AGM - 26th May 2020

What a wonderful time of my life. So many familiar faces! Hope you are all doing well!

Great memories - 37 years eh? Hope you are all well.

I left in '81 just after Intermediate Cert, but this was my year 😍 Lovely seeing all the faces Boarded from '76-81, formative years!

Oh that’s fab. Doesn’t seem 37 years ago!

Can't remember the ministers name! Anyone?

Great memories!

My brother Paul Blair is there

Linda good Karen Loane Lucy gyres marina guest

Peter Payton Andrew Marshall

My brother Johnathan Kellett is, also Ivan Sheppard

Reverend Hamilton

Brings back fun memories Hok Siong Wong 😊. Suzanne, Marian, Karen, Carol, Nicola, Janet, Ian, Ian, Susan, Hazel, Denise, Hilary, Heather..... I’ve missed loads but just tagged a few for starters 😊

Mr Duncan looks so virile.

Heather Baileys got the giggles !!

Yes ....

John Strevens behind me, back row.

Alma Hobson

Front left is Stephen rue and Karl Cazzini

I was a year behind and Henry Bird was in our year. Next to Alan Boate in front row is the late Gordon Gray. Could 3rd from left be Brian Cornish? Is Scott McNutt perhaps one of the blonde guys? Alan Mathews in the back row? George Leech? Many names come back to mind when I had to bring my detention to Brosnan’s class the next day and be humiliated and often brought to tears in front of these guys. One of the few bad memories of WCD.

L to R, starting in the back row. Pat ???, Alan Kron, Heather Johnson, Johnny Burrows, ???, ???, Lorraine Squire, Philippa Green, Pauline Vanderzee, Stephen Good, Margaret McMillan, Patrick McEwan, Stephanie Kew, Gregory Richardson, ???, Richard Myles, Henry Bird, Michael Gilbert, Brian Egan, Robert Kirkpatrick, Alan Boate, ???, Susan Holmes. I'm open to correction on some of these names.

4th from right in the front row is Robert Kirkpatrick, the Vice Principal Wm Kirkpatrick's son. 2nd from the left front row is the Principal's son Richard Myles. Farthest to the right on her own (front row) is Susan Holmes whose siblings Rosemary, Roy and Diana were both at Wesley..Rosemary was in the Class of 1953, Roy who became a commissioned officer in the RAF was a year or two behind her and Diana was my year 1963. Their father Herbert Holmes was a very famous jockey who won the Irish Derby in the late 1950's.They are all living in the United States.I recognize almost every other face in the photo but can't for the love of me put names to all the faces. 😀 Poor Willy Devers - he was such a nice man when I think about it although every time he gave us detention for being naughty, he always started by saying "This hurts me as much as it hurts you" - I'll bet you anything that many of you border boys will remember that ! But he was a decent fellow - sadly missed. 😀😀.

Again, can anyone see similarities to this girl, name is Joan and dated 1949

Many Epworth memories come to mind when I recognize many of these faces, and who could ever forget our intrepid leader, "Smithy"? Valerie Ellis ( Barkman)

Sam Magee ? Also called George Magee,went to teach in Raphoe.

Oh yes I remember little Hans Cazzini and his remarkable journey to Ireland... Didn't Don Cazzini work for Rex Robert's studio? You will gather my vintage so forgive me if I am having "" flights of fancy"" but I picked out : Hazel Thompson, Sheila Veale, Elaine Bradshaw (golfer) and Brenda Irwin.

Dear Mark, sending greetings to Don from my father Gordon Cadle. He remembers your Uncle in school he was a year ahead of him.

I remember Don and Hans Cazzini. The teachers in the photo are Mr. Hardiman and Miss Abernethy as far as I can recall. Other names that spring to mind are Hilda Tennant, Sheila Price, Margaret Gordon??, Len Moore?? and Leslie Gill. Also regards to Gordon Cadle not in photo but mentioned in comment.

Front row left to right. Leonard Moore,

wonder if this girl is one of them, drawing dated 1949, her name is Joan which is all I know of her. Artist was Betty Moore, whose husband Samuel who died in 1924 had been maths teacher at Wesley. any info welcome, thank you!

Interesting so many more girls than boys in that class. I started in Wesley in A Upper the following year but remember a couple of the names who were 6th form then, form hockey I think, Hilda Tennnant and Sheila Price. My sister Shirley was three years older than me so would have known more of them.

Need one now 🌧🌧🌧💨

Loved mine but disappeared at a match ..... Will there be 175 umbrellas for sale?

Where do you get them?

Talented team 🏏

Valerie Barrett looks fabulous! She was one of my favourite teachers of all time!

Prep class, not first years?

Mrs Barret never aged !!

My sister front row on the right....Sylvia Magill

So sweet and small. I recognize most of you. 😃

Well before I knew any of you!!!! Little treasures 🤔

Is that Peter Pobjoy beside Michael Petters?

Definitely Prep A

that's my sister front row in the middle Lynsey Halimeh show your mum x

Tried to enter Russell Best's name but it put in someone else's.

I’ll give it a go! Now edited for completeness and thanks to all for filling the blanks Back row: Charlie Green, Susan Baker, Stephen Harris, Sheelin Kilroy, Keith Kirkland, Russell Best Middle: Michael Petters, Peter Pobjoy, Dawn Taylor, Philip Berber, Geraldine Pleass, Keith Bloomfield, Jean Peters Front: Miss Sweeney, Linda Allen, David Britton, Corrina Baradi, Frederick Bryson, Sylvia Magill, Valerie Barrett Prep A Upper

Per Ardua ad Astra as they say in Latin to the class of 2020! They will have to clean up the mess made by our generation for the rest of the 21st century and save the planet from the current chaotic mess!