Ulster Tatler – August 2019

BELFAST ROYAL

ACADEMY REUNION

The “Class of ’74” from Belfast Royal Academy held a reunion

dinner to celebrate 45 years since leaving school. The event

was held in the Chimney Corner Hotel which had been the

venue for that year’s end of school formal in 1974! A total of 53

former pupils attended and were serenaded during a drinks

reception by three musicians attending the school currently.

Earlier in the day, a number of the guests were given a nostalgic

guided tour of ‘the old school’ and were welcomed back by Mrs

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group was Mrs Beattie Metcalfe (nee Stevens) aged 97 and the

oldest surviving female pupil who started B.R.A. in 1927; she

accompanied her daughter Clair, who was in the famous Class of

‘74. The 50 year reunion is already in the planning stage.

Adrian Brown, Brenda Henderson, Terry Harrison,

Pat Coulter, Mark Orr and Eileen Sherrard.

Maureen Sterling, Fiona Murphie,

Patricia Gorman and Susan Kelly.

Gillian Alford, Cathryn Craig,

Debbie Brewer and Clair Metcalfe. Ray Gillespie, Terry Harrison, Campbell Browne and Ian Stewart.

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Eileen Sherrard and Kathy Martin. Barbara Page and Rosemary O’Neill. Juli Heylings and Adrian Brown.

Richard Robinson and Noel Lamb.

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