Attended BHS from 1977 - 1985. Now married, retired and living in Guildford.

Entry

After BGS I went to Loughborough Uni to study Librarianship & English. I was Assistant Librarian at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists then Librarian at Greenwich Hospital. I met another ex BGS pupil Valerie Mills (from the 1960s) who was Librarian at Queen Mary's , Sidcup. I then worked in stock management in Greenwich libraries where I met another ex pupil Paul Clarke (1960s/70s) and worked with the mum of two other pupils Ben and Ella Williams (2000s)
I escaped in 2010 and now spend my time having many lunches with friends! I avoided marriage and children-cats are much easier!
I have stayed in touch since school with Angela Hickin and Fiona Rendle from my year and Kim Smith from the year above me. I've also run into Colin Decker (2 years above me) when I was in an operatic society with his wife. More recently I have caught up again with Alison Wise and am part of the 1975-82 group that Scott Galvin created on Facebook to organise mini reunions. I also meet up with Andy and Jo Leech (Kitchin) a couple of times a year. Alison and I have met up with Nadja Jones a couple of times when she has been over from her home in America.
I dabble in amdram and have been on stage with another ex BGS pupil, Jackie Pye (2 or 3 years below me) and also the son of ex BGS teachers Pete Spall and June Clayton so I bump into Pete from time to time.
My other claim to fame is appearing on tv quizzes- 3 so far. Great fun!

1975

Joined BGS as a pupil in September 1962, leaving July 1969.
After 3 years at Southampton University pretending to study Maths, I returned to live back in Bexleyheath and became intimately involved in playing and helping run the Old Bexleians Football Club until April 1984 when I moved with my partner Barbara to live in Congleton, Cheshire.

1962

1986

BGS 1976-83 (that seems a very long time ago), married in 1990, two sons (1993 and 1999). Having worked in the civil service for many years decided to take a step away from the bustle of Westminster in 2012 and currently work in a local all-ability school in Sidcup.

1976

History

On leaving BGS part-way through my A level studies, lured away by the prospect of earning money, I worked in freight forwarding until leaving work to have my children (1992, 1994, 1998). In 1994 I began studying with the Open University. I worked from home for a while and then returned to full time work in 2007 working at the University of Kent, where I still work as Student Support & Wellbeing Manager for the Medway campus. I achieved a BA in Humanities with English Language through the OU in 2000 and had caught the study bug (perhaps the one that I missed when I was at school!). I went on to complete further studies with the OU - Master of Education in 2002 and BSc in Psychology in 2009. In 2017 I took advantage of free study in my workplace and completed a MA in Higher Education. A sucker for punishment, I am now back studying at the OU, in the 2nd year of a Doctorate in Education, with my research looking at the experiences of transgender students in higher education. I have promised myself I will stop once I have completed this (but I think I have said this every time). It's great to see some of my BGS peers in Facebook posts and I look forward to catching up with more on this website. Happy memories.

1977

Russ Pierce, 1953/1961, prior to retiring in 2006, had a long and distinguished management career in the aerospace, telecommunications, and business management consulting industries. For the past 26 years Russ has served the engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, as an Association Official. He was appointed as an Engineering Futures Facilitator in 1992 and served continuously as such for 24 years. Russ is a United States citizen but was born in London, England. He immigrated to the USA in 1961 and served four years in the United States Air Force before earning BS (cum laude) and MS degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition to membership in Tau Beta Pi, Russ is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering honor society. In May 1997, Russ earned a MBA degree from the Florida Institute of Technology and is a member of Delta Mu Delta, the business administration honor society. From 1999 until 2006, while serving as an information technology director with AT&T Fixed Wireless Company and then as a managing partner in a boutique consulting company, Russ concurrently taught undergraduate- and graduate-level business classes for the Western Washington Campus of the University of Phoenix. In 2004, he founded his own management consulting company, USBrit Consulting. Russ lives in Puyallup, Washington with his wife, Pauli, with whom he enjoys world travel.

1954

Russ Pierce, 1953/1961, prior to retiring in 2006, had a long and distinguished management career in the aerospace, telecommunications, and business management consulting industries. For the past 26 years Russ has served the engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, as an Association Official. He was appointed as an Engineering Futures Facilitator in 1992 and served continuously as such for 24 years. Russ is a United States citizen but was born in London, England. He immigrated to the USA in 1961 and served four years in the United States Air Force before earning BS (cum laude) and MS degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition to membership in Tau Beta Pi, Russ is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering honor society. In May 1997, Russ earned a MBA degree from the Florida Institute of Technology and is a member of Delta Mu Delta, the business administration honor society. From 1999 until 2006, while serving as an information technology director with AT&T Fixed Wireless Company and then as a managing partner in a boutique consulting company, Russ concurrently taught undergraduate- and graduate-level business classes for the Western Washington Campus of the University of Phoenix. In 2004, he founded his own management consulting company, USBrit Consulting. Russ lives in Puyallup, Washington with his wife, Pauli, with whom he enjoys world travel.

1954

68-75, now living down on the coast at Pett Level, would love to hear from fellow pupils from the period

1968

1968

1969

1991

BGS pupil 1969-76 : Governor 1997 - 2013.
Thirty one years as a police officer where I was lucky to take on a wide variety of roles and responsibilities, then seven as a consultant travelling the world working to help emergency services modernise command and control, crisis and incident response, and develop their leadership and operational capabilities.
Now fully retired and living in Sussex with my wife Alison, we walk hills and mountains, ski, scuba dive, travel and are both Leaders with our local village Scout Group.
My biggest challenge is that my head still thinks I’m eighteen, but my body knows different.

1969

Left in 1964 I think,BSc in economics and business administration. Qualified as chartered accountant. Went in to various jobs in manufacturing as a financial director ending up in retail optics as group FD and deputy chairman. Now retired in Andover with Debbie and our two dogs.

1956

Amongst first cohort at BGS, left in 1961, then onto Hull, Goldsmiths, Birkbeck and Warwick (BSc, PGCE, MPhil, Ph. D.) -mathematics. Emigrated to Canada (NL) for 44 years, returned in 2013). Professor of Mathematics and Engineering - took up Naval Architecture for the last half of my career.
Married with 2 kids, one in IT in Toronto, the other teaches at University of Plymouth (Oceans).

1954

1959

1957

Life has been good. I never wanted to go to Uni as I had no particular career path in mind and I don't regret my choice at all; I worked in some interesting places and never felt the need to stay somewhere I didn't enjoy. Despite being terrible at languages at BGS I now live in Cadiz in Spain with my husband and I get by OK in spanish. I now finally understand how to decline verbs.
My sister, Diane (known as Bink) also was at BGS a couple of years before me.

1972

Now semiretired having worked for over 20 years in the NHS.

1970

1973

1988

Was at BGS from 1961 to 1966

1961

I was at BGS 81-86, following my older brothers Rob (75-80) and Alan (77-83). Spent my time at BGS avoiding being beaten up for having parents as teachers. Ron Sawyer (Maths and Deputy Head) and Marjorie Sawyer (Home Ec). I married in 1991 and moved to Wiltshire in 1993. Still live on the edge of the Cotswolds, working as a midwife and have 3 grown up sons.

1981

1977