Class of 1969 Reunion - by John Onraet

In July 2004, and purely as a result of e-mail communication between Percy Aggett and myself, five of us got together in London for an informal reunion. The five were Percy Aggett, Rainaldo O’Meara, Peter Hinks, Irwin Hartel and myself. We decided that we should try to enlarge the group and get as many alumni from a class of 1969 as possible for a reunion in the summer of 2006, and so we did........

I discovered that Peter Hinks is in education in Southampton, Jonathan Fitt is an Airline Pilot in the Caribbean, Rainaldo O'Meara is a Specialist Metallurgist in London and travels the world, Irwin Hartel has a string of sports shops in Kentucky, Percy Aggett is a Family Guidance Psychologist in London, Julian is a Banker in London, Gerard is a retired Chief of Police, and Jay is a Consultant in Child Psychology.

As for me, I married a South African girl in 1975 and went on to have four kids. Two of them are in London, one working as a Chef at the Oxo Tower near Waterloo, and the other is a professional Sound Engineer with Metropolis Studios in Chiswick. My daughter is studying for a BA in Humanities at Stellenbosch University, a beautiful university town nearby. My youngest son has another two years at high school to go.

I am currently the Director of Marketing of a large company which specializes in road surfacing materials geographically spread from Zambia to Cape Town.

With best wishes

John Onraet (OG '1969)