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January 2012
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Professional Dinners
Law
On Friday 7 October the School welcomed over
50 OAs, parents and current pupils to the
second career networking dinner for law, hosted
on behalf of the Old Abingdonian Club by His
Honour Judge David Morris, OA 1959.
Medicine
There will be a professional development dinner for
those interested in a career in medicine on Friday
23 March. The dinner will be preceded by a talk:
‘Turning the world upside down – what the NHS
can learn from low income countries’ given by
Nigel Crisp – former Chief Executive of the NHS
and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department
of Health, a former Abingdonian parent.
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The Loose Limbed Collective
In an initiative designed to support all those who have committed to careers in Drama or Film
after their time at Abingdon, the Drama department has this term established The Loose Limbed
Collective, a network for mutual support, contacts and the development of new projects. The first
project is for senior and former members of the AFU who are seeking to make careers in the film
world. Working with renowned documentary maker Michael Grigsby, OA 1955, the School’s new
Director-in-Residence, the Collective will make an original film a year; the first film should be ready
for screening in the autumn of 2012.
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Dedication of New
Chapel Windows
The Bishop of Oxford, the Right
Revd John Pritchard, will dedicate
the new Nicholas Mynheer windows
at a service in the School Chapel on
Friday 27 April at 6 pm. Invitations
will be circulated but if you would
like to be included please contact
Samantha Roberts ( details at the
foot of this page ).
OAs on Stage:
Richard Holt (Webber), OA 2003
, plays John
Walker in the musical
Swallows and Amazons
,
at the Vaudeville Theatre until 14 January
followed by an 18 week UK tour.
Paddy Gervers, OA 2008
, and
Jon Donahoe
(Margree) OA 2001
, have formed a new
comedy band
Johnny and the Baptists
; they
are being supported in their current UK tour by
Chad Mason, OA 1999
.
Huw Parmenter, OA 2007
, has been
understudying Nigel Havers in the comedy
Basket Case
.
Playwright
Mike Bartlett, OA 1999
, currently
has a new play, 13, in the Olivier auditorium of
the National Theatre. Mike’s
Collected Plays 1
were published by Methuen in November with a
launch at the Royal Court Theatre.
Simon Evans, OA 2002
, is now resident
assistant director at the Donmar Warehouse in
Covent Garden.
Max Hutchinson, OA 2007
, has a part in the
Agatha Christie Theatre Company’s touring
production of
Murder
on the Nile
opening
on 10 January at
the Theatre Royal
Windsor and closing
in Newcastle on
28 July.
Celebration Concert at the
Sheldonian
A concert celebrating the School’s musicians in the
Sheldonian Theatre on 23 June will also mark the 25th
anniversary of Michael Stinton’s appointment as Director of
Music at Abingdon School. It is hoped that the concert might
be an opportunity for OAs, former members of the School’s
orchestras and bands, to take part in the celebrations.
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Contact Samantha Roberts: 01235 849074 –
developing opportunities and links throughout the Abingdon community