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ORIGINAL INVITATION : This year’s Suffolk gathering will be a Lunch rather than a supper and will take place at the College on Saturday 22nd October. We hope this change in procedure will encourage those who might otherwise find it difficult to arrange accommodation for the night to join us for the day instead. It also keeps the evening free for those who want to organise their own get-togethers. The lunch will be preceded by meetings of the Finance Committee, Young OFs and Council. The Young OF Committee Meeting will start at 10:00am and for all those young OFs attending the meeting the lunch will be free.

Lunch tickets are priced £10 per head - excellent value for a delicious 2-course lunch and coffee served in the College Dining-hall. A pay bar will be open from 12pm with the drinks reception starting at 12:30pm and lunch being served at 1pm.

Advance booking is essential - even if you qualify for a free place.

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On 13 June 2016 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List he was additionally awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division (OAM) "for service to veterans, to tennis and to the community".

On 19 October 2016 he received the award from the Governor of Victoria and if you click here to see Mike's entry in the Distinguished section of the website, this gives more details and photos including one of Mike proudly wearing his OF tie at the award ceremony.

The team comprised Sean Collins, Oliver Cutting, Josh Cutting (C), Andy Cutting, Ben Gowing, Tom Dunnett, Ben Wright, Luke Quartermaine (GK)

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The Sparkle Foundation is currently changing the lives of over 200 young people in Malawi.

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His work is currently on exhibition at the Aldeburgh Gallery, High Street, Aldeburgh. The exhibition blurb describes John’s work as follows:

Most weeks for the past twenty years he has studied at Central St Martin’s School of Art and The Royal Drawing School. John has used various mediums and now mostly paints in oils. His inspiration can come from anywhere and he has the ability to tackle any genre. After a stunningly successful solo exhibition in London this summer, John joins us with landscapes of the countryside around his part-time home here in Suffolk.”

Be quick as current exhibition of his work ends on 19 October 2016.

BAFTA award winners Min Clough and her partner Todd Austin will deliver an entertaining and enlightening presentation about their work as documentary TV film makers, with extracts from their highly acclaimed portfolio of films, including, Lager, Mum and Me, directed by Min with Todd as Executive Producer, which won the BAFTA Flaherty Award for Best Documentary. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the Broadcast Awards. Using highly innovative camera techniques, the film was shot from the perspective of a 12 year old girl, who was able to tell her story in her own words as she lived alongside her alcoholic mother who was attempting to dry out. The critically acclaimed My Life on A Post-It Note for BBC 1 was shortlisted for a Grierson award and nominated for an RTS Education Award and the film The Boy Can’t Help It was winner of Best Documentary at the Mental Health Media Awards and nominated for Best Documentary at the Grierson Awards.

Min and Todd are co-founders of Bohemia Films, which they recently set up after moving back to Suffolk from London in 2014. They have produced films for all the major television channels here in the UK and their output includes many social documentaries including films about alcoholism, egg-donation, early onset Alzheimer’s and adoption. Films also include a full-length feature film on the British Gymnastic team and a 3D cinema film of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Bohemia’s latest film, EMI – The Inside Story tells the story of the great British music label, and was broadcast by the BBC in May.

Min went to Brandeston Hall, and then onto Framingham College. After studying Drama and English at Lancaster University she began her career in television on the The Late Show at the BBC. She also worked on Omnibus, Blue Peter, Book Worm, and Tomorrow’s World as part of her work on the BBC’s graduate training course. After finishing her traineeship Min specialised in directing social documentaries for the BBC. With Bohemia films Min and Todd are currently making an up-date of a film first made for BBC 1 following two young men with Tourette Syndrome. We look forward to welcoming you to what will be a fascinating presentation by two of the country’s finest documentary makers.

Both squads mingled and swapped stories of the old days and the new days. Dougal said he could have brought 19 pupils for the match, which shows how far the golf team at Framlingham has come. An excellent Aldeburgh lunch, kindly paid for by the College,  was followed by a foursomes match. The old boys came out on top, but there was impressive performances from Harry Dorber,  Archie Winter, Harvey Finbow and Ben Swinburn. Jonny Newton, the new first team captain, saw at close range how all of these could be challenging for a Halford Hewitt spot when they leave school. Although OFGS won 5 ½ - 1 ½ the main objective of the occasion is to foster relations with young golfers at the College and to encourage them to join the Society when they leave.

Our thanks go to Dougal and Nick for committing to golf at the College and the OF team all commented on enjoying the company of the pupils, who were in great form. There was another match playing that  day, The Army v The Navy, and it was reported back how great it was to see the school at the club and the relationship with the old boys. Long may it continue.

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The girls of St Felix not only played very well, but had something of a cushion of 3 courtesy shots each so they ran out easy winners, with Ipswich School – providing a full team of 6 this year - (last year they struggled in this all-counting Stableford format with just 5 players - just beating us into second place.

We turned out a strong, if less-than-youthful team of Norman Mayhew, Martin Lamb, Robin Anderton, Michael Spencer, Barry Hitchcock and Colin Wigg, with Norman Porter as non-playing Captain, lurking in the background as a possible reserve. The over-all impression is that this competition is now bringing in  stronger teams, that it is being taken seriously  and that it is likely to grow, even though elements of it may evolve. With three different teams having won the competition in the first 3 years, the situation looks healthy, and it is planned to return to Thetford GC next year in early September, with more schools possibly lined up to compete. Since our players represent the Society rather than themselves they receive a subsidy from the OFGC for which they are very grateful. OF golfers locally seem to be held in high regard – a reputation to foster.

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