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Young Stationers in The Stationers News
Young Stationers in The Stationers News
REPORTS have been coming in of the activities of a new underground cell within the Stationers Company. It is known by the codename, Young & Stationery. The group is believed to be dedicated to the radical concept of having fun a serious form of sedition in some societies. Although the Stationers Company has long been known for its fine banquets and convivial gatherings, the new group is pushing the limits through such dangerously subversive practices as croquet, quizzes and ing the Stationers, he is said to be attempting to influence other Livery Companies, such as the Pewterers, under the guise of Inter-Livery cooperation. The Venerable David Meara, our Hon. Chaplain, and the Clerk, William Alden, have even been seen in his company. As a service to our readers, Stationers News has been gathering evidence of the so-called fun-loving activities of the Young & Stationery movement. Here is a selection. You have been warned.
fancy dress masquerades. The ringleader is reported to be a young Liveryman, Pdraig Belton, dubbed Master of the Revels by the popular press. Not content with infiltrat-
Quizzical Victory
REPRESENTING the Stationers Company, the Young & Stationery team came first in the fourth annual QuizAid at St Brides Church, in support of ChristianAid. The team comprised Miss Madeleine Clements, Miss Suraya Jina, Miss Chantal Hadley, Oliver Linch, Graham Jones, Dr Alun Harris and Liveryman Pdraig Belton. The picture shows the Venerable David Meara, Rector of St Brides, presenting members of the team with a fine bottle of bubbly.
The evenings co-hosts, Miss Eleanor Mason Brown from the Young Pewterers and Liveryman Pdraig Belton from the Young Stationers, prepare to foist prize Bolly upon the victor in the Best Dressed Drone stakes. Judge Dr Eileen Walsh awarded the prize bottle to Dr Cressida Ryan, who ventured from Oxford dressed as Honoria Glossop.
Runner up Best Dressed Drone, Liveryman Robert Sanger, adjusts his monocle. Receiving the prize, he confessed he had not known the evening was fancy dress.