Class of 1928
Back row - left to right.
Willie Reid, George Forbes, Peter Winchester, Alec Fraser,
James Reid, John Russell, John Levy, Alex Campbell, John Raeburn.
Second row, Miss Peggy
Alexander, Colin Campbell, Jean Matheson, Jean Forbes,
Ivey Robertson, Rita Robertson, Isobel Morrison, Flora
MacDonald, Lennie Nicol
and Mrs Haggertye, Head Teacher.
Third row, Molly McIntosh,
Margaret Campbell, Jessie Nicholson, Helen Pirie, Sheena
McKenzie, Norah Fowler, Ruby Grant, Hazel MacPherson,
Fourth row, Alfie Watson,
Eric Russel, Bobby Russel, John Reid, Dave Brands, Willie
Johnston, Gilbert Raeburn Peggy McKenzie.
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George Forbes became Burgh surveyor for Forres.
Alec Fraser now retired in Kippen aged 91, Scots Guardsman and gamekeeper.
Alex Campbell farmed Faekirk 1951 to 1976.
Miss Peggy Alexander (Teacher) came from Knockando and drove a BSA motorbike.
Jean Forbes died at Whitebridge.
Rita Robertson stayed at the Mount, which Dave Brands later bought. Her father
was one of 6 postmen based at Dunphail.
( David Brands did not buy the Mount in Dunphail, he bought 2 of the cottages at the Beachons. The Mount was bought by his younger brother Jack who knocked it down and built a new house on the site. I know this, because Jack is my Dad who lives to this day in Findhorn. We moved into the Mount around 1971.)
( It is Jessie Nicholson in the photo, Georgina Nicholson went to Logie School. )
[Georgina Nicholson died at 18. I have been told two versions,
a). She ate a tin of dodgy pears and died of food poisoning.
b). She had gone to a dance, got wet and dye from her black stockings
infected a cut on her leg from which she contracted blood poisoning and died.]
Norah Fowler married Jimmy Fraser at Oakbank Dunphail.
Lennie Nicol was a postman in Forres, his son, also Lennie is manager at Forres sorting
office.
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Peter Winchester lived at Culfearn farm.
John Russell, Eric and Bobby Russel all went on to work on the railway, later Eric and Bobby moved
to Ascot.
Colin Campbell died on a motorbike in an accident on the Altyre Brae.
Ivey Robertson married Donald McKenzie who was chauffeur / handyman to the Honourable
Miss Bruce of Glenernie, their daughter Angie was stabbed and killed at
Whitebridge. Ivey died recently in Forres.
( Donald was in fact chauffeur to Major the Hon Robert Bruce. After the Major's death he was
chauffeur to his widow the Hon Mrs Mary Bruce; later he may
have been chauffeur to Miss Veronica Bruce, but Veronica did not have the
courtesy title of Hon.)
Isobel Morrison "Chooky" was Edinkillie minister's youngest daughter,
she became a nurse.
Helen Pirie was brought up in the cottage next door to the school, her father Charlie kept a
parrot it was said the cottage was so clean you could eat your dinner off the
floor. Charlie was another of the Dunphail postmen.
Dave Brands joined the RAF and retired to the Beachans. He died of a heart attack in
1988 on the A9 whilst driving home, his wife Lil was in the car.
She was a resident at Cathay Nursing Home in Forres, but died recently.
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