1971 ARMSTRONG Diane, BAKER Susan Lorraine (now KITTO), BAMBLETT Merle, BARNES Colleen (now HOLYMAN), BARNES John, BENCE Richard, BINDING Dianne, BOTTERILL Trevor, BOURKE Damian, BRIGGS Eddie, BRIGGS Ralph, BROAD Anthony, BROWN D. (female), BUTLER Trevor, BUTTON Henry, CALDWELL Jeanette, CARLAND Geoff, COLMAN Evelyn, COOPER Vera, COTTOM Caroline, CROW Viviene, CROWTHER John, FEENEY Sheryl, FULLAGER Terrence, GALLAGHER Brett, GETLEY Joy, HENDERSON Andrew, HILL Daryl, HOHMUTH Mark, HUDSON Eva, HUTCHINS Lynne (now SALAU), JAMES Wendy (now BOURKE), JENNINGS Russell, KELLY Michael, KILLMISTER Deborah, KILLMISTER Janine, LEWIS Barry, LIMBRICK Rosemary (now McMILLAN), LOWE Debra, MALONEY Wendy, McGUIRE Barbara, McKENZIE Carol, McNAMARA Ken, MORDEN Barbara, MORGAN Tony, NEWMAN Peter, PEARCE Peter, PELL Esther, PELL Greg, PELL Jeni (now DELANEY), PELL Leonie, PELL Wendy (now SWAN), PETERS Mark, PIKE Priscilla, PINCHIN Mark, RALTON Julie, RATHBONE Glenda (now BAKSH), RENDELL Grant, SALMON Alexandra, SCADDEN Neil, SESSIONS John, SMITH Julie, STIRLING Ian, SWAN Karen, SWAN Peter, SWANTON Michael, TUCKETT Shirley, WALKER Hilda, WALKER May, WALSH Bernadette, WALSH Lynette, WALTON Jeff, WESTON John, WILLIAMS Ian
The above list was uploaded in March 2009. Please feel free to add fond memories about your year level, or friends, by clicking on ‘comments’ below…. by sharing your happy/bizarre memories (& ‘submitting’ it) ….. others from your year can read and enjoy your stories… and hopefully add their own……
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Random Memories of School:
• Feeling a bit out of it with the trendy, confident, popular group of kids who had come from Nathalia Primary School as I only knew Carol McKenzie and Trevor Botterill from Yalca South PS; ended up in a small circle of quiet, polite girls including Carol, Sue Baker, Sheryl Feeney etc.
• The system we had of choosing in-depth subjects and electives and mostly having to teach ourseleves didn’t suit me; I loved it when a teacher actually taught us things; I especially loved Regan McLachlan teaching geography and American history; the American teachers, Jane Sisson and Collette, arriving (in 1974?); the brilliant maths teaching talents of 1st year teacher, Jackie Beckworth; ‘Billy’ Beckworth sucking on the end of his pencil trying hard to solve a ‘Maths 1’ problem with us; Form 6 had a few factors working against good marks – our Form 6 chemistry teacher running off suddenly in 1st term to Melbourne and leaving us teacherless, so the first year out ag science teacher (what was his name – he was very good looking I recall) had to take over our Form 6 class; not having enough kids in Form 6 Pure Maths and Applied Maths classes so having to do these subjects by correspondence with Peter Pearce and Peter Swan – we would spend our ‘class’ time in one of the tiny rooms off the library with them telling jokes for an hour and me laughing for an hour – lesson over for another day!;
• the high school kids giving the convent kids a hard time on the school bus; the unfairness of being last off the bus after travelling all the way out as far as Jackson’s and Manion’s farms, and even then having a 2 km bike ride home from our bus stop – I was envious of the kids who got dropped off at their gate and only had to walk up their drive; the sadness of hearing teacher Derek Cole had been killed in a car accident in Melboune;
• the delight of occasionally being allowed to buy my lunch – I had 15 cents: 10 cents for 3 potato cakes and 5 cents for an icy-pole; being amazed when some of the boys landed on the school bus with handfuls of choc-coated ice-creams and other things they had stolen from the canteen at the end of the day
How good was that! After an absence of 30 years I thoroughly enjoyed the warm welcome and catch-up with old schoolmates, teachers, neighbours and friends from my growing up years.