Publication of the Anglesea Community House Inc.
Issue No. 105
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ISSUE 113 APRIL 2013
HIGHLIGHTS The New CFA
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Reliving the 1960’s
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DEAN LOBBE
Family, faith, work and
Short Story
10 community became the set
The Pole House Where From
12 adopted as a child and 14 continues to live in his adult
Uba Mama Restaurant
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Jenny Bubb
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of values Dean Lobbe
Living With Parkinson’s 24 Garden 3231
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New Thrift Shop
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Techangle
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Houseangle
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Triples For Triers
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Schools
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Jack Burgess
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Las Lomas
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life. Dean’s father was a primary school principal in country schools as diverse as Poowong East, Apollo Bay, Hoddles Creek, and Warburton. This meant that the family moved quite often into yet another little school house and set up their home in a new community. After some years of this somewhat itinerant life, the family finally settled in Yarra Junction as the time for secondary education arrived for Dean and his older brother. He attended Upper Yarra High School, quite enjoying his schooling but, he now regrets, not working to his full potential. When he finished Year 12, he had poor marks in English, so didn’t actually achieve his VCE - ‘too busy socializing’ he says. He was however awarded the citizenship award, or the ‘good guy’ trophy as he calls it. During the school holidays he
had been picking berries at a nearby berry farm and working as a truck jockey at a wholesale food company, where he says his main task was to keep the drivers awake. Since he was unable to go to university to study PE, he began working full time at the food supplier’s warehouse, where he began work at about 3 am, returned home for a sleep, got up and ate, played golf, went out for a counter-meal with his friends and back to work. That was the pattern of his days. During his first year working at the warehouse he decided he’d like more in his life, so returned to his old school to study English. Lack of application, a very much half-hearted attitude and having too much fun with new mates once again meant that he did not receive a satisfactory mark to pass the subject. Dean continued his job at the warehouse sorting stock and loading trucks. He found his height a great asset. Before long he proved his worth and became the foreman. He enjoyed this leadership role, but by the time he turned 21
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was really wondering where his life was heading. He knew he wasn’t using his full potential, so returned to study at the adult education centre in Healesville. There he found himself in a class with seven women, most of them a great deal older than he was. He had a female teacher who, with his class mates, pushed and encouraged him, making him accountable for what he produced. Dean believes he learnt more about grammar, writing styles and literature in that year than he had during all his years at school. He was delighted to pass English this time, and to apply for two courses – PE Primary teaching at Warrnambool and Outdoor Education at Boronia Technical School. He got in to both courses and had to decide which one to take. He chose the outdoor education course and thus commenced his 25 year journey as an outdoor education instructor. Continued page 6
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