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The Keble Review 2013
n recent years we have been taking advantage
of the large size of Hall to bring together
different groups of Old Members to attend
the Summer Dinner. At its core the Summer
Dinner remains the one occasion in the College
calendar when Old Members of all years can bring
family and friends to dine in Hall. The event has
also long had a Keble Association presence as it
falls on the same day as the AGM and Trustees
meetings.
It was during a conversation with an Old Member,
whose father had also been here, that I learnt
that they had never had the opportunity to eat
together in Hall. This chance remark prompted us
to invite the ‘Keble Dynasties’ this year.
Invitations were sent to over 700 Old Members
all of whom were related to at least one other
Old Member. The speech was given by a Finalist,
Alex Field (2010) whose parents, Richard (1981)
and Victoria (Marshall) (1983) met at Keble.
Stephen Vaughan (1979) who brought his father,
a student here from 1946, said afterwards,
‘it is not enough simply to say that my father
and I enjoyed it - you gave us the opportunity
to create a life memory together. Given my
father’s advanced age, these things seem really
important.’ Sandy Lofthouse (1951), who said
Grace, came with his son, James (1984) and his
daughter-in-law Ayesha (Walawalkar) (1984);
all three studied English. Peter Holgate (1956)
who taught the Warden French at Queen Mary’s
Grammar School, Walsall in the late 1960s came
with his daughter Kate (1985). Brothers, Kit
(1967) and Nicholas Brownlees (1971) dined
together for the first time in Hall remembering
A Summer’s
Evening Dinner
In contrast to other colleges, Keble is very fortunate
to have a Hall of such proportions that it can seat over
three hundred.
Pictured (l-r) top row: Ian
Vaughan (1946) and son
Stephen (1979); Kate Holgate
(1985), the Warden, Elizabeth
and Peter Holgate (1956);
brothers Kit (1967) and
Nicholas (1971) Brownlees;
Middle row: celebrating their
10th Anniversary Grace Li
(2003), Natasha Hughes
(2003), John-Paul Szczepanik,
Will McCann (2003), Frederica
Jones, Ross Bland (2003), Luke
Stuchbury (2003), Xiaochen
Cui, Ross McAdam (2003),
Alberto Passaro (2003) and
Amy Hodson; Bottom row:
KA Committee Mike Fawcett
(1972), Vivek Srivastava
(1996) with Felicity Burch
(2005 Corpus), and Tony
Hewlett (1964); Glyn James
and Bill Key both 1948;
Andrea (1990) and father
John Tallis (1965)
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