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T The Old Ratclifan 2012 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2012 | Old Ratclifan News work at Citigroup. I’m married with Camp Bastion, where he was based a ten year old son who loves soccer - before. He is getting married next year Dad is the under ten coach.” when he manages to touch base! Zabeen Patel (99): “My news is that Ruby Finnegan (10): “I am now going I got married to Mr Mohamed Javid into my last year at Lincoln University Patel in April of this year.” studying Studio Television with the hope of graduation and a job by this Bryan Cassidy (52): “I was impressed time next year.” to find the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barosso, Erick Bilinski (83) featuring in the OR magazine with Antonio Gravili (87). President France, Paris for a year or so before being appointed to the Renault Spain Barosso is very fortunate to have Marketing Department in Madrid. had an Old Ratcliffian as part of There I met my wife Elvira, whose his team. During my fifteen years Andalusian origins cannot be hidden and with whom I have two lovely daughters, Claudia (seventeen) and Aitana (fourteen). In Madrid I was also visited by several Old Ratcliffans Laura Yell (11) at the Olympics such as Basil Har (83), Edwin Loh (83) and Paula and John again. I was Laura Yell (11): “I have been studying then headhunted and moved to the Economics and Accounting at Bristol ‘dark side’ - the suppliers of Marketing University. I have worked at the and Communications Departments. Olympics this summer and had a great I handled several large advertising Bryan Cassidy (52) time.” accounts such as Peugeot, Chanel, Telefonica, Schweppes, and was then in the European Parliament (1984- offered the General Management 1999) and since, as a member of of Advertising Agencies like Euro the European Economic and Social RSCG and J Walter Thomson. I have Committee, I have only once been now been working for Altavia, a aware of an OR ‘stagiare’ (intern) communication group specialising in in the European Commission Trade retail marketing, for six years. I am Directorate General. During my time really looking forward to meeting my as MEP for Dorset, I visited schools old friends of ’83 again at our reunion, such as Bryanston, Canford and Peter Fraser (71) in front of where we can share a pint of beer like Sherborne, who were all in my Euro Astra 2F’s Ariane 5 Rocket those served by Doc Beaver on Friday constituency, and found that there nights in the bar of the ‘Social’!” was great interest in the possibilities Peter Fraser (71) spent his of working in one of the European birthday this year in Kourou in the Institutions in Brussels. Should any South American jungle of French present Ratcliffian (or Ratcliffienne!) Guiana watching the successful be interested in becoming a ‘stagiare’, launch of Astra 2F, one of several I would be happy to advise them how telecommunications satellites he to go about it.” has been working on at Astrium in Stevenage where he is Head of Astrium’s Antenna Group. French Guiana is 90% dense equatorial, uninhabited rainforest and, being just north of the equator, provides Sophie Montgomery-Stuart (10) a perfect launch site for spacecraft Sophie Montgomery-Stuart (10): which are fired off the Eastern Coast “I’m currently studying Business over the Atlantic. Kourou itself is an Management at Surrey University, and inhospitable, dangerous place. Once I’m thoroughly enjoying the course, ravaged by yellow fever and malaria, as well as playing hockey. I have just and even abandoned by the Jesuits, fnished my second year and have Oliver Caven (99) the French would send prisoners here started my placement at Mattioli to languish in their prisons. During Woods as an Accounts Management Oliver Caven (99) is currently serving the trip, Peter visited the infamous, Assistant.” with the Queen’s Royal Lancers as a crumbling prison on Devil’s Island Corporal. He went out to Afghanistan (made famous by the film Papillon). Chris McGlashan (82): “I’m currently in October and will be there until April The launch site itself was guarded living and working in New York - I next year, guarding the area around by the famous French Foreign Legion 34 34