PERSONAL NEWS

Anne Groves (Mrs Kaye) (Staff – 1946-50) - Has a new address at Sonning Common near Reading.

1976

Denise Nixon (Mrs Sanders) – Denise, who goes under the stage name of Denise Black, has been filming in South Africa for a TV film. She enjoys television work and still undertakes some theatre work. She is married with 2 children, Sam, 16, and Dandy, 13, and lives in East Sussex. Recently she has appeared on TV in Waking the Dead.

1986

Helen Palmer – It was reported in December in the Portsmouth News that Helen had spent a month in Africa gathering information for an Oxfam campaign to highlight the problems in Liberia due to the civil war which ended last year. She was helping the campaign which aims to persuade the international community to take action to counteract the effects of the unregulated gun trade and spoke of the unsettling experience of speaking with some of Liberia’s ex-child soldiers. She had spent the summer in Chad working with refugees fleeing civil war in Sudan.

1994

Celia Bagshaw – Took part in three expeditions to Chile and Costa Rica last year as a medical officer for Operation Raleigh. The expeditions consisted of between 20 and 30 people of mixed ability who learnt to live and work together in challenging situations. During her time abroad she lived on a glacier, helped to build paths and slept in snow holes. She also went sea-kayaking. She was apparently very pleased to be voted the least sympathetic of the doctors as this meant that she had succeeded in persuading her team to rally round and work together! Celia is now back in Bristol working in the paediatric department and plans to pursue a career in Accident and Emergency.

Judi Coates – Is a Physiotherapist and is living in Kent.

Anne Gibson (Mrs Frank) – Married Peter in Winchester in March 2004 and then spent three weeks on honeymoon in Singapore, New Zealand and the Cook Islands. Anne is working as an Academic Quality Officer at Bournemouth University but says that she is still involved with British Gymnastics, primarily as a Press Officer at international competitions.

Jenny Ho (Mrs Lim) – Married Richard in August 2004 on Hayling Island with Amanda Nicholls as bridesmaid. Jenny is now living in London.

Amanda Nicholls – Is a GP in Tunbridge Wells.

Katherine Peacock – Is also living in London.

Helen Peet (Mrs Davies) (1992, Upper 5) – Is a doctor and mum to Ben and is living in Petersfield with her husband Kevin.

Lucy Pim (Mrs Ritchie) (1992, Upper 5) – Is married to Phil and is an officer in the Army.

1995

Catherine Vawer (Mrs Craig-Wood) – Graduated in 2000 and married Rob who she had met in her first year at Southampton. Rob now has his own internet company. When Catherine left university she started work as a house officer at the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke. She says that she enjoyed it so much that she didn’t manage to leave until August 2003 when she was accepted onto the GP training scheme. She worked as a GP registrar just north of Basingstoke near Aldermaston and heard in July 2004 that she had passed all the basic training requirements to become a fully fledged GP. She says that unfortunately this means that she has finally had to accept that she is a grown-up! In August 2004 she was due to take up a partnership in a 6-partner practice in Basingstoke. She was going to work ¾ time so that she has more time for family commitments. In the past couple of years she has also passed postgraduate diplomas in child health and obs/gynae and she was awaiting results to become a member of the Royal College of GP’s. She says that the High School training in exams has kept her on the straight and narrow! She is now living in Alton with Rob and her three cats, Millie, Mollie and Max.

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