The Old Wycliffian December Supper

OW DECEMBER SUPPER 2008

A Night dedicated to “The Ladies”

Another FIRST for Wycliffe

This year’s OW Supper targets the GIRLS, which should encourage the “CHAPS”.  There are over 750 ladies who have passed through The College.  Females now represent approximately 17% of all OW’s.

Friday 5th December 08

Senior School Sports Centre

19.30hrs.

Cost £25 per person (includes VAT)

If you want to track some of “your forgotten friends” and lost their address/telephone number, please contact the OWS Office (Tel no: 01453 820439 or email ow@wycliffe.co.uk) and we will help you to make contact etc.

Contact all your Wycliffe friends, make up a party, come and enjoy yourself. Please send any OW’s you know an e-mail to visit this site NOW. You are of course invited (and encouraged) to bring your partners, especially if they have not experienced the Wycliffe scene.

We hope to attract approx 200 people which would mean utilising the New Sports Hall.

No boring speeches, just lots of “untold tails”

Come and share or listen to what the OW Girls say what they really got up to when pupils!   Chaps come and see how well they have matured!

Should be part of a great Wycliffe weekend.....with the Rowing, Wycliffe Debate and Carol Service on Saturday

Friday 7th December 2007

The 'Intimate Evening with...' in Wycliffe Hall was a great success...

Several Gloucestershire Old Wycliffians have built their reputations on the production of high quality foodstuffs: local Severn and Wye salmon, organic Severn saltmarsh lamb, vegetables, delicious fruits and local Cotswold cheeses.  The Supper menu was sourced from these products and was greatly enjoyed by the 65 OWs and guests.

Frank Smith, the OW Secretary, over half a century of schoolmastering, has tried to maintain a degree of sanity by writing, composing and performing satirical ditties for post-prandial delectation but, so far, always outside the College confines.  But for the first time he entertained the assembled gathering with songs such as 'Weather or Not' and 'Mind your Peas and Cues' ...

One OW commented: "I well remember Frank's dry and very subtle humour at school, together with that look in his eye, and tongue in his cheek when some witticism was on its way.   On Friday Frank displayed that he has lost none of his sense of humour and exquisite timing over the years and I left wondering why he had not spent all of his life on the stage!"

The OW Carol Service in the Chapel on the following evening, Saturday 8th December, was also well attended and one visitor commented:

"The service was lovely and the choir superb.  They have obviously worked extremely hard to be able to perform so well.  It was without doubt one of the nicest we have attended for many years."

The retiring collection in aid of The Meningitis Trust raised £413.  Over 300 OWs and friends continued the social occasion with wine and mince pies in the Sports Hall afterwards.