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After approximately 10 years of
thinking about it, the scene was finally set for the
Reunion of the 1980 5th Year at Ruislip Golf Club on 22nd
June.
The reunion committee, some of whom hadn’t met for
almost 20 years, had been frantically organising over
email, and were comforted in the knowledge that at least
4 of us would show.
| The
end result however was a turnout of 47 which was
deemed a real result. For pics click here. As the evening commenced, a few familiar faces found themselves gathering around the bar, wondering whether the Karaoke which was being set up across the bar was going to be a problem later on. |
The evening started with discussions about our academic performance and the relative state of the economy since we left school, but luckily after 5 minutes that degenerated into the discussion points that you would have hoped at a school reunion based around who gate crashed who’s 16th Birthday party, who went out with who, smoking groups behind the bike sheds and the "best playground fights that can be remembered".!
The evening moved along nicely, and inevitably Beck and Maynard found themselves on the Karaoke singing along to Baggy Trousers, and reminding everyone why we had no success in the music business.
Special mentions could go to John Hawley in his capacity as professional reunion attendee who represented the teaching fraternity admirably (good to see you John), Nick Goodman who is sickeningly good looking still (despite his advancing years), Professor Phil Gorman who drove down from deepest Worcestershire (I think) seemingly with his head out of the window all the way and Hamish (Jamie) Blackman for just being there.
National Statistics show apparently that in any group of 47 well educated people, there will be at least one millionaire. Anybody who hoped that the entire bar tab would be picked up by any successful millionaires in the room had their hopes dashed, however more than enough alcohol was consumed to do our evening proud.
This continued, as in true "school party" fashion, no-one wanted to go home so we all ferried down to the Master Brewer where few of the girlies (those with the foresight to know from experience that they would never make it home that night) were staying. Once there, we managed to run the night porter ragged for a couple of hours as the drinking continued in the foyer. Having been evicted from the foyer in the early hours of the morning, by a stroke of luck Annette and Caroline found a vacant conference room, complete with overhead projector and other useful party objects, so that the session could continue!! .
If you wanted to but were unable to make it......you missed a great night.
If you simply failed to show......bad luck, you’ll have to catch the photos to see who was there and join us next time.
Look out for the next reunion in 200???????? and make sure you are there.
Those getting a tick in the Register were:-
Julie Bamford
Gill Bennett
Laura Bentley
Judi Broad
Alison Crowley
Julie Everett
Gillian Hale
Annette Hargrave
Rachel Holroyd
Julie Hodgkinson
Sarah King
Jane Morris
Louise Milburn
Caroline Morgan
Carole Norman
Sarah Phillips
Michele Pond
Moira Quealy
Jane Silsby
Tracy Taylor
Sarah Webb
Sharon Weeks
Julia Wheeler
Gill Morgan
Debbie Stamp
Stuart Beck
Hamish (Jamie) Blackman
Neil Copling
Alan Dodds
Michael Gislingham
Nick Goodman
Philip Gorman
Andrew Hamlett
Alistair Hardwick
Chris Hardy
Nigel Harris
Michael Hennessey
Guy Horchover
Dave Josey
Paul Maynard
Ian Mitchell
Alan Owen
David Ross
David Wallis
John Hawley