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The Gisborne Photo News

 

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Where Are They Now?

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Elizabeth Burdett is in Westfield, U.S.A., 20 miles south of New York, where she is a twelfth grade pupil attending Westfield High School as an A.F.S. student. Daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Burdett, Waerenga-a-hika, she is a former upper sixth form pupil of Lytton High. Since arriving in America last August she has made several sightseeing trips including a visit to Expo 67 at Montreal, Canada, and around New York. At the 2000 pupil school she has become a member of the football band, playing the cymbals. She is pictured with her "sister", Judy Henning (left) during a sightseeing cruise around Manhattan Island, with Brooklyn bridge in the background.

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Patricia Lombard (nee Hill), or "Miss Gisborne 1964", is in Paris but will shortly be moving to Tahiti where her French husband, Pierre, a pilot with Air France, has been transferred. Since her marriage two years ago Patricia has seen much of the world, and lived in Australia, Noumea, and Tahiti, as well as Paris. Daughter of Mrs E. Hill, 179 Roebuck Road, and the late Mr A. Hill, she was proprietress of the La Patrice Beauty Salon before leaving Gisborne to travel. She continued her hairdressing in Paris and Australia, and also did some TV modelling in the latter country. Mother of a five months old daughter, she has mastered the French language by attending classes. She will be returning to Gisborne for a two-month holiday prior to moving to Tahiti.

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Lorraine Cornish is in Florence, Italy, working her way back to New Zealand as part of ah extensive working holiday in Britain, the Continent, and North Africa. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Cornish, Gaddums Hill, she left Gisborne in March, 1965, and travelled to England where she worked for Crank's Health Foods, of Carnaby Street. She also spent six months in Norway working as a food preparer in a hotel, and has since hitch-hiked through the Continent to Spain, into North Africa and the Sahara Desert, and on to Italy. She expects to move on through India and Singapore to return to Gisborne about next March.

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Patricia Hall, another A.F.S. student, is in Cleveland, U.S.A., attending the 1700 pupil East Cleveland High. Former head prefect of the Gisborne Girls' High, she is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Hall, 565b Aberdeen Road. Since leaving N.Z. she has visited 13 American states, has taken part in activities with the A.F.S. movement of her district, of which she is one of 38 students from 27 countries, and joined her campus band as a glockenspiel player. She is pictured with her American "sister", Roni Yaxley (left), in their elaborate band uniforms.