Ross Bonthorne
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The network grows, the memory struggles, but it is indeed
interesting and amusing to recall those days on the hill ... and to
peruse the colourful, though black and white, snap of us all, forwarded
to me by Valerie ... and to try to put names on those young (innocent)
faces ... and wonder how the years have treated us all .... indeed
there is potential surely for a "novella" rather than a reunion ...
lets leave some level of intrigue and allusion, fantasy and imagination
... (smoke and mirrors never really hurt Rock and Doris.)
I haven't seen the "list," but presume that by receiving e-mails,
somehow I have made it ... and indeed I am certain the memories we have
and the stories we can tell would/could even extend into a tele
mini-series ... all I ask is that we each get to choose who plays us
all ... there should still be some semblance of vanity and decorum.
Andrew (Andersons) and I both "did" architecture together ... and
in fact we both worked together for a while here in Sydney .... He went
to Yale, so on principle, I went to Harvard ("you can always tell a
Harvard man" ... they say.) On then to live/work/play in the UK and
Europe, before returning back to Australia to share my experiences and
acquired knowledge and to justify all those government subsidies and
scholarships. Since then I have been "architecting" in Australia and
elsewhere (US, Asia, India, Europe, UK etc) and concurrently ventured
into politics for some 20 years before realising that there was more to
life than soliciting on street corners and kissing babies publicly for
the media ....
Yes, Fort Street was an extraordinary experience ... probably the
most formative years of our lives... this is just a first introductory
foray into the past ... and I look forward to hearing more from you
all.
(Ross has asked me to put this on the web as an interim piece. It
was written way back in the beginning of all this reuniting and he will
try to find time to update . . . Jan)
(Do some Googling and you will find plenty about Ross - no secrets on the Internet!.... Guy)
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