J. Patrick Malone, M.Ed   

A molecular biologist of Walden University, has a Masters of Education with an emphasis on gifted and special education. He served six years in the U.S. Navy.

Father Ed Elsey

Father Ed is an unusual Father indeed and will provide a humorous talk on overcoming challenges and contemplative faith.

Hilary Hope Guise 

Artist, and ancient historian, Hilary will ask who would risk their lives, naked, for a mere crown of wild olive leaves and why? And why were the “games” a veiled form of bloodless warfare?  Hilary works for Florida State University, but has worked for various others including Cambridge. Around her painting and exhibiting career, she is also a well-known NADFAS speaker.  Her post-graduate research (London) was into confrontational violence in Archaic and Early Classical Greek art.

BODY

MIND &

SPIRIT

Prof. Robert C. T. Parker

Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at New College, Oxford, Robert Parker's interests include how the Greeks' thought and behaviour was shaped by their religious beliefs. He studies ancient Greek history from an anthropological perspective, and as such neatly ties together the three Mind, Body and Spirit strands."

Edward Boyce

A soldier for 36 years. He served in Northern Ireland on seven separate tours, was injured on active service in 1980 and served in Cyprus, Canada, Kenya, Hong Kong, France and the United States. Eddie was promoted from the ranks on joining the reserve forces in 1995 after a long career as a senior NCO in the regular Scots Guards as a sniper instructor and weapons/tactics instructor. A staunch supporter of Help for Heroes, Eddie (with the invaluable support of his wife Lorraine) has raised in excess of £125,000 and has been honoured by the charity for his work.

Mark Richard Titcomb (OBE)

An assistant director of strategy with the Royal Navy and former Submarine Warfare Officer. Recently having been appointed to the Royal Navy Strategy Office at the MoD, Mark Titcomb was Captain of H.M.S. Sceptre, a nuclear hunter-killer submarine. He has been in the Navy for 16 years, mostly in submarines, serving in the Adriatic during the Bosnian campaign, as well as tours in the Pacific with the US Navy, and in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. He also served as the captain of a minesweeper working in a search capacity off Northern Ireland.

Jeff Spencer

Jeff  is a senior aircrew officer, whose career has involved hunting and ‘killing’ submarines, and encompassed the Falklands and Gulf wars.

Dr Edmund Yorke

A senior lecturer in defence and International affairs at RMA Sandhurst. Dr Yorke will be speaking the GREAT GAME and will be pulling together his chosen strands from LAND, SEA and AIR.