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Past Pupils 1960-1964

1964
Miranda Kark now Beckenstein (1964) wrote to us in February 2003: "Since leaving WGHS in 1964 I attended UCT graduating with a BA in English and Music, as well as a Performer's Diploma in Opera. Subsequently, I attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England for 3 years, and then sang with CAPAB at the then Nico Malan Theatre until 1985. I left for New York, studied at Hebrew Union College and in 1989 was invested as a synagogue cantor. I have worked in the USA as both a Cantor and the Director of Education of the temple Religious and Hebrew School since then. I live in Connecticut and am the mother of a 15 year old daughter, Yael. I was at Wynberg during the time of both Miss Currie and Miss Urie. I often talk to my daughter about schooling in SA in the 50's and 60's and what I learned at Wynberg. I was very active in the Drama at Wynberg, working with the late Miss Lorna Basevi. I have many positive memories of Wynberg, where I began in Sub A, when Miss Castle was principal, under the tutelage of Miss Ball - in the year of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. I can remember us all walking to the Curzon Cinema to view the film of the coronation. I also vividly remember the goodbyes we said to Miss Castle when she left for the USA and to Miss Currie when she returned to England.I have many more memories of those days. It is great to find so much about Wynberg on line
now. Email address CANTORMUM@aol.com 

Other past pupils who have registered from these years at SARUnited include

Freda Levin, now Shuster, who is living in Israel
Miranda Kark, now Beckenstein, who is living in the United States
Jane Morris, now Blackshaw, who is living in Australia

1963

Other past pupils who have registered from these years at SARUnited include

Tessia Levin, now Gordin, who is living in Israel

1962

Other past pupils who have registered from these years at SARUnited include

Penelope Barrett-Jolley, now Tweeddale, who is living in the United Kingdom

1961

Other past pupils who have registered from these years at SARUnited include

Sandra Lewis, now Kavonic, who is living in the United States
Elizabeth Rhategan, now Duffell, who is living in South Africa

1960

Thomson Edith (1960) now Morris wrote in August 2003: "I was a pupil at Wynberg Girls' High a long time ago, from half way through 1957 in Standard 7 to my Matriculation in 1960. I remember Eileen Currie was the principal and a Mrs Currin who was for a time my class mistress. When I first went there we still used the old hall while they built the new hall with the music rooms and art room attached. I also did ballet with Dudley Davis in the Gymn after school. I worked in the Standard Bank for a few years, then moved with my family to Brisbane, Australia in 1963. I began work in a drawing office. I met my husband in Scotland in 1965. My daughter was born in Brisbane and my son in Auckland, New Zealand. I was divorced in 1986 and now live in Brisbane where I do pastel painting and water colours and write in my spare time. I would love to get in touch with anyone that I knew." 

She wrote again in March 2004: "I left Wynberg in 1960 and in 1963 went to Australia. I have never been able to return. Finding the Wynberg Girls High School site was a great reminder of the time I spent there. It is fascinating to see the photos of the present pupils and to see that, judging from the photos, they still wear a brown uniform. I doubt if I will ever be able to get back to see how the school looks now for myself, but I wondered if it might be possible at some time to have some photos of the buildings on the site. When I was there the new hall as we called it was just finished and we moved into it from the old hall for assembly. The main school building was two storeys with a large jacaranda tree at the main entrance. Miss Currie's office was to the right of the entrance and the library was straight through at the back. Underneath the library was the cloakroom where we hung our suitcases on hooks. The toilets opened off the cloakroom. On the other end was the gymn hall where we did our gymn classes and in the afternoon I did ballet with Dudley Davies. The back yard was mainly taken up with the hockey field with the tennis courts to the left. Beyond the tennis courts was the boarding house. On the far side of the hockey field was a strip of land between the hockey field and the road where we could sit in our breaks. The Primary School was to the left as you came in the main gate. This is how I remember the school and I would love to see how it looks now and whether the buildings are all still there and how the new ones I see in the photos fit in. I have magic memories of the school and the friends I had there. " E-mail her at aelgytha@powerup.com.au 

Other past pupils who have registered from these years at SARUnited include

Lucille Hurwitz, now Edelman, who is living in Israel
Dougline (nee) McIntyre is now living in East London - her daughter Anne-Marie wrote to us from the address el.silverton@polka.co.za 

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