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T The Old Ratclifan 2012 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2012 | Old Ratclifan News Leo Simmonds (49): “It is some getting meningitis in his early married island in Scotland, I have learnt to sixty years since I left behind my life that left him stone deaf, later scuba dive and have gained many schooldays at Ratcliffe. I have, losing not only his frst wife Joan, the skills working both out in the feld however, in those years been both mother of his fve children, to cancer, and in the lab! I am planning to go delighted and privileged to have but also his second wife (his carer), travelling for a year after university played rugby, cricket and hockey for also to cancer. He then had to go into then to go on to get teaching the Old Boys; to have been President a home to be cared for.” qualifcations to teach Geography.” of the Ratcliffan London Club when Vivienne Porisse (80): “My father, Alan Shepherd (71): “I continue it was a thriving body meeting on Julien Jules Porisse (45), turned to work in IT at Deutsche Bank in the frst Tuesday of every month; eighty-fve last May. He went to Germany, now in the central Chief and to have been a council member Ratcliffe during the Second World War Operating Offce writing IT policies, and President of the Ratcliffan with his brother Robert Porisse (46), i.e. the basic rules for the governance Association. All these things have who died nearly ten years ago. He was and management of IT which the now, of course, been passed on to there at the time Patrick McGoohan entire group has to follow. This younger hands. But my affection (44) (the actor of The Prisoner series) is particularly interesting in these and respect for Ratcliffe has not was at Ratcliffe and remembers him times of increased regulation, and dimmed, for Ratcliffe encouraged as a very good boxer. They used to a long way from where I started, me during and from my schooldays teach boxing back then. Additionally, to take an active part in promoting my brothers, Julien (81), Liam (80) the principles inherent in Rosminian and Michael (84) run and own Irish precepts in public and political affairs Pubs in Paris. They opened a total of in the country. Fifty years a member, four Corcoran’s Irish Pubs in Paris, I’m still active in the Catenian the name coming from my mother’s Association, being Chairman of maiden name (she was Irish) and they Trustees of its Bursary Fund (assisting are currently preparing for the opening young people to give Christian of the largest of their pubs near Porte community service); in the Catholic des Lilas.” Union (where I’m chairman of its Membership Committee and serve on Jeremy Moiser (61), having retired its Parliamentary and Public Affairs after a second career at the chalk-face Alan Shepherd (71) Committee and Council); in parish and published papers and booklets programming real-time process affairs (where I serve on the Finance on subjects so obscure that no one control systems. Our elder daughter, Committee, among other matters); has ever read them, has turned his Theresa (02), lives in Berlin and is and I’m Honorary Secretary of The hand to crime novels and has just doing well in the microbiology division Association of Papal Orders in Great celebrated the publication of his of a medical diagnostics company, Britain. I fnd time for a pint and a fourteenth (pseudonymously – to covering the whole of the Eastern part stroll to my club (it’s fne wine there). avoid the shame of having stooped so of Germany. She has bought a plot of Add in daily walks with the dogs in low). His brother, Giles (62), unwilling land with her fancé, Sebastian, and Richmond Park and I’m grateful to to relinquish the joys of teaching, they plan to build a house next year.” the Lord for reasonable health and soldiers on as Deputy Head and Head well-being. I still manage to ski and of Maths at a school in New Zealand. Patrick Farrelly (68): “I’m still living in summer enjoy cricket at Lords. Any in Devon. I’m currently Chairman more and it reads as if I’m writing my of the North Devon Group of the own obituary. At 82, it’s time I was Catenian Association and would put out to grass!” welcome any OR who is a Catenian to visit. We meet on the third Thursday Suzie Christie (09): “After dropping out of university in 2011, I’ve been of the month. Last year, my wife and doing various voluntary jobs and I retraced her father’s footsteps on musical activities. In September, a trek to the Pindari Glacier in the I’m going to go back to college to Uttarakhand Himalaya, which he did complete a BTech in Live Events as a nineteen-year-old Lieutenant in Production as I am certain that this is Eleanor Hardie (10) the Indian Army in 1945. We took an area I would like to go into. I have his old photographs and reached recently moved in with my boyfriend the snout of the glacier on the same and life is going well.” Eleanor Hardie (10): “I am now in day that he did sixty-three years my second year at Hull University, ago. Next year we plan to walk the George Wells (46): “I am still enjoying Scarborough Campus, studying Camino de Santiago de Compostela quite good health, getting to Mass at Environmental Science. It’s wonderful - again, my father-in-law’s fault! He Oakham each Sunday morning. I am being by the sea and living in an started it from Le Puy with a friend, very sad to report that my friend and amazing town that I really feel I but the friend and my mother-in-law fellow Ratcliffan Michael Trotman have become a part of. My course both contracted, and subsequently (47) died aged eighty-one on Sunday has presented me with amazing died of, dementia, so the effort was 12th February 2012. In his life on opportunities; so far I have spent a abandoned. We intend to complete earth he drew a very short straw, week at a research centre on a small the walk for him (about nine hundred 32 32