Next reunion - 27 April 2003 |
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| We had the photo, above, in our last edition, and it wasn’t until after the newsletter had gone out that we realised who was in the photo. Pictured above is Kev Foster, Margaret Mayhew and Geoff Chapman, and as we now know, Geoff was killed in that terrible Aero Commander prang up near Cairns a few days after last year’s reunion. Geoff Mayhew sent us the photo and thinks it is probably the last one ever taken of Geoff. If so, it’s a great way to remember him, a gentle big happy bloke with a bloody great smile. |
First up though we must apologize for the standard of printing in our last issue as it was not as good as it could have been. As you know, we don’t have access to the digital printer that used to churn out our previous editions, we were definitely spoilt back then, all you had to do was select double side print, send the file to print, and come back in an hour or so and it was all done. But we’ve found an ex-Radschool bloke who now lives in Brisbane and whose firm has all the necessary equipment to do the job, it’s just that last edition we weren’t too clued up on how to drive it.
In our last edition we had to first print the magazine on a laser printer, then run it through a photo copier to get the pages lined up, then copy it again. It was just one too many copies, and as a result in most cases the photos were just black blobs-sorry. But we’ve sorted that out, and this edition is, as you can see, heaps better.
We had a bunch of photos left over from the reunion, (which was a ripper-don’t miss the next one) and we’ve included some in this edition, trouble was, in the move and the hurley burley last year, we lost the list of names that identifies each photo, so in a lot of cases we’re relying on memory and/or guessing, so you’ll have to forgive us if we get it wrong, and give you the wrong name………..
But onto 2003. As mentioned, we’ve planned to hold it over the 3 days, 25, 26 and 27 April, 2003-that’s only 12 months away. Last edition we said 4 days, but that was wrong and we find now that we can’t even count. The 25th April is of course Anzac day, and in 2003, Anzac day is a Friday and being a holiday, for those unlucky enough to live somewhere else, it’s a good excuse to make it a long week-end in Brisbane.
Brisbane has the Anzac Day march through the streets for returned blokes and blokettes, same as everywhere else, and we plan to kick off our weekend by having all the ex-Radschool heroes join the march. The RAAF is always represented by 2Sqn, 9Sqn and 35Sqn from the modern era, as well as other squadrons that were active in conflicts earlier than Vietnam.
We’ve spoken with John McDougall, ex Caribou loady who is the president of the RTFV/35Sqn Assoc, the mob that organises the 35Sqn do on Anzac day, and who are led down the street by Rocky McGregor, one time RAAF aeroplane driver, and John has invited all Ex-Radschool heroes to march with 35Sqn if they can’t find another home. Usually the march finishes around midday, and then it’s off to City Rowers, a night club/bar on the Brisbane River which is booked for the day and where everyone meets for a cuppla and to tell each other a bunch of lies
You pay a few dollars entry at the door and this includes "walk-around" nibblies for a few hours, you buy your own drinks and it’s is a great opportunity to meet with a bunch of boring old sumpies and framies-and pilots. And anyway, a mob of tired old ex-Radtechs will lift the tone of the place.I’m sure the sumpies and framies are really looking forward to mixing with a bunch of ex queer trade blokes for the day.
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