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Welcome to the area of the website specially designed to keep Old Delphinians in touch and informed!

If you are a former student of Dolphin School in Hurst you will be able to access details on this site which will let you know what your former classmates are up to now and what's currently happening at Dolphin.

If we do not have your up to date contact details, or you have any news you could share with us, please let us know so that we can update our records!

Daniel Hallstrom was put forward by Harrow as their entry to UCL's Rosalind Franklin Science Essay Competition.  Daniel won the competiton with an essay entitled Nancy Wexler and the Fight against Huntington's Disease (1945-present day).  On 5 October at UCL he was awarded a cheque for £1000 and there was a cheque for the Harrow science department for £3000.

Claire Taylor has been named International Woman Cricketer of the Year at the Awards in South Africa on 30 September, 2009!

What an incredible year this has been for Claire who also became the first woman in the 120 year history of WISDEN to be selected as one of its five Cricketers of the Year.  This unprecendented honour is based on her perfomance in 2008 when she finished the year as Number One Woman Batsman in the World and batted England to victory in the Ashes played in Australia.  The Wisden editor said, 'beating Australia in Australia is the objective for all cricketers, at least in England, and Claire almost single-handedly saw England through to victory...Taylor has been chosen on merit, for being preeminent in her form of the game.'  The other English cricketer seelcted was bowler Jimmie Anderson.

This year  (2009) Claire went on to be named player of the tournament for her part in securing England's victory over New Zealand in the World Cup final on Sunday 22nd March.  She scored one century and two half centuries and made 324 runs at an average of 64.80.  The Wisden selection was only announced this week (April) but Claire has known for months.

Claire has three times been nominated for international player of the year and was the first woman to hit a century in a one day match at Lords.  On this occasion in 2006 she hit 156 which was the highest one day total ever, eclipsing the previous high of 138 scored here by Viv Richards in the 1979 World Cup.

On July 30^th, Charlie Valentine, a film written and directed by Old Delphinian, Jesse Johnson, won Best Picture, Best Action Film, Best Cinematography and Best Score at the Action on Film International Festival 2009 held in Pasadena, California.

Written and directed by Jesse, Charlie Valentine is a film about a father and son reconnecting. Jesse says, “It's also about how a man who has survived a dangerous life as a professional criminal, by always being able to run away - that is, he has survived by running away from his responsibilities, his goals, his dreams, and his first love - it's hopefully a film about how even a man like that can change. That within the darkest and bleakest of us all there is that shred of hope, of decency, that possibility of creating a state of grace. For me it is ultimately about the strength of the human species.” You can learn more by visiting Charlie Valentine on Facebook.

We are delighted to report that Hugh Welchman, class of '88, has won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for his Peter and the Wolf at the 2008 Academy Awards. 

Old Delphinian Eshe Nelson, Class of 2004, is a regular teenage columnist with the Reading Post. In September as Eshe entred the sixth form herself, she reported on the challenges young people face in planning their future education and careers.

Thank you to all Old Delphinians and their parents who joined us to celebrate Heather Brough's distinguished career at Dolphin on the evening of Thursday 29th March 2007. It was a magical evening of entertainment and reminiscence.

To see pictures of the event click here.

A fascinating account of the early years and development of Dolphin School told with the help of almost 300 photographs!