Dinner 2012

May 17, 2012 in Events

Click on this link to load the report of this year’s Annual Reunion Dinner: 2012 Annual Reunion Dinner Report

Old Bordenian Annual Reunion Dinner 2012 – pictures

May 14, 2012 in Events, Pictures

Below are a number of photos taken at this year’s Annual Reunion Dinner, held on Saturday 12 May 2012. If any guests also took photos and would like to share them, please email them to us at webmaster@oldbordenians.co.uk. I don’t know many of the names of those in attendance, so if anyone can help out, please add the details in the comments box below, using the picture reference number. Read the rest of this entry →

Reunion Dinner 2012 – update

April 11, 2012 in Events

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Unfortunately our planned speaker, Major Crispin Humm, has had to withdraw due to overseas commitments.  However, anticipating that he would not necessarily be in complete control of his own future movements, we had already lined up a very able replacement.  We are pleased to inform you that Martyn Calder will now be our guest speaker.

Martyn departed Borden in 1969 for Reading University, and subsequently qualified as a chartered surveyor specialising in estate management strategy. He has been responsible for the establishment and launch of Workspace Group (now a quoted company), and of Chatham Maritime Trust, a community charity which manages the major part of the former Chatham Naval Dockyard, where he was chief executive until 2010. In a parallel life he has also run a personal development training company and is trained in neuro-linguistic programming and life coaching.

We look forward to seeing you on May 12th – see the earlier article on March 4 with the Reservation Form.

 

Website Digest 2011

March 17, 2012 in Guest Posts, Site Info

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Annual Reunion Dinner

March 4, 2012 in Events

Borden Grammar School – Academy Status

February 26, 2012 in Borden Grammar News

Below is a cutting from the local newspaper – Sittingbourne News Extra – announcing the news that BGS now has academy status and giving a brief overview of what that means.  As an aside, for those old boys who don’t have regular contact with the Sittingbourne area, you may not have heard that the East Kent Gazette, source of all local news for the vast majority of us, ceased publication last December (2011) after being in existence for 156 years!

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Old Boy in Vietnam

February 12, 2012 in Guest Posts, Video

Once more showing just how far and wide Old Boys spread themselves around the world, we have a link to Philip Spencer, a resident of Vietnam, celebrating Tet or the Lunar New Year, with his family.  Philip is a contemporary of Dave Palmer, our website engine room and  ”guardian”.  If you are in any doubt about which one is Philip – think “Mikado”.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW1Gamvw1I4&feature=youtu.be