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Alumni News
High School Sweethearts We always love to hear of a great love story, and many of these come from our Former Pupils themselves who met during their time at the School! Below you can read a selection of stories from alumni who are the very definition of High School Sweethearts.
Robin Stewart (Class of 1990) & Elizabeth Nutt (Class of 1995) Robin had already left the School by the time Elizabeth joined F1 in 1989, but it was from the Number 10a bus home from school one day that Elizabeth first saw her future husband walking along Victoria Road, sporting a bright pink mohican, biker boots and earrings all down one ear. Despite growing up only a mile apart, the pair never officially met until seventeen years later when Elizabeth was walking into a local nightclub and felt a tap on her shoulder – there was Robin handing her a ticket to get in for free! The couple have been together ever since. Robin has had a very interesting work history from hairdressing to fire eating in a circus, to a successful career in the oil and gas industry. He gave up working offshore several years ago and now studies horticulture at Dundee & Angus College with a view to turning his passion for gardening into a business venture. After leaving the School, Elizabeth spent several years travelling around the world before heading homeward bound to Dundee to raise her daughter and return to full-time education. She first studied Textile Art at Dundee & Angus College before moving on to graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone with an honours degree in Fine Art. She has since worked as a tattoo artist for a number of years and has worked at Liquorice Tattoo in Kirriemuir for the last six years. Since the couple have been together, they have been fortunate enough to travel to many wonderful places and in 2018 they spent time volunteering in Thailand in a kindergarten and also in an elephant sanctuary. This November, Robin and Elizabeth celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary. They still live in Broughty Ferry very close to where they grew up, along with Elizabeth’s daughter, who studies Psychology at Abertay, as well as three dogs and two cats. Elizabeth says that Robin didn’t hold onto his pink mohican or multiple ear piercings but that she still feels like a schoolgirl when she sees the Number 10a passing by their house.
Jamie Parratt & Martel Maxwell (Both Class of 1995) On Martel’s first day of school in L1, aged just five-years-old, she met many lifelong friends. One of them was Jamie Parratt. He was her first crush and he was her first kiss – something Martel describes as a nerve-wracking event in which she tried to remember the ‘top tips’ in her coveted Just 17 magazine! They were 13 and the place was Bonar’s ‘Hall A’. The song that was playing was Robin Beck’s First Time. Twenty years later (Martel says he took his time!), whilst at a party together Jamie officially asked her out. Three months later, he proposed. The first song at their wedding was, you guessed it, First Time! Fast forward another seven years and they have been blessed with three boys. Their redheads Monty, age six and currently in L2, Chester, age four who is in L1 and Guthrie, age two, who is blonde and who his parents say oddly looks like he will take a tan!! Martel says she doesn’t know how any of this happened, but that she is so glad and thankful that it did. To top off the couple’s romantic story, Martel recalled the moment Monty started L1, and her saying “You never know son, you might meet the girl you’ll one day marry today, just like mummy and daddy.” He took a moment, grimaced and said: “Ooh that’s disgusting.”
