On Sunday 15th March, members of Sidney Sussex Boat Club past and present gathered at the boathouse for the naming of our new boat, the Mark Wainwright. The boat, an 8+ which will now be used by the 1st Women, was purchased from funds raised at the Club’s first Alumni Dinner in Michaelmas 2008, and with the help of the Know Shaw Fund. She is named in memory of Mark Wainwright, a student and keen oarsmen at Sidney in the late 1970s. The name was chosen by a group of his old College friends following their very kind donations towards the new boat, and the naming ceremony was well attended by Mark’s friends and family, as well Alumni and current Boat Club members. More photos of the day can be viewed in the {link} href=\\’https://www.ssbc.org.uk/gallery.php?album=35\\’>Gallery section{endlink} of the web site, and thanks must go to Andy Marsh of Girton College, our photographer for the day.
SSBC would also like to thank everyone who attended the Dinner last term and helped make this purchase possible. After a great deal of positive feedback, we have now decided to make the Alumni Dinner a biennial event, with the next Dinner to be held in November 2010. We will be sending further details to those whose contact information we have in due course, but in the meantime we are hoping to expand our database of Alumni contacts and provide further opportunities for our former members to keep in contact with the Club and each other.
If you would like to be kept informed about the Boat Club’s progress, and about Alumni dinners, social events and rowing outings in the future, SSBC would love to hear from you. In the newly created role of Alumni Officer, Dan Gorton is working hard to trace lost Alumni contacts and create a low-volume mailing list to enhance communication between the Club and its former members. If you would like to be included, please get in touch with Dan either by e-mail (see the {link} href=\\’https://www.ssbc.org.uk/committee.php\\’>Committee page{endlink} for contact details) or by post (using the College’s address).
We look forward to hearing from you!
Click here for more photos of the day.
