co.uk with your order and postal address. The cost is £20 per copy plus P&P.
Exploring Phuket & Phi Phi: From tin to tourism is Oliver Hargreave's (Moretons 19613) second city guide for Thailand which has been published in 2008 under the Odyssey Guides imprint. Marcus Moseley (The Grove 1968³) has written and published an academic book, Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography (Stanford University Press, 2006, 650pp.) Barnaby Powell (The Head Master’s 1957³), with academic Alex Mackinnon, has published a book called China Calling, about the phenomenon of the current Chinese expansion into the wider world. It is designed to help business people, in particular, and people in general, particularly students, to engage and deal with the Chinese as they will increasingly come into contact with them. >>more Pavilions in the Air is the title of a new book of Chinese proverbs by Christopher Arnander (Moretons 19463) and Frances Wood. The proverbs have translations and English equivalents; they are illustrated by the cartoonist Kathryn Lamb. Go to http://www.chineseproverbs.co.uk/ for excerpts from the book and to purchase it. Remington Norman (Rendalls 1958³) has written Sense & Semblance – An Anatomy of Superficiality in Modern Society, published by Founthill. Details can be found either at www.amazon.com or at www.founthill.com. Charles Ranald (The Park 19472) has written a new book in collaboration with John Sorrell. Forgotten Diamond is a fast-moving thriller that takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride from the finance and banking houses of London to revolutionary Russia and from past to present. >>more Thomas Leveritt (Rendalls 1989³) has launched his literary career with a first novel set in post-war Sarajevo. The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money is a dysfunctional love story told hand-in-hand with stories of Sarajevan heroism and how the international justice business does, or doesn't, work. His book has since been awarded a Betty Trask Award for a first novel. >>more Seung Chong (The Knoll 1979³) has just published a text book in Hong Kong about the legal side of mergers and acquisitions in China, called Law and Practice of Mergers & Acquisitions in the People’s Republic of China. Mark Peel (Druries 1973³) has written a new biography of Donald Soper, arguably the greatest Methodist since John Wesley, called The Last Wesleyan. His book will be available from February 2008. Henry “Hank” Adlam (Druries 1936¹) has published an autobiographical account of his years as a naval fighter pilot in World War II called On and Off the Flight Deck.
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