Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I was less persuaded by the Jeremiah Duggan case... I did actually agree with the German prosecutor who said that no-one appeared to be directly involved in Jerry's death... I felt sorry for Erica but I don't think she is doing herself any favours. I'm afraid many viewers will have received the sam...

I've just finished reading Anna Swan's autobiographical work "Statues without Shadows" (Hodder & Stoughton 2005) about her research into the lives of her mother and father (Michael Swan, Col A 1933-9). Numerous refs to CH, for herself at Hertford and for her father at Horsham. Couldn'...

My original comment wasn't about Operation Bluecoat and was transferred to this thread by mistake.

anniexf wrote:I'm sorry if either of you found my original post annoying, but it was entirely unintended.
Sorry too, Rex, if I seemed to over-react in Paula's defence; the subject is still sore even after so many years.

Not at all, Annie - you were quite right.

As I knew Paula ( same form, though different Ward) I feel I must challenge "jaundiced". To her it was real, deeply felt, and extremely painful. You're quite right to challenge it, Annie. I've just had a look in the dictionary and found to my dismay that "jaundiced" is defined a...

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:Surely Cathy counts as a celebrity?

kerrensimmonds wrote:And yes I did forget Catherine (sorry!)

Forgive me, but I'm so seldom around on this forum anymore: who is Cathy, and why is she a celebrity?

Is she the organist Catherine Ennis (6's 65-71), who later taught at Horsham?

I think that the actress in the States is Debbie (now Rosh) Wright, nee Stone, who was exactly contemporary with me, and in 1's. She left school to train as a nurse at the Westminster Hospital, and once trained, moved to America to nurse and moved into acting. She is not yet a major 'celebrity', bu...

On the Horsham side ------- Bernard Levin ? ........Who, strangely, hated C.H. and used every possibility he could to denigrate it ! In fairness, John, he did come back to judge a debating competition, and contributed an affectionate obituary of Roy Macklin (Staff 26-46) to The Blue . And the depic...

In terms of this thread in general, whilst all the women mentioned are no doubt very well-known and successful in their own fields, I think we have to be wary of apparently clutching at straws ... I think limiting it to one or two very successful women is better than lists of women to whom the resp...

We don't have, say, a … journalist … from our ranks. …Or do we? The late Mary Edmond (6's 26-34) was a BBC radio journalist for more than thirty years, ending up as editor of the Today programme and Yesterday in Parliament . Kate Chacksfield (3's 79-81) is another long-serving broadcast journ...

We don't have, say, a … novelist from our ranks. …Or do we? ...Very willing to stand corrected! :? Hazel Hucker (Drake, Hertford 46-51) has had six novels published and Elizabeth Gibson (Glen, 4's 61-67; now Lizzie Ballagher) at least five. The late Paula Neuss (2's 54-60) also wrote one, All G...

We do have an actress - shes about 70 now and not entirely unknown, but I have forgotten her name! I assume you're thinking of Andrée Evans (4's 42-49), Kerren? Don't forget about Pam Abas (Ross, 1's 36-43), best known for playing the Mother Superior in the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy . Then...

These respected women are serious distinguished academic senior ladies! By "celebrity" I suppose I meant something different. We don't have, say, a film or stage actress/journalist/singer or musician of the non-classical variety, comedienne/telly presenter/novelist from our ranks. Or even...

Does anyone remember the visit to Hertford of the Jabberwock Jazzmen? ...I wonder if any of the band went on to be famous as professional musicians? According to Joe Froggatt (PeB 59-66), writing in The Blue in 1968, the Jabberwock Jazzmen consisted of Noel Abel (trombone), William Watson (trumpet)...

The best account of the (male) CH uniform that I'm aware of is in Charity Costumes by Phillis Cunnington and Catherine Lucas (London, A & C Black, 1978).

(P.S. Are you the same Sally Ford who's social secretary of LiveSoc in Southampton? http://livesoc.co.uk/)