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
We have now returned from an amazing three - month trip round the northern half of Australia. It made us realise how beautiful and diverse the country is – from savannah plains to desert to the rolling green hills of the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland that reminded us of the Kenya Highlands.
Now it is back to reality and unfortunately our time away coincided with the passing of no fewer than three much-loved and respected former members of staff, Peter Doenhoff, John Bieneman and Ken Higson. Peter, an Old Yorkist himself, taught languages, as well as carrying out housemaster duties. He was also an excellent small-bore rifle coach and I recall him giving up his holidays to drive our 1st X1 hockey team on a tour of up-country Kenya. Ken taught Maths and for many years was an inspiring deputy headmaster. He always had time even for the below-average student and he possessed a fine, analytical mind. John was a physics teacher, assistant housemaster in Delamere and founding housemaster in James House.
Peter had suffered from ill-health for some time but it was nevertheless a shock when he passed away in Mombasa hospital at a relatively young age. Ken and John, on the other hand, lived well into their nineties.
Further comments can be found under their entries in “Where Are They Now-Staff section”.
Three old boys, Colin Cooper, Lance Abel and Tim Hudson also passed away. Again, further comments can be found under their entries in "Where Are They Now?"
The OY reunion at Taunton in UK was held in July 2010 and by all accounts was 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
A group of Lenana old boys, who have been working hard to resurrect the dormant old boys society, are in the process of setting up a web page to encourage former students to send in reminiscences and anecdotes. The page is still in development but can be accessed at www.lenanaschool.org
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 25 August 2010
