20, Merton Hall Gardens,

Wimbledon,

London. SW20 8SN.

0181 715 6549.

July 1996.

Hello Dear Friends,

Are you feeling fit? Are you wide awake? You may well need to be to perform the mental acrobatics necessary to follow this letter. As I "relive" the reunion, my thoughts keep getting side­tracked and I fear this may be reflected in the missive!

The reunion was successful according to all the comments I have received. I am always delighted to see everyone, and I did manage 'half', conversations this year! A list of members who attended will be given at the end.

We always remember Padre Solomon, who started us on this enjoyable road, and this year Mrs Solomon was with us ‑ hooray! Oh, but we did all miss Bubbles DaLuz (Morgan), who used to hire the hall for us. Although we all grew to know and love her, I have had, since my last letter carrying the news of her demise, so many tributes from those who were her friends of long standing. Megan Myers (O’Rourke) went into the Teacher Training College attached to Dow Hill with Bubbles. They both wanted to train as P.E. teachers, so went on to the College of Physical Education for Women in Calcutta. To quote Megan, “ Bubbles was educated in Calcutta ‑ her sister and family lived there too, near the New Market, so we were frequent visitors. As "members" of the College we had to compete in every athletic meeting, Bubbles in the javelin, myself in the hurdles ‑we were Bengal champions in our events.

We were once thrown out of a voice production lecture because we got the giggles, which progressed to disruptive laughter every time we glanced at each other. Yes, we were a pair of gigglers and often got into trouble with the college principal over this. But there were times when we went to the zoo and had an elephant ride, or hired a boat and rowed round the Victoria Memorial ‑ my father's eldest brother did the electrification of the Vic. Mem. Sometimes we took the ferry to the Botanical Gardens. On one occasion, dolled up to the nines, we went to a tea dance at the Palm Court of the Grand Hotel ‑ very up market, very posh. We were the only ones there, but they served us tea and the band played on, and on and on. We didn't dance, and, yes, you guessed, we giggled and laughed our heads off.

She was Bubbles by name and Bubbles by nature, full of energy and generous in spirit. She never gossiped or spoke ill of anyone, there was no malice in her, a truly good person, but not a goodie-goodie. A religious person, who in all the years I had known her never once preached to me or mentioned God. A Christian by example, I am sure Bubbles will, I quote, 'Touch the face of God,' ‑ she deserves to!"

Punchy Lochner, too, was absent, but Aunty Dot was there, and I was proud of the way she stood up and introduced herself! One last tribute from Geoff Carrau is quite a revelation! "Your uncle was my Maths master from 1940 ‑ 42, and with his help I obtained distinctions in both the J.C. and S.C. examination maths. He was strict but very understanding and sympathetic.

I remember being disappointed at being picked only as first reserve for the Edinburgh Cricket Shield match against St. Joseph's North Point. I was so fed up that I failed to turn out for cricket practice a couple of evenings before the actual match. Punchie sensed I was harbouring a grievance, particularly as no less than four masters were going to play in that particular round.

To my surprise I was informed that Punchie had developed a touch of 'flu' and would not be playing, so I would be taking his place. I was elated and, although batting as last man in, scored 10 runs not out and held two catches. We beat St. Joseph's by 2 runs and went on to win the Edinburgh Shield that year. On the first working morning after the match Punchie congratulated me on my contribution. Needless to say he had been perfectly fit throughout, but had found an acceptable excuse to stand down.

Geoff recalled Nurse Prins very clearly too: " Nurse Prins and her colleague Mrs Beale were part of my school life (1934‑42), also Mrs McKechnie. I remember lining up each morning for cod liver oil/ Keplors Malt during my younger days at V. On one occasion, when I was a patient at the Schools' hospital on the hill top, I was amusing myself by playing with a dinkie car toy wheel, which emitted a shrill whistle by blowing or sucking in air in the mouth. Nurse Prins, being the duty sister, made me swallow masses of absorbent cotton with instructions to use a bedpan on passing anything out. I was never told when and if the missing wheel was recovered.

Her husband, Vernon Prins, otherwise known as Vernie, was not only the History master for the Senior School but also ran the Scout troop. Under his leadership we used to win the Scouting Keelan shield for years in succession. My late brother Alan was far keener than myself and used to go ,to all the scout camps, including outings to the Sundarbands and Dacca. Warren O’Rourke was Alan's pal and they shared good times with Vernie and Father Prior of the Oxford Mission."

Yes, Warren O’Rourke also recalled Alan's sporting excellence: Alan's physical condition as a boy was well above average and led to his winning long‑distance races. One did not anticipate outrunning him. There is a certain aura which survives good athletes."

Back to the reunion ! Apart from the "stalwarts" who give their backing by being present annually, we did have some "special guests". Daphne Schirripa (Meade) from the U.S.A. was making her third visit and was warmly greeted by her classmates. Hugh Rassaby from Australia hopes we shall see him every other year ‑ that would be great ‑ more so as he told us some amusing anecdotes ‑ his original meeting with Bulbul and Puss Carapiet in Australia. Seeing a Z. Carapiet named, in a cricketing account in a local newspaper, as being the international coach of  the team, Hugh followed thIs up by ringing the only Z. Carapiet in the phone book. As he did not know what the Z stood for Hugh went into the long story of how he knew two little boys in school .... only to be interrupted by 'Who do you want, Bulbul or Puss Puss ?' Hugh is a marvellous raconteur and we all enjoyed his account.

The badges we members wear at the reunion were originally made by Dolly. However, with wear and tear ‑ badges and members, eyesight alike ‑it was suggested that introducing ourselves individually, with school attendance dates, would help recognition. It was a most interesting exercise. The dates ran from 1927 to 1962, and members, on hearing names and dates, later made themselves known to each other. I think the most senior present were Yvonne Jackson (Keymer) and Megan Myers (0’Rourke) ‑forgive me if I am wrong. The babies were Cheryl Isaacs (Mordecai), Dipak Sengupta, Amit Bose and Spencer David.

Amit very kindly provided the liquid refreshment ‑ his own very prettily packaged tea. I asked him to tell us about the "batches" nowadays. He is not sure if it is the government that is responsible, but it is now up to the parents to deliver the children to school; collect them for the Easter week in April and take them home; return them till the July holidays and the same with the October Puja holidays and finally for the winter months in late November.

I had put up some displays collected over the year. Clarrie Callow's son, David, visited Victoria in January 1996 and took pictures, as well as in Kurseong and Darjeeling. George Bishop's books were there for people to peruse. His book about a French priest travelling in China in 1826 is now out in paperback. Being a tourist as often as possible, I thoroughly enjoyed Pere Armand David's adventures. Peter Clifford continues to be responsible for some really beautiful First Day covers. By the way, he has very kindly offered to replace the tatty badges !

Talking of badges ‑ I was very touched when some of our regular visitors approached me and asked if they, too, could have badges. So I assured them they would next year, and suggested in purple to denote their royalty !

I also put up on display a photograph of Mr S.K. Chatterjee outside his new school ‑ he has retired from Victoria School. This was kindly sent to me by Mr C.B. Mathur, a former master at Victoria, now retired to Canada.

Displays ‑ notification of Hazel Craig's "Under the Old School Topi" being republished. If anyone wishes to purchase a‑copy, the address is Mrs H.M. Craig, 53 Hill Rise, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.WD3 2NY. Price £9.75 in the U.K. and £10.25 abroad by surface mail. The book is about quite a few hill schools, including Dow Hill.

In November last year the Victoria and Dow Hill Association in Calcutta held a dinner dance for which a superb booklet was published. Sadly, I did not get any of the information until after the January newsletter had been printed. Sammy Sadka, "The Elder Statesman of Victorians in Calcutta,, as he dubs himself, sent me a copy, with specific articles photocopied. These were by himself, by the three Dunne sisters, Julie, Charlotte and Clara, and by Urmi Mallik (Ghosh). Their reminiscences covered 40 years, and yet we could all relate to what each one said. Sammy refers to the outings: "At this juncture it would be pertinent to reminisce about our outings to Forest School, Bagora, Saddle and Chimney and the leeches that stuck to our legs like glue, Castleton Tea Estate (just below the station, now famed for its specially flavoured Darjeeling tea), Ambhutia Tea Estate much lower down just above the Balasun River, Singell Tea Estate in Kurseong itself, the Shooting Range higher up the hill, the Canefields where we used to make lovely Malacca canes after cutting our hands rather badly, ‑the Bhoota fields (corn) which we would raid from time to time, sometimes with dire results, Guru's chicks which were dirt cheap and which tasted, at least to our ravenous appetites, like Fleury's confectionery, the shops at the village half‑way down the hill near the parting of the ways to V.S. and Dow Hill, where we would oft betake ourselves to partake of paratas and aloo dum to fill our empty bellies. In this manner one could carry on and on reviving old memories like cooking outside the school premises to make stickjaw treacle toffee and fudge in an old Jacob's Cream Cracker tin."

The Dunne sisters mention outings as we!‑!: ' In the halcyon days of growing up in the wonderful surroundings of Dow Hill School, we are reminded of the times when getting the first two lessons off, as Gunner' felt we looked under the weather, the girls would immediately take off to a place called Chimney. The name came about as there was only a derelict chimney standing on an abandoned property ! Botany lessons were, on occasions, spent around the Pool of Bethseda, when some of the girls would take the opportunity to stray into the nearby forests and return late to school, only to be scolded by our Botany teacher, Miss Pauline MacDonald."

I am hoping Amit Bose can get copies of this book for me to sell when he next visits Calcutta. Besides the articles mentioned there is a plethora of information on the flora and fauna; the history of the schools; an article on Edward Pegler (1832 ‑ 1909); one by Marrik Lal Bhattacharjee about Carl Bloud, Allen Twiddy and others; and many others.

I have a friend who loves walking in the Himalayas, and as I 'introduced' him to the area he always brings me back a token. This year he brought me 5 Indian sweets in a box. The latter was on show, from "Hotel Delhi Durbar, “8 T.N. Road, Kurseong.”

We all recalled a very happy event of 50 years ago, when my class teacher, Joan Wakefield, married Sam Beniston on June 7th. We wish them all health and continued happiness. It was a wedding that belonged to "us"

I was able to exhibit a number of photos of the reunion in Eastern Australia, at Alice Wrigley's. She, as wonderfully as ever. had kept me informed of the occasion, but I feel I must include Rosemary Ingels (LaRivierre's) account of the day: "I was delighted to get a phone call from Alice giving the date. As I'd gone out mainly to see my 91 year‑old Mum and the rest of the family and to recuperate after the traumatic 4 months of Les's illness and death ‑ to be able to attend the reunion in Oz was indeed a bonus.

Alice and I had not met each other since our school days in the forties, but there were no barriers and the years between just did not exist, and apart from the reunion itself we spent a couple of very happy days together ‑ one with Betty Copley, who broke her journey on the way back to Perth after visiting the U.K. and Canada ‑ and then Alice and I had a second day out together just prior to my departure for the U.K.

As you can imagine, the talk was mainly about schooldays and when we visited the Information centre in Manly (a suburb of Sydney) we signed the visitors' book and put in brackets ex‑Dow Hill School, Kurseongl. SO, who knows, someone might spot those entries and be transported back to the Hilltop.

Some of those present at the reunion were years before my time but I list below those whom I know and I'm sure most of us would remember‑

Cynthia Brennan (Marsden), Natalie Noney, Doreen Grezoux (Colah), Bulbul & PussPuss Carapiet, Pat Doyle,. Maurice Rassaby, Dorothy Stevens (LaRivierre), and of course Alice Wrigley (Hardaker).

Alice really deserved a medal that day, as it poured with rain all clay ‑ hence we were unable to spill out into the garden. Everyone brought one item of food, so it was 'all systems go' to heat up the vindaloo, various curries, kati‑kebab, onion bhajis, etc. There were Indian sweets for 'afters, and Alice made some delicious burfi ‑intended getting the recipe off her but forgot ‑ next time I'm Down Under I must remember to ask her for it.

We sang the school song, of course, and did you know that Bulbul has a lovely voice and sang in perfect tune, with no accompaniment.

We also watched the video that the Gow brothers (remember them as Derek and Horace Papi) made of their visit to the schools. It was lovely to see the toy train getting up steam at Kurseong station, but sad to hear that no longer do the ponies (Bhutia tats) transport people to the Hilltop.

For those of you who remember her ‑ my mother was 91 in September and I was so pleased to be able to spend the day with her. She is well, but very frail ‑ but her mind and memory are still intact, showing no signs of old age. She has just come out of hospital and doing well after having fallen and broken her hip. Apparently the doctors were amazed at how soon she recovered from the anaesthetic."

Alice is following up Amit Bosels invitation to visit the Hilltop and together with Elaine Halpin (Halifax) and Norma Curnow (Somers) is booked to visit this year. She says, "In case any VADHAN is in India at the same time as we are and would like to make contact, we shall be at:

Kenilworth Hotel, Little Russell St., Calcutta.(2428394/5 PL) from 4 ‑ 8 Oct.

Tourist Lodge, Hill Cart Rd., Kurseong. PL409 from 8 ‑ “ Oct.

Alice Villa, H.D. Lawa Rd., Darjeeling. PL 54181. from “ ‑ 13 Oct.

Alice also asks us to "Please announce in your newsletter that I won't be organising a VADHA reunion this year as my trip to India is enough to prepare for. Perhaps a V.S. member could do so ?!!! First Sat. in Sept. is ideal." So, any offers ?

I was very glad to hear that Natalie Noney (Lawrence) is getting on well, after her stroke. She is such a warm‑hearted lady, and has now offered to put Sally Stewart up when she breaks journey on her way to visit her son in Brisbane. Natalie's is like home from home. Sally, too, has had quite a few folk over, as the snaps she sent showed ‑ Doreen Setzinger (Marsden), and recently Daphne Murray (Malcolm), besides the locals! As Sally said, when we meet it is quite normal for talk of Dow Hill and Victoria to arise, "They are our common equation, and a sort of reassurance of our place in the wider family to which we belong." From there we all discover each other’s, broad interests. It is the same experience we all share. The Association has so enriched many of our lives by reintroducing us to other fascinating and interesting people. Sally is one who really should put pen to paper and get her anecdotes published ‑ I thoroughly enjoy them.

As usual, I thanked Dorothy and Tony for their services ‑ the superb food and presentation involves a lot of hard work, starting by collecting the key, and sponging down chairs and tables to accommodate 100 people, after dragging them out of storage, and only ends when the same tables and chairs have been replaced in the store and the hall cleaned. Des, our right hand, can never be thanked enough. If addresses/names are incorrect I accept total responsibility for my illegible scrawl. I plan to print them this time, so we can but hope !

Two Speech Day Programmes of 1943 and 44 were sent by Norma Curnow (Somers), who also has a "Complete set of monthly report cards (1943‑1946) and school reports that my mother carefully saved ‑ she died in 1988, and I found them among her things when clearing out". My mother too has a few of my reports, which all say politely, "Grace should shut up and sit down". Well, my garrulous streak is put to good effect here, I hope.

I displayed cards sent by Barbara Todd (Barnet) and John Watkins, from Perth, wishing us a good day. Many others sent their best as well., and I did try to remember some of the messages I was asked to pass on.

Stanley Prins very kindly gave a vote of thanks to me, but first pointing out what a distinguished set we are, naming quite a few. The one I liked was Clive Murray‑Smith ‑ for having got him through his physics exams! Stanley also paid tribute to our branches in Canada and Australia. He gave full credit to what Dow Hill and Victoria did for us ‑ it shows by the close‑knit‑ family that is VADHA.

The photographs went smoothly as the Victoria boys took their chairs out and as no one needed to be rounded up ! '2he girls sang the school song, led by Olga Barker(D'Sena) as usual. The entire time passed all too quickly.

The date for next year is to be June 7th ‑ after consultation with Mrs Solomon. Should we inform the cricket, football and racing associations since they dared to clash with us this year ?!!

Dudley Avery's sausages went well, and I believe we will have more frequent access to them once he goes into semi‑retirement. His brother, Bob, is now half the man he was He promised to tell me his secret as I feel I have gained what he shed Warren O’Rourke mentioned their reunion in Canada: ,our VADHA get together of May “ went well with fourteen persons, including spouses. Madhusree Das Gupta (Sen) took the names of those present, for the purpose of sending you the account you are seeking." To date I have not heard from Madhusree.

John Webster is now in touch with his 'era' from V.S. ‑ "Mike Kelly, the Hardy and Avery brothers, Beale, Slacke, Roberts, etc.", but asks if anyone has heard of John S .Feltham. Derrick Gow would like news of Stewart Terry, Jennifer Beale, Myles Rowe and Maureen Adcock.

Warren tells us that “Aubrey Ballantine showed me the work he has done so far on the display that will put VADHA on the Internet. It is impressive. Aubrey will be giving you the full information on this, with the expectation that interested readers of the VADHA newsletter who use the Internet will want to view his material and help to develop it. Similar material on St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, is already available on the Internet. The world is shrinking as extensive communication across the world becomes a finger touch away."

George Watson, in Canada, has kept in touch with quite a few VADHANs, but asks "What ever happened to Noreen Duffy ? I was friendly with her in 140 & 141, my last years in school. She was head girl in 1941. I was in V.S. from 1931 to 1941. I remember George Bishop, Kersey Moddie, Trevo Mott, all in the 1st Standard in 1931. Who were some of the others ?"

Imagine my surprise to get a 'phone call from Thelma Johns (Miller) ‑here in Wimbledon ! She hadn't realised that the date of the reunion had been changed, and was therefore booked for the North Point "Do" on the 8th. As she will be staying with Dick Greene for a couple of months, I MUST meet my piano teacher.

This has been a sentimental letter‑ so let me conclude in this vein, quoting from Warren's letter, "I fully S hare your wish to see the snows from the school flat, and would love for Rose to have that pleasure too. In clear weather it is a sight never to be forgotten, and we are fortunate in having had the view in a variety of light settings, and with different sky and cloud conditions. The home of the snows, the abode of the Gods, the place of spiritual elevation, at whose wide base the world unfurled, and girls and boys, us, set down roots, with friends, amid laughter and play; a golden age in a golden place."

And from Urmi Mallik (Ghosh)'s account of Dow Hill: "You were my alma mater, my strength, my discipline and my pride. Thank you for giving me the wonderful friends and the teachers who moulded me from childhood into girlhood and then into womanhood. You shall remain throbbing in my blood­stream, till my soul fades into oblivion. I will remain a Dow Hillian all my life."

From another life‑long Dow Hillian,

With love,

Grace.

Attendance at the Reunion:

DOW HILL;

Dorothy Anthony (Wheeler), Maureen Baker, Olga Barker

(D’Sena), Lorna Buckle, Veda Charlton (Andrews), Denise Coelho (Fink),

Lorna Dawes (LaRivierre), Shirley D’Silva (Sheldon),  Muriel Glendinning

(Seymour‑Shove), Rosemary Ingels (LaRivierre), Dorothea Inglis (Meyers),

Cheryl Isaacs (Mordecai), Yvonne Jackson (Keymer), Edwina Jones (Godenho),

Peggy Littlewood, Esthere MaeIzer (Mordecai), Megan Myers (O’Rourke),

Grace Pereira (Lochner), Arleen Rice (D’Sena), Daphne Schirripa (Meade),

Audrey Shave (Barraclough), Marjorie Courtney Slacke (Galestine), Nora

Solomon, Patt Stanley (O’Rourke), Joan Steinhouse (Peters), Iris Stevens

(Ball), Irene Wayman (Sheldon), Diedre Wickham (Slacke), Gwen Upshon

(Howe.)

VICTORIA;

Derek Avery, Dudley Avery, Robert Avery, Deryck Baker,

George Bishop, Amit Bose, Clarence Callow, Geoff Carrau,

Peter Clifford, Spencer David, Les Daring, William Gear, Bob Hale,

Lewis Hardy, Richard Hardy, Derrick Hatton, Len Hatton, Trevelyn Howe,

Dot. Lochner, Reginald Moulding, Clive Murray‑Smith, Stanley Prins,

John Quinlan, Hugh Rassaby, Dipak Sengupta, Ronald Seymour‑Shove,

Richard Slacke, Gary Swan‑Brown.

VADHA ADDRESS LIST

July 1996.

INDIA

Mrs Olga ANKELSARIA (Watson)

Messrs.S.K.& Saibal CHATTERJEE. 

Miss Ruth & Miss Norma GASPER

Lt.Col Darryl GEAR

Dr. Amar GHOSH

Mrs Hazel MORRISON (Francis)

Mrs Daphne MUKERJI (Colah)

Col. Nirmal SIRKAR

UK

Mrs Elaine ANDREWS (Brown)

Mrs Dorothy ANTHONY (Wheeler)

Mr Derek W. AVERY

Mr Dudley AVERY

Mr Robert AVERY

Mliss Maureen BAKER

Mr Dervck Baker

Mr Ashley BAKER.

Mr Ashley BAKER.

Mr W.R. (Harry) BALL

Mrs Olga. BARKER (D'Sena)

Mr David. BEALE

Mrs Joan BENISTON (Wakefield)

Miss Myrtle BERRY.

Mrs Rita. BIDWELL (Trash)

Mr Nevilie C. BIRD

Mr George BISHOP

Mr Arnit BOSE

Capt. Owen A. BREESE

Mrs EvelynBROUGHTON-SMART

Mrs Crystal BROWN (Clifford)

Miss Lorna BUCKLE

Mrs Jill BUTCHER (Adams)

Mrs Audrey CALLANAN (Clump)

Mr Clarence CALLOW

Miss Ina CAMERON

Mr Geoff L.E. CARRAU

Mrs Veda CHARLTON (Andrews)

Sister Deirdre Michael CLARK

Mrs Margaret CLERICI

Mr Peter CLIFFORD

Mrs Denise COELHO (Winsome Fink)

Mrs Marjorie COURTNEY-SLACKE (Galestine)

Mrs Eileen DAMERON (Elvidge)

Mr Les DARING

Mrs Crystal DAVID (Cowen)

Mr Spencer DAVID

Mr David DAVIS

Mrs Lorna E.J. DAWES (LaRivierre)

Mr Donald DAWSON

Mrs Maureen DAWSON (O'Connell)

Mrs Joyce DOBRA (Staynor)

Mrs Shirley D'SLVA (Sheldon)

Mr Philip James EARLE

Mrs Sheila FERNANDEZ

Mr Stanley FISHER

Mr William GEAR

Mrs Muriel GLENDENING(Seymour-Shove)

Mrs Rita GRAHAM (Pinto)

Mr Richard GREENE

Mrs Sheila GRIEFF(Galbraith)

Mrs Gloria GRIPTON (Sadler)

Mr Robert HALE

Mr Lewis HARDY

Mrs Joan HARTLEY (Gogerly)

Mr Derrick HATTON

Mr Leonard ROUTSAC-HATTON

Mr Maxwell HATTON

Mrs Alice HIGGINSON (Saunders)

Mrs Edna HOWARD (Bennett)

Mr Trevelyn HOWE

Mrs Florence HOWMAN (Strelley)

Mrs Rosemary !NGELS (LaRivierre)

Mrs Dorothea INGLIS (Meyers)

Mrs Yvonne JACKSON (Keymer)

Mrs Edwina JONES (Godenho)

Mrs Joy JONES (Godfrey)

Miss Joyce KEENAN

Mr Mike KELLY

Mrs Dorothy KING (Hatton)

Mrs Jennifer KREBS (King)

Mrs Elizabeth LAW (Berry)

Miss Peggy LITTLEWOOD

Mr Douglas LOVING

Mrs Yvonne MACFARLANE (Beale)

Mrs Esthere MAELZER (Mordecai)

Mrs Marian MANUEL (Porter)

Mr A.R.(Dick) MEADE

Mr Reginald MOULLING

Mr Clive MURRAY-SMITH

Mrs Megan MIERS (O'Rourke)

Mr Tom. NEWBOULD

Mrs Cherry PATEMAN (Vaillant)

Mrs Grace PEREIRA (Lochner)

Mrs Marjorie PINK (Cosserat)

Mrs Valeric PLOVER (Ball)

Rev.Canon Stanley PRINS

Mr John QUINLAN

Mrs Dora RANDALL (Matthews)

Mrs Patricia REDMOND (Skill)

Mrs Arleen RICE (D'Sena)

Mr Noel ROBERTS

Mrs Thelma RONDEL (Bird)

Mrs Bhakti SAMANTA (Rana)

Mrs Irene SEAMAN (Kent)

Mr Ronald SEYMOUR-SHOVE

Mr Dipak SENGUPTA

Mrs Audrey SHAVE (Barraclough)

Mr Geoffrey SLACKE

Mrs Nora SLACKE (Younan)

Mr Richard SLACKE

Mrs Nora SOLOKON

Mrs Joan SCRAINE (Bird)

Mrs Patt STANLEY (O'Rourke)

Mrs Joan STEINHOUSE (Peters)

Mrs Iris STEVENS (Ball)

Mr Gary SWAN-BROWN

Mr Peter SWAN-BROWN

Mr Kevin SWEENEY

Miss Maureen SWEENEY

Mrs Daphne THOMPSON (Papi)

Mrs Barbara TUSK

Mrs Gwen UPSHON (Howe)

Miss Merna WAKEFIELD

Mr Willian WAKEFIELD

Mrs Clare WALTON (Pereira)

Mrs Irene WAYMAN (Sheldon)

Mrs Doreen WELLS (Young)

Mr Des WHITE (Dolly Ball's husb.)

Mrs Deidre WICKHAM (Slacke)

Mrs Peggy WILSON (Beenett)

Miss Norma YOUNG

AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND.

Mrs Noelene ATKINSON (Bennett)

Mr William BARLOW

Mr James BAYFORD

Mr Mike BLAKE

Mrs Cynthia BRENNAN (Marsden)

Mrs Betty BROWN (Copley)

Mlr Allan S.T. browne

Mr Owen V. BROWNE

Mrs Catherine BUCKLEY (Marrison)

Mrs Mavis COLE (Hilton)

Mr Z.CARAPIET

Mrs Norma CURNOW (Somers)

Mrs Kate D'ABREW (Wallace)

Mr. Charles DOWNEY

Mr Maurice GALESTINE

Mr Charles GASPER

Mrs Molly GAUNTLETTE (Sheldon)

Mrs Ann GODDARD (Lumsden)

Mr Derrick GOW

Mr Horace GOW

Mrs Phyllis GOW (Papi)

Mrs Joan GREEN (Ashe)

Mrs Doreen GREZOUX (Colah)

Mr Peter GROUT

Mrs Elaine HALPIN (Halifax)

Mrs Grace HYRAPIET (Jacobs)

Mrs Thelma JOHNS (Miller)

Mrs Mrs Bella KELLY (Johnstone)

Mrs Cynthia LAKE (0'Hara)

Mr Lawrence LAKE

Mrs Beth LEPAGE (Reay-Young)

Mrs Kathleen LOPEZ (McDonald)

Mr P.P. MACFARLANE

Mrs Janet MEAD (Simpson)

Mrs Lorna MITCHELL (Rennick)

Mrs Rena MORE (Lowe)

Mrs April MOSTERT (Johnstone)

Mr William MURRAY

Mrs Brenda NASER (Brewster)

Mrs NatalieNONEY (Lawrence)

Mrs Phyllis PERCIE-PAINE

Mr Hugh RASSABY

Mr Maurice RASSABY

Mrs Dorothea RATCLIFFE (Browne)

Mr Richard RENNICK

Mrs Eveline di ROSARIO

Mrs Angela SANDS (Sassoon)

Mrs Doreen SCOTT (Culloden)

Mr L.B. SMART

Mr R.B. SMART

Mrs Sally STEWART (MacDonald)

Mrs Barbary TODD (Barnett)

Mr Ray TWIDDY

Mrs Jean WADEY (Knight)

Mr John WATKINS

Miss Sydney WHILBY

Mr Larry WISE

Mrs Alice WRIGLEY (Hardaker)

Mr John WEBSTER

Mr Dereck WEBSTER

Mr Gerald WEBSTER

Mrs Shirely HEGARTY (Webster)

Mrs Maureen WEBSTER (Parry)

Mrs Mavis YOUNG (Doyle)

USA And Canada

Mr Clive ANTRAM

Mr Aubrey BALLANTINE

Mrs Anita BLACKMAN (Mordecai)

Mrs Daphne BROWN (Hardinge)

Mr Theo CANHAM

Mrs Dorothp COOPER (Stewart)

Mrs Madhunree DASGUPTA (Sen)

Miss Bridget EDWARDS

Mrs Gillian FEATHERSTONE

Mrs Althea FELLER (Bayford)

Mrs Daphne GONSALVES (D'Rosario)

Mrs Barbara GREENWOOD (Meade)

Mrs Freda GROSS (Brewster)

Mrs Daphne GUSTAVUS (Lochner)

Mrs Patricia HEATH (Ball)

Mrs Pamela HUSSEY (Hill)

Mrs Jean LOCKYER (Watkins)

Mr Brian MACLEOD

Mr C.B. MATHUR

Mrs Colleen MEINEN (Lee)

Mrs Kay MORRISON

Mr Warren O'ROURKE

Mrs Fay REICHENBACH (Meade)

Mrs Dorothy ROBERTS (Swan-Brown)

Mrs Olive ROSS (McNeil)

Mrs Bentia ROZARIO (Dunne)

Mrs Daphne SCHIRRIPA (Meade)

Mr D.T. WALESKI

Mr Donald WATSON

Mr George WATSON

Mr Peter YOUNG

Rest of World

Mr Leslie BUCKLE Eire

Mrs Patricia HITZ (Lee) Switzerland

Mrs Joyce LEY (Hilling)South Africa

Frau Luetzelschwab (Dalveen Manuel) Switzerland

Mrs Valmai MUSCHONG Germany

Mr Fergus NUGENT South Africa

Mrs Doreen SETZINGER (Marsden) Germany

Mr Brian WAKEFIELD Spain