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Die klas van 1986 trek saam

Agterste ry: Steven Lurie, Jason Lurie, Derek van Wyk, Johan Giliomee, Paolo Turilli, Jacques Ulrich, Hennie Nel, Arrie Olivier, Rudi Kruger, Flip Coetzee, Danie Cronje, Paul Hayes, Jan Myburgh, Jakkie vd Walt, Pieter-Jan Bestbier, Jaco Durand, Antoni Ribeiro, Jacques de Villiers, Conraad Mostert, Johan Cilliers, George Theart, Andrew Rodgers, Francois de Bruyn, Japie Roux, Antoine Krige, Retief Kotze, Herman Kotze, Ben Prior, Gawie van Heerden, Erhardt Thiel. Gehurk van links: Danie du Toit, Herman van der Merwe, Joshua Wepener, Neel Brits, Andries Bester, Ben Momberg, Fanie Beukes, Dawie van der Vyver, Johannes vd Wetshuizen, Wentzel Barnard, Ryk Rossouw, Martin van Wyk. Sittende : Marius vd Merwe, Roux de Villiers, Andre Pieterse, Andre Migliarina, Hein Swart, Hans Scheffler, Jannie Joubert, Claus Mette, Bert Dessyn. Heel voor: Richard Muller, Gerhard van der Merwe, Ian Cooper, Christiaan Erasmus
Agterste ry: Steven Lurie, Jason Lurie, Derek van Wyk, Johan Giliomee, Paolo Turilli, Jacques Ulrich, Hennie Nel, Arrie Olivier, Rudi Kruger, Flip Coetzee, Danie Cronje, Paul Hayes, Jan Myburgh, Jakkie vd Walt, Pieter-Jan Bestbier, Jaco Durand, Antoni Ribeiro, Jacques de Villiers, Conraad Mostert, Johan Cilliers, George Theart, Andrew Rodgers, Francois de Bruyn, Japie Roux, Antoine Krige, Retief Kotze, Herman Kotze, Ben Prior, Gawie van Heerden, Erhardt Thiel.
Gehurk van links: Danie du Toit, Herman van der Merwe, Joshua Wepener, Neel Brits, Andries Bester, Ben Momberg, Fanie Beukes, Dawie van der Vyver, Johannes vd Wetshuizen, Wentzel Barnard, Ryk Rossouw, Martin van Wyk.
Sittende : Marius vd Merwe, Roux de Villiers, Andre Pieterse, Andre Migliarina, Hein Swart, Hans Scheffler, Jannie Joubert, Claus Mette, Bert Dessyn.
Heel voor: Richard Muller, Gerhard van der Merwe, Ian Cooper, Christiaan Erasmus

On Friday 27 May 2016 we gathered in front of the school all excited to see old friends, some for the first time in 30 years. During a visit to the archive we listened to the rector, Mr Jannie van der Westhuizen, explaining the challenges of education in the 21st century in the South African context.

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Neem ons op vlerke

Die OSU het onlangs die opbrengs van die 150-duifveiling en –wedvlug, waaroor ons in die vorige nuusbrief berig het, aan die 150-Trustfonds geskenk. Dié geleentheid is deur Tokkas van Heerden (1985) en ʼn span medewerkers van Karoo Vleisboere op Victoria-Wes gereël. Daar is nie net heerlik saamgekuier nie, maar die old boys het ook hul beursies oopgemaak om saam ʼn bedrag van nie minder nie as R492 890 aan die Trust te skenk. Dankie vir almal se bydraes. Op die foto staan van links Arend de Waal (150 Trustfonds-trustee ), Tokkas en Gustav Potgieter (voorsitter van die OSU).

Rugbyspan 1880: Ons soek die stories van weleer

Mariena Kotzé of the PRG Archives was so fascinated by the oldest photograph of a Stellenbosch rugby team that she spent some time working through old documents to find out more about the members of this team. In this way she could establish that all of them were either senior students or old boys of the Stellenbosch Gymnasium. At that stage the Arts Department, founded in 1874 and forerunner of the Stellenbosch University, was part of the school. Some of the old boys were busy with their theological training at the Dutch Reformed Church’s Seminary in the town. This information led to the decision to let the first rugby team of Paul Roos Gymnasium play in striped jerseys in home games during the 150 Festival Year. She takes the story further:

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Mind-boggling experience for our Rhodes scholar at Oxford

Heerden Herman (Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch & Exeter 2014)

Distilling a year at Oxford University into a couple of hundred words ranks just below attempting the impossible, but I will nevertheless give it a try. I arrived in the city of dreaming spires on 21 September 2014, very excited about the new path on my life-journey, but at the same time completely unaware of what lay ahead. During the 2014/2015 academic year, I read for an MSc African Studies while being a student at Exeter College.

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