Miss Tait - Religious Education. A slim, well-proportioned woman in her mid to late twenties, whom we got last period before lunch on Friday mornings. Also a gym teacher, she invariably appeared wearing a track suit with the familiar whistle round her neck, and sat at one of those high ‘Scots Dominie’ type desks on an equally tall hard chair, ‘watching oor movements like a cat lest ony gaed agley’. Which we did - often. Well, the boys anyway - and one in particular...though my lips remain sealed. The event in question took place on Friday 5th December 1969 (and often thereafter), as many 1F-ers will readily recall.

Mr James Munn - the Rector - co-author of The Munn & Dunning Report in the 1970s and later knighted. My overriding memory of this gentleman is seeing him standing outside the school by the bus stop in Stonelaw Road at 4 o’clock, black gown flapping in the wind, shouting and pointing meaningfully, as he tried to bring some kind of order to the queue waiting to board the big orange and green 18 Corpy bus to Burnside. Mr Munn spoke ‘quite posh’: ‘You boys there! Stop pushing!’

There was also an incident that term in which some first year boys were rumbled for chasing girls into the female outside toilets in the front (gurls’) playground, then conducting themselves in a lewd and libidinous manner therein. Apparently this practice had, with much squealing and shrieking, been going on for a while, to considerable acclaim by all concerned. Except, one day, a girl from Burnside told her mum, who wrote an indignant letter to Mr Munn. Subsequently dubbed ‘Lavvygate’, this affair was fully investigated, and each lad involved got summoned to the Rector’s office for six big sair yins - (Aiyah!) - as well as a fairly strong note to take home to his parents - (Cringe!).

Mrs Sinclair - the head cook. What great dinners we got at Rutherglen. I loved them all.