There is nothing like a special occasion to bring old friends and acquaintances back together again.

A few weeks back retired Norwood District High School (NDHS) teacher Terry Stephens celebrated his 90th birthday with a party in his honour at the Asphodel Community Centre. Mr. Stephens himself admitted he really was not expecting a lot of people besides family and a few friends. What happened instead was an impromptu reunion of sorts with a host of former NDHS teachers and colleagues dropping in to bring their best wishes and share a few memories from their teaching days together.

Alongside his many family members and numerous friends his former contemporaries filled the Community Centre’s Millennium Room with well-wishers.     

Terry Stephens started at Norwood District High School in 1960, serving most of that teaching science (at least that is what he taught when I was a student at Norwood High). Throughout his many years at NDHS, Mr. Stephens would have witnessed a multitude of changes; when he started the building was not even a decade old, it was........

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