Saturday Morning

Although many were to bed late after the ball, most were back at the school in good time for the assembly and photographs next morning. Many-hued umbrellas and light raincoats helped to ward off the occasional showers. About 10 a.m. the sun came out and the crowd was divided into age groups.

Umbrella parade

Old students arriving

Crowding into the entrance

Signing the register

Reminiscence blossomed with the sun

Marshalling the gathering into its age groups for the photographs wasn't an easy task. It meant breaking up hundreds of groups of old pupils busy renewing old acquaintance. When the job was nearly done, the rain came with a rush, and that was that.

Everybody rushed helter-skelter for whatever shelter they could find. Most managed to pack into the assembly hall, from where they were directed in their groups into various classrooms.

Overflow from hall heard speeches through windows

Mr Frazer addressing the assembly. At left, jubilee committee secretary Mr Frank Bull. At right, Mr Gray. In centre, 1888 old pupil Murieile Richardson (Mrs M. F. Dods)

Two views of the crowd in the assembly hall

As the skies cleared, and the great majority drifted outside to have their photographs taken, this picture was recorded in the assembly hall of the 1888-1908 group of old-timers. Front row: A. Picken, Mrs Cumming (Eva Nisbett), Miss Helen McLean, Mrs Kelly (Mabel Powell). Mrs Shanks (Margaret Bowes), Mrs Dods (Murielle Richardson), J. McAra, Mrs Thomson (Nell Steele) (first-day pupil), J. C. Graham (first-day pupil), Mrs Moore (Daisy Hansen), Mrs Cave (Una Cox), Mrs Scott (Nellie Fraser), Mrs Cassin (Dorothy Fyson), Miss Irene Moore, Mrs Littlewood (Molly Ferguson). Middle row: Mrs Greig (Phyllis Alien), Mrs Thorpe (E. Robb). Hilda Cumming, H. Lougher, H. L. Humphreys, Bright, H.T.Te Kani Te Ua, East, May Moore, Mrs Jensen (Grace Warren), Mrs Parker (Ivy Nisbett), Mrs Wright (Vera Warren), Mrs McLay (Eliza Fraser). Back row: Messrs C. W. Reeves, D. Iles, Barton, Sweet, A. K. Fyson, Fairlie, Hookey, Hogg, Trafford, Patterson. Among others at the re-union but not shown in this picture were Messrs G. Oman and E. T. Chriap. Other group photos below and on next two pages.

Kandid Kamera Kraft

1909-1913

1914-1918

1919-1923

1924-1928

1928-1933

1934-1938

1939-1943

1944-1948

Snapped in the grounds—the Jubilee Committee chairman with some of his Sixth Form companions of 1920, Left to right, W. E. Maude, T. R. Frazer, Mrs E. E. McMillan, M.P., H. J. Priestley, and J. R. Lockie, O.B.E.

The Old Students' Association president with school friends. Left to right, Victor Culton, Wilfred Kohn, Ress Allan and Jack Plank.

After the photographs: rain again

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 57 : April 2, 1959

Saturday Morning