Update

 

27th July 2011

Dates and venue for 2012 confirmed. We have managed to secure the ideal location for our purposes. Please contact us to now to indicate your interest and to book a place.

Friday 20th July - Wednesday 25th July 2012 at Collingwood College - Durham University.


25th October 2011
Dorothy Peters, 10th March 1920 - 22nd October 2011


Dorothy Peters
We all know that such things are inevitable but in Dorothy's case it somehow just never seemed likely.  She was at her Charnwood Orchestra rehearsal on Thursday evening as usual but complained of not feeling too well and decided to leave at the break. She was  taken in to hospital later that evening. Her son, Andy, fortunately was in the country and managed to be with her early on Friday. She seemed to feel much better during the day. Sadly, she passed away early on Saturday morning.

She had been very much her usual self, doing everything she wanted to do right to the end. She had even been making plans to join us next year in Durham.  The 2011  course at  St Mary's was the first in decades she missed. She had even coped with the hills and stairs at Grey in her 90th year, and cheerfully.

Dorothy and Ray were real stalwarts of the Maggini Summer Schools.  They pre-date the computer records that list each year's participants. They were just always there and in a sense always will be.

All of us involved in the Maggini Summer School offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends. Everyone she encountered felt she became a friend. She was one of life's true participants.