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Jubilee coming ... register your interest!
We’ll be celebrating a milestone 85 years at Wellington East next October. The date is yet to be finally confirmed but we’ve pencilled in the weekend before Labour weekend 2010.
Initial planning suggests there'll be a cocktail function on the Friday evening, followed by
school tours and a Jubilee Dinner on the Saturday. We’re also considering arranging some
kind of (short!) variety performance illustrating the best of what the modern day
Wellington East has to offer.
We want to make the Jubilee easy to organise and manage, and affordable to attend. You can help by registering your interest in attending by emailing us. Include your name, email, postal and telephone contacts, the years you attended Wellington East, and if you like, details of anyone else you know who might be interested in attending the Jubilee. To assist the organising process, it would be great if Old Girls could get in touch with their former school friends and get a group together, then contact us. We can list groups on the website, so others from your year can see who’s coming and join in.
To prepare for the jubilee, we're also putting together a short term working group. If you're prepared to help out and sign on for the jubilee working group (service required for a limited period only!) please contact Janice at jarca@xtra.co.nz, or let us know via the usual Once Were Easters email. Thanks!
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Bonds and laughter at first OWE "staffroom lunch"
We kicked off the first in what we plan will be a series of celebratory "staffroom lunches" last November when 26 OWEs (Once Were Easters) went where no former pupil had been allowed to go before - the staffroom! Some came solo, others with former schoolmates, but from the first wine to the last spoonful of delicious food from Michelin star rated chef Chris Boswell the room was abuzz with memories and laughter.
While some thought at first they wouldn’t have much in common with the other OWEs, they soon found themselves laughing and nodding in recognition as each Old Girl drew
a picture of life since college days. All shared a place and stage in life in common with the others; like school or hate it, those were formative years.
Photo Gallery
The first of the Once Were Easters celebratory staff room lunches was held in the College staff room on Saturday 22 November 2008, with a Christmas theme. Former pupils from the 1930s to the 70s came along and shared stories and a few laughs. One thing that really stood out - even if they hadn't known each other before, or been at Wellington East at the same time, there was still a bond between all those present.
We look forward to seeing their faces again at the next lunch, and hope for some 'new' faces as well.
Photo 1 (top): L-R: Former Wellington East Principal and new Old Girls' Association President Janice Campbell, Anne White (nee Petersen) and Colleen Beaumont (nee Balmforth).Second photo, from left: Marion Meyer, Colleen Beaumont (nee Balmforth), Evelyn Hodson (nee Swelling) and Kay Mahoney (nee Cromie)Third photo: from left: Fatu Tolo, Sandra Aubrey (nee Hing), Shona Cvetkovic (nee Georgivic), Claire Smith (nee Campbell)
Photo5 : Tables set and ready to go ... minutes before the lunch, President Janice Campbell makes a call in the staff room she knows so well after many years at the helm of the college.
Photo6: Still good friends after all these years ... from left: Joan Mason (nee Guthrie), Lindsay Gilroy, Marion Meyer (nee Eason), Glenys Viner (nee Reid).
Photo7 : Mixing and chatting after a superb lunch catered by Michelin star-rated chef Chris Boswell
Photo8:Our most senior Once Were Easter at the November lunch - Evelyn Hodson (nee Swelling) and looking on, Old Girls' President, Janice Campbell
Photo9 : The November 2008 Christmas lunch group ... too numerous to name!
Former Principal now President
Janice Campbell, long-serving Principal of Wellington East Girls' College and new President of the Old Girls' Association dances at her retirement celebration in March 2007 with members of the college's Polynesian Club. Janice was a former pupil (1954-58) and then a teacher at Wellington East for 18 years, before becoming Principal in 1981, a position she held until 2007.
Check out the photo of Janice in the 1955 Hockey First XI on the History page of this Website.
Your committee
President: Janice Campbell
Patron: Sally Haughton (WEGC Principal)
Secretary & Treasurer: Anne White
Events Director and Co-treasurer: Sandra Aubrey
Board of Trustees rep: Colleen Beaumont
Newsletter and webpage editor: Margie Wheeler
Jubilee coordination: Judith Taylor
Committee member: Fatulatetele Tolo
Revitalising the Old Girls' Association
A new Old Girls' Association Committee was created in March 2008, with a new vision for the Association. Made up of both new and former members of the OGA, the new Committee plans to revitalise the OGA and make it more rewarding and fun to be part of: more events, more members, more fun. Already we have a new name for the OGA: Once Were Easters. This name also lends itself to our newsletter.
Read more about your committee in the October issue of the Once Were Easters newsletter (link below).
Once were easters(newsletter)
Once Were Easters is our newsletter, issued approximately three times a year, which brings you information and news from former pupils, what they're up to and where they're meeting, as well as the latest info from the Old Girls' Association and about what is happening at our old school. Your contribution to the content of Once Were Easters will make all the difference to how interesting and up to date it is. If you have photos, news of former students or ideas for year group get togethers, let us know and we can put it in the newsletter, and keep you in touch with other 'old girls'. To suggest content and news for the newsletter just email the Editor.
Download our newsletter(Requires Acrobat Reader)Membership
We welcome your membership of Once Were Easters. Any former Wellington East pupil can join. Membership is only $20 a year (January to December).
Become a member by emailing us now : oncewereeasters@wegc.school.nz or send your cheque and contact details to: ONCE WERE EASTERS WEGC OGA PO Box 3508 Wellington 6040.
Benefits include:
- Once Were Easters newsletter - three times a year
- Occasional newsy emails - register your email address
- First option to attend special OGA events where seating is limited (watch this space)
- OGA support for your planned year-group reunions or get-togethers
- Access to the school facilities etc if you wish to have your gathering or reunion at WEGC
- Ability to get photos and news of former students in the Once Were Easters newsletter or on our website
- Knowledge that your membership subscription goes to:
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- supporting the ongoing publication of the OGA newsletter
- the costs of supporting at least two OGA events each year
- Old Girls’ sponsored prizes for the current crop of graduating Wellington East girls at each end-of-year Prize Giving
Your membership donation helps! Please join us and help us continue to bring events and information to East old girls.
Support for the school
Your membership donation assists the College and Old Girls in many ways, for example: -
Annual donation to WEGC Prizegiving: held in November each year
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Jubilee funds: the small profit from the last, 75th Jubilee went on landscaping and garden maintenance in the school grounds. 85th Jubilee coming in October 2010.
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Donations in general to the school: including, in 2009 a contribution to help the college buy a second hand harp for use by the girls
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Portrait of Janice Campbell on her retirement, now hanging in the main foyer
Contact us
Postal Adress : ONCE WERE EASTERS, WEGC OGA, PO Box 3508, Wellington 6040
Email: oncewereeasters@wegc.school.nz
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Contacts
Old Girls' Association
Janice Campbell (President)
Anne White (Secretary)
or WEGC OGA
PO Box 3508
Wellington 6040
Parents' Association
Efi Botes : Email