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AOSA ANNUAL
REPORT 2001 - NEWS OF OLD SCHOLARS |
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[Page twenty]
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I have been in touch with JOHN (1938-44 & 1952-74) and MARY (HODGE 1941-44) READER on several occasions during the past twelve months; between them they have many memories of events at Ayton over a period of about sixty years and they have always been able to help me out with my enquiries. They have both experienced health problems in recent years, so I was delighted to hear from Mary, in August, that they had been out and about again. -‘We have had such a busy July I had hardly time to think; we had numerous visitors – family and friends and had arranged to go to two concerts at the ‘Aldborough in the North Festival’ which LIZ WILSON (ARNOLD 1959-61) has a hand in. Aldborough is a Roman village not far from here. In the same week the local opera company was doing Turandot in York, and as we know some of the participants, we went to a performance. By the end of the week we wondered what had hit us! But then, Hilary and family arrived from Portugal to camp for a week at the farm opposite and then on to the Lake District and persuaded us to come over and stay in a B&B. We did and enjoyed it very much – the first holiday we have had for two years.’ JOHN READMAN (1973-97) sent in a bumper bundle of family and OS news to Wendy Smith in March of last year; the account of his family’s fabulous trip to Australia and Hong Kong in 1999 and the OS they met along the way is detailed elsewhere in the Report. When I last talked to him, John was Head of the Maths Department at an 11-16 inner city comprehensive school in Middlesbrough, a very different experience from life at Ayton. He was beginning to ‘look around’ with a view to moving on. Clifford Morgan met MARTIN ESSEX (1974-94) in the autumn while out walking in the village. Martin, now retired, and his second wife have come back to Ayton to live. Old scholars from the 60s and possibly the 70s will be sorry to learn of the death, last March (2000) of MAURICE WILSON. Although not actually on the staff, Maurice, a very keen fell walker, accompanied the Readers on many of their outings to the Lake District and beyond and helped with the planning and organisation of these trips. |
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