There seems to be a mystery about why young men like touching the door header when they leave a building, but somehow this just seems to be the right thing to do when you greet your school for the last time as a learner with the Annual Report in your hand. The ability to do that can be regarded according to one explanation as an athletic victory or discovering a superpower, but probably it just shows that you have grown physically and emotionally since entering the school five years before.
Hierdie uitgawe van die nuusblog is weer eens propvol stories van hoe Old Boys die wêreld verower het toe hulle eers by daardie deur uit is, toegerus met kennis, ervaring, beginsels en verskeie ondersteuningstelsels, waarvan die Oudskoliere-unie een is. Kyk gerus wie onder die matrieks en watter van die ander Old Boys aangesluit het.
SU Chancellor’s Medal was this year awarded for the fourteenth time to an Old Boy, Jean Durand (2019), a Mathematical Statistics graduate with focal area Data Science, to be specific. Pieter du Toit (1997) came to Stellenbosch to launch his new book, The ANC Billionaires: Big Capital’s Gambit and the Rise of the Few, at the Markötter Sports Stadion, Olla Olivier received the Veritas Society’s Living Legend Award for his contribution to the wine industry, Ryk van Niekerk (1992) excelled in this year’s Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year competition, and Niel Joubert (1999) is now on the book shelves with the long awaited biography Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King.
Soos gewoonlik is daar baie wetenswaardighede, soos Piet Marais (1968) se vertellings oor wyle Christo Volschenck (1970) en ander Paul Roosers se ontsluiting van die internet as belangrike nuusmedium, die lang verbintenis van die familie Krige met die skool en Riël Cillié (1963) se artikel oor die herkoms van mens-, straat- en plekname in PRG se omgewing.
The Rugby Committee’s Golf Day was a great success and the PRG Classic Golf Day’s date early next year has been set. Also have a look at who attended the Senior’s Lunch recently and the Swakopmund Polla. The Last Post was sadly played for a number of our friends.
Die jaar het uitgeloop en vir meeste van ons wag daar ‘n blaaskans. U word ‘n goeie Feestyd toegewens. U terugvoering op hierdie nuusbrief sal soos gewoonlik op prys gestel word.
