James Cook School 50th Anniversary 

Unclaimed Time Capsule Letters

Sunday 22 November 2020.

We are now at the final tidying-up stage, following our wonderful 50th Anniversary last weekend.

Almost all of the Time Capsule letters have been handed back, either to the person themselves or to friends or family, who have said that they will forward on to the correct person.

We have a list below, of those still unclaimed letters and we would really like to get them to the correct person, if at all possible. 

Until the end of this school year, the envelopes are still with me.

To claim a letter from the list of names below, please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: 

Barry Williams, 12 Hanalin Drive, Marton 4710, 

and I will send it to you.

After that time, the envelopes will be returned to James Cook School, where they will be placed in the next Time Capsules, ready for opening at the 75th Anniversary in 2045.

Please inform anyone you know, and think might be interested in claiming their letters, about the cut-off dates and the need for a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

I expect this to be the final entry on this blogsite.

Thanks for your interest over the months and your participation.

Best wishes to all.

Barry Williams

  This blog site is set up to display photos for the 

50th Reunion of James Cook School.

Latest Up-date:

17 November 2020

The Anniversary was held on Saturday 14 November 2020 at James Cook School, Mill Street, Marton.

What a brilliant day it was for memories and renewing old friendships.

Many thanks to those who were able to make it, despite the worst efforts of COVID19 and a last-minute mumps scare, which fortunately turned out to be negative.

Did you know?????

The 1995 video is on YouTube!!!!

Check it out by searching on the YouTube search engine at:

James Cook School 1995 25th Anniversary

or Googling the following link:

https://youtu.be/UNOBrTFl_PY

Check these superb photos taken by Alicia Walker. 

Look at all the others she took on this link:

https://galleries.page.link/GzhyZ

Goodness, she knows how to work a camera!!!

Meanwhile, below are the photos I took at the anniversary on Saturday.

To enlarge them, double click on each individual photo, magic should occur.

You are welcome to download any or all photos.

Highlights of yesterday include:

The powhiri welcoming us onto the school site, the performance of the wonderful kapa haka group, photos taken by Alicia Walker (they will be presented on a subsequent post on this site), beautiful food (thanks to Anna Williams, Peter Boerboom, John Mayo and their many helpers), a tour of the school taken by Deputy Principal Mel Morris (she deserves a medal that lady, stepping in as she did at such short notice).

And did I mention the opening of the Time Capsule buckets?

Urban myth had it that in 1995, I buried the two buckets in some secret part of the grounds.                           Nope! The truth is far more boring.                                                                                                                  I put them into the old sports room at the far end of the hall and there they stayed until we needed them a month or so ago. When the hall was redeveloped a few years back, they were put up into the attic over the office area.                                                                                                                                              Personally, I prefer the urban myth version. A shame it wasn't true! Not even a little bit.

We handed out all the contents of the Time Capsule buckets, to the delight of those who had put offerings into the buckets in 1995. Some were claimed by friends or family of those who could not make it on the day.                                                                                                                                                                   We hope you enjoy your letter when it finally does arrive from whoever claimed it for you. There were too many claiming for friends and family for us to be able to keep a record of that so please don't ask, as we really will have no idea. 

We also prepared entries for the next anniversary, the 75th, in 2045. 

Those new buckets will also be put up into the attic waiting to make their entrance 25 years ahead in the future.  

As for those envelopes that were not claimed, they are still available for a short while.                                                                  If you email me on barry.williams@in2net.co.nz, I will do what I can to get them to you. 

Thanks for your interest.

Watch this space for the photos taken by Alicia Walker and still to come.

Roll on the 75th and meanwhile enjoy the photos below.                                                                            Hope to see you there (I will only be 98, after all).

Cheers and ka kite ano

Barry Williams