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Annual Dinner
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Sadly, because of the continuing uncertainty around the Covid-19 situation, the
Executive Committee took the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Annual
Dinner this year. The likely requirement to ‘social distance’ with over one hundred people from different households meant that we may have
had to set out the tables in exam format, with everyone sitting at their own
small table! This wouldn’t really have made for a convivial dinner, even assuming that everyone would
have been able to travel to the event.
Of course, this year’s Dinner was intended to be a celebration of the centenary of the Society and so
the ‘Centenary Dinner’ has now been postponed until 2021. The good news is that the addresses by our
principal speakers David Morphet and Bob Field are not lost: both have kindly agreed to hold them over until next year’s Dinner.
Please put Saturday, 20th November, 2021 in your diary now and surely, by then, we can all look forward to a great
evening! For the early birds who have already booked their ticket this year,
your ticket will be valid for next year. Alternatively, if this is not
convenient, you can request a refund.
Founders’ Day
The traditional Founders’ Day Service was due to be held at All Hallows’ Church, Almondbury, at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, 22nd November. Sadly, along with
the Annual Dinner, this event has also been cancelled this year.
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David Morphet
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There cannot be many Old Almondburians with as many successful disparate careers
as David Morphet.
He left KJGS to gain a Double First in English at Cambridge. He entered the
Diplomatic Service in 1961 and in due course became a private secretary to
Michael Stewart and George Brown. Later he moved to the Department of Energy,
working in Paris and Vienna, and he was in due course seconded to Midlands
Electricity Board as deputy chairman.
Joining the private sector in 1989 he held senior positions in Balfour Beatty
and BICC. In 1989, following the privatisation of British Rail he led the
Railway Forum.
Today, David is best known as one of the UK’s most highly respected poets. He has published 16 collections of poetry under
his own imprint Notion Books.
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Bob Field
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A graduate of Hull University, Bob Field gained a degree in French and German in
1972.
He came to KJGS in 1973 to teach French with Dave Gregson and in 1976 he
introduced German. When King James’s lost its Sixth form in 1989 he moved to Greenhead to teach French and German
and, recently, beginners’ Italian. Bob still teaches on a part-time basis.
He is a keen sportsman who played to a high standard of non-league football with
Bradley Rangers in Huddersfield.
He was fully involved with football at KJGS taking over the coaching
responsibilities of the First XI and generally assisting sports master Ken
Ireland. Bob organised the staff football and cricket teams and was
instrumental in the formation of the OAS cricket section.
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