FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT KNOW, MRS COFFIN IS CELEBRATING HER 80th BIRTHDAY......
here's the link
http://www.oranjemundonline.com/mrscoffin.html
happybirthday
Dear Mrs. Coffin.
I hope you will be reading our greetings.
I wish you all the best to your 80th birthday. I'm so happy to be able to see you again after all these years.
Maybe you'll remember a curly red-headed german boy in your class: Standerd 3 in 1974.
I remember well, the way you would tell us the way Sir Francis Drake dealt with the Spanish Armada in your history leson.
The dearest greetings from
Georg Ruf
Happy Birthday Mrs Coffin. happybirthday
The best of health to you. Enjoy your day.
Richard & Debby Opperman
Dont we just all remember our school teachers so well , and now when we look back we know that they had best intent for us youngsters and must have at times had the patience of Job in dealing with us and trying to pass on knowledge to us .. To Auntie Noreen .. a very happy birthday .. 80 is indeed a milestone ..
Sandy
Aunty Nin, I think that's what we called you out of school, you look well. Gosh it was like just the other day you were lecturing us about not being complacent about life.
Ambition and hard work was what I remember you saying was needed.
Happy Birthday and all the best for the year.
How is Hermanus, are the whales in the bay ?
Love to all
Barbara (Fry)
Mrs Coffin
happybirthday for the 24th November and all the best for the coming year
You are looking very well
Best regards
Barbara, Susan and Steven Brownless
xxx
Next to Mrs Coffins class was the guidance class and on the other side was the Afrikaans teacher, Mrs Williams, or Juffie.... she had that knack of pinching your shoulder in such a manner it would put karate kid to shame......
The one thing that always stuck in my mind that she told us, was if you burn yourself put toothpaste on the burn asap....
and the creaking noise you heard in your cdm house roof at night was only the roof contracting with the cold after being exposed the whole day to the desert sun.....
:emot26:
happybirthday
Dear Mrs Coffin,
you look wonderful. So nice to see you. One thing that seems to stand out for me is your endless patience with our class. We mustve been the naughtiest you ever had! Charles Weyers, Johnny Visser and Gavin Munn. you had the best of the best!!!!
Here's wishing you a Happy Birthday on your 80th. God bless and many more.
Lots of love
Yvette (Biccard)
Wishing you a very happy birthday Miss Coffin. :auguri1: You were my teacher in standard 3 (back in 1977 ... iknow ... ) and told my parents that I should consider becoming a teacher. I got it all wrong and studied law instead :emot19: . Must admit that I do sometimes think that it would have been great to be a nursery school teacher.
Happy b-day for Saterday Granny.
I know you will enjoy the day and you will have many more!!!!
Thanks for all the leasons you have taught me over the years.
lots of Love
DJ and Andrea!!!!
I had an email from Helen, These greetings will be read out on Saturday at Mrs Coffin's Birthday bash.....
yougogirl
daman :emot112_2: cheers quickdop
Picture of Aunty Nin, Dawn Few and Flora Fry
Mrs Coffin happybirthday
Alfred Boehme
Happy Birthday Mrs Coffin,i think we all know her but i dont find her on the board !!! ????
a very happy birthday to you mrs.coffin,much love from bobby smith happybirthday giverose
A memory for auntie Noreen ,, I remember years ago I was not even at school yet .. the school had a staff car , a huge black American creation .. Mrs Coffin used to drive it around .. I remember her giving my Mom and me a lift in it quite a few times .. it was typical of the yanktanks of those days all size and flash with the huge engine but poorly built and it used to creak and make all kinds of strage noises as it thundered along .. my overactive imagination linked the name Coffin to the black car and I wondered why she was driving a hearse ??
Well Sandy, that reminds me of a story Mrs. Coffin used to tell back in std. 3. (1974) When traveling with her family as a kid, they would all have to get out of the car as soon as a steep hill aproached. Probably only had about 50ccm and 1 cylinders and 5hp or so. hihi.
But that was often not enough, because the kids and mother would even have to push the car. After walking on top of the hill everybody got back in the car and off the journey went. :emot186:
Georg Ruf
Happy 80th Birthday!!!
Hope you remember me, its been a very long time.
My mum and dad were Gladys and Harry Smith.
Love From
Mavis (Smith)
Hope you enjoy your Day, A helluva achievement to turn 80 in this day and age!
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