Year 12 Farewells... the times they have a-changed.

Garry Jennings of the Class of 1972 found this photo of a band performing at the 2024 Year Twelve Farewell. 

Coldplay. In blazers...


I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called Yellow
Took four people to write that song.


Tom Jones in Verse

Written by Tom Jones
for our gathering on 18 October 2024

Parallel Paths


We started high school sixty years ago
all dressed alike; all products of that time.
If not for twists of fate or luck, I might
have chosen your career instead of mine,

or met your girl before she looked at you,
embarking on the life you live today,
while you could have led mine. If not for chance,
each life might have been lived some other way.

We now gaze at each other, grizzled men,
each fashioned by what chance led him to be.
But if life dealt some other hands of cards,
one of your lives could well have been for me.

Of course, we can’t go back to start again
but meeting up enables us to know 
how other options may have been played out
if we had swapped lives sixty years ago.