Boishaaier 2022

hu l d e b lyk - c i ndy mc far l an e

Cindy Mc Farlane

Despite all these commitments, she still makes time for her family, who is very dear and important to her. She enjoys gardening and has another passion in her life: running! She completed the Gun Run 11 times and the Two Oceans 10 times. A truly remarkable person! After my retirement as deputy headmaster and departmental head of English in 2019, Cindy took over the reins, establishing herself as a superb and highly organised HOD for English. The headmaster, Mr Swart, realising her awesome potential, made her part of the school’s senior management where she left an indelible mark. It was inevitable that Cindy was going to move on to greater things and she was deservedly appointed as HOD for English at La Rochelle High School where she will start this new and exciting educational chapter in her career in January 2023. You will be dearly missed by all at Boishaai. We salute you, Cindy Mc Farlane! Richard Visage (retired)

Cindy was born in Pretoria. She matriculated in 1990 after which she attended the then RAU (now UJ), where she completed her BA Ed degree in 1994.

Her first post after graduating was in Nelspruit at Lowveld High School teaching English. There she met Allister (a farmer and a nice guy, as she puts it) and they were married in 2001. She taught pre-primary for 18 months (what a learning experience) and moved into the primary school on the Mozambican border. They moved to Cape Town in 2005 where their son Aiden was born. She taught English at Tableview High School and Milnerton High School. Fortunately for the family and for Boishaai Allister’s business grew and they moved to the Winelands, eventually settling in Paarl. There she applied for English posts at Paarl Boys’ High and Paarl Gimnasium (as I did in 1977). I was able to convince her to join the better school and she started teaching at Paarl Boys’ High in January 2010.

At Paarl Boys’ High she had an immediate impact on the English Department as an extremely capable, efficient and highly organised teacher, impressing the rest of us and the boys immensely. She became subject head for English Home Language soon after. Having played provincial hockey at school and later for Mpumalanga Senior and being a national umpire, Cindy was eminently suited to take over the reins as MIC for hockey when Andrew Bretherton left Paarl Boys’ High for Kearsney. Her enthusiasm and superb organisational skills led to the further improvement of Boishaai hockey, culminating in the building of the Boishaai Astro on the primary school fields. This was a dream come true for the school and the Boishaai hockey fraternity. (We will never be able to thank you enough, Cindy.)

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