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T The Old Ratclifan 2012 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2012 | Old Ratclifan News - Edgen Murray - selling to the oil and Practice in my home town of Telford. of four boys - my brothers, Andrew gas industry across Asia Pacific. If I am married to a GP and have two (68), Gareth (71) and Gregory (72) any ORs are visiting Singapore, feel children at medical school and one are all Old Ratcliffans. Gareth recently free to get in contact; you will be very doing A Levels. She is defnitely not went to a reunion there which was welcome to share a beer and I will be going in to medicine, sensible girl.” specifcally for his year group.” happy to offer local advice.” Jenny Batty (09): “After I graduated Alan Urdaibay (71): “Despite the from Northumbria University with passage of the years, and my general a 2:1 in Sports Management, I non-participation in OR affairs, I volunteered at the Olympics, working have often been reminded of the debt at the beach volleyball at Horse I owe to Ratcliffe which provided Guards Parade, which was a great me with a cornerstone unavailable experience. I am currently doing elsewhere in my life. This was made an internship with Teamlink Sports manifest in the shape of Fr Simon Tours working within the Marketing Giles (60), Mr Gareth Lloyd and Department. I have also planned to other staff members we met recently, do a ski season in the Three Valleys, whose gentlemanliness epitomises Sam Stabler (10) which starts at the beginning of the spirit of Ratcliffe and which I have December. It should be a good and carried with me as an example ever enjoyable six months which I am since. Besides this, the education I Sam Stabler (10): “In January, I really looking forward to.” started my second year at Lamar received (I was present only for the University in Texas studying Chemical Judi Brown (71): “I enjoyed meeting Sixth Form) at Ratcliffe provided the Engineering. I competed in California, so many old friends at the Fortieth foundation of my thought more than Alabama, and Wisconsin for the Anniversary Reunion and really my later studies and has always been university before returning home to appreciated the warm welcome I the reference point for my own career, England to run in the 1500m and received after ‘disappearing’ for so as an educator both of my students 5km at the Olympic trials.” many years. It felt very much like and of my own children as they were a homecoming. I am now living in growing up. This is very real - I well Rupert Adcock (90): “We have had remember what I learnt from Fr Morris our fourth child this year; Henry was and loving Gloucester. My work as and others in the English Department born in March and joins Alice, Freddie a Management Consultant with WS and have been able to support my and Oliver. Our company, Global Atkins is satisfyingly varied. It takes daughter’s extra-curricular study of A Career Company, has now grown me all over the country and has Level English, which cannot be taught to a team of over sixty, focusing on brought me into contact with at least at her school due to a timetable clash recruiting across Africa and Asia, one other OR.” with sciences. My daughter, for her so my private and professional lives part, was delighted with her visit to have certainly become busy! I’ve Ratcliffe. She was very struck by the bumped into a few Old Ratcliffians RE room, with its beautiful stained- on my travels around the markets, glass windows. ‘What a wonderful particularly the Dozie brothers, place to study RE!’ she said.” Chiekezi (89) and Uzoma (88), who I’ve seen many times in Lagos. Nicholas Jelley (03): “My specialist I hope to be playing again at the health and ftness facility, NIX, which Grand Match in 2013 and I’m looking opened in December last year, is forward to our twenty-five year continuing to grow. It has an emphasis reunion in 2015. Anyone leaving in on sports performance and functional years 1985-90, please contact me at Kelvin Wu (10) conditioning as well as delivering high adcock@globalcc.net as it would be levels of health and ftness expertise good to reconnect.” Kelvin Wu (10): “I’ve just fnished for all members. It is also good to my second year at Hertfordshire keep strong links with Ratcliffe with Leo Biles (79): “I’m currently working University. I’m now going into my a number of both current students in the United Arab Emirates on the fnal year before I have to fnd a job in and Old Ratcliffans as members. To design and project management of a Environmental Management.” fnd out more about NIX, visit www. wide scope of projects, from palaces nixhealthftness.com or call in for a to hospitals and hotels. My second Matthew Jones (76): “I am living in look around.” business is recycling, as I believe Hertford and work in UK Sales and wholeheartedly that we all should be Marketing for BOS GmbH, a German Johnny Owen (95): “I am still running doing something about our world and company based in Emsdetten which my recruitment company and have giving something back for our future manufactures steel frames. I’m done for the last few years. I am children. All the Biles boys are well - married with three boys; Ben is doing getting married next March and that Aidan (78), me, and Martin (84).” a PGCE in History at Green Templeton seems to be flling most of my life at College, Oxford (looking for NQT roles the moment. From our year at school, Simon Frain (76): “After several I am only really in regular contact with different careers, I have been now), Sam is in his fnal year of a Rob Smith (95). I am godparent to his appointed Partner in a General Philosophy degree at Sussex, and children and he is my best man next Harry is thirteen. I am the youngest 28 28