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18 February 2000

Former pupils write in...

We've now had e-mail and letters from a number of former pupils. Some saw Mr Queen's letter in the "Scots Magazine" asking for former pupils to get in touch. Others saw the article in the "Ayrshire Post" about the school Web pages. This was featured on the "Post's" Internet edition at www.inside-scotland.co.uk/ayrshire/post.

We've also had replies to the tear-off slips printed in Millennium/175 newsletters sent from the school.

Former pupils come from as far away as

• Queensland, Australia; Los Angeles, California, USA; Ottawa, Canada;
• in Britain, Caithness, Kirriemuir, and Brighton;

and in Ayr, as close as Burnbank Road, Craigie Lea and Hilary Crescent.

The pupils had a small competition to write a letter to Mr David McRobbie of Queensland, who was one of the first long-distance FPs to reply with an entertaining letter about his recollections of war-time Holmston.

Mr McRobbie's an award-winning writer of childrens' books and television programs, and generously sent the school copies of two of his books.

The winning reply is on the next page.

As part of our Holmston Time Machine features, we've got class photos from thirty years, fifty years, and eightyseven years ago.

There's also a brief list of the people who've contacted us so far, and we're using some of the FPs' recollections in items in the School History section.

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