A.O.S.A. 2002 ANNUAL REPORT

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Sitting in the Meeting House on the Sunday of the Reunion, I realised that it was over 70 years since my first experience of Meeting, and the recollections started to flow of how much my association with Ayton meant to me.

To those of my vintage, 1930-34, the names of Herbert Dennis, Herbert Dobbing, Leonard Stapleton, Bernard Coates and John Wallace will be familiar. Do my contemporaries also remember Arthur Taylor, Theodore Shewell, or George Alston Watson, who took Staps’ place when the latter was away on a sabbatical (and who wrote the School’s Centenary History). We all seemed to enjoy life and move steadily through our school days.

At that time, Sir John Fry was Chairman of the School Committee, and members of the Hodgkin, Kitching and Mounsey families gave the school their support.

In the post-war years, work on the Committee and Old Scholars’ Association brought me into the life of the school, and with it the friendship of Evelyn Nicholson and John and Mary Reader, amongst others.

As another year goes by, I hasten to express my good fortune in having been connected for so long with Ayton friends and Friends.

Douglas Horne (1930-34)

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