Om \u2019n 10-jaar-re\u00fcnie by te woon, is lekker; as dit by \u2019n 50-jaar-re\u00fcnie kom, is dit \u2019n eer, maar om \u2019n 70-jaar-re\u00fcnie by te woon, is besonders \u2013 dit gebeur nie gereeld nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oudmatrieks van 1952 van die destydse Ho\u00ebrskool Caledon, vandag Ho\u00ebrskool Overberg, het verlede week hul re\u00fcnie op 8 November by die Hermanus-gholfklub gehou. Hulle het sommer alle leerders wat destyds in die ho\u00ebrskool was, ook vir die re\u00fcnie genooi. \u2019n Allemintige 43 leerders het hierdie besondere dag bygewoon. Die organiseerder, Jan K\u00fchn, het in sy toespraak alle oudleerders verwelkom en ges\u00ea die ouderdom van die gaste wissel van 85 tot 89. \u201cDie manne lyk nog oukei, maar die vroue lyk fantasties,\u201d het K\u00fchn geskerts. \u201cEk onthou toe ons in matriek was, was die vroue wat vandag hier teenwoordig is, 14 en 15 jaar oud, en hulle was mooi. \u2019n Mens kan dit nie glo nie, maar hulle is vandag net so pragtig.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
K\u00fchn vertel dat hy deel van die 1952-matriekklas was. \u201cIn 2002 het ons \u2019n 50-jaar-re\u00fcnie by Dassiesfontein gere\u00ebl en die 60ste by Houwhoek Inn. Ons het elke keer besluit om ook die matriekklasse van 1953, 1954 en 1955 te betrek, want vir vier jaar was die standerd 7-, 8- en 9-klasmaats saam met ons. Dit het gehelp om die getalle te vergroot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens K\u00fchn was daar 31 leerders in die matriekklas waarvan hulle in hierdie stadium agt nie kon opspoor nie omdat hulle geen selnommers of adresse het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns weet dus nie of hulle nog leef of dalk al dood is nie. Van die 23 leerders van wie ons wel weet, is 12 reeds oorlede en 11 leef nog. Van di\u00e9 wat nog oor is, is vyf baie siek en een gestremd, maar die ander vyf is nog gesond genoeg om ons re\u00fcnie te kon bywoon. Ons dank die Here dat van ons nog hierdie re\u00fcnie kon bywoon.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die skoolhoof van Ho\u00ebrskool Overberg, Johan Jacobs, en die hoofleiers van 2023, Leon Botha en Nina Viljoen, het ook die geleentheid bygewoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Jacobs se toespraak het hy teruggedink aan die verlede en geskiedkundige mylpale van 1952 opgenoem, soos toe die jong Elizabeth as koningin van Engeland gekroon is, Evita Perron se dood en die Olimpiese Spele in Helsinki. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie skool is die afgelope tyd deur \u2019n moeilike jaar, maar ek wil vir julle as oudleerders, wat ook kleinkinders in die skool het, vertel wat ons as skool beplan. Ons wil die akademiese standaarde van ons kinders verhoog; ons wil die skool opgradeer, soos om die koshuise en sportterreine \u2019n nuwe voorkoms te gee en ons landbou-afdeling \u2019n hupstoot te gee. Ons is van die min skole in die streek wat landbou vir seuns en meisies aanbied. Ons wil iets nuuts skep om vir ons kinders te bied, en al hoe ons dit kan bereik, is deur die steun van ons gemeenskap,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lampie Fick, ook \u2019n oudleerder van die Ho\u00ebrskool Caledon en \u2019n bekende boer, politikus en skrywer, het meer vertel oor sy navorsing oor sy boek, In die koelte van eergister<\/i>, en staaltjies oor die mense van die distrik gedeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 al die toesprake het almal saam gekuier, families uitgel\u00ea en stories oor die verlede gedeel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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