ANDERSON’S BAY SCHOOL

Evening Star, Issue 19985, 1 October 1928, Page 3

ANDERSON’S BAY SCHOOL

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS On Thursday of .this week the Anderson’s Bay School will commemorate its seventieth anniversary, and in honour of this groat event a series of celebrations Ims been arranged. Eor some months past an energetic committee has been at work getting in communication with all the old pupils, and in this it has been very successful. Old pupils are now scattered far and wide, but all have rallied round the committee, and all who possibly can make arrangements have signified their intention of being present at the celebrations. There are probably many of these old pupils who have not seen one another since they loft school, and it is safe to say that many old friendships will be renewed. The celebrations will be opened at 2.30 on Thursday afternoon next with the unveiling of tho war memorial arch. Tho arch is a very handsome .structure, and is a fitting remembrance to those old pupils who gave their lives in tho fight for liberty during those fateful years of 1914-18. In the evening there will bo a reunion of old pupils in tho Cameron Hall, A roll call will bo made, and some of the old pupils will deliver short addresses.

On Friday a jubilee school picnic and sports meeting will be bold at Tahuna Park, and in tbe evening the jubilee ball will be held in the Early Settlers’ and Pioneers’ Halls. This function will be of-special interest to the younger old pupils, but tho older generation will lie provided with scats on the platform, whore they can also share in the gaiety. The hall is not for old pupils of the school only, but is for ex-teach-ers and all friends of the school and its pupils and residents of the Bay. Saturday has been set aside _ for a motor drive for the oldest ex-pupils and visiting ex-pupils round the Bay and tho Peninsula, and in the afternoon, at the residence of Mr J. C. H. Somerville opposite the school, there will be a garden party, at which an officiai group photograph will be taken. An interesting and enjoyable programme has been arranged. In the evening tho old boys will attend a smoke concert and the old girls a social evening. The final day will he Sunday, when old pupils will assemble at the site of the old school in Elliot street and will march to the Anderson’s Bay Presbyterian Church, where a service will be conducted bv the Rev. Mr A. Bcgg, who is an old pupil. Miss M'Adam will preside at the organ, and the choir will consist of ex-pupils. The final meeting of the Ex-pupils’ Association will take place in the Cameron Hall at the conclusion of the service. Some difficulty has been experienced by the committee in getting in touch with some old pupils, but if _ any of these have seen the advertisements which have appeared in the daily papers they arc asked to accept these as invitations to bo present at the celebrations.