JRGS 5G in 1967/68
JRGS Alumni Society

Another Vintage Year: 1967/68's 5G

"The Middle-Aged Posse"

JRGS Alumni Society

 

Ten members of 5G met on 23rd of April, 2003, at The Surprise, after parting company on 8th July, 1968. >> more.

 

Name

1967

Today

Location

Very brief notes

FORM MASTER
 

Mr. Neville Graham

Neville Graham

Neville Graham

Perth, Western Australia

Trained at Loughborough College.
Joined JRGS Sep 1957 from St. Aidan's GS, Sunderland.
Emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1969.
Taught at Linwood High School, Christchurch.
Retired from teaching in 1989.                  >> more

Roger Adcock

Roger Adcock

Roger Adcock

Oxted,
Surrey

Company Director of London building company.
Freeman City of London Member two Livery Companies & former Nat Hon Sec RTBI.

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Bob
Alford

Unknown

Coulsdon, Croydon

Home Lift Manufacturer &
Installation Company Owner.
Owner of hotel & abattoir in France.

Sadly, Bob died 12th November, 2004.

Gordon
Arnold
Unknown Unknown Newcastle-upon-
Tyne
More info awaited.                                        email

Martin
Ashley, Dip Arch RIBA

Unknown

Unknown

Richmond, Surrey

Consultant architect to the restoration of The Queen's Chapel, St James's Palace, and is inspecting architect to Dorchester Abbey. He is an architect member of Guildford Diocesan Advisory Committee, and regularly lectures on the philosophy and principles of historic building conservation. [More]                        email

Andrew
Beckett
Unknown   Devon Retired from Army.

Very sadly passed away 1st July 2004,
leaving family in Devon.

David Buckley, MSc

Unknown

Unknown

Royal Tunbridge
Wells

Local Government Executive.                          email

Steve Cattle

Steve Cattle

Steve Cattle

Hooley, Coulsdon,
Surrey

Electrician & plays lacrosse for a club in Woodmansterne. Went 2006 to Canada to play in the World Championships for an over-Fifties side.  email

Malcolm
Chambers

 

 

Found via his brother.
Response awaited.

Allan
Cubitt

Easter 2003 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk

International film and documentary screenwriter.
www.qub.ac.uk
Screenwriter: "Prime Suspect," etc. and film adaptation of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." www.pbs.org

Composer & lyrics with Mick Ford (JRGS) >> email
Agent: Lia Schmidt/The Agency 020 7727 1346

Gary
Day-Ellison

Dartmoor,
Devon

International Art Director and book cover designer
Left JRGS for St. Martins College of Art.

Now runs own business.
More of Gary’s business and work.                email

Graham
Dewey

Weymouth, Devon

Businessman, scholar, entrepreneur, chartered surveyor, past-president of Architects & Surveyors Institute; international expert on industrial safety & mental health. Nearly completed a Doctorate (PhD) of Physical Safety in Mental Health.                   email

Geoffrey
Downer

now: Geoffrey C. van Beek

 

Rotterdam, Holland

Attended Bristol University to study dentistry; qualified in December 1976 as BDS and started own practice in Rotterdam in 1978. In 1993 was elected Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and received a Dutch knighthood (OBE equivalent) in 2006 for services to dentistry and the community.
More of Geoffrey’s business.                        email

Les
Elvin

Addiscombe, Croydon

An outstanding guitarist and entertainer who can spellbind an audience.


Also Customs & Excise Executive                 email

Christopher
Ford

 

 

Current location unknown.

Robert

Harris

 

 

Ex-regular Army.
Bob and Dawn write to
John and Ann Willsher each Xmas.

Current location unknown.

Mike Howard

 

Lincoln

Headmaster of school in Lincoln.                  email

Christopher
MacKenny

 

Believed to be
in Folkestone?

Accountant.

Current location unknown.

Robin McSweeney

Orpington,
Kent

Entrepreneur, Sales Director and Former Member of
Beckenham Round Table.                           email

Martin
Minter

Warlingham, Surrey

Finance Director and owns Travel Business.     email

Kevin
O' Brien

Kevin O'Brien

Kevin O'Brien

Ashford,
Kent

Railway industry consultant.                         email

David
Parkyn

New Forest
Southampton
Hampshire

Structural Engineer and Planning Executive
with Local Authority                                   
email

Melvyn
Peters

 

Believed to be in
Burgess Hill,
Sussex

French Polisher?

Duncan
Phillips

Philips

 

 

Current location unknown.

Terry
Potter

Hertfordshire

Former Garage General Manager.

Expert on children's play provision and the
rights of the child.
Rural Postman; writer of prose & poetry;
painter & sculptor; linguist and traveler
to Spain.                                                 email

Paul
Rastrick

Ipswich,
Suffolk

IT Manager for Inland Revenue.                  email

Christopher
Reed

 

Purley,
Surrey

Estate Agent.                                            email

Derek
Reeves

 

Croydon,
Surrey

International Musician & Conductor of Croydon
Symphonic Band.


No emails allowed. Write to:
54 Lansdowne Road, Croydon CRO 2BD

Mick Richardson

High Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire

International Chef & former Publican.
Now Head Chef at RAF High Wycombe Officers' Mess

email

Paul
Scott

 

 

Chief Engineer on Condor Ferries out of St. Malo. email

Vince
Simeone

 

Coulsdon, Croydon

Former BT Manager for Delta Point.

Ran butchery business in Surrey Street.

Now in ABN Ambro in City.                               email

Geoff
Spiller

Singapore

Owns hotel hospitality support business in Far
East.
Linguist & former Commercial Pilot
.                 email

Martin
Trowell

 

Bristol,
Somerset

Advertising & Mail Order Manager for The Soil
Association.                                               
email

Roger
Williams

South Oxfordshire

Garden Designer of high repute.                    email

John
Willsher

Oakley, Bedfordshire

Mathematician in IT data bases & Seismic Oil
Exploration.                                                 email

Peter
Wilmer

 

 

Current location unknown.

 

>> These vintage 5G images are taken from the 1967 JRGS School Photo.

>> A full class list and GCE O-level successes of 1967/68's 5G can be found on page 2 of the 1968 Speech Day program.

>> And check out more vintage images from the 5G Scrapbook.

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