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The Old Ratcliffan 2011 | Introductionhe Old Ratcliffan 2011 | Introduction T cOnTenTs Introduction P2 News from the College P5 Ratcliffian Association Council P7 Ratcliffian Association Events P9 Ratcliffian Association Sports Events P15 Old Ratcliffian News P18 Births P36 Marriages P37 Obituaries P39 Diary Dates for 2012 BC A Message from your President to new houses to families who had lost everything in the tsunami. In Uganda, there were new farming communities showing their produce, which not only met their need, but left them with surplus for trading in local markets. In East Timor, there were cooperatives that not only trained people with new skills, but also provided wages for families. I thank Cafod for its constant reminder to us all that we can make a difference and that our gifts, no matter how small, can change people’s lives. Seeing the Bishop John Arnold (71) pictured at his Investiture as a Bishop with the Class of ‘71 work of Cafod and meeting with the “I must say that I felt very flattered and expectations as they left generosity of people like the Turkana when approached about the Ratcliffe; others had certainly found also challenge me about the way I possibility of being elected President themselves going in very unexpected live, and my priorities. of the Old Ratcliffian Association directions. Thinking in terms of Ratcliffe, I for this year. It softened the blow of hope that the school will continue to realising that it is already forty years My year as President of the challenge each individual to discover since my year left the College. I do Association coincides with my the gifts that they have and to use not really mind being the age that I becoming Chair of Trustees of those gifts to make a difference in Cafod. I feel privileged to represent am, but I am slightly alarmed at the the bishops of England and Wales our world. And my keenest hope will speed with which I have arrived at be that those leaving the College 58! Where did those decades go? in Cafod’s work which, I must say, I will take with them a lively sense of find encouraging and challenging. The reunion at the College in June In recent years, I have been able to Faith and a realisation that each has brought together a great variety of meet Cafod’s partners in Sri Lanka, the privilege and the challenge of characters from my year – about East Timor, Uganda and Kenya, but being nothing less than, as St Paul half of the students of ‘71 were this summer I have travelled with would have it, ‘Ambassadors for able to put in an appearance over them to Congo, Rwanda and the Christ’. Gifts, Faith and Mission will the weekend. It was wonderful to drought-ridden area of Kenya. In a transform our world.” see them again. Life has treated sense, this recent trip was different Bishop John Arnold (71) us differently and our journeys from others. Until now, I had seen Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster showed a great variety of careers places where the Cafod partnership President of the Ratcliffian Association and experiences. Some might have had made significant contributions said that their lives had followed to development and change. In Sri something of their ambitions Lanka, we were able to give the keys 2