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As a kid in Oranjemund, this is where you would spend most of your day. I'm not sure , but I remember some old timer telling me that the above clocktower has it's origins at Kolmanskop and was rebuilt here at Oranjemund.

I remember when during CDM's boomtimes of the late 70's that the new section of the school was built on the rugby field to the east of the main school complex. This was a top notch facility for it's time. Science laboratory and modern designs were the order of the day.

In those day's you had to fight to get a spot in the bicycle shed as just about every kid you knew had a bike. A few things that were mentioned on the forum section of this site, were School Milk, Oppenheimer, Rhodes and Barnato, Cross Country, Gala, Athletics, Various teachers, The Wizard of Oz play, The big chess board, School tours and the songs we used to sing.

Please feel free to add your memories on the Forums and also to submit your school picture, with ot without the names. The photographs displayed here are in no particular order and are posted as I recieve them. A big thanks to Dawn Watt (Johnson) ,Mavis Padruth,Ann and Susan Greenway for allowing me to scan their pics, a lot of history shared.

As quoted by Mavis - " Barney and Graeme's (my twin brothers) School Photo with the "dreaded" Mrs Castle - can any body put names to the other children"

Click on a photo in the column on the right to view the full image, please note not all photographs have names with them.

Well Mark Swanepoel reckons he can help, and I quote from Marks

's Email:

"A little help with the photo,,taken in 1968/69 ! !
The photo with Mrs. Castle...........
Back row..Left to right..Sharon Holloway,Dion Hodgen,Kevin Laubscher,Mark Swanepoel,Andrew Morrow,Lynette Bezuidenhout
Mid row..Anthony Bannister ?,Barbara Fry,Margaret Fry,Vivian Standbridge,Ingrid Harris,,Mark van Greunen
Front..Stephen Hodgeson,Sean Bam,Graeme Smith,Bernerd Smith,Lionel Gilbee,____

The question mark means im not 100 |% and the spelling may be incorrect !"

Thanks Mark.

 

"THE SCHOOL ANTHEM"

"Oranjemund our desert school

With pride of thee we sing

And Proudly learn our lessons well

More praise to thee we bring

For many hands from many lands

Are clasped in friendship true

To win our way at work or play

Oranjemund for you."

 

' And onward striving as we go

More knowledge to attain

That never failing torch that glows

Will always be our aim

Though wide the field and vast the sphere

If humbly we attend

We'll run the race with God's Good Grace

And run it to the end."

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"In 1964 , the school performed a playcalled "Prinses Roselyn".  My sister played Prinses Roselyn and she believes the Queen was Lorraine Pienaar.  She has had difficulty recognising any of the other cast as they are all rather heavily disguised!  The gypsy looking rogue in the third picture (with the black bandanna) is Bokkie van Niekerk." , submitted by Ann Greenway.

(Click on the Above Picture!)

Many a OPS pupil would have ventured off on various School tours, be it Sport or Learning. From Beauvallon Farm to Cape Town. Below is a photo submitted By Susan Kintsher (Lineker) of a 1981 trip to the SOS School of the Wild. Recognise any faces?

1968 Rugby Team. The above photo was submitted by Bobby Smith , and I include his comments:

"Here are all the names of the rugby team of the boarders in 1968, I was only 10yrs old then and this pic was taken by either of three people,Mr Vermullen, Uncle Bill Fry or Uncle Dennis Symes,most of these guys were later to become appies and artisans on the mines.

Top row/l/r:   M Mcarthy,Mike Burgess, Sakkie Groenewald, Mike Davis, Derek Webstock, Koos Jacobs,

   Middle row: Jimmy Ockwell,John Delaney,Lionel Dixon,A Ferreira,

   Bottom row:  Terry Dunster, B Malleson , Buddy Slow, Andre' Nortier and Colin Dunster,fine looking bunch,they were all the people who shaped our lives,a fantastic bunch of guys,hope you find some Omunders who remember this pic."

-Thanks to Mike Burgess for filling in a few of the names!-

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Ops Today

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Barnato

The best House around , Barnato

Oppen

Oppenheimer

Rhodes

Rhodes House

(Thanks to Bertie Horak for the above 3 photographs)

 

 
 
 

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OPS STAFF 1975

1979 Std 1BE

1995 Grade 7JE

OPS STAFF 1982

OPS STAFF 1981

1984 STANDARD 1AE

1981 STANDARD 1BE

OPS STAFF 1983

1962 NETBALL

1961 RHODES

1980 STD1E

1964 BARNATO

1964 PREFECTS

1964 NETBALL

1960 SUB A BAND

1979 NETBALL

1981 NETBALL

1977 RHODES SWIMMING

1981 STD5AE

1980 SWIMMING

1981 SWIMMING

1991 STD5BE

1989 OPPS HIPPO's

1993 JUNIORCHOIR

1996 GRADE5VS

1970 RUGBY TEAM

1990 U11a Rugby

1990 RUGBY U11A

 

1968 Prefectsthumb

1968 PREFECTS

1969 RUGBY

1969 RUGBY

1962 Oppenheimer

1962 OPPENHEIMER

1977 Std 5

1977 STD 5