Thirteen Formative Years |
 LEAVING SOUTH AFRICA – American Field Service (AFS): Friday evening, 3 August 1962, was – to quote the Johannesburg Star – “the beginning of a great adventure for 60 students from many parts of South Africa”: our AFS contingent boarded this plane at what was then known as Johannesburg’s Jan Smuts Airport (it has since been renamed the O. R. Tambo International Airport). It was the first time I’d ever been on a commercial airline flight. It was also the last day of the thirteen formative years that I had spent living in and growing up in South Africa. A crucial chapter in my life had come to an end. (This is the last picture in this album.) |