W
elcome to the 2018 edition of The Sibford
Rocket, the annual magazine of Sibford Old Scholars’ Association (SOSA). In this issue we celebrate marriages; we look back at the Sibford life of SOSA stalwart and staff member, Wendy Finch, who retired in 2018 after 39 years at the school; we take a trip down memory lane and share some of the past stage productions performed by Sibford students; and we catch up with a former Sibfordian who is now working for the government in Alaska. Elsewhere in the magazine
we feature news and pictures from the annual reunion; notes from the AGM; and we look back at the lives of SOSA members who have recently passed away. It’s always a pleasure to hear from past scholars and I’m grateful to those of you who have got in touch to tell their stories. If you’ve got news that
you’d like to share in a future issue of The Rocket then please do contact me. You can send an email to abromhall@sibfordschool.
co.uk or write to The Sibford Rocket, Sibford School, Sibford Ferris, Banbury OX15 5QL. I look forward to hearing from you.
In Friendship Ali Bromhall Editor
Cover Sibford School in the sunshine.
The Sibford Rocket welcomes articles from Old Scholars and other interested parties. Please note, the Editor reserves the right to edit articles for reason of length or legality.
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We are in the process of updating our SOSA members records database. We have some new and exciting ideas around sharing with you SOSA news using social media, the website and the traditional magazine, but in order to achieve this we need an accurate record of members’ details. Please contact
membership@sibfordoldscholars.com and let us know your contact details. We are particularly keen to capture email addresses and change of postal addresses. I look forward to hearing from you.
Do we have your contact details? Holly Poncini, Membership Secretary A blast from the past ...
Old scholar Nikki Knott bumped into Robin Greaves, wife of former Sibford Head Kenneth Greaves, while out shopping in Chadlington near Chipping Norton. Nikki said: “I have been friends with her son for a long time and our children all went to school together but this was the first time I have seen Mrs Greaves since I left Sibford, She is now 91 and looking amazing. We had a good giggle and she mentioned wanting to come across to Sibford, which is something I will try to arrange.”
Reader’s Letter
I’ve just been reading The Rocket (2017) and was interested in the piece about SOSA giving a clock in memory of Mike Finch and not any old clock but a Thomas Gilkes clock. My father Charles Lamb, late of Sibford Gower, also bought a Thomas Gilkes clock many years ago because of the Sibford connection. In fact he took out a bank loan as he was so determined to have the clock! Mother still has it in her sitting room (see picture). The case is walnut and you can make out Sibford and Gilkes on the face. He didn’t go to Sibford as he won a scholarship to Banbury Grammar as indeed his sister Mary also did but his two siblings Peter and Winifred went to Sibford School. My mother Linda Lamb née Holmes and her two brothers Thurstan and Martin Holmes also went to Sibford and my brother Richard Lamb and myself, Catherine Lamb, also did! There is quite a Lamb connection with Sibford and the school so it was
interesting to see the clock connection too. Kate Lear
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