Mr Samuel Weir

ARA Headmaster

     1947-50

Miss Margaret Bryson

     Languages

    ARA 1925-51

Fifth and Sixth Forms - 1950

                                          A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1950

(To some in photo it may be a midsummer's nightmare to see themselves in costume.....our apologies).

left to right: John Flockhart,Samuel Russell,George McGeachin,David Brown,Georgina Watson,

                 Robert Grieve,Marion Gray,David Reid,Barbara Wallace,Thomas Berman,Peter Barnett.

Grateful appreciation is due to Margaret Christensen, nee Finlayson, for the loan of her

1951 school magazine, from which the above photos were taken.

       Poetry Corner

Do not love me for my eyes

The colour of my hair

Those gentle loving sighs

The moments that we share

Love me not for grace or charms

The embracing of our arms

No-Love me not for outward seeing

But love me just for being....

   Bill Kean, ARA 1954-57

       published 1968

Pollok Hawthorn Soccer Team - 1957-8

                                                          ARA Former Pupils:

front row, from left:   2nd, Dougie Hunter; 3rd, Alfred Lillie; 4th, Archie Begg

back row, from left:  3rd, Jimmy McCallum; 4th, Walter Whitehill; 5th, Archie McNaught(deceased)

                             7th, Jim Campbell(deceased);  9th, Billy Sutherland; 10th, Jimmy Elliott

photo courtesy Archie Begg

Those of you who were

taught  French by Miss

Gertrude Scott will be

happy to know that she

is alive and well and

living in Galloway. She

says she would be delighted to hear from her former pupils.

Please email me for her address.

Thanks to Jean Boyd for

supplying the address.

left to right: Elizabeth Findley, Ian Milligan, Irene Horne,

Ian Drysdale, Douglas Carrick, William Armitage, Moira McCallum, Robert Barclay, Morag MacDonald, James Young.

Production of Abraham Lincoln - 1958

photo coutesy Douglas Carrick

James Darling

  1931 - 2002

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  ARA 1946-51