STUDENTS of the Sixties took a trip down memory lane when they returned to their old school, five decades after leaving.
Former pupils of Ripon Grammar School - known as Old Riponians - travelled from across the country for the reunion - and two even flew in from the United States.
Professor Alan Plumb, a world-renowned expert in meteorology and atmospheric dynamics, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, travelled from the US, as did Ralph Waggitt, who moved to the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley in 1978.
Many of the school’s Sixties alumni went on to achieve at a high level including Stephen Swindells, who became a consultant anaesthetist in the liver transplant unit at St James’s Hospital in Leeds before using his expertise in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Royal Air Force.
And Carolynne O’Donoghue’s career included working for the UN as a peace development officer in post-conflict Bosnia.
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