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Hi All,

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What a great weekend. Started off at School on Friday for morning tea, then a McCaughey walking tour then on the bus and around the school and then down to the Middle Beach for the Beach carnival and lunch and following the Ironman race we returned to school for a walking tour. Many thanks to the YAHS staff who hosted us and made us feel special.

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Friday night for the OYU Dinner - a great night and good to catch up with some of our older peers. Saturday we had a leisurely coffee catch up and then out to School for Gala Day. Lots of nostalgic walks around the school. The Graffiti in the feed shed adjacent to the silos is still there and viewed some very old names up on the rafters. That's about all that's left now of the farm from our day and I don't think the silos are filled with pea trash anymore . ?

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Mid-afternoon it was back to town to get ready for our dinner at the Hydro. A good roll up and a most enjoyable evening that finished for some of us around 11pm. I hope Col Semmler had his pencil in hand jotting down some of the reminisces to add to our memoirs. A most enjoyable round of speeches and reminisces. I believe a couple of others (no names) might have batted on until the wee small hours.

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Sunday morning we again all met up at Stir (coffee) for breakfast and last farewells. Hopefully everyone had a safe trip back. We did officially agree to doing the 65th in 2029 but there were some later suggestions going around about having something in three years so watch this space.

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Had apologies from Graeme Foley, John Irwin, Steve Aughey, Col Smeeth, Mark Briggs, Adrian Varcoe, Keith Broomfield. Otherwise between the two events and besides myself, we had Angus, John Fowler, John Catterson, Kel Furner, Dave Stott, Col Semmler, Rod Martin, Don Dyce, Bill Moncrieff, Doug Williams, Dave Sanderson, Geoff Fox, Chris Davis, John Hartnett, Al Wetten, Grahame Morris, John Rees, Chris Davey, Neil Crawford, Greg Brain, Paul McMahon and Pete Fraser. Total of 23…so not too bad and would have been 30 if all the apologies had made it so I think we did pretty well.

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All the photos sent to me and what I took can now be viewed here /g/YAHS64/album?id=293821 . Note that you will most likely need to login to view. For those not on my main mailing list, please email me and I can send you an invite to join. Otherwise the photos are also up on our Facebook page and if you aren’t a member and wish to be then please request to join as it is a private group. YAHS 1964-1969.

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John

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John,

Thanks again for your efforts(and your team of assistants) to arrange this for the rest of us.

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Question, Is there an easy way to get some phone numbers for our group.

I busted a phone a couple of years ago and am missing many.

Kel Furner has been promised contact details of a mutual friend but did not have his phone ?when we were having the discussion.

Neither of us were up to remembering all those digits next morning.

Cheers

Dave Sanderson

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Hi All,

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What a great weekend. Started off at School on Friday for morning tea, then a McCaughey walking tour then on the bus and around the school and then down to the Middle Beach for the Beach carnival and lunch and following the Ironman race we returned to school for a walking tour. Many thanks to the YAHS staff who hosted us and made us feel special.

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Friday night for the OYU Dinner - a great night and good to catch up with some of our older peers. Saturday we had a leisurely coffee catch up and then out to School for Gala Day. Lots of nostalgic walks around the school. The Graffiti in the feed shed adjacent to the silos is still there and viewed some very old names up on the rafters. That's about all that's left now of the farm from our day and I don't think the silos are filled with pea trash anymore . ?

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Mid-afternoon it was back to town to get ready for our dinner at the Hydro. A good roll up and a most enjoyable evening that finished for some of us around 11pm. I hope Col Semmler had his pencil in hand jotting down some of the reminisces to add to our memoirs. A most enjoyable round of speeches and reminisces. I believe a couple of others (no names) might have batted on until the wee small hours.

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Sunday morning we again all met up at Stir (coffee) for breakfast and last farewells. Hopefully everyone had a safe trip back. We did officially agree to doing the 65th in 2029 but there were some later suggestions going around about having something in three years so watch this space.

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Had apologies from Graeme Foley, John Irwin, Steve Aughey, Col Smeeth, Mark Briggs, Adrian Varcoe, Keith Broomfield. Otherwise between the two events and besides myself, we had Angus, John Fowler, John Catterson, Kel Furner, Dave Stott, Col Semmler, Rod Martin, Don Dyce, Bill Moncrieff, Doug Williams, Dave Sanderson, Geoff Fox, Chris Davis, John Hartnett, Al Wetten, Grahame Morris, John Rees, Chris Davey, Neil Crawford, Greg Brain, Paul McMahon and Pete Fraser. Total of 23…so not too bad and would have been 30 if all the apologies had made it so I think we did pretty well.

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All the photos sent to me and what I took can now be viewed here /g/YAHS64/album?id=293821 . Note that you will most likely need to login to view. For those not on my main mailing list, please email me and I can send you an invite to join. Otherwise the photos are also up on our Facebook page and if you aren’t a member and wish to be then please request to join as it is a private group. YAHS 1964-1969.

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John