No.129
The Trusty Servant
Wiccamica
Valete
During Short Half we bade farewell
to Patrick Herring (Co Ro, 02-19;
MFL; HoDo, B, 07-15; Deputy Head,
Academic). We wish him well in his
new post at St Edward’s, Oxford,
where he started his teaching career.
Steven Little will leave at the end
of Cloister Time after 20 years’
service to the college, including
the last six as Bursar. His proudest
achievement is the overhaul of the
school’s antiquated IT systems, such
that Winchester now leads the pack;
thanks to that we can do such a
fine job teaching remotely. Bursary
provision has also doubled in recent
years. His biggest challenge is the one
which we are all currently facing:
no part of the school’s finances or
operations will be left unchanged by
COVID-19, though it is too early to
guess what those changes may be. We
wish him well in his retirement.
At the end of Cloister Time Co Ro
will say goodbye to: Michael Wallis
(Co Ro, 86-20; MFL; OC CCF 95-11;
retiring); Andrew Leigh (Co Ro, 86-
20; Classics; returning to Oxford for
further study); Nick MacKinnon (Co
Ro, 86-20; Maths & English; HoDo, F
96-09; retiring); Paul McMaster (Coll,
76-80; Co Ro, 90-20; Maths; retiring);
Claire Rostron (previously Webster)
(Co Ro, 94, 95-02, 16-20; Classics;
QEH Bristol); Chris Yates (Co Ro,
96-20; Japanese & Careers; retiring);
Chris Berry (Co Ro, 10-20; Maths;
retiring); John Wright (Co Ro, 10-15,
16-20; Geography; Housemaster at
Shrewsbury); and Jessi Glueck (Co
Ro, 18-20; English & Classics; further
study). We thank them for their
contributions and wish them well for
their future endeavours.
We are also bidding farewell to three
long-standing support staff who have
each completed more than 100 terms
at the school. Sue Stagg retires after 32
years working in Kenny’s and Cook’s.
Sandra Wyper retired at Christmas
after 34 years in Freddie’s. Frank
O’Callaghan, the Works Clerk, leaves
after 35 years at the College.
Ave
Our new Bursar, Paresh Thakrar,
arrived in April and will take up his
role formally in September. After
growing up in North London, he
studied NatSci and Management
at Cambridge and has an MBA
from the London Business School.
His 25-year career thus far includes
posts with McKinsey, the Foreign
& Commonwealth Office and
Deutsche Bank; most recently he
has worked in reinsurance and asset
management and joins Winchester
from being Commercial Director at
Brit Insurance. He is also a trustee
of the charity Parkinson’s UK. He is
married with three young sons and is
an enthusiastic cricketer – your editor
has already spotted the family testing
out the Meadow House nets. We hope
they will feel very welcome.
Do Co Ro news
James McKinnel (Chaplain &
History, since 2018) will succeed Chris
Good (Chemistry, since 1995, when
Mr McKinnel was nine) as HoDo of
Hopper’s in September 2023.
An article by Tom Ransley, who has
been helping Boat Club since January,
appeared in The Times of 15th April
2020, discussing his preparations
before winning gold in the GB Men’s
VIII in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Co Ro Community Service:
PPE, Portering & Poetry
Science School delivered 2,500
gloves, 100 pairs of safety spectacles
and 100 disposable aprons to the
Royal Hampshire County Hospital,
Southampton General Hospital and
the Hampshire Ambulance Service.
Callum Barnes (DT, since 2013) and
Adrian Ahmed (DT, since 1988) have
designed and produced 140 face-visors
in Mill for the County Hospital and
Autism Hampshire and have also
donated Mill’s supply of safety goggles
and gloves.
Karen Palmer, Matron of Furley’s,
has masterminded the sewing of
face masks from freshly laundered
sheets and hoover filters for Autism
Hampshire and local care homes.
Jan Hepworth (MFL, since 2011) has
been coordinating a team of Win
Coll employees in supporting 44
vulnerable families across Winchester.
Rowena Hodgins (MFL, since 2003)
has organised the collection of food
and clothes for distribution to the
local community by Winchester
Vineyard Church.
Malcolm Hebron (English, since
1992) wrote an article on how to
read and understand poetry as part
of The Times’s ‘Homeschool for
Grown‑Ups’.
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