A warm welcome to the Autumn 2005 edition of The Mitre. The committee met at Simon's in Bury St. Edmunds on April 17th and again on 24th July on their behalf I send you their best wishes for health and happiness as we all get a bit longer in the tooth! If any of you have ever thought of joining the committee, let me assure you that lunch and relaxing conversation in Ounce House are certainly part of the perks of the job.

If there are any of you who have considered coming to a reunion but are unsure of whether your contemporaries will be present, there are details elsewhere in this edition of how you can log onto the OMA website and leave your name saying you are CONSIDERING coming and is there anyone out there who knows you who might join you. If you do this early enough who knows what reply might be forthcoming and with what success.

It would also be enjoyable if some of you could give us an anecdote about the school at the end of the Reunion dinner in October. Although it's nerve-racking to stand up and say a few words, I can assure you any contribution will be very well received by a receptive audience.

There's always a need for copy for The Mitre, so as this production is being put to bed, the plaintive eerie cry of a Martin can be heard - " more, more, more", for the Autumn edition. Any snippets will be extraordinarily welcome. This is a real case of you get out of this publication what you put in! Just e-mail it and someone will sort it out. Which brings me to Martin's cry for assistance with the editing of The Mitre which has to date fallen on deaf ears; there must be someone out there who could lend a hand now that everything can be passed so quickly and easily by means of e-mail?

Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the founding of the school. If anyone has any ideas that could be seriously considered to add to the usual mix of good company that I think we have at the moment, then by all means let us know before the next AGM, which incidentally will be held at 3.30pm on Saturday 29th October at the Le Strange Arms. For those of you who are coming for the weekend it would be great to see more of you adding to the debate on where and what we do from here on in!

Whenever I have been up to the Le Strange recently it is busy irrespective of the time of year so I do suggest that those who wish to stay there over the weekend, book your rooms as early as you can - just  a thought.

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in October.

Kind regards