Blue Yellow Pages (Last Names beginning with O)
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- OLIPHANT, Craig 1984–1989 (Horsham Staff)
Expert on Eastern Europe & former USSR, now at Foreign Office
- OSBORNE, Sue 1964–1970 (4's)
Where are they now FOUND: Being sought by Sarah Theobald (nee Hayward) who was at CH from 1964-1970. She sent her a Christmas card via her sister but neglected to include her address or married name!
- OWEN, David 1942–1948 (Th A)
The well-received anthology Listening to the Birth of Crystals (Boho Press, £8.50, sold in aid of the National Deaf Children's Society and the Merseyside Society for Deaf People) contains a poem by David Owen (Th A 42-48). David has had many poems published in small press outlets and newspapers. He lives in Canada and until his knees gave out a few years ago he could be found hiking or biking in the Rocky Mountains. Now he contents himself with coaching the local high school football team and writing poetry.
David Owen (Th A 42-48) sends this extract from a book about James Knight's doomed 1719 expedition into Hudson Bay. In a 1989 excavation of the expedition house a small shoe was found, 'strong evidence that a boy was taken on the expedition. Boy apprentices as young as twelve, usually wards of Christ's Hospital, London, referred to as 'bluecoat boys', were indentured into the Hudson's Bay Company service for tours of duty in the northern wilderness lasting as long as seven years.'