MISSING . . .
THE DAILY MAIL offers the opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one and a tale of people reunited. Produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory, run by Gill Whitley.
ANYONE for tennis? Helen Salomone, nee Mitchell, and Rosemary Ogden, nee Grout, are looking for friends from the Blessed Sacrament Convent School in Brighton.
‘We had a happy and fun time there from 1960 to 1962,’ says Helen, who is in her late 70s.
‘We are particularly interested in finding Shirley and Wendy Hunt, Carolyn Schroeder, Georgina Harwood, Vanessa Saunders, Carla Toomer and Angharad Walsh.
‘We enjoyed playing tennis and netball together during break times.
‘On one occasion we went to watch the tennis at Wimbledon wearing our smart school uniform: plum-coloured dresses with white polka dots, plum blazers and boaters!
‘Mother Bernard, the Mother Superior, was strict but caring, and our teachers were lovely and patient.
‘Rosemary and I are deaf, so we sat at the front of the class doing our best to lip-read. If we got stuck, the other girls helped us with note-taking.
‘After I left the school, I went to college to acquire clerical skills, got a job at the BBC and married in 1966. I later worked at BOAC, the forerunner of British Airways, before I became a classroom assistant.’