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ass of 1980

Reunited

Celebrating the 30 year reunion of the UWCSEA Class of 1980

in Singapore, August 2010.

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ass of 1980

Memories of school days

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Annecke Brantsaeter Jenssen

Memories of my school days

I had 5 lovely and good fun years at the UWC. Sue Ayres will remember how bad my English was upon my arrival and it took a few months before I was accepted in the gang that grew to be my closest friends. I lost my way at the begin-ning moving from class to class. I found the school enormous and really nice. I have so many great memories of my youth in Singapore and all my friends who made those years so important to me. Playing hockey in the boiling sun down on the fields in P.E., Dr Wong’s mathsclass, Home econom-ics class where Heddy and I were allowed to lick the bowl. Getting friends from all over the world taught me a lot and we had so much fun especially in the school breaks and in our free time. School discos and parties made the weekends good fun and boat trips out to the sand banks. It`s not ap-propriate here to mention the naughty things we were up to, but we had a really good time and school work was not the most important. That`s for sure! The sad part about being in Singapore was that every year you lost some good friends. Most people didn`t stay for too long and went back to their home countries. But of course I made new friends a long the way. In 1978 it was my turn to leave after having finish

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Time at UWCSEA - 1973 -1978Nickname while at UWC - WobblesCurrent Location - Hosle, NorwayContact email [email protected]

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I look so much forward to seeing hopefully

most of you again in Singapore in August.

It will be so great to be with you again and to quiver about our best

years together!

My Current Status

I went back to Norway in 1978 and studied law and completed my law degree in 1987. I got married to Erik Jenssen in 1985 and we have three “children”; Caroline 21, Charlotte 19 and Johan Christian 15. My 4th child is a lovely Irish soft-coated Wheaten Terrier Bonzo. He is 6 years old and likes to take his mum for walkies all the time. We live in Baerum just outside Oslo near the forest. I work as a lawyer in Oslo in a big Employers organization trying to please our 14 000 company members. I work with the Environ-mental act mainly helping solve personel conflicts.

4th year. I was terribly sad to say-ing goodbye to my good friends and it was extremely hard for me. For-tunately I have kept in touch with many of my old friends. The world we now are living in with e-mails and Facebook makes it a lot easier to keep in contact than the extreme-ly expensive telephone calls we used to have. The past months my e-mail box has exploded with e-mails from so many eager old Singapore friends.


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Bronwyn Laney


Mist being blown off the fountain, toking ly det ,15c pineap-ple, Mr Ho’s curry puffs,polo mints, writing notes to each other about vital nothings and folding them up into trian-gles, deodorant fights in PE change room, high drama at the lockers, LSD discos, high pants, thin belts,- Rod Stewart’s Sailing still gives me a nervous tick-grass stains, Mr Archiba-ld Barlas and his.. tropical condition, Miss Bourne and her 5 inch cork heels, Mr Breeze’s resonant ‘s’, the lipstick on Mrs Moodie’s front teeth, the way Mr Scarrrlett would roll his ‘r’s, Mr Lee ( Maths ) “telling me that I indulge in use-less idle chatter” -still do of course. Sproga shorts ,Holland Pillage pive Pifty!Ian Graham...mmmm ...Ian Graham. Chucking a tomato peel on an examiner’s shoe in Home ec., someone leaving the gas on Miss Bourne lighting the oven, the two streaks of Savlon where Miss Bourne’s eyebrows used to be, hell bus rides with the Singhs ,worse ones on SBS buses, speaking in upa bubba language, the Dutch kids and their salty liquorice, Suzi Chambers having her own bubblegum machine. That Pulau Ubin trip how did we swing it? Doing a house of horrors on fair day in the drama room but really just chucking spaghetti on little kids. The American School cheerleaders and then our very own Wildcats at basket ball games! “dribble it pass it put it in the basket””Thunder thun-deration we’re the WILDCAT delegation”. All the airport departure scenes and friends leaving that you thought you’d never see again.

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Time at UWCSEA - 1975 -1980

Contact email [email protected]

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It seems there is a gap in my life because those special high school rela-tionships just vapour-

ised upon leaving UWC. It makes reconnecting

so special. Sharing a fa-miliar and unusual past as we have makes our

bonds unique. I look for-ward to hearing about your lives and adven-

tures when we see each other in August. God

speed lah!

My Current Status

Left UWC and went to Uni in Sydney. I have had an extraordinarily normal and happy life to date. Have been working and studying in Education for the last 25 years. I love the lifestyle that it brings and enjoy the honesty of young children as brutal as it is. We have a 6 year old daughter who is presently doing Kung Fu impressions in the bath. Family and work keep me busy . Girlfriends keep me sane. Husband is fabulous and he can tell you all about that when you meet him. I am involved in my local church community where we are performing a play RENOVATIONS to raise money for a village classroom in Ugan-da which we sponsor. Partial nude scenes not so pretty but for a good cause. Please let me know if you are coming down my way I love to see old UWC ‘prens’lah. We can go ada makan minum lah!!

Amar SJB Rana

If you happen to hum Cat Steven’s “Kathmandu” remember Sangeeta and me. Should any of you make your way here, we’ll gladly take you around.


Too many, from life revolving around the bell to can-teen, freinds, afternoon soccer with characters like the Marc and Bruno twins, study period to journeys to Be-luntu - not to mention the HDB flats for off campus eating and cheering

My Current Status

I am involved with family investment company with major focus in Banking. I basically stay fit playing Golf and Squash.

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1976 -1980Nickname while at UWC - Amaah Current Location - Kathmandu, NepalContact email [email protected]


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A nurat K ongtoraninMissing those old days and looking for-

ward to see you all in Aug’ 2010

My life after UWCSEA

Running the family Business of producing fasteners, nails, cold drawn wire.Married with a son (4 yrs)

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1975 -1979Nickname while at UWC - LuckCurrent Location - Bangkok, ThailandContact email [email protected]


P.E. class, Afternoon Soccer with Boarders, Memory lane from middle school boy house to Maley house, HDB’s food, Copper Catle at Lido, UWC’S Disco nights.


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Chooi Siew Thim

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

One year at UWCSEA and the memories are

still fresh.


Happily married for 16 years. Been working as a stock-broker for my whole career life, the last 9 years with DBS Vickers Securities in Singapore.

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1976 -1977Nickname while at UWC - ChooiCurrent Location - SingaporeContact email [email protected]


Jumping into the Big Drain for the ride of my life on rainy days Koek Rd wanton noodles, Copper Kettle & Magnolia Milk Bar Man Utd losing the 1976 FA Cup Final

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Charlie Brennan

Hi all, looking for-ward to catching up with my old friends !!


Am a bit older now. I am married and have two sons 21 & 18. I work at a local University and am writing a PhD. I am into keeping fit, gardening etc and watching Football

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1975 -1979Nickname while at UWC - CharlieCurrent Location - Bellingen, NSW, Aus-traliaContact email [email protected]


Football, Friends, sqaush, parties, Football, the mob at the tables, school discos, Beluntu, squash, Football, HDB rotis


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Despite the short time I was there I made a few close friends who have kept in touch (Mee Ling, Tinnee, Fong Lan, Sherilynn/Salmah). They were formative years. I liked the incredibly international feel of the school. I liked the strong art school. In retrospect, I wish I had taken advantage of the experience of being there much more. Should have studied harder instead of smoking keretek behind the TD room after prep. (I gave up smoking 4 years ago when my son threatened to start if I didn’t stop!) Should have done sport. The opportunities were there to be grasped.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1977 -1979Current Location - Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaContact email [email protected]

Photo taken in Singapore in May 2010 of my husband Charles and I.

F aridah Stephens

It would be nice just to know what has happened to eve-ryone in the past 30 years. Some names stand out but I have forgotten many. Their faces are still imprinted in

my mind...

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My Current Status

I have been married for nearly 20 years to a fellow Sabahan. We have three kids – two boys and a girl. The eldest started university this year, the youngest is in kindergarten. I have been in publishing for over 20 years. We produce magazines (notably one entitled Cosmetic Surgery & Beauty – a topic that has been growing in interest the world over in the past decade) and books for clients. I put the lessons I learnt in Mr. Breeze’s (a man I admired for his meticulous attention to detail) class to good use all the time.

...Let’s see if these are right... Fung Jin, Lian Pik, Swee Lian, Cindy Russell, Fred Moreau, Isabelle Desenne, Carmela. Fred and I wrote a song which she sang to my bad guitar play-

ing at a school concert once.


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A nna-K arin L andgren

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1977 -1980Nickname while at UWC - none that was aware of!Current Location - Sydney, AustraliaContact email [email protected]


Ok, so Mr Ho certainly made a lasting impression on me with the shortbread he used to make because I still love shortbread 30 years on! I remember feeling “cold” on some rainy days and actually wearing the school jumper. The trip (by train in “Kelas Tiga”) to Pulau Pangkor was a highlight. Just don’t ask me what the purpose of the project was, or what it was even about. All I remem-ber was having lots of fun with the girls! I loved the visits we used to make to the orphanage. The visit to UWC by Prince Charles stands out and I feel very privileged to have met him. Finally, a special mention must go to the Hainanese Chicken and Rice we used to eat at the HDB flats across the road. In fact, the thing I miss most about Singapore is the “makan”!

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I am so excited about catch-ing up with everyone in

August! It will be great to see some “old” and familiar

faces as well as probably get-ting to know a few people I

did not know so well back at school. And, yes, I can still fit into my turquoise school dress. I must dig it out and

bring it along, and hopefully have the courage to wear it to the barbecue at UWC on

the Sunday!


Living in Sydney, Australia with my two children Felix (4) and Stina (11). I work at HSBC Bank as Team Leader in the Cus-tomer Service Call Centre. Life with two young kids follows a fairly strict routine but when I get the chance I love going out for dinner or to the movies.


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Michael TaylorEnjoy the reunion - I do not expect to be there which will be my loss.


I went to university in England in 1980 but didn’t finish a Mechanical Engineering degree and in 1983 I did a Computer Science degree at the University of Can-berra which I completed in 1985.

I have been adding some memories on my blog.http://uwcsea.site-ym.com/members/blog_view.asp?id=228573 My Current Status

Currently working as a software Developer (fancy title is “Development Architect”) for a company called In-fomatica. I am married (20th Anniversary in 2008) with three children aged 21, 19 and 16 (by the time of the reunion anyway).

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1975 -1980Nickname while at UWC - Tails Current Location - Canberra, AustraliaContact email [email protected]

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Memories of my school daysA meeting of the united nations and more – I remember mixing with all the different nationalities and how unusual it was that all nationalities did not stick together but mixed so well, I had Japanese, Thai, Scottish, Australian, Singapo-rian, Indian, English, these were just a few of the nationali-ties were some of the people I remember spending time with. I loved lunchtimes round the fountain canteen, I loved doing different things like teaching deaf children how to swim, I loved the heat (yes I did- now I hate it), I loved the restau-rants across the road at the HDB where we used to sneak off for lunch, I guess I just loved it all.

My Current Status I live in a Southern Suburb of Brisbane just 40 minutes north of the much famous Gold Coast and about 1.25 hours from the Sunshine Coast. I have a beautiful home with the most wonderful man, Peter. I have never married and don’t have any children but thankfully Peter has 4, one of which I am off to Los Angeles with Peter to meet in October 2010. I work (as little as possible ha! Ha!) as an Administration Manager for a Ray White Real Estate Office and have been there for 4.5 years. I am heavily involved with our Corporate Office in the use of a specialised database developed in Perth especially for real estate. Having just lost both my mother and mother-in-law this year Peter and I are going to travel a lot more.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1979 -1980Nickname while at UWCThankfully I wasn’t popular enough to have one Ha! Ha!Current Location - Brisbane AustraliaContact email [email protected]

Gaylene M onk

I just love the fact that we are all still in con-tact and I look forward to catching up with anyone if I travel to where you live. If any-one comes to Brisbane and doesn’t contact me I will be disappointed as I would love to catch up and there is always a bed or two if you need it. Thank you for being part of that great experience. I hope that your reunion

for those able to make it, will be a great night and I look forward to hearing all about it

after the event. Sorry I can’t make it – will be thinking of you all.

Michael Taylor


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H arry Baenninger


Look a little more mature but certainly don’t feel that way (unfortunately? - definitely not!)!

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1975 -1980Nickname while at UWC - Hazz, Harold Current Location - Zurich, SwitzerlandContact email [email protected]


Socialising around the fountain, killerball during lunch-breaks, poolparties on the weekends, (looking from the outside in on) Math lessons with Dr. Wong!, swimming races against Dirk, rowing with Karen, Dirk and Sau-sage, DJ-ing with Michele and Paolo, the lovely length of girls schooldresses, coming late to classes, lovely friends at school, Stevie Congdon stealing my car to buy beer...

Really looking forward to seeing how

you’ve hopefully all grown older

gracefully!

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The fountain, scary mr skillbeck, school camp to malaysia and hearing wildlife in the jungle at night, hanging out with chris akkerman, walking up the long driveway to school, tur-quoise short dresses, buying watermelon from the canteen in big wedges, kicker tan lace up shoes, peace signs, yellow smiley face badges, hanging out with so many people from so many differ-ent countires and cultures.

My Current Status

I moved back to england 1976 then emigrated to mt gambier south australia in 1977 aged 15, completed school in 1978 aged 16, had a fast track secondary education in 3 different coun-tries, interesting but confusing at time!! Trained as a registered nurse 1979 to 1982 at mt gam-bier hospital then went on to study midwifery in 1984. Married my husband dale in 1983 and went on to have 4 children claire [25] sa-mantha [23] andrew [20] and tim [17]. Cur-rently working as a midwife at a busy adelaide hospital in the birthing suite and living in the adelaide hills with dale, andrew and tim, claire and samantha having flown the nest.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1976 -1978Current Location - Nairne, Adelaide hills, South AustraliaContact email [email protected]

H eather K enny

I thought my Singapore school days were a closed book and am thrilled to be back in touch with

friends from the past and to share such good memories and

happy times


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H eddy M otz feldt


Living in Stockholm, two gor-geous daughters aged 14 and 12, and a fat ginger tom called Leo. Happily divorced. Work-ing at the Norwegian Embassy. Older, not much wiser, and en-joying life to the full.

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1974 -1980Nickname while at UWC - Headless, MushroomCurrent Location - Stockholm, SwedenContact email [email protected]


The tables and the fountain, school discos, kickapoo-joyjuice, sharing mars bars with Annecke, smoking in the girls’ loo, the infamous parties as Sue’s house, many many teachers - Mr Breeze, Mr Engman, Dr Wong, Mr Sherwin, Mr Edwards - rotis across the road, Rawa with Joe, Holland Village with Ramesh and Simone, Dutch Club with Sarah, Petes place, Tanglin Club, Yoga with the girls followed by lunch at the Copper Kettle, paint-ing the boarding house walls in silent protest, - the list is endless........

There’s always a spare bed for any-one coming to Stockholm, the girls

and I love having people come visit.

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Headful of hair, Beluntu, Ban Chuan, girls’ outrageously short school uniforms, Mr Wilkinson, Holland Village, school curry puffs, smoochie dancing at school discos, panicking about having to do butterfly stroke at swimming gala even though I had never done it before.

My Current Status

Half-headful of hair now but would like to think that is the only change *cough?* Don’t say any-thing, Hari! Life as a dad and husband and managing our own practice is full octane but great fun and I have been very lucky. Sorry I can’t be there for the reunion as I will be missing it by a couple of weeks having been in Singapore earlier in the month to see parents who are still there. I do try to make it to the Far East at least a couple of times a year, so hopefully will be able to catch up with some of you from time to time there.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1980Current Location - Newcastle upon Tyne, EnglandContact email [email protected]

John Simpson

Hope everyone has a great time and it will be good to see the pho-

tos. If anyone is coming through this way, please look me up, there is al-

ways room!


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K aren F oxwell


After 3 attempts at Maths O’level (poor Dr Wong), I some-how ended up in accountancy, although currently manag-ing the Accommodation Department for a University. 3 nearly grown-up kids, unfortunately lost my husband in Dec 2008, but now looking forward to starting a whole new chapter in life!

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1972 -1980Nickname while at UWC - Hazz, Harold Current Location - London, UK


Tutor-group mornings with Harry & Eric, rowing with them, Dirk, Alison & sea-snakes, Home Ec with Yianoula & Bron and many hours in choir practise

‘Nobody has reached any-where!’

- Dr Vijai Shankar

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Yuan Buo M eng


Married to a poet, Angela, and we both share our love of creativity. I have become really active participant in many circumstances, especially now, dealing with issues mental disability and health.


Football behind the small hall every lunch time, where the tackles -the only thing I was good in- left me with hole-y trousers! In my IB years, took an interest in our dutch-ie band, where I played single note on a (terri-ble!!) old bass guitar ..., remember Dirk? -I have now left that modern music scene, and now love classical music, and love singing -incuding opera!! Still have contact with Nick Lee -our chemistry teacher- who love of teaching chemistry, saw my involvement in Biochem-istry. This led to molecular developmental biology, .... but now I am heading along paths set by Miss Kirwan and Mr Teo’s love in Art!

Hey guys, good to see so many famil-iar names! Look forward to see you all when we break away frae the other reunion folk, and return to the ‘class o’ ‘80!’

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Current Location - Edinburgh, Scotland.


I have had an interesting jour-ney since leaving the UWC, I

became very involved in many groups, even led some. Involve-ment changed, and because of thaI learned a lot. I found my-self reflecting back on my past

days at the UWC!


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Pillow fight with girls in Mary House,fan of andy gibb,represent UWC basketball teams against the Sin-gapore American School-SAS,wing runner for the rugby teams,runner up in the Table Tennis competition in Smith House. I hate drama class and avoid it by going to the Library to hide.

My Current Status

I am happily married with one son-22 years old,and one daughter-18 years old,for the past 25 years.I have fulfilled my dream as the rich businessman and can travel round the world-(my one year sixth-Interschol 1979)-i wrote this exact line more than 31 years ago to UWC friends.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1975-1979Nickname (while at UWCSEA) Bruce LeeCurrent Location - TB 1444,Mile 2 1/2,Apas Road,P.O.Box 130,Tawau,91007, Sabah,MalaysiaContact email [email protected]

I had a wonderful 4 years at UW-CSEA with all the friends from

1975-1979. my gang now is Loy Teik Ngan,Anurat,Erich,Junji,see wee ming ,Sujono and Man cheung. we had our recent reunion in Chiang Mai in 2005, and Phuket in 2007, and Ho Chi Ming City in 2009.

L ee Cheu Seng

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Photos Top Left: Sep 1975, It was taken in the Haw Par Park,and i just joined UWC-SEA; 1976, It was taken in the school com-pound with the uniform; 2010, A business and family man at 50 yrs old.

Profile Picture: 1980, It was taken in Phildelphia,USA,when i was the Temple University ‘s 2nd year Student


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Starting boarding at age 11 in 1973 and spending 7 years in a unique environment with many unique people. Glad to have been a part of early UWC, and there when UWCSEA actually began.

My Current Status

Living on the beautiful Island of Martha’s Vineyard dividing my time between publishing and real estate development.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1973 -1980Nickname while at UWCJenksCurrent Location - Island Of Martha’s Vineyard, USAContact email [email protected]

M ark Jenkins

I was always bad at maths but I still can’t believe it’s

been 30 years!

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K ris N . Gourlay


CEO/Owner of The K-N-G Group and Hawaii Pacific Hydraulics, Waste Management companies serving all the Hawaiian Islands. Married to UWC Alumni Sue Ayres. One daughter 16 and one step son 26. Live on Oahu, Hawaii


Gatherings around the fountain, Rotis at the HDB flats, tennis with the Sullys. Arriving to school on my motorbike and doing a wheelie through the teachers parking lot!

Get your tennis racquets ready!

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1973 -1980Nickname while at UWC - Kampong BoyCurrent Location - Kaneohe, Hawaii Contact email [email protected]@gmail.com

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How can it be our 30 year reunion?!! I still feel like the

young girl who caught the #56 bus on Bukit Timah Road way

back when! Thank you all so much for

coming to the Reunion 2010 in Singapore, it has been such fun helping get it all together.

Aloha and Mahalo, Kris and Sue

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Sue C . Gourlay

My life after UWCSEAAfter Singapore I went to the Uk and got my Cordon Bleu which then took me to live all over the world, cooking on boats, in ski lodges, summer houses, fancy restaurants and barefoot bars, it was a wonderful adventure which ended when I went back to the UK to put my son Toby into school. The adven-ture has never really stopped as I married fellow UWC class-mate, Kristian Gourlay in 2003 and the two of us have built up a successful Waste Management company on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

My son Toby is 25 and a Zoologist in the UK and Kris’ daugh-ter Natasha is 16 and still at school in Hawaii. We live on stunning Kaneohe Bay, have two dogs, Roti and Splitz and love having independent visitors come and stay!


Happy. Annecke, Mrs.Greenwood and swimming, Small Hall and Figaro, Dr.Wong……seperate separate….never understanding logarithms, first time in the Stadium for sports day, first time thrown into the fountain and spend-ing the rest of lunch hoping it would happen again! Want-ing to be grown up in 1st year and feeling you’d made it in 6th! Friends…… yes, very happy school days.

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1973 -1979Former name: AyresNickname while at UWCSusu Manis or Susu BasiCurrent Location - Hawaii, USAContact email [email protected]@gmail.com


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Yvonne Ruth L omasney

Memories of my school daysMy best memories of my days spent at UWCSEA was hearing all the different accents at lunch time in the canteen. Even all these year later I have man-aged to retain a tuned ear and have no problems lis-tening to even the thickest accent. However, I think how well we all got on regardless of our skin colour or the origin of the country that we were from. I sup-pose in hindsight we we just a bunch of kids drawn together from all four corners of the world and we had to make the best of it. Even though we were far from home and familiar things at the end of the day we were teenagers and I know I relished in the fact the this was a great opportunity to experience a dif-ferent life even if it was only for 18 months. It really made me who I am today.

About me


Current Location - Brisbane, Australia


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My life after UWCSEAI moved back to Canberra, Australia in Apr 1978 and finished my education in Dec 1979. I really had no idea what I wanted to do after school so was unemployed for about 8 months. In Oct 1980 I commenced work in the Department of Defence (as a civilian) and 30 years later I am still there. I really enjoy the work I do there. I have been very fortunate to had had some great experiences with the Department such as crawling over naval ships, helicopters and the like.

I would like the opportunity to wish you all the very best and thanks for being part of my life all

those years ago.


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Erich Vosshage

We need to keep asking ourselves, what positive

impact have we made to society, to nature or anywhere else since

leaving UWC?

My Current Status

I am glad to have come full circle and being able to provide my daughter with an education at a school like UWCSEA is my little investment into the future.

About me


Current Location - Singapore



Mostly good.

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Kay Brockmüller


I have lots of very good memories about my UWC time. Nice classmates, interested, friendly and helpful teachers. Very much better than it had been in GermanyThe social programs certainly left a positive attitude towards helping others behind.

My Current Status

After leaving UWC in 1980, I studied physics at the univesities of Hannover and later Hamburg. I then wrote a PhD thesis on a highly irrelevant topic in a mechanical engineering depart-ment.

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1976 -1980Current Location - von-Geissel-Strasse 15 Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 67435 GermanyContact email [email protected]

I worked at a research institute (2 years) and for an American Software company (Finite Elements, an-other 2 years). Since 1996 I am working in the European technical plastics devision at BASF.

I am married to Beate since 1988 and we have two children: Christine (1998) and Daniel (2001). We live in a house in a beautiful wine-area in Germany.My hobbies are children, meeting friends, skiing, sailing (seldom) and music.


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Stevie Congdon

Drop by for dinner or lunch any time!

My Current Status

I weigh a ton and look great on it

About me


Current Location - Singapore



Anchor beer, HDB, roti, chicken rice, rugby, bucks, more beer, expulsion, car crashes, pranks, the most excellent canteen ever, Mrs Tan, smoking in house, smoking, smuggling, kampongs, fishing, regatta, raf-fles and tanglin club, racing, pulu babi pusar (I think that’s how you spell it)

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Michele P.Crismann

Life after UWCSEAI was educated all over the world in International Schools however I have the most wonderful fond memo-ries of my time at UWCSEA. It was a huge privilege to be to be a student (and a boarder) there. I wish that more people could be so positively influenced by the UWC movement as many ex-students become International citizens and are able to give so much back to our communities after being molded into better people!

My Current Status

I have earlier this month made a very exciting move and am now a Property Consultant with Rawson Properties Blaauw-berg in Cape Town, South Africa.

I am very passionate about my line of work and deal predomi-nantly with the Top End of the market and my clients are International.

As you all must know, South Africa is hosting the Fifa World Cup and so we are basking in all the attention we are receiv-ing right now!

I am really sad about not being able to be part of the Reunion but now every-

one who knew me knows where to

reach me so I will wait to hear from

you!

You are all most welcome to contact me to catch up or perhaps you are cu-

rious about Cape Town


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Memories of my School Days

Enduring, remains an influence

My Current Status

I am married with 2 young children 4 and 2. Work in community mental health social work in Central London.

About me Time at UWCSEA - 1973 -1976

Current Location - London, United King-dom


StevenD uncan Burnett

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The incongruency of kids wearing sweaters in the hot and humid tropics. Of course this was necessary to deal with the ice-box class rooms. My boarding years (only year 1 and 2) were fun, scary and strange, all at the same time. In hind-sight I wish I’d stayed a boarder for the entire time - It would have allowed me to grow up with my peers.

My Current Status

I’m currently training horses and teaching riding at Cardi-nal Points Farm, in Texas. Please visit my website (www.cardinalpointsfarm.com), or stop by if you’re in the Houston area in Texas.


Current Location - Texas, United States

Sian M in The

While I cannot attend the actual celebrations, I’m so grateful that

through this reunion effort I have found and re-established contact

with some of you. I hope to link up to more in time to come. Have a

blast, all !


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P aul H armer

About me


Current Location - Worthing, UK


Memories of my school daysboth personal and school, hence photos, wearing shorts in my first year at uwc, playing football by the small hall with Michiel Lap and other Dutch students, the lovely fountain, nice and not so nice teachers, enjoying 6th year community work at RSPCA , being only one of two left in the mini-bus when we got there with others having jumped out at various traffic lights, teachers being deported by the govern-ment, meeting Prince Charles and asking a silly question, meals at the kingsford restaurant, trip to Beluntu with the wilderness and huge trees but greedy students eating most of the food, getting regularly graded ‘ f ‘ with remark ‘ go back to 2nd year maths’ in weekly maths tests, family holidays in peninsular malaysia, seeing vast deforestation there, mu-sical memories include Elton John’s Goodbye yellow brick road album, classical chinese instrumental, Carpenters, In-dian popular music, Blondie, Andy Gibb’s Shadow Danc-ing, Wishbone Ash, Led Zeppelin.

The photos attached of school memores are early tutor group, trip to beluntu Daniel Jeyatheva in longs, my 1980 inter-scol photo, Kingsford Restaurant coaster, personal photo memories are included because this has sent me down mem-ory lane, are me and my two sisters plus my dad during first year in Singapore 1971-72, mobile household goods shop, me and my rescued stray dog, me my dad Ben a teacher at uwc plus my mum Wendy a boarding house EDA as ambas-sadors for UWC after many years exposure...

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Yianoulla Shaw

About me

Time at UWCSEA - 1973 -1980Former name: TurvilleNickname while at UWCNot to be reminded...Current Location - Sydney, Australia


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My memories are mostly good. I started off overwieght and on the outside but soon made good friends that I am still in touch with today. I remember Dr Wong’s maths class - I was at the back -often being yelled at! Mr Breeze, or Breezy Baby as we liked to call him! As long as my excuses were eleborate enough I could get away with handing in an essay late....pa-ties with Sue Ayes, late nights with Nadene Allen and long debates with Anne-Marie Goetz. Disco’s at the American Club and the Dutch club with school mates and being ‘in love’. Firtling with and teasing Mr Ian Graham......all good stuff!

My Current Status

I stayed in S’pore and worked for the 2 years before finally having to leave...I travelled and worked in Hong Kong and Australia and the ended up in London. I started as a travel agent, then went into recruitment and ended up doing Per-sonnel for a Lloyd’s Insurance Broker. I stayed in the Uk for 20 years where I married and had two sons, now 17 and 15. Then I moved to Sydney in 2003 where I divorced and am now remarried to the most wonderful man.

Can’t wait to see everyone - be

reminded of things I have forgotten and

make new memories.


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Playing with the band in the drama room during lunchbreaks and after school hours, parties on the weekends and DJing with Michele and Harry, driving around Singapore with my red Mini Minor with Erich and a bunch of other guys. Water-skiing in Pongoll!!

My Life After UWCSEA

After UWC, studied in Norway a couple of years then went to Oakland (CA) – USA and got my commercial pilot licence. Went to live in Italy and joined the Carabinieri (Police), where I work up to this day as a Chief Inspector. Travelled a lot working for the U.N. and the E.U. in war ridden coun-tries, mainly in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.


Current Location - Robbio, Italy

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P aolo Stroem

Looking for-ward to see as many of you as pos-sible after such a long

time!!

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Although initially being home sick and not appreciat-ing the golden opportunity that had been presented to me, within 6 months of joining UWC I was starting to see the light. The excellent facilities and quality of the majority of the teaching staff soon had me achieving much more than I ever would have had I remained at my comprehensive school in deepest darkest Somerset in the UK. Canoeing in the fountain when we couldn’t get down to Pasir Panjang, sailing the GP14’s and when you were lucky the 420 down at the Republic of Singapore Yacht Club and experiencing the 1st set of wind surfers to be brought into Singapore out on one of the islands, where all wonderful experiences that re-ally made me appreciate just how lucky I really was. I joined Tim Agerbaks tutor group 4TKA in January 1977 and although moving half way around the world was a shock to the system, it soon became evident that I was not the only one. Tim Agerbak was a calm and stabilising influence and by the time I had been intro-duced to the likes of Alan Barns, John Burgees, Paul O’Shea, Geoff Potts and Mr Allen I really understood that my parents had done the right thing in moving me to Singapore.

About me


Current Location - Paris, France


My Life after UWCSince leaving the UWC I have lived and worked in many countries around the world primarily in the shipbuilding and design, plus the offshore oil industry (bah humbug, I know. No hate mail please). I did spend several years as a fast jet pilot in the British Royal Navy, getting to fly the Sea Harrier, but left at the end of 1990 after losing a couple of friends, as I was sure that I was also going to end up in a smoking hole. I obtained my commercial pilots licence on leaving but just couldn’t get excited about flying in the commercial world and re-joined the oil industry, as they at least would pay me enough to enable me to fly what I wanted to fly and how I wanted to fly. I now have a share in a Russian aerobatic aeroplane called a YAK52 which has been the closest in terms of fun that I could find to the time I had with fast jet military flying.


I have so many fond memories it is hard to put them into a concise note but I will always remember things such as:Running around the campus supposedly dressed as a Mummy for the haunted house at the fete, but looking back at photographs appearing like a bad extra from a cheap hospital soap;Flying around in boats of all descriptions at every opportunity, especially a great project week;After school squash down at Fort Canning and also at the Tanglin Club with Jos Ellis;Sweet and Sour Pork or Fried Rice at lunch-time in the canteen (remembering to get your lunch ticket at morning break);Roti and curry over at the HDB Flats opposite the campus and who could ever forget the con-tinuous great weather.

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Although I have been back to Singapore on many occasions since leaving UWC and have

subsequently met various people around the world, I am really

looking forward to catching up with everyone at the reunion in

August 2010.

My Life after UWC

Work still takes me all around the world and in fact I am typing this update while I am in Angola for a week, hav-ing only got back from Houston, Texas last week where I had been for two weeks. Visiting foreign parts, meeting different people and experiencing their cultures still excites me, but there is just not enough time to visit all of the places that I would like to visit. We don’t have any chil-dren which helps in being able to move around the world easily, although too many boys toys (spending on myself rather than children) mean that when I am away I don’t get to indulge as much as I like with my cars, aeroplane etc. I still enjoy sailing, although I have become soft, now preferring cruising around in big yachts in warm climates rather than racing dinghies and racing keel boats and I still try and get out on my mountain bike as often as I can.

Although inside I still don’t feel any older and my magic mirror in the bathroom lets me think that I don’t

look any older, it is going to be

interesting to get a reality check and see how many people I recognise

and how many recognise me after 30 years!!

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Pre-Party!By Class of 1980

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Reunion 2010By Class of 1980 * View More Photos

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Saturday Games

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Saturday @ SCCBy Class of 1980

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BBQ Luncheon @ UWCSEABy Class of 1980

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