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George Heriot's School |
© Yerbury: Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Yerbury family.
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Recollections 1. Gordon Keddie Indianapolis, USA |
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Thank you Gordon Keddie, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, for providing this photo. Gordon later went on to teach Biology at Trinity Academy, 1967-70. Gordon wrote: |
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Class 2G "I am cross-legged on the ground at the right. In the middle, also cross-legged, is my best pal of those days, Bob ("Curly") Lamond, now a natural gas tycoon in Calgary Alberta. I was the youngest in the class and he the smallest. We had no self-esteem problems on that account - there's 'guid gear in sma' bulk'." |
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When Gordon sent me the photograph above, he added: |
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Panoramic Photo "The photo I wish I had was a panoramic photo of the whole school with the staff and the Duke of Edinburgh on his visit to mark the Tercentenary of the school in 1959. I dissected a rat for the Prince in the Biology class and answered a question about it's innards. Poor royals, I thought, they have to show they are interested in everybody and every mundane thing every day in life!" |
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Gordon J Keddie, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: September 22, 2008 |
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Recollections 2. Gordon Keddie Indianapolis, USA |
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About four years after sending the photograph above to me, Gordon sent me this photo of his class at Bruntsfield Primary School, taken in 1952. Bruntsfield Primary School Gordon added: |
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Bruntsfield "1952 was the only year between 1950 and 1956 that class photos were taken at Bruntsfield Primary, as far as I know.2 Heriot's "Even when I went to Heriot's, there were only two photos taken of our class between 1956 and 1962, this one and one of class VI in 1961-62. However, there was also a panoramic photo of the whole school taken in 1959, marking the school's Tercentenary - with the Duke of Edinburgh in the centre I never had a copy of that photo, but I remember Prince Philip asking me about my dissection of a rat earlier in that day." Gordon J Keddie, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: December 31, 2012 |
