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Old Bostonian Association Cricket Team 1965

As you should be aware by now, the 2014 football match between the "old boys" and Boston Grammar School will take place on 3 April at the school. See the relevant article for more details if you want to be a spectator - I believe that we now have enough players and officials.

Together with the annual General Knowledge Quiz, ably MC'd by Richard Anderson, and the Snooker Tournament, which, following the death of its previous organiser, Paul Mould, failed to take place in 2013, the football match makes up the group of recently held competitions between the "old boys" and the school.

In the past there were other competitions: cricket, tennis and golf come to mind but there were probably others.

The Old Bostonian Association President, Peter Sharman, tells me that someone has shown an interest in organising a cricket match. There's no date for it yet, nor even a guarantee that it will happen, but if you might be interested in taking part, please indicate you interest to Peter, either by email (president@bostonian.org.uk) or via his Facebook account - he is a member of the Boston Grammar School Alumni group at Facebook.

If cricket isn't your thing, or even if it is, perhaps you could think whether you might be able and willing to organise a competition between the "old boys" (under the name of the Old Bostonian Association, but not necessarily involving only member of the association) and the school. While it can certainly be a sporting, event, it doesn't have to be. Again, send any suggestions to Peter Sharman, you could add a comment to this post, or if you're a member of the Facebook group, why not start a discussion there and see if there is interest in your idea.

Just a footnote about the snooker, while, as indicated above, the death of Paul Mould put a spanner in the works of the annual tournament, a new organiser was appointed in 2013 and apart from running out of year, there was another reason for the competition not taking place: Nigel Wainwright was unable to raise a school team. A proposal was made to have a competition between "young" old boys and "more senior" old boys, so if this situation continues, we could be looking for even more snooker players than usual when this year's competition is being organised.

Old Bostonian book and video store

There are many old bostonians who have published their work either in book form or otherwise. There is now a single place where you can buy some of these. It is the Old Bostonian store. The store is accessible from the menu on this blog.

As an Amazon aStore, any purchases you make from it can result in a small amount being paid back to the store. In the case of the Old Bostonian store, any such payments will be donated to The Old Bostonian Association.

Extraordinary General Meeting - A brief report

It's been a busy weekend for me and I have lots of things to post here and elsewhere about it. A report of the OBA Annual Dinner will follow as soon as I can complete it but first this. Friday evening (19 April 2013) was an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Old Bostonian Association.

There would usually have been a committee meeting the day before the Annual Dinner but it was converted to an EGM this year mainly because of the recent untimely death of Paul Mould. At the time of his death Paul was holding the posts of Secretary and Membership Secretary. He had also edited the last issue of the association's magazine "The Old Bostonian" and he played an important part in the organisation of many of the association's social events: annual dinner, snooker tournament and quiz night among them.

The main business of the meeting was to elect a new Secretary and Membership Secretary.

Paul Mould - Obituary

Paul Frederick Mould (BGS 1944-50)

Paul Mould died suddenly at home on 22 February 2013 at the age of 79. Paul will be missed by the Old Bostonian Association, Boston Grammar School and the town of Boston as a whole.

Paul had represented Staniland South Ward on Boston Borough Council since 2011. He was a governor of BGS and fulfilled several roles in the Old Bostonian Association. A former President of the Association, at the time of his death, Paul was OBA Secretary, Membership Secretary and was responsible for the "mini-museum" at the school. He had also been a leading member of the recently disbanded Social Committee, and had organised the OBA Annual Dinner, Snooker Tournament and Quiz Night for several years.

OBA Diary Announcements - Annual Dinner 2013

Full details of the OBA 2013 Annual Dinner have now been announced and can be found in the OBA diary.

The Annual Dinner will be at the Boston and County Club on Saturday 20 April and the guest speaker will be Nick Fitton (former BGS staff).