I AM the editor of the Royal Grammar School's Old Boys' Directory and was very pleasantly surprised to learn from the Bucks Free Press (October 30) that 24 former pupils of the school have entries in that esteemed annual publication Who's Who. I had thought that the number was nearer ten.

One of these distinguished 24 visited the school on Wednesday last week. Professor Denis Stevens CBE, the eminent musicologist and scholar of the music and manuscripts of Monteverdi, spent an afternoon running a masterclass with the music students and the evening entertaining pupils, parents and friends.

The launch edition of the directory - the school's own Who's Who - was published last year and since then many old friendships have been renewed and pupils have come back to see the old place. But there are still many more old boys whom we would like to reach.

If any reader knows of a former pupil of the RGS who could be one of our lost sheep, we would be delighted to send a copy of the directory. The book costs £10 - post free (UK only, £1 extra for overseas) - and contains biographical details of some 1,000 former pupils and members of staff. Details - directory and Old Wycombiensians' Club - telephone (01494) 712265 and http://surf.to/RGS-HW

Sheila Mawhood (Mrs)

Editor

RGS Old Boys' Directory

Brands Hill Avenue

High Wycombe

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