The Anonymous Widower

Rules For Success? – The Class of 1965

I started in this then new building in 1965 and there were just over a hundred of us. We weren’t a morbid lot, but in the first term quite a few had accidents, so we reckoned about one-in-eight of us wouldn’t last the three years.

 Perhaps we did things that students don’t do now.  One climbed the enormous crane on the Catholic Cathedral, which was being built at the time.  Sadly he died in his first year in a mountaineering accident.

One of the students was Robin Saxby, who went on to be the CEO of ARM Holdings.  And most of us have a device with one or more of that company’s chips in it.

 I’m not sure, I do though, as I don’t use a smart phone, but a Nokia 6310i, which is now eight years old and still on the original battery.

 The other you might have heard of was Cedric Sloan, who became the Colonel of the Royal Engineers.

A lot of us are still in contact and we  think that on the whole, we didn’t do too badly. But that’s not for us to judge.  It’s a question for the future!

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March 9, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Rules For Success