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AOSA ANNUAL REPORT 2001 |
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This Magazine Contents
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In last year's Mag you read about the start-up of our website. There was - naturally - a surge of hits as OS had a look. They have continued looking and at the time of going to print there have been almost 40,000 hits and rising at about 1,500 per week. Where these visitors come from I do not know but many OS who had lost touch with the Association, and some who didn't even know the School has closed, have made contact again after finding the website. The website is continually growing with new sections and photographs being added on a regular basis. As the School site nears completion there is a photographic record of demolition and rebuilding; the Meeting House renovations and alterations are shown stage by stage and new photographs of the Village are added from time to time. School photo archives are a natural for the website. There are some superb photos going back to the beginning of the last century which will appear soon in a variety of Archive sections. Recent visitors to the website will have found a very special addition: The AOSA Presidents' and Headteachers' Photo Gallery. Approximately 130 of our AOSA Presidents are portrayed, ranging from Ralph Dixon 1892-93 to the present day. There are a number of gaps which I will (possibly with your help?) fill as time goes by. The Headteachers' Gallery is complete, including Thomas Richardson for - although he was not a Head' - there might not have been any School without him. Inclusion of these Galleries therefore records for posterity a number of very special people in AOSA and School history. As years go by there is now no-one who remembers Headmasters and Headmistresses from the early part of the twentieth century but there are quite a number of OS with vivid memories of Sophia Wells and Herbert Dennis, followed by many more with very clear recollections of Evelyn Nicholson and Stanley Carr. At foot of each page bearing the photograph of Headmasters and Headmistresses no longer with us, there is a means whereby OS can record their memories and anecdotes of these very special people in the History of Ayton School, which will appear in much the same manner as is adopted for the Visitors' Book. There is - in addition, an e-mail link for those who would wish to send their contribution this way for addition by the Webmaster (me!). Please leave your personal memories here for visitors to read and enjoy, and for posterity. (For those who may be concerned about misuse of this facility the Webmaster has editorial access). Lastly, we are planning to have a computer in the Reunion marquee. So if you don't have access to the Internet at home come along and have a look at your website. Dick Dennis (1944-52)
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