School Days at OPS

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

O.K. Last TRY

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

just how i remember you :36_2_35:

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Ja a right dork I was. Still trying to fathom out this resizing thing,only learnt to post a photo yesterday. I have other talents ok. 

[Michael Alexander]

Me thinks that we are about to encounter a shower of Picture postings from Diana, now that she has mastered the fine art of Picture posting....

   

[barb (Fry)]

horrah, for Diane.  Well done
The hat was my flash memory in that picture.
forgotten all about it ......... They aged badly but were so much more comfortable when softened up and worn out

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

My mom always ironed the front flap of the hat down.Why,the Lord only knows.As young as we were ,we knew we looked like dorks.
I got the sizing a bit small, wanted to show that hugh plastic house badge we wore back then.
Mike I haven't quite mastered the art yet,so will be throwing you dead with oop'ses first  THEN the shower of picture postings.I might add I had never been on a computer untill this forum started, now well............you stuck with me I'm afraid.

[Michael Alexander]

..... and Diana, nobody's complaining...post away....

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Those hats!!!  Mine used to be in a permanent state of "flatness"-  just stashed it into my schoolcase with all the books and closed the lid.  My mom tried to steam and starch it at some stage just to get it back into some acceptable shape again, but I buggered up all her hard work again by the next afternoon.

[barb (Fry)]

Re the pictures of school as seen by Mike.

Thank you, I agree the new colour scheme is beautiful - the library seems to me to be exactly the same, I remember it being new in my day.

The hall looks very shiny, and I like the blue - I was in Oppenheimer, but think that the color is relaxing and must be very cool in the light of day with the sun beating down.

The question I have today is the one of the kids with the big horns, if I'm not mistaken a german tradition, where they filled with sweets.  Who provides them and is it a new tradition.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

The question I have today is the one of the kids with the big horns, if I'm not mistaken a german tradition, where they filled with sweets.  Who provides them and is it a new tradition.

@ Barb: Thats what you talk about, yes it is a tradition in Germany
First schoolday in PE ( Marcel ) and our alsation

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

The Georg's can tell us the tradition of the "Horn"     Here is  photo of my Dads cousin taken way back in 1930

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

The tradition

That is to sweeten up the first schoolday and make it something special

Here a picture of an Oranjemunder child " Erika" First schoolday in germany Pic 1

soon after that she came to Kolmanns and then Oranjemund. Pic 2

She died 2006.

I have visited her in 2006 Usakos Nam

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Top pic: Janeen Jackson,Michelle Uytenhoven,Theresa Solms,Aileen Ockwell,and is that you Cherry Alcock?
Bottom pic: Could this be David Eyre and Reiner Siebers..........Richard?

[Cherry (Alcock)]

Gawd, yes that's me - horrors!

[Richard Opperman]

Hi Diana,

That is David, but not sure of other person, not Rianer.