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College Achievement

Sport: The Marguerites

Paolo Natali and Emmanuel Akinluyi won their events in the 135th Varsity Sports match at Wilberforce Road on 16th May.

National Achievement

A short list of achievements at national level which happen to have come to our attention

Adetomiwa Edun (matric 2002, Classics, Dr Bayly) is to play the part of Romeo in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet at The Globe Theatre in London from April 23rd to August 23rd 2009 .

 

Charlene Bourliout (matric 2006, Law, Dr Higgins) was a member of the team which won the final of the French Debating Tournament held in the  French National Assembly, on Monday 23rd of March. The President of the French National Assembly, Mr. Bernard Accoyer, granted his 'haut patronage' and the motion of the debate was "This House believes that there is no crisis." (We do not know on which side of the question Charlene spoke!).

Ralph Barton (matric 2008, Natural Sciences, Dr Williamson) and partner George Illingworth won the award for the most creative use of electronices at the national exhibition stage of Young Engineer for Britain , March 9th. Their entry, CommunicAid, is a novel was to help disabled people to communicate and is much simpler and cheaper than anything currently on the market.  See here for the original College article and here for a brief description by the Young Engineers organisation.