School

Updated 2 November 2020

Sub A class Muizenberg Junior School 1949

Includes: Mervyn Rosenberg, Barry Lockitch, Sam Galansky, Merle Galansky Rubin, David Lazarus, Reinett Kabrun Belnick

From Mervyn Rosenberg on 30 November 2013

The people in the Sub A photo are:

Starting from back row nearest the board Mervyn Rosenberg, Irwin Hirshorn, Elizabeth Lipshitz(Michaels), Colin Ross, Michael King (Principals son), Sidney Chait (deceased),

van der Poel, Roderick Prior. Behind them Ezra Kastan (deceased)

Brenda (Batya) Sherman (Resnick), ? Sam Galansky, Barry Lockitch

Ronnie Derman (deceased), Sandra Segal, Neville Seaton, Reinette Kabrun (Belnick) In front of her Iona van Geldren, in front of her Gillian Mc Phereson

Next Row ? Jean Nielson David Lazarus

Next Row ? Anne Dennison

Row coming down on Right from back: Clive Duffield, Naomi Eiseman, Brenda Simon (deceased) Merle Rubin (Galansky)

? Fick

Unidentified head in the foreground is Faye Zauber’s

Reinette Belnick lives in Australia as does Sidney Chaits sister – Annette.

The vast majority of these people are still in touch and have regular get togethers and are still very close friends

Update - 2 November 2020

MJS Photograph and names.

Copy of list supplied on https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/muizenberg/School.html

(Comments by Albert van der Poll)

My memory tells me this was in the Sub B year. Behind the panels in the back of the photograph was the Sub A classroom.

Names in red are suggested alternatives by me – 70 years later! We lived in Steenberg, then moved to Zeekoevlei. To shorten the travelling distance to school, I (along with my younger brother Bernie) transferred to an Afrikaans school nearer home. MJS was my favourite school – should have stayed there!

List of names with suggestions

The people in the Sub A photo are:

Starting from back row nearest the board Mervyn Rosenberg, Irwin Hirshorn, Elizabeth Lipshitz(Michaels), Colin Ross, Michael King (Principals son), Sidney Chait (deceased),

van der Poel, Roderick (Rodney?) Prior. Behind them Ezra Kastan (deceased) (Van der Poel = Albert van der Poll – that’s me. )

Brenda (Batya) Sherman (Resnick), ? Sam Galansky, Barry Lockitch I remember the face, but not the name of the blond girl between Brenda and Sam Galansky.

Ronnie Derman (deceased), Sandra Segal, Neville Seaton, Reinette Kabrun (Belnick) In front of her Iona van Geldren, in front of her Gillian Mc Phereson (MacPherson?) There was a Neville Slater too, but he could have arrived at MJS after this photograph.

Next Row ? Jean Nielson David Lazarus ? (First from left: possibly/probably Martin King – I believe NOT related to Michael King. David Lazarus, the last boy in the row is correct. And Jean Nielsen.)

Next Row ? Anne Dennison (?Head turned – cannot recall) The girl facing the camera, freckled and fair haired, is Estelle Zuck. Most definitely! I don’t remember the Anne Dennison name, however.

Row coming down on Right from back: Clive (‘John’ sounds more correct, however.) Duffield, Naomi Eis(e)man (Eisman) , Brenda Simon (deceased) Merle Rubin (Galansky)

? Fick Marit(h)a Frick (We were good friends, both of us had to wait in schoolyard for older sisters to finish classes before we could go home.)

Reinette Belnick lives in Australia as does Sidney Chaits sister – Annette.

A good bunch of kids, these! I liked them all, with one exception, a girl. (Won’t say which one, though!)

Class teacher was Miss/Mrs Smith (Sub A), Miss/Mrs Ravenscroft (Sub B). Called all teachers ‘Miss’, as far as I can remember. The men were ‘Sir’. We respected our teachers, then.

Does anyone remember Miss/Mrs Slabber?! 500 lines, time and again.

Ronnie Derman’s dad had a filling/petrol station on Price George Drive, just north of what is now Lavender Hill community.

Ezra Kastan’s father sold my father a few dairy (Jersey) cows when I was a child. Their holding pens/stalls/stables were in Strandfontein Road, which borders Philippi Farms.

Sidney Chait was a nice fellow, kind and soft spoken.

John Duffield and I had a good few scraps in the schoolyard, about who was whose girlfriend.

In about 1966 (about 11 years after I left MJS in St 4) two of the girls approached me on a sidewalk in Johannesburg and asked me if I was from MJS and introduced themselves. I confirmed who I was, and was quite surprised that they recognised me. I cannot remember who the girls were. Sorry! I suppose girls change more than boys do in 11 years!

So sorry to read about the ones who have passed on: my heartfelt sympathy to their families.

Albert van der Poll

2 November 2020