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Brian
Kingshott
President
- ORA
I am now well into my second year as ORA President. In recent years
presidents have usually served for 3 years and so there is just a year
to go, assuming members re-elect me at the AGM. I am very conscious that
I am the second former member of staff to serve as President and feel
it is very important that we find a former pupil to follow on when the
time comes.
I have edited the Newsletter for over ten years and see it as a vital
link with former pupils. I am delighted that we are now able to offer
an on-line version on this website. Electronic contact is increasingly
the way forward, especially for those newly joining directly from Year
13 (Sixth Form in old speak). Please let us have your news and help me
make the Newsletter a real channel of communication between Old Royals.
It is always pleasing to be able to help in rekindling old friendships.
The Old Royals’ Association has two simple objectives:
• To support the best interests of its members, the
Royal Wolverhampton School and the Association itself; and
• To maintain contact with and between ex-scholars of the Royal Wolverhampton
School
The
Association produces a biannual Newsletter, supports reunions of Old
Royals and arranges sporting fixtures against the School.
The Association
also arranges functions at the School, notably around annual School events,
such as Founder’s Day, Remembrance Sunday and the Advent Service
of Light.
Additionally,
the Association offers financial and other support for particular projects
within the School itself, for the benefit of current and future
generations of pupils. Clearly, the more paid-up subscribing members the
Association has, the more good causes that can be supported, so if you
are not currently a member of the Association and would like to become
one, I would urge you to download an application form/standing order mandate
from this website and return it to me or to our Treasurer, Martin White.
Martin has worked hard in recent years to build up our subscriber base
resulting in a considerable increase in our income. If you are not yet
a subscribing member, I would encourage you to download an application
form/standing order mandate from this website and return it to Martin.
Download
Here
I look forward to seeing you at our events in the coming months. In the
meantime, if there's anything you'd like to discuss directly, please
feel free to contact me here.
Brian Kingshott
Honorary President, Secretary & Newsletter Editor - the Old Royals’ Association
AGM 2010
The AGM will be held in the Victoria Hall on Saturday 12th June at 2pm.
This will be part of the programme for what we are now calling ORA Reunion
Day. We hope to be running sporting fixtures including tennis and badminton.
If we can find enough players there will also be a cricket match, possibly
between an ORA team and a team of RWS friends (which might also include
ORA members). Please get in touch if you are interested.
Old
Royals’ Newsletter
We publish this twice a year – May and October. It goes out to about
1500 Old Royals. We attach the previous issue to this website as the new
one is posted. There is now quite an archive.
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