St Edward's Rhubarb - 2018

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1942-1947. Assistant Lecturer Mathematics at Royal Holloway 1949-1953. Senior Lecturer at Royal Naval College Greenwich 1953-1957. Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand from 1958- 1988. Member of the New Zealand Anglican Prayer Book Commission 1965-1989. DERBYSHIRE – In 2016, Nicholas Crawford Derbyshire (A, 1956-1961), of cancer. Cheltenham College of Art 1963-1969 – Dip Arch. RIBA Architect. Director of Architecture and Design for British Rail. Managing Director Nick Derbyshire Design Associates. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Visiting Professor to Nottingham Trent University. FLETCHER – On 5th January 2018, John Stuart Fletcher (G, 1956-1960). Banking 1960-3. Advertising 1963-70. Publishing 1970-83. Landscape Gardening from 1983 until retirement. Interests: all sport, gardening, reading and good food. FLOREY – On 13th February 2018, Michael Kyffin Goodwin (A, 1944-1947). Michael was born on 26th May 1930. He was a farmer from 1954-2012 and Director of Flockvale Ltd 1974-82 and Ravendrive Ltd from 1991. GOBLE – On 5th January 2017, Paul Rudolph Goble (F, 1947- 1952), aged 83. Brother of E. Andrea Goble (F, 1945-1948). The following obituary is taken from Publishers Weekly : Caldecott-winning children’s author-illustrator Paul Goble, widely known for his picture books inspired by Native American culture and lore, died at his home in Rapid City, S.D., after suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

Goble was born in Haslemere, Surrey, England on September 27th, 1933. During his acceptance speech for the 1979 Caldecott Medal for  The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses  (Bradbury), Goble said his fascination with “all things Indian” began very early in his boyhood. His mother would read Native American tales to Goble and his brother, and he would collect pictures from magazines and books about the Plains Indians of North America, a people who especially captured his imagination. A copy of Notes on the North American Indian was one of Goble’s most treasured childhood Christmas gifts, and was the first book in what became an extensive library of Native American culture. Goble attended St Edward’s School in Oxford, then served in the British military from 1951 to 1953, where he was a sharpshooter for the army. Later, he earned his National Diploma in Design, with honors, in 1959 from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. The summer after he graduated, he embarked on a tour of Sioux and Crow reservations in South Dakota and Montana. During that trip, Goble became an adopted member of Yakima and Sioux tribes and was given the name Wakinyan Chikala, translated as Little Thunder. In 1960 he married author and industrial designer Dorothy Lee, and the couple were raising two children while Goble did freelance industrial design and taught at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and the pair collaborated on several children’s book titles. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s he would travel to the U.S. and spend the summers (often with his son Richard in tow) with the Sioux in South Dakota and the Crow in Montana.

Goble had a prolific work period from the late 1970s up until roughly 2003, often publishing multiple books in a year. Popular works from this era include Buffalo Woman (Bradbury, 1984), Iktomi and the Boulder: A Plains Indian Story (Orchard, 1988) and several additional tales starring the trickster character Iktomi, and  Crow Chief: A Plains Indian Story  (Orchard, 1992). Over time, Goble has donated a large body of his paintings to the South Dakota Art Museum, which now owns 500 pieces of original artwork from his books. In 1978, Goble married Janet Filler, whom he had first met during his trips to South Dakota when she worked at her father’s store in Custer. They had one son, Robert, who survives his parents and lives in Rapid City with his daughter and fiancée. Goble is also survived by his son Richard, daughter Julia, and several grandchildren, all living in England. Janet Goble died in 2014. For the past several years, Goble has been not the creator, but the subject, of a new book— Paul Goble, Storyteller (South Dakota Historical Society Press) by biographer Gregory Bryan, a children’s literature professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. As Goble’s illness progressed, Bryan made sure that the author-illustrator received a rushed advance copy of the book last week. Goble’s son Robert told the  Rapid City Journal ’s Tom Griffith, “The last smile that ever passed Papa’s face was seeing the first copy of his biography. He considered it the jewel in his crown, the thing that made his career complete.” A copy of Paul’s book TIPI: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters (2008) can be found in the School Library.

GOLDSWORTHY – In February 2017, John Elston Goldsworthy (A, 1943-47). Brother of Harold (A, 1945- 1949). Interests at St Edward’s: Rugby and rowing. Royal Engineers 1948-1949. Magdalene, Cambridge 1949- 1952, BA. NHS Administrator from 1952. Various hospitals 1960-1983. Chief Executive King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst from 1983. GREEN – In 2017, John (Jack) Alfred Green (D, 1932-1937). Uncle of Jonny (C, 1974-1979). Royal Armoured Corps 1940-6. Captain. Chartered Quantity Surveyor FRICS FFB. Partner, Alex Sayer, London. Retired 1985. Master OSE Masonic Lodge 1970 and Secretary 1978-91. GURDEN – In 2015, Donald Oliver Gurden (D, 1945-1949). Director Oliver & Gurden Confectioners, Oxford. HADDLETON – On 25th August 2017, David Haddleton (D, 1948-1952). Account Executive for Dorland Advertising 1960- 1964. Vancouver 1964. Owner/ Manager Boat Builders until 1988, then Carriage Renovator and Builder. HAYDOCK – On 16th March 2018, Edgar Oliver Haydock (F, 1937-1942), aged 94. Edgar’s son sent us the following words: Dad always spoke of St Edward’s with immense fondness and frequently talked of his time there in the run up to WW2. He always followed developments at the school with great interest. Dad joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers straight from school at the age of 18 and served in Delhi from 1942 through to 1947 - he must have made quite an impression as he

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