60th Anniversary Wine – Made by a Falcon Old Boy
This being the 60th Anniversary for Falcon, you many not have been aware of one of the less-publicised aspects of the celebrations around Falcon College’s 60th birthday – namely, a special bottling of College wines by Falcon Old Boy, Jeremy Borg (Founders, 1978). You may know Jeremy’s post-Falcon history, (more…)
60th Update – Accommodation & Newsletter
Here is an Old Boys Newsletter for June 2014 covering the 60th Anniversary celebrations. Here too (below) is a collection of accommodation options for FOBs planning to attend. (more…)
Another book by a FOB author
For any of you who remember Gary Reeve-Johnson (Founders 1984), he has a book for you all – “Spindrift – Swept from Zimbabwe” – published under the shortened name of Lloyd Johnson (Lloyd being his middle name). About the book A story of humanity, resilience and courage against the backdrop of (more…)
New FOB book
This book is an anecdotal memoir of my life as a young lad in Rhodesia, remembering the people and places that influenced me from an early age. The book reflects on my life of privilege in a society that was facing increasing pressures from the outside world. Then there is (more…)
FOB’s lucky escape at Reno
Many of you will have seen the news about the P-51 pilot who sadly crashed at an air show in Reno on September 16th 2011. One of our old boys, Rick Fenner (Hervey1960 – 1964 – pictured left), was at this air show and, as you can see from his (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…)
Betty McAulay passes away
This just in from Duncan McAulay Our mother, Betty McAulay who was SAN sister from 1967 to 1986 passed away suddenly in England yesterday afternoon. My brother, Richard and I grew up at the school, and as a result, have very strong ties to the College, as both residents and (more…)
Peter Steyn wins RSA’s highest ornithology award
Peter Steyn (Staff 1961-70) has been awarded the Gill Memorial Award for 2011 at BirdLife South Africa’s recent AGM in March 2011 at the Bundu Country Lodge, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Here’s a link to the page announcing this Birdlife South Africa – 2011 Gill Memorial Award Peter has, over the last (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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