Alumnae News

WOGA Dinner, Friday 28th September 2012  - Save the Date

Following the success of last year's WOGA dinner we have decided to make it an annual event. We will be returning to RSJ Restaurant in Coin Street, close to Waterloo rail and underground, where the food and wine are excellent. The cost of the three course dinner, including bubbles on arrival, will be £40. To reserve your place please send an email to Alex Knight at wogasecretary@hotmail.co.uk.

Annual Summer Reunion, 2pm Saturday 9th June 2012
The annual WOGA Summer Reunion, and AGM, will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 9th June 2012. All old girls are very welcome to come back to school to catch up over tea, look around the school and even play a game of rounders. This year an extra special welcome is extended to old girls who left in a year ending in a 2.

 The afternoon will kick off in the Ship Theatre at 2pm with the AGM. At 2.30 there will be an old girls' rounders match or the chance to watch the 1949 School Film. After looking around the school, tea will be served at 3.30pm in the Dining Hall, where the President will also be running a Pimms stall.

Proposed Revision to the WOGA Rules of Association
WOGA members may have seen in the News Sheet that the Committee has recently undertaken a review of our rules to bring them up to date and enable the organisation to move forward. To ensure that all members have an opportunity to consider these amendments a copy of the revised rules, with suggested amendments highlighted is attached here, simply click on the link below.
The proposed new rules will be an agenda item at the AGM on 9th June and will be voted on by the members at the meeting. If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to voice your views please email President Elect Caroline Ayers by 31st May, Caroline's contact details can be found in the News Sheet.

Proposed new Rules

Inaugural WOGA Reunion Dinner in London  
Walthamstow Hall Old Girls' Association hosted a reunion dinner in London on 17th November where old girls ranging from 1950's to 1990's leavers met up to reminisce over supper. Guests were entertained by speeches from Rowan Pelling (newspaper columnist and 1986 Leaver) and Julia Streets (Business woman, comedienne and 1988 Leaver).

The evening was very enjoyable and the committee definitely plan to run it again, watch this website for more news.  

Julia Streets and Class of 1988 come back to school

(Story added 30th June 2011)

Julia Streets, 1988 Leaver and successful businesswoman, returned to her roots on 30th June when she brought her stand up comedy act to The Ship Theatre as part of the Sevenoaks Summer Festival. Julia performed alongside Financial Times columnist and Channel 4 'Super Scrimper' Mrs Moneypenny to a full house. Julia's witty observations and songs about working in the City were complimented by some special new material written especially for the occasion, including some jokes at the expense of lacrosse! The audience included some of Julia's classmates who also enjoyed a tour of the school and a reception hosted by Mrs Milner before the show.

Julia combines running her successful financial services consultancy in the City by day with being a comedienne by night. She has appeared at the Edinburgh and Henley-on-Thames fringe festivals.

Julia was interviewed on Radio 4's Today Programme on 6th July, the interview can be heard on the BBC iplayer at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0128py7/Today_05_07_2011/

WOGA 2011 reunion

(Story added 12th June 2011)

Walthamstow Hall Old Girls Association (WOGA) hosted their annual reunion at Walthamstow Hall Senior School on Saturday 11th June 2011. A special welcome was extended to leavers from years ending in a '1'. Old Girls from across the decades played rounders alongside members of the current rounders squad, there was the chance to see the 1949 School Film and current students interviewed old girls about their school days as part of a 'living record' for the school archive. Next year's reunion will fall on Saturday 9th June with a special welcome extended to leavers from all years ending in a 2! 

Beverley Hunt wins 'medical Oscar'
 (Story added 26th May 2011)

Beverley Hunt, old girl, and President of the Walthamstow Hall Old Girls' Association, is a member of the research team that has won the British Medical Journal's "Research Paper of the Year".

Beverley, who is Professor of Thrombosis & Haemostasis and Kings' College Consultant in the Departments of Haematology, Pathology and Lupus at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation, described the accolade as being 'like winning a medical Oscar!'

The research team, CRASH-2, ran a landmark trial which demonstrated conclusively that tranexamic acid is an effective, cheap and safe treatment in trauma scenarios. The study has identified an effective, cheap and safe treatment which, if it is used, could save 175,000 deaths a year worldwide. The team is now working to ensure that the results of the study are implemented and inform other areas of medical practice.

Victoria Boreham receives rave review
(Story added 29th May 2011) 
Victoria Boreham, former Head Girl and 1999 Leaver, received great reviews for her performance as Sally Bowles in a fringe production of I Am a Camera, by John van Druten at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in London this Spring. The Stage gave the following review of Victoria's performance, (Victoria's stage name is Vicki Campbell),

 "...the driving eye of that storm is Vicki Campbell as the capricious Sally Bowles. It's the most complete fringe performance I've ever seen. She devours the stage like an obsessive and salacious predator...Pointedly giddy comic timing is just one facet of Campbell's total attention to the details of character acting. None of her words are wasted, and it is compulsive."