Looking for Class Mates from Brackenfell High 1979

Biddy Webber (Fourie) send me a spreadsheet with names of all our old classmates from Brackenfell High School - 1979.

Although there are quite a few names on the list, there are a whole bunch missing. It is so difficult to find these missing people. My assumption is that it could be possible that one day, these people might just put their own name into a search engine and then find this blog entry.

If this is you, your children or family that has now found this blog entry, please get in touch by looking for the Facebook group or searching for my name (Sheyne Bauermeister) on the internet. My "footprint" is quite big so I am sure you will be able to find a current email address online somewhere.

So here are the names (for you and the searchengines to find)

Danie Scholtz
Elfreda Smith
Danita Theron (in Windhoek?)
Angelina Novak (brothers name was Robert Novak)
Mitzi Visser
Ronel Ebersohn
Sharon Fowler (sister's name is Debbie - I think she lives in Blomtuin)
Peter Bassett (Bassett family owned Basset Burglar Alarms but sold it - surely we should be able to find them)
Clementine Bassett
Theo Champion
Colin Coreejes
Ian Coetzee (nickname = Sarge)
Sheila Bossenger
Ellen Webb
Christine Brits
Deon Ensink (In Brackenfell - Bottelary Road?)
Ronnie Capes (I think he moved to Namibia)
Francios Beugger (Nickname = Bekkies)

Well that's the list for now. If you come across this page please get in touch.

Other Keywords: Brackenfell High School, Brackenfell, Class of 1979

Found since this was originally posted (today is 10 July 08):
Lynette Sevenoaks
Leon Theunissen
Andrew Stock
Estelle Otto (Havenga)
Melanie Heyns

Bill Gate's 11 Rules Of Life

Don’t you just love this!

Gates' Rules

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.