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SOF | OVERSEAS BAG 2024
and work here this year! Doing an insane
I spent 20 years in Bruxelles and Paris
renovation, full immersion with my GCSE
and now changed the course of life as a
French!” In April 2024 she posted: “I
professional artist based in a rambling
just 昀椀nished my 昀椀rst novel and Dr Baird
stone place in SW France. I come up
is proofreading it for me! He taught me
to London a few times a year as I’m
from 89-93. Amazing to think how we
represented by a big gallery there
could support each other! I went to Fram
(Clarendon Fine Art). I put Michael in
the month after my 13th birthday! It was
touch with Peter Howard-Dobson (R65-
a completely surreal experience, coming
69) so that he could join the Society of the
from an international school in Iraq. I was
Arts and become more involved with the
prepared to HATE it but within hours I was
Society.
in love with the weirdness of it all. The
building, the ridiculous e昀昀orts to keep us in
Germany
uniform, the trees, the view, the masters’
robes.... I wrote every day down in my
diary for 昀椀ve years.”
Patrick Rogers (R56-60) had an
interesting and unexpected reason
for getting in touch with the Overseas
Bag. Whilst he has a London address
registered, he spends a lot of his time
in the south of France. He was keen to
receive the OF newspaper in paper form
and went on to explain why: “If the OF
Kim Dickel and OFs
mag is only digital, actually reading it is
easily missed. But the paper version fares
much better, being well read and not only
Kim Dickel (M97-98) began planning
by me. My wife, Poppit, picks it up too and
another OF Germany reunion back in
sometimes spots something of interest, as
January 2024 and delivered a wonderful
she did sometime around the end of the
event in Heidelberg on 7 September
1960s, when she spotted a contribution
2024. You can read the full report online.
from Harold Robey (1913-16).” Read the
full story in the full Overseas Bag.
Attending were: Kim Dickel (M97-98),
Anna Sophia Heine (P20-22), Nicholas
Michael Rumsby (Z81-86) responded to
Kuhn (K09-10), Jasper Luer (S06-08),
the requests around the OF newspaper.
Dominik Sche昀昀er (K12-14), Christian
He said: “I don’t actually live in the UK
Scherpel (R09-10), Jac Schroder (R17-18),
and have not done so for about 25
Yannic Schroder (G22-23) and Johannes
years so please feel free to send the
Troger (R96-98).
magazine electronically by all means.
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