Famous FOBs

Heath Streak, one of Falcon’s finest

Few could have missed the tragic news of the death of Heath Streak on 3rd September 2023 at the age of 49. Looking around the media landscape, there are so many reports we could quote, but this one from the Telegraph is probably one of the best.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/09/03/heath-streak-dead-zimbabwe-colon-cancer-age-49/

Here he is in the Falconian team that beat Petreans at Radley College on the occasion of their 50th anniversary celebrations. Heath’s friend, Henry Olonga, helped us repeat the performance at the same location 10 years later!

Heath Streak, one of Falcon's finest
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Falconian Greg’s Painted Dog tour

Greg Rasmussen (H’74), is leading a tour of the USA between 24th April and 4th June 2022. Here below is his post from LinkedIn; the actual dates are in the page he links to (in case they change)


Greg RasmussenI am excited to kick off the Painted Dog Research Trust ’s 2022 U.S. Awareness and Fundraising Tour on Sunday, April 24 at Zoo Miami. I will visit zoos and universities across the U.S. to deliver an update on PDRT’s accomplishments in the last two years and future goals for saving endangered painted dogs. Please join me at one of these events: TOUR DATES

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Sports writer Mike Ward, H’69 dies

From the Birmingham Mail Picture from the Birmingham Mail, shows Mike in earlier years with his two children, Olivia and Henry 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 (more…)

Famed FOB Journalist dies

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 (more…)

Hervey minstrel still gigging

Those who remember Julian Pellatt in Hervey from 1969 to 1973 may recall him being just a tad musical. Well nothing has changed, except now he can be found gigging with the Helsby Mountain String Band. Here’s one of their latest uploads to their YouTube Channel – that’s Julian on the (more…)

A C Grayling on his Falcon past!

A titbit picked up on the Internet by James Whidborne (H’78) , with A C Grayling, one of Falcon’s better known luminaries, telling tales of canings and running away etc http://www.intelligencesquared.com/talks/a-c-grayling-on-running-away-from-boarding-school,-at-5×15 …there will, of course, always be debate about who holds the caning record. Some say it’s Tim Hawkins but did we (more…)

Famous FOB in the news

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. (more…)
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