Sadly we still have no news of Michael. A Memorial Service to remember his life will be held at 2.00 pm on Saturday 6^th September in the School Chapel. All OAs, parents and friends are invited to attend. It will be followed by a reception in the Dining Hall. Members of Michael’s family will be present and we hope many of you will be able to attend.

For catering purposes please can you let the School know if you will be attending by emailing Jackie Wilkie in the OA Office jackie@aldenham.com. Please indicate if you will be accompanied.

The Family would very much like to collect favourite memories of Michael. If you have a favourite memory please email it to Jackie@aldenham.com.

Michael Hetherington, a former Classics teacher at Aldenham and Housemaster of McGill's House is still missing in South Africa after he failed to return from a day’s walking in the Drakensberg Mountains on Saturday, February 2. In spite of an extensive search for him by the Search and Rescue unit of the Mountain Club of South Africa no trace of him has yet been found.

Michael came straight to Aldenham from his studies at Cambridge in 1959 and spent his whole teaching career here.  He taught a multitude of different subjects including Maths and French, although his real love lay with Latin, Greek and Religious Studies.  He became a housemaster of McGill’s boarding house and was a guide and mentor to countless boys in their time here. His retirement from the school in 1994 in no way signalled a cutting of links with the school since he visited every year, usually as a visiting cricket umpire most recently last summer when he accompanied the Gordonstoun team on a south of England tour.  Throughout his life he loved taking part in expeditions and led many school parties to mountainous regions. We can only imagine that this trip would have been a continuation of a lifelong passion.