No-one tells a tale quite like Patrick Mavros. Here’s a gem from the new Falcon Foundation YouTube Channel
No-one tells a tale quite like Patrick Mavros. Here’s a gem from the new Falcon Foundation YouTube Channel
You may only know him as Black Mamba Man. He’s also Alistair Burton, Tredgold 2004. Here’s his latest song… a clever Zim version of Barbados (remember, Coconut Airways?)…
You may be interested in visiting the podcast section of Highveld Stereo, a radio station based in Joburg. They are basing a number of their morning “traffic jokes” at Falcon College. Of note is the recent one entitled “Taking a stand against being late” in which not only is there a joke, but also a…
From the Birmingham Mail Former Birmingham Post sports reporter Mike Ward, who has died at the age of 65, was an “old school journalist” even among old school journalists. He was a fine writer who never shirked the often thankless task of extracting proper, quotable responses from those reluctant to answer questions. Two years of…
Tardy of us to notice that a former Falcon and Professor of Philosophy, Anthony Clifford Grayling (F’62), is pretty well known, but if, like me, you’d never heard of him (and you weren’t at Falcon in 1962), then here’s a chance to correct that and find out more about him. Click the link below to…
Sad news of a well-known Falcon Old Boy over the weekend http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11673939/Graham-Lord-writer-obituary.html
Photo credit: Ellen Elmendorp Award-winning journalist, David Beresford, (Hervey 1960 – 1965), passed away in Johannesburg on 22nd April after a long illness (Parkinson’s Disease. He was known and admired by his peers for three things: his dedication to his craft, a complicated personal life, and his capacity to balance the two with apparent equanimity. Those…