futures❵REUNIONS Past Reunions
Applied Biology, 1986 Graduating with our BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology from Hatfield Polytechnic in 1986 as a group of fresh faced twentysomethings, we promised one another we would keep in touch. As with all good intentions our promises and relationships faded and although a 10 year reunion in 1996 brought together 28 of us, retaining links and contacts became harder to do. However, in 2010 Fiona Tyndall and Rachel Wilson from the Applied Biology class (known as SAB) started to discuss the idea of another SABers reunion, as 2011 would be 25 years since our graduation, and roped in Mark Johnson and I. We agreed a date of Saturday 9th July and contacted the 38 students we had tracked down via social
networks. Even with two people in the US and another in Australia, we managed 29 confirmations including 4 lecturers who had taught us during our time at Hatfield. On the day of the reunion we assembled in the Ele House and tried
to recognise one another and catch up. After drinks we were given a guided tour by one of our former lecturers, Professor Rob Slater, which took in the C.P. Snow Building and also newer facilities such as the library.
Clearly a good deal had changed over the last 25 years and it is fair to say we were all impressed by how Hatfield had gone from being a small polytechnic to a world class university. Our tour of the campus concluded with a group photo on the steps of the main entrance, the same place of our group photo taken 25 years earlier. We gathered at the Mercure Hotel for our reunion dinner and an impromptu slideshow comprising photos taken during our time as students; some might have been embarrassing but they showed how happy we were at Hatfield Polytechnic. Post meal there were the obligatory speeches from myself, Mark Johnson and Dr Peter Stanbury and the evening was rounded off with a 1980’s quiz and disco. Staying up ‘til 5am reminiscing and recounting our Hatfield tales was probably my favourite part of the reunion, getting up four hours later for breakfast probably less so. But as we headed off we all agreed that it had been a brilliant event and there was no way we should wait a further 10 or 25 years for the next one - so here’s to the SABers ‘86 30 Year Reunion in 2016. Del. Singh
Malaysian Alumni Association In July 2011 Professor Quintin McKellar made his first official visit to Malaysia as Vice-Chancellor where he officiated at the INTI International University graduation. Prior to the graduation, Professor McKellar hosted a dinner for senior alumni at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on 22nd July and attended the wedding of Adam Shaharel and Nor Azwa Ahmad Murad, both LLB alumni. Coincidentally, both parents of the bride and groom are alumni of the University as well. The dinner was attended by 25 alumni, ranging from recent graduates to those who left in the 1960s and 1970s. Those present included Dato’ (Dr) Ir Hj Abu Hashim Ghani Abd Ghani, Dato’ (Dr) Ir Andy Seo, Dato’ Noor Amiruddin Nordin, Dato’ Abdul Hamid Abdullah, Ir Khalid Ahmad, Puan Shamsiah Ramly Jalani, Puan Seri Datin Saaudah Zainual Abidin, David and Noraini Jones, as well as members of the UHAAM (University of Hertfordshire Alumni Association Malaysia) committee.
One of the highlights of the reunion was
the presentation of a cheque worth over £6,000 for the UHAAM Scholarship Fund by Ahmad Ziyad, the UHAAM President and Dato’ (Dr) Ir Andy Seo, Chair of the UHAAM Malaysian Scholarship Fund. The Malaysian Alumni Association was one of the first international chapters to be set up and continues to go from strength to strength. A further reunion event was held in November 2011, attended by 60 alumni and members of staff from the University.
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