From the Chairman and Treasurer
Dear OAs
CONTENTS What a year it has been. It was great to see so many of you at
the London reception at Lord’s in May to welcome John Lee,
OA Boarding Bursary ...........3 Bob Currie, Steve Gray, Pete McKegney and Francis Barnsley. I
hope that many of you will be able to join us at King’s on 9th
November 2013 at our annual dinner to say farewell to them
King’s Chapel ...............................3 all. I would also ask you to come along to the Remembrance
Sunday service as well: it is a truly moving service.
OA Events ...............................4-7 As you will see from Chris Rew, the Club’s Treasurer, we
have embraced technology and sent this newsletter out
OA News ............................ 8-15 electronically to most of you. This is so that we can support
Ed Hawkins - Chairman the Club in other ways in the future. If you would like to receive
Business Directory .. 16-18 a hard copy then please do contact the office.
I hope you find this newsletter as interesting and informative as I do and I look forward to
150 Years of King’s.............. 19 meeting many of you over the coming year.
Best wishes
OA Sport......................... 19-21
King’s Hall .................................. 22 Many of you will have noticed that you have received this
edition of the OA Newsletter by email , rather than the
King’s College .............. 23-25 physical copy that you have received by post in the past. This
is because the costs to your OA Club of printing and posting
Welcome new OAs .......... 26 the Newsletters have risen dramatically in recent years, and
it has reached the stage where about two thirds of the OA
Lost OAs..................................... 27 Club’s income is projected to be spent this year on printing
and sending the Newsletter by post to all Club members,
Archive.............................. 28-29 including those living overseas .
Although the newsletters play a vital part in the role of the
Donations.................................. 30
Chris Rew - Treasurer OA Club, the OA Committee felt that as more and more
people are embracing the technological changes of the past
10 years, members of the Club would accept this change in ‘delivery method’ of OA Club
King’s Cricket communications, freeing up more of the Club’s income (that it receives from both its
Sponsorship............................. 31 subscriptions and its investments) to provide funding for other OA activities that the Club
supports, such as OA sports fixtures, social events, and sponsorship of OA Club related
2020 Vision............................... 32 functions .
We appreciate that for some members this might be a sensitive issue, and the OA
OA Club Office .................... 33 Committee have debated the arguments for and against changing to electronic delivery at
length before reaching this decision. We have also decided to subscribe at very Iow cost to
Hong Kong News ............... 33 a ‘turning pages’ system which will enable you to read this newsletter on your screen much
more easily.
If you would still like a copy of the newsletter sent to you by post, please email the
Legacies ....................................... 34 Development Office (oa@kings-taunton.co.uk) and they will post it to you. If you have
received this newsletter by post, but would be happy to have it emailed in future, please
In Memoriam ......................... 34 contact the Development Office, (email addresses as above), or telephone the Office
(01823 328238) to let them know your email address.
Forthcoming Events ........ 35 For this change to be successful, it is very important that the OA Club’s database of email
addresses is as accurate and comprehensive as possible, and is then kept up to date. We
OA Committee .................... 36 would be extremely grateful therefore if you could update us with any changes to your own
contact details , or provide us with email addresses of any of the ‘ Lost OAs ‘ listed on pages
Merchandise ........................... 36 28 and 29 of this newsletter and on the OA website.
Copies of the OA newsletters are also posted on the OA Website www.aluredian.co.uk
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