Where are we now?
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| Name at School: | Bronwyn BADGER |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Marketing (retiring 2025!) |
| Currently Single/Married: | Married |
| Living where: | North Epping (but selling right now!) |
| Children/Grandchildren: | 3 sons, 4 + 1 grandchild in October |
| Hobbies: | Reading, walking - retiring and having more |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | 1. The Log 2. Finian's Rainbow 3. Getting absolutely blasted (with Sharyn) by Mrs Bradley for spreading rumours about her - found out years later who was to blame. I reckon she still thinks it was us. |
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| Name at School: | Tim COUSINS |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Semi-retired - I work if I'm in the mood |
| Currently Single/Married: | Happily divorced - Ecstatic! |
| Living where: | Two children somewhere |
| Children/Grandchildren: | Darling Point 2027 |
| Hobbies: | Spending time with the widest circle of friends, BMW bike riding for leisure, AFL, travel, coffee culture |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | I need someone to help me gather all the memories, attach the photos, and relive the memories |
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| Name at School: | Sharyn DAWSON |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Retired Working as a Volunteer at Taronga for 8 years |
| Living where: | Narrabeen |
| Children/Grandchildren: | Kids - 2; Grandkiddies - 4 |
| Hobbies: | Spending time with family and friends and lots of travel Various volunteer roles - WIRES, ORCCA, Nth Head Sanctuary, Tree Kangaroo Rescue, and now Taronga keep me busy |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | *Pam Bradley going absolutely psycho at Bron and myself in Ancient History. She was red in the face and yelling at us and we had no idea what it was about. She hated me for the next two years and she reflected that in her gradings, and yes, she failed me! It was years later before I found out what it was all about and it had nothing to do with us!!! |
| *Mr Clifton throwing a desk across the room at Mark Johnston in 1B, and lining up the boys outside the room and caned them all as they entered the room | |
| *Everyone singing Michael Jackson's Ben on the bus on the way home from a Science excursion |
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| Name at School: | Pam Porter |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Retired and living life to the fullest |
| Currently Single/Married: | I'm still married |
| Living where: | We live in Narwee in the St George district |
| Children/Grandchildren: | I have a 40 year old unmarried daughter and a 37 year old son with a partner in no hurry to get married. I'm not a grandmother yet. |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | I don't know if I ever really felt like I fitted in but I did feel safe and in that way I did enjoy being in school. There were some very funny times and good company. I was in Mr Ryan's maths class, it was pretty rowdy and a tad out of control so Mr Ryan put someone in the corridor standing in the bin. This made me laugh so hard that I was given lunchtime detention and was made to stand in the bin in the playground at lunch time. I'm not damaged by this episode and I still find it amusing. |
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| Name at School: | Geoff Holland aka Dutchy |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Retired after 48 years in the radio industry. |
| Currently Single/Married: | Married to Gabriele who works in the corporate world |
| Living where: | Lived in Sydney, New York, Los Angeles and now settled in London |
| Children/Grandchildren: | We have one son Loukas aged 19 studying law at Cambridge University |
| Hobbies: | Discovering new music, finding good restaurants, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and my Big Green Egg |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Making lifelong friends, you know who you are :) |
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| Name at School: | Christine Low |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Retired |
| Currently Single/Married: | Married 43 years to Ken |
| Living where: | Bribie Island - Banksia Beach, Qld |
| Children/Grandchildren: | 2 sons Matt & Carrick |
| Hobbies: | Argyle Diamond jewellery creation, Travel, Short Stories, Cooking |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Worst - Cross Country, Mr Larbalestier - Maths Teacher Favourite - Gymnastics, Life long friends |
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| Name at School: | Deanne Pritchard |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Assistant to the Director of Students and Family Services, St Paul's Grammar School |
| Currently Single/Married: | Married |
| Living where: | Penrith |
| Children/Grandchildren: | One daughter and one grand-daughter |
| Hobbies: | Overseas travel, opera and symphony |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Spending too much time in the library instead of associating with friends |
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| Name at School: | Karen Priestly |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Happily retired |
| Currently Single/Married: | Married |
| Living where: | Belrose - Yes, still there |
| Children/Grandchildren: | Two Daughters and one son, one grandson |
| Hobbies: | Aquarobics, gym, pickleball and tennis |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Miss Flint measuring our skirts etc |
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| Name at School: | Mandy Warman |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Working 3 days a week at Christian School office |
| Living where: | Erina, Central Coast |
| Children/Grandchildren: | 2 boys and 2 girls - Grandchildren - 2 boys, 5 girls and 1 on the way |
| Hobbies: | Family, fun, holidays |
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| Name at School: | Julie Fidler (or maybe Juli) |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | International traveller (late stage career change from corporate/admin career). Although currently on a break |
| Currently single/married: | Yes - to Dorb for 40+ years |
| Living where: | Turramurra with regular and increasing spells at Blueys Beach |
| Children/Grandchildren: | Yes (2)/No |
| Hobbies: | Hiking (especially overseas), yoga |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | In no particular order: Sunny lunchtimes against the brick walls with our uniforms hiked up to tan our legs. Kerry running down the steps of her house to meet the school bus heading up the hill. Making bikinis in sewing classes when the assigned work was done. Mr Reeves opening every class with “Well, 6th form” and nicking into the storeroom for a smoke in the middle of double periods (Mr Reeves that is, not me!). Gary Poppleton getting a birthday call from Humphrey B Bear courtesy of Bronwyn. Excursions into the correspondence school in the city with Kaye to visit our German teacher. |
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| Name at School: | Larry Galbraith |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | I'm semi-retired but do a bit of part time work with supervising, coaching and mentoring of leaders |
| Currently single/married: | Married |
| Living where: | Central Coast NSW |
| Children/Grandchildren: | We have 3 kids, and two grandkids who we love being with and being part of their lives and doing our best to spoil them. |
| Hobbies: | Art and music - I draw pets and people, often as commissions. I listen to all kinds of global music and my playlist is weird and wonderful. I have also daily played guitar / ukulele and banjo over the years and I still do! We like to walk along the beach, and I don’t knock back a good coffee. I still try to exercise, but these days I’m just chasing pain from one place to another. |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Favourite - the friends I had. I loved being a part of a group of people especially in the senior years. The dark senior studies basement has great memories for me, as does the Senior studies room in the new section - not for study of course, just to chat. Worst memory - getting caned was no fun, but more often than not I ‘deserved’ it. Looking back it was a barbaric practise and would not be allowed nowadays, thank goodness. |
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| Name at School: | Tim Pharo - Nickname Fez |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Semi-retired - mentoring and assisting the new owner of Pharo Asset Services |
| Currently single/married: | Married |
| Living where: | Narraweena |
| Children/Grandchildren: | 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren - a boy Tama and girl Amalia |
| Hobbies: | Sailing, Ebike riding, walking |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Favourite: * Hanging with my friends behind the maths block at recess and lunch *Sport activities, sailing on middle harbour, hockey * Walking to school with friends and stopping on a corner and debriefing after school time seemed endless Worst: * To be honest - not many * Mr Curtain coming into the male change rooms with his cane and make us strip and walk though the showers * I remember when Cathy Black threw an apple core aiming at the bin and got Mr Denant in the back of the head. For many periods of maths after that, he would take each student into the staff room and question us on who threw the apple core. Unite was everything and nobody gave Cathy up. That's my excuse for my poor maths capabilities. |
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| Name at School: | Mark Hurt |
| Retired or Current Occupation: | Retired: Began as a mechanic and retired as a technical consultant with Valvoline Australia |
| Currently single/married: | Married |
| Living where: | North Rocks NSW |
| Children/Grandchildren: | 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren |
| Hobbies: | 10 Years Wish Granter at Starlight Childrens Foundation. Currently volunteer driver for Little Wings for 2 years, Riding Harleys in the USA for last 12 years |
| Favourite/worst school memories: | Finians Rainbow. The day I walked out to start a mechanical apprenticeship. Worst memories best forgotten. |
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