Hawnes – the story of a school
A history of Haynes Park and Hawnes School, compiled by an Old Hag from former pupils’ memories, school and old girls’ magazines and other contemporary material, including photos has been published.
The book had sold out but we had a reprint in 2023.
If anyone would like to buy one please get in touch with the chair person …Susan Glover nee Raine : £25 a copy including postage .
And Hawnes has its own FaceBook page – see the links page.
Photo Album
The Newsletter
You can read the whole newsletter online below. For privacy reasons, all contact information has been removed from this online version.
If there anything you would like to see in the next newsletter please click on the link below to contact the editor.
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The introduction from page 1 of the latest newsletter
OLD HAGENSIANS ASSOCIATION 2024
Dear Friends from OHA
Welcome to the OHA Newsletter for 2024.
Although recent years were marred by the pandemic, 2023 and 2024 saw us back on track with an Annual General Meeting and luncheon in both years.
In 2023 we had moved our meeting from our location of many years at the Radisson Hotels, Tottenham Court Road, in Bloomsbury, to The Chapel Suite, Wellington Hotel, Vincent Square, London SW1 2PA. This area of London has changed enormously since I lived there briefly in the 1970s. The change of location has proved to be a success and in 2024 we had twenty-nine attendees! Details follow in later in this newsletter.
Following the disruption of the pandemic, I’m sure we had all hoped that Covid had largely gone away. However, having avoided it for so long, it finally caught up with me last year. At Hawnes we had grown up barely allowed to be ill beyond a cold, so Covid took me by surprise and suddenly I was back to the isolating practice of 2020.
Items always seem to be in short supply for the newsletter. If you have anything that you would like to see included in the newsletter, please let me know. This is essential if we are to have a newsletter.
I’m not on social media but will ask Charlotte Lippmann to post this newsletter on Facebook. We no longer automatically send hard copies of the newsletter to all Old Hags, but let us know if you or anyone you know does require one.
With best wishes for the New Year 2025
Lucy Fraser (1968-73) Granville