Alan Wrench

My tortuous career took me back to teach maths at the old school from 1973 until 1980 when I moved as a Head of Department to Perthshire. I started teaching maths in 1971 in East Lothian and then moved to Heriot's. In Perthshire I was Head of Department at Perth High School (1980 - 1985) and then spent the next 20 years as Head of Maths at Morrison's Academy being given an honorary membership of the Morrisonian F.P. club when I retired in 2004 - what a traitor!!

After retirement I re-married (sadly my first wife died in 1999) and moved down to Kelso in the Scottish Borders where I can forget about work and give much rewarding time to grandchildren. Between us Helen and I have five grandchildren with one on the way - I have two grandsons and a lovely little grand-daughter almost a year old. Helen has two lovely grand-daughters with her son and daughter-in-law expecting towards the end of the year.Enjoying retirement in Kelso and still driving primary school children to school on a part-time basis.

I obviously worked with quite a few staff who taught us in 1958. I am still in touch with Jimmy Caw who is in Annan and I know that Willie Waitt and "Monty" Faithful are bearing up quite well. "Spike" had left GHS when I went back in 1973 but I did work with "Fabian" McCall (I never called him that!) for a short while. I think Tom Dennis is still going - get a Christmas card each year (painted by himself). Tom was a really good friend and colleague to work with at the old school.