There will be a nostalgia powered trip down memory lane when old students get together to remember Wade and Griffith High - two schools which no longer exist.
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It will be the first school reunion since Wade and Griffith High merged to form Murrumbidgee Regional High School, and it is shaping up to be a big one.
It will be a mass reunion for all the students who attended between 1969 and 1974, and they will gather to spin old stories about the good old days of Griffith and Wade High.
Although the names Wade and Griffith High have been resigned to the history books, there is a cohort of graduates who are determined to keep those memories alive.
One of them will be Sue Fordham, one of the seven organisers who are preparing for a blast from the past in October this year.
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When she looks back on her high school days her memories consist largely of wild hijinks and fun times with friends, but very little time spent paying attention in class.
“We were awful back then - I pity the poor teachers,” Mrs Fordham said.
She would get her just deserts in the end; she spent nearly forty years managing unruly kids as a teacher.
“I’ve got the wrinkles to show for it,” she said.
As of this year there will be no more graduates from Wade or Griffith High.
Instead, future students will one day look back fondly on the time spent at Murrumbidgee Regional High School.
But no matter how much things may change, for Sue Fordham and her cohort their memories of Wade and Griffith High will remain the same.
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