Dear friends and colleagues,
This is an ahoy to cheer on the group for yet another year, 2026. Soon to be 55 years out of school!
I have little or nothing to do with the school but pleased to hear that 70 young ladies were enrolled last week, half in Year 7, the rest in Year 11. While I know not everyone approves I feel sure it will make Cranbrook a little more ‘normal’. I donate a small sum each year to the Aboriginal Scholarship to prove that I am not a complete scrooge, even knowing this is a token exercise in a sea of troubles.
Howard Barker and Nick Back plan to host another lunch at Sydney Rowing Club. The tentative date is Thursday April 23rd, details to be sent out shortly.
As for me, I am restored to health after a 20 year recurrence of my old lymphoma. All thanks to St Vincent’s staff and 6 months of relatively mild chemo. Continued annual trips to Lord Howe Island, Hawai’i and Manhattan would seem boring to some … but they keep me ticking along in retirement. And learning famous Shakespeare quotes to supplement my meager innate wisdom.
Please send me your news, whether ‘tis public for the blog or private to me.
Cheers, Andrew Byrne ..
Cranbrook 1971 alumni news and views .. plus dinner photos
He was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did for envy of great Caesar
He only in an honest general thought
And the common good to all made one of them
His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world: This was a man! [Marc Antony of Brutus, deceased]
