PPS: Reunion - I need more money!!!!!

STATUS

Bookings hit 38 yesterday and 2 high probabilities!

• Alan Hibburt confirmed yesterday that he is coming.
• Sharon Malpass contacted me via Janet Austin's adverts and is coming to the Reunion with her husband.   Sharon started Kindy same year as us, but managed to move ahead of us,  finishing 6B in 1962 to go onto Dulwich Hill Girls, then nner and my DHHS.  Her younger brother, Phillip Malpass, was in our cohort.  Sharon is the cousin of Terry Malpass who was in out class cohort.  All the Malpasses and Janet Austin lived within a literal stones throw of each other in Allans Ave, Petersham.

PAYING FOR TICKETS


I have to pay a substantial deposit to the Divina Restaurant next week.  So I need you $60 per head paid before close of business next Monday 4-apr-2011, please.


Still trying to work out who deposited $120 cash into my bank account about 8 weeks ago now.  Please drop me an email or an SMS to 0407 940 943 if it was you, please.

If you still need to pay you can do so in 1 of 2 ways

• post me a cheque to

John S Young 

PO Box 929

Spit Junction  NSW  2088

• or better still, by direct payment via the Internet if you can cope with that technology!

Bank:      St George Bank
BSB:       112 879
A/C:        437 586 518 

             ref:          PPS (your name)  or your phone number       

n.b. the reference is important so I can match payment to your names

STUFF


Jan Austin did an advert in the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph 6-8 weeks ago.  It has been successful in helping link us up with about 6 people who were not already on our horizon.  Not all all them were in our 1956 - 1963 class cohort.   


It is interesting how many people moved forward or backwards between 2 cohorts, because of the birth date, illness, or other issues, such as overcrowded classes.  I think I was only in Kindergarten for part of 1 year, before being banged up into Transition and 1B,  before rejoining my original cohort in the next year or so.


The other thing that is interesting is tracking the siblings of people in our class cohort.  For example,  many pupils in our cohort had brothers or sisters in classes 5-6 years ahead of us, or several years after us.  


Amazingly I can still remember many of these siblings, i guess because

• Petersham was a fairly small community in those days
• we all walked to or from school in the care of older siblings or an older pupil who lived in the same street
• Petersham Public School was very much the centre of the local community - we went to a school within walking distance, public or catholic
• we interacted with the same kids at weekend sport, Cubs, Scouts, Boys Brigade or church youth groups
• we went round to the houses of school mates to play after school or at weekends
• our parents didn't ferry us around by car all the time!
• there were very few formal out of school activities, unlike today,  so I can remember spending a fair bit of time at the homes of school mates,  and getting there alone, on foot,  or cycling, from quite an early age

PHOTOS

• Still looking for some of the missing class photos,  or photos of out of school activities in the years 1956 - 1963
• Because not everyone has their photos in digital format I am hoping to bring a scanner and my laptop to the Reunion Dinner
• Then I can scan any photos you bring with you and they can be shared with everyone else that we have made contact with while arranging this Reunion.

John Young
0407 940 943
yindi1951@gmail.com