Here we are after the prize giving at the end of the 1963 academic year. How these old pictures do bring back memories, not just specific memories, either, but sometimes the very flavour of living in those days. These particular faces are special in that regard.
There is something rather odd going on here. All the boys are looking at John's camera, he's the photographer that they know; all the girls are looking at the other photographer, some ringer brought in for the occasion. Oh to have been a dashing, debonair figure that would have drawn the gaze of these girls.
Gerry Hagberg contributes the following:
Guys (l-r): Bruce Wallace, Ken Lane, Don Panton, George Dufour.
Girls (l-r): unknown, Leanne Elliot, Gaynol Vosburgh, Pat Daniel, Jane Bowering.
Those of us who started out on life's social journey on the left foot look back on these faces after 40 years and realize that they belonged to an "aristocracy" at the school. We would like to imagine this group carrying on through life just as smoothly as they moved through high school and a little ahead of the pack because of the accelerated start granted them. After leaving school, most of the rest of us had to drag ourselves forward at an accelerating pace, shaking off the complications of our teen years, before we could eventually glide forward with a semblance of ease.
What has happened to those among us who never did manage to move through life with ease, those who didn't manage to shed early problems? Presumably we will never know. Those who were not at the reunion in 1988 somehow deserve documentation, winners or otherwise, they are a part of us, members of our cohors and we would like to have them with us; they are us.
As with the other faces in these pictures, names and biographical data would be much appreciated. Those data will be put on this page for the enjoyment of all.
The playing fields north of the old building have been, ahh, "levelled". Since the old building was at the low end of the fields a retaining wall has been installed between the elevated grade of the south end of the field and the original grade upon which the old building was constructed. A fox wire fence runs along the top of the wall and spoils the view of the front entrance.
What was the name of the chap who designed this building?
