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The Old Ratclifan 2013 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2013 | Old Ratclifan News
Victoria Meynell (née Illingworth) working for Vodafone UK in Customer Cattrall at the Old Vic in Tennessee
(00): “I have been extremely busy Services. All but one of our five William’s Sweet Bird of Youth. Frank
this year opening up my business, children have left home and are fully Finnegan (72) and his wife, Chris,
Chris Meynell and Family Funerals. involved in their interesting lives, and and David and Mary Reeves joined
My father-in-law, husband and myself Caitlin is studying hard at Glasgow me for a delightful night out at the
have gone into business together. University. So, I’m still alive, healthy theatre. The next morning, the five of
We are based in Syston and are and happy!” us met up at St Etheldreda’s, and I
passionate about delivering a family- Nicole Parry (00): “I am currently could not have been more impressed,
owned and run service that is very a private chef, having worked for both with the historic structure, and
competitively priced. I continue to Richard Branson for years. I am now particularly with the fabulous music,
work part-time at Glenfield Hospital working on a TV show – details to be delivered by an exceptional organist
as a Research Nurse and, obviously, confirmed.” and a brilliant quartet of singers! Fr
our three beautiful children keep me Tom Deidun (62) said a Latin Mass,
busy too! Life is good.” Sameer Pattni (99): “I have travelled and afterwards we retired to the
to New York, Dubai, Mumbai and ancient pub next door for a pint. I will
Mike Spurr (94): “I now have a Goa recently - I can’t get enough of it! not stop in London again without a
degree in Food Science and Human Catch me if you can!” visit to St Etheldreda’s.”
Nutrition. I love travelling and have
visited over twenty countries. Despite Jeanette Reilly (86): “I’m now based Ben Curran (76): “Greetings to all
damaging the majority of my body in Berlin and working as Head of my Ratcliffe colleagues from 1973
through twenty-five years of rugby, I Marketing for KPMG.” through to 1976. I am alive and well
still love skiing and mountain biking. here in my home town in Washington
I work at Pepsico as a Research DC, where I’ve been kicking around
and Development Project Manager, having fun with my two kiddos,
shaping the future of snacks - you Jacob (8) and Matiwos (4), and
could say that I’m a chief crisp taster! my lovely bride of ten years, Mimi
I have multiple patents to my name. Curran. I invite any of you to pop in
I now live locally with the better half for a visit when or if you are ever in
and Morris the dog.” DC. Since working in the mid-80s
in the Sudan with the International
Tommy Castleman (01): “Since Rescue Committee in the world of
leaving Ratcliffe, I have trained refugee camp management, I have
as a carpenter, started a property been in the States serving as the
development company and, oddly, Jeanette Reilly (86) NGO Coordinator with the Federal
also become a part-owner of a Emergency Management Agency.
pyrotechnics company. During this Simmy Leung (97): “I am now Recently, I took on the management
time, my band was signed to a large married with two boys, living and of a large part of our agency’s Disaster
European label, and I often spend my working in London. Alan (02) lives Cadre Workforce. There’s never a dull
time on tour. I got married in 2011. in Hong Kong; he and his wife are moment!”
I’m currently looking to open a small now expecting their first child, due
antiques dealership in Barcelona in January. Alex (06) is now living in
specialising in German beer steins.” Oxford, where he is studying for his
PhD degree.”
Ryan Patel (11): “I’ve just finished
my A Levels at Wyggeston and Queen James Connolly (06): “Having
Elizabeth I College (QE College) and attended Ratcliffe from Years 7 to 11,
am now going to Trinity College, I then studied Management Sciences
Cambridge to read Economics.” at Loughborough University and I’m
now a Technical Account Manager at
Simon Tyas (71): “I have been Microsoft. I live in Reading, where our
married to Mhairi since 1992 and UK office is based, and travel around
have been living in Scotland since the country working with customers in
1986, which I think makes me an Yorkshire, London, the Midlands, the Ben Curran (76) (far right) at the
honorary Scot. I completed my Royal South Coast, and even one in Jersey!” New York Dinner
Air Force service in 2009 after a
period of thirty-one very happy and Peter De Simone (71): “Despite a Christopher Murphy (83): “After
fulfilling years, during which time I long association with Ratcliffe from working as a Paralegal for the Civil
was a security officer responsible for my time as an Upper Sixth Former Service, first in the HMRC, then the
Royal and VIP flights, a pilot, and and Oxbridge candidate (1970-71), RCPO, the Northern Ireland Office,
for twenty-five years, an air traffic with frequent visits back, I somehow and finally in the Serious Fraud Office,
controller. After all of that, I was never learned about the Rosminian I was mobilised by the Army in June
honoured to receive the L G Groves connection to St Etheldreda’s Church 2013 for a year’s military service.
Memorial Award for Flight Safety, the in Ely Place, London. I visited the UK I am currently posted to Kandahar
Chief of the Air Staff Commendation this past August to see some friends Airfield. Out of sixty-three soldiers
and, in 2002, the MBE. Since leaving and to catch my cousin’s wife, Lucy who were in my call-up at Chilwell
the Royal Air Force, I have been Robinson, playing opposite Kim Military Training Centre, I was the
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The Old Ratclifan 2013 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2013 | Old Ratclifan News
Victoria Meynell (née Illingworth) working for Vodafone UK in Customer Cattrall at the Old Vic in Tennessee
(00): “I have been extremely busy Services. All but one of our five William’s Sweet Bird of Youth. Frank
this year opening up my business, children have left home and are fully Finnegan (72) and his wife, Chris,
Chris Meynell and Family Funerals. involved in their interesting lives, and and David and Mary Reeves joined
My father-in-law, husband and myself Caitlin is studying hard at Glasgow me for a delightful night out at the
have gone into business together. University. So, I’m still alive, healthy theatre. The next morning, the five of
We are based in Syston and are and happy!” us met up at St Etheldreda’s, and I
passionate about delivering a family- Nicole Parry (00): “I am currently could not have been more impressed,
owned and run service that is very a private chef, having worked for both with the historic structure, and
competitively priced. I continue to Richard Branson for years. I am now particularly with the fabulous music,
work part-time at Glenfield Hospital working on a TV show – details to be delivered by an exceptional organist
as a Research Nurse and, obviously, confirmed.” and a brilliant quartet of singers! Fr
our three beautiful children keep me Tom Deidun (62) said a Latin Mass,
busy too! Life is good.” Sameer Pattni (99): “I have travelled and afterwards we retired to the
to New York, Dubai, Mumbai and ancient pub next door for a pint. I will
Mike Spurr (94): “I now have a Goa recently - I can’t get enough of it! not stop in London again without a
degree in Food Science and Human Catch me if you can!” visit to St Etheldreda’s.”
Nutrition. I love travelling and have
visited over twenty countries. Despite Jeanette Reilly (86): “I’m now based Ben Curran (76): “Greetings to all
damaging the majority of my body in Berlin and working as Head of my Ratcliffe colleagues from 1973
through twenty-five years of rugby, I Marketing for KPMG.” through to 1976. I am alive and well
still love skiing and mountain biking. here in my home town in Washington
I work at Pepsico as a Research DC, where I’ve been kicking around
and Development Project Manager, having fun with my two kiddos,
shaping the future of snacks - you Jacob (8) and Matiwos (4), and
could say that I’m a chief crisp taster! my lovely bride of ten years, Mimi
I have multiple patents to my name. Curran. I invite any of you to pop in
I now live locally with the better half for a visit when or if you are ever in
and Morris the dog.” DC. Since working in the mid-80s
in the Sudan with the International
Tommy Castleman (01): “Since Rescue Committee in the world of
leaving Ratcliffe, I have trained refugee camp management, I have
as a carpenter, started a property been in the States serving as the
development company and, oddly, Jeanette Reilly (86) NGO Coordinator with the Federal
also become a part-owner of a Emergency Management Agency.
pyrotechnics company. During this Simmy Leung (97): “I am now Recently, I took on the management
time, my band was signed to a large married with two boys, living and of a large part of our agency’s Disaster
European label, and I often spend my working in London. Alan (02) lives Cadre Workforce. There’s never a dull
time on tour. I got married in 2011. in Hong Kong; he and his wife are moment!”
I’m currently looking to open a small now expecting their first child, due
antiques dealership in Barcelona in January. Alex (06) is now living in
specialising in German beer steins.” Oxford, where he is studying for his
PhD degree.”
Ryan Patel (11): “I’ve just finished
my A Levels at Wyggeston and Queen James Connolly (06): “Having
Elizabeth I College (QE College) and attended Ratcliffe from Years 7 to 11,
am now going to Trinity College, I then studied Management Sciences
Cambridge to read Economics.” at Loughborough University and I’m
now a Technical Account Manager at
Simon Tyas (71): “I have been Microsoft. I live in Reading, where our
married to Mhairi since 1992 and UK office is based, and travel around
have been living in Scotland since the country working with customers in
1986, which I think makes me an Yorkshire, London, the Midlands, the Ben Curran (76) (far right) at the
honorary Scot. I completed my Royal South Coast, and even one in Jersey!” New York Dinner
Air Force service in 2009 after a
period of thirty-one very happy and Peter De Simone (71): “Despite a Christopher Murphy (83): “After
fulfilling years, during which time I long association with Ratcliffe from working as a Paralegal for the Civil
was a security officer responsible for my time as an Upper Sixth Former Service, first in the HMRC, then the
Royal and VIP flights, a pilot, and and Oxbridge candidate (1970-71), RCPO, the Northern Ireland Office,
for twenty-five years, an air traffic with frequent visits back, I somehow and finally in the Serious Fraud Office,
controller. After all of that, I was never learned about the Rosminian I was mobilised by the Army in June
honoured to receive the L G Groves connection to St Etheldreda’s Church 2013 for a year’s military service.
Memorial Award for Flight Safety, the in Ely Place, London. I visited the UK I am currently posted to Kandahar
Chief of the Air Staff Commendation this past August to see some friends Airfield. Out of sixty-three soldiers
and, in 2002, the MBE. Since leaving and to catch my cousin’s wife, Lucy who were in my call-up at Chilwell
the Royal Air Force, I have been Robinson, playing opposite Kim Military Training Centre, I was the
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