Jeff Ashberry - RIP

Jeff Ashberry in 1949

Jeff Ashberry

Jeff Ashberry died on the morning of 22 January 2015. Jeff worked as an engineering draftsman at Norprint in Boston. He leaves his wife, Pat, and sons Simon, Tim and Jez.

The funeral will be at Boston Crematorium on Friday 13 February 2015, at 2:30pm.

We hope to be able to post a proper obituary in due course.

BGS GK Club Reunion "Sesh"

Richard "Anders" Anderson with
the late Andrew Martin in about 1981

There was a Boston Grammar School General Knowledge Club Reunion "Sesh" on Friday 23 January. It was attended by Richard Anderson who retired from the school at the end of the 2013-14 school year.

In further GK Club news, Richard Anderson announced that the club archives would be held in the school staff room by Mr and Mrs Rennie. The archive includes past questions which may be useful if members wish to hold quizzes in the future.

Richard hopes there will be at least one staff team and one student team at the Old Bostonian Association Quiz Night on 25 February.

Bill Howes - Obituary

Bill Howes (BGS 1945-51)

William Pannell Howes – the Pannell was his mother’s maiden surname – died on 29th May 2013 at the age of 78.

I first met Bill when I was in the first or second form at Boston Grammar School. He was a couple of years ahead of me and a group of us were playing near the Hussey Tower on what became the school’s playing fields. Bill joined us (it wasn’t an auspicious meeting), we had an argument, probably about cricket and who was out and he approached me in what I would describe as a menacing fashion. I grabbed his fingers and bent them back hard. He yelled out with pain and I legged it home to Pilgrim Road and avoided him for several weeks.

Later we made it up and I became part of his gang, who all lived in that area of the town, near the back of the Boston United ground, a team we supported together for years.

CBE for Bill Dunham

Bill Dunham (BGS 1972-79) is included in the 125 UK service personnel to have been granted state honours by Her Majesty The Queen in the 2015 New Year Honours List. He received a promotion in the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from OBE to CBE.

This award coincides with his retirement from the Royal Marines at the rank of Brigadier to take up the post of director strategy and corporate services at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. He takes up this new post on 20 January.

BGS Prize Giving - report

Adam Shergold

The Boston Grammar School Prize Giving 2014 took place on 18 December at the Centenary Methodist Church, Boston. The guest of honour was Adam Shergold, an Online Sports Journalist at the Daily Mail.

Music for singing and for musical interludes was provided by the Boston Grammar School Jazz Band and other musicians from the school.

John McHenry, the headteacher of the school gave the welcome and Phillip Bosworth the Chairman's Address.

The prizes notably included two new ones marking the retirement of well loved members of staff. The NW Wainwright Award for outstanding sporting achievement went jointly to Zurna Olali and Stuart Wharff. The Anderson Prize for German went to Louis Holland.

Head of School, John Lisle, gave the vote of thanks to Adam Shergold as the guest of honour.

The event was closed with the usual singing of the school song and the national anthem.