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ABINGDON NEWS
Staff Profile:
Charmian Hart
Charmian has been the Arts Centre
Secretary since 2005: writing letters,
administering outings, selling tickets,
creating posters and programmes,
hiring costumes, arranging dinners and
cast parties and reunions – and tidying
up after everyone afterwards! Her
proudest achievement was ticketing
the Lyric Theatre event in London in
2006 when, before the days of online
ticket sales, she made 850 tickets
for numbered seats and sold them
all without a hitch. Her favourite
work has been to do with costuming:
researching the look of the show,
sourcing the costumes from charity
shops,
Primark
and costume hire
companies. She says she has loved
the contact with the boys and her
continuing relationship with them and
as she moves on now to pastures new
she just wants everyone to know what
a lovely time she’s had!
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Thursday 20 November
7.30 pm: Amey Theatre
Abingdon School
All welcome, admission free
Gary Sheffield is the Professor of
War Studies at the University of
Wolverhampton and a leading expert
on the First World War. The lecture
is open to everyone - including the
general public.
The lecture will be preceded at 6.30
pm by a drinks reception at which
the school archivist, Sarah Wearne,
will give a brief, illustrated talk on
Abingdon and Old Abingdonians at
War 1914 – 1918.
For further details and to reserve a
place at the drinks reception, please
contact Elizabeth Robson:
01235 849074
First World
War Centenary
Lecture
Prize Giving
Ben Macintyre OA 1982, author, broadcaster
and
Times
columnist, was the guest of
honour at Prize Giving at the end of last
term. In a brief but pertinent speech he told
the leavers to make their own decisions and
to not only challenge themselves but to take
responsibility for themselves too. Among
the leavers were joint head boys Leo Wood
and Thomas Kelly who both expressed their
gratitude to the staff and to their parents for
their Abingdon education. As Leo said, “it
is not the academic opportunities for which
I will be most grateful, nor the sporting and
musical opportunities, but the opportunity
to develop personally in a positive and
nurturing environment where individuality
is encouraged, not penalised, academic
success is respected, not scorned and
intellectual curiosity prized, not derided”.
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New 1st XV Rugby Pitch
The 1st XV pitch on Waste Court Field was completely re-laid earlier in the year
ready for the start of the new season. The pitch now has its own irrigation
system, which should greatly improve its all-weather playability. Thanks to the
generosity of Touchliners, the rugby parents’ support group, and to the School
Fund, the pitch also has new 17 metre high posts.
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Leo Wood
Thomas Kelly
