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Adelaide Memories ... 34 Years Later

Who remembers the 1974 trip to St Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide?

And the return visit to IGS several months later?

Felicity Does

Mystery Letter Writer Remembers the 1974 Adelaide Trip

'Felicity', at kaden@wn.com.au, surprises us with memories of the IGS Sixth Form trip to Adelaide.

The trip was an extraordinary weekend at the homes of St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School.

'Felicity' writes: "Hi! No I did not go to IGS I did however go to IGGS for a short time.I found your site, as usual by accident and was blown away with it. Boy it bought back memories. I was one of the Saints girls who fell madly for a certain young man who shall remain nameless. I did find his photo! I was sure that there would have been a page or 2 about the return trip. Perhaps next time!

" I too, still have a letter written by that young man! Thanks for the memories, as I live in a very remote area of WA, the www. is an interesting part of my down time. I find some gems occasionally and your site is one of them. Felicity

"PS: you will not find my name on the hostess list as my mother did not think it a appropriate to have a young man in the house! But I did get to go on the return trip (I wont say how) and stay with said young man! Now that is another story!"

Editor Replies

Well ... g'day 'Felicity'.

The St Peters/IGS trips were extraordinary.
My abiding memory is being drunk for the first time in my life, in the back seat of the car caught by Police at 68 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, just before a skinny-dipping episode at one of Adelaide's finest beaches at midnight.
And I was the School Captain, supposedly in charge of discipline!

There was so much letter writing!
I recall writing backwards and forwards to Mandy Gibb of Magill ... but my own long-time girlfriend (now wife of 30 years-plus) took a fairly dim view of that at the time.
I spoke to Mandy by phone when we were in our mid-20s, and my memory I think she was a single mum at the time.

I recall the St Peters return visit to Melbourne included an international film 'symposium' or similar.
It was probably an attempt to match St Peters' Saturday night entertainment for us ... the Polish National Song and Dance Festival ... where we innocent IGS boys were all led through a series of underground corridors at the Festival centre ... which led to a pub where we raced down drinks, returning just minutes before the show's grand finale.

The visits, and the associations ever since, were a wild event, in some wild years.
Every best wish to you 'Felicity', and feel free to write again.
Ash Long

Updated: Sunday, August 10, 2008

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