EVENTS
‘Balconiers’ Speakers (Organiser Ken Sharpe)
2019 Stephen Hedges
2018 Mark Wallace
2017 Tony Lewis
2016 Malcolm Nash
2015 Don Shepherd
2014 Ossie Wheatley
2013 Alan Jones
2012 Peter Walker
The Annual ODA Lecture Speakers
2020 Dr John Alban ‘The Three Nights’ Blitz’ delivered via Zoom
2019 Dr David Jeffreys ‘The White Walls of Ancient Memphis, Egypt’s forgotten capital’
2018 The Lord Anderson ‘The wanderings of a Swansea Boy’
2017 Tudor Price ‘Dynevor Schoolboys in two World Wars’
2016 Prof. Richard Fortey ‘The Wood for the Trees’
2015 Ted Nield ‘Soil, why understanding the planet’s past is the key to our future’
2014 David Mercer ‘A life in Tennis’
2013 Gerald Gabb ‘A preview of RISW History Journal, No.22′
2012 Tim Richards ‘The Real news is what they don’t want you to know.’
2011 Prof. Dudley Sinnett ‘Surgery, Art and Science’
2010 Dr Brian Williams ‘Rivers, Rocks, Reservoirs & Oil’
2009 Prof. John L Davies ‘Life after Dynevor, The Global Wanderings of a Trouble-Shooting Professor’
2008 Spencer Feeney ‘The future of the Evening Post’
2007 David Dickinson ‘Weighing aircraft’
2006 David Tovey ‘Three steps to heaven above…and other revelations’
2004 Spencer Davies (Davis) (Title? The lecture was given on his time in Dynevor and his subsequent career.)
2002 Edgar McCarthy ‘From Tir John to Taiwan’
The Annual Dinner Speakers (Organiser: Keith Ferguson and Jeff Vaughan, past organisers David and Gill Dickinson, Noel Blows,)
2021 No Dinner Speaker was arranged
2020 Dinner postponed
2019 No Annual Dinner Speaker was arranged for this year
2018 Jeff Burns
2017 Christopher Rees
2016 Prof. Brian Williams
2015 Dennis Gethin
2014 Sir Alan Thomas
2013 Prof. Peter Stead
2012 Behnaz Akhgar
2011 Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams
The ODA/UWTSD Joint Lecture
2018 John Ashley ‘Swansea Aviation Pioneers’
2017 Rt. Hon Dr. Julian Lewis MP ‘The experiences of a Backbench MP’
2016 John Ashley ‘Buffalo Bill comes to Town’
2015 Prof. Mike Phillips ‘Coasts in peril from the sea’
2014 Sir John Meurig Thomas ‘Unpredictability in Science and Technology’
2013 Prof. Garel Rees ‘The Global Motor Industry in Wales’
2012 Jane Davidson AM
2011 John Evans OBE ‘Breaking the Myths and Stereotypes of Disability’.
2010 Prof. Bernard Knight CBE (Title? on his time as the Home Office Pathologist)
2009 Lord Donald Anderson of Swansea (Title?)
2008 Lord Brian Griffiths of Fforestfach (Gave the inaugural lecture) (Title?)
Edgar McCarthy has provided the names of the speakers for the first three lectures, please contact the ODA if you recall the titles.
AWARDS
The President’s Awards
2020 Award made to the University’s Student Hardship Fund.
2019 Alice Fribbence; Joelle Evans; Lee Davies; Sarah Rule; Tiegan Hughes; Africa Olle Marina.
2018 Karen Lacey Freeman; Katie Parkes; Rebecca Davies.
2017 Zoe Noakes; Filofteia Gales; Stacey Brown; Linh Duong.
2016 Fracesca Murray-Shelley; Amnon Yoseph; Thomas Zulver; Iman Sayadi Choobari; Sophie Jenkins.
2015 Samantha Taylor; Gemma Alpine; Chris Jenkins; Daryl Lawrence; Silje Gron.
2014 Carys Spencer; Nathan Buller; Jacqeline Phillips; Lara Jones; Anna Brayshaw.
2013 Alex Wilkie; Amy Stead; Fahima Ali; Natalie Burgo.
2012 Desmond Bangura; Jamie Panton; Michelle Walker; James Coyle King.
2011 Lisa Fox; Chris Shopland; Tim Evans-Jones.
The Winners of the Peter Saword Golf Trophy (Organiser Peter Samuel, past Organiser Ken Sharpe)
2019 Peter Clement
2018 Peter Clement
2017 Michael Long
2016 Kelvin Howells
2015 Mike Porter
2014 Kelvin Howells
ODA Honorary Members
Pat Farmer
Graham Hanford
Maureen Hounsell
Prof. Medwin Hughes
Sir Bernard Knight
Prof. Andrea Liggins
Brian Ludlam
Prof. Mike Phillips
Jenny Simms
Allan Smith
Prof. Ian Walsh
Prof. David Warner
Stephen White
John Williams
Joyce Wills
Anne Winks
ODA Life Members
Bill Ball
David Davies
Alan Hickman
Bob Howells MBE
Ted Jenkins
Harry Jenkins
Bernard Jones
Heilig Jones
Paul Le Bars
Colin Maggs
Grafton Maggs
Jim Regan
Mansel Secombe
Terry Shorrock
Clifford Waghorn
Malcolm Webborn
Hywel Williams
OFFICERS
The ODA Secretaries
George Hounsell 1957 – 1997
Stuart Winks 2002 – 2008
Clem Williams 2008 – 2012
David Bemmer 2012 – 2013
Phill Davies 2013 – 2021
Pam Bashford 2021 –
The ODA Treasurers
Alan Goodwin 2002-
Robert Howells -2008
Steve Way 2008-
The Dyvorian Magazine Editor
David Farmer, Dave Tovey TD01-16 Production: Jim Waygood
Peter Macpherson TD17-22 Production: Jim Waygood
Jeff Humphreys TD23-28 Production: Jim Waygood
Tudor Price TD29-34
Francis Morgan TD35-
The ODA Web Master
Dave Tovey
Keith Evans
John Ashley