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Founders Day 2019 Program

1 Feb 2019
Written by Wp Van Zyl
ODU Events
This is the final draft for the 2019 Founders Day Programme.
Please contact the OD Captains, or the OD office in order to join one of the participating sides

DRAFT - Friday 01 March 2019: Founders Day
 
(Updated 22 February 2019)
 
7:40am                     House Meetings and Roll Call
7:45-08:30am          Founders Day Service: Awarding of the Robert Gray Medals, War Memorial Chapel
08:40am                   Tea in Mitre
  • To liaise with Caroline Berry
09:00am                     Avenue Mile
  • To liaise with Phil Court
9:30am                     Shooting (Oaks): ODs vs School
  • OD Captain: Phil Calothi
  • To liaise with Rodney Warwick
9:30am                     Inter-House Tug-of War (Avenue):
        ODs vs Staff
  • To liaise with Angus Firth
10:30am                   Refreshments for College in Houses
10:45am                   Tea/ Coffee at Frank Reid Pavilion
11:00am                   Basketball (Mallett Centre): ODs vs School
  • To liaise with Glen Gibbon
  • OD Captain: Andrew Gowar
11:30am                   Debating (NLT): ODs vs School
  • To liaise with Caleb Nel
12:00 – 2:00pm        Founders House OD Lunch (Founders House Terraces)
  • To liaise with Dave Mallett
12:30 – 2:00pm        Staff and Founders Day OD Participants Lunch (Dayboy Dining Area)
  • Will confirm attending numbers from various OD Captains, and relay to Origin by Tuesday 26 Feb.
1:30pm                     OD Sportsman Speech (Dayboy Dining Area): MAD4Waves Rowers
  • MAD 4 Waves OD Rowers
  • Welcome by Mr Guy Pearson
2:00 – 5:00pm          Cricket: Frank Reid: OD 1st XI vs School
  • To liaise with Willem Steyn
                                              Oaks: 1999 Reunion Group vs Each Other
  • OD Captain: Shaun Kark
                                              Sahara: OD 3rd XI vs School 3rd XI
  • OD Captain: Phil Calothi
                                              Cemetery: 1989 Reunion Group vs School 4th XI
  • OD Captain: Duncan de Groot
                                              Avenue: 1979 Reunion Group vs Each Other
  • OD Captain: Simon Peile
Rossall: OD 5th Team vs OD 6th Team
  • OD 5th Team Captain: Alister smuts
  • OD 6th Team Captain: Roger Cordai
2:00pm                      Tennis (Founders Courts, Music Courts): ODs vs School
  • To liaise with Jarred Bradley
3:30pm                      Tea at Frank Reid Pavilion
4:00pm                      Waterpolo (Waterpolo pool): ODs vs ODs
  • To liaise with Fiona Viotti (re: caps, balls)
  • Bishops Waterpolo @ KES
  • OD Captain: Sean Flanegan
  • ODs are on a WhatsApp Group
4:00pm                      Indoor Rowing (Rowing Centre – Oaks Field): ODs vs ODs
  • To liaise with Brad Smith
  • Bishops Rowers @ SA Champs
  • OD Captain: Jamie Pike
4:00pm                      Touchies (Piley Rees): OD 1st and OD 2nd vs School 1st and 2nd teams
  • To liaise with Dave Mallett/Chris Ekron
  • ODs are on WhatsApp Group                   
5:00 - 6:00pm              Hockey (Woodlands): ODs 1st & OD 2nd vs School 1st and 2nd teams
6:00 – 7:00pm           - To liaise with Sean Henchie
  • ODs are on WhatsApp Group
  • Hockey players just to use stand (1969 Reunion in Woodlands)
4:00 – 10:00pm         Bishops Carnival: Lutgensvale Fields
5:30pm                      Cricket: Day/Night T20 Cricket (Frank Reid) ODs vs OAs
  • OD Captain: Greg Boyes
Evening:                    OD Drinks and snacks: Frank Reid Pavilion
  • Catering: Self
                                 1969 Reunion: Woodlands
  • OD Representative: John Smuts
  • Catering: Origin
                                 1979 Reunion: The Mitre
  • OD Representative: Simon Peile
  • Catering: Self
                                 1989 Reunion: Heatlie
  • OD Representative: Duncan de Groot
  • Catering: Self

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