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Double click on links above for news of Alumni, School, Members, Reunions or to email us - info@bolithoalumni.co.uk NEWS FROM 2009-2010
Sheila Jackson has had her operation - 24 April 2010 and needs all our support for her sponsored ride on 9 May 2010 see web site http://www.ridetolivelivetoride.co.uk/ Vanessa
Catherall nee Penrose. I was a pupil at the school between 1975 to
1983 is there anyone who attened the school around those dates who possibly
remembers me I am trying to get in touch with old school friends |I have
found some on friends reunited and also through Facebook.I am now caleed
Vanessa Catherall but was Penrose when at school Jinny Penneck Bless you for your thoughtful e-mail - I am SO pleased to hear the school has been 'saved' especially after the head's upbeat talk at the AGM in September last. Keep producing the up-date e-mails & a very happy new year to you. Dorothy
Sweet formerly Longman and
on teaching staff of 'St.Clare's' in the 1950's. Thank you for your most
recent and very welcome email. I had discussed on Sunday with a 'very'
old girl of former St. Clare's the happy news that Bolitho school was
to continue and we both hope that the financial troubles can be overcome
for the future. We would also like to thank you, Elizabeth and the Alumni
for helping in the process. I am going to send by mail a copy of your
email to my friend and trust I will hear news as it breaks. We are both
retired teachers and therefore take a great interest in affairs.affecting
school children. Best wishes to the future of Bolitho School. GHOST
AT THE SCHOOL? Wonderful
news the School is to open in January under new ownership and in the nick
of time. I think the ghost of Willie Bolitho would have turned in his
grave at the demise of his hauntings. We believed that he haunted the
small inner dorm at the far end of the first floor, (opposite end to Miss
Johns corridor/suite. ) (1955 - 60). Did anyone else 'see' him? I hated
that room. I think i must have had a vivid imagination. Wishing you all
a Happy New Year
Margaret
Hutcherson Angela Angus nee Williams : I have been following th e news re the administration of the school and although I did not think I would be so concerned I found I was!! So I am glad to know the first hurdle is over and maybe one day I will creep back to a reunion. I was there in the 60s and was in a class with Sally Wakeham and the then Wendy Hall. I am still nursing and have 6 gorgeous grandchildren and so far the same lovely husband! Hoipe all goes well, will keep in touch. Jane
Price nee Carkeek
A year ago I thought it would be a good idea to try and reunite some of
our class - 'The Class of 69'. With help from Carol (Bonds) who has kept
in touch with many of our class and hours spent on the internet I tracked
down 29 of the 34+ girls who had at some time been in our class. Many
sent me news for my newsletter with their contact address so we can keep
in touch. Should I have missed anyone and they would like contact details
or news please contact me at jane_price@hotmail.co.uk
Sue Jennings neeOwen-Jones I visited my sister Jill in America twice this year, once in February and then again in May for her yougest daughter's wedding. My son has a son agred 2 and my yuungest daughter has a daughter of 1. My eldest daughter has 3 children so the next generation marches on! Best wishes to you all. Jane Hofmann-Thomson nee Melling So many names on the website that I remember and have fond memories of from my wonderful years 1957 to 1968 at St Clares!!Miss Crankshaw, wow, if she can make it we can!!I live in Dubai, am married now to Malcolm Thomson (half Scottish and half Dutch! We met 9 years ago here in Dubai). I have a daughter from a former marriage called Stephanie in London, part time International HR masters degree and looking for a job at the present time in the present circumstances!!! (24 years old) and two step daughters 26 and 24 years old Rebecca and Laura (in Abu Dhabi working at British embassy ex Durham Uni) and Dubai (working Dubai in luxury marketing ex York Uni). After leaving St Clares under a self imposed cloud!!!! I went to London to seek my fortune…worked for the Evening Standard, Vogue Magasine (great time 7 years as Travel Promotion Manager, traveled the world) and The Guardian (BD Manager). My first husband passed away very young and I moved to Spain, Italy, Greece, then on to Germany and eventually to Muscat , Oman and Dubai, UAE and have been in the Middle East for the past 20 years. I was a Jazzercise teacher for 11 years in Oman 1988 to 1999 and ran a spa and opened a restaurant and am now (1999 – 2009) helping run a business in Dubai, UAE for entrepreneurs and larger businesses from all over the world to set up in the ME. Jack of all trades!I have two small villas (self built and maintained on the island of Corfu Greece in Paleocastritsa) I rent them out on www.holiday-rentals.com property 53648 if anyone fancies a break! My international contact number is 0097150 6515281(jane.thomson3@gmail.com or janehofmann@gmail.com ) if anyone is interested in coming to Dubai, UAE or Corfu, Greece let me know.I am in UK for one week from 10th Sept to 18th Sept in Norfolk visiting family and mother in law then on to Corfu for a few days, returning 25th to Dubai.We plan to retire back in UK and Greece but have a few more years to go yet!!Warm Wishes
Oenone Cox (nee Horton) 1929-1936 Thank you for the newsletter and I was impressed by the Schools many outside activities. I think ours consisted of an occasional Guide Rally and Hockey, Netball and Tennis match's with other Schools, the Annual drastic defeat by St Erbyn's Prep School's 2nd Eleven Cricket Team and the Cornwall Music Festival, with an occasional week in France organized by one of the Staff during the holidays. I was also very intrigued there are now so many Boarding Houses - only one at the end of the main building in my day though another house was bought soon afterwards and later sold for economic reasons. My family left Mawnan in 1946 and me to various Secretarial appointments in Hampshire, London Edinburgh and Hong Kong, plus the first 8 years married life in Nigeria. I rather lost tough with Penzance contacts after 1940 apart from Thelma Richards and Vivienne Speeding and any visits to Cornwall since 1970 were to friends in the Falmouth area. Thelma Cutler (nee Richards) married Beryl Cutler's brother Roger (who started his school in the Kindergarden and was ultimately Captain of the P & O Ship Canberra. Sadly they each died at the beginning and end of 2000, the year of their Diamond Wedding. Thelma and Beryl both joined the Kindergarden when the School was Penzance Church of England High School before it became the Woodard Corporation and left in 1936 after Form V1. Vivienne Sale (formerly Coakes) nee Speeding (1931 - 34) spent 14 years in Bermuda and Trinidad with her first husband then eventually settled with her second husband in Sussex and died there. It has been so interesting to see such an increase in numbers and wonderful achievements of former pupils. Rosalynd Morrellnee Thompson. ,At present not working but a mother to my two children, Max(age4) and Beatrix(age3) Unfortunately I have not been able to attend any reunions up to now but now I am living relatively closer, I look forward to the opportunity to becoming more involved. Patience
Cooper (nee Gunther) Thank you for the old girls newsletter and the
Herald. Although I have not visited Cornwall and the School for some years
I like to see how the School is doing and read the news from old girls.My
time at St Clare's was 1963 to 1971. It was a happy experience and I am
sorry I have not kept in touch with more of my contempories. I am in touch
with Elizabeth Eva ( nee Haynes), Angela Wills (nee Withers), Carol Trebucq
(nee Atkins), Cynthia Lambert (nee Jarvis) and Penny Warwick. Unfortunately
the years go by with Christmas cards exchanged but a peculiar inertia
regarding meeting up. Perhaps with 5 contacts (and I know Elizabeth is
also in contact with Shana Simpson) we have the basis for trying for a
reunion!I am a Vet, married to a Vet and we have a Veterinary Practice
in Hastings Chair
Thompson, nee Hinton :Have just been browsing your website -- fascinating
as there were quite a few names I remembered !My name is Clair Thompson
nee Hinton , I am Australian , however lived in England in 1959 and 1960
during which time my sister , Cherry , and I attended St Clares -- had
a wonderful time . Sally Gibbons was in my class -- I enjoyed seeing the
photos , also reading news of Marlene Casley -- Cordelia Briscoe, Julia
Mawditt , Briar Stower and I shared a room when we first arrived and made
me very welcome -- lots of laughs . So interested to read about Sally
Truscott -- also Miss Crankshaw ( who told us to go M Elizabeth Brendon-Cook - I thoroughly enjoyed my school life. I was a boarder and took full advantage of extra sport and clubs. Retirement in exceedingly busy, grandchildren to look after sometimes, encouraging sport and music and academic progress. We visit our daughter and family in Western Australia as often as possible. Lesley Young (Morrison) Divorced. 3 children - 4 grand children. I am very involved in my eldest son's family business golf holidays. Edith Morgan (nee Snell) Managed a ten day visit to Cornwall in June. Stayed with cousin in St Austell area (home patch)! Mary Newing: Appointed MBE in 1997. Retired as editor Dental Practice 2007. Now part-time executive editor. The Dental Web. 2007 Eastman Fellowship in Dental Surgery. Winnter Outstanding Achievement category of The dental Awards 2008. British Dental Association Roll of Distrinction to honour outstanding services to UK Dentistry.
Susan Glasspool Many of you may already know that we have bought an old farmhouse near here and in fact did the deal by swopping our present house with it. This has entailed (nearly done now, contract on the 23rd) a very complicated move, in fact we have been shifting stuff since July and the final move (with muscled moving men) will be just after Christmas. As the house needs quite a lot doing to it, as well as dividing into two independent apartments (one for us and one for son Tom and his wife Cinzia and baby Elia), this means that we will be camping out in the converted pigsty until all is ready. Sounds dreadful, but it does have central heating and a bathroom and kitchen. The only problem is that it is fearfully cramped as we have lined it with boxes and as much furniture as possible as the rest of our furniture will find it hard enough as it is to fit into the two rooms that require minor restoration in the main house! It is a real hassle, also because we have had to decide what we need to use now, and pack everything else away until the spring when we hope all will be finished. It will be worth it in the end because the garden is fairly large (without being a full time job) and there is a swimming pool. It was formerly a farm holiday place (see http://www.casasodera.it/). I have more or less retired now, but still continue to do translation work from home to keep the old brain ticking over. Sid of course is retired and moaning about all the extra work the new house will entail! The boys are flourishing work-wise and family-wise. Luca and Sabrina have two delightful children, Giulia (6), her granddad's darling, has just started school though she already knows how to read and write. Valerio (3 and a half) is of course at nursery school while, for part of the day anyway, curbs his energy. We took them to the seaside this year and Giulia at last learnt to swim, and then progressed to using the mask and snorkel and going underwater, which thrilled her as she could see all the fish. Valerio is almost swimming (about 3 strokes) as he is absolutely fearless in the water (which means we have to keep a close eye on him)! Tom is now head of department in the artistic bronze foundry where he works (he has just made a life size copy of Michelangelo's David and another of Donatello's David) and his wife Cinzia works as a press agent for various town councils and theatres. Their baby Elia was born on July 10th (labour pains started 3 weeks early while Cinzia was on the phone for work with the Mayor of San Casciano who recognised the symptoms and told her to get to the hospital quick!). Elia is a delightful baby, full of smiles for everyone. So we are enjoying him to the full!
Mrs C H McClinton nee Sindall I am sorry to inform you that Carolyn passed away on 22nd June 2008 after a very short illness. She was 47. Carolyn had fond memories of her time at the school and was always very interested in any news. She maintained very close ties with Penzance which she regarded as home.Kind Regards Stuart McClinton
Jill
Horn nee Boxall. I
am
still working full time for the NHS in Neuropsychology in Wimbledon, and
have a partner, Sean, who is an actor. Between us we have four daughters,
two of whom are married with 5 little ones, and two who are career girls
at present. I
am in regular touch with Jill Girling [nee Sinnette] and Carolyn -Kari-
Higgins [nee Glasspool] from our year, and have just returned from a wonderful
holiday in Mexico with Kari. Despite not having seen her for 35 years,
she and her husband made us most welcome in their stunning lakeside home
and showed us the sights. We spoke, of course, of friends from schooldays
and would like to reconnect with Elizabeth Mumford, Juliet Matthews, Diana
Cooper, Olivia Collins, Edna Culverhouse, Lynda James, Janice Menhenitt
and Carol Eveson. I have been in touch with Jude Critchley and Elaine
Bull through Friends Reunited [all these are maiden names]. I expect people
are scattered these days, but it would be great to meet up if at all possible.
If anyone would care to get in touch, my email is jillhorn@fastmail.fm Denise
Rogers nee Lawrey.Thanks for all the info you send and although we
live so close it seems ages since we met up and I am sorry I did not get
to see Julia with you but would love to meet up with her sometime as we
spent so much time in each others houses as children.I see Ginny Clotworthy
at various British Eventing events which is great as she also spent weekends
with me at Varfell.Ginny's daughter competes and I Jump judge up and down
the country which has taken me back to my horsey roots.I get to do this
in some wonderful venues which I love and meet some very interesting people.
I have four grandchildren Harry,Eleanor Jane,Molly and Lottie all at The
Bolitho School in the reception class and nursery.So what with Vicki and
Matt both going there they haven't seen the last of the Lawrey/Rogers
brigade yet!I have spent the summer breaking in a Shetland for Harry and
Eleanor and Harry is going great guns on him ,of course Granny has loved
it too!I've helped Vicki find a pony for her two girls and a horse for
herself so what with charging around the Country listening to Matt perform
and still working three days a week I keep myself busy. Heather
Norton nee Stevens Unfortunately I can't make it again this year gor
the AGM as we are off to New England for a two week holiday to celebrate
our Ruby Wedding anniversary. However I can tell you that I met up with
Rosemary Simpson last year (April) and also Caroline Jackson in January
of this year for lunch. It was great to see them both and I hope to see
Caroline again soon as she lives the closest to me. We have just had a
new grandchild whose name is Grace. There are now two boys and two girls
so we are really blessed. Thanks for sending info so regularly. Jennifry
Dowrick
- I was wondering if you could help me? I went to St Clare's between 87
and 92.During that time we did a play called "The Circus".Mrs
Knox's husband made a video of it and I did buy a copy, unfortunately
it got lost. Would you have any idea how I could go about getting a copy?
Thank you Caroline
Jackson MEP Many
thanks for this: I am sorry that I cannot be with you. Two bits of news:
I met and had lunch with Heather Stevens, now Heather Norton, earlier
in the year. We had not met for about 35 years at least! We brought each
other up to date on what we had been doing in the interim and will be
meeting again this winter. NEWS FROM 2007 - 2008 Naomi
Osborne :. I would like to know what has happened to Lisette Hawker.
She was a really good friend in my class but I have lost contact. Do you
know anything of her? Can anyone help me? Sue Reed - Nee Dowse Happy Christmas everyone and humble apologies for having been so silent for so long! I have no other excuse to give other than “life, work, family Work is good and successful (if you are interested Google M St Leger Dowse and/or women and diving) and last year I made a second trip to Buckingham Palace to receive a prize for undersea science from Prince Philip (I’m the only person to have won it twice). Family are well with Bruce my oldest son and his wife having two children, Charles my youngest son is still single! They all live at Newton Abbott – and in the meantime I have moved back to Torquay – just one road up from my mother! I would live to meet up again sometime in 2008 – thank you Wendy for keeping me posted – I do appreciate it very much. Susan Glasspool Bottaro Thank you so much for your Christmas greetings and for always sending me news of everyone, which is nice being so far away even though only a few names are still familiar! We have now sold our house at Polzeath, as my mother sadly died last January, and what with Carol (Kari) living in Mexico and myself living here in Italy, it seemed pointless keeping it on. I do however hope to come back to Cornwall again soon as I am in contact with many of my fellow students from Falmouth Art school and all of them, scattered over Cornwall and the rest of England now, have offered us a bed when we need it! We are planning a sort of ad lib get-together next year on the basis of a couple of meetings already held, so I mean to come back, and might even make it to PZ.
Pamela
Gaskin ( nee Pamela Cole ) 1956- 1960 Living in South Somerset : married
to Fred , second husband , with 4 children , 7 grandchildren and 3 great
grandchildren between us Daughter Jennie lives in Vancouver so we spend
a month or two there each year , and we also have a house in the Algarve
and try to be there enjoying the sunshine for at least 5 months of the
year . Spent many years working as a Company Secretary in Bucks , and
retired early to come to beautiful Somerset . I really enjoyed being at
the Old Girls reunion a few years ago, meeting several friends and Miss
Ashworth from my years at St Clares . I have been in contact with Toyah
Richards but would love to hear from some of the other girls in my class
. Carole Coleman , Evangeline Roberts , Anne Weaver and Sally Pearce.
There are too many to list .My sister , Patricia Cole, was also at the
school in a year below me, and she sadly died of leukemia aged 18 years
. Anne
Carter. Nee Beamish l937-l947 Thank you
for your e-mail a few weeks back. Here is my news. Jennifer Bracht nee Tyler Street (Jinks) May 1940-December 1949.I was so thrilled to receive the Bolitho School 2007 Alumni Newsletter today, and my husband and I read it during our lunch break. It made me laugh, almost cry, and immensely proud to be a rather old O.G. I left St. Clare`s in December 1949 to go to St. Godric`s Secretarial College, London, and from there I had various secretarial jobs and eventually took off for the States in 1960. I met my future German husband, Hans, in California and we returned to Europe in 1965 and were married in St. Austell. We now live in Glücksburg, north Germany. My two sisters, Sheila and Pat, both ex. School of St. Clare, live in Cornwall and so does my brother, Richard. I feel most fortunate that I have family connections and many good friends living in Cornwall, and I try to visit Cornwall as often as possible but to date I have not managed to be present for one of those Luncheon/AGM meetings. I have close contact with my school friend, Janet Fox nee Yardley, and she spends Christmas with us. We are very happy living here in northern Germany. We have a small printing company, run by father and son, and we are very lucky to be able to have close contact with our two grandchildren. We are quite an international family, German/English with our Danish daughter-in-law, and our grandchildren attend the Danish School in Flensburg. At present our grandson (16) is on a two-week course in France,with French tuition and a lot of sport. Our granddaughter (14) is meanwhile enjoying family life in Minneapolis, U.S.A. for the next three weeks. Rosamunde Pilcher has certainly made Cornwall well known as far as Germany is concerned. We have a Rosamunde Pilcher film at least once every other month, at prime time on Sunday evenings. The films are under German direction and very much inclined to be as the Germans see the British i.e. all living in stately homes, playing croquet on the lawn and drinking tea out of silver tea pots. However, I love to have any opportnity to see the Cornish landscape. I was most interested to read that the Headmaster visited the partner school in Finsterwalde, Germany. I feel it is so important for us to be Èuropeans, and still hang on to our Cornish heritage. Perhaps, with luck, I shall manage to get to the AGM Meeting in 2008. Sylvia Bromley died November 2006. She was 85 year old. Syvlia went to the School from 1920 - 30 with her five sisters. |
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