THEY may not have moved with the ease and vigour of youth, but their hearts were light and the banter easy as a group attending a 25-year reunion from Macksville High toured their old school grounds on Saturday afternoon.
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The reunion had been months in the planning for this June long weekend for the Year 10 leaving class of 1989 and the 1991 Year 12 cohort.
More than 50 people are expected for the gathering, which will culminate with an official dinner at the Macksville Country Club today.
Guests travelled from as far afield as nearby Gumma, Adelaide, Armidale, Newcastle, Bendigo, Hawkesbury and Redcliffe.
And while they scratched their heads to know if there were any childhood sweethearts in attendance, among the guests were Adam and Shannon Mills who formed a bond at the group’s 10-year reunion.
Like any large group, life has taken them many ways – a police officer, firefighter, a humanitarian working for the Government in Canberra and a ‘living legend’ in Ashley Donovan, and his namesake, celebrity tv chef Clayton.
As they walked around their old campus, they recalled the old timber classrooms and a grandstand now gone on the back of a fire in the 1990s.
There were funny memories too: a game called ‘cowpat bingo’ on the top oval where the school’s cow would occasionally graze.
And they recalled ‘scab alley’ the passageway to the canteen: “kids would ask, ‘got 10 cents, got 10 cents, got 10 cents’, all the way down,” one said. And there was the “highway to heaven” – the path leading to the scripture class.
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