Reunions:
annual and special meetings
The Society currently organises annual reunions, either in London, Sholden near Deal, Folkestone or --- well, we are looking for offers! Special events are occasionally suggested, such as the guided visit to Kew Gardens in March 2003. Locally, Old Girls organise meetings all over the world.
Jennifer Bateman's house in Sholden near Deal.
That's Jennifer in the middle.
"Old Girls they call us; but it is half the charm of St. Margaret's, that, on entering the doors, the intervening years seem to drop away, and one goes rollicking back again to the school girl times." March 1928
"Keep its lamp
forever burning....
SMOGS IN AUSTRALIA
An off-shoot of SMOGS, known as SMOGSOZ is comprised of Old Girls who meet for lunch from time to time: Caroline Hardy, Lynn Perry, Gillian Hindley and Monica Armstrong. Lovely idea. Here are Sonia Hughes, Mahnos Kazemi and Barbara Milton in Perth in the 1990s. See below for SMOGSCAN. How about SMOGSUSA, you American girls?
Celebrating 60 years of friendship
Jennifer Bateman, Sonia Joyce, Wendy Philips and Mary Gooch met for lunch on 28 January 2009 at the Victoria & Albert Museum to mark six decades of friendship. They shared Dormitory 12 in 1949-50.
WATCH REUNIONS ON VIDEO!
Go to Reunions / Previous events for reports and photographs (including an enormous album to browse through!). Look for the navy blue box with gold lettering where you click to view the videos taken by Caroline Thomas and (in 2011) by Vida Farhad. Switch on your loudspeakers, and enlarge the image to fill your screen.
A group of ladies . . . .
A group of ladies who went to the same school met up to celebrate their birthdays. For their 40th they went to the Kalala Grill because the waiters were so handsome and sexy. For their 50th they went to the same place: the view of Bouverie Road West and Castle Hill Avenue was unsurpassed. For their 60th they went to the Kalala grill because the menu had easily chewable dishes. For their 70th they went there because the restaurant had wheelchair access. And for their 80th they went to the Kalala because they'd never been there before.
(Thanks to Colin Drury of Glamorgan for the original, and to our very own Jennifer Bateman for Smogsifying it.)
Welcome to SMOGSCAN. Here are (l-r) Jami Ahmad, Adele Wood and Susan Peck at Jami's home in Toronto.
SMOGSCAN came over for the 2008 reunion.They spent a few days at Averil Champion's farm in Kent, photo on the left: (l-r) Susan Peck, Bridget Radcliffe, Averil Champion, Mary Cope, Sherrian Rewell and Jami Ahmad. Then they went to the the SMOGS reunion in Deal, photo on the right: Averil, Sherrian and Susan, joined by (3rd from left) Julia Parker-Jones from Poole.
Jean Bristow and Julie Westall met up in Canada on 25 Sep 2011 for the first time since 1964. Julie had brought her old school cloak, and here they are sharing it. Jean was delighted when Julie presented it to her as a gift.
