The Old Greys' Association Serving all past and present pupils and staff of The Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster The Old Greys’ Association was founded in 1899 – and it’s still going strong! Its aims are: · To provide fellowship and friendship to its members · To support the school. The world-wide membership of circa 600 former pupils and staff communicate by e-mails and blogs these days but we find nothing quite beats getting together with old friends and making new ones at our annual Summer Meeting, at occasional year group reunions and other events or just in normal social ways.  It’s interesting to find that we all have in common a certain feistiness, a sense of identity and a strong code of ethics, which we attribute to GCH.  And there’s a fascinating array of careers and life stories amongst our members, younger and older.  One of the oldest became a rock star at 99!  If you join the OGA, you’ll receive our magazine, styled The OGA Newsletter, in the spring and another mailing in late summer.  The magazine contains booking details for the Summer Meeting in June and the second mailing papers for the Annual General Meeting in October.  The Newsletter Editor is always interested in scintillating news of OG activities, gossip, historical items about GCH and anything else relevant. The 2009 AGM is on Saturday, October 17th at St Andrew's Building, Greycoat Place and the 2010 Summer Meeting, a bookable event, will be on Saturday, June 19th at the same venue.   Besides having fun meeting our GCH friends at school or elsewhere, we also help the school by endowing prizes, sponsoring individual pupils for special activities, taking part in school fixtures such as the Spring 2009 Academic Tutorial Day with Year 7 pupils, planting memorial trees and a host of other things.  One rather spectacular gift to the school, to mark our 100th Birthday in 1999, was the large tapestry near the angel in the St Michael’s building, Regency Street.  It was designed by a member and made by other members all over the country – quite a feat!  The design is full of GCH symbolism. Our endowed prizes are The Edith Hudson Prize for Geography, The Dorothy Waring Prize for Music, The Old Greys’ Centenary Prize for Design & Technology, The Ethel Cox Prize for Business with English and The Elizabeth Rusbridge Prize for English.  2007/2008 winners were: Amelia Rowswell/Geography, Hannah Timson/Music, Shan Black-Matharu and Yemi Sobogun/Design & Technology, Marie Kamara/Business with English and Caroline Devereux/English. We love having new members, especially younger ones.  Do join us!  Please click here to download the Old Greys' Association membership form.  Contacts – e-mail Mrs Tina Janering, Hon Secretary, at tina.janering@btopenworld.com or write to her at 7 Harford Walk, East Finchley, London N2 0JB  or e-mail Mrs Patricia Powell, Committee member, at powell.pa@btopenworld.com or call 01753 852754. NB - photo above dates from June 1919.