Germiston High School
1974: Arnold Paikin
ArnoldP@global.co.za
Germiston, South Africa
1974: Beverly Ebertson (now Conradie)
Alberton, South Africa
Beverly married Peter Conradie, and now works at Dinwiddie primary school
1974: Gavin Fuller
gavinfuller@africaonline.com.na
Windhoek, Namibia
Has lived in Windhoek for the past ten years.
Financial director for a company in the construction industry.
1974: Ian Marshall
smsmarshall@sprint.ca
Vancouver, Canada
Ian and his family are now Canadian citizens, and he lectures at a business school.
1974: Ian Ross-Marsh
ian.ross-marsh@fresenius-kabi.com
Roodepoort, South Africa
Export Director for the pharmaceutical company Fresenius Kabi.
Married to Wendy and has two children.
AndreRaath@hotmail.com or Andre.Raath@kone.com
Cape Town, South Africa
1975: Andy Hamilton
ahamilton@vaindserv.co.za
Meyerton, South Africa
Managing Director, Siemens VAI Metals Services (Pty) Ltd
Phone: 016-362-0300 or 082-806-6879
bonnyman@mweb.co.za
Cape Town, South Africa
DarioC@netlab.co.za
Roodepoort, South Africa
1975: David Kimber
Cape Town, South Africa
David lives with his wife, Nichola, and children in Cape Town where he works
for an IT Services company.
1975: Gary Herselman
kite@magicmail.co.za
1975: Kevin Cox
Kevin.Cox@henkel.com
Boksburg, South Africa
IS Manager, Henkel
Phone: 011-617-2470 or 082-458-3329
mshawtay@bigpond.net.au
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1975: Stephen Palmer
steve@reallyneatideas.com
London, UK
IT Consultant, Project Manager
Phone: +44 (0) 7905-395-730
bwcharlt@bigpond.net.au
Wendy and Barry Charlton have two daghters, Natalie (8) and Paula (5),
and moved to Brisbane, Australia in January 1999.
manofam@hotmail.com
Athens, Greece
mepieke@yahoo.com
Luxembourg
thefireplace@mweb.co.za
Germiston, South Africa
1977: Billy Venter
Billy.Venter@conco.co.za
South Africa
1977: Brenda Shunn
Bshunn@sbcglobal.net
Texas, USA
1977: Claire Ryan
pescados@pescados.co.za
South Africa
info@highlandhoppers.com
Scottish Highlands, UK
DaphneS@protonmail.com
Bellingham, Washington, USA
Teaches math at Western Washington University
Masters decathlon American record holder
1977: Donald Griffiths
d.griffiths@snet.net
Connecticut, USA
Married with two children
1977: Fiona Clitheroe (now Baxter)
logikal@global.co.za
South Africa
Fiona lives in Cape Town where she has been since 1989. After matriculating at
GHS, she studied at Wits and did a BSc Hons and a teacher's diploma -
"inspired by Shirley Myer and Owen Matthews, two of the best teachers ever
in my opinion". She taught for nine years during which she completed a MEd
degree. She left teaching in 1992 to work for a science education NGO, and
from there gradually moved into educational writing. She is now a freelance
writer and editor. Fiona is married (for the second time) and has two sons
aged 6 and 9. (July 2007)
george.pavlich@ualberta.ca
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1977: Maureen Forshaw
Scotland (for the past decade)
Lawyer
1977: Michael Fennema
michaelfennema@planet.nl
Schiedam, Netherlands (since 1977)
Married with 4 children
1977: Monique Fennema (now Van Der Toorn)
's-Gravenzande (near The Hague), Netherlands
Married with 2 children. Working at Delft University of Technology.
1977: Philip Buiaroni
phil59@libero.it
Verona, Italy
Philip has worked for an airline company as a line maintenance foreman
since 1981.
Philip (Gian Filippo Buiaroni) spanned the classes of 1976 and 1977, as he
repeated Standard 8. He is planning a holiday to SA in December 2007.
RodNichols@telkomsa.net or foxycreations@telkomsa.net
Durban, South Africa
Russell.Bridger@za.didata.com
Randburg, South Africa
1977: Sharon van Wyk (now Botes)
Richmond Hill, Canada
1977: Ceasar Soares
soares.cesar@gmail.com
Algarve, Portugal
Ceasar left GHS in 1977, and was at school with Craig Schleen, Gail Ackerman,
Guiseppe Ghionzoli, Harris, Perry Dallas, Garth Bond, etc. Ceasar is a
Network and IT specialist, did his T4 at Wits Technikon. He is now living
in the Algarve, in Portugal.
basillaz@global.co.za
Germiston, South Africa
1978: David Harris
Live in Toronto, where I work as a consultant. Married to Melanie.
We have three boys - Sam, Jonti and Jake.
DebbieJ@global.co.za
Randburg, South Africa
1978: Gunther Fleischer
Germiston@web.de
Bavaria, Germany
Gunther attended Colin Mann Primary School, and was involved in rowing and
hockey at high school. He left South Africa in the mid-eighties, and spent
some time in the UK and Brazil, before moving to Germany where he lives now.
1978: Martin Milner
MMilner@nakatomi.co.za
Johannesburg, South Africa
Phone: (011) 317-3888
Martin attended Colin Mann Primary School and Germiston High School.
Martin and his wife Nadine have a son Jordan 3 and a half years old (as of
May 2008), and were expecting twins in December 2007. Martin hung up his
speed skates in 2007, after representing South Africa since 1986. His last
international competition was in Germany in 2005. Martin works as a project
manager for Nakatomi Corporation.
1978: Mary-Jane Cavanagh (now Stauch)
MaryStauch@hotmail.com
Perth, Australia
Mary-Jane and family emigrated to Perth in January 2007. She will be
celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary in June 2008. They have three
children - Chikara (23), Caitlin (21), and Cuan (18) recently matriculated.
mauriciobar@comcast.net
Colorado, USA
1978: Michelle Gainsford (now Denysschen)
Recently relocated to Auckland with her husband, daughter and son.
gjwurts@uskonet.com
Boksburg, South Africa
Florida, USA
springboks@verizon.net
California, USA
1979: Bernard Wurdeman
bernard@wurdeman.com
Somerset West, South Africa
1979: Corinne Freinkel (now Ossendryver)
corinne.ossendryver@creo.com
Married with two children. Living in Ramat Gan, and working as an
Instructional Designer in Herzliya, Israel. She and her family are coming
back to live in South Africa for a few years, arriving late August 2004.
Training Solutions Development, www.creo.com, Phone 09-959-7692
1979: David Fennema
dfennema@kabelfoon.nl
Netherlands
David left South Africa in March 1977, and has lived in the Netherlands ever
since.
1979: Fatima Goncalves (now Eliseu)
Fatima.Eliseu@electrolux.pt
Now lives in Portugal, and works at Electrolux in the supply chain section.
She has two boys, aged 22 and 17 years.
1979: Grant Saffer
Married to Sharyn Katz. Four children: Laurie, Ryan, Brandan,
Gabrielle. Living in Melbourne, Australia, since 1987. In
private practice as obstetrician / gynaecologist.
1979: Iona Minton (now Millar)
Living in Morningside Sandton. Financial Journalist and Author.
2 Children and Husband. Twin sister (Ailsa) married Donald Holiday
in Jan 2001 (can you believe it?) They are living in Hong Kong.
Moved to Australia in 1979. Now working as head vet at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
Married with two children.
babytalk@mweb.co.za
Germiston, South Africa
1979: Martyn Fox
Martyn.Fox@implats.co.za
Martyn worked at Mintek in Randburg for a number of years, and now works
for Impala Platinum. Until recently, lived in Cachet Road, Lambton, Germiston.
1979: Olaf Paulsen
OlafCheryl@verizon.net
Married with a daughter, now an American citizen.
Olaf got married to Cheryl in SA, then 6 years ago emigrated to the USA.
He worked for Boeing, but with the recent cut backs, was laid off in
December 2002, and is currently a house Dad. He lives in Portland,
Oregon (right on the border of Washington state) - a beautiful part
of the country, where the temperatures are never extreme in either direction.
1979: Paul Winder
paul@winders.demon.co.uk
Software Engineer
Cambridge, UK
1979: Steven Paikin
Living in Brisbane with Allyson, son Tyrone and daughter, Daniella.
Engineering Consultant.
aldousc@ukzn.ac.za
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
1982: Anabela Jordao (now Nascimento)
anasci@telkomsa.net
Anabela Nascimento (nee Jordao) is a psychologist in private practice
in Johannesburg. Anabela and Jose have two daughters, Bianca and Simone.
After obtaining her doctorate, Anabela spent some time in Canada, where
she obtained invaluable experience working with adult survivors of
sexual abuse.
1982: Malcolm Chalmers
Married since December 1994, to Janet, and we moved to Germiston
in December 2001, having lived in Johannesburg and England. We have
no children as yet. Janet is the Assistant Director of Music at
St Andrew's School for Girls in Bedfordview, and I am Deputy Headmaster
at Kyalami Preparatory School, a four year old Independent School in Midrand.
jxssdxgreg@aol.com
Houston, Texas, USA
uwe@asw.co.za
Randburg, South Africa
paul@sozo.com.au
Tuggeranong (near Canberra), Australian Capital Territory
Suzanne Price
acemosaicwilderness@gmail.com
Left Germiston High School in 1974.
Studied at PE Technikon. Self-employed entrepreneur and "tiler and
mischievous mosaicist". Lives in Wilderness, Western Cape.
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rtjones@global.co.za.
17 November 2022