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development
developing opportunities and links throughout the Abingdon community
Rainforests
and Croquet
purchases made possible
by the Annual Fund
Money from the Annual Fund has
been put towards the purchase of
a stress / strain apparatus for the
Physics Department
, allowing boys
to construct stress / strain graphs
on a wide variety of materials. The
Art Department
has bought a
printing press. It is keen to promote
printmaking because the activity
requires students not only to be
organised but also to engage in
both spacial and visual complexities.
The Fund has also bought two
video cameras for school-wide use.
Designed for extreme conditions, the
cameras will be used this summer
when a group of biologists go to
Honduras to study rainforest and
marine ecosystems. Another Fund
purchase, a croquet set, will be used
in slightly less extreme conditions – the
lawns surrounding Lacies Court and
Whitefield, when croquet is introduced
as an Other Half activity this term. And
Waste Court / Davies’s
have been
given money to buy new pictures for
the House designed to reflect the wide
geographic areas and diverse cultural
backgrounds of all its members.
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Lacies Court 1961
Networking Dinner: Medicine
The second professional dinner for medicine, hosted by Mike Stevens (1968, OA Club
President), took place at Abingdon School on Friday 23 March. Former parent, Nigel Crisp
(Lord Crisp KCB) opened the evening with a lively and insightful talk entitled:
Turning the
World Upside Down – what the NHS can learn from low and middle income countries
.
This was followed by a reception and dinner, enabling current pupils, parents and OAs
with a professional interest in medicine to do some informal networking. The event
brought together OAs from 1957–2011, parents (both past and present), and over 20
current sixth formers.
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The Loose Limbed Collective Events
The Loose Limbed Collective is a new initiative to support OAs in the challenging worlds
of professional theatre, music, comedy and film.
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Networking and Drinks
: Old Vic Theatre, London Friday 8 June. OAs interested
in attending contact Jeremy Taylor, Abingdon’s Director of Drama and the Film Unit,
for further details
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Loose Limbed Film Project
: current and recent Abingdonians are working on a film
with the renowned documentarist Michael Grigsby, OA 1955, looks at the relationship
between memory and nostalgia and asks whether school days really were the best
days of our lives. If any OAs have stories, anecdotes, diary entries, photographs or
even video footage of their school days that they would be willing to share with the
film makers please contact Jeremy Taylor directly (and as soon as possible) at
[email protected] or read more in his open letter on the OA Club’s
website at
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Loose Limbed Collective Comedy Evening
: Saturday June 16, Amey Theatre,
7.30pm. A fund-raising evening led by new comedy blues band
Jonny and the
Baptists
, Jonny Donohoe (Margree) OA 2001and Paddy Gervers, OA 2008, and
featuring a host of OA entertainers. Details page 2. Tickets:
New Chapel Windows
The four sandblasted windows were installed
last term and the fused-glass windows will
be fitted at the beginning of this term.
The Services’ window (R) commemorates
all members of the Abingdon community
who have served, and who continue to
serve, in the British Armed Forces.
A soldier dressed for service in
Afghanistan looks up at a vapour-trail
cross. A single red poppy – symbol of
Remembrance – has been fused into
the plain sandblasted window.
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