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and even finds excavated from
the site of St Elizabeth’s College in
Bursar’s Field. The Treasury has
also been established as a wider
community asset, open to the public
six afternoons a week. Her outreach
programme has included workshops
for primary-school children, family
fun days, handling sessions for
university students and tours for
special-interest groups, together with
over 1200 members of the public
during last year’s Heritage Open
Weekend. Her highlight of her time
here was the discovery of the Pre-
Raphaelite stained glass during the
clearance, which resulted in the
redesign of the gallery to display it.
She moves on to a rural life in Devon,
where she intends to keep free-range
pigs.
Other Do Co Ro news
Tony Ayres has continued to provide
cover in the Physics department. He
can thus be found teaching at Win
Coll 50 years after he first arrived
in 1969, the same summer as the
Moon Landings, although there
have been some gaps since he retired
as a full-timer in 2007. As far as
TS’s researches can see, no don has
done this before, although railway-
obsessive John Manisty (Maths, 38-87,
with a break to help crack the Enigma
Code during WW2) got very close.
The record for continuous full-time
teaching is held by Charles Griffith
(1859-1902). But if we broaden the
criteria to include peripatetic music
teaching, nobody looks likely to
surpass Julian Smith (whose obituary
can be found earlier in this edition),
who arrived as a don in 1953 and
retired as a singing teacher in 2012.
Anthony Dakin (English, since 2000)
will succeed James Hodgins (Maths,
since 1996) as HoDo of Chawker’s in
September 2022.
The Trusty Servant
Pupil Achievements: Academic
Wykehamists achieved the highest
mark in five Pre-U subjects: Krishna
Amin (Coll) in Biology, Guy Brabbins
(B) in Classical Greek, George
Baxendale (E) in Economics, Ruairidh
Forgan (Coll) in Further Maths and
Oliver Normand (F) in Maths.
Vijay Pathak (A, 17-) was named as
the best delegate at the Oxford Global
Model United Nations Conference.
Richard Danylyuk (Coll, 14-) has
been selected for the UK team for the
International Chemistry Olympiad
in Paris in July. Max Wong (F,
15-) made the top 30 in the UK in
Round 1. Robert Truell (H, 14-) will
attend the UK selection final for the
International Biology Olympiad.
Reuel Armstrong (H, 15-), Nathan
Chu (H, 14-), Dhruv Nashier (Coll,
15-) and Max Wong (F, 15-) came 9th
out of 1300 at the Senior Team Maths
Challenge national final, believed to
be the school’s best ever performance.
Pupil Achievements: Extra
Curricular
Joseph Oluwabusola (C, 16-)
represented Nigeria in the 2019
U17 Africa Cup of Nations in
Tanzania during the Easter vacation.
It is thought that he was the only
participant who brought his Greek
and Latin set texts to revise. He will
be in action again at the U17 World
Cup in Peru.
Olly Dickman (K, 15-) has been
selected for the England U18 golf
squad while still in VI Book 2.
Joe Donaghue (A, 16-) was the highest-
placed U16 GB fencer at the World
Fencing Championships in Budapest,
coming 24th out of 259. He also won
a bronze in the Senior Scottish Open
Fencing competition.
The senior boat won the School 1st
VIIIs at the Head of the River. Austin
Hayes (F, 14-) and Kareem Garlick
(C, 14-) were selected for GB trials.
OWs involved in the Boat Race are
mentioned elsewhere in this edition.
Nosa Okunbo (E, 16-) has been
playing for the Solent Kestrels in
the national basketball U16 Premier
League.
HM Accolade
Tatler has awarded Dr Tim Hands
the award for Best Head of a Public
School 2018.
The mighty, gnarled plane trees of
Meads are thought to have been
planted together with the limes in
1781 as part of William Bowles’s plan
to improve the Fellow’s pleasure
grounds. The College still has a record
Win Coll’s soccer teams won more
games in Short Half than in any of
the previous ten seasons, finishing
with 82 wins and 28 draws from 194
matches, including four victories
out of five fixtures for the Yearlings
against Eton.
Shiloh Wu (E, 18-) trained with the
Chinese National Junior squash
team. He is part of an unbeaten 1st V,
whose success included winning the
Roehampton School Invitation.
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Head Gardner Alan Smith
with Sir Richard Storey