For the first time in more than a decade, OC day was again combined with Speech Day, ensuring the school looked at its best and there was a large crowd round Jubilee for the annual cricket match against the School. Glorious sunshine helped make the occasions and ensured many stayed for the conclusion of the game.
While speeches were on, OCs met in the Quad for reunion and drinks, after which parents joined them to fill the Chapel for the OC Service. A memorable event took place, the first at which the new Mander organ has been played, and accompanying anthems were superbly sung by the School choir, as well as rousing hymns. Phil Parker, the chaplain, took the service while OC Society president Dudley Couper read the lesson, and The Revd Alan Megahey (one-time 1 North Housemaster) gave an dddress so memorable that it will be reproduced in the next <I>Old Cranleighan</I>.
Lunch in Hall or a less formal hog roast on Jubilee followed. In Hall, Helen Donovan (nee Sandy) had organised two tables of friends to celebrate Thirty Years On for the Year of 1980, and Richard Sale assembled two tables of 1950s contemporaries to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his 21st birthday!
Jubilee had numerous attractions besides hogs: Twenty20 cricket (the School beat the OCs), a beer tent, a bouncy castle, a kids’ activity tent, a superb illustrated timeline of School history, ice-cream vans, and hockey and tennis matches (OCs beat the School in both), all overlooked by our magnificent restored pavilion.
Present was Tim Evans (2&3 South, 1994), brave multiple sclerosis sufferer, for whom OCs and North House especially raised very many pounds 
with sponsored efforts, raffles and a Zane Sennett-inspired auction for days with the Red Arrows at their Lincolnshire base.
with sponsored efforts, raffles and a Zane Sennett-inspired auction for days with the Red Arrows at their Lincolnshire base.Cranleigh at its best.