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1st December. She has a rare gift of making people feel so much better for Her presence and
graciousness. She opened the Nicolson Modern Languages Institute and gave approval to the
new Victoria and Albert ‘refreshment room’. The year of celebration, however, began twelve
months previously, with book-launch parties both in London and in Great school of our new,
highly colourful ‘informal’ history. That was quickly followed on 20th January with dinners
for all students in Hall, and in Old Hall in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington,
who had earlier opened
the new Wellesley House
for day girls. Speech Day
was marked by especially
delightful activities in the
presence of
of Kent, our President, and
a concert was staged in
his honour in November,
being
of his holding office.
In
September the new ‘Monro
Pavilion’ was opened on
Bigside by Hugh Monro,
the
hrh the Duke
fortieth
year
12th Master. The whole of College, accompanied by pupils of the new Wellington Academy,
Wiltshire attended Divine Service in joint celebration in St Paul’s Cathedral, where the
other memorial to the Great Duke is placed at the heart of the Nation. In far distant Tianjin,
building began on the new Wellington College, China.
Then on 14th October we welcomed back many
The Wellington College
ows and friends for a Day of Service.
ccf was inspected by our senior ow soldier, followed by a brief
ceremony to unveil a new honours board in the Auchinleck Room. The day ended with the
return of more than two hundred
ows and special friends for a dinner to celebrate their
service to the nation and society. On 27th November there was a Grand Finale Ball in a
marquee on South Front, supporting our Hope and Homes charity project.
We hope that this edition of the Year Book, alongside the Summer edition of The
Wellingtonian—surely the best edition ever—faithfully captures the famed ‘Wellington
spirit’ and does justice to the efforts that have gone into a year that has added substantially
more history to our College. In timeless, monumental language, we remind ourselves,
Semper Domus Floreat, Wellingtoniensis.
pat r i c k m i l e h a m
Wellington College, past, present, future
(Inscibed 1938)
Assistant Editor: Kay Mitchell
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We are very grateful for the use of photographs supplied to us, notably by Ian Jones (Queen’s visit), Derick Garnier [Hn 1930-1934], Brynn Bayman,
Roger Auger, Sam Gutteridge, Stephen Dutch and Linda Raabe-Marjot.