School pair reunite at markets
FRED Alley remembers cleaning up and picking weeds at Glengallan Homestead when he was a boarder at Slade School in Warwick.
Mr Alley from Woodford and fellow old boy Lex Noble were in Warwick for the annual general meeting and reunion dinner of the Slade and St Catharine's Past Students Association.
They went back in time by sleeping in the dormitory of their old school, now known as Warwick Christian College.
"Nothing much has changed," Mr Noble said, referring to a dormitory which is now not used for boarders.
"I remember when I was at school, the Warwick Rodeo was a big thing."
Dinner was served in the dining room at the school.
On Sunday, the former students were part of a large crowd at the Glengallan Homestead Markets.
"W.B. Slade was involved in Slade School and Glengallan," Mr Alley said.
"It is remarkable what has been done with Glengallan Homestead - I remember when it was falling down."
Twice a year, Mr Noble travels from Mansfield in Victoria - where he sells real estate - to Queensland for school reunions, one in Warwick and one at the Breakfast Creek Pub in Brisbane.
The owner of the former Slade School campus, Warwick Christian College, was represented at the annual general meeting of the Past Students Association.
