Old friends

[claidheamhmor]

I often wonder what's happened to friends from my childhood. As a kid, I always had a few close friends. I doubt that I'd still be friends now; after all, interests diverge and people change. Still, I wonder what they did with their lives.

Here are some:
Primary school, Alberton and Germiston

• Eddie King (Charles Edward King) - he and Alan Cook and I were best of friends in Grades 2-3, and did everything together. He went into game ranging, I think.


• Alan Cook - I can still remember Alan's phone number. I bumped into him at university, and he was still in touch with Eddie, so the three of us had a reunion dinner. If I'm not mistaken, he's an expert on precious metals; he went into metallurgy.


• Gregory Miller - lived up the road from my gran in Germiston when I was in primary school.


• Roy Blumenthal - I know what Roy's doing; he's a journalist and all-round artistic guy. I'm glad to have bumped into him on Facebook.


• Maurice Gill - my Portuguese friend. I have him on Facebook, but he's very quiet. He could play the accordion damn well.


• Salvatore Sanna - I was best friends with him in primary school too. He had an awesome Lego collection.


• Dermot Grange - he and I lived opposite each other, and shared a love of model aircraft. He came on holiday to our farm often. His mother ran a flying school, so he could fly a plane. I think he's running the Durban branch of Mini Movers - he and his dad own the company.

High school, Bloemfontein

• Steven Walker - he left the boarding school to go back to Joburg; I bumped into him years later, and he was running a computer repair business. Not surprising, because he was an absolute genius at electronics.


• Peter Mayer - of an Italian family, he lived in Aliwal North. He studied Political Science at Wits (he was a political/military nut), but I never actually bumped into him there.


• Stephen Howard - a carrot-topped friend from high school. He lived somewhere in Joburg.


• Neil Ashman - one of the brightest people I knew, he's now a surgeon in London, I think.

(Yes, I'm wondering if anyone will stumble across this post via a search engine).

Comments

[openmindedmale.livejournal.com]

I often wonder what's happened to friends from my childhood. As a kid, I always had a few close friends. I doubt that I'd still be friends now; after all, interests diverge and people change. Still, I wonder what they did with their lives.

I wonder that too... but names... the names have largely vanished into the mists of time (and I was always poor at remembering them anyway)... plus, female last names will often have changed, making a search harder.

(Yes, I'm wondering if anyone will stumble across this post via a search engine).

You'll need to make the post public. Also, there might be a flag you have to set to permit the journal (public entries) to be indexed.

[claidheamhmor]

Done the latter, forgot about the first - made it public now.

[teaser.livejournal.com]

Small world...Roy Blumenthal is an alumni of Jason's school. :)

[claidheamhmor]

That's interesting! Certainly a small world.

[mysehnsucht.livejournal.com]

Even smaller... We (Roy and I) follow each other on Twitter... wow.

[arthwollipot.livejournal.com]

There're only two of my childhood friends I still give a damn about. One of them's politas and the other isn't on LJ.

[margs114.livejournal.com]

Have you tried them on Facebook yet?

[claidheamhmor]

I have a couple on Facebook, but the rest aren't there...