President : Paul James (1984-1991)
Vice-President : John Goodridge (1940-1950)
Secretary : Howard Allen
Treasurer : Clive Thomas
Membership Secretary : Derek Howell
Committee : Damian Atkinson, Richard Browning, Robert Timms, Colin Belcher
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The purpose of the meeting will be
“To receive the proposals of the Committee of The Old Cryptians’ Club for amendments to the Constitution.”
Howard Allen. Hon Sec 2008/2009.
If you are unable to attend the EGM, please dwonload the Proxy Form, complete and return to The Secretary by 8th May, 2009.
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Gordon suffered a stroke in mid-December 2008 and spent many weeks in the Stroke Unit of the Gloucester Hospital.
Gordon is now at home in Stroud Road, Gloucester and he has made some good progress in his recovery. Gordon, however, is experiencing some difficulties with recall and also a degree of confusion in association of time and place.
Gordon and his wife, Rita, will welcome Old Cryptian friends to call and share some time with him. Gordon’s address is 244 Stroud Road, Gloucester. Tel: 01452 521651
For Clarification :
At the AGM of the OCC on 21ST March 2009 John Goodridge was elected President for 2009/2010. John will succeed Paul James-President-2008/2009.
It has been the practice of the Club for the elected President to take up office after his installation at the handing over ceremony at the Founders’ Day Supper in July. This year, this will take place on the evening of Monday 13 July 2009.
It is the expectation and understanding of Paul James and John Goodridge that Paul will take the chair at the EGM called by the committee of the OCC on 11 May 2009. The business of the meeting will be to receive the committee’s proposals on revisions to the current constitution of the Club.
The EGM was held on 11 May 2009 in the splendid new John and Joan Cooke Centre at the Crypt School.
The recommendations of the committee of the OCC for the adoption of the new constitution were approved.
The Minutes of this meeting will appear in the short term on the website and all members will be notified by the secretary.
A farewell party will be held for Bill at the school on Wednesday, 15th July, at 7pm. There will be food, live music and a bar.
The school would like to extend an invite to friends, former colleagues and old boys to come along and say a fond farewell. The evening is free, but will be by ticket only. Please contact Sue Wales for details.
If you are not able to attend the evening, but would like to send a farewell message to be included in Bill’s card, please email Sue Wales.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Hampstead Theatre and the 35th anniversary of the Bleddfa Centre for the Creative Spirit, founder James Roose-Evans shares his lessons from a creative life.
In these dangerous times, it is more important than ever that we try to understand the synthesis of chaos and order, freedom and discipline, intuition and ritual. And nobody has greater insight into these things than James Roose-Evans, who, alone amongst my teachers, opened the door to the nature of creativity for me at the beginning of my working life (Mike Leigh).
This Constitution was agreed at the 2009 EGM but it was also agreed that the Committee should revisit the text in the light of the numerous suggestions aimed at clarifying, improving and correcting what was there. Your Committee therefore has considered the points which were raised, including further suggestions sent to the Secretary, and produced a set of proposals which we think are not contentious but will require to be submitted to an AGM for approval. That approval will require a two- thirds majority of 40% of the membership voting at the meeting or by proxy. However, we know from direct experience the impracticability of debating constitutional detail at an AGM but you also made it clear that you would want wider consultation on content beforehand.
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Simon Birch (1979-83) has written a book called The Last Generations which tells the story of those Old Cryptians killed in the two World Wars of the 20th Century. He has been helped by his wife Sarah and by Ray Pocock who has two grandsons currently at the Crypt School. It is hoped that this book will be published early in the New Year and further details will be available on this website at that time.
John Paddock(1962-80) who is the Vicar of St. George’s Tuffley and who preached at the Founders’ Day service in the Cathedral in 2004, has been awarded a Ph.D by the University of Glasgow for his thesis on 16th Century Spanish Literature.
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