Class of ’92 – 25 Year Reunion

On 23 September, this year, after a year in the planning, the class of ’92 Medics returned to their student home of Cardiff.

120 guests descended on the Park Plaza Hotel to enjoy an evening of joy, laughter and memory sharing.

Twelve months earlier after dusting down the treasured student year book and the black and white pre-clinical group photograph, three members of the year group (Ceri, Claire and Davida) set about finding the class of ’92. Several ‘Google’ sessions, sleepovers and bottles of bubbly later the Hotel was booked, the date set and all but ten classmates contacted. Some past students proved harder to locate than others but with persistence and word of mouth less than a handful of past students were not found.

A closed Facebook group site proved invaluable for updating the group, the sharing of ideas and excitement leading up to and after the event.

In total ninety past classmates and thirty guests attended the dinner and dance event. Guests attended from around the world including America, Canada, Malaysia, Germany, France and Scotland. Some made their trip into a holiday, others purely an overnight stay to attend the function of the year!

The evening began with a drinks reception where guests embraced each other with genuine affection and joy. Only a few faces proved difficult to recognise mainly due to hair colour changes or follicular challenges!

The next challenge was embraced by a local Cardiff photographer (Sian Trenberth) who attempted to capture a recreation of the ’87 group shot. This was undoubtedly the biggest challenge of the night as by now the ninety medics were behaving like the students they once were 25 years ago – noisy and naughty. Eventually order was established and a fantastic group photograph was produced.

After the Welsh themed menu, a slideshow of photographs taken during the five years at Medical School was shown with an entertaining commentary from Claire Young. The evening was completed with an 80’s disco, all tracks played carefully selected from ‘Med Club’s Friday night repertoire.

The night flashed by in a whirl of hugs, kisses, smiles, chatter and laughter. Bedtime merged with breakfast time for those that stayed at the hotel, who continued their catch up into the early hours.

This is a shortened version of the full article that features in edition 27 of ReMEDy.

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