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We congratulate Laura Clyne (2018)Laura Clyne (2018) and Josh Williams Josh Williams
(2018)
(2018) on hearing the happy news of their recent
Wedding congratulations to Caitlin Warren (2013) engagement. Josh and Laura are currently living in
who married Andy Piper at Bushfield Farm in Gundaroo Ballina on the north coast where they have been for
on the 25 March this year. The couple has settled in the past three years. Laura is working as an Emergency
th
Queanbeyan, where Caitlin - who graduated from UTS in Department Registered Nurse in one of the hospitals and
2017 with a degress in Bio Medicine - is working in the Josh is working as a supervisor at one of the big hotels/
hospital’s Haematology and Transfusion laboratory, and pubs in the area, while he is undertaking his degree in
Andy is an electrician. Mechanical Engineering.
Among the many highlights of the Valedictory Dinner
each year is the announcement of the Special Prizes,
which acknowledge areas of school life, of equal
significance to the academic achievement, and these are
named in honour of those who inaugurate the awards.
The Year 12, 1988, Prize for Contribution to the Life of
the School was this year awarded to Oliver Drew. This
prize was the initiative of the Year 12 students of 1988,
who established the award as their leaving ‘gift’ to the
School at their Valedictory Assembly. The recipients
of these Special Prizes are not announced until the
Gyan Culbert (nee
We were thrilled to hear from Gyan Culbert (nee Valedictory Dinner, nor was the connection known
Gaitor, 2015) who has returned to Lawson, in the between the Awards’ origin and this year’s recipient by
Gaitor
, 2015)
Blue Mountains, to live, with her young family. We those determining the candidates. It was therefore a
congratulate Gyan and her husband, Ty, on the safe touching and surprising moment for Dr Elissa Drew (nee
arrival of Darcy, who is pictured with Gyan and ‘big sister’ Ferguson, 1988) and Mr Damien Drew (1988) when their
Emerson (aged 3). son was presented with the very award their Year group
had gifted to the School 35 years earlier.
