Students from forms 1A, 1B and IC of the Kyabram High School class of 1958 returned on October 13 to relive their times at the school and town.
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Organiser Elaine Pollock said it was the latest of several get-togethers over the years and was well attended again.
‘‘At the start it was mainly the girls who attended but in recent reunions the guys have joined in,’’ Ms Pollock, who has organised the reunions since 2001, said.
Former students from all part of Australia attended the reunion.
Glenys Thomson, who has come from the United States for most of them, was unable to attend this time.
On a sad note, one of the class of 1958 Ray Shuey, who was in the class when his policeman father was the Kyabram police boss at the time died recently.
Dr Shuey was a Vietnam veteran, a former Victoria Police officer and assistant commissioner for traffic and operations and had attended some past reunions.
Those who attended the reunion were Elaine Pollock (Hicks), Alice Flemming (Andrews), Jan Treloar (Hicks), Trevor Gorman, Kerry Jarvis (Harrison), Carol Stenhouse (Glover), Geoff Maxwell, Glenys Thomson (Hall), Lorraine Sear (Busch), Ann Frost (Currey), Jenny Reuther (Chandler), Alys Secombe (Letcher), Rosemary Baker, Anne Tyson, Liz Anderson, Bill Hurlston, Keith Walton, Helen Davies (Pike), Helen Makin (Twigg), Barb Free (Carver), Margaret George (Saunders) and Margaret Cox (Coulstock).
Apologies were received from Robin Finnin, Neville Hunter, Sophie Kotsiskis (Ristovichis), Barb Olbodstone (McMaster), Glenys Bryant (Black), Elizabeth Westwood, Heather Topp (Norris), Helen White (Pinnuck), Meryl Fitzgerald (Gorman), Lyn Boland (Vagg), Robin Finnin, Honor Spencer (Wilson), Ricky and Wendy Diamond, Val Wright (Johnsone), Annette Bramley (Cheong), Chris Velios, Alistair McCrum and Ian Purdey.
Those from the class who have sadly died are John Dettman, Irene Pankhurst (Hargreaves), Terry Pell, Wilma Ellis (Thompson), Daryl Ogden, Joy Williams, Ian Hilder, Joan Asplin (Anderson), Robert Webster, Betty Coulter (Davy), Ken Munroe, Wendy Aitken (Beecroft), Peter Marten, Rhondda Berry (Grosvenor), Marie Carmody (Wood), Jim Salter, John Hurlston, Richard Allen, Bernie Harlen, Ron Murley, Wayne Cunningham, Don Treloar and Ray Shuey.