In this issue: London Networking Reunion Thursday 1 Oct from 6pm

SEPTEMBER 2015
London Networking
Reunion
Thursday 1 Oct
from 6pm until late
Upstairs bar in
The Masons Arms
38 Maddox Street
London W1S 1PY
Just turn up
Food provided
In this issue:
Michael Adams (CO90) loses in the last 16 of World Chess Cup in Baku
Hok Fan ‘Benny’ Leung (CO77) visited School
FP Netball v School
FP Mixed Hockey v School
FP Rugby v School
Annual Reunion Dinner
Creekside Theatre raise funds for The Invictus Trust
TSFPA Arts Day
Chapel Anniversary Service
Creekside Theatre - How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Jazz Jam
Max Levene graduates from the University of East Anglia
Class of ’02 - Impromptu Reunion Photos
Bereavements
Future events -
London Networking Reunion – Thur 1 Oct from 6pm
Upstairs bar The Masons Arms, 38 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PY
Please let me know if you plan on coming to give me approximate
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SEPTEMBER 2015
FP News
Michael Adams (CO90) loses in
last 16 of World Chess Cup
Michael Adams, currently ranked No 17 in
the world, reached the last 16 of the recent
FIDE World Chess Cup held in Baku,
Azerbaijan but lost to Hikaru Nakamura
from the USA, who is currently ranked No
4 in the world.
Hok Fan ‘Benny’ Leung (CO77)
visited School
Benny recently visited School with his wife,
Christine. Benny now lives in Ontario,
Canada.
Although he only stayed for one year
(1974-75), boarding in Trennick, he could
remember many parts of the School and
other pupils.
Jo Wood, our archivist, managed to find
the original letter Benny’s father had
written in 1974 requesting that his two
sons attend Truro School.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
FP Netball v School
The Former Pupils’ team defeated the School in the annual netball match by 30 goals to 18.
Many thanks to Christina Homer for organising and captaining the team and all the players for
playing.
Former pupil players were:
Becca Hughes (CO15), Millie Burdell (CO15), Christina Homer (CO15 - captain), Ellie Sayer
(CO13), Kiani Pay (CO13), Stacey Pascoe (CO14), Jess Pascoe (CO15) and Claire Tresidder
(CO10) who is now working at School as a teacher in the PE Department.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
FP Mixed Hockey v School
The Former Pupils’ team beat the School by 5 goals to 1. Many thanks to Jess Pascoe for
organising and captaining the team and many thanks to all the players, especially those who went
straight from playing in the netball match to the astro for the hockey.
Former pupil players not in the photograph were:
Jess Pascoe (CO15 – captain), Christina Homer (CO15), Anna Venning (CO15), Adi Shields
(CO15), Tom Parry (CO15), Stacey Pascoe (CO14), Kiani Pay (CO13), Tegan Cockcroft (CO15)
Not all the players are in this photo but the players in the photo are :
Back row: Henry Matthews (CO10), Neil Stevenson (CO12), Pete Ashworth (CO09), Will
Jones (CO10), Simon Reed (CO02), Luke Rugg (CO12), Matt ffrench-Constant (CO12),
Jeremy Pascoe (CO85)
Front row: Chloe Sutcliffe (CO11), Jack Carr (CO11), Joe Grassby (CO08), George Baird
(CO08), Amie Tall (CO10)
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The School Mixed Hockey team
FP Rugby v School
The Former Pupils’ team were short of a few players but still gave the current School team a hard
game, scoring first to great cheers from the watching crowd.
The School eventually won by 28 points to 7.
FP players: Cam Sayer (Captain), Ed Jane, Harvey Jones, Fred Young, Oscar Holdsworth,
Mawgan Ibbotson, Chris Lin, Charlie Dean, Toby Knox, Peter O’Toole, Charlie Boon, James
Turpin, Tom Parry, George Parry, Joe Elderkin, Will Harris and Will Murdoch
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SEPTEMBER 2015
Annual Reunion Dinner
The Annual Reunion Dinner took place on Saturday 5 September 2015, with our Guest
Speaker, Connie Schneider (CO95), who is the Judicial Affairs Officer with the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations.
100 people enjoyed the superb food provided by Head Chef, David Connolly, and his staff.
Advance warning of next year’s Decennial Reunions at the dinner on Sat 10 September 2016,
which will be the Classes of ’06, ’96, ’86, ’76 and ’66.
We already have ten people committed from the CO76, including Tim Tinker from Australia.
I’m told Tim still cheers for England, though his two sons and wife are Australian supporters.
Could be a lively evening next Saturday in the Tinker household when England take on
Australia in the Rugby World Cup.
Two photographs below from the 2015 Reunion Dinner.
Class of ’95 attendees:
Vicky Just (née Winter), Jo Wicksteed (née Mooney), Valerie Buckingham, Jemima
Luckhurst (née Ball), Connie Schneider, Lizi Hesling, Sarah Hayes (née Holmes)
Also in attendance (but not in photo) Ceri Harvey (née Drew), Demelza Hills (née
Salter), Rebecca Harvey (née Coward), Verity Slater, Julia Ives (née Richardson),
Debbie Baldock (née Cocks)
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Class of ’75 attendees:
Jonathan Middleton, Peter Ham, Bill Sharpe, Huw Dyer and Brian Milstead.
(Ed: Those of you worried that Bill Sharpe has shrunk, despair not. He’s still just as
tall as he ever was)
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SEPTEMBER 2015
Creekside Theatre raise funds for
The Invictus Trust.
Creekside Theatre put on its second
drama showcase at the Burrell Theatre on
the 28th of August, raising £250 for
The Invictus Trust
The showcase, directed by Old Boys
Dominic Latarche and Cameron
Williamson, starred former pupils of Truro
School and Truro High School, was
produced by Dominic Latarche and Truro
College's Georgina Carlin, and supported
with technical effects by Old Boy Alistair
Cota.
In the first half, the audience enjoyed a
series of sketches, written by playwrights
including Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE; in the
second half, three audience members
were decided to be capable of surviving a
zombie apocalypse in an informative
seminar, 'How to Survive a Zombie
Apocalypse', a comedy written by Ben
Muir.
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Dom Latarche graduated from the
University of Southampton with a degree in
History. This year he completed a Law
conversion course in Cardiff. Over the
summer, by day he worked in local law
companies and by night he organised his
theatre's second show and hosted the
rehearsals at home.
Dom extends his special thanks to his coproducer Georgina Carlin, who advertised
the show online and in print and secured
the production three separate radio
interviews on the day of the show; to his
co-director Cameron Williamson, whose
direction of several rehearsals enabled
Dom to continue working for his law
companies; and to the Burrell Theatre,
which was kindly made available for
rehearsals close to the night of the show.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
'How to Survive a Zombie
Apocalypse' was performed for a
second time at the recent Former
Pupils Association Arts Day on
Sunday 6 September.
The cast:
Former Truro School: Harrison
Dean, Hugh "Freddie" HoughamSlade, Nathaniel Keymer, Charlie
Martin, Alexander Piper and
Cameron Williamson
Former Truro High School: Gabrielle
Dawson, Verity Ford, Megan
Tamblyn
Current Truro High School: Eugenie Nevin
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SEPTEMBER 2015
TSFPA Arts Day –
Sunday 6 September 2015
Chapel Anniversary Service
The TSPFA Arts Day this year started with
the 88th Chapel Anniversary Service. Led
by the Rev Mark Liddicoat, the service was
a reflection of past and present,
celebrating and commemorating what has
gone before and looking forward to the
future. The service opened with oboe
music by Eleanor Sullivan. Readings and
prayers were said by members of the
School’s
Senior
Leadership
Team,
together with the Head Girl, Deputy Head
Boy and a senior prefect. The School’s
Monteverdi Choir were magnificent in their
performance of Words by Edenroth, and
really lifted the roof with their descant in
Praise my Soul the Kling of Heaven.
Bethany Williams moved the congregation
with her beautiful solo Homeward Bound
by Marta Keen. Tom Smith rounded off
the occasion, accompanied by Martin
Palmer on the piano, with Barat’s Fantasia
in Eb for trumpet.
Creekside Theatre: How to Survive a
Zombie Apocalypse by Ben Muir
The Arts afternoon started with a brilliant
performance by former pupils of the
school.
First seen at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe,
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse was
directed by former pupil Dominic Latarche
and featured Nathaniel Keymer (CO13),
Cameron Williamson (CO13), Harrison
Dean (CO13), plus Gabrielle Dawson.
The play took the form of a seminar, given
by Dr Dale Seslick, who took the audience
through the elements of surviving a zombie
attack, with hilarious consequences. Much
audience participation was required and by
the end of the seminar only three members
of the audience had proved that they could
survive! Creekside Theatre was set up by
former pupils of Truro School. Now in its
second year it is going from strength to
strength.
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
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SEPTEMBER 2015
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Jazz Jam
The final event of the weekend saw the
School Jazz Orchestra perform a number
of Jazz Standards and the band was joined
this year by former pupils Ben and Toby
Comeau and Nathaniel Keymer.
The
repertoire included tunes by artists as
diverse as Duke Ellington and Stevie
Wonder. The school ensemble numbers
were interspersed with a number of
keyboard duos from Ben and Toby
including the classic tunes All the Things
You Are and Autumn Leaves. The whole
concert was very well received and
appreciated greatly by
former pupils of many
generations.
At the conclusion of the
concert Toby, who is about
to take up a place to study
jazz at The Guildhall
School of Music in London,
gave a personal vote of
thanks to Simon Latarche
for his inspiration and
introduction to jazz piano
when Toby was a young
pupil at the school.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
Max Levene graduates from the University of East Anglia
Congratulations to Max, shown below with his Mum and proudly wearing his former pupils’ tie,
who recently graduated from the University of East Anglia with a Business Economics
degree.
Superb touch Yvonne – an understated, but obvious to those in the know, Cornish scarf.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
Class of ’02 – Impromptu Reunion
The Class of ’02 organised a last minute reunion initially meeting at the FP
rugby match v School on Sat 5 September. Several were given a tour of
School by Swen Kearey, who is from the Class of ’02 and now works at
School as the Burrell Theatre Technical Manager.
Names from the left are Simon Reed, Jane Mitchell (née Julyan), Dan Regan,
Swen Kearey, Victoria Funke (née Frost), Hugh Doble, and Kirsty Cooper.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
Bereavements
Chris Roberts (CO76) died from motor neurone disease on
5 September 2015 aged 57.
Future Events
London Networking Reunion – Thursday 1 October 2015 from 6pm
Upstairs Bar at The Masons Arms, 38 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PY Just off Regent Street
Nearest tube stations Bond Street, Oxford Street, Green Park and Piccadilly Circus
No charge. Food provided and buy your own drinks.
Please let me know if you plan on coming but if you want to just turn up on the night, that’s fine.
Contact details:
Steve Floyd
TSFPA Administrator
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01872 246010 / 07870 486392
Esse Quam Videri
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