WYKEHAM JOURNAL 2024
What are we left with, when we depart one place in our lives and head for another? A legacy of some kind – and, for me at least, the Winchester legacy was one of service. The perspective which schooldays gave me was not complete: of course there is much of the world’ s diversity we have all seen since, and even more, which each of us has yet to see. But the perspective it did give me was, perhaps, of knowing that my perspective was no better than anyone else’ s – that I was part of a humming, spinning, inter-connected web of people and places and ideas and ideals in which I, like everyone else, was simply called to try and play a little part. In a world obsessed with titles and labels, it was Winchester that taught me the one title we all share and that truly matters: beloved child of God. In that sense of relationship and responsibility, in the values of effort and equality which reverberated through my time there, Winchester gave me the foundations for a life of trying to focus, deliberately and intently, on the extraordinary riches of the world around me, and of trying, in some small and often invisible way, to leave it a tiny bit better than I found it.
THE DIRECTORS AT WORK( above)
Published within the Wykehamist in 2004. Ben on the right with Ashley Riches( Coll, 2000- 05). They are working on Guys and Dolls, one of RicNic ' s early productions, the theatre charity they founded in VIth Book.
FREDDIE ' S HOUSE PHOTO 2005( below) Seated on the second row, four from the right
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