He was a quite boy,friendly to all, and proud of his Kearnsey. His eight years at the school were marked by no sensations, but when one thinks of the early traditions set up by our school when it was small, Lawrence was one of those who helped to set the standard which today we try to maintain. After leaving Kearsney he turned his hand to cane farming, and this was his work until the end. When war broke out, he at once enlisted, and became a gunner in the Heavy A.A. Regt. We saw little of him in his later days, but believe that he had had some trouble with blood pressure. The end came absolutely suddenly, and to his wife and family we offer our most sincere sympathies. DIRK SLABBERT Until one meets a boy like Dirk,one hardly realises the blessings of good health. He was a sickly boy all his life. But even as his father came to Kearsney,so he was determined to come,and did so, in 1954, for a few months only. His weakness through ulcerative colitis then became too great to be borne at school, and he had to go home again. He was inand out of hospital for two further years, responding well to cortizone treatment,and in fact at the beginning of this year, in spite of a very weak heart, he managed to go back to school for a while in Vereeniging. He even came top of his class, and showed tremendous physical courage. Once again, the strain was too much and he was rushed to the Johannesburg hospital for a critical operation, but died on the operating tabie. His Principal, at his funeral service, summed up the feelings of all of us when he said; "Being fully conscious of his short life-span, he regarded every day as a challenge to do his work to the best of his ability, and to live every day as fully as possible. His approach to his daliy tasks was therefore characterised by determination and self-confidence which led to excellent achievement." We remember a fine lad, and share the grief of his parents. ENGAGEMENTS M. Brand, G. L. Coggin, D. H. Lowe, D.J. Metcalf, I. Leisegang, M. Perry, P. R. Randall, M. J. Rodda, Dr. G. W. Shuker, Rev. P. R. Young, P. D. Warmback. 332
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