OSB Day 2013 - Evening

The evening was taken up with an extremely successful dinner/ball (see separate report) hosted by the St Beghian Society and the school at which the guest speaker was Stuart Lancaster (FN/AC 80-88), the present Head Coach of the England rugby union team. Stuart had been present throughout the day and was kind enough to give a coaching session to the first fifteen during the morning, an event which will be long remembered by them.

Stuart was also good enough to visit Alan Thurlwell in the village, whose wife Maria, mother of Zoe Thurlwell (L 95-00) writes as follows:

"This is just to let you know how much we appreciated Stuart Lancaster's surprise visit to Zoe's Father Alan when he visited the school for OSBs Day.
Alan had just come out of hospital after the assessment for a lung transplant and was thrilled that Stuart and his wife Nina popped in to see him. Alan, a big fan of English Rugby Union and a great supporter, was extremely grateful to the Lancasters for finding the time to visit in their busy schedule. Thanks also to Kieran Marshall (SH 98-05) for arranging the surprise. The only disappointment of the visit was that Zoe wasn't home to meet the Lancasters.

Many thanks to those involved it was really appreciated and talked about for many hours."

 

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