The Old Bordenian Association

Dinner 2012

2012-05-18T06:48:24Z

Click on this link to load the report of this year’s Annual Reunion Dinner: 2012 Annual Reunion Dinner Report

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Old Bordenian Annual Reunion Dinner 2012 – pictures

2012-05-14T22:23:29Z

Below are a number of photos taken at this year’s Annual Reunion Dinner, held on Saturday 12 May 2012. If any guests also took photos and would like to share them, please email them to us at webmaster@oldbordenians.co.uk. I don’t know many of the names of those in attendance, so if anyone can help out, please [...]

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Reunion Dinner 2012 – update

2012-04-11T09:11:16Z

Unfortunately our planned speaker, Major Crispin Humm, has had to withdraw due to overseas commitments. However, anticipating that he would not necessarily be in complete control of his own future movements, we had already lined up a very able replacement. We are pleased to inform you that Martyn Calder will now be our guest speaker. [...]

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Website Digest 2011

2012-03-16T23:37:34Z

We have again produced an easily accessible and printable copy of all the articles posted on the website over the past year, similar to the now discontinued annual publication – the Maroon. The current document upload facility of the site has meant posting the digest as 2 files.The Website Digest 2011 Part 1 and Website Digest 2011 [...]

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Annual Reunion Dinner

2012-03-04T12:58:53Z

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Borden Grammar School – Academy Status

2012-02-26T20:03:12Z

Below is a cutting from the local newspaper – Sittingbourne News Extra – announcing the news that BGS now has academy status and giving a brief overview of what that means. As an aside, for those old boys who don’t have regular contact with the Sittingbourne area, you may not have heard that the East [...]

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Old Boy in Vietnam

2012-02-12T10:52:17Z

Once more showing just how far and wide Old Boys spread themselves around the world, we have a link to Philip Spencer, a resident of Vietnam, celebrating Tet or the Lunar New Year, with his family. Philip is a contemporary of Dave Palmer, our website engine room and ”guardian”. If you are in any doubt [...]

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First edition of The Maroon – 1937!

2012-01-23T22:08:18Z

We were contacted by the grand-daughter of an old boy of the school, Ralph Martyn, who attended in the 1930s. She asked if we could locate a copy of the old school magazine from the 1930s for him to purchase or view. Denis Jarrett, another old boy of the school and former editor of the [...]

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OBA Reunion Dinner 2012

2011-12-29T10:51:08Z

The Certificate above will definitely not be handed out to Old Boys coming to next year’s Dinner, but that should not stop you coming. So, dependent on your age, mark it in your diary, filofax, calendar, laptop or tie a knot in something, and then contact your Old Boy colleagues and encourage them to come [...]

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Obituary – Frank Cassell (21 Aug 1930 – 14 Oct 2011)

2011-12-06T07:40:24Z

We are sorry to report the death on 14 October of one of our highest flying old boys ever, Frank Cassell, who attended the school between 1942-48. A graduate of the L.S.E., Frank Cassell spent some time as a journalist on The New Statesman and The Banker. He then joined the Civil Service in the [...]

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