The Oasis School hosts a celebration evening for Rosemary Burton

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The Oasis Schoolhosts a celebration evening for
Rosemary Burton

• In Pictures

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Nick outlines our agenda for the future
Rosemary is invited to Oasis to celebrate her
contribution to our work
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Friends and family come to Rosies evening
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Nick outlines our agenda for the future
A previous celebration was held for Mario who
travelled from Gloucestershire to join Rosie for
her evening.
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Directors of Oasis offered their personal,
professional memories (sometimes moving as well
as amusing) of working with Rosie and the
particular and often pioneering contributions
made by Rosie over the last twenty years.
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Some of the guests at the reception
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Standing room only in the main
working space.
The formal opening of the Rosemary Burton
Room So named because it is often where we eat
and enjoy social time together a key ingredient
of warmth that Rosie always gives attention to
and encourages others to do likewise.
Making contact
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The picture and words in Rosies Room
Rosies connection to Oasis goes as far back as
the idea of Oasis itself. Rosie was a founder
member of the group that first created what was
to become what we have today. In the eighties
Rosie took part in the Diploma in Humanistic
Psychology where she first met Bryce. Since then
she has been involved in all the changes and the
developments that have taken place around Oasis.
From being a member of the first managing group,
facilitating certificates, founding our modular
approach with Nick and helping establish a base
in Leeds at Beechwood to steering the enterprise
into a settled legal form and encouraging it to
its present home in Boston Spa - Rosie has been
a steady supportive presence who reminds us of
the need for sustainable relationships with the
social, natural and economic worlds we inhabit.
Not surprisingly during this twenty year
association and friendship, she took a break and
went to live in Kent for a while in the early
nineties, but the rest was too much for her and
she returned to help Oasis through more than one
financial crisis, be the Chairperson of ODEF for
five years, and came to live on the edge of the
site here at Hall Mews to keep an eye on us.
In many endeavours, a person like Rosie makes an
inestimable contribution and provides a great and
unsung effort to the long term sustainability of
the endeavour, so it is an especial delight to
have that immense, long-term dedicated and quiet
commitment strongly acknowledged by commemorating
her contribution by naming this room after her.