The Old Harveians' Association

The OHGS played The School yesterday at Etchinghill Golf Club and for the first time ever OHGS won with a score of 4 - 2 making the overall score over 10 years 5 1/2 to 4 1/2 for OHGS.

It is hoped that the 2007 match will take place in March - April.

Posted by Andy Coughlan in Golf Society at 16:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

THE OLD HARVEIANS’ ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DINNER

Saturday 2nd December - 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm at the School
(The School will be open from 6.15 pm)

Join your friends, contemporaries and other Old Harveians at this year’s Dinner. You will be able to enjoy the splendid facilities now on offer: Harvey’s Diner (our new restaurant) and additional hall, built onto the side of the existing Main Hall. There’ll be plenty of room for more Old Harveians to dine in comfort, with ample space to circulate and socialise before and after the meal. The Dinner will again be in the comfortable and convivial atmosphere of the Main Hall and there will be a well-stocked bar with a good selection of wines to complement your meal.

We are anticipating another really good turn-out, so be sure of a place by ordering your ticket(s) right away.

Posted by Andy Coughlan in Events at 09:21 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

June 10th was a perfect English Summers day, sunny and hot. Our coach picked up at 7am to ensure an early arrival at The Churchill War Cabinet rooms at Whitehall at 9.40am. London was buzzing with the second rehearsal for The Trooping of the Colour going on in Horseguards Parade just by the entrance to The Churchill rooms. We did get a brief glimpse of the action as we came out of the rooms at around midday.

Posted by John Oliver in Events at 21:55 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Welcome to our website!

We want to hear your stories - let the memorabilia and stories of yesteryear keep rolling in – let us never forget Spider Beck’s Friday Tests, the skull over Killer Howard’s room; and how did Clank get his nickname?

Let us know your achievements – our edukashun wasn’t all that bad!!

Where are you now? Let’s get that “Corner of the Globe” feeling.

Your committee will do its best. There are plans to display all those sporting photographs in the corridors (so unique to Harvey) onto this site. Let us give our newsletter editor the job of editing because of too much information!

It is the most important feature of our famous Association to develop contact between us through this site, Newsletters, the Annual Dinner, outings and regular sporting events with the School.

We are also involved in supporting the school and to advance the development of Harvey pupils. Our achievements here, particularly under our past President John Smith’s drive have been considerable. The Leslie Ames Pavilion and the publication of Part II of the School History to name just two.

Let us have your ideas for future projects and encourage others to join. Onwards and upwards to a membership of 1,500 – let’s give Phil Harding all the headaches!!

Above all, enjoy the fellowship all this produces.

You can e-mail us at feedback@oldharveians.org.uk or leave a comment on one of the articles.

John Batten
President

OHA President John Batten and former OHA President John Smith

Posted by Andy Coughlan in Announcements at 14:49 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Aled Davies, who was a superb Romeo in the Harvey production of 1970, has been attracting fine reviews for his work in America.

Currently on the web are reviews of his lead performances in “Art”, “Lend Me a Tenor”, Performance” and “A Christmas Carol”. His Scrooge in this last play is acquiring legendary status as he seems to have a continuous Christmas booking with the Portland Stage Company for the part.

Also on the web is an endorsement for Aled on the site, www.yourtruehero.org by an assistant stage manager from the Portland Stage Company, Meredith Morgan.

Here are a couple of extracts:

"Aled Davies is, among other things, a great human being and professional stage actor. Theatre, not just ordinary blood, flows through his veins (though at this point in his life they’re probably a little polluted with carcinogenic chemicals he sucks into his lungs daily and the fatty remnants of less than healthy meals and sugar, which he denounces as “poison”, but boldly consumes anyway, in spite of himself). Aled Davies is my hero."

"At the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine where I was an assistant stage manager. Aled was in two shows and also a sometime dialect coach. Unnervingly blunt and slightly bawdy, he was initially intimidating but in “Christmas Carol”, when I wasn’t trying to herd child actors and keep rehearsal flowing smoothly, I realized how amazing Aled really is. Throughout the entire process, he, Aled, knew everything that was going on. He knew which kids cared about the play and which kids were problems (he actually mentioned wanting to have a particularly annoying, stupid seven year old in place of a Thanksgiving turkey).

"After Christmas Carol closed and we had moved onto the next show I realized that Aled is a student of humanity. He has spent the majority of his life trying to understand people. He is the only grown person I have ever met who has openly and honestly referred to himself as being lost. Someone once said: “We are all in the gutter, but some are looking at the stars."

"Aled Davies is one of these people. That’s why I consider him my hero."

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