Lincoln Gardens Primary School enjoyed a visit from one of its original students.
Troy Ryan has travelled back to Port Lincoln from his home in Collie, Western Australia, with his wife Margaret and took the opportunity to have a photo taken next to the original time capsule plaque with his original contribution.
Troy was a student at the school between 1974 and 1976, and remembered writing a letter for the school’s first time capsule, which was interred in 1976 and reopened in 2001.
Back in 1976 he wrote that he expected to be unmarried and a fast runner by the age of 25.
He managed to achieve these goals and then got married to Margaret at the age of 26.
Troy’s family moved to WA when he was still young, and Troy and Margaret returned to Port Lincoln to catch up with family and inter his parents’ ashes back in the place they wanted to return to.
Troy has fond memories of his time at Lincoln Gardens, and recalled when the uniform was maroon, gold and white, playing football and cricket for the school, rolling up crepe paper balls to create kookaburras on paper for art, staff such as Mr Wolf, former principal Mr Day and Mr Schupelius.
Trop quipped when he arrived for his photo shoot next to the time capsule plaque in the school’s gardens that “this is the first time I’ve been on time at school”.
Troy and Margaret enjoyed a few more days visiting family and places around Port Lincoln before heading home.
