Astonishing! I was just thinking about you.
I was in your class at St Peters and am now living in Cambridge, England.
I have kept in touch with Lynette Woollacott who lives in New Zealand and Hilary Dods who is in Cape Town.

I left in 1958, which makes me a good ten years older than you! I think the nuns must have left by the time you were there? I can’t help about your
classmates I’m afraid but I have found several on Facebook.Inevitably there are SPUDS girls all over the world now! There are quite a few in the UK, if that is where you are.
Very best wishes!

I just came acroos this blog.
Interesting! I was a boarder af SPDS living in what was then Bechuanaland Protectorate and left at the end of 1968 after writing my ‘O’ level exams.
I wonder where some of my classmates are- Gretchen Gordon, Diane Megginson, Marguerite Farquason?

I am so glad Alison. I loved my time at Spuds too, a long time though before you. I was from Zambia, but live in England now. I’m still in touch with quite a few of my colleagues. We did all seem to make very good friends!
I have been very quiet on the blog, really since John, my husband, died, but fully hope to start speeding up again.

I would be very glad to help you, if it’s possible. My contact with the nuns in Bulawayo was a rather long time ago, and not always suitably respectful. One of my friends and contemporaries, who now lives in Canada, might be better able to help you, as her grandparents had lived in Grahamstown and I think had personal contact with the Sisters there.
However, as I’m sure you understand, I first need some information from you!
If you could provide me with a bit more information about yourself and the research you are doing, all being well I will happily ask the friend if she would mind if you approached her, and I would help too if I can. Perhaps you could email me personally with this information on marionfs@themarionfsblog.com

Pat, I caught up with some news and lots of old faces at the reunion Elizabeth Brown, nee Tyrrell, organised last August, and have recently had a lots of pleasure remaking contact with several good friends of long ago, via Facebook! Erica Lamb I’ve never lost touch with, and we see her a lot when we can – we do love rather far apart.

I’ve plenty more school memories to dredge up in a post or two! It’s amazing, what seemed so normal – even if we didn’t always like them – people are horrified about now!

Good grief Marion, you’re a mine of information. I’ve just calculated that most of those names are in my dim and distant past ……60 or so years ago as I left St Peter’s at the age of 12. Your blog has stirred some amazing memories. Thank you!

Pat, I am so sorry. Your comment passed me by for some reason. Rosemary Lamb lives in the Cape, I’m not quite sure where, but we are in frequent contact with her sister, Erica (now Erica Forbes and not on Facebook!).Erica lives in Kent. Trish Bartlett and Hazel Palmer I don’t know, but Erica told me that Barb White had died quite recently, in Zimbabwe.