Mrs Frame, who celebrated her birthday yesterday, cut a solitary figure for the 1913-23 decade photograph during the roll call at the school, south of Oamaru, on Saturday.
Mrs Frame, nee Sherwin, was dux of the school in 1927 and wore her dux medal to the celebrations.
She also had a scrapbook which included her old school reports.
"Of course I was good. I wasn't allowed to be anything else," she laughed.
She grew up in the Waiareka Valley, walking across paddocks to school, and said she had happy memories of her time at Totara.
She recalled the boys playing marbles in the play-shed, making houses out of sticks in the macrocarpa trees, enormous adding sums on the board and the pupils going "Ooh" every time a car drove past.
Principal Janet Langrish, reunion committee chairman Doug Wallace and two present-day pupils planted a totara tree at the school on Saturday to mark the occasion.
About 170 people attended a dinner and dance in Oamaru on Saturday night and a church service was held at the Totara Presbyterian Church yesterday. The school has been known over the years for its strong links to the Chinese community.
Mr Wallace said while there had been many changes at the school, some things had not changed and an oak tree, planted for the 50th jubilee in 1933, had been identified.
Mrs Langrish led a team of dedicated staff and the board of trustees, Parent Teacher Association and community worked with them to make Totara School a place of achievement and success, he said.
