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7 www.oaclub.org.uk 1960–1969 occupational hygiene and safety. His present research is on magnetic fields and the human magnetic sensory system. He has co-authored a book on pre-Roman archaeology and one on the human magnetic sensory system. Geoffrey’s current research includes the origin of ancient church buildings and pre-Roman Britain. He lives in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire. John Hall (1955) , after many years living in the Paris area, has now retired to Annecy in the French Alps and would be interested in touching base with any OAs living or working in this part of France or in the Geneva area. Michael Hudson (1953) attended Abingdon School from Gibraltar Grammar School. Michael joined the Army and trained at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1955, later serving in the Royal Horse Artillery and as a pilot in the Army Air Corps. He saw service in Northern Ireland, Germany, Aden, Kenya, Malaysia and Hong Kong and retired as a colonel to become a disaster management consultant. Michael has subsequently worked as an Ofsted inspector. In retirement he enjoys golf, bowls, bridge and dancing. Robert Klein (1950) retired 16 years ago as a Senior Vice President of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Since then, he and his wife of 56 years have been spending their winters in a Country Club Community in Florida and the summer in their condominium in downtown Montreal. Robert still plays golf and tennis and both he and his wife are enjoying good health. Nick Moseley (1957) is still farming at Long Wittenham. He would love to hear from any OAs from the 50s and sends best wishes to the School Boat Club who have excelled and done so well in 2013. Bryan Perry (1950) retired to Phuket but has found that in recent years the large and spread out Balinese style house he built on the coast is too much for him and his wife. Bryan follows the sporting fortunes of Abingdon, particularly rugby, as both of his sons attended Bloxham there is much banter between them on the occasions the first XVs meet. Clive Purrett (1959) worked in a bank for five years after leaving Abingdon, then qualified to teach economics. He and his wife then taught in a remote area of Zambia for three years, before returning to live in Lavenham, Suffolk, teaching Humanities at Sudbury Grammar School then changing into a middle school. After five years, he was offered a post at the British School in the Netherlands, where he taught English from GCSE to A level for the rest of his teaching career, and also took on other roles such as Careers and Universities Adviser and Head of Sixth Form. Clive and his wife ran an International Law and Diplomacy Course each summer, centred on The Hague, which provided an opportunity for Lower Sixth formers of ISCO schools to learn at first hand about the worlds of the international courts and embassies. They were pleased to have one or two Abingdon students in their groups. Following retirement, Clive and his wife returned to England, where they picked up again with old friends and settled in Clacton. Their daughter, who was educated at the British School and then at Birmingham University, worked at Survival International in London for a while, and now lives and works in California, just north of San Francisco. Pat Sale (1953) walked the Kepler Track in Fjordland in the south-west of New Zealand’s South Island in February 2013. In an alpine shelter at one of the high points of the four-day walk, he stopped to get out of the inclement weather and on talking to another walker there discovered he also went to Abingdon School albeit thirty years later – James Perrins (1983). Pat is in contact with Alan Full (1952), who is living in Wellington and enjoying retirement, and Richard Paxman (1954) in Auckland and in semi-retirement still doing some contract work for Agrichemical companies. Pat is still doing some professional consultancy in the fruit industry and looking after his own small orchard. His leisure activities include gardening, tramping and family. Peter Bennett (1969) has been residing in Oslo Norway since 1976. After 30 years in banking he finally