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| "Green Book" Goes Electronic |
Last Updated: Wednesday, 25 July 2007
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 The last Framlingham College Register (commonly known as 'the Green Book' because of its deep green cover) was published in 1968 - the last of a succession of such books providing a snap-shot of the College and Post-College careers of its alumni.
The cost of creating a modern printed equivalent is too high to contemplate, let alone the human resource required to research and compile it. However, all is not lost. The online database within the SOF Website has the capability to produce an electronic version, which auto-compiles using information extracted from the database each time a particular year is requested. All we need is for members to complete their own entries in full - and to update them from time to time - and for the odd volunteer to step forward to help transcribe historic entries from the old Green Books!
The Electronic Green Book can be found within the Directory menu (via the navigation bar above), and guidance on its use will be found on clicking the Electronic Green Book menu item.
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| SOF Website adds Career Networking Feature to Website |
Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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 After many requests from younger OFs, the website team is proud to announce that, in collaboration with Linkedin.com, it has developed a private SOF business & career networking capability for use only by registered users of the SOF Website.
The system has been trialled by a small group of some 35 OFs and has proved easy to use. It allows members to search for OFs in a wide range of industry sectors - though its ultimate usefulness will be entirely dependent on the number of OFs who register on it.
Please click on the main menu item, Career Networking, to find out more - and please then follow the link provided to accept an invitation to join the SOF Linkedin Group.
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| OF Girls Hockey Match - Thursday 20th September |
Last Updated: Monday, 9 July 2007
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 Former Head Girl, Sinead Collins (M1999-2007), is organising an OF Hockey match on Thursday 20th September against the Girl's 1st XI. The match will be held at the College and the exact timing will be confirmed later.
Any lady OF who is interested in playing then please email Sinead on shnedved@hotmail.co.uk
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| Moreau Scholars Get Awards at Glittering Speech Day |
Last Updated: Saturday, 7 July 2007
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 Katie Blow and Robert Norman received their first £800 Scholaship Award cheques from Stuart Rose, Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer plc at Speech Day Prize Giving today (7th July). After the awards ceremony, there was bright sunshine to welcome everyone to some fine cricket on The Back and plenty to eat and drink in the marquee.
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| Schneidau and Masson successfully complete 900 Mile Charity Bike Ride |
Last Updated: Thursday, 5 July 2007
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 Update on 5 July 2007 – Chris Essex (K69-75) writes – I’m delighted to say that John & Mike have successfully completed their marathon cycle ride from the Scilly Isles to the Shetland Isles on 26 June 2007. They completed 905 miles with 1 broken chain, 3 punctures and I broken collar bone (this occured when Mike hit a pot hole on the marvellous Glaswegian Roads and crashed onto the pavement after having completed 700 miles!)
You can see photos by clicking here.
They were joined on Shetland by Peter Howard-Dobson (R65-69) and he has sent in his story – you can read this by clicking here.
They undertook this epic ride to raise £10,000 for Bowel Cancer, so why not donate on-line at http://www.justgiving.com/ukride07
Original article : Mike Schneidau (M 72-77) and John Masson (M 74-79) will start a 900 Mile bike ride on 11th June, taking them from the southern-most Scilly Isle to the northern-most Shetland Isle where they plan to arrive on 27th June. In doing so they hope to raise at least £10,000 for the Charity, Bowel Cancer UK.
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| West of England Supper - 9 June 2007 |
Last Updated: Thursday, 14 June 2007
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 Chris Essex (K 69-75) writes: "The West of England Supper was held at the Lamb Inn at Hindon, Wiltshire on Saturday 9th June 2007. The Lamb Inn has been a public house since the 12th century and the dining room was again a lovely setting for our 3-course meal, which was chosen on the evening.
Whilst we were relatively small in number we came from a wide geographical area covering Bath & North East Somerset, Berkshire, Devon, Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Suffolk - so almost a different county for each of us! We were also delighted to be accompanied by 7 wives, making a total of 17 in all. A good time was had by all.".
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| Moreau Scholars Selected for 2007 Awards |
Last Updated: Friday, 8 June 2007
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 The Society is delighted to announce that Robert Norman(Stradbroke) and Katie Blow(Victoria) are the winners of its Moreau Leaving Scholarships for 2007.
Peter Howard-Dobson (R 65-69), chairman of the selection panel, said: "We were amazed at the sheer volume of email support for all the candidates, and were immensely grateful for all the advice we received from staff and students over the course of the year. The final interviews were quite simply a joy. What a very impressive group of young people, all of whom gave an excellent account of themselves. Ultimately, though, we had to select just two of them and found that we were united in choosing Robert and Katie. We're thrilled at the prospect of two such super Framlingham College graduates joining the scholarship programme, and look forward to the presentation of their awards on Speech Day."
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| Antarctic Peninsula - Cruise Expedition Opportunity Nov/Dec 2008 |
Last Updated: Tuesday, 5 June 2007
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 Martin Myers-Allen, Senior Master at the College, has been organising journeys of self-discovery for students over many years. Now, he's leveraged his relationship with Far Frontiers, to create an opportunity for OFs (and their partners) to make an amazing voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula. There are 16 places available (out of a total of only 53), on the cruise-refurbished polar and oceanographic research ship Professor Multanovskiy. This opportunity is only open to members and family of: The James Caird Society; The Royal Geographical Society with IBG; The Society of Old Framlinghamians and the South Georgia Association.
Destinations will include: The Falklands; South Georgia; the South Orkneys; The Antarctic Peninsula; The Weddell Sea including Paulet Island and Brown Bluff; the Orne Islands; and finally, Paradise Bay and the Melchior Islands.
To find out more, just click on Read More.
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| Good Turn-Out at Newmarket Supper |
Last Updated: Friday, 1 June 2007
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 Peter Golding reports: "Another successful Supper was held at The Rutland Arms Hotel on Friday the 4th of May. Thirty-one members and guests attended and, in the absence of our President Brian Smith, Norman Porter took the chair and gave us a brief resume of College and Society affairs. Unfortunately,the College's representative was unable to attend at the last minute. However, this gave more time for members to reminisce amongst themselves."
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| The Waugh/Butters Family |
Last Updated: Monday, 28 May 2007
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 Chris Essex writes:Continuing my work on researching and documenting Distinguished OFs and in particular on some of the families that have attended the College over the generations, I have just put up a detailed description of the Waugh/Butters Family. Over the last couple of months I have been helped by John Waugh (K41-48) to put this piece togther.
They are a remarkable racing family both here in the UK and in Europe. You can read their fascinating history by clicking here.
This research was helped by John lending me a copy of the Waugh family history, "The Racing Waughs", that was published by one of his many relations - see picture. My thanks to John for his help on this piece.
I'm sure members of the Simpson family would like me to point out that while 27 Waughs have attended Framlingham, 28 Simpsons have attended and you can see their family tree here!
To view other families that I have documented on the Distinguished section, click here.
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