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Origins
of the Forum Legion (back)
The origins of the St George’s Alumni Association, The Forum Legion, date back to 1976 when it was founded by an ex-student called Jawed Khan. The first journal of the association had a forward written by the then Head-master, Tom Jackson, the contents of which are still as valid today. This is what it said:
“It gives me great pleasure to support the enterprise and initiative shown by Jawed Khan in setting the ball rolling towards the formation of a St. George’s English School Old Students Association. By its nature, a school of this kind is isolated: most of us work in a foreign land and are cut off from our mother countries. Conversely, our old students scatter to all corners of the globe and all too quickly we become cut off from them, too. The formation of such an Association, therefore, will be mutually beneficial: it will provide the school with information from old pupils working all over the world, and it will give the school a ‘memory’: and for the old students themselves, it will provide the means of renewing old friendships, and exchanging news and views with fellow students with whom they have lost contact. Any good school depends on its staff, parents and pupils, and old pupils. The fact that this last group is being approached now to form an Association is wonderful news for us at St. George’s, and I do hope that each and everyone of you who reads this will support the venture”.
T.B. Jackson,
Headmaster
Tom Jackson is now in retirement in Tenerife.
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