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FOUNDERS'
WEEKEND 2009
Last year Old
Girls from the 1979 and 1986 classes at VG, as well as the
Old Girls from the 1999 VG matric class and others
attended Founders' Weekend.
On Saturday, 7th
March, there was a tea in the quad for the Old Girls
and Matrics, hosted by the Old Girls' Union. It was a
fun and successful event that provided lots of
opportunities for the current Matrics to get to know
some of the Old Girls and find out how much VG has
changed in the past 10 years or more.
It was very good
to see Mrs Wood at the Old Girls tea
Mrs Schoeman's
address
Some of our
current Grade 12s enjoying the Old Girls tea
At the Old
Girls’ AGM Karen Kouari was elected the
new Chairperson and Lee-Anne van der Merwe
was elected as the Vice-Chairperson. It was decided that a treasurer would
not be appointed, but that the committee would
instead manage the budget. The previous
Chairperson, Peta Bezuidenhout, spoke about what the
Old Girls’ Union has done in the past few years,
pointing out how much more active and involved it
has become.
After the AGM,
the Old Girls and some of the current VG girls
played hockey against each other, to much excitement
and cheering by the supporters. The Old Girls team,
which included Thando Zono, Nicola Sewry and
Akhonati Mkolo,
amongst others, won the match 4 to 1. There was also
a steak braai outside Vicky’s hosted by the Old
Girls’ Union after the hockey.
The
Old Girls’ Union’s involvement in Founders’ Weekend
this year was clearly successful and a great deal of fun.
OLD GIRLS'
vs VG HOCKEY
The victorious Old
Girls hockey team
The
not-quite-successful VG team
Carla takes the game
to the Old Girls
SOME RECENT OLD
GIRL NEWS
We
frequently receive letters from tertiary
institutions commending our girls on their
standards. The most recent letter was from Prof
Walters at Rhodes University who had this to say of
Genevieve Jacot-Guillarmod (matric
2007): ‘you would be pleased to know that the
above student, formerly a pupil at your school, has
achieved excellent results in our English 1
examinations. This success reflects very favourably
on the quality of training an preparation offered by
the English Department at your school’.
Just two
examples of the many VG Old Girls who graduated all
over the world: Roanne Shay Keeton (1999) and
Miranda Elaine Armstrong (1998). They
received their PhDs at the University of Cape Town
in June this year.
... and
sadly:
Lois
Bassett, school captain of 1945 and founder of
the Johannesburg Old Girls Union passed away
recently. We are grateful for her immense
contribution to our school and to Swimming SA. (Her
photograph features on a number of the Centenary
collages in the upper hall foyer, as she opened the
Centenary Pavillion).
Jacqui Baines (matric 1990) and teacher at
Port Alfred High School, passed away in July.
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