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Summerhill School Newsletter, Autumn 2010

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RESEARCH ABOUT SUMMERHILL

Dear ex-students of Summerhill, My name is Esteve Garcia and I’m a student at

Jaume Vicens Vives High School in Girona, Spain. I'm doing an essay about

Summerhill and I would like to make you a few questions. I would really

appreciate your help. Please if you are interested in participate please just

send me an e-mail to [email protected]

Thank you!

Steve Garcia

Letters to the Editor

Dear Steve, I was sorry to hear of Wardy Fleming's death in the last news letter. Wardy seemed always bigger, stronger, and more hard headed than the rest of us, andhe aways used his strength to protect and rescue, never to bully.he was also one of the few day pupils at SH in those days andlived with his aunt Mamie in Aldeburgh where we cycled many time together over the years to have tea with his Aunt if we were lucky! Wardy was a natural leader and the fastest track bike rider amongst us and we always expected him to be first race we had around the school.wasn't there, which worried us all greatly and we set out to search for him calling his name and following the rute we set for ourselves.him propped up on his bikeplayroom. he was balanced so carefully that we thought he was joking as his head was perfectly placed bushes. someone gave him a push (not me) and Wardy fell to the ground unconscious. needless to say we raced to get Ena and make sure he wasn't dead. hardheaded as usualhoping that maybe he will this time too. thanks for all the times you came to my recue Wardy... Michael Barth ps in picture, Wardy Flemming center,Brown on left at 2006 reunion

Summerhill School Newsletter,

RESEARCH ABOUT SUMMERHILL

students of Summerhill, My name is Esteve Garcia and I’m a student at


hill and I would like to make you a few questions. I would really


[email protected].

Letters to the Editor

was sorry to hear of Wardy Fleming's death in the last news letter. Wardy seemed always bigger, stronger, and more hard headed than the rest of us, and yet he aways used his strength to

rescue, never to bully. he was also one of the few day pupils at SH in those days and he lived with his aunt Mamie in

where we cycled many time together over the years to have tea with his Aunt if we were

Wardy was a natural the fastest track bike

rider amongst us and we always first in any

race we had around the school. one time when we all got to the finish, Wardy wasn't there, which worried us all greatly and we set out to search for him

g his name and following the rute we set for ourselves. finally we found him propped up on his bike in the bushes over by the big walnut tree near the

he was balanced so carefully that we thought he was joking as his head was perfectly placed against the thick trunk of one of those trees in the

someone gave him a push (not me) and Wardy fell to the ground needless to say we raced to get Ena and make sure he wasn't

hardheaded as usual Wardy eventually came to and hoping that maybe he will this time too.

thanks for all the times you came to my recue Wardy...

Wardy Flemming center, Mervin Saunders on right, and David Brown on left at 2006 reunion.


students of Summerhill, My name is Esteve Garcia and I’m a student at


hill and I would like to make you a few questions. I would really


one time when we all got to the finish, Wardy wasn't there, which worried us all greatly and we set out to search for him

finally we found in the bushes over by the big walnut tree near the

he was balanced so carefully that we thought he was joking as his against the thick trunk of one of those trees in the

someone gave him a push (not me) and Wardy fell to the ground needless to say we raced to get Ena and make sure he wasn't

and i guess i'm still

Mervin Saunders on right, and David


Hi Steve, Zoe and everyone I am hoping that some of you can help me, please: I very much want to get in touch with Jacky Elvey (as she was at Summerhill). Her brother and I and Jacky were all at S'hill between 1945 and 1950. I know Jacky has been involved in a few S'hill events but I haven't seen her since my mother died a few years ago. She became Jacquie Monty and then I believe remarried more recently - but then separated. Carlie Newman (was Carole Silver)

(Above pictures of A. S. Neill on the beach at Sizewell in 1968, kindly supplied by Jon Showstack)

Dear Steve

My name is Jeanetta Main, I am the daughter of Derrick Boyd, who with his brother Donald, was one of the first students of A. S Neill, at Summerhill, first at Hellerau, then Sonntagsberg, then back to England during the 1920s and early’30s.

I am hoping , that with the 90th anniversary approaching, there may be someone who will have some memoirs of students or teachers of that time. I am attempting to write a family history, and as all those of that generation have passed on, and my younger brother and I being the only descendants, I have not been able to find out much about that time. The boys were mentioned in at least one of Neill’s books, but that is the only link I can find.

I have only fragmentary recollections of Derrick’s stories, most were extremely interesting and deserve to be fleshed out. Unfortunately, their parent’s marriage had broken down and all traces of their mother, Victoria, have disappeared, and I am not sure where I might begin to fill in some of the gaps. I would really appreciate if anyone with information about those times could be asked if I might contact them (via e-mail, as I live in Australia) I am very pleased to see A. S Neill’s legacy being carried on so effectively. I liked your newsletter and wish you all well for the anniversary celebrations. Thank you for your help, it is rather a long shot, but I am hopeful that it might lead to some new directions in a trail which has gone rather cold! Jeanetta Main


A belated obituary Gus Dudgeon (30 September 1942 – 21 July 2002)

Angus Boyd-Dudgeon (now known to everyone, it seems, as Gus Dudgeon) was a

friend of mine long, long ago. He and I both went to A S Neil's (now his daughter

Zoe Neil's) Summerhill school though his time there seems to be almost unrecorded.

This is a shame because it was probably the freedom of thought and the recognition

of everyone's near universal abilities, engendered in us all at Summerhill, that

enabled him to achieve so much in his life. I know that the encouragement and the

freedom (and the teaching of the difference between freedom and license) given

there enabled my success in inventing that, albeit rather late in life, has left me

"comfortable".

We used to hang out together in the early sixties (no I can't remember it) and I would sometimes "crash"

at his mother's garden flat in Sloan Street. We would go to the parties of the time with a changing

selection of pretty girlfriends and he and they would be scared almost as witless as I was, on my Ariel

Arrow and, later, in my full race Cooper "S". Though the only accident I ever had was driving carefully

with Angus and his girlfriend in my mum's Morris Traveler in the middle of Oxford Street (remember

when you could drive down there) when a prat jumped the lights.

Angus would sometimes come with me to parties at Briglin Pottery in Crawford Street off Baker Street in

London where my sister, Liz MacPhail, was a potter (the best "mudologist" and handle puller on the

planet). Here the Goons; Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and so many other creative people

of the time would meet. The Goons and other show business people were shareholders in the pottery,

probably due to the influence of Herbert Lom (Pink Panther etc etc) who was the partner of Brigitte

Appleby (the Brig of Briglin).

It may have been through me that Angus met Long

John Baldry (One of the nicest homosexuals and with

a wonderful deep singing voice. He seemed not to

understand his success or why girls wanted him so

badly that they threw their underwear at him on

stage - a sadly wasted gesture) and, later, Elton

John. Angus and I used to meet up with friends

including Long John at a friend of mine's flat in West

Hampstead. Elton John, who owes a great deal of

his good fortune to the skills of "Gus Dudgeon", was

then only part of the backing group for Long John

and he even adopted the John part of his stage

name from him. Picture, Gus and Elton John

Elton's own talents and achievements were brought out by Angus' production skills and without them we

would not have some of the most emotionally and musically wonderful moments of our lifetimes.

By one of life's strange coincidences, before I went to be educated in the realities of freedom in the wilds

of Suffolk at Summerhill with Angus, Elton (then Dwight) and I also went to the same school; Pinnerwood

Junior School. The Headmistress was Miss Stalain. I thought she was called Mr Lane - no wonder some

kid's sexuality got confused! At about the same time as Dwight and I were at Pinnerwood Junior

School, Mandy Miller was my childhood girl friend. Mandy lived across the road from me in the (now

protected) Woodhall estate in Pinner some way past "the Dingle" not far from Elton’s council house.

Mandy went on to be a child film star and starred in the film "Mandy" but will be known (poor thing)

forever for singing the hit song of the time; "Nelly the Elephant". She, Mandy not Nelly the elephant, was

really lovely.

I have been privileged to have existed within the same small window in eternity as Angus, and these other

wonderful people. Everyone who knew Angus Boyd-Dudgeon will have been electrified by him and, like

me, will miss him forever.

Nick MacPhail http://www.gusdudgeon.com


Summerhill 10 years after victory over OFSTED By Anna Dobbie, BBC Blast reporter

Pupil numbers have risen year-on-year at Suffolk's famous 'progressive' boarding school

Summerhill. Click below to read more…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8743000/8743801.stm

A date for your diary….

Summerhill School 90th Birthday Reunion (Exclusively for ex-Summerhillian’s, ex-parents and ex-staff)

Friday 5th – Monday 8th August 2011

A. S. Neill Summerhill TrustA. S. Neill Summerhill TrustA. S. Neill Summerhill TrustA. S. Neill Summerhill Trust

The A. S. Neill Summerhill Trust is a registered charity whose purpose is to promote the educational

philosophy, ideas, life and writings of A. S. Neill, and to provide bursaries or other forms of financial

assistance to school pupils.

The trustees currently have a policy of making bursaries to existing pupils only. Parents can contact

either the school office or myself (Steve Fawdry) for information on how to apply for a bursary from

both Summerhill and other trusts.

We are pleased to report that there are well in excess of 1,400 subscribers to the Newsletter.

Those on the mailing list include ex and current pupils, parents, friends of Summerhill,

educationalists, trustees, teachers, politicians, kids from around the world and actors who starred in

the BBC drama “Summerhill”, screened in 2008.

Summerhill School

Enquiries: [email protected]

Tel & Fax 00 (44) 1728 830540

www.summerhillschool.co.uk

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85th

Birthday

reunion

Newsletter & Donations

Steve Fawdry

Editor & Treasurer, Summerhill Trust

Tel 01502 675008

[email protected]

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