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A titbit picked up on the Internet by James Whidborne (H’78) , with A C Grayling, one of Falcon’s better known luminaries, telling tales of canings and running away etc

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/talks/a-c-grayling-on-running-away-from-boarding-school,-at-5×15

…there will, of course, always be debate about who holds the caning record. Some say it’s Tim Hawkins but did we really count them? Having listened to the speech, I personally think there are quite a few embellishments e.g. “the headmaster, whom we never saw from year to year” is clearly wrong as DET was very much to be seen every week in assemblies, classes etc. Still, taken with a liberal pinch of salt, it makes a good yarn!

Colin Bewes, H’79

Peter Steyn (Staff 1961-70) has been awarded the Gill Memorial Award for 2011 at BirdLife South Africa’s recent AGM in March 2011 at the Bundu Country Lodge, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Here’s a link to the page announcing this

Birdlife South Africa – 2011 Gill Memorial Award

Peter has, over the last 60 years, published 8 books and more than 350 articles about birds. You can read more about him in our Famous FOBs section – here is the link to that.

Tardy of us to notice that a former Falcon and Professor of Philosophy, Anthony Clifford Grayling (F’62), is pretty well known, but if, like me, you’d never heard of him (and you weren’t at Falcon in 1962), then here’s a chance to correct that and find out more about him. Click the link below to the Guardian’s article about his new book.

Guardian page on A C Grayling’s new book, “The Good Book : A Secular Bible”

There are also numerous other links that pop up with a quick web search, including his own site ACGrayling.com , a Wiki page, and even a Facebook fan page.