Page 81 - Through a glass brightly

From Janet at 9.58
Morning - please can someone remind me what we were celebrating when we went out to a hotel/restaurant for a "dinner" - I still have my place name safely. I had left by 75th anniversary so I suspect it was after that - I remember Jen and I toasting each other.
From Jenny at 10.09
Sounds like the School’s Centenary dinner in 1988
From Janet at 10.19
Yes that would be it - where did we eat?
From Sandy at 12.00
Hello Jen and Everyone,
I have in my mind that we’ve known each other since we were about 8, thanks to Mrs Hill’s pupils’ concerts. Certainly I knew who you were when we met up in lllF. I was the only girl from my primary school (Eastwood Preparatory School) to start at QEGGS in 1956, and the only other new starter I really knew was Jane Bowler who went into lllB, Miss Bradshaw’s class (our mothers were friends). In 1957 two more Eastwood girls joined us, Alison Orton (now Mihail) and Kate Tait, who are regulars at our Old Girls Commemoration lunch in May. I always enjoy catching up with them.
Roll on next May! We won’t still be locked down then, will we?! Take care,
From Judy at 12.51
What an outpouring of memories! Quite amazing really. All the photos as well. Am I the only one who feels a bit overwhelmed with the amount of material?! But when it is consolidated into a single document it will be easy.
I’m afraid I don’t have any photos or cuttings to contribute, but like Janet, when I came to QE, I knew no one except others who came from our school, St. Mary’s, in East Barnet. I can only recall that Terry Fitzgerald was one, but there were others. Our school wasn’t very good. It was a church school and pretty to look at from the outside, with a huge horse chestnut tree in front and Oakhill beyond, but the teaching was pretty dire. I recall clearly that when we started, our contingent was the only one not to have started fractions! Our kind maths teacher (Miss Grimsey?) decided to start with fractions, so we were all at the same point. Just as well for someone as non-mathematical as I was...
Anyway, marvellous as usual to read the snippets. I see you and Hilary Sheers were judged particularly good, Ann, at the debate. What happened to her, I wonder? Val M. or Jenny may know. She was the sister of Susan in our year and was she the year below us? I think there were three Sheers sisters, but can’t remember the name or year of the other one: was it Ann?? Well done to all involved in the debate anyway and so funny about Miss Bryan hastily removing the cup!
Thanks to those who contributed to the creation of the Book: Glenda of course, but also Jenny and Val M. for proofreading and Ann and Ruth for their introductions and Pat for the title- if we are going with ‘through a glass brightly’. It goes w/o saying, I’m quite happy to pay towards costs of printing or to print out myself, whatever is decided.
From Mag P. at 13.47
I found these lists in the back of my diary. The key makes me laugh. X left and star Dead. Had forgotten some of the teachers.
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