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OVERSEAS BAG
He published his first novel, ‘The Imposter: A Norfolk Romance.’
which was ten years in the making. It’s an historical romance set in
Norfolk and France/Belgium between 1914 and 1920. The story
has been woven to include some people he knew in Norfolk, many
of whom were part of his family.
Following the visit of Neville and Alison Marsh to Cairns, Chris
was very punctual providing a report and photo. You can read the
full report in the Overseas Bag on the website but they had a long
discussion over a lazy lunch at the Yorkey’s Knob Yacht Club.
Neville and Alison Marsh in Cairns with John and Hilary Ling
COLIN LIPMAN (R53-61) responded to
a request from WILL PONTY (R11-16) in
November 2018 to meet up with OFs near
Sydney during his 6 months based in the
Waverley area playing rugby. Colin’s son
Michael had played for Australia U19/20 and
then was capped 10 times for England and as
he was now back in Sydney was sure we could
help Will with his rugby if required.
On the news that JOHN & HIL ARY LING (S4956) were coming to Sydney, Colin immediately
volunteered to use this as an excuse for another
OF reunion in Sydney and you can read
elsewhere in the magazine or on the website.
NEVILLE MARSH (S53-61) has continued his
long running quest to find whether any other OFs have appeared
on University Challenge. We have previously reported that in
addition to himself he has found that the Wizard of NZ (IAN
CHANNELL (42-45)) was on the programme. JOHN COOPER
(S64-68) has now also come forward, having taken part in 1971
when he was at Pembroke College Cambridge.
The following week Chris and Rebecca caught up with John and
Hilary Ling for a couple of days and showed them around Cairns.
They were on a round-the-world trip taken, in part, to celebrate
John’s 80th birthday. While visiting they dined on the Cairns
waterfront at Dundee’s.
(G48-56) reacted to the news that PETER
(G52-56) had died and much enjoyed the Sydney
reunion organised by Colin Lipman.
DAVID SUMMERS
During 2018 Neville co-wrote a book on the experiences of local
men who went off to World War I called Dawning of a Universal
Peace. This has been produced as part of our Centenary of
Armistice commemorations. He also stays in touch with PETER
BAILEY (K34-38), JOHN GATES (S44-48) and CHRIS SHAW
(K50-56) and you can read about his visit to Cairns below.
HUGHES
AUBREY WHITEAR (G58-65) sent his Christmas message about
what had happened during 2018 and you can read this in full in
the Overseas Bag on the website.
Just before the copy deadline Neville said that he and BRET T
BAILEY (K58-65) had twice visited father PETER BAILEY (K34-38)
over the last two days. He reports that Peter is now very frail but in
good spirits. Health wise he is in excellent shape for his age (97.5)
although short-term memory.
CANADA
BOB MUNRO (R56-60) was good enough to contribute to a long
email discussion about Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde production
in 1958 in which he played the recorder in the orchestra – see
marked photo.
DENMARK
CHRIS SHAW (K50-56) has been brilliant as always in keeping
in touch with me and even more importantly with OFs who live in
Australia and NZ. For example, he had sent a message to all OFs
in NZ at the time of the atrocity in Christchurch.
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Sadly for the first time I can remember, I have received no
messages from OFs in Canada during 2019. I hope to be deluged
with messages in 2020.
In contrast I’ve had a rare message from an OF in Denmark. CARL
GUSTAV SCAVENIUS (G92-93) was in touch with a revised email
and postal address and said that since he left Fram he studied
Economics at the University of Copenhagen, including a course at
LSE and a year at the University of Vienna. Since then he has spent
15 years as a Lloyds Class Underwriter for a Lloyds syndicate and
an agency respectively. He has now taken over the family farm.