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Now for something a bit different. In 1968, the school magazine came up with a novel feature; a gallery of photos of our teachers when they were children or teenagers. A surprising number of them were game enough to contribute, and I propose to show them to you in this topic.

I'll start with the ones where I have a picture of them in more normal guise to add ; and to begin with I'll feature two of the most senior of the female teachers : Miss Currie of domestic science, and Dr Nisbet the principal teacher of classics. Here they are as pupils knew them, with Miss Currie on the left:


And here they are as you've never seen them before ( unless you bought the 1968 school magazine ). This pretty little girl in her best frock is Miss Currie:


And this suitably studious-looking young girl grew up to be Dr Nisbet :


Plenty more of these to come.

Susan

Two male heads of department now : Mr Dempster of Maths and Mr Strong of Art, seen left to right in the foreground here.


Here's the young Dumpy Dempster :


And here's Mr Strong, showing a surprise musical talent; looks as though he's even won a cup for his drumming.


Susan

I had Mr Dempster for maths in 5th year. We called him Humpty Dumpty behind his back. He was an excellent teacher who took no prisoners. Lets say no-body gave him any trouble. I'd had enough of the place and managed to get a job. He stopped me on the stair and as I was his star pupil he tried to persuade me to stay. He told me I was making a big mistake and do you know if he had called me by my Christian name he probably would have persuaded me to stay.

Two more veterans now : Mr Parker of the Geography department, and Mr Buchan the head of Modern Languages. Mr Buchan in the foreground here.


Here now is Mr Parker junior :


and the schoolboy Mr Buchan :


Susan

Two heads of science departments now : Mr Skelly of Chemistry and Dr Jack of Biology. ( the top of Dr Nisbet's head also sneaking into the picture here ).


Here is the young Mr Skelly:


and here is Dr Jack as a boy :


Susan

Here now is Miss Jessie McKelvie, the girls' gym teacher.

As we knew her :


And as a baby :


Susan

Here is Miss Lyle, English teacher and senior mistress in charge of the girls:


And this is her as a child :


Susan

And here's Meg's favourite, Mr Blakely the Latin teacher:


And his junior version :


Susan

Who would have thought dryasdust Mr Brown :


was once this sweet young boy with his favourite toy ?


Susan

Miss Aitken of the French department now :


And as a girl :


Susan

Mr Bannatyne now; Maths teacher at the Academy, and also for some years superintendent of Auchenharvie Community Centre.


And here he is in younger days :


Susan

Here's Mr Wight now, who taught History and Modern Studies , and managed his classes of roaring boys by roaring back louder.

And here he is as a boy himself :


Susan