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These pages provide copy and
photographs of Club events. Among these will be the current
Presidential address, Annual Dinner photographs and other notable events.
The London Club and
School websites also have News pages.
Recent News
2008 Sixth form leavers gathering
- Click here for a report and photographs
2008 Prize-Giving -
Click here for a
report and photographs.
A Club pamphlet
explaining the history, activities, function and joining
instructions has been produced. Click
here to download a copy in
Adobe format, which when printed is intended to be presented as a tri-fold
document. The first recipients included all 126 School
Leavers in 2008
Jim Ford MC
was entertained by Lord Provost George Grubb at
the City Chambers on 12th May 2008. The story of Jim and his
brother Douglas Ford MC is told in A tale Of
Valour. Click
here for a photograph of the event.
2008 AGM -
Alastair Allanach was elected President. Alastair (a.k.a.
'Webmaster') spells out his intentions and objectives for his
Presidential year.
2008 Annual Dinner -
Rt. Hon. George Grubb, Lord Provost of Edinburgh was among the
speakers at this years event. Click here
for a report and photographs
George Henry -
has become Honorary President in
succession to St. John Spence. George introduces himself by
explaining his long and active connection with School and Club. See
the entry below.
RHSFP Rugby History - Hugh McKenzie is keen
to see the production of a photographic and team record of all matches from the
establishment of the Club in the 1870's through its transformation to RHC.
In the meantime, a web version has been created and while it is 'work in
progress' is improving all the time. Click
here for a link.
Index
Click on one of the items shown below
for the full story. Click back to return
here.
Honorary President - George Henry
2008 President - Alastair Allanach
2007 President - Val Tudball
2006 President - Robin Boog
2005 President -
Colin Blaikie
2004 President - Alan Grosset - welcome
to the website
2003 President - Jim Inch's plans for the
year
2008 Prize-Giving
2007 Prize-Giving
2005 Prize-Giving
2004 Prize-Giving -The opening of the refurbished school
2008 School
Leavers Gathering
2006 November Social
Function
2006 School Leavers' Function
Welcome presentation to Form S6
Dr John Murray - His retiral pen picture
Dr John Murray - presentation
dinner in Edinburgh City Chambers
Annual Dinner
2008 - Photographs
Annual Dinner 2007 - Photographs
Annual Dinner 2006 - Photographs
Annual Dinner 2005 - photographs
Annual Dinner 2004 - Photographs
Annual Dinner 2003 - Photographs
A Fringe First - The
Royal High School presents
2008 School Leavers Gathering
Around thirty sixth form leavers attended the
function on 8th August, the third annual event hosted by the Club.
Finger food and refreshments were enjoyed along with a programme of DVD's
including Shona Thomson's splendid 'RHS Club through the years', and the 2009
Prize-Giving recorded by the School Audio-Visual specialist.
Still photographs taken during the Prize-Giving were also on display.
The School teaching staff were also represented.
A selection of photographs from the event are
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2008 Prize-Giving
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2008 Dinner
The 2008 Dinner was
held on Friday 14th March in the Roxburghe Hotel
when the principal speakers were Rt. Hon George Grubb, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, Councillor Louise Lang and the traditional after dinner
speech being provided by Peter Brown. Rector George Smuga made
what may be his last rectorial speech as he has been seconded to the Scottish
Government.
Some of the photographs suffered from an
overdose of high-tech camera complexity (i.e. your website photographer doesn't
understand the new camera's settings), and we apologise for those which are out
of focus. We are hoping for focussed versions from other attendees.
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'Educationalists' Martin Bryden, David Simpson,
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London Club President Al Senter enlightens the
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A Council meeting. The Lord Provost,
The Director of Corporate Services and Councillor Lang mull over
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John Mitchell QC, Prof Eddie Spiers, Prof John Kay, Hon
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John Mitchell, Vice-President Douglas Forman, Committee
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Shona Thomson, Hugh Mackenzie, Alistair Maclean.
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Alastair Allanach |
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At the 2008 AGM, Alastair Allanach was elected President.
Alastair has the following message for the website.
As website administrator, it has been my
privilege for the last five years to construct the website entry (from supplied
text) for the incoming President. This year I have to
construct my own entry, and I apologise in advance for its brevity.
I have been involved in Royal High committee
work for the past seven years, and have been particularly occupied with the
memorabilia sub-committee with Val Tudball and Stuart Macmillan.
I have been the webmaster and website creator for the last five years, assisted
by the web sub-committee.
From this base, I have been able to see more
clearly the work that the Royal High Club does to assist the Royal High School,
and the many ways in which it enables connectivity between School students,
teachers and the Rector, with all those who have passed through the famous
Memorial Doors on their way to the first
afternoon of the rest of their lives. I have come to know the
Rector and several teachers well, and appreciate enormously their efforts to
continue to make the school (which I remember fondly and well) a leader in
Edinburgh and Scotland. I have been working closely with
the Acting Rector, David Simpson to
continue the excellent relationship which the Club has with the Head of School,
most notably recently with George Smuga.
I recently spent a couple of hours in the
exalted company of Matt McIver, Chief Executive and Registrar of the General
Teaching Council of Scotland, initiating the compilation of his archive during
his tenure as Rector of the School. This archive will appear
on these pages in due course. I have spent many hours in
the last year working with Hugh Mackenzie to create the
draft history of the Royal High FP Rugby Club.
These projects, along with many hours spent assisting with the project to ensure
we do our best to secure the memorabilia of the last 175 years of the 'modern'
High School, have been ones which I have enjoyed enormously and hope to
continue.
My Presidential year will be marked by
occasions like the Prize-Giving, Remembrance Day Service, Annual Dinner and
attendance at the School Council. I intend to keep a log (blog?)
of these events and record them on the website.
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After a distinguished career and long
connection with the School and Club, George became Honorary President in
succession to W. St. John Spence in April 2007. George has
prepared this short introduction to himself.
I have
every reason to be grateful for my years spent at the Royal High School.
I went to
the Preparatory School at Northfield Broadway as a 5 year old in 1935,
and emerged at 18 from the Senior School in Regent Road certainly a
wiser and hopefully a better boy. Academically I was not brilliant,
but nevertheless adequate, and my only distinction was at the age of
twelve when I was Dux of the Preparatory School. I was rather better
on the sports field, and played for five years in the 1st
Cricket XI ending up as captain. I also played in the 1st
Rugby XV for two years and was captain of basketball. More important
than any of these achievements, such as they were, was that I really
enjoyed my school years despite six of those years being dominated by
the Second Wold War. To my amazement, and the even greater amazement
of my parents and classmates was my appointment as School Captain in
1947/48, perhaps my proudest school achievement.
I had many
good and lasting friendships throughout my school years, and still value
many of these to this day.
On leaving
school, I went to Edinburgh University to study law and attained an MA
LLB in 1953, For three years during my University course, I served a
concurrent legal apprenticeship with Lindsay Howe WS.
National
Service was still compulsory at this time and I served in the Army from
1954 to 1956 rising to the dizzy rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
On my demob, I joined Fyfe Ireland WS becoming a partner in 1959 and
Writer to the Signet in 1964. I spent the rest of my legal career with
Fyfe Ireland eventually becoming the Senior Partner.
Throughout
my professional career, I maintained my contacts with the School through
the Royal High School Club, Rugby and Cricket Clubs, and served for many
years on the Club and other committees, including a time as Secretary
and Treasurer of the Trust which ran the School Boarding House until its
sale. I was Captain of the
FP Cricket Club in 1961, the Centenary year and was privileged to
play against many famous cricketers.
I became
president of the Royal High School Club in 1977, and in April 2007 was
honoured to succeed my lifelong friend St. John Spence as Honorary
president.
I retired
in 1991 and since then my time has been fully occupied by my family of a
daughter, son and four grandchildren. In between times I play golf,
bowls and bridge, and watch sport. I have been an active member of
Luffness Golf Club for many years where I still play badly but
enjoyably, and was Captain there in 1984. Although in common with
many of my contemporaries I now creak a bit, I am still fairly active,
and hope that my golf handicap will decrease and that there are many
grand slams to be made on the bridge table.
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2007 President
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| At the 2007 AGM, Val
Tudball MBE was elected President.
Val has the following message for the website.
May I welcome you all to the Club website. I
am enormously proud to be elected President of this venerable Club, and
trust that I will be able to emulate my forebears, many of whom I am
pleased to say are good friends.
I feel extremely honoured to be
this years President, and the committee
and I in liaison with the school shall
promote the interests of the school to form a strong link between the
pupils past and present and to ensure continuing co-operation between
former pupils and the school in matters concerning the welfare of the
school.
We will promote educational, sport and leisure activities as well as
social, cultural and pastoral interests and also act as the parent
club to all Royal High School clubs throughout the UK and abroad.
We have an extremely successful club and we will ensure that this is
maintained and encouraged.
I have already attended the sixth formers' RHS Club
introduction presented by my fellow committee member Louise Stevenson,
and intend to be a regular attendee at the School Board meetings.
I am looking forward to Chairing the Annual Prize-Giving on 29th June.
I will also be at the Remembrance service on Friday 9th
November, along with the other events such as the Annual Dinner and the
London Dinner. I recently met with the Government Schools
Inspectors and brought them up to date with the close links between the
School and RHS Club.
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A Fringe First - The
Royal High School Presents
The Royal High School has a long musical tradition
covering classical concerts, choir recitals, the KT Christmas singers,
the musical link with our partner school in Munich and the annual
performance song and dance spectacular that is the Secret Policeman’s
Ball.
Never before has the Royal High School put on a show as
part of the official Festival Fringe. The staff and pupils
worked incredibly hard preparing for what
was the musical event of the year,
the schools production of WE WILL ROCK YOU.
Sell-out audiences attended all the performances.
With a cast of over 100 singers and dancers this
was, by
far, our most ambitious project to date.
We thank the many people who came along and enjoyed what
was a unique event.
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2007 Dinner
The 2007 Dinner was
held on Friday 16th March in the Roxburghe Hotel when
the principal speakers were
Mike Mavor, Headmaster of Loretto, and Sandy Strang, the well known after dinner
speaker and ex-Deputy Head of Hutcheson's Grammar School. The
toast to the Guests was by Shona Gillies (leaving year 1999).
The now customary computer slide show from the Club's photographic archive was
shown before and after the dinner in the bar area.
On view for the first time in many
years was the 'Eagle' lectern which was used at morning assembly in
Regent Road. It was presented by booksellers Dr Robert and
James Thin on 26th July 1925. They had been pupils in the
1870's and 1860's respectively. A photo is shown below. The Club
is indebted to George Smuga and Stuart Macmillan for its safe arrival at
the function.
Around 120 guests attended, and the following photographs
show some of the 'revels'.
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The inaugural November social function was held on 23rd
November.
This inaugural event was held in
Frazers Bar, an impressive art deco bar within the Dome in George
Street, central Edinburgh. The event, attended by over
thirty FP's and guests, including a number of committee members, was
advertised as a casual pre-Christmas social.
As can be seen from the photos below, a wide age-range attended.
In future, this event may take the form of a drinks and snacks event for
a small charge, but on this occasion it was decided to make it a pay as
you go occasion.
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Shona Thomson, Mark Bowman and
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Kirsty Gillies, Lynn
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Euan Rae, Hugh McKenzie
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The third annual Sixth form School Leavers function was
hosted by the Club on Thursday 24th August in the Clubhouse.
The objective of the event is to make
and maintain contact with those who passed through the memorial doors a
few months previously (in this case on Friday 30th June).
All teachers are invited along with Club Committee members.
Around twenty five Leavers (including
the past School Captain), several teachers and representatives from the
Club committee enjoyed an informal wine and canapés function which
lasted for around two hours. A video
presentation prepared by Shona Thomson (our resident cinematographer)
ran throughout the event. This multimedia presentation
features video footage from the 2006 prize-giving incorporated with
still images from our photo archives.
Canapés were prepared by the resident
Chef (Robin Boog) and contact details obtained from the ex-students will
be used to maintain contact with them in the coming years.
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Guests viewing a video of the
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| At the 2006 AGM, Robin Boog was elected President.
Robin has the following message for the website.
As President of the Royal High School Club this year can I welcome you
all to the website, introduce myself, and explain what I see as the main
priorities for my year in office.
I attended the Royal High from 1963 until 1969 which means that I had
the pleasure of sampling the delights of both Regent Road and Barnton.
After a sixth year spent mainly either in the gym or on the rugby
field I went to Herriot Watt University to do Economics. My working
life since then has been spent in the Life Assurance industry. After
a spell away from Edinburgh I returned in 1983 and since then have been
heavily involved with both the rugby club and the Athletic club at
Barnton. I have also been involved in a number of other areas relating
to the school, particularly the provision of sporting facilities.
Having attended both the Edinburgh and London Dinners this year I am
pleased to report that both were very successful. During the remainder
of my tenure I will be attending meetings of the School Board, the end
of school year prize-giving and the leavers Function which will be held
in August. Outwith these my main objective for the year will be to
see how the FP Club can assist the school with the provision of sport
for the pupils, a topic on which much press coverage and Government time
is currently being expended. I would also like to try and ensure that as
many of the current Leavers as possible join the FP Club.
With the Club Website we have an ideal opportunity not only to let
members know what is going on but also to give members a means of
communicating and keeping in touch with friends. That only works of
course if the information provided is accurate and up to date and I
would ask all members, when moving house or changing Email name to keep
us informed.
We also want to hear from members as to what they think of the Website,
what the Club should be doing, and anything else they feel is relevant.
This can be done via the website or direct to myself at
robinboog@aol.com.
Lastly, a word of thanks to all the members who do so much work behind
the scenes for the club, much of which is unknown to most people.
Without them the Club would not be the success it undoubtedly is.
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The Annual School Prize-Giving was
held on Friday 1st July. A small selection of
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Kate Wheaton showing off her hat after
presenting the prizes |
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President Simon Card and (now) Senior Vice-President Val Tudball
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The 2006 Annual Dinner was held in the Roxburghe Hotel,
Edinburgh, on Friday 10th March.
Around 140 members and guests
contributed to a memorable evening, hosted by President Robin Boog.
Club and School were toasted by Gareth Edwards, principal of George
Watson's College, while replies for the School and Guests were by Rector
George Smuga and Simon Card (President of the London Club) respectively.
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visited the School and addressed form S6 with the purpose of introducing
them to the Aims, Objectives and work of the Royal High Club committee.
This is an extract from her presentation.
As members of The Royal High School Club, we are always
looking for ways to encourage younger FPs to become involved. In August
2004, for the first time, we held a drinks reception in the clubhouse
for new leavers. This was well attended and allowed an informal
opportunity for new FPs to meet committee members and find out more
about the club.
This year we decided
to go one step further and speak to S6 pupils before they become FPs.
As a representative of the committee I visited the S6 year group during
their weekly hour of PSE (personal and social education) in school. In
preparation for their leave taking ceremony on July 1st 2005
I spoke to them about the history and traditions of the school and club,
and the point when they would become FPs.
All sixth year
pupils were invited to join, and become involved in, the club; both in
Edinburgh and London. I also invited them to attend a few key events in
the coming year. These include the 2005 S6 Leavers Drinks Reception in
August 2005 and the annual RHS Club Dinner in March 2006.
All S6 pupils were
issued with information about the club web-site to encourage them to
visit and keep up with events. A suggestion was made by a pupil that
FPs might be interested to hear about events happening in school, such
as shows or sporting events. In the future we will try to advertise
these on the web-site.
Only time will tell
if these presentations are beneficial in encouraging new FPs to take
part in the Royal High Club. It was a pleasure to meet the current S6
and I look forward to seeing them at future events.
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The 2005 Annual Dinner was held in the Roxburghe Hotel,
Edinburgh, on Friday 11th March. Around 140 members and guests
contributed to a memorable evening, hosted by President Colin Blaikie, and
addressed by several speakers including Dr Ian Jardine, Douglas May QC and Peter
Brown. We were also
pleased to see Eddie Tait from the London Club at the dinner.
Included are a few
photographs kindly taken and supplied by Committee Member Mark Bowman.
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The Top Table George Smuga,
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daughter Kirsty. John retired this year after many
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David Huggan, guest, Shona
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At the 2005 AGM, Colin Blaikie was elected President.
Colin has the following message for his
presidential year.
As
President of The Royal High School Club, I welcome all visitors to the
web site and hope what you find here will be of interest.
I am
writing this piece part way through my year of office. As President, I
am responsible for chairing the Edinburgh Dinner and attending (and
speaking at) the London Dinner, and I am pleased to report that both of
these were well attended. I was particularly taken with the more
informal format of the London Dinner and will be discussing with my
committee ways in which the Edinburgh Dinner (and the Club generally)
could evolve to meet the needs of the younger generation of members who
are coming through.
Of course, not everyone who
leaves the school automatically becomes a member, since they have to be
around at the end of the term that they leave and pay a one-off
subscription fee to join as lifetime members and to receive a copy of
School’s History. I wonder whether in 2005 (when many leavers in fact
leave prior to the end of the school year) if this is the way to
maximise Club membership and would like to see if we can investigate
alternative methods of joining the Club and maintaining membership
during my time as President.
The Club
website potentially makes it easier for members to keep in touch with
the Club and other members and I am anxious that the Club keeps in touch
with as many members as possible. I would like to encourage members (or
leavers who are non-members !) who have any views on what the Club
should be doing to contact me at
colin@colinblaikie.co.uk
As far as the remainder
of my Presidential year is concerned, I am attending meetings of School
Board (having previously been a member some years ago) and I am looking
forward to the annual prizegiving ceremony at the end of the summer term
and a second School Leaver’s function that the Club hopes to organise in
August of 2005.
For those who remember
me (and those that do not !) I attended The Royal High Primary School at
Jock’s Lodge and thereafter went to Barnton between 1971 and 1977 where
amongst many other excellent teachers, I was taught by Jock Dewar and
John Murray. I had a great time at school, playing senior rugby in my
final three years, captaining the school in my final year and managing
to fit in many other extra curricular activities, including the school
Jazz Band and Choir.
I read law at Edinburgh
university and qualified as a Solicitor in 1984 before setting up my own
legal and estate agency practice in 1988. I retired from playing rugby
some years ago and now find it safer to sponsor RHC ! I am married
with three children and still have a passion for old Lancias !
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This year's truly impressive
annual prize-giving was augmented by a ceremony marking the official
opening of the refurbished school. Sarah Boyack MSP, a
former pupil, performed the opening ceremony before the assembled
audience of pupils, parents, teachers, dignitaries and a number of Royal
High School Club committee members. We have included a
series of photographs of the official opening event. For
pictures of the Prize-giving, please see the
School
website.
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Photo includes Councillor Rev Ewen Aitken, Sarah Boyack, Ms Small,
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At the 2004 AGM, Alan Grosset was elected President.
Alan has the following message for his
presidential year.
As President of the
Royal High School Club this year, I
welcome you all to the website, and would like to
introduce myself and explain some of my objectives for my year as President.
An early objective is to repeat the
requirement stated by my predecessor Jim Inch which is to simplify and
shorten the speeches at the Annual Dinner. To this end,
the format will change, with
only one reply to the Toast to the Club, and a
celebrity speaker.
In terms of the
year ahead, I am sure that the Rector will agree that it is good that the
PPP Project is now finished and the school can look forward with some
confidence to the future. The Club itself is in good heart and I hope that
the 2004 Dinner will again be well supported. The format has been updated
slightly as I have previously explained, and I
hope members and their guests will enjoy the evening.
We are hopeful
of arranging a function aimed at school leavers in
the summer and the Committee, working resolutely as
always, are having a look at various other alterations
in the way the Club might be run
in the future. I am grateful to Alastair Allanach
and his sub-committee for work on the website, also to Alastair, Stuart
McMillan and Val Tudball for their work on Royal High archives. Most
importantly, our indefatigable secretary, Rab Forman is perpetually
deserving of our thanks. I hope that all our attempts to move forward and
in particular strengthen the Club's links with the School continue to bear
success.
On a personal note, I left
school in 1959, having served as a prefect and captained the school tennis
and badminton team. I went on
to Edinburgh University, graduating MA LLB before joining Alex
Morison & Co WS in 1965. I became a Partner in
1970 and retired in 2002, although I remains with
the Firm as a Consultant at the moment. Some of my
career at school can be seen elsewhere on the website in photographic form
including "Waiting in the Wings" a record of the 1953 Usher Hall School
Concert.
While
I was involved with a busy Edinburgh legal firm as
a commercial partner and sports law specialist, I
have also been heavily involved in the
administration of sport outwith his legal practice. Among the posts
I have held are President, Scottish Lawn Tennis
Association 1983/84; Captain, Duddingston Golf Club 1992/94; and eighteen
years service as a member with the Scottish Sports Council (now
Sportscotland), the last eight years as Vice Chairman. I
have just demitted office as the Chairman of the Confederation of
British Sport, the Federation of the Governing Body umbrella bodies in the
UK and still serve as the Vice Chairman of the Sports Dispute Resolution
Panel Limited, a body which I helped to set up
some years ago along with lawyer friends from the British Olympic
Association and the Central Council of Physical Recreation.
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The 2004 Annual Dinner was held in the Roxburghe Hotel,
Edinburgh, on Friday 12th March. Around 140 members and guests
contributed to a memorable evening, hosted by President Alan Grosset, and
addressed by several speakers including Chief Constable Peter Wilson of Fife
Constabulary who toasted the Club and School. Other speakers
included the Rector, new committee member David Williamson and Brian Donald of
BBC Scotland fame who had the mixed audience laughing in the aisles with many of
the best and cleanest gags they had heard in years. For those
who missed the event, the menu and toast list | |
The Royal High
School Club
