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“WHAT WAS IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE?”

Well, what were all those Reunions about?

The Dixie Grammar School Association (like the small acorns from which large Oak Trees grow) had very modest beginnings in 1984 when a quartet of former students from the 1940’s decided to try and make contact with some of their peers from their schooldays during and just post-war.

Thirty, somewhat apprehensive, “middle-aged” ex-schoolgirls and boys drove along well remembered (and strangely unaltered) byways, to meet, that first afternoon, in a room above a “pub” in Sutton Cheney. It was euphoric - an emotion which endured to enthuse the organisers to make it an annual event.

At one time there were almost 400 paid-up members, usually about half of whom attended the actual Reunions now held (with the kind permission of the Headmaster) in the School Hall itself, and for ten years or so in conjunction with a ‘Special Champagne Reception’ for those who had joined the School 50 years previously.

Former pupils came from all parts of the world - U.S.A.; Canada; New Zealand; France; the Netherlands and the Isle of Wight (!) as well as all parts of the U.K.

The “buzz” was electric; the chatter and laughter non-stop. (Mr. Gosling would have been appalled!).

It was very, very special. No-one bragged about what they have done or achieved.

On that special day - usually the first Saturday in October - we were transported back in time - regardless of grey hair; ever present spectacles; and spreading waistlines, to those days when we were all young and beautiful, full of energy, and with a lifetime of adventure before us.

The DGSA was the true ‘Friends Reunited’.

By the way - “do you remember when…?”.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN.

The Headmaster, Mr. Richard Lynn

The Chair of School Governors, Mrs. Jo Parkes

The Chef, Mr. Steve Muggleton

IT & Operations Manager, Mr. Paul Kirk

Chairman of the DGSA, Mr. Peter Smith

Hon. Secretary of the DGSA, Mrs. Daphne Wells

Treasurer of the DGSA, Mrs. Sally Tuckwell

Archivist of the DGSA, Mr. Walter Baynes

Mrs. Liz Dandy, Mr. Lance Gibson,  

Rev. Dr. Anthony Thacker, Mrs Janice Yates.

AND NOW IT’S ALL ENDED.

The Organising Committee