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| This Noticeboard was last updated 15 March 2008. If you wish to post a notice, please contact the . Please also note our Voluntary Activities and Appeals webpages, which contain particular requests to members from the School and our Association. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The date for Reunion 2009 has now been announced for Saturday 21st March 2009.
If you have changed home or email addresses since last contacting us, please let us know your new address so that we can ensure future postings reach you in a timely fashion. |
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The 2008 annual newsletter is now complete, and has been sent to members as an email link or by post. Please note that increased postal charges this year makes it an imperative for the Association to use email wherever possible. If you are prepared to receive email notifications, including the download location of the newsletter when it becomes available, please let us know your amended contact details or contact our | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As at Reunion 2006, Valerie Storie retired from the position of Editor of the Annual Newsletter, and was replaced by Shelagh Rothero. Valerie now becomes the Membership Secretary. Jennifer Ballard has taken up the position of Secretary. The Committee email addresses have been updated accordingly. Jean Tyler, our Chairman, has appealed for a volunteer to take over as Treasurer. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Old Paludians Association Committee wishes to hear from any Old Paludian who would be prepared to be considered as Treasurer. It is likely that you will probably live within easy travelling distance of Slough. If you are interested, please contact Jean Tyler in the first instance at | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mrs Lenton has written to ask members of the Old Paludians to support the
proposed building development at the Lascelles Road site, replacing the
top field, canteen and various other buildings. We have reproduced her letter below
and the relevant attachments can be downloaded from the links given:
"Dear Old Paludians We would very much appreciate it if all the Old Paludians could join parents, pupils and teachers by sending letters of support, as soon as possible, for the proposed building development at Slough Grammar School to the Planning Department at Slough Borough Council. Attached is a leaflet explaining our proposals, which have now reached the planning permission stage, together with full details on the back of where the letter should be sent. Please can you emphasise that the reference number P/06077/16 should be somewhere conspicuous on the letter or it will be returned. ... Thanking you in anticipation Yours sincerely Mrs M Lenton Principal" Attachment 1: RRleafletforparentsCorel.pdf (1Mb) for which you will need Adobe Acrobat to read Attachment 2: Leaflet for Parents pages 2 & 3.doc (4Mb) for which you will need MS Word or WordPad to read | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We believe that Bernard Cormac Smith attended the Reunion 2005 and left some personal documents in a nearby hotel room. If anyone has contacts details for Bernard, please let us know so that we can return his papers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On 18 March 2005, the Old Paludians Association Committee were invited into school by Mrs Lenton to produce a display of our archives and to meet HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, who visited the school on that day. We hope to display some pictures of this visit in due course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Congratulations to our Chairman Jean Tyler who received a Special Award at the 2004 SGS Prize-giving in recognition for her efforts on behalf of the School and the Old Paludians. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As you will have noticed, there has been a backlog of applying additional names to the School photos in the website's photo section. If you would be prepared to assist in bringing the names files up-to-date for a range of years for one of the schools, please contact me via | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On Tuesday 7 October 2003, the Old Paludians website received its 10 000th 'hit' (this figure excludes consecutive hits within the same browsing session). This was achieved in approximately 2.5 years from inception on 27 March 2001 at an average rate of just under 11 hits per day. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Community Co-ordinator for Slough Grammar School (Language College) has requested Old Paludians to contact the School so that the School can contact them for 'any suggestions you could provide towards our development as well as keep you informed of our progress'. If you wish to assist the School by passing on your details, please see our webform. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We have received reports that some members have received virus-infected
emails falsely purporting to come from Old Paludians Committee contacts.
Please note that these emails contain one of a variety of prevalent viruses,
and you should not open the attachments under any circumstances. Also, these
emails have been sent from a number of infected PCs - but _not_ from any of
the Old Paludians Committee.
For more information on this and internet security in general, see our Email webpage |
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Mrs Lenton would like to contact the following Head Boys and Head Girls,
whose whereabouts are unknown to the Old Paludians Committee or to the
School. We would appreciate a postal address if possible. Please contact the
or the
directly with any information
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| Does anyone know the current whereabouts of Joyce Hammersley (Powell, SHS 1940-45)? She has moved away from the last contact address that she gave us. Please contact the if you can assist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our Christmas 2001 Press Release is still available for viewing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Slough Grammar School is looking for Old Paludians who are willing to undertake voluntary work at the school. Enquiries directly to the (Tel: 01753 522892) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Does any Old Paludian know the history of Juliet Margaret Cameron's photographs of Sir John Herschel which are at the School? Why does the School have them and where did they come from? Does anyone remember seeing them in the early days? Information to the or please. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||