DECEMBER 8, 2015
bfes_scea_newsletter@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSLETTER NUMBER 32
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Weston-super-Mare Lunch
Saturday 7th May 2016
Your Committee is keen that all members have opportunities to meet up with friends and colleagues each year and hope that arranging reunion lunches at various prices and in very different venues will assist.
This is your opportunity to attend a Saturday Luncheon Reunion in sunny Weston-super-Mare! The Beachlands Hotel is one of the best in this seaside resort and dining there is a pleasure.
The arrangements for the day are:
Morning Coffee & Pre Lunch Drinks will be served from 11.30 in the Lounge. (NB this will be a Cash Bar.)
Lunch will be served at 13.00 starting with a choice (to be made at the time of booking) from:
* Homemade cream of broccoli soup with parmesan croutons
* Salad of mango, spring onion, fried haloumi, with chili & mint dressing,
* Crispy Brie wedges served with rocket salad & red onion chutney
* Smoked salmon & prawn parcels with lime crème fraiche
Followed by a Main Course choice (served with seasonal vegetables) of:
* Roast Loin of pork with pear & sage stuffing, apple sauce & gravy
* Supreme of chicken baked with sherry & cream sauce
* Fillet of plaice cooked with cherry tomatoes, mussels & olive oil
* Homemade asparagus tempura with a honey, soya & ginger sauce
For Dessert the choice is from:
* Homemade fresh strawberry shortcakes with raspberry puree
* Homemade chocolate profiteroles filled with cream
* Selection of cheese with biscuits & grapes
* Homemade cherry pie served warm with clotted cream
All rounded off with Coffee/tea & mints
A Booking Form, with meal selection and details of possible accommodation, together with directions will be available in the Spring Newsletter in March. We have provisionally booked for between 30 and 60 members and the cost will be £27 members/£29 guests.
Saturday 7th May 2016
Your Committee is keen that all members have opportunities to meet up with friends and colleagues each year and hope that arranging reunion lunches at various prices and in very different venues will assist.
This is your opportunity to attend a Saturday Luncheon Reunion in sunny Weston-super-Mare! The Beachlands Hotel is one of the best in this seaside resort and dining there is a pleasure.
The arrangements for the day are:
Morning Coffee & Pre Lunch Drinks will be served from 11.30 in the Lounge. (NB this will be a Cash Bar.)
Lunch will be served at 13.00 starting with a choice (to be made at the time of booking) from:
* Homemade cream of broccoli soup with parmesan croutons
* Salad of mango, spring onion, fried haloumi, with chili & mint dressing,
* Crispy Brie wedges served with rocket salad & red onion chutney
* Smoked salmon & prawn parcels with lime crème fraiche
Followed by a Main Course choice (served with seasonal vegetables) of:
* Roast Loin of pork with pear & sage stuffing, apple sauce & gravy
* Supreme of chicken baked with sherry & cream sauce
* Fillet of plaice cooked with cherry tomatoes, mussels & olive oil
* Homemade asparagus tempura with a honey, soya & ginger sauce
For Dessert the choice is from:
* Homemade fresh strawberry shortcakes with raspberry puree
* Homemade chocolate profiteroles filled with cream
* Selection of cheese with biscuits & grapes
* Homemade cherry pie served warm with clotted cream
All rounded off with Coffee/tea & mints
A Booking Form, with meal selection and details of possible accommodation, together with directions will be available in the Spring Newsletter in March. We have provisionally booked for between 30 and 60 members and the cost will be £27 members/£29 guests.
![]() Contact us Chair Glyn Pascoe 07813 643601 glyn@pascoe.co Secretary Lynn Marshall 0118 3274128 lynnmarsh6@aol.com Archivist Walter Lewis 01934 645759 Treasurer Janet Bradley 01788 891850 Membership Secretary Hugh and Christine Ritchie, 01227470763, bfes.scememb@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Tom Nielsen-Marsh bfes_scea_newsletter@yahoo.co.uk We’re on the Web! http://www.bfes-scea-association.org/ Find us on Facebook Log on to Facebook and type in “British families education service association” |
Memories of Empire The First British Army of the Rhine Formed in 1840 to teach the children of soldiers serving overseas in garrison schools throughout a world, which in their time and to them was “The Empire” the Queen’s Army Schoolmistresses (QAS) was effectively disbanded in 1947 when the last teachers were recruited. One lady and former president of the (now defunct) QAS Association, was 20 in 1927 when she went to teach the children of the first British Army on the Rhine, then, in 1930, going on to teach in a garrison town on the North West Frontier. She said (in an interview in 1989 when the QAS Association was disbanded) that, “In wartime there were often no books or materials, and there are plenty of stories about QAS teachers holding classes in caves. But I had a quiet war in India, we had plenty of books and the children were never unduly worried about what was going on”. Another, married to a RASC officer, was sent to Singapore three days before the Japanese invasion of the colony. Her ship – the coaster Mata Hari - was captured and she was interned by the Japanese for three-and-a half years in various camps where she always managed to set up a schoolroom for the children and got the Japanese to give her slates: reduced to Dickensian teaching methods. In one camp she took under her wing an orphaned boy whose mother had died after five day’s internment. She taught him English and brought him to England in 1945 where he was taken into care by the Red Cross. Thirty-seven years later she was reunited with him (now living in California) where he professed no memory of the internment camps. From an article by Jenny Rees Departed Friends Hylton Thomas OBE who was a Deputy Head at King's School from 1976 – 1982 sadly died on the 9th October, aged 74, after a short illness. From 1982 to 1986 Hylton was Headteacher at Gloucester School, Hohne and from then until retirement he was Headteacher at Wootton Bassett Comprehensive School. Following great success in his last post he was awarded the OBE. Frances Mason sadly died suddenly on September 16th at home in Hounslow, aged 67. Frances, a member of the association for several years, used to attend the Winchester Curry Lunches. She taught in Cyprus at Ayios Nikolaos and Dhekelia Primary Schools from 1972-1975 and in Hong Kong (St Andrew's) from 1975-1978. Freda Rose sadly died after a long illness. Freda (and husband Fred who survives her) served with BFES in Osnabrück and Gütersloh between 1966 and 1972. Freda was later headteacher of Renhold Lower School in Bedford from 1974 to 1987. Last but not least Dave Parish is a “lost member” – if anyone has a forwarding address could they please pass it to the membership secretary. Thank you. |
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BFES SCEA ASSOCIATION
Christ's College Cambridge Friday 8th April 2016
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Meal(s)
I wish to book the following places for lunch and have indicated those who require the vegetarian option or have special dietary requirements.
Member or Members @ £45 ........................................... £ .............................................................
Member(s) Name(s) .......................................................................................................................................................................
Meal Preference(s) .........................................................................................................................................................................
Number of Guests @ £48 .............................................. £ ..............................................................
Guest(s) Name(s) ..........................................................................................................................................................................
Meal preference(s) ........................................................................................................................................................................
Payment
I enclose a cheque payable to BFES-SCEA Association for the sum of
£ ...................................... Bank Details .............................................................................................................................
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Lloyds Bank PLC
Account Number 01403653
Sort Code 30-92-69
Reference is always the function venue and date.
Send you completed booking form to:-
Paul Macardle
3 Owen Court
St. Andrews Park
Norwich
NR7 0GS
NO REFUNDS FOR CANCELLATION ARE POSSIBLR AFTER 21st MARCH 2016
Please don't forget you e-mail address or Stamped Addressed Envelope
BFES SCEA ASSOCIATION
Christ's College Cambridge Friday 8th April 2016
Personal Information
Title ...........................................................
Name/Surname ...........................................................................................................................................................................
Contact Phone Number...............................................................................................................................................................
E-Mail .........................................................................................................................................................................................
Address ......................................................................................................................................................................................
...................................................................................................................................................................................................
..................................................................................................................................................................................................
Post Code ......................................................................
If you of not have an e-mail address and require conformation and final arrangements to be sent by post you must enclose a stamped addressed envelope (with appropriate postage please). Thank you.
Meal(s)
I wish to book the following places for lunch and have indicated those who require the vegetarian option or have special dietary requirements.
Member or Members @ £45 ........................................... £ .............................................................
Member(s) Name(s) .......................................................................................................................................................................
Meal Preference(s) .........................................................................................................................................................................
Number of Guests @ £48 .............................................. £ ..............................................................
Guest(s) Name(s) ..........................................................................................................................................................................
Meal preference(s) ........................................................................................................................................................................
Payment
I enclose a cheque payable to BFES-SCEA Association for the sum of
£ ...................................... Bank Details .............................................................................................................................
Cheque Number .........................................................
NB. If you wish to pay by electronic Bank Transfer the Association Bank details are:_
Lloyds Bank PLC
Account Number 01403653
Sort Code 30-92-69
Reference is always the function venue and date.
Send you completed booking form to:-
Paul Macardle
3 Owen Court
St. Andrews Park
Norwich
NR7 0GS
NO REFUNDS FOR CANCELLATION ARE POSSIBLR AFTER 21st MARCH 2016
Please don't forget you e-mail address or Stamped Addressed Envelope