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 Married with a son, living and
teaching in Carlow.
Julian Canny: Married and
living in Dublin.
Anna Quirke: Living in
Clonakilty with her partner
Lee and has two children,
works as a nurse.
married with a daughter.
Ross Orr: Living in Waterford
with his partner and their 2
children.
Ian Fewer: Works as an
architect and lives in
Waterford with his wife and
children.
women in business, the
professions and the arts.
Emily O’Donoghue: Married
to Chris O’Donoghue (Class
of 1996). Living in Cork
having recently moved back
Barry McConnell: Married
to old scholar Nathalie (nee
Murphy) class of 1997 living
in Waterford with their two
girls. Sales manager at
McConnells Toyota.

Janice Deacon (Warren): Phoebe Hadden: Living in

Janice and her husband
Jonny run Clonmore farm in
Bree, Co. Wexford and they
have a son and daughter.
Sarah Jane Jackson
(nee Delahunty): Living
in Dunmore East having
returned from New Zealand
with her husband and two
children.
Cork with her husband and
two children.
Stephanie Flinders: Works
as a midwife.
Emma Sharp (Martin):
Lives in Scotland with her
husband Byron and their two
children. She works with the
NHS.

Gail Clarke: Lives in Midleton Polly Egerton: Married to

with her husband Brian and
their two daughters. Owns
Driscoll Kitchen.
Nicky Statham: Lives in
Cork, works for Horizon. He
is married to Louise (Class of
2002). They have a daughter
and son.
Christian, just returned to
Dublin from Egypt, working
with the UN world food
program.
Mory Cunningham: Married
to Matt with two sons. Living
in Athens and working for
World Vision.

Nathalie McConnell Becci Harrison: Lives

(Murphy): Lives in Waterford in Co. Wicklow with her
with her husband Barry daughter Emily and runs

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 OBITUARY: BRIAN SAMUEL PIM –Class of 1943
Brian Samuel Pim was born
on the 11th June 1929-2nd
May 2017
Brian was born in 1929. He
went to Friends Lisburn
School 1941-1942 and on then
to Newtown School Waterford
1942-1943.
He served on the Newtown
School Committee and Sub
constitutes from the early
seventies until the School
Bicentenary 1998.
He went to Bootham School
York, England in 1943-1947.
Graduated at Trinity College
Dublin in Civil Engineering.
Joined family business W+R
Jacob [later became Irish
Biscuits and worked for 40
years.
One of the founding members
of the Irish Sub Aqua Club and
became Honorary Treasurer.
Married to Vivienne in July
1958 and had five children
who all followed in his
footsteps and attended
Newtown. Brian Pim

CLASS OF 1967...50 YEARS OUT

Left-right: Maurice Poole,
Trevor Myles, Penny Hill,
John Davey, Daphne
Luce, Rachel Wigham,
Rob Goodbody, Susan
Luke, Michael Hilliard,
Niall Maynard, Dianne
Turner, Pam Biggar and
Roger Bewley Missing
from photo, Rosaleen
Alexander and Liz
There were up to thirty members of the class from the UK and Maurice Poole who Cumming
of ’67 between upper transition and sixth arrived from Ferns. We had seen neither of
year with various comings and goings. We them for almost all the fifty years. This
managed to contact twenty of these, in the proved to be a magical twenty-four hours
event fifteen came along, not bad after with all the fun and banter that exists with old
50 years. Although many of us have kept friends. It was agreed that we should not wait
in touch over the years the stars of the another ten years but planned to meet up
show were Niall Maynard, who came over again in five.

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 course the odd glass of vino,
and catching up with old
friends!)
Deirdre Jacob: Living in
Germany for 21 years.
almost off the books, and one
gorgeous granddaughter,
Robyn, almost 3! Playing lots
of golf, busy as Lady Captain
of Woodenbridge Golf Club
this year!
graduated from law school
and is preparing for the bar
exam. Middle son, Michael,
is still playing college level
baseball … still chasing his
dream. Youngest, Andy is
Mom all around. Now just
needs to win the lottery so
she can go “home” to Ireland
regularly! Did enjoy a lovely
visit in San Francisco with
Naomi! Great fun!

NEW HOCKEY PITCH UPDATE

In last year’s magazine I
wrote about the tremendous
success of the new
TigerTurf hockey surface
at Newtown. I wrote about
the positive effects on both
school and club hockey and
also referred to financial
aspects.
I’d like now to give an update
Dooley’s is a 3* family owned and managed hotel located on school hockey, as I see it.
in the heart of Ireland’s oldest City, minutes walk from I am glad (perhaps relieved
the main shopping, cultural and business centre would be more accurate!)
to record that the full cost
Adventure awaits you on the Waterford Greenway – 46 km of has now been covered, so
stunning countryside to discover on foot or by bicycle that it was a ‘cost neutral’
project for the school. I would
like, once again, to thank
Special family and corporate packages available to stay at Dooley’s
all those individuals, Trust
Fund members and groups,
including the Waterford
Dooley’s Hotel, The Quay, Waterford, Ireland Hockey Club, the Old
Phone: +353 (0) 51 873 531 / Fax: +353 (0) 51 870 262 Scholars’ Association, the
Bewley Foundation and the
Email: sales@dooleys-hotel.ie Mountmellick Trust, who
www.dooleys-hotel.ie contributed so generously. I
will not name individuals (you
24 hour bookings online will know yourselves!) except
for a generous legacy from
Joyce Pearson. THANK YOU
ONE AND ALL.
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income was several thousand
euro short of our costs
and also that we needed,
approximately, an additional
€9,000 for dug-outs to
finish the project properly.
Subsequent to contacts made
at the Old Scholars’ weekend
two generous Old Scholars
donated €3,500, and two
Trust Funds also donated
a further €14,000. Bingo!
Mission achieved through Harry McCarthy, Ben Johnson, B
this great generosity. Thanks
again.
On-field successes,
achievements and advances
have been many. Some
say that this is due to the
pitch; however, I believe it
is because the new pitch
coincided with an upsurge
of individual talent and
enthusiasm at Newtown,
which the coaches have
Roger Johnson in the newly acq
harnessed, and the pitch has
facilitated. stretched! Six different age-
group teams were playing
In girls’ hockey there is the both league and cup hockey
(wonderful) problem of in the South-East.
hugely increasing numbers
wanting to play. Field space At inter-provincial level two
and coaches are being girls were chosen on the S.E.
Teams – congratulations
Aoife Treacy (under 18) and
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Rachel Shute (under 16).
On the recently created S.E.
development squads, three
girls are on the 1st year, and
five on the under-16 squads.
This hopefully makes the
future look rosy – well done
girls!

In boys’ hockey there have

been many successes and
achievements. The Senior
team qualified for the All-
Ireland tournament (first
time for many years). At the
tournament they beat 2 and
drew with 1 Ulster side, their
only defeat being 2-4 agains
the eventual tournament
winners, St Andrews. Sadly,
they were beaten for the
2nd consecutive time in the
Munster Senior final by a
single goal, after extra time,
by Villiers; hopefully 3rd time
lucky next year?

It was good to see three

Junior boys win the Munster
cup final with a 3-0 win over
Ashton. At representative
level there have been four
Irish internationals – two at
under-18, and two at under-1

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Speirs.
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 All-Ireland Schoolboys' Trophy Team

Mayoral Reception for All-Ireland Schoolboys' Trophy

Team members, parents, coaches, Principal, and Mayor (centre, back row)

All-Ireland Schoolboys' Trophy Team

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 South Africa to mentor and
train teachers there.
Mosse, Oliver: Horticulturist,
living in Dublin.
O’Neill, Robert (Jinx): Self
employed potter in Bunratty
Castle, County Clare. Lives in
Clonlara, County Clare with
long-time partner Pauline.
Their three boys have left the
nest; they spend spare time
immersed in nature.
O’Sullivan nee Malcolm,
Audrey: Married with 3
children living near Macroom
Co Cork. Pursuing an never-
ending interest in horses!
Owens, Rosemary: Married
and living in Kilternan.
Working as a legal executive
in Dun Laoghaire.
Pim, Ivan: Living in the
UK, working across many
countries. Trying to get an
amateur astronomy project
to come together – should be
this year.
O’Conor, Kieran: Lectures
in medieval archaeology, at
NUI Galway; lives in North
Roscommon. He spent
much of the academic year
2017-18 on a lecture tour
of America and Canada,
invited by the Archaeological
Institute of America. Kieran
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at the research institute in Dale/ Brookton area, which is Fabian and Lena are doing
Tsukuba. Daughters Juliet well-loved, keeps them very well, and are living either here
(25) and Michelle (23) work occupied with their sheep, in Weilheim, and in nearby
in Tokyo, and Rachel (21) is and a few horses. (Nicolette Munich. Still runs his travel
at university in Taiwan. In and her brother, John Thorp, agency, Santana Travel,
his spare time he has been both reluctantly and sadly specialising in trips to Latin
translating old Japanese left Newtown in the latter half America.
books on Korean pottery into
English.
Spain, Tamsin: Lives with
her partner Paul in Leeds,
Yorkshire; self-employed, and
semi-retired. Last full-time
job was managing a new
website for Northern School
of Contemporary Dance.
Their main leisure activities
are rock climbing, walking and
mountaineering.
Sutton, Gerry: Gerry lives
with his family in Crosshaven,
Co. Cork where they
enjoy local sailing, with an
occasional trip “down west”,
coastal walking, and the
odd day sunbathing at the
beach. At work he is involved
in various strands of marine
related research at the MaREI
centre in Ringaskiddy, a part
of University College Cork.
Projects include mapping the
seabed, marine renewable
energy. Recently he started to
investigate how mussels can
be farmed in deeper waters
round our shores.
Thornton, West: Works as
fraud manager for Insurance
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