THE BOLITHO ST CLARES ASSOCIATION,
POLWITHEN, PENZANCE

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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.

Sally Beard (nee Gibbons) and I met in September. Sally's mother has died and she was meeting her sisters on the Isles of Scilly to scatter her ashes. We extend our sympathy to the family. Here we are having a coffee on the Wharf at Penzance before her departure for the Isles of Scilly.

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 .
I can be contacted at pamgaskin@btinternet.com , and would love to hear from you .

Anne Carter. Nee Beamish l937-l947 Thank you for your e-mail a few weeks back. Here is my news.
I have lived in Canada for nearly fifty one years. I met an Englishman in Sault Ste.Marie, Ont and married him and we had three sons. We eventually moved and worked in Ottawa. We retired and lived on the St. Lawrence Seaway, fifty miles south of Ottawa for over ten years. I was widowed in May 2006. I have four grandaughters two of which are twins, and one Grandson. I travel in the States as two of them live in Riverside, California, the twins live in Manhatten and my adopted Chinese grandaughter lives in London Ontario.Robyn is an adopted chinese girl and my son and wife went to China to get herI now live in a small town called Prescott which is on the St. Lawrence Seaway. I was interested in the 2007 Alumni News Letter. I remember Aida Dester, Anne French, Margaret Pearce and Edith Snell who were mentioned in the News Letter.

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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