Former racing commentator John Penney (2&3 South 1946) has died at the age of 86. Penney enjoyed a varied career. Assistant to trainer Neville Crump in 1948-49, he held a jumps licence himself from 1952-54 before going on to a journalistic and broadcasting career. He worked for several newspapers in his time, as well as […]
The modern British public would not regard being accused of committing adultery with the Queen’s sister as damaging to a man’s reputation, the High Court was told yesterday. Lawyers for Jacqueline Gold, the owner of the Ann Summers chain of sex shops, are fighting a £500,000 libel case brought by Michael Caborn-Waterfield (East 1946) the […]
Nick Meyer (2&3 South, 1962) writes: It is 15 years since I took up the reins of Chairman of the Old Cranleighan Society. On the whole, it has been a period of time of immense satisfaction, some frustration, great enjoyment and, at times, the pangs of disappointment have been felt. During the period of time […]
Henry Casswell is an almost forgotten figure in Cranleigh history – in Alan Megahey’s History of Cranleigh School he warranted one passing mention – and yet aside from Joseph Merriman, the first headmaster, no single figure made more impact on the early life of Cranleigh and the Old Cranleighans. Casswell was born in Lincolnshire into an established […]
Tom Petzold (East, 2004) writes: This year, along with two other Old Cranleighans, Luke Marazzi (East, 2007) and James Bowey (Cubitt, 2010), I started work as a first officer flying the 737 for Ryanair and would like to share with those who have similar ambitions, our routes to becoming an airline pilot. After leaving Cranleigh, […]
Congratulations to Henry Lamont (East, 2012) on winning his Blue for Oxford University in the Varsity match at Twickenham on December 6. At the time of the game he was aged 18 years 7 months and was the only undergraduate in the side. In the game itself Oxford produced a dramatic second-half comeback to complete […]
May 1962 certain members of the alumni of that year were pondering what to do during the summer holidays, which would be our last one before we either went to University or joined the palaces of industry after leaving school. I had the bright idea of going on a cricket tour to Cornwall and I […]
The first edition of Contact, in September 1996, announced the appointment of Guy Waller as our new Head from September 2014. Sixteen years and fifty editions later, we announce the appointment of our next Head, Martin Reader. Martin has been Headmaster of Wellington School, Somerset, since 2006. He gained an MPhil in English Studies at […]
After several years of negotiations an announcement is being made today that a new school – Cranleigh Abu Dhabi – will open in 2014. Located on a seven-hectare site on Saadiyat Island, the school will cater for up to 1600 students aged between 3 and 18. It will incorporate separate, co-educational Junior and Senior schools, […]
I am thrilled to post here the news that James Brookes, OC (1999-2004) has had his first full volume of poetry published by one of the world’s leading poetry presses, Salt. Copies can be obtained through Amazon and select bookshops or from the publisher: sales@saltpublishing.com<mailto: sales@saltpublishing.com>. The Dante-inspired title is ‘Sins of the Leopard’. The […]
