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 60 years, published 8 books and more than 350 articles about birds. You can read more about him in our Famous FOBs section – here is the link to that.
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?)…
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
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 really count them? Having listened…
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…
Last Sunday (28th June) Andy Whittall led a fine team of FOBs (and a couple of ringers!) to victory over Peterhouse at Radley College, Oxford. Final score… Falcon 245 for 8Peterhouse 218 all out in the 30th overMan of the Match was David Lashbrook for his 5 wickets.
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 ukulele. None of us should…
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Not one of my favourite Masters at Falcon (1960-1966), but I do congratulate Peter Steyn on his accomplishments.