Chronicle-2011

11 This page is sponsored by: Snackworks, makers of Willards, Pyotts, Provita, Bakers and Baumann’s Sweet and Savoury, baked and fried, the snacks you know and love. Wayne Sudding joined the Afrikaans department; Etienne Grundling the Maths department and Loren Macallister the English depar tment. Bonita Ziegelmeier joined the Music department as accompanist and keyboard specialist, while Joanne van Musschenbroek arrived to head the San. With the restructuring of the estates and marketing departments, we welcomed Andrew Brether ton as estates and projects manager and Rober t Carpenter as marketing director. Sadly, during the course of the year we bade farewell to several members of staff. With the restructuring of the administration staff, Sally Cain opted to take early retirement. Who will ever forget her farewell tea and the frenzied rendition of Mustang Sally by the Headmaster and a troupe of unlikely go-go dancers! In August, Loren Macallister and her husband immigrated to England and on her departure old boy Matt Saville was appointed in a full time capacity to the English depar tment. Fellow old boy, Guy Mitchell, took up a part time position in the English depar tment to fill the ranks. IT technician Reuben Baantjes moved on to vir tual pastures new and was replaced by Mdimore Nhlakanipho. Rev Teboho Erasmus decided to exchange his clerical habits for legal robes leaving the Headmaster to assume the mantle of Chaplain for the four th term and old boy Travis O’Sullivan to teach Religious Education for the rest of the year. At the end of the year, head of Life Sciences and head of NSC Assessment and IEB matters, Simon Moore, left on promotion as deputy headmaster of St John’s DSG in Pietermaritzburg. The year ended on a happy note when François Lubbe and Sherese Groenewald finally tied the knot and Sibongiseni (Sydney) Ngcobo married Thabile Majola in the Kearsney chapel. Dave Goldhawk The year began with several new faces adding life to the Kearsney staff: STAFF

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