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1977 Room 1
Rear: (1)______________, (2)______________, Carl Ashby, Craig Flowerday.
3rd Row: (3)_____________, Jeffrey Nash, (4)_____________, Steven Grut, (5)_____________, Bradley Hart,
Bryce Tait, (6)_____________.
2nd Row: Judith Stanworth, Michael Lydon, Leigh Irwin, Sonja Pablecheque, (7)__________, Sarah Pablecheque,
Angela Vitasovich.
Seated: Adrienne Manaia, Mandy Saunders, Sharleen Broughton, (8)____________, (9)___________,
Janine Powell, Janice Peden.

The Ballad of Kimihia by N B Seaton
or “Academy Gallery” or “Us, As He Saw It”

He stood there - stared in disbelief -elated at his had turned our Pete down flat.
good fortune. He really thought he ‘had it made’
The mail had come - had brought the news, but still but her wedding finished that!
some trepidation. The roll began expanding,
Could he do it? Achieve success? Was he it reached two hundred and three
really fit? And then we were upgraded
To take on Kimihia School..... and make a from V.A. to a V.B.
job of it?
His worries were unfounded though, he didn’t The following year - in ‘72 to
need to wince, live in our memory,
That team of teachers had made it go ... and so have Came Pamela Kirkwood, Helen Fyers
many since. and the memorable Gregory.
Since February of ‘71 What a bright smile and a happy time
he’s seen so many new But Marion young Pamela injected.
and Judy The first school camp was held that year
have stuck it out right through. Side by side, the school also inspected.
supporting him, That year, too, we began awards
two senior places filled, They formed a the Form Two Certificate.
teaching nucleus School house was shifted into town
for years, on which to build. The first to after a lengthy wait.
leave - the Thomsons - In ’73 we enlarged again
southward went old Pete But Dot had and he became a walker,
heard the patter And Claire de Lacey hit the scene,
of tiny little feet. Pete became and what a little corker!
quite famous She glanced around and set her eyes
for a nightly escapade most squarely on our Haig,
And from that very moment on
He drove into the local lake, his future she had laid.
(not the only mistake he made). Our first year girl - Eliza Watt
Margaret McLeod, our ‘year one’ was joined, just one term later
By Mrs Dean, who joined the team: