had to be members. In 1997, to accommodate increasing numbers of girl pupils, Wentworth merged with Dall to become Duncan House, and Wentworth became a new girls' house, Struan. My mother didn't, and I never heard I suspect this happened to a lot of people. Following closure, the buildings and grounds of Rannoch School were bought by a private developer, Malcolm James. This makes me suspect that themembership list had fallen into decay and was not available. email address. This category is for people educated at Rannoch School, a former independent boarding school, located on the south shore of Loch Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland on the Dall Estate, 6 miles (9.7 km) from Kinloch Rannoch.

They had a function a bit analogous to shareholders, The data is now held by the Rannoch Association Trust. At thatmeeting the head, Dr Halliday, said that he found former pupils a completenuisance and was in two minds about the annual gatherings. had dropped to about 50 by 2009. In 1860 it was sold to Thomas Frederick Charles Vernon Wentworth of Yorkshire. This was a big job and enabled us to identify quite a lot of dead material. It passed t to his son Captain The school was one of a few in Scotland that taught In addition to the regular sporting activities, Rannoch was very active with Rannoch also had its own volunteer emergency services. I've found a few since such as Renwick Hodgson and Andrew Fellowes, but altogether there must be This was a considerable time after closure, probably 2004/5. There are many people missing, I was able to note several that I knew well from my era at the school. The data was used again to contact people for the reunions of 2007, 8 and 9. Any former pupil or member of staff could apply to become a member and this had to be approved by There were also members of the company. floppy discs containing an Excel spreadsheet on each. directors. until John Fleming started to spread the word when the school was running into trouble. school and could have decided the way it was run. 1200 for whom we have no contact data and 600 overseas addresses that we didn't try to send surfacemail to. They could not refuse membership except in very special circumstances, such as Dall House was the main school building. The data was indeed a shambles. It was only in 1997 that Iwondered if there was any such organisation and wrote to the school andenquired. Although there was a committee I rather think they didn't have agreat deal to do as the school organised former pupils events each year. I nowthink this indicates that the school had largely lost touch with formerpupils.

Perhaps he realised theyhad no information about members and the task was impossible. criminal records etc. Simon Stoker and Icontacted Mr Carpenter, the last head, with a view to reviving theAssociation.

Some of what has been said is wrong or misleading and as I have beeninvestigating this since before the school closed I am well qualified to I've spent a lot of time and effort trying to find out about theAssociation and have managed to gather a certain amount of information. There were two database spreadsheets, no reason given as to why However there was no reference to the old Rannoch Association / RSOBA.

No-one could I see no way that this Association could have been revived.

Maybe others know more about this and I would be interested to I went to a former pupils gathering at the school in either 1997. All wefound was the list of 1127 members names from 1992. These alumni are known in some circles as "Old Rannochians". The governors could also confer membership on people other than former staff and pupils if they It's a pity that I couldn'tget to the recent Pitlochry gathering as both John and David were there andmight have been able to shed light on this. It was very fortunate that Perdita sent me the data because otherwise there The former pupils many more. It was established by three masters from Gordonstoun School and opened on 24 September 1959 with 82 boys. As part of this were documents from the school that were passed on by the receiver. There was no check that those presentwere actually members. two. Rannoch School. data was not among this. See more ideas about Scotland, Scotland travel, Scotland forever.

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE DATA In order to explain what happened with this data it is necessary to explain about how the school Needless to say, withoutforewarning, no-one did. altogether. There was no check for a quorum. They both resigned when thishappened. I don't know why thishappened, maybe there was a funding problem. eg 'Hon John' KacKenzie, now Earl of Cromartie who learned so muchat Rannoch and became an explosives engineer and world-renowned mountaineer - Prime Rannoch output! Tony Walker, one of the directors, at a members meeting shortly before the school closed reiterated November 2013 and I was very pleased to hear it was a success. We now have about 320 people from whom we have had a response, about 1100 with no response, In hindsight The life membership was I believe billed to parents of school leaversand many did not take up the offer. company was structured.SCHOOL CONSTITUTION There does seem to be a core of people who do respond. Many were not, there were friends and partnerspresent. diminished each year. There was no indicationof life/annual membership. Dall House served as the main school building and a boarding house.It was established by three masters from Gordonstoun School and opened on 24 September 1959 with 82 boys. According to the Constitution all such meetings had tobe notified in advance to all members. Dall (located in Dall House itself), Potteries, Wade, Wentworth; one girls' boarding house: Robertson; one junior boarding house: Cameron.


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