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- Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Question for the ladies.........
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14101
What I detest and abhor more than anything else is people who only look at the start of my name and not at all of it, Katharine is the spelling closest to the classical Greek, as my Old Blue Dad informed me. Thank God I edited my spelling the other day! :wink: Thank you for that simple courtesy, so...
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Question for the ladies.........
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14101
I'll come in as a female, speaking ONLY for myself, a married woman of age 58. While I accept some of the conventions over initials that existed in the past, I would like an envelope to be addressed to me as either Mrs K M Dobson or as Katharine Dobson. I do NOT like Mrs Katharine Dobson, even less ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: How did your family learn of CH?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2525
Re: How did your family learn of CH?
Thanks for pointing me in that direction. I did a quick trawl when I joined but missed that one. I still like my father's story and hope it was worth posting.Mid A 15 wrote:You might find replies limited as we did a similar thread recently.
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- Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: How did your family learn of CH?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2525
How did your family learn of CH?
I am a second generation Blue. There is a wonderful family story of the way my father and aunt both got to the school, I hope it is true!! My grandfather was a missionary in the Bahmas during the First World War and soon after that he returned to be a vicar in the East End of London. The children, u...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Grecians' Houses
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7135
Re: Barnes Wallis
First, I am 99 percent certain that the place you visited was the Vickers aircraft factory at Weybridge in Surrey. Second, I met Barnes Wallis (when I was young) and also had a lot of dealings with his family when writing a booklet about him for the 2003 RAF Foundationers 50th anniversary. I know o...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Grecians' Houses
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7135
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:13 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues Who Move Back to the Horsham/Hertford Area
- Replies: 84
- Views: 18759
Re: Joy Holmes
The only reason you may have told me off was because I always forgot to change from my house shoes into my outdoor shoes for chapel in the morning, apart from that I was nauseatingly well behaved. Can't even remember checking for that, outside chapel it was blazer buttons mainly. Can't think now wh...
- Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues Who Move Back to the Horsham/Hertford Area
- Replies: 84
- Views: 18759
Re: Joy Holmes
Were you not Head Girl? You were there until Christmas of my first year I believe. No, not me, it was Virginia Coles in 8s. I was one of 4 Senior VIth in 6s and we did not have either Head Girl or Deputy (Elizabeth Richards - 7s the other Mathematician) As you well know, Mary, you may remember me b...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues Who Move Back to the Horsham/Hertford Area
- Replies: 84
- Views: 18759
Re: Deirdre Pallister & Joy Holmes
<b>Joy Holmes (2's 1943-50, Hertford Staff 1959-66)</b> recently retired after quite a few years as Secretary of the Caledonian Society of Blues. I'm pretty sure that Joy had been in a Junior house before 2's and was a full 10 years at the school from Second Form through to the end of Senior Sixth ...
- Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues Who Move Back to the Horsham/Hertford Area
- Replies: 84
- Views: 18759
My English teacher was an OB but I think she was the only one at Hertford when I was there. Coming in for my first post, had Joy Holmes left before you came? She taught Maths. She had been 10 years at the school, Head Girl in her time. I only had her in the Sixth Form soon after I left she upped st...