St Albans College is having a major reunion of graduates from matching years in revious decades - 1968, 1978, 1988, 1998 - on Friday July 11 in Pretoria. And there's been a flood of memories.
Thought you might like to know that Peter Bower of the Class of 70 wrote about someone who is still going strong at the MTN Sciencentre - Detlef Basel, now in his 70s and still causing chaos, as can be seen in the photograph above.
This is what Peter wrote: In the 60s the Photographic, Printing and Puddlers (pottery) Clubs were all housed in one of the original farm outbuildings near the dining hall.
In the Puddlers Club somebody (Detlef Basel, I think) had lit on the idea of using a Morris Minor gearbox to drive the potter's wheel. For some reason, he hadn't removed the gear lever. The correct speed to throw a neat pot was to be found in 1st gear. Changing to top gear resulted in a most gratifying spray of muddy water and clay about the room.
Some things never change, as people who sit in the front row at Detlef's science shows might attest!
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