The full timetable for the day will be:

10:30am-11:45am    Council Meeting - induction of new Hon OFs (Chapel)

11:45am                  Reception at Fowler Pavilion

12:15pm                  Formal Opening of Fowler Pavilion

1:00pm                    Buffet Lunch

Booking for the lunch is essential, as we need to know numbers. Lists will be closed on October 13th. If you would like to attend the formal opening as well please indicate this as well as numbers are needed also. If you have received an invitation from the College and have indicated your acceptance of it you do not need to respond to this.

Click here for more detail or contact John Horton on 01728 723325 or on e-mail

ORIGINAL ARTICLE : The Government is undertaking a project to lay a stone and plaque to commemorate the award of the Victoria Cross during WW1.  On Sunday 17 September 2017 a stone will be unveiled to OF William Henry Hewitt VC (1894-1900) in Copdock, south of Ipswich.  People will be gathering at 1.30pm for a ceremony starting sharp at 2pm and the College will be represented and an Honour Guard is being provided by the College CCF.

Please see the letter from James Ruddock Broyd (G46-52) giving more details plus an invitation from the organiser.

A number of OFs will be attended and if you would be interested attending please email Jennifer Jones

And – guess what? Fram won it again – the second time in four years, bringing home the wonderful replica of the Open’s Claret Jug and a double magnum of claret – to say nothing of pride in the achievement. Congratulations to the six team members: Norman Mayhew, Robin Anderton, Barry Hitchcock, Mike Schneidau, Colin Wigg and Ben Swinburn.

Click here to see full report and photos.

UPDATE AS AT END OF JULY 2017 : after months of research and design by OFs Peter Howard-Dobson and Chris Keeble, the Fowler Display has been installed in the new Fowler Pavilion. Click here to see photos of the display, plus you can see earlier photos taken of the Fowler Pavilion during its construction in April and July.

UPDATE AS AT 10 JULY 2017 : work is progressing very well now on the construction of the Fowler Pavilion.  Click to see some photos taken today, plus you can see earlier photos taken in April - internal and external shots.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE : Message from Chris Essex (SOF President) and John Ellerby (Chair of Trustees) : As you will be aware, the Society unexpectedly received back in February 2015 $1m or around £675,000 from the widow of late OF Derek Fowler DFM (G35-40).  Peta (also know as Yela and Peter) Fowler had died in 2014 and wished the Society to honour Derek’s name.

In July 2015, the SOF Council agreed to donate £500,000 to the College to support the development of the Fowler Pavilion as well as an annual Fowler bursary and a project at FC prep school in his honour.

This gift was agreed subject to appropriate due diligence enquiries which were considered essential due to the scale of the bequest and the complex background as to where the money came from.  These investigations have been completed and at a brief ceremony last Friday, we handed over a cheque for £500,000 to the Paul Taylor (Headmaster) and Andrew Fane (Chair of Governors). This is the largest amount ever gifted by the Society to the College.  It will provide benefit to future generations of students for decades to come and work has already started on building the Fowler Pavilion next to the existing pavilion opened in 1950s.  Click here to see more detail on the plans.

Amazingly, Martin is also in the top ten in the world at his age group at squash. You can read his full article in the Distinguished Section HERE.

As well as a photo of him, Fritha has provided a transcript of the letter, followed by information on his early life and then scans of the original letter - click here to see more.

Andrew Wright and Roger Marriott are delighted that Charles Blackmore (K65-75) has kindly agreed to give a talk covering his successful military and business careers which includes serving in the Gurkhas, business travels in Russia, meeting General Kalashnikov and in his spare time climbing the Matterhorn!  It should be a very interesting talk

For the Response Form download here  for details of the menu and other relevant information and we would be grateful if you could return the completed form stating your requirements to Andrew at your earliest convenience.

We look forward to welcoming you together with your wife/partner/friends on September 29th.

The concerts will be an evening of spectacular coloratura arias, the highest ever written pieces for voice by Mozart, Bellini, Bernstein and many more. It is set to be a fabulous evening of colour and vocal agility. Come and hear the delights and miracle of her voice!