Framlinghamian 2022 - Flipbook - Page 5
PAUL TAYLOR
Amanda and Paul Taylor at Speech Day
to achieve a ‘reinvigoration of the heart of
the College’. It was also evident in the Early
Learning Centre at Framlingham College
Prep School. So the Taylor years have in
many ways been happy and stable, with
secure guidance and support coming from
the top.
Good Headmasters are balanced and
support all activities, but most have their
private preferences and Paul, as an excounty ‘crickeder’ (sic), perhaps particularly
loved the College’s sporting endeavours.
These owed much to many, but the
developments that have quietly become
an assumed part of the College’s life have
actually been quite spectacular. The second
Astro on Inskip’s and Fowler Pavilion have
greatly improved our facilities. Once upon
a time games were only serious for boys,
but the girls have made fantastic progress
in the last decade, with the sprinkling of
hockey scholars at top American universities
only the icing sugar on the cake. In all
sporting areas, the College has steadily
climbed the rankings, and in national
competitions a school only occasionally
heard of is now routinely recognized as a
serious player.
Paul does not like his virtues trumpeted,
so no doubt he will slip away quietly this
summer… to mugs of milky tea, Test Match
Special and those endless episodes of
The Archers. Speech Day may still not be
perfect, but it was Paul who moved it out of
the unbearably stuffy Sports Hall and, after
a completely alfresco year that might have
been a step too far in the English summer,
into a marquee with flaps to let in as much
air as possible. Paul and his lovely family
have breathed new life into Framlingham; it
can be easy for Heads to go on too long…
but as a man of his word, Paul has been
resolute about his departure after ten years.
He will be much missed.
MARK ROBINSON
AND MICHAEL COOKE
AUTHORS OF ‘ON AN EMINENCE...’
THE FRAMLINGHAMIAN 2019
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