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Peter Steyn wins RSA’s highest ornithology award
April 6th, 2011 | 
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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.
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Famous FOB in the news
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.
FOB honoured for London bombing first aid work
Falcon Old Boy, Adrian Heili (Tredgold 1999) has featured in the news after giving evidence at the 7/7 Bombings Inquest. The embedded movie below gives the main details of his quick-thinking action on 7th July 2005 when terrorist bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan detonated a bomb in a tube train he was on at Edgware Road tube station, killing six people.
One of the worst-injured survivors of the bomb was Daniel Biddle, who lost both legs, his spleen and his left eye. When the bomb went off, he was thrown out of the carriage and into the gap between the train and the wall of the tunnel.
Adrian Heili had been in the carriage behind Biddle’s. Adrian heard Biddle calling out and shouted to him out of the train.
Adrian forced the door open then jumped onto the adjacent track before working his way to an area close to where Biddle’s cries were coming from. There he met a driver, Lee Hunt, who had been taking a refreshment break at the station. Read the rest of this entry »