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The Wyvern Club

Of King Alfred School, Plön.

Wyvern Club History

Started in 1949 by a few staff and pupils meeting at the Ivanhoe Hotel in London for a meal. The Wyvern Club has carried on to the present-day with reunions every 1st Saturday (approx) of the year.

The actual date, location and contact details are announced on this website, in the discussion area and in the yellow panel on the right hand side of this page.

All former pupils, staff, parents, children and friends of King Alfred School, Plön are considered to be members of the Wyvern Club.

Reunions have been held at a London hotel every year since 1948, usually at the Kenilworth Hotel or Marlborough Hotel in Bloomsbury. This starts with a luncheon and the usual after-dinner speeches giving news of happenings since the previous Wyvern reunion.

A comprehensive list and addresses of ex-pupils and staff has been compiled. This is produced as a booklet of addresses made available to anyone attending. With every one being spread all over the world there is always a friendly face not to far away where ever you are in the world.

Our Private Discussion Area

Of course, there is effectively an on-line re-union going on all the time in the private area of this website. Opened in March 2000 our discussion forum now has over 51,000 messages posted on it; some nostalgic, some of great merit, many just for fun. It's an active website, those figures indicate an average of 17 messages posted every day over the past 8 years; indeed it's a very unusual day indeed if no messages are posted.

Our time at the school was long ago, and often ex-pupils do not recall much of their time there, but on joining the discussions, many new friends are made because of our common heritage and this in turn brings back old memories.  To view the messages and later join in the discussions, click the DISCUSSIONS button in the left hand column.

Revisits

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the school opening, there was a weekend trip back to Plön in May 1988. This was a great success made possible by the reception given to us by the Commandant of M.U.S the German Navy establishment, which now uses the premises. The trip ending with a boat trip on the Lakes after a champagne reception at the Schloss given by the authorities of Stadt Plön.

The 50th Anniverary was celebrated with a similar visit in May 1998. Both trips were made memorable by the friendship and hospitality given to us by our German hosts

The 60th Anniverary was also celebrated with a similar visit in May 2008. See below.

Revisit  KAS, May 2008.

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January 2008.

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January 2007.

Alas, June Fisher one of the former staff of the school and the person who has been the principal organizer of the annual re-unions over most of the last 50 years, died unexpectedly of natural causes on 9th November 2006. Giving thanks that "Auntie June" had kept us all together over these years, other Wyverns volunteered to take over the final preparations and the Wyvern re-union lunch went ahead as planned on Saturday 6th January 2007.

Around 130 Wyverns were present to give thanks to June's memory and to get on and have a good time as she would have wanted it. Photos and a video taken at the event are accessible from the pages of our private discussion area. Click the [DISCUSSIONS] button in the left column.

 The Roll Call:

ABRAM Paul,  ABRAM Joanna
AITCHISON Mike,
ALDER Rosemary nee CLARK,  ALDER Hanna (Daughter)
ANDREWS Chris nee BRAY,
ANSTEY Ray.
ANTONSEN Sylvia,
ASCOUGH Richard,
AYERS Lesley nee BUSH,  AYERS Roger
BACK David,
BALSTON Anne nee BALL,
BAXTER Cedric.
BEALE Alan,
BENCH Margaret nee MOORE,
BERRY Peter,
BIRCH Gordon,
BRIGHTWELL Harry,   BRIGHTWELL Wendy
BROWN Hilary nee YELL,
BROWN Peggy, (STAFF),
BURNETT Ron,
BURY Richard,
CHIPPERFIELD Anne nee FRISE,
COLENSO Colin, .
CORNOCK Bill,
CURTIS Sue nee LETCH,
DAVIES Jane nee GRIMSON,
DAY Mike,
DAYNES Evelyne nee BROWN,
DEAKIN Margo, 
DICKEN Brian,  DICKEN Maggie
DOUGAN Isobel nee KEAN,
EVANS Tina nee IRVING,
FOSTER Hazel nee GLUE,
FRENCH Anne nee TURNER,
FRENCH Paul,
FRIEDRICH Stephen aka McLEOD,
GEE Charles,
GEEVE Gloria, (STAFF),
GLASS Peter,
GOOD Wendy nee McCAUSLAND,  GOOD Charles
GOVER Margaret nee CONNOLLY,
GOVER Peter (Fred),
GOVER Tony,
GRAHAM Tim,
HARPER Brian,
HARPER Paul,
HAWKINS Vivien nee JONES,  BATTEY Beverley (Vivien's sister)
HEFFERLAND Hannah nee KAUFFMANN,
HERITAGE Mike, Andrew's brother
HOCKLEY Kate,
HOOD Joan nee GODDARD,
HOWARD Ann nee COOKE,
HUNTLEY Shem nee WAGSTAFF,
IBBOTT Christopher,
JACKSON Paul,
JEFFREY Margaret nee YATES,
JOHNSTON Angus,
JONES Bill,
JONES Colin,
JONES Murray,
KETTERIDGE Linda nee FRENCH,
KING Ted,
KING Val nee WICKENDEN, 
LAKE Mary nee ROGERS,
LEE Gillian nee AYLIN, 
LEES Mary nee ROBERTS,
LOVE Norma Ann nee WINSLOW,
LOWE John (STAFF),
MACDONALD Ian,
MADDEN COLENSO Madge,
MANSBRIDGE Sue nee BEVAN,  KONKLE Barry
MARCH Colin,
MATTHEWS Ann nee MINHALL,
MATTHEWS Kay nee HUMPHRIES,
McKENZIE-EDWARDS Ian,
MEARS Eric,
MEARS Diane
MINHALL Anne-Marie (Ann Matthews's niece)
MINHALL Martin (Ann Matthews's brother)
NASH John, (STAFF),
NEATE Reg,
NUTTALL Mary nee STONE,
PAICE Mary nee CLARK,
PARSONS John,
PAYNE Elise nee GEE,
PHILLIPS Marie nee HEWITT,
POPE Peter, POPE Patricia
RATCLIFF Patricia nee EVANS,
RATCLIFF Richard, RATCLIFF Diane
REEVES Cathy nee MORRISSEY,
ROSE Mary,
SAUNDERS Keith,
SCULLARD Ann nee JONES, .
SELLARS Jeannette nee CODDINGTON,
SHREEVE June nee MACEY,
SINNOCK David,
SINNOCK Peter,
SLATER Joan/Helen RYAN,
SPOONER Sue nee WOOD,
STANLEY Barry, FISH Beryl
STONE Eddie,
SUART Tony,
SUNE Lucy nee BALL, SUNE Kjell
TARRANT Maureen nee DEWEY,
TEWKESBURY Paul, F.55-59
THOMPSON Evelyn nee DOBSON,
THOMPSON Nelson,
TOOZE Elizabeth nee WOOD,
TWEMLOW Sheila nee WILSON, MUGFORD Suzanne (Sheila Twemlow's daughter)
VAUGHAN-STANLEY Roger,
VERNON Penny nee SKELTON,
WALLACE Jim,   VILLEMSOO Taimi
WATSON Peter,
WILCOCKS Lydia nee HAWORTH,
WILCOX Tom, (STAFF),
WILLIAMS Bill pka Layton,
WILLIAMS Derek (Taffy),
WOOD Michael,
WORKMAN Dave,
WRIGHT Dennis,
WRIGHT Pat nee CUSDEN,

January 2006.

Possibly the biggest re-union for many many years, was held on Jan 7th 2006. Due to the advent of the Internet and this website enabling many former pupils and staff to get back into contact. As ever a great time was had by all. In fact all 131 of these:

Christina Andrews (Bray), Ray Anstey, Sylvia Antonsen,
Richard Ascough, Lesley Ayres (Bush), Roger Ayers,
David Back, Alexandria Balston, Anne Balston (Ball),
Cedric Baxter, Margaret Bench (Moore), Donald Berry,
Peter Berry, Wendy Billington (Saunders), Gordon Birch,
Hilary Brown (Yell), Peggy Brown, Ron Burnett,
Dennis Chant, Robert Churchward, Margaret Cooke,
Bill Cornock, Suzette Curtis (Letch), Jane Davies (Grimson),
Evelyne Daynes (Brown), Brian Dicken, Tina Evans (Irvine),
Edwina Farcqui (Turner), Ian Fincham, June Fisher (Law),
Ray Fisher, Anne French (Turner), Paul French,
Peter French, Hazel Foster (Glue), Sinclair Foster,
Charles Gee, Gloria Geeve, Margaret Gover (Connolly),
Peter Gover, Tim Graham, Lucinda Hall
Neil Hall, Brian Harper, Paul Harper
Vivien Hawkins (Jones), Michael Heritage, Kate Hockley,
Joan Hood (Goddard), Ann Howard (Cooke),
Thelma Huntley (Wagstaff), Christopher Hurndall, Alex Johnston
Angus Johnston, Jimmy Johnstone, Colin Jones
Ruth Karaiossifoglou (Vincent), Linda Ketteridge (French)
Ted King, Valerie King (Wickenden), Peter Knight,
Barry Konkle, Mary Lake (Rogers), Mary Lees (Roberts),
Norma Love (Winslow), Ian MacDonald, Madge Madden-Colenso,
Susan Mansbridge, Colin March, Noeleen Martin (Morrissey),
Kay Humphries (Matthews), Patricia Matthews (Minhall),
Doug McGill, Ian McKenzie-Edwards, Stephen Friedrich,
Anne Marie Minhall, Joan Moynihan (Porter), Alan Moynihan,
Shirley Napier (Milwood), John Nash, Reg Neate
Barbara Nightingale (Watson), Marilyn Noyes (Wright),
Mary Nuttall (Stone), John Parsons, Elsie Payne (Gee),
Pat Pope, Peter Pope, Par Price (McCormack),
Joan Pryde (Standard), Ken Pryde, Diane Ratcliffe,
Patricia Ratcliffe (Evans), Richard Ratcliffe,
Sonia Rayment (Morgan), Cathie Reeves (Morrissey)
Mary Rose, Joan Ryan, Keith Saunders,
Jeanette Sellars (Coddington), June Shreeve (Macey)
David Sinnock, Peter Sinnock, Peter Smith,
Tim Spall, Sue Spooner (Wood), Malcolm Stuart,
Eddie Stone, Dawn Suart, Tony Suart,
Kjell Sune, Lucy Sune (Ball), Andrea Tattersall (Wentlow),
Paul Tewkesbury, Liz Tooze, Evelyn Thompson (Dobson),
Nelson Thompson, Sheila Twemlow, Roger Vaughan-Stanley,
Penny Vernon (Skelton), Evelyn Voller (Gray), Peter Watson,
Lydia Wilcocks (Haworth), Patricia Wilcox, Tom Wilcox,
Derek Williams, Bill Williams, Michael Wood,
David Workman, Mavis Workman, Patricia Wright (Cusden)

We include the full list in this year, so that lost Wyverns, who happen to search the Internet for the names of their school friends have a fighting chance of finding this website and re-joining us.

Much more detail of this re-union is available in the Discussion area of this web-site.

 January 2005.

The 53nd Wyvern Club Re-union Lunch was held on Saturday 8th Jan 2005 at the Marlborough Hotel, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QD.

This was another large re-union, with around 124 persons present. Once more many of these had never been to a Wyvern re-union before and had found out about them as a result of visiting this web-site.

Much more detail is available in the Discussion area of this web-site.

January 2004.

The 52nd Wyvern Club Re-union Lunch was held on Saturday 3rd Jan 2004 at the Marlborough Hotel, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QD.

This was a splendid re-union, with around 97 persons present. Around 10 of these had never been to a Wyvern re-union before and had found out about them as a result of visiting this web-site.

More details are available in the Discussion area of this web-site and this [link] displays more photos of the event.

January 2003.

The 51st Wyvern Club Re-union Lunch was held on Saturday 4th Jan 2003 at the Marlborough Hotel, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QD.

This was a great re-union, with around 105 persons present. More details and photos are/will be available in the Discussion area of this web-site.

KAS summer party 2002

A summer party was held on 8th June 2002 at Brian Harper's house. More details are in the Events section of the discussion board.

January 2002.

The 50th Wyvern Club Re-union Lunch was held on Saturday 5th Jan 2002 at the Marlborough Hotel, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QD.

This was possibly the biggest re-union yet, with a total of 125 persons present. More details and photos are available in the Discussion area of this web-site.

KAS summer party 2001

A summer party was held on 16th June 2001 at Brian Harper's house. More details are in the Events section of the discussion board.

News 2001:

The 2001 Annual Reunion Lunch was held on Saturday January 6th 2001 at the Marlborough Hotel, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QD.

Many thanks to June Fisher (nee Law) for organising it..

Photos of Members at the Lunch
(move your mouse slowly over the picture to reveal six different views, then click down for more detail.
If this doesn't work for you click here).

and the piper: Donnie McLeod
(formerly of the Scotts Guards).

There are more photo's on Taffy's Site at

http://www.dcwill.freeuk.com/kas.htm

News 2000:

The Year 2000 reunion was held at the Kenilworth Hotel in Bloomsbury on the 8th January 2000. At that meeting it was resolved that the next meeting would remain as the FIRST saturday in 2001, but subsequent meetings may be held later in January.

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This web site is the latest venture of the Wyvern Club, and contains a discussion board in which former Pupils, Staff and Friends of KAS can keep in touch and exchange views throughout the entire year.

Nelson Thompson & Bill Williams (Jan 2000)