At The Bay 2011
At The Bay 2010
The students who attend Wellesley are the school’s best advocates. More than 4000 boys have attended Wellesley College since it opened in 1914, and in recent years we have been actively re-establishing contact with as many Old Boys as we can.
Our annual publication, At the Bay, is sent out to Old Boys and Past Staff each Christmas, and every year we enjoy hearing from former students and staff through their casual visits to the school, emails, letters and phone calls. Many of them send memorabilia such as school reports, photos, old items of uniform and personal stories of their time at Wellesley. These are either copied and returned, or catalogued into our archive.
We’ve held decade reunions for students who attended during the 1940s and 1950s, and in September we held a reunion for those who attended during the 1970s. In 2014 the school will be 100 years old, and preliminary planning to celebrate this significant achievement has already begun.
We are keen to have as many Old Boys and Past Staff join the centenary celebrations as possible, but we are aware that our Old Boys Database is incomplete. For many we have no record of attendance and our contact information for others is out of date.
Please help us to Build our Heritage and create an accurate Old Boys database by sending an update about yourself or, if you are in contact with fellow Old Boys, send us information about them. Either use the Facebook group, the ‘Update your Details’ facility on this site or contact our Old Boys Co-ordinator. We’d love to hear from you.
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4 August 2010
Dear Wellesley Old Boys and Wellesley Community,
“Build the spirit, ignite their imagination”
From its early beginnings in Thorndon, Wellesley has guided thousands of boys to manhood, instilling in them the belief that they can be “the best they can be”.
Years of support and contributions, through good times and tough times, have brought the school to the present day, so that current and future students can enjoy the quality and excitement of the education that is provided here, between the harbour and the hills.
Turning 100 is cause for celebration, and Wellesley will do just that in 2014.
This September, the Wellesley College Foundation, which oversees the sustainable future of the school, is launching a four-year programme in the build-up to 2014.This includes a number of exciting events, a major Old Boy reconnection programme of recording their stories and legacies, and growth in student diversity through the increased provision of scholarships.
An immediate focus however, is the completion of the final stage of the rebuilding programme for the school. The Wellesley Board of Trustees, with the support of The Foundation, will undertake the development of a new library, two new classrooms, a new hall/gymnasium/chapel, and a specific renovation of Days Bay House.
This Centenary Programme, together with the architectural plans for the new buildings, will be unveiled at a spectacular dinner event on September 18th, 2010, at The Massey Great Hall, Buckle Street, Wellington, for which an invitation slip and reply are alongside as PDF’s.
I hope you will join us for this special occasion. We will be seating people individually or as couples, where appropriate, but if you’d like to gather a table of friends from within the school or past parents and Old Boys, we’d be delighted. There will be a large screen documentary of the Wellesley journey through Old Boys’ eyes, inspirational speeches, live interviews by Wellesley parent Sean Plunket, entertainment, as well as a wonderful dinner.
The evening will have no fundraising element to it, being purely a celebration of Wellesley and its future, as the ticket price covers costs of the evening only, and is inclusive of food and drinks. Later in the year the Centenary and building plans will be presented to the boys and to the wider school community.
Eve and I would be delighted if you could join us and our esteemed group of Wellesley community and Old Boy 2014 Centenary patrons, as we take this milestone step in the development of Wellesley College and its bright future.
With best regards
Warren and Eve Owen
Wellesley 2014 Centenary Patrons
