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Welcome to the web site of
the Old Farnhamians'
Association,
the organisation that unites the former pupils and staff of
Farnham Grammar School
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During
the period 1585 to 1973,
If you are a former
pupil of
Despite
the sad death of many older members and the fact that the stream of school
leavers joining the association ceased in 1975, the membership has not declined
in recent years. More old boys, not previously actively connected to the OFA,
have discovered the joy of being reunited with friends from long ago.
Membership
of the OFA is open to all former pupils for the subscription of £10 per annum.
An annual dinner takes place in April (normally at the former school premises
in
This site serves
to connect old school friends who may
have lost contact. The activities and events of the
OFA are posted
routinely on this site. Please note that old boys, whether or not they are paid-up members, are welcome to attend
our dinners and any other
activities.
There
is a section on this site containing news of old boys that has been contributed
by the old boys themselves and others. This information is to be found in the
Web-Members Section, which can be accessed, without charge, by registering and
obtaining a password (click the Members' Section
). You will be asked to
state your name, indicating the years you attended the school, and giving your
e-mail address (please be precise with this). The password will be e-mailed to
you shortly thereafter. Your details will be retained for updating you on how
to access the section should we change the password in the future. (This
procedure is to minimise the risk of old boys receiving unsolicited
communications by having personal details visible in the public section of the
site.)
During
2003. we established an on-line library of The Farnhamian magazines,
published between 1912 and 1973, plus the OFA newsletters that were distributed
thereafter until 1993. The library is split into a Public Section (magazines
more than 70 years old) and an OFA Members’ Library. These files are well worth
reading. Most of them display the magazines as true images of the original
printed versions, but with the great advantage that you can search the
magazines for names etc. Click here to find out how to access this
part of the website.
Please
contribute to this site and The Farnhamian by e-mailing news of yourself and
other old boys. Contact e-mail addresses are shown in the Web-Members Section.
Please indicate if you are willing for your e-mail address to be quoted in the
Web-Members Section so that people can get in touch with you.
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Links within this Site:
OFA Membership Application Form: as a Word
file
indicates a recent update
Annual Lunch attendees List now available in Web-Members' Section
Other
Pages on this Web Site
Link to associated Web Sites:
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Please note that, due
to the sudden illness
and subsequent sad death on 5 May 2012,
of
Mrs Alison Schofield (President of the Old Girls’ Association),
the venue for the Garden Party on June 23rd has been moved to
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Old Boys who have
expired in one way or another -
are you one?
Your
webmaster needs to be informed of any change of email address
by old boys who have registered with this website.
Some
email addresses fail when we send out mass mailings of upcoming
events and our listing is marked accordingly as a warning to others that the
address is invalid.
After
some time, we have to assume that the member has either died or totally lost
interest in the OFA. Here is a list of old boys for whom the email addresses
are failing. Please re-register if your name is on this list. After a month or
two, we shall remove your name from the contact list if we haven’t heard.
Michael Lock, Colin
Batterbury, Roger Walton, Brian Lake, Richard Cooke, Alan Hewins, Andrew
Galfskiy, Roger J. Downham, Chris Ballamy, Keith Roberts, George Allman , Jim
B. Lee, David Mills, Stuart Bailey, Philip Harris, Barry Stevens, Ian Bruce,
John Harris, David S. Jarvis , Paul Bailey, Alexander Park, Neil Carmichael,
Michael Haworth, Stephen Tompkins, Paul Wright, Michael Neal, Colin Spence.
Posted Monday, 20 June, 2011
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For
whom the bell tolls…er,
no one at the moment!
Planned
maintenance of the old school building by the college revealed
the bell tower to be in a dangerous state.
So a large crane was hired to remove it safely pending repairs.
John Crotty, Vice-Chairman of the Foundation, was up there like a flash to get
these photographs.
Posted 28 August, 2010
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Site last updated Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
visitors to this site since May 2000