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An e-newsletter produced by Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
for all our old boys.
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We trust you will enjoy reading it and will also take the opportunity
to visit QE Connect, a social and business network for our alumni.
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The Autumn Term started with Queen Elizabeth's School in good heart
following another set of exceptional exam results.
QE has subsequently been named the country's leading state school
for the second consecutive year by the Sunday Times's
respected Parent Power survey, a position we have now held
for five of the past seven years.
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Former Headmaster Eamonn Harris, who is widely
credited with saving Queen Elizabeth's from closure and then
overseeing its transformation into a successful grammar school, died
last month. He was 76 and had been unwell for some time.
The School is planning to celebrate his life and contribution by
hosting a commemorative event on Saturday 21st March
2020, to which all alumni are welcome. Further details will
follow in the New Year, but if you are interested in attending,
please click the button now to let us know by email - remembering to
include your full name.
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Ramesh Paripooranananthan's rather dramatic career
change following his solo trip to the Indian sub-continent is, he
says, proof of the importance of networking widely and staying
flexible in your attitudes.
A Chartered Architect who studied Architecture at Nottingham
University and then worked in the discipline for more than a decade,
he now has a senior role in engineering for Ocado, the grocery
company.
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Dr Frederick Baker has won a major EU cultural
award for an innovative, large-scale digital project telling the
story of the run-up to the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria, the
so-called Anschluss.
He led a team of filmmakers, historians and programmers involved in
the project, which reached thousands of users via the internet,
radio, television, and mobile phones, as well as through analogue
media such as postcards, lectures, and print.
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The family of Old Elizabethan helicopter pilot Roger Southgate
have unearthed details of a heroic flight in hazardous conditions to
rescue a comrade during some of the darkest days of Northern
Ireland's Troubles.
Major Roger Lee Southgate (OE 1958-1963), who died suddenly in April
2016 aged 70, served for 49 years as a soldier and then as a retired
officer, spending most of that time in the Army Air Corps (AAC). He
won his Air Force Medal (AFM) for an operation in 1974 and is
believed to have been the first-ever AAC recipient of the award.
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QE's poet-in-residence, Anthony Anaxagorou,
has been shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot prize for poetry.
After the Formalities, a collection of poems by Old
Elizabethan Anthony (1994-1999) was selected by the judges among the
nominees for the £25,000 prize, the UK's most valuable poetry award.
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Eleven years after he left the School,
Electrum Anpitan's life is as varied as it is full.
Electrum (OE 2001-2008) manages to fit in his demanding role as a
Forensic Analyst for KPMG with extensive work in the local community
and with running a dance business that has led to collaborations
with some of the most famous Latin dancers in the world.
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Right from the start, Joshua Domb's professional
life had its fair share of excitement!
Just a few months after leaving QE, Josh found himself working at an
investment bank and thus witnessed at first-hand the careers carnage
among the bankers as the 2008 global financial crisis swept across
the City.
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Carol Service
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Wednesday 18th December 2019
St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet for 7.30pm, with a drinks
reception this year in Church Hall
(adjacent to the Parish Church and on the same side of Wood Street)
from 6.15pm.*
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44th QE Rugby Sevens
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Sunday 8th March 2020
At the School, from 10am onwards.
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Eamonn Harris Commemoration
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Saturday 21st March 2020
Further details tbc, but
click here
to let us know if you would like to attend,
remembering to include your full name.
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The 55th Elizabethan Union Dinner Debate
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Saturday 28th March 2020
6.00pm at the School. OEs challenge the School in this eagerly
awaited annual contest.
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The School is always delighted to hear from our former pupils,
whether they would like to get involved in QE events, or simply have
news to share about themselves or former classmates. To contact our
Alumni Office, please email alumni@qebarnet.co.uk
If this issue of the Alumni News
e-newsletter has been forwarded to you, register here to receive
future issues automatically. Register
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Queen Elizabeth's School, Queen's Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5
4DQ
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Through this e-newsletter, through QE Connect and through the alumni section of the Queen Elizabeth's School website, the School is aiming to strengthen its links with former pupils.
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If you wish to find out more about having an active role in supporting the school as a past pupil, please contact:
alumni@qebarnet.co.uk
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Copyright © December 2019
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