Aluredian
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Guests gathered in
the Woodard Room
for the Annual
Reunion DinnerT
he Old Aluredian Club is the
alumni association of King's
College and exists to ensure
that former pupils remain in
contact with both the school
and each other, as well as
promoting and supporting the interests of the
school and helping members in distress. The
Club was founded in 1904 and organises a
Reunion Dinner in Taunton and a London
Reception each year, together with other social
and sporting events.
Members are kept in touch by regular emails,
an annual glossy newsletter and occasional
other mailings. The Club also has a newly
relaunched website where members can see
news items, photographs, forthcoming events,
reports of past events, and log in to update
their own contact details and profile, book for
events, and search for and send messages to
other members.
The Annual Reunion Dinner was held in
November 2009 at King's College and included
the King's String Quartet, a poem by Ben Sykes
during dinner, and was rounded off with a film
show of the 1953 Rover Crew Expedition.
Guests of Honour were Peter Dossett, Mick and
Di Polley, Tim Hart, and James and Sarah
Macpherson.
On 3rd March Howard Padfield, long-serving
physics master, housemaster and former OA
Club Secretary, celebrated his 100th birthday.
His birthday greetings from the OA Club were
delivered by Ben Sykes, Roger Mott and Roger
Poland, and many OAs who were taught by
him sent their best wishes to him via the OA
Club office.
More than 70 OAs and past and present staff
attended the March 2010 London Reception,
held at the Royal Over-Seas League. The
gathering was addressed by the Headmaster,
President Roger Mott and Chairman Ed
Hawkins, as well as both the outgoing and
incoming King's OA Secretaries.
The Reunion Dinner marked the retirement from King's of Mick and Di Polley,
Tim Hart, and Peter Dossett, pictured below with the Headmaster and Edward
Hawkins, OA Club Chairman