Remember when... Paul Gabbedy (‘59) shares some memories from his years at CBC from 1952 to 1959. See if you can remember when... Remember when we had 84 kids in Grade 4; three to a desk; no biros, just ink wells and pencils. The end of the year would come and we would polish our desk with Kiwi Nugget for the next year’s class. Remember when before school we played ‘Kingey’ with a tennis ball on the bitumen, and marbles or ‘doogs’ in the sand beneath the big Moreton Bay tree. There wasn’t much brick paving or concrete around in those days.
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Remember choir practise, vaulting horse, parallel bars, pyramids and tumbling in the hall? Remember Peter Clery’s mum and dad belting out the tunes on the piano and drums at the front of the stage? Remember Tony Barber, Gerry Fielder and John Baguley singing Cool, Clear Water or Danny Boy in front of the curtains while the next act was being set up.
