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FORE..Fear of Reunions
Fear of Reunions
Reasons to Attend your 50th Reunion!
1. Because you still can! Life is short...Each day and milestone should be celebrated!
2. Because you're never too cool for your high school friends.(and you'll be missed if you do not show up!)
3. Your family is tired of hearing your stories and you want to relive them with someone who actually cares!
4. Ummm…who else is gonna fill in the blanks to your slipping memory? Thank goodness for name tags!
5. If we get a good turnout, we're gonna take a group picture in the form of a 69!
6. Everyone wants to see you!
7. You know you really want to!(it just might be fun!)
8. Hey… Who cares if we don't fit into our old bellbottoms? Friends just want to see you!
9. Network! Network! Network!It's a small world and you will be surprised at how many wonderful "coincidences" life really holds!
10. Enjoy an evening out without the grandkids.
11. You've always wondered what happened to...(um,can't remember!)
12. Show off your pictures (of your family,kids,grandkids, cougar hot date,pets,car, vacations, etc!)!
13. Renew old friendships. There's really nothin' like an "old"old friend!
14. Renew not so old friendships, meet new friends!
15. Get the latest gossip, as well as can be remembered.
16. Because if you don't show up, you might be the subject of that gossip (if anyone can remember!)
17. See and be seen.(because we might not remember, but it's fun to people watch!)
18. Because you're curious and you HAVE to know what everyone has been doing for the last 50 years.
19. Did we mention there would be lots of FUN??
20. Because you want to go where everyone knows your name...(they just can't always remember!!!) To talk about the "Good ol’ Days"!
When we were "young", carefree and life seemed so simple...(...From what we can remember!)
FINALLY ..... studies have shown that those who were initially hesitant about attending their reunions, discover it was The Event that they wouldn't have missed!
LIFE Happens...Get up,Get dressed,Show up... Registrations closing soon!
A few words from Annette
Annette Brook (Pownall)
1965 – 1968 (Year 11)
Memories of my time at IGGS
Fond memories of the bus trips to Lang Park and the Valley Pool to cheer on our school
teams. Singing on the bus “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain –
Singing Hi Yi Yippy,
we’re the girls from Ippy,
singing Hi Yi Yippy, Yippy Yi!)
Packed lunches for us all from the dining room – sangas and cream buns!!
Trip to Festival Theatre in Brisbane to see Professor Julius Sumner Miller instigated by Miss
Brown.
Competing in the Goethe Poetry Competition at UQ organised by Mrs Andonov in 1965 and
1966.
The 1968 Snowy Bus Trip in the August Holidays – what a great week that was! Miss
Mansfield was one of our chaperones, maybe someone else can remember who the other
one was – maybe it was Miss Kennedy.
Not so fun memories of being made stand in the corridor late at night as punishment for
talking after lights out or peeping out the windows when the Seniors were having a social in
the Assembly Hall – yes, it happened more than once!!
My story
For a “kid from the bush”, my days at IGGS were certainly an “education”. Thanks to
relatives in Brisbane and the generosity of other boarders, I had somewhere to go on my
weekends away from school – was it once or twice a term? Trips home for the school
holidays were either a five-hour drive by car or part bus/part car to reduce the “ordeal” for
my parents.
I married at almost 25 and by my 34th birthday, we had welcomed three sons into the world.
We encouraged our three sons to complete their education either at university or getting a
trade qualification. We are very proud of them all – a town planner (who moved to
Tasmania after 4 years at UNE), an electrical/instrumentation tradesperson (currently
working as an engineer in Dubai) and an environmental scientist (currently working in
London). So far, we only have one grandchild and he is in Launceston.
Now that we are retired, we spend most of our time travelling around Australia towing our
off-road caravan into some very remote places. We still have our home base at Tannum
Sands – really, we just go home to tidy up the gardens and get ready for our next trip.
Best wishes to all for a great Reunion – we will be thinking of you from our camp
somewhere along the road from Lake Eyre to Broken Hill and onto Birdsville!!
You can take the kid out of the bush but not the bush out of the kid – author unknown.
Annette's FB page: Annette May.
1965 – 1968 (Year 11)
Memories of my time at IGGS
Fond memories of the bus trips to Lang Park and the Valley Pool to cheer on our school
teams. Singing on the bus “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain –
Singing Hi Yi Yippy,
we’re the girls from Ippy,
singing Hi Yi Yippy, Yippy Yi!)
Packed lunches for us all from the dining room – sangas and cream buns!!
Trip to Festival Theatre in Brisbane to see Professor Julius Sumner Miller instigated by Miss
Brown.
Competing in the Goethe Poetry Competition at UQ organised by Mrs Andonov in 1965 and
1966.
The 1968 Snowy Bus Trip in the August Holidays – what a great week that was! Miss
Mansfield was one of our chaperones, maybe someone else can remember who the other
one was – maybe it was Miss Kennedy.
Not so fun memories of being made stand in the corridor late at night as punishment for
talking after lights out or peeping out the windows when the Seniors were having a social in
the Assembly Hall – yes, it happened more than once!!
My story
For a “kid from the bush”, my days at IGGS were certainly an “education”. Thanks to
relatives in Brisbane and the generosity of other boarders, I had somewhere to go on my
weekends away from school – was it once or twice a term? Trips home for the school
holidays were either a five-hour drive by car or part bus/part car to reduce the “ordeal” for
my parents.
I married at almost 25 and by my 34th birthday, we had welcomed three sons into the world.
We encouraged our three sons to complete their education either at university or getting a
trade qualification. We are very proud of them all – a town planner (who moved to
Tasmania after 4 years at UNE), an electrical/instrumentation tradesperson (currently
working as an engineer in Dubai) and an environmental scientist (currently working in
London). So far, we only have one grandchild and he is in Launceston.
Now that we are retired, we spend most of our time travelling around Australia towing our
off-road caravan into some very remote places. We still have our home base at Tannum
Sands – really, we just go home to tidy up the gardens and get ready for our next trip.
Best wishes to all for a great Reunion – we will be thinking of you from our camp
somewhere along the road from Lake Eyre to Broken Hill and onto Birdsville!!
You can take the kid out of the bush but not the bush out of the kid – author unknown.
Annette's FB page: Annette May.
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Margot Duncan
"What I have done in 50 years is kind of irrelevant. needless to say that i have been involved with Aboriginal Education on and off for over 40 years and always at the coal face. I have been at the Aboriginal School in Brisbane for 12 years and still counting.What has become very apparent to me is the great disparity in experience of children in Australia, especially in the fields of education and employment. Stereotypes are alive and well.IGGS teachers taught me many things and, essentially I have not changed very much at all. Physically yes but in other ways not much. The independence Miss Goleby afforded Stephanie and me in year 12 Modern History was remarkable and fantastic. The lessons I learned at IGGS shaped my ideas as a learner and as a teacher. I have taught in mainstream high schools, in a small ethnic primary school, in an indigenous school which is P-12, and in a post-secondary college. There are many commonalities in the experience but also many differences.I still love Ancient History and went on a study tour of Libya and Tunisia where I filled my head with marvellous mosaics from Roman times. I still love animals and the natural environment. My pets are extremely spoilt and get to go on many beach vacations. Argentina promises to be a feast of culture and the natural wonders. So much to do.That is about it really. Work-Play- Read."
.........M
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
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