Earlington High reunion

REMEMBER the good times and take lots of pictures.those were the words of former Earlington Secondary School pupils who were the Class of 1988.

These past pupils of the Phoenix school had a reunion after 30 years this month.

Romini Kuppan, a former pupil, said old school photographs were used to look back on “the good old days”. She urged the current school-going generation to take advantage of the technology available to them to make even better memories. At least 50 former pupils attended the gettogether at the Oceanic Conference Centre in Durban. Some of them came from as far as Cape Town to rekindle old friendships. For one of the organisers, Jean Govender, a small pocket book from her school days helped her get in touch with everyone.

“I had a little pocket diary at school which had some numbers, and some of them went through! Eventually, word spread, and we managed to get hold of everyone,” she said. “It was wonderful to see how everyone looked now, learn about their lives, and talk about our school days.we even recalled some of our nicknames from back in the day,” she said.

The group was also reunited via the Earlington Secondary School Ex-students Facebook group, run by Timothy Padayachee. As former pupils shared anecdotes about their lives, one guest had a specific memory about a teacher he met recently.

Govender said:“one of our school friends was quite a naughty pupil, and our teacher would tell him,‘you’re wasting my time!’ That same pupil is a police officer now and at a roadblock caught his ex-teacher for driving under the influence of alcohol and told him, ‘Sir, you are wasting my time!”

The evening was filled with such stories, music, dance, games and food.

Former pupil Rajeev Ramdev said:“we felt like school kids again.we had those same old chats we had in the past and got along like we were back at Earlington.”

Govender urged other schools to rekindle memories.