VPHS Magazine 2014 | Page 38

VPHS geen hiperbool of onderspeling bring ooit heling van jou formidabele vrou in kleinlettertjies (sonder uitroeptekens) ikone word te veel besing geliefdes te min bemin legendes deur leuens verkondig mense al wat sondig om ongesiens verby te gaan was jou grootste wens in omgee sonder taan : ikoon: geliefde; legende: mens in die amper skeidingsuur is jy al vier en die gemis alreeds gewis (Marius Potgieter : 20/10/2014) Mrs Hildi Taylor Back: Mrs Wendy Kempster (sister) and Mr Frank Flockemann (brother) Front: Mrs Heidi McCartney (sister), Mrs Guta Quin (mother), Mrs Hildi Taylor Mrs Hildi Taylor arrived at Victoria Park in January 1995, and I am sure, had little idea, that she would be part of the VP Family for 20 years. Few Victorians realize that Hildi, with her impressive command of the English language, is actually a native German speaker who attended the Deutsche Schule in Cape Town, studying in German and completing a double syllabus which qualified students to continue studying in both Germany and South Africa. From standard eight she was a boarder and holiday times saw Hildi board a train for Johannesburg, where her mom lived, and ever since then she has travelled en- 38