Old Princethorpians

Peter Rollason (1970 - 1977 ) would love to track down Michael and Paul Binney and Dick Williams who were in his class.

Jose Quintanal, who now lives in Mexico City and David Jenkins would love to get in touch with any of their old classmates from 'C' Form from 1976 / 1977.

George Thien (1977 - 1979)- would love to get in touch with any other OPs who are now based in New Zealand.

Charles Lawton (1967 -1974) has been looking for Jim Burke (1967 – 1974) for years. Jim was last known in 1979 after completing a civil engineering degree at Birmingham University.

If you can help with any of these requests or want to find an old friend yourself please email Old Princethorpians. Success stories will be reported in the next issue of The Old Princethorpian.

Thanks

In May Old Princethorpians helped Anthony Cowland track down his old friend Jean-Pierre Parsons.

The friends were amongst the first pupils to go through the whole school as full time boarders in the late 60s/early 70s (JP's parents lived abroad in Zambia) and had lost touch some years ago.

Via the wonders of Google, Jean-Pierre was tracked down to South Staffordshire College, where he is a governor. A friendly member of staff passed on our email and the friends were put back in touch.

Anthony, now a renowned artist and illustrator based in East Sussex, remembers their antics as boys, " We both got up to absolutely no good when we were at Princethorpe. Our initials might still be found in all sorts of seemingly inaccessible places on the various roofs! We once traversed the entire length of the school at roof level in the dead of night.... I do hope that the current generation of students are not quite so stupid and reckless!!"

Jean-Pierre, who now lives in Staffordshire, was at the College from September 1967 to July 1974. After a long career in the NHS, latterly as Chief Executive of Cannock Chase Primary Care Group and then the Primary Care Trust, he took early retirement, although he still does some consultancy work for a few Local Authorities, including Warwickshire County Council.