www.oldyorkist.com
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The Duke of York School in Nairobi, Kenya (in more recent times known as Lenana School) was founded in January 1949. This page will be of interest to Old Yorkists and Maroons - the term used to describe former students after the name changed ( I'm grateful to John Kariuki for putting me right about the term "changerians" which is , he says, a slang term coined by Kenya High girls!!)
The Where Are They Now sections of the site are updated at least fortnightly (the date at the bottom of this first page does not always reflect this). In an effort to counteract the spam web crawlers which seek out email addresses and send info automatically I have included the words ANTISPAM in all email addresses after the @ symbol. Please remove this word in order to obtain the correct email address.
This page was first developed in 1995 and from feedback received it is serving its main purpose- to put old boys and staff in touch with former students they have lost track of over the intervening years. Dave Lichtenstein, who assists me in compilation, and I have two major policies: 1. we regard our efforts as a service to past students and staff- no fee or subscription will be charged, so that access is always open to all and 2. no copyright policy is in place- you are free to download/ copy material as required. In return we would appreciate it if readers would refrain from putting to us commercial proposals involving the site.
Forthcoming Events:
Highlands School, Eldoret. Reunion 23 -25 April 2010 (with Reunion lunch on the 24th) at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK. Please pass this information on to any old Highlanders you know! ” Web page is www.highlandseldoret.org
Not a forthcoming event but the recent OY reunion at Taunton in UK was by the few accounts I have received a great success. Congratulations to John Tucker and Ken Doig and many thanks for all the hard work you guys put in. Paul Tanner-Tremaine kindly emailed me details of how to access some online photos. Paste the following address into your browser:
He also sent me another web address where we can access some general photos of the school:
General Announcements
Those who remember the Spencer family (see next section for news of Dominic's passing) will be sad to hear that they have lost another family member, Jane, who was the middle daughter of three. She had bravely suffered the ravages of advanced osteoporosis for some years and it was this that took her life in the end. OY Peter Symes, who attended the memorial service in the very impressive chapel at Clifton College in Bristol writes:
"Mary Spencer gave a moving tribute to her sister, with lots of anecdotes of high times at the DOYS - mostly of course during the holidays when they had the run of the place, roller skating along the corridors and having the swimming pool all to themselves. But she also talked of the work Jane has done since, clearly influencing generations of folk in exactly the same way as her father. She was very musical, which as we know ran in the family, and the tribute concluded with Byrd's Justorum Animae, something both Jane and Mary had sung in Nairobi Cathedral."
Another stalwart of the DOY staff has also passed on. Dave Lichtenstein reports that Brian "Bungeye" Norman died on Sunday 23 November, aged 89 in Caloundra, Queensland. I remember Brian as an excellent chemistry teacher who was also a fine hockey coach.
My email address is hillier@ANTISPAMiinet.net.au (see note above re. antispam)
This page is maintained by Andrew (Bill) Hillier. It was last
up-dated on 1 January 2010
