Namibia: Family, Friends, Pupils Mourn Teacher's Death

18 September 2009

COLLEAGUES, friends and family yesterday gathered at a memorial service for Suiderlig High School English teacher Cecil Harold Vries, who died of intracranial bleeding on Monday.

The headmaster of Suiderlig High School, Reginald Smit, said it felt "as if a rock had crashed onto the Suiderlig High School". Smit said Vries preferred to serve the people of Keetmanshoop, where he was born and grew up, instead of looking for greener pastures with his academic achievements.

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