On Saturday, April 18th Friends of Christ’s Hospital will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the transatlantic student exchange between CH and the Bryn Mawr and Gilman Schools of Baltimore, MD. The dinner to welcome the CH exchange students, their exchange counterparts, host families and staff from Bryn Mawr and Gilman will be held at the Mount Vernon Club, Mount Vernon …
Our FCH Fall 2025 Newsletter is here Highlights Include:
Original article : https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/old-blues-updates/ken-mcdonald-an-american-schoolboys-memories-of-ch/ J Kenneth McDonald (LaB 50-51) is an American academic, who came to the UK in 1950 from Phillips Academy, Andover (a boarding school near Boston, MA) to Christ’s Hospital School. He had won an English-Speaking Union British-American Schoolboy Scholarship (a scheme dating back to 1928). This September marks the 75th anniversary of his transatlantic adventure! In …
Friends of Christ’s Hospital (the alumni group for US-based Old Blues) will hold itsFounder’s Day Dinner on Saturday October 18 th , 2025 at the Amali restaurant, 115 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022.6:00 p.m. Reception7:00 p.m. DinnerCost: $125 per person. For young Old Blues (under 30 years old) the cost is $99. TICKETSPurchase on-lineVisit the FCH Website www.fch-usa.org/donate …
To learn more about them, as well as the refocusing of FCH’s Mission, please click on the button below to access the Friends of Christ’s Hospital 2025 spring newsletter.
Richard Frederick Jesse Dixon, an Old Blue who attended Christ’s Hospital from 1941-1948, died on November 21, 2024, in McKinney, Texas, USA. Richard was born in Exmouth, Devonshire in the United Kingdom on May 8, 1932. Richard’s father and paternal grandfather were both Captains in the Royal Navy and Richard attended Christ’s Hospital from the age of nine on an …
Sponsored by Friends of Christ’s Hospital, Friends of Christ’s Hospital Transatlantic Schools Exchange Dinner took place on 5th April at the Mount Vernon Club in Baltimore Maryland. The dinner welcomed two Christ’s Hospital students who attend schools in Baltimore for a month, while living with an American host family. A child from the host family will later have the opportunity to spend …
It has been a fun and full year of events for US-based Old Blues and other friends of Christ’s Hospital. To learn more about them, as well as the refocusing of FCH’s Mission, please click on the button below to access the Friends of Christ’s Hospital 2024 year-end Newsletter.
The 2024 Founder’s Day Dinner was held on October 19 at the beautiful Manchester Hotel in downtown Lexington, KY. The dinner was hosted by FCH Board Member Nik Feldman (MaA 09-10). Nik spent time at CH as an exchange pupil from the Gilman School in Baltimore as part of the Transatlantic Exchange program. He is the creator and owner of …
The annual Transatlantic Exchange dinner was hosted in April by FCH Board President Sally O’Brien (5s 70-77) at the Mount Vernon Club in Baltimore. About 30 guests (including Old Blues and parents, faculty and exchange students from Gilman and Bryn Mawr, our two exchange schools in Baltimore) came together for a traditional CH dinner complete with toasts and a rousing …
