Nundah State School class of ’59 plans 60-year reunion

The Nundah State School class of ’59 is planning a 60-year reunion. Do you know someone who should be invited to the party?

Distant cousins Sandra Moffatt (nee Minshull) and Desley Hooper (Schultz) are from the Nundah State School graduating class of 1959.

IT’S 60 years since the very first Baby Boomers became teenagers and faced the rigours of their scholarship year at Nundah State School in 1959.

Along the way this cohort helped make Nundah the largest primary school in Queensland in 1954, with over 1600 pupils.

Way back at its 1865 opening, Susanna Edith Bridges was enrolled at that same school when it was originally called German Station National School.

Susanna Edith Bridges (who started at German Station National School, now Nundah State School, in 1865) and her husband Frederick George Jordan.

She was born on March 22, 1858 at Zion Hill, named by the original German missionaries, and subsequently renamed Nundah.

Susanna grew up to be a typical Australian colonial bush child, playing with the local aboriginal children, from whom she developed a vast knowledge of the Australian bush.

The George Bridges Tunnel connecting Sandgate Rd from Nundah to Toombul is named after Susanna’s family.

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Susanna and husband Frederick Jordan had a son, also named Frederick, who opened the Nundah Paper Shop, and the Jordan name became synonymous for many decades with that shop near the railway station.

Amazing, but true, this year two of Susanna’s great-granddaughters Sandra Moffat (nee Minshull) and Desley Hooper (nee Schultz) are especially delighted to reunite to celebrate completing scholarship at Nundah.

The distant cousins still live locally.

Sandra and Desley recall lining up to see the Queen in 1954, answering the school office phone, doing the teas for the male teachers and the opening of Nundah State School pool in 1956.

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Fancy dress balls at Cloudland and learning the Princess Alexandra Waltz in 1959 also figure in their collective memories of primary school.

Milk bars and the local picture theatre at Nundah were also fabulous treats.

Dr Russell Parry, curator of the Nundah State School Digital Image Collection invites readers to email any old Nundah State School class photos to [e-mail]

In fact the Nundah State Primary Old Kids Facebook page, which he also administers, was pivotal in providing valuable contact and enrolment details of past pupils for this year’s 60th reunion of students who completed scholarship in 1959.

Should you be one of these pupils, please text or phone Kay Reibelt on 0437 185 277.

You will be warmly invited to join the NSS Class of 1959 Reunion at Norths Devils Football Club in Franklin St, Nundah from 10am on Monday, September 16.