as a Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of
Sustainability at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Sunshine
beckons. I have been a Sevenoaks School Patron since 2013.
Gavin McGillivray (Park Grange 76)
I am living in New Delhi, where I head the UK government
Department for International Development (DFID) India office.
Tim Procter (Taylor 77)
Having retired from the charter airline business I’m now back in
it again with two VIP Boeing 737s and some Kingairs flying the
football teams about, lots of fun but hard work. Discount given to
any OS who want me to manage their private aircraft! My youngest
is still at school, enjoying his cricket for 1st XI. Guess I’m the oldest
OS dad still with a current pupil?
Eddie Marsh (School House 78)
After 36 years working in HR, the last 21 years based in Switzerland,
I have retired from the corporate world and moved to southwest
London (Teddington). I am a Trustee and Board Member of Pepal, a
charity working with multinational companies to solve social and
health issues in developing countries, and also a Trustee and Board
Member of the League of Friends of Teddington Memorial Hospital.
I am still in touch with John Prossor (Taylor 78) and Nick Birch
(School House 78).
1980-1989
Peter Donia (Johnsons 80)
I have relocated back to the Netherlands after spending several
years living abroad, most recently in Malaysia (where I met several
OS!). I am now running my own company, which advises small to
medium-sized businesses on their internationalisation strategy.
Paul Hughes-D’Aeth (Fryth 80)
After training as a Chartered Accountant I moved into the wine
trade and have spent the last 20 years working at Hatch Mansfield
as Finance Director. We are a UK Distributor working with brands
such as Taittinger, Villa Maria and Louis Jadot. I have three children
either at or recently at university, and live in Buckinghamshire. I still
play some cricket, although age is catching up with me. I look out
for news of other 1980 leavers and hope to make the next 1980
reunion to catch up with them.
Professor Tom McLeish FRS (Fenton 80)
I have become the inaugural holder of a new Chair in Natural
Philosophy in the Department of Physics at the University of
York, where my research spans collaborations between sciences
and humanities. My new book The Poetry and Music of Science
(OUP 2019) was The Times Higher Education Book of the Week
on its publication, and formed the topic of an evening lecture at
the school on 13 June. I served for five years as Chair of the Royal
Society’s Education Committee. In that role, one of the projects
I oversaw was a move to broaden all UK curricula post-16. Dr Katy
Ricks has been extremely helpful in some of the working groups
the Society has held.
Andy Stacey (Wordsworth 81)
I have been living in Paris for the last 20 years working in
European real estate, and in February I obtained my French
nationality. David Bamford stated in my school report, ‘Andy thinks
he speaks French better than he does.’ Despite those encouraging
words I am pleased to say that my linguistic skills have improved
a little bit over the years.
Raymond Ooi (School House 83)
In September 2018, I was appointed Centre Leader for Ellel
Ministries in Penang, Malaysia. Ellel Ministries (ellel.org) is a non-
denominational Christian ministry that began in England in 1986
and is now established in over 20 countries around the world.
Ellel Ministries offers personal prayer ministry to those in need
and trains and equips people so that they can help others more
effectively. I trained with Ellel Ministries at their Pierrepont centre
in Farnham in Surrey in 2005.
Graeme Worsley (Johnsons 83)
We moved from Sydney to South Australia a year ago – and wonder
why it took us so long! We are in Roseworthy, a little further out
of Adelaide, but on a five-acre block. We have, at last, found that
mythical Australian lifestyle we came here for – the slower pace,
the close community, and we work hard and play harder. We have
many wine regions around us. Whilst Sydney was an experience, it
is becoming ever more impersonal and uncaring, not how we want
to raise the children or live our own lives. Within a few months of
moving down here we met somebody else born in Sevenoaks (who
went to the school at the other end of town). Was it really over
35 years ago that I left Sevenoaks?!
Andrew Marriott (School House 84)
I left Sevenoaks School in 1982 (Class of 1984) and live in
Singapore now. Is there anyone from that era who lives nearby?
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