Floreat sodalitas pardorum
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Membership

Eligibility for Membership

1. Ordinary Membership

By election to all Old Boys of the School of 16 years and over and past and present members of the staff of the School.

2. Honorary Membership

By invitation to all present members of the teaching staff such membership being automatically relinquished when that member of staff leaves the School otherwise than on retirement and by invitation to other persons as determined by the Executive Committee.

In accordance with Clause 21 of the Constitution of The Society the basic subscription for all classes of membership shall be not less than £10.00 per annum save that in the case of boys at The School joining through the Initial Payment Scheme the subscription shall be £10.00 which will extend membership to those individuals for seven years after they leave The School.

Please join now.

It is the policy of the Society to be non-profit-making and any surplus of funds over and above that needed to be held in reserve is donated or spent to the benefit of The School.

One-off donations will always be welcome by The Society to assist with its work.


Membership Secretary

Tony Holding
Email
tonyh@smytheclose.fsnet.co.uk


Old Skinners' Society Blazer

Made to measure. Prices and delivery on application from:-

S Simmonds & Son
64 Calverley Road
Tunbridge Wells
TN1 2UG

Telephone +44 (0)1892 510123


Old Skinners' Society Members' Ties

These can be obtained by post (or a personal visit) price £12.50 plus 50p P&P (UK) from:-

Bailey’s Menswear
38 Mount Pleasant
Tunbridge Wells
TN1 1RB

Telephone +44 (0)1892 530517

Calling all leavers from 1999 - 2005

You may not realise it, but your membership of the Society under the Initial Payment Scheme has now come to an end! The time has come for you to take out full membership by paying an annual subscription.

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The Leopards’ Song

Now hands about, good Leopards all,
And sing a rousing chorus,
In praise of all our comrades here
And those who went before us;
For to this lay all hearts beat true,
The gallant hearts that love us,
So fortune fend each absent friend
While there’s a sun above us

Sing Leopards, sing
Floreat Sodalitas
Little matter, well or ill,
Sentiment is more than skill,
Sing together with a will
Floreat Sodalitas, dalitas Pardorum.

The ivy climbs by brick and stone
About the buttressed Hall;
So memory weaves a charm to keep Her servitors in thrall,
And whiskered Leopards think with awe
Of Bab-el-mandeb’s straits,
Where in the days of long ago
They wrestled with the fates

Sing Leopards, sing, etc.

Then here’s a toast before we part,
"The School House by the Lew"
And may its friends be stout of heart,
Its enemies be few
So we will pledge our noble selves
To use our best endeavour,
That while the merry world goes round
The School may stand for ever

Sing Leopards, sing, etc.


Words by P Shaw-Jeffery
Music by Cuthbert H Cronk