Responses to "Moving On"

(names and identifying info removed to spare anyone's blushes:-)

All very much appreciated - thanks. I'm almost tempted not to leave ! :-) Ted

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Someone who'd heard the rumour:

Heard you've finally given up trying to keep it all afloat alone -

they don't know what they're going to lose -

I guess at some stage you have to look after numero uno -

are there any plans to consume alcohol and toast your bon voyage? if so keep me in the
loop.

best regards

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Good Luck Ted,

Thanks for putting up with me at college,

I know what you mean about getting out of the rat race!!

Have fun, leave some of the wine for me,

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Might drop by one day..

I still vividly remember the first lecture I had with you in 1991 - Battle of Algiers
etc.. some students left the lecture in disgust or frustration.. Your "hardcore teaching
methods" were definitely one of the highlights of the course..:)

Good luck in France!

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hi ted,

glad to hear that you are making a move to a better place in the sun and away from this
country.

...on the whole i learnt a lot from the degree but i must give you great thanks for
introducing me to the work of robert capa and opening up my interest in documentary
photography, this area is the area i feel i have really learnt about and i one day would
like to pursue an ma in this area maybe. but thats a million miles away. anyway the main
thing is that i am out of london and that i will never have to hear the phrase
'interactive installation' again in my entire life!

thanks loads for the oasis of sense in a desert of postmodern waffle

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Yo Ted

It was great to meet for a chat recently!

Wishing you all the best with your preparations, and if I don't see you before you go,
then I'll see you after.

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Hello Ted

Just a quick note to say good luck to you on your new venture.

Congratulations on making the escape. ...

So good luck and I hope that everything in Montpellier is all you could wish for.

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thought it was a lovely validictory email, you are fab !

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Good Luck Ted

The course and it's future students will be the poorer for your loss. But as Socrates said
 "The unexamined life is not worth living."

Keep up the good work making people think for themselves...

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Hiya,

Congratulations Ted.  Sounds like an excellent move.  Always got the impression you were
happier in the sun... maybe with a nice French wine... (didn't realise how profoundly true
this must have been!)

I imagine you have lots of replies to your mail so I won't go on. ... Just
congratulations, and keep happy.

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Dear Ted,

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your input and help over
the past 3 years, it's good to hear that you are moving on to bigger and better things, i
wish you every success and happiness.

Please keep in touch, it's not everyday a student finds a tutor who actually cares about
education, inspiring young minds and developing potential.

You will be a big loss to the University of Westminster, but as you know most of them have
their heads so far up their arses to realize!!!

I wish you well and all the best,

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Thanx for the great e-mail...

I`ll stay in contact!!!

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Hey Ted,

Good to hear you're shipping out to France, you're right we should all do that. ...Well I
hope you take good memories of Harrow away with you, and the knowledge that you inspired
and challenged many many students.

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Ted

Delighted that you are making the break from England - there's only so much self-imposed
flagellation that one should impose in any lifetime. ...

Stay in touch and I'm sure to see you in Montpellier at some point next year.

Best wishes

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cheers for a great e-mail

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good luck with the montpellier film and philosophy department.

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Your email was lovely. I saw [another xaro]  this morning and he commented on it! As you
know you were a brilliant inspiration to us all and it is a very sad thing for Wmin but a
great thing for you that you are going! Gosh, my lecturing wouldn't have been the same
without your classes.

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Hi ted!

I am glad that you have found happiness in the south of France. I envy you at lot. ...
Enjoy the wine, the food, the nature, the weather and the sweet southern French people.

wish you all the best

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Dear Ted, See you are moving from one Place de la Comedie to
another.......................... Don't forget your red nose and floppy boots! Regards,

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Hi Ted, sorry in the delay in getting back to you.....work does kind of get in the way!
Well all I can say is Good on Yer! Sounds great what you've got planned. Your last email
was very interesting, certainly some food for thought, I like the bit about not being
afraid of not working! ... I wish you all the best in France and thanks for all your
support over the 3 years I was at Westminster, you certainly made a difference to me on
the CMP course, If you weren't teaching there I don't think I would have gained what I did
from the course. Despite people moaning about their time at Westminster I enjoyed It very
much and felt I gained a lot (largely thanks to you).

All the best to you and THANKS!

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Dear Ted,

I was one of Mathew's class mates and I learnt ideas from you that have valued throughout
my career.

I will always remember my years at Harrow fondly.  I think of you and your advice often. 
I know that I grew up at Harrow and your influence made me the thinking person I am.  I
came to Harrow straight from school and was extremely shy.  If you could only see me now!!
 I am very social.  I am flexible in my work and hold opinions on everything. ... Ted,
thank you for helping me to look at my work and accept constructive criticism.  Thank you
for being there when other areas were not as strong. The technical aspects of photography
have come with practice, but my ability to enjoy it and my confidence to show it came from
you. ... Thank you again and enjoy your well earned home in France. ... Best wishes

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Dear Ted,

Best of luck in all you do.  Thank you for the support, and thanks for not being soft. 
I'm sure that wherever you are you'll continue to assert your unique thought provoking
impact on the group or environment you chose to become part of. It's not though for no
reason!  Hope to keep in touch and thanks again

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Ted,

Good luck to you and your life full of new horizons. You did alot for CMP which many
people will never forget. I'd like to thank you for something you once said (its not a
quote, i didnt make that detailed notes), you asked us all to question the things that
usually we just go along with, to go out there and find the answers for ourselves and not
take someone's opinion as a truth.  For this i thank you.

Take care

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keep bumping into old harrovians all over the place - u can't get away from them - which
is nice

anyway wanted to say that I always found your lectures engaging and a wake up call (even
if I sometimes thought u were an arrogant prat... :-) still remember bits from them today,
which is more than i can say about some of the other lecturers there

Enjoy your new life, what you are doing is inspirational


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Sounds great - and about time too. Count on a visit and keep us up to date with progress
and wheres the leaving party?

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Dear Ted

Congrats on your move - 'bout time you got out there and enjoyed yourself!!

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Dear Ted

Sorry I have been a little slow to respond. But better late than never....

Good for you. It sounds super cool about your trip, especially the part about sitting
under the sun sipping great wine and painting a picture. Relaxing, well done.

I might take you up on the offer to come down and hang out on the veranda.

....

I hope that we will keep in touch and soon will be chilling out on your veranda. For now I
hope you will enjoy your new home. Again good for you.

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Dear Ted,

Just to say with greatest sincereity, thankyou for you academic input with us through our
uni years. It is only when we've been there and done that and now no longer students that
we really appreciate everything we were taught. I definitely believe that you were right
to try and get us to embrace and keep up with constantly changing technology as opposed to
holding onto outdated practices simply because they are ideologically familiar. Only now
do I fully appreciate my library card and the free resources i can no longer access.

I guess now a lot of us are suffering from post student trauma. Its weird having been a
student for all my life, to leave my hiding place behind the books and go into the real
world (and start paying for everything! council tax - argh, My ID no longer holds any
power it seems). I'm already looking at the prospectuses for next years courses. Just
kidding, there are limits.

Anyway, I truly hope your change of scene goes well and you can send us emails to gloat
about your new found happiness whilst we moan about the media rat race. As my
anti-everything flatmate says: "what do you say to a media graduate with a job? a)
"burgers and fries please!". Hopefully I will exceed this rule. If not, I'll make
colourful burgers with creative toppings. Will keep you posted

With luv, and best wishes,


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So when can we hook up and have a chat over the future of Ted Welch.

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very, very cool!

best you've done in a long time, i think.

you're totally right.  i do a lot of business in france, and really it's something else. 
weird thing is, if you tell any brits they're being conned daily by the system, they'll
still tell you the NHS is the best in the world, the BBC is the best in the world and they
invented democracy.

i've seen the site, it looks like a lovely place.

talk soon,

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Subject: End of an era

Hi Ted,

Sorry I haven't written earlier ...You gonna have farewell drinks then?

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Sorry to hear for the students but happy for you!! Sounds so great and you are well worth
it!

You have done a tremendous job for the students at Westminster. In my job where i am now,
... there is not a week that goes by without i remember things you said or i learned from
your encouragement. I am sure you know that you have been very well liked and remembered
but i don't think you ever know to what extent (no one would)

So when you are chilling on your terrace, watching the warm, orange Mediterranean sun
going down, listening to the waves slowly breaking on the beach and the seagulls "crying"
their last song for the day - lean back, relax and smile, BIG SMILE, because you have done
a bloody good job!

:)

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I run into X-Aro people and they all tell me the same thing (paraphrasing a tad here) :

"Ted made more sense in the Real World, the others with their idealism and rhetoric
amounted to little more than narrowed minded mush..."

be well Ted

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Ted

Great news. As Montpellier beckons will you look back over your shoulder to rainy Harrow
and give it a second thought? I think so. I am sure you don't need more positive strokes
and platitudes Ted but I know the CMP group next year will miss something special...

All the best mate...live it up

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From a first year who sent me info about Zed Nelson, so is about only first year to know:

Good luck with new life, you were a great teacher have to say!

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 A couple of
earlier compliments:

 You may think this a long way from film, but only after attending your lectures could
someone with no knowledge whatsoeverof the history of mathematics think they could write a
book on this subject.Surely that is a great achievement!

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The further away I get from your lessons, the more valuable I realise them to be. I think
that was the same with most people in the course. Although you get little recognition for
the work you do - you're doing a brilliant job.  The role of the educator is the highest
privilege in society and although at times it may seem like what you propogate doesn't
really sink in, but you are planting invaluable seeds in the minds of potentially
influential people - writing history - thank you.

Keep in touch


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Lost but very pleased to find and add 3.2002

"Ted,

Yes I know I must be one of the last people to wish you all the best on your new ventures.
And I didn't even have a deadline to wait for. Anyway, thanks for all your help over the
last few years. I know you have found it frustrating that your aims for the course have
not necessarily been backed by the other tutors, but at least you tried.

I'm glad that you have finally decided to make the break to Montpellier. When you first
mentioned it you seemed really excited, and as for the last time I saw you, well.

So on behalf of both myself, and any students who haven't, thanks for all you have taught
us, and for expanding our mind and views in ways that some of us may never have imagined."

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Once again Ted Baby! your e-mail has proved to be a bit of a rib tickler. You probably
already know my result by now so I'd like to say thanks to you and those who took the job
seriously in trying to impart what is essential for surviving in this big bad and
occasionally beautiful world.

I'm sorry that your leaving although it sounds like you are probably going enjoy your
freedom from the Inverted Truth Factory. I think you will be missed for providing that
real world bridge which seems to be missed when we theorize and 'Pseudoists' (I made it
up!). I think in the words of Joni Mitchell "you don't know what you lost till it's
gone..." an apt line for you I think.

I'm sorry you didn't see the better side of me but like a true phoenix I'll rise from the
frustrations and seek my rightful place amongst the stars.

Good luck and stay fit and healthy I may have a reference or two to ask from you.

Many thanks for being TRUE

The not really bolshy one.



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