GUILD BIENNIAL MEETING AND REUNION - 19 May 2012 
Guild’s Reunion Day constitutes the heart of Guild’s events, and takes place annually in May and includes the Guild Biennial Meeting at 11.30am. Guild tries to attract as many members as possible to this event. Previously, the focus of each reunion has been on whole or half decade groups. Now we are trying something different to make Reunion dates more easily remembered.
From this year Guild will specifically invite each year group back every 5 years. Details can be found on the Events page on the website and in our publications but in so far as the 2012 Reunion is concerned (19 May 2012) all those who left in 2007, 2002, 1997, 1992, 1987, 1982 1979, 1972 and so on down the decades will be at the focus of the day. However, all members are warmly invited to each and every reunion. Please come whenever you like and bring friends and family.
Guild hopes this innovation will allow you to easily make forward entries in your busy diaries and therefore see the maximum possible number of friends from your year group.
Invitations have now been posted out for the Reunion to the years listed above, if you do not receive an invitation or know of anyone not on our database, please contact the Guild Office. If you would like to attend please complete and return the reply form, together with your cheque. The cost will be £15.00 per head (£15.45 if booked online). Payment can be made online by clicking here. To view the list of attendees please click here. For further information please contact the Guild Office on guild@cheltladiescollege.org
SPOTLIGHT LUNCH - ADVERTISING, MARKETING AND PR - April 2012
A lunch for Guild members working in Advertising, Marketing and PR was held on Wednesday 25 April 2012 at The Lansdowne Club, Mayfair. We were delighted that Guild member and current parent Mrs Louise Terry (Cranna, 1974-1981,St Clare), who is the Group Director of Communications at L'Oréal UK, generously agreed to speak after lunch.
WORK PLACEMENTS AND VACANCIES - click here for further information on opportunities available to Guild members.
SPORT AND THE BRITISH: PLAYING LIKE LADIES
Broadcast : Monday 6 February on BBC Radio 4
Available on BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01blfjy
Synopsis
CLARE BALDING discovers that the freedoms Victorian public school girls found on the sports field were a precursor to the political and social freedoms that would change British society forever.
She visits Cheltenham Ladies College, founded in 1854. Headmistress, Dorothea Beale's vision for her girls was nothing short of a quiet revolution. Pupils began to do gymnastics, swimming and later, hockey and netball allowing them a physical freedom that previous generations had never known.
Readers, Sean Baker, Jo Munro and Jane Lawrence
Producer: Sara Conkey.
It is available on the BBC website. Mrs Rachel Roberts, College Archivist, was interviewed last year and it is part of a series that will run every weekday afternoon for six weeks during the run-up to the Olympics: this particular programme features the early history of sport in girls’ schools and the contribution made by College.
GUILD MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
LONDON 2012 organisers have unveiled the 12 official posters for next year's Games - and the artists behind them have revealed the vision behind the project.
REVEALED: Official London 2012 posters are revealed at London's Tate Britain. Bridget Riley's Rose Rose, a London 2012 Olympic poster
Bridget Riley (1946-1948, St Helen's) is one of the most original painters of our time and is celebrated for her optically vibrant paintings. By manipulating relationships between colours and shapes, she creates illusions of movement and light.
For her Olympic print, Riley has arranged colours in horizontal stripes, indicating the direction of athletic tracks or swimming lanes. The relationships between the colours create a sensation of movement capturing the energy of sport and the Olympic Games.
PARABOLA ARTS CENTRE - 2011-2012 SEASON
The Parabola Arts Centre was completed in July 2009, full details of the third season of performances by the girls are available by clicking here.
The new public season brochure for PAC is out and available on the Parabola Arts Centre website.
GUILD BROOCHES AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE BAGS
FOR SALE...
The Guild Office has some Silver and Enamel Brooches for sale at a cost of £55 (plus P&P) and some Performing Arts Centre Bags at a cost of £14.99 (plus P&P). For further details please email guild@cheltladiescollege.org or telephone 01242 256581.
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SPONSORSHIPS
Guild invites members of all ages to apply for a donation from the limited funds available to support challenging projects which should include a course of study, research, training or life-enhancing experience and there must be some form of service to the community or to the environment. There are various criteria to be fulfilled, for further details please click here. To read the latest sponsorship reports from Lynn Morris, Sarah Tallett-Williams and Priyanka Chadha on their trips click here.
THE BEALE MEMORIAL FUND 
Just a little reminder that The Beale Memorial Fund is available to make awards to former pupils and former staff who may be in need of financial assistance. If you would like further information on this, please contact the Guild Office.
LOST TOUCH? Guild Online can help... In 2007 we launched Guild Online. For further details click here.
Exciting events for 2012 ...
Looking ahead for the year don't forget these dates for your diaries:
Wednesday 25 April
Guild Spotlight Lunch (Advertising, Marketing and PR)
The Lansdowne Club, Mayfair at 12 noon
Saturday 19 May
Guild Biennial Meeting and Reunion
CLC from 9.00am
For further details and a complete list of events please go to the Events page or click here.
Local events...
There are a number of local events planned in for next year which are being organised by the Area Representatives. For further details click here.
Finally a message for all 2011 leavers! Photos and reports of both the Leavers' lunch and the Leavers' Ball have will be published on the 2011 Leavers' Page. If you have any photograp
hs which you would like to see included, please do email them to us and we will add them to the webpage. Also, don't forget to send us your stories and news for the 2011 Leavers' Page. If any of you are at a loose end for a few weeks and would like some volunteer work experience (always good for the cv!), St Hilda's East is looking for help at their day centre in London. Contact the Guild Office or St Hilda's East for further information.
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Anyone who has College memorabilia or items relating to their time at College which they would like to share with College please get in touch with the College Archivist. In addition, anyone who still has their Green College Calendar & Register for the following years please get in touch with the Guild Office ASAP as we are missing ours:-1988-1989
1998-1999
1945 Spring Term - FOUND
1946 Spring and Summer Terms - FOUND
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St. Hilda's East
Guild has close ties with this charitable organisation. St. Hilda's aims to meet the diverse needs of the local community by providing good quality services that promote social inclusion and help and empower individuals.
An update from St. Hilda's East was given earlier this year in prayers by Director Rupert Williams, to read more click here.
Click here for the latest St Hilda's East Newsflash (Autumn 2011)
Click here to find out more about the work undertaken at this London community centre.