Down memory lane with our Kloof High School 1975 Matric 40th Reunion

It was dinner with old classmates and an oppotunity to catch up on a 40-year gap for most as we met up for dinner and our School Matric Reunion last night.

Our classmates are spread across the globe and although we battled to find most, Facebook helped locate some and we managed to enjoy a fantastic evening together as we raked up old memories and chatted about our divergent lives.

da gals in da hood and Pete - Rose, Colleen, Barbara and Linda

Enjoying our catch up in the wine cellar

Gary (right) lives in Stellenbosch, Trevor in Somerset West, myself (Durban) and William joined us from Johannesburg. 

The Reunion Dinner Flyer

Our Matric English Exam paper

One of our absent friends who sent greetings from Atlanta. We recalled at the dinner how Jules was able to draw beautiful pictures of horses in a flash

My husband Llewellyn (left) joined us for the celebration 

The Matric (Form VI A) class of 1975 - I'm looking pretty dorky, 2nd left back row

Colleen (left, middle row) found our Class 2 photo - I'm middle row, 5th from right, and we chatted about our School Play Alibaba and the 40 thieves. Barbara recounted how she poured oil over each of the thieves including me, hiding in the urns

Gary Buhrmann and his wife Jen - they flew in from Stellenbosch to join us at the Reunion Dinner. Gary is the State Vet for the Boland area and deals largely with animal disease control and the exporting of horses, pigs and a variety of animals.

There was a place for absent friends

William, Caryl, Llewellyn, Colleen, Gary and Jen

Kloof High School Matric 40th Reunion

I've been busy organising our Kloof High School Matrics of 1975 reunion dinner. Here's the speech I wrote for mine and it's been fun getting info from my other school mates coming in so we can share the success stories.. ha ha. Classmates have been spread across the globe. For anyone more interested here's the link to our Facebook group.

40 year Reunion - Kloof High School Matric 1975

So I started another Facebook group today.. this time for our School Matric 40th reunion intended for a date to be arranged in 2015. Can we be planning so far ahead, and can it really be so many years in the past since we left school!! I have looked over the past few years for school friends on Facebook with little success. The only ones I have some contact with are my friends Greg and Ingrid Boothe over in New Zealand and Linda Peterson (now Rethman) I bump into at our local Spar from time to time. So I have found Shelley Cooke today - both she and Linda helped organise the 1990 - 15th year reunion which was a huge success, and I will delve into old records and see if I can recreate the class lists again. I was in Form VI A (Standard 10) which would now be called Grade 12 and I think there was up to a D class.... a huge project, particularly as it seems my generation don't seem to be particularly computer literate or on Facebook. So if you know anyone from Kloof High School in the 1970s, they are all welcome to attend and they may have brothers or sisters who were in Matric in 1975. Click on the link to the Facebook group here, join and let's chat and make this happen. I'm also on cell 083-7033329.