retirement and was able to devote much of the rest of his life to continuing his service for the Society of Friends in various capacities at local, regional, national and international levels. A very active member of Stourbridge Friends Meeting from 1965, he first became an Elder in 1970. He served on many Warwickshire Monthly Meeting committees and was involved with the Peace Education Project, and lead, alongside Daphne, several Family Gatherings. He represented the Monthly Meeting centrally on Quaker Peace and Service Central Committee, on Representative Council, and on Meeting for Sufferings. He also served on the Brummana (Lebanon) and Middle East Committees. At national level Hugh served on London Yearly Meeting Agenda and Arrangements Committee and together with Daphne he attended many Yearly Meetings, especially enjoying the residential ones where they had the chance to meet up with family and Friends/ friends over a longer period. They enjoyed being Yearly Meeting representatives to South Africa YM and attending Friends World Committee for Consultation World Conference in Kenya (1982). He


represented QPS and FWCC at the U.N. Conference on the question of Palestine as an NGO Observer (1983). Peace was a very strong value Hugh held throughout his life. He was an active member of the World Disarmament Movement and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and along with Daphne helped start a local Peace group in Hagley. Stourbridge Friends Meeting continued to be important to him to the very end of his life. Hugh was a prolific writer and


great correspondent. The family have several volumes written up from his diaries of his early life as well as letters he sent out every Christmas for over 50 years. In these he writes about his love of sports, especially cricket, hockey, rugby and skiing. Early enjoyment of drama productions came in handy for performing on various stages throughout his life. During two university vacations, friendships led him to join the International Ballet School which he thoroughly enjoyed despite some disapproval by family and Friends and he danced in several West End shows and infrequently on other occasions joined shows at other venues. Retirement also brought many opportunities for travel. As well as enjoying caravanning widely in Britain and Ireland Hugh and Daphne travelled extensively abroad and continued to enjoy learning about Natural History on many study


Hugh pictured in 2014 with his book: ‘The Training and Experience of a Quaker Relief Worker.


tours. Hugh will be remembered by


many with great affection for his encouragement, guidance and spiritual wisdom.


Anne Muir July 1934 ~ February 2018 Deputy Head at Sibford 1979 ~ 1987 and SOSA President 1991 ~ 1992.


Anne Muir passed away peacefully at Godswell Park Care Home Bloxham on 16 February 2018, aged 83 years. The beloved sister of John, loving Aunt to Angus, Jennifer, Jacqueline and Kate and a dear friend to many, her funeral service took place at Bloxham Parish Church on 26 February and it was appropriate that the funeral director was Edd Frost (current SOSA committee member). We reproduce below Anne’s presidential profile as published in the 1991/2 newsletter.


I


was born in Glasgow in 1934, and my home was in Dunblane in Perthshire. My father ran a family firm dyeing and printing textiles. During the war they manufactured parts for aeroplanes. In a small country town in Scotland, with my father at home, my junior school years passed remote from the grimmer realities of a wartime childhood. My father worked all hours; my mother, a doctor, looked after our evacuees, gave first aid classes, and did blood transfusion work. Wartime for me meant little more than gas masks and blackout, rationing and the absence of bananas, and the five-inch restriction on


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