Michel Hooper-Immins

The Hardyeans Club brings together 1,217 Old Hardyeans, keeping in touch with their former schoolmates through the website www.hardyeansclub.com, the regular Newsletter, at the lunch every last Thursday of the month and at the two formal dinners- one in Dorchester and the other in London.

“There’s no doubt the soul of the Old Hardyeans is firmly in Dorchester, where we all went to school,” says Michel Hooper-Immins, “but in fact Old Hardyeans are everywhere. I think it’s remarkable that so many of us have kept together. For example, I started at Hardye’s School in 1958 and around 20 of us still meet every Christmas to talk over old times and what we’ve been up in the 45 years since we left school. Now we all have bus passes!”

Colin Lucas, Past Mayor of Dorchester, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Hardyeans Club. “Colin is undoubtedly the engine room of the Old Hardyeans,” comments Michel Hooper-Immins, “he is our most professional and enthusiastic organiser, who has puts so much time and effort into our association.”

Tony Day is the club Secretary and in his role as Clerk to the Governors of Thomas Hardye School, is the main link between the old boys and the modern school. Alan Brown from Bournemouth has become Treasurer, “the new boy on the old boys committee,” quips Michel Hooper-Immins.

The Old Hardyeans team is completed by Membership Secretary Bob Rench from Poole, Newsletter Editor Peter Foster from Dorchester and Webmaster Terry Stone, who lives in St. Kitts in the West Indies.