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Happy 30th anniversary reunion to our mighty Class of 74. We are proud to be members of a collection of extraordinary men that started as a group of short-pants youngsters at the IGS Memorial Junior School in 1963.
They are truly the original angry old men - just look at the photo on Page 3!
Our unique group swelled to more than 140 names over the coming 12 years … with about 70 hanging around to sit for the HSC-VCE examinations held in 1974.
As a group we may not have reached the maximum academic achievements at the time, but the Class of 74 certainly set the benchmark for fun and life.
We liked it so much that more than a quarter of the Class of 74 hung around to do a lap-of-honour … and also become members of Ivanhoe Grammar's Class of 75.
No-one can ever accuse us of disloyalty!
Indeed, the Class of 74 is renowned in Ivanhoe Grammar School history as one of the most closely-knit alumni groups.
Not a single day goes by without some of our Class of 74 associates in contact with each other … for a business deal, a sporting connection, to link up for a drink or a laugh, or just maintain those friendly mateships.
We don't apologise for our undergraduate humour. That's exactly what it was. And the Class of 74 resolved many years ago never to apologise for anything!
Thanks to many of our Class of 74 members, we've been able to put together a souvenir book that includes many memories and photographs.
Thanks especially to some of our original Scandal co-editors, David Masson, Don McColl, Neil James, Ken Barlow, Chris Herrod, and many others who have contributed items for this special booklet.
John Jury, James Scott, Tim Armstrong, Andrew Howarth and others came along with our ‘planning meetings’ at the Old England Hotel.
Incredibly, ace photographer Greg Bartley pulled out many dozens of unwashed black-and-white negatives from 30 years ago to provide many of the illustrations for this book.
Plus there have been many wonderful contributions and memories from our 74 team. You can see all these incriminating shots throughout the book, and also at our www.scandal.com.au website.
Please enjoy our reunion, renewing lifelong friendships, enjoying the revelry, tell a few lies, and relive our wonderful youth!
This is Your Captain Speaking, Ash Long
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➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ ‘The Old Contemptables’ pictured at the Ivanhoe Grammar Memorial Junior School in 1963. Back Row (from left): David Stevenson, David Masson, Don McColl, Ben White, Campbell Fallaw. Front Row: Malcolm Baker, Peter Swain, Murray Scott, Peter Wilson.
Back in 1963, television was only six years old. So were we!
A handful of us were enrolled in the Ivanhoe Grammar Memorial Junior School prep. class. The rest of us were scattered at a variety of places - mainly state schools - all over Victoria.
Ours was an era of post-war, baby booming, pounds/shillings and pence.
Gradually, we all came together to meet at The Ridgeway ... and form a wonderful chemistry set called ‘The Class of 74’. More than 140 men can claim membership.
Those to attend the Junior School came under the tutelage of self-important Master-in-Charge Richard Stowell, and a staff of totally dedicated teachers.
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Stowell had been appointed to the IGS staff in July 1956 to teach general subjects in the Middle School and to act as a resident master in the Sherwood Boarding House. He left at the end of 1957 to travel throughout Europe via the USA ... only to return to the School in September 1964 to his new position.
Even the School's official newsletter, The Ridgeway, noted that Stowell won a reputation as "a man not to be trifled with".
David Masson recalls that one of his fellow Junior School pupils, Jamie King, copped a public caning because his hair was too long. David says teacher Lorna Rice reluctantly agreed to Stowell's orders to find a hair ribbon so that student King could be further humiliated before his peers.
Another early Class of 74 member, Robert Mountain, was likewise publicly caned for returning to his nearby Ivanhoe home during school hours.
Stowell had a love for teaching English Expression and Religious Instruction (Divinity). What a day in 'R.I.' when sixth-grader Stephen Cookson had two questions about the Anglican Creed: "What is a Virgin?" and "Would I find one in Reservoir?

➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ The Memorial Junior School, opened in 1955, provided the entry point for a number of the ‘Class of 74’.
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➤ ➤ Our Junior School classes were marched every Friday morning along The Ridgeway to the St Stephen’s Chapel in Merton Street. The church and adjoining hall - scene of our 1974 HSC exams (and Bernie Mauritz’s wedding to Jennie)have since been sold off to a lucrative real estate market.
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To his credit, Richard Stowell was responsible for establishing the 'Adventure Playground': a dangerous play-pit of lumber and packing cases dropped off by fathers' trucks.
"The IGS Adventure Playground provided an opportunity for boys' imaginations to run riot while they built houses, forts and spaceships, and at the same time, learned to settle their differences, respect each other's rights and the advantage of real cooperation," noted The Ridgeway .
The Adventure Playground became 'McColl's Empire' - under the strict but sometimes benign control of Donald McColl.
Don was Leader of Foresters house; other leaders were Simon Robson (Archers), Peter Swain (Lancers), and Jamie King (Yeomen). Craig Anderson was Junior School captain.
By our senior year - 1968 - there were 182 boys enrolled in the Junior School. Staff were Master-in-Charge Richard Stowell, Bill Lyon, Neil Watt, Arthur Ince, John Pearce, Marj Gregory, Eve Watson, Lorna Rice, Brenda Corstorphin, and remedial treacher Geoff Saunders.
But, of course, the real power base was McColl's Empire.

➤ ➤ The self important Richard H. LaM. Stowell
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➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ The J6L Class Photo, 1968. Back Row (from left): Keith Parkes, Anthony Jenkinson, Stephen Cookson, Ian McPherson, Douglas McCallum, Mark Mason. Second Row: Mark Humphries, Campbell Fallaw, David Masson, Greg Wayman, Roger Forbes, Ash Long, Geoffrey Hughes. Third Row: Michael Hamlyn-Harris, Murray Scott, Tom Arnot, Simon Miles, Craig Anderson. Front Row: Charles ‘Chippy’ Low, Peter Wilson, James Crouch, Oliver Blaufelder.
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ Important Footnote: One 'Old Boy' remembers that Ian McPherson had dyed red hair; he lived next door in Fitzsimons Lane, Eltham to Ian Cameron, who had the world's largest train set which stretched around his entire house.
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ The ‘L’ in J6L stood for Bill Lyon. 'Blue' Lyon was the Masterin-Charge of Class of '74 students when they fronted as J6L pupils at the Memorial Junior School in 1968. He taught us Arithmetic ... woodwork and metalwork ... and good manners. ‘Ye Gods and little fishes,’ was one of his favourite exclamations.
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➤ ➤ The J6P Class Photo, 1968. Back Row (from left): Henry Cotton, Jamie King, Kenton Savage, Mark Beechey, David Stevenson. Middle Row (from left): Craig Barr, Simon Robson, David Jessup, John Metelman, Peter Swain, Peter Robb, Paul Bannister. Front Row (from left): Stephen Frew, Steven Cropley, Warrick Eastwood, Don McColl, Mark Dempsey. Front Row (from left): Tim Armstrong, Peter Kalb. James Scott, Sandy Pate, Peter Mery.
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ The ‘P’ in J6P stood for John Pearce (the class had previously been J6W under the charge of Neil Watt).
Do You Remember …
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ The shudder punch, involving a cowardly attack from behind and a massive thumping of the spine of an unsuspecting victim.
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ One Class of 74 student forgetting his towel in the old pavilion, and drying himself from the cold showers … with his jocks!
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The year 1969 saw two big world events: ● man walked on the Moon, and ● many of us ‘graduated’ to the Ivanhoe Grammar’s Senior School.
Indeed, both events were juxtaposed when we were herded into Buckley Hall to watch the black-and-white television coverage of the Moon landing. Probably we should say three big events happened. Teacher Johnny Marshall introduced the Form 1 students of 1969 to his Maths classes - and the whirlwind Friday afternoon ill-tempered sessions!

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John Marshall had started teaching at IGS in 1939 as a trainee, serving in the Coastal Defence Force in Queensland and the South Pacific in World War II. He returned to Sherwood House in 1946 as a resident master in the ‘Junior Dorm’.
John Marshall became known to many as ‘Uncle John’, and was a firm teacher of the discipline. Any ‘Class of 74’ student who endured his Friday afternoon tests - preceded by his nervous cigarette in the quadrangle - will attest to a meticulous attention to getting it right
The Ivanarian noted memories of ‘JSM’, after his death in 1972:
● ‘The thing that stays in my mind is the way Mr Marshall was always punctual. If he wasn’t ion thr oom with his books open, his glasses on, the door closed, and ready to go, something was wrong - especially if the bell for the period had already rung. He was a smart, neat and brisk typoe of man. He wore the same jacket and tie every day with a clean and freshly pressed shirt. His hair was always combed and he had a trip to the barber’s every fortnight. He set fairly difficult tests and when he took them up he didn’t even wait for you to write youyr name. If you didn’t have time to squiggle your name down in the right hand corner you did not expect to see the paper again. He never called names out but just walked briskly around the room handing the papers back. He was a good teacher although he could have gone a bit slower.”
● ‘Friday was ‘D’ day. Tempers started to get a bit frayed by then so you had to be extra careful not to do anything to upset him, but that was pretty hard to do. Out of class he was completely different. He would talk to you about Maths and give you help if you wanted it. He would share a joke or sometimes, if he was feeling good, even tell you one.”
● ‘Second Term he had his birthday and we all pitched in and bought him a cigarette lighter. He was so embarrassed that he wouldn’t even bring it to school to use. Never once did he let is out early or late. He was a man of principles and he hardly broke any of them.”
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Teacher Doug 'Gurkha' Hennessy can take the credit for fostering the early issues of Scandal
The 2F Scandal was a weekly hand-written newsletter pinned to the notice-board at the back of the classroom. 'Gurkha' awarded prizes of chocolates bars to encourage English Expression pieces from his teenage students.
This was certainly not the era of political correctness. Our first edition headlined: "Shock! Saw Passes Exam!" Our subject, Randall Saw, didn't let it bother him - he has gone on to successfully run his own earthmoving business for many years.
Cheroot-smoking DJG Hennessy caught our imagination when pupil Don McColl was adjudged to have a wrong answer in class. "Wrong McColl, You Are Bonkers!"
So became the headline, and a favourite saying, still heard more than 30 years later!
Before our interest in girls was ignited, Scandal concentrated on news about yo-yos, Wynns stickers, and Roger Forbes's collection of 'Hot Rods' model cars.
Boy! Our topics of interest soon changed as soon as the male teenage hormones kicked in!
Each form had its own magazine, one was called 'Nam' (' Man' spelled backwards).
But Scandal ruled the day … soon becoming a printed edition in July 1970, sometimes with a five-cent cover price to cover paper, ink and stencil costs.
Original editors were (2D) A. Bliss; (2E) K. Barlow; (2F) D. McColl, D. Masson and A. Long.
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Our Class of 74 underground newspaper, Scandal, was a real thorn in the conservative day-to-day running of Ivanhoe Grammar School.
We offended everyone - no favourites!
Our June 1973 edition headlined: 'IGS on Obscenity Charges?' Scandal's front-page story was by-lined as 'An Exclusive - Written, Rewritten and Responsible for the Expulsion of Editor, A.Long'.
The beat-up suggested that Ivanhoe Grammar School could soon be prosecuted under the draconian Police Offences (Publications) Act 1973 for stocking books that contained four-letter words.
Scandal pointed out that the IGS library displayed copies of the liberal newspaper, Nation Review, that had been fined $150 for printing, publishing and distributing "an obscene cartoon".
(Scandal conveniently forgot to mention that its Editor, who worked as a part-time out-of-school-hours press-hand, supplied free copies of Nation Review for librarian Mrs Schlesinger's shelves!)
Scandal even pointed out rude words in the Bibles on the IGS library shelves in an attempt to prove the point in its investigation.
Postscript: Much to Scandal's chagrin, the Ivanhoe Grammar School was never prosecuted for stocking the Holy Bible on its shelves!
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©Copyright Greg Bartley 1974
Two institutions of the Class of 74 was the dismantling of the old Tait red carriages of the Victorian Railways (Darebin Station, pictured above) ; and dining at Mrs Pedley’s ‘Tuck Shop’.
Don McColl needs no aiding or abetting in Mrs Pedley's tuckshop, home of the buttered roll, Paddle Pop, Moseley's soft drink.
Peter Cullum also has vivid memories:
“Coming from a state high school I wasn't used to the range of choices or sheltered facilities of the day.
“On one occasion my order of a meat pie proved very disappointing when on taking a healthy bite I discovered "yellow looking stuff" inside.
“I didn't know what botulism was at the time but was pretty sure I was going to be worse off for swallowing this unsavoury looking stuff.
“So no lunch that day and an afternoon wondering when the stomach cramps were going to begin.
“ Some years later I discovered at the local bakery a culinary delight called ... "curry pies".
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Scandal conducted a special investigation into Tuck Shop prices at IGS and IGGS. The investigation proved nothing!
Rolls/Sandwiches, Buttered7c6c
Honey, Peanut Butter, Vegemite11c10c
Peanut Butter and Honey, Egg, MeatNA12c
Cheese, Tomato13c12c
Hamburger, Meat and Pickles13cNA
Salad13c14c
Cheese & Vegemite, Cheese and Tomato, HamNA14c
Meat and SaladNA15c
Ham and SaladNA16c
Buttered BunNA7c Sauce-1c
Drinks, Flavoured Milk8c8c
Sunny Boy, RazzNA5c
Five n Twenty6cNA
Tin - Pine, Pine & Orange8c8c
Tarax, Coca-Cola, Fanta less deposit9cNA
Opal - Moseley’s10c11c
Fresh Orange JuiceNA12c
YoghurtNA17c
Fruit: Apples, Oranges, Bananas5c5c ½ Boiled Egg3cNA
Pies: Apricot, Apple, Loganberry, Fruit18cNA
Meat Pie, Pasties20c20c
Sausage Rolls10c10c
Peanuts, Sultanas5c3c/5c
Chips10c5c
Biscuits2-4 for 1c
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One of the reputed big developments in Senior School was our 'Guinea Pig' status for the new audio-visual French lessons, complete with new desks in a classroom overseen by Kurt 'Wally' Schuster and Dr Ted Blashki (pictured above)
Longman's Audio-Visual French, Stage One boomed the synchronised tape and projector (écouter et répéter, listen and repeat, came the instruction).
Over the coming months, we would rejoice in the comings and goings of the characters Jean-Paul and Marie-France.
"Vite les enfants, le dejeuner et prêt."
We would learn about the facteur (postman), fromage (cheese) and quelle heure est-il (what time is it?)
We also learned about Doc Blashki's handy grasp of the cane (or was it Dick Garner?). Certainly Doug McCallum did as he allegedly gazed across to Don McColl's French notes in one of the many written exams.
Doug was accused of wrongly using these answers. Three cuts. Don was accused of the crime of 'aiding and abetting'. Such were the severe penalties of the day.
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He was known as 'The Rev'.
The Reverend Phill Cooke had the honour of teaching 'Divinity' to the less-than-divine Class of 74.
'The Rev' had himself been an Ivanhoe student, as a boarder in 1933-34. He was the son of a country medical practitioner, and was studying for his Leaving Certificate (Year 11) when his father died. He was immediately taken out of school and took a position as a clerk with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agencies Co Ltd.
Following tow years as a medical student, Phill joined the RAAF and transferred from air-crew training to the Meteorolical Section with which he went to New Guinea as a member of a mobile meteorological unit attached to the Sixth Division AIF.
He took his discharge from the RAAF at the end of 1944 and began theological studies at Ridley College - which had been his ambition since age 13.
Priested in 1951, 'the Rev' served at St John's Hidelberg, the Bush Church Aid Society, St Andrew's Rosanna, chaplain at the Austin Hospital, then was appointed as Chaplain to Ivanhoe Grammar School in 1965.
But who can forget his calling as our Divinity adviser? And his Sex Education classes in Fourth Form where he drew blackboard graphs to show the sexual peaks of males, as compared to females ... along with the suggestion that young men respect the different timing of a woman.
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Scandal soon became a major avenue of communication between the boys and girls of Class of 74.
Dale Mark, obviously a Commercial and Legal Studies enrolee, was listed to place a notice which said: "I, Dale Mark, have not breached Crimes Act Section 48 in any way."
His buddy advertised: "I, Peter M. Greenaway, give notice that if rumours continue that I am pregnant, legal action will be taken." Ads were placed for JB's Rubber Goods. And our May 1972 issue carried the note: 'Legal complications prevent us from printing The Life Story of M.H.' We had planned a tribute to Margot Hicks, now sadly deceased.
Scandal conducted a 'vox pop' survey on the Dancing Classes, which we termed as the "Dainty Dears".
● Chris 'Weasel' Herrod: "Don't like the dancing - don't mind the class (not that type of class!). I definitely will NOT be coming back next year."
● Sir Brent Alexander Campbell: "Bit ridiculous. Everyone is scared of each other."
● Tom Arnot: "Not bad! Arright! Bit shouse, I suppose. Yeh! Bonzer."
● Stephen Cookson: "B----- terrible, it's like dancing with my little sister. Surf board riding is for Torquay."
● Jamie Hogan: "Not going anymore. Waste of time."
● Randall Saw: "Vic and Sue make a good couple - but, I don't ever go, you see."
● Vic Cooley: "I thought they would be pretty good at first - but there's a lot of goony birds - try to say something - and they just stand there."
● John Stonehouse: "Waste of time - not worth $6 of birds who go.”
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➤ ➤ ➤ The Class of 74 attended Noel Street so often that we reckon we deserves to be Honorary Old Girls. This picture is of the Rotherwood girls at the 1973 sports.

➤ ➤ ➤ Scandal was everywhere, including the IGGS science class. We recognise Virginia Vindin Price, Lynore McWhirter, Caroline McDougall and Debbie Chandler.
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➤ ➤ Comparing notes at the Symposium held at Noel Street: (from left) Grant Scale, Geoff Catterall, Judy Clements, Tom Wong, Blair Evans and Peter Mery.

➤ Providing the musical entertainment in Walker Hall at the 1974 Symposium were (from left) Dick Austin, Stuart Bridgman and Chris Lesser, with James Scott back to camera.
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➤ ➤ Andrew Howarth and James Scott make notes as Fiona Mackenzie thinks up the strategy in the role playing sessions.

➤ ➤ Jane Lamerton rules the day, as Steve and Barry chat.

➤ Peter Pearce and Heather Gawne enliven proceedings
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➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: Chris Lesser and Stuart Bridgman tackle the ‘washing up’ at the 1974 Symposium
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➤ ➤ Soon to be married: A 1974 photo of the late Anna Saksida and her husband-to-be Geoff Catterall
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Peter Cullum remembers:
“Finally starting to catch up again and thought it was about time to share the following ...
“Can't remember if it was Year 11 or 12 but we were all doing pretty poorly in our halfyear results.
“The mandatory year meeting was called by Barry Dyball at which we were belittled and reminded of the school tradition that we were failing to uphold.
“There wasn't too much shock and awe amongst the group (probably most were stoned) so Barry instructed us all to get one of our parents to to contact him directly.

My mother I regarded as a soft touch so I gave her the news and asked if she could ring the year coordinator to learn what a failure I was.
When the receptionist answered the phone Mum asked me the name of the co-ordinator that she needed to talk to and out it popped ..... Jimmy Dribble!!!
There was silence at the other end of the phone and Mum got suspicious when she saw me having fits of hysteria rolling around the floor.
So she did the only logical thing - hung up. Next day she summoned her courage and tried again - this time she asked for ... Barry Dryball!!!
More hysteria - another interrupted call, and a very unhappy mother. Needless to say that there was no third attempt.
Barry never heard from a Cullum representative.
And today I've reached the dizzing heights of non-achievment that Barry always knew I was capable of. Life is certainly good.”

One of the big issues of 1972 was the length of hair allowed by IGS masters.
A Scandal article attributed to Jeff Lee warned teachers that a fourth form uprising was just around the corner if they did not comply with requests to allow longer hair.
Jeff warned that the 'fourth form underground' would:
● consider strike action,
● refuse to turn up to French lessons
● refuse to turn up to school at all
● fail to bring books to class
● organise a march through the school
● accidentally drop papers on Tuesday. Does it even need to be said that the hair restrictions stayed in place?
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Chris Kandiliotis recalls: “For those not aware of the changes at IGS, the Humanities Theatre where the revolt was hatched has been demolished. Even worse, current students are not even aware of its historical significance. One can only speculate as to the reasons for its demolition.
“In memory of those who participated, we ought to petition the school to set up a perpetual memorial in memory of all past students who suffered the indignity of compulsory uniforms and haircuts.
“Furthermore, it ought to be included in the students’ politics curriculum as an example where the democratic will of the student body was ignored and as a study of where real power resides.
“I remember that the teachers were particularly impressed by the way the revolt was conducted but chose to ignore our wiushes in any case ... if only we knew how to make a Molotov cocktail!”
John Jury remembers:
“In around Form 2 (Year 8 for the modernists) I recall that “The Big Match” was a popular ABC2 show featuring highlights of the English First Division soccer highlights. There was a guy named Keith Weller who was captain of Leicster City at the time & I recall my then (and now) mate Greg Weller claiming him as his Uncle. Yes his mother’s brother. I think it took about a year for anyone to twig that his mother’s brother wouldn’t have been named Weller.
“Another great memory about Greg, was when I won the most improved student in forms 2 and 4 (apologies to anyone if I have had a memory lapse and misrepresented the exact years). He complained bitterly that I had dogged it in Form 3 just so I could win a prize again! It would really irk him to know that my son won the same award at I.G.S. last year in year 8!
“Finally I also recall some great card games of 500 in sixth form when we were supposed to be studying & playing indoor soccer in the gym whilst I should have been in Irving’s English classes in the lead up to the H.S.C. exams.”
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➤ ➤ Roger Crosthwaite and his date for a 1973 dance
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➤ ➤ Kim Austin, Ash Long and James Scott got the gig to travel with the IGGS Godspell show
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‘Jock’
©Copyright Greg Bartley 1974

➤ Headmaster VRC ‘Jock’ Brown chose 1974 as his final year at Ivanhoe Grammar School. We made it memorable for him.
'Jock' Brown was one of the old school.
Victor Roger Charge Brown was Headmaster of Ivanhoe Grammar School from 1948, deciding to retire in the year that he encountered the Class of 74.
We lived in the era of IGS being a very British-style grammar school.
'Jock' was born in Western Australia, attended Perth University, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1929.
A local Heidelberger newspaper report noted that he had taken up residence at Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated Master of Arts, Bachelor of Science and received his Diploma of Education. His sporting interest was rowing, in which he gained his 'blue' in WA. He was captain of boats at Lincoln College and rowed in the Oxford University trial eights.
'Jock' joined the staff of Radley College, a prominent English public school, where he became a Housemaster. During the war, he served in the Royal Air Force as Squadron Leader.
After World War II, he and the redoubtable Gladys, won the IGS post, taking over from the Rev Sydney Buckley, who had founded St James Grammar School in Ivanhoe in 1915.
Interestingly, VRC Brown was for many years a member of the Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School Council, serving two years as chairman.
'Jock' loved the Class of 74. And described it in his final Speech Night as ‘one of the best'.

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➤ ➤ Above: Dick Dooley’s motor scooter was hijacked to the Physics Lab.

➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ Above: Frank and Judy English were responsible for our tour of Tasmania.
➤ ➤ Right: The famed and flared Irving Reid.

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➤ Marcel Nyeholt was one of the Class of 74 teaching staff. After his stint at Ivanhoe Grammar School, he joined Braemar College in 1978, becoming its Deputy Headmaster from 1983. In 1989 he was an International Teaching Fellow in Washington State, USA; shortly after arriving he was diagnosed with cancer. He died on August 23, 1991. His four children, Bree, Marcus, Lisette and Piers were educated at Braemar. His wife Lelsey is a staff member.
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➤ Doc Blashki ensures some remedial learning


➤ Dick Austin celebrates Jock’s retirement
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➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ Chris Herrod and new friend at the St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School swimming sports in 1974. We had jetted in just hours earlier, and already ‘Weasel’ was making friends. The fun continued across the weekend, throughout 1974 and beyond ...
We don't know what 'Jock' had in his morning tea in 1974, but we have to thank for the unprecedented trip of the Class of 74 to St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School in Adelaide. What headmaster in his right mind would load up a TAA jet with testosterone-pumped 17- and 18-year-olds for a weekend of socialisation with Adelaide's most promising socialite supposed virgins?
It was an extraordinary weekend - that still has ramifications some 30 years later!
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"Would you believe, I miss you already, how would you like to come back Adelaide straight away - there's plenty of room in my bedroom?"
So says the letter from one Stonyfell lass to her IGS 'Class of 74' visitor, after our incredible three-day Labor Day weekend visit.
The recipient - who we will only refer to as "Golliwog' - still keeps the letter, 30 years later, in a safe place - presumably hidden away from his long-suffering missus.
(And, from what we hear, there are a number of blokes who still similarly secretly preserve these St Peters' letters!)
"If you're going to hitch-hike over to Adelaide, when and if you come, please be careful. I'm in a geography lesson and the kid in front of me has tied my shoelace to her desk and pulling her chair in, therefore practically pulling me off my damn chair," Deb said.
"I haven't got my foot back yet, I'm sitting right on the edge of the chair and I'm just about to fall off. We've got Chesty Bonds Miss Pike last lesson today, I'll wonder what she'll say, if she'll say anything at all.
"Lots and lots of love to most dearest and most loveable Dave."
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➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ Mark Dempsey and Geoff Hughes arrive at Tullamarine fresh from the Labor Day weekend trip in Adelaide, 1974.
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➤ The Cool Scapt’n with Peter Greenaway and Dale Mark
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➤ ➤ ➤ The ‘Class of 74’ Study Ethic: Rod Haslam demonstrates the ‘Swot Vac’ method of study perfected by the 1974 members.
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©Copyright Greg Bartley 1974

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Rick Newbery writes:
As a memory tester, I have tried to remember which football teams everybody in the 74 lot followed:
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ TOM ARNOT - Essendon?
➤ ➤ BOB ASHWORTH - Fitzroy
➤ ➤ BRENT CAMPBELL - Carlton
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ COOKA - Essendon
➤ ➤ VIC COOLEY- Essendon
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ STEVE CROPLEY - Collingwood?
➤ ➤ ROGER CROSTHWAITE- Carlton (a guess based on knowing his brother/cousin Steve (Bo) from the boarding house in 76)
➤ ➤ GARRY DUMBRELL - Richmond? (I saw the 72 2nd Semi from the Members at VFL Park (then practically brand-new) with his medallion)
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ CAM FALLAW - Hawthorn or Richmond?
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ CHRIS HERROD- Essendon (He made my first day at IGS a very alarming one indeed!)
©Copyright Greg Bartley 1974

➤ Andrew Howarth at the 1974 house swimming sports
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➤ ➤ JAMIE HOGAN - Essendon
➤ ➤ NEIL JAMES - Melbourne?
➤ ➤ ANTHONY JENKINSON - Collingwood
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ JOHN JURY - Melbourne
➤ ➤ NIGE KELLY - Collingwood
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ CHRIS 'FANG' KING - Carlton
➤ ➤ ROB KIRWAN - Collingwood
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ KEN LEE - Carlton
➤ ➤ DAVE MASSON - Collingwood
➤ ➤ DOUG McCALLUM - Hawthorn
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ DON McCOLL - Melbourne
➤ ➤ JOHN METTELMANN - Essendon
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ PETER PEARCE - St Kilda (a wild guess which must have come from somewhere)
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ BELA 'SHOOG' RICE - Hawthorn
➤ ➤ PETER SWAIN - Collingwood
➤ ➤ PHIL WEEKLEY - Carlton
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ GREG WELLER - Melbourne
Hope I haven't cast any aspersions on anybody's character unjustly!

● Very sporting! A Sunday night at the Croxton Park Hotel in 1972. We would have been aged 15 or 16!
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➤ ➤ Under 13 Hockey Premiers (1971). Back Row (from left): Maurice Golden, John Taylor, David Jessup, Andrew Howarth, Michael Kingston, Peter Kalb, Frank English. Front Row (from left): Chippy Low, Ken Barlow, Greg Weller, Nigel Kelly, Mark Dempsey, Hugh Trewhella. Inset: Andrew Lees (Captain).
©Copyright Greg Bartley 1974

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● One Friday sunrise in November 1974: The Classes of 74 gather early at the South Ground scoreboard, after the giant end-of-year party held at Ros Nichol’s North Carlton home.

● ● Rod Haslam and Peter Cullum outside the Pigdon St party.
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Aldred, John
PO Box 367, Daylesford, Vic. 3067 ‘Crear Farm’, 198 Sharpes Lane, Glenlyon, Vic. 3461
Phone: (03) 5348 7739
Anderson, Craig
Armstrong, Timothy
173 The Boulevard, Ivanhoe, Vic 3079
Phone: (03) 9499 2254
Arnot, Tom
33 Briggs St, Mount Waverley, Vic 3149 Phone: (03) 9562 9256
Phone: (03) 9511 0982
Ashworth, Robert
PO Box 1576, Traralgon, Vic 3844
36 Gordon St, Traralgon, Vic. 3844
Phone: (03) 5174 6921
Work Phone: (03) 5128 5657
E-Mail: robertas@latrobe.vic.gov.au

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Austin, Kim ‘Dick’
60 Watery Gully Rd, Kangaroo Ground, Vic 3097
PO Box 55, Kangaroo Ground, Vic 3097
Phone: (03) 9712 0217
Baldock, John
5 Barkly Ave, Armadale, Vic 3143
Phone: (03) 9504 8408
Mobile: 0438 640 644
E-Mail: johnbaldock@optushome.com.au



Ballantyne, Richard
15 Doonkuna Ave, Camberwell, Vic 3124
Phone: (03) 9836 7301
Fax: (03) 9836 1121
Work: (03) 9214 8490
E-Mail: rballantyne@swin.edu.au
Paul
Baranow, Peter 4 McCubbin St, Ivanhoe, Vic 3079
Phone: (03) 9497 3787



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Barlow, Ken
16 Derby St, Highgate Hill, Qld 4101
Business: Level 31, 239 George St, Brisbane Phone: (07)3232 2170
E-Mail: kabarlow@carbolic.com.au
Barr, Craig
1 Glin Ave, Newmarket, Qld 4051
Phone: (07) 3356 2760
E-Mail: Cbarr@bellpotter.com.au
Bartley, Greg
PO Box 69, Galston, NSW 2159 Phone: 0411 617 866
E-Mail: gregbartley@msn.com Web: www.bartleyphoto.com
Bear, Glenn
PO Box 836, Paradise Point, Qld 4216 7010 Springfield Dr, Hope Island, Qld 4212 Phone: (07) 5530 8534. Fax: (07) 530 8863 Mobile: 0438 641 646
E-Mail: glb@aalborgwhite.com.au 5
Blake, Philip



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Blaufelder, Oliver 12 Willis St, Kew, Vic 3101 Phone: (03) 9852 7141
Bliss, Alan 20 Raymond St, Ashwood, Vic Work: Melbourne Grammar School Work Phone: (03) 9868 7100 E-Mail: abliss@mgs.vic.edu.au
Boyle, Peter 26 Lucerne Cres, Alphington, Vic 3078 Phone: (03) 9499 8853 E-Mail: peterboyle@hotmail.com





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Bridgman, Stuart
28 Thoresby Gr, Eaglemont, Vic. 3084 Phone: (03) 9497 2952
Campbell, Brett
9 McDonald St, Mansfield, Vic. 3722
Phone: (03) 5775 1519
Work: (03) 5775 1333
Work Fax: (03) 5775 1412 5
Catterall, Geoffrey
17 Macka Ave, Greensborough, Vic 3088
Phone: (03) 9432 9145
Choquenot, Peter
78 Chandos St, St Leonards, NSW 2065
Phone: (02) 906 8103
Web: www.lochani.com.au
E-Mail: peter.choquenot@lochani.com.au
Connor, Mark RMB 1180A Whitelaws Track Yinnar South, Vic 3869
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Cooley, Victor
Home: 10 Braeside Cres, Maudsland, Qld 4210
Work: 2 Keller Cres, Carara, Qld 4211
Home Phone: (07) 5533 2832
Work Phone: (07) 530 3744
Work Fax: (07) 530 3914
Cracknell, Bill (aka Crapnell, Bill)
14 Forest Ct, Ringwood North, Vic 3134 Phone: (03) 9812 2019 Phone: (03) 9876 2822
Cropley, Stephen
103 Sackville st, Kew, Vic 3101
Work: TJ Board, Level 6, 406 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic 3000 Mobile: 0411 886 200
Crosthwaite, Roger GPO Box 1860, Canberra, ACT 2601





James
Crouch, Noel
45 Ormond Rd, Ivanhoe, Vic 3079
Phone: (03) 9471 0233. Work: (03) 9471 0233
Fax: (03) 9471 0829
Mobile: 0412 207 117
E-Mail: npcrouch@hotmail.com
Cullum, Peter
PO Box 50, Eltham, Vic 3095
418 Reynolds Rd, Research, Vic 3095
Phone: (03) 9437 1652
E-Mail: pcullum@bigpond.com
E-Mail: pcullum@activatedcarbon.com.au
Dawes, Peter
PO Box 50, Park Orchards, Vic 3114
Phone: (03) 9874 6333
Fax: (03) 9874 5672
Web: www.sge.com.au
E-Mail: pdawes@sge.com.au
Maria, Frank




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Dempsey, Mark
116 Kooyong Rd, Armadale, Vic. 3143 Phone: (03) 9822 3530
E-Mail: Mark.Dempsey@laura-ashley.com.au 4 5
Detanamo, Ivor
Dowell, David
30 Hardy Tce, East Ivanhoe, Vic. 3079 Phone: 9499 2277 3 4 5
Dumbrell, Garry
26 Shakespeare Cr, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122 Wynn’s Automotive Products, 182 Dougharty Rd, Heidelberg West, Vic 3081 Phone: (03) 9459 9444 Mobile: 0417 33 66 99
Emery, Allan Passed Away





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Evans, Blair
3 Inwood Place, Currambine, WA 6028
Phone: (08) 9305 3074
Mobile: 0417 942 483 E-Mail: blairevans@comoeng.com.au
Alasdair
Fallaw, Campbell 1 Cairo Rd, Box Hill, Vic 3128 Phone: (03) 9898 1207
Frew, Stephen 3/130 Hotham St, St Kilda East, Vic 3183
0412 437 097







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Haslam, Rod
48 Hugo St, Redfern, NSW 2016 Phone: (02) 9699 2357
Herrod, Chris
41 Church Rd, Moss Vale, NSW 2577 Phone: (02) 4869 3680 E-Mail: da.king@optusnet.com.au

Hogan, James
Gulf Air, PO Box 138, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
10 Lower Cookham Rd, Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK, SL6 8JT E-Mail: james.hogan@gulfairco.com


Hook, Stephen
Wexford Park, Melbourne Rd, Arcadia, Vic 3613
Business: 96 Maude St, Shepparton, 3630 Phone: (03) 5821 5633
Howarth, Andrew 17 Jeffery St, Blackburn, Vic 3130 Phone: (03) 9878 0228

Hughes, Geoffrey 46 Park Lane, Mt Waverley, Vic 3149 PO Box 2379, Mt Waverley, Vic 3149 Phone: (03) 9807 6088





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Hughes, Owen 13 Bluegum Close, Lower Templestowe, 3106
James, Neil 16 Lorimer St, Wattle Glen, Vic 3096 Business: A & N James Builders 7 Pine Hill Drive, Doncaster East, Vic 3109 Phone: (03) 9438 3839 Work Phone: (03) 9841 0251
Jenkinson, Anthony 364 Derrimut Rd, Hoppers Crossing, 3029
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Jennings, R

Jessup, David
Junghenn, Mark


Jury, John
Lot 16/24 Vincent St, Macleod, Vic 3085
Phone: (03) 9434 4281
Mobile: 0425 70 4823
Work: Quick Smart Promotions
E-Mail: jjury@bigpond.com
Kadlec, Peter Passed Away





Kandiliotis, Chris
10 Davis St, Coburg, Vic 3058
Phone: (03) 9354 1831
Work: 15 Nicholson St, East Brunswick, Vic 3057
Work Phone: (03) 9388 1112
E-Mail: kandilaw@bigpond.com
Kelly, Vernon ‘Nigel’ 128 Tindalls Rd, Donvale, Vic 3111
Phone: (03) 9844 2778
King, Chris 6/1 Tiuna Crove, Elwood, Vic 3184
Phone: (03) 9531 9220
Mobile: 0419 888 090
E-Mail: ccs.corp.cat@labyrinth.net.au




0407 841
Lachowicz, Edward 19 William St, Hawthorn, Vic 3122 Mobile: 0407 523 935 E-Mail: big-ed@bigpond.com





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Lee, Jeffrey
13 Liberty Court, Blackmans Bay, Tas 7052
Phone: (03) 6227 1246
Other: (03) 6266 6333
E-Mail: jeffel22@hotmail.com 5
Lesser, Chris 43 Kellett Grove, Kew North, Vic 3101 2
Lockey, Alastair 11 Sandwich Rd, Singapore 2 3
Long, Ash
30 Glen Gully Road, Eltham, Vic. 3095
Phone: 1-800 231 311
Fax: 1-800 231 312
Web: www.melbourneobserver.com.au
E-Mail: ash@long.com.au
Low, Charles 1/499 Abbotsford St, North Melbourne Vic. 3051 3 4 5





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Mark, Dale
2 The Crescent, Port Melbourne, Vic 3207 Phone: (03) 9646 7170
Masson, David
Business: 8 Candlebark Ct, Research, 3095
Phone: (03) 9437 0001
Fax: (03) 9437 0990
Web: www.massonforlight.com.au
E-Mail: davidm@massonforlight.com.au
McCallum, Douglas
8 Dane Close, Calwell, Act 2905 Phone: (02) 6291 7419
McColl, Don 47 Studley Rd, Ivanhoe, Vic 3079 Phone: (03) 9499 2417
McCoy, Alan 25 McCasker Ave, Reservoir, Vic 3073 Phone: (03) 9462 1932





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McMahon, Paul
47 Park Ave, Wattle Glen, Vic 3096 Phone: (03) 9438 2520
Mery, Peter
7 Webb Court, Eatons Hill, Qld 4307 Phone: (03) 9438 2520
Metelmann, John 54 Hillside Pde, Strathmore, Vic 3041
Miles, Steven
48 Twyford St, Williamstown, Vic 3016 Phone: (03) 9397 7292 Mobile: 0417 515 717
Mohr, Frank c/- 4-6 Binns St, Montmoirency, Vic 3094 Phone: (03) 9432 2228

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Moir, Scott 821 Gulf Rd, Emmaville, NSW 2371 Phone: (02) 6734 7119
E-Mail: ss_moir@bigpond.com
Newbery, Rick Phone: (03) 9874 5025
E-Mail: rickn1957@yahoo.com.au

Ng, Stephen 19-4A Petri Apt Jalan Sotiawangaa 21 Taman Setiuawangaa, Malaysia
O’Halloran, Peter 10 Blythes Rd, Mount Dandenong, Vic 3767 Phone: (03) 9751 2156

Parker, Leon c/- PO Box 166, Gisborne, Vic 3437
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Pate, Alexander ‘Sandy’
30 Silvan Rd, Wattle Glen, Vic 3096
Phone: (03) 9718 1094
Mobile: 0417 512 086 4 5
Pearce, Peter 21 Lorimer St, Wattle Glen, Vic 3096
Phone: (03) 9438 3801 3 4 5
Ray, Robert


Rice, Bela
42 Panorama Drive, Forest Hill, Vic 3131
Phone: (03) 9886 3558
Fax: (03) 9886 3180
Mobile: 0439 886 118
E-Mail: belarice@netspace.net.au
Gary







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Schippers, Barry
65 Olinda St, Bendigo, Vic
Phone: (03) 5443 7017. Work: (03) 5443 1222
Fax: (03) 5441 4548. Mobile: 0427 518 30
E-Mail: schippers.barry@bssc.edu.au
Scott, James
PO Box 125, Yarra Glen, Vic 3775
125 Old Kinglake Rd, Steels Creek 3775
Home: (03) 5965 2575. Work: (03) 9925 3248
Fax: (03) 9925 2007. Mobile: 0424 061 429
E-Mail: james_sonja@bigpond.com
Sicree, Ron



Stevenson, David 2/33 Elmo Rd, Montmorency, Vic. 3094 E-Mail: chevaust@sltnet.lk
Stonehouse, John
Swain, Peter
RMB 5632 Sunday Creek Rd, Broadford, 3658
Phone: (03) 5784 2223 Phone: (03) 5784 2266
E-Mail: peter.swain@ericsson.com 5
Sweet, Russell 30 Daintrey St, Fairlight, NSW 2094 Phone: (02) 9231 5400 Mobile: 0418 131 827
E-Mail: sweet30@bigpond.com 5

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Taylor, John
34 Haughton Pde, Rosanna, Vic 3084 Phone: (03) 9459 0197
Peter

Trewhella, Hugh
6 Nigretta Court, Point Lonsdale, Vic 3225
Phone: (03) 5258 3174
Fax: (03) 5258 4688
E-Mail: huge@pipeline.com.au
Ken

van Bloemendaal, Hans
86 Canadian Bay Rd, Mt Eliza, Vic 3930
Phone: (03) 9787 5539. Business: (03) 9787 2268
Business: Mount Eliza Authorised Newsagency 102 Mt Eliza Way, Mt Eliza 3930
E-Mail: hansvanb@bigpond.net.au





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Watson, Rhys
c/- Deans World Cargo, 477 Williamstown Rd, Port Melbourne, Vic 3207
Phone: (03) 9646 4499
Fax: (03) 9646 5082
E-Mail: rhysw@deancargo.com.au
Watts, Robert
4 Hamilton Ct, Watsonia, Vic 3087
Phone: (03) 9434 1452
Wayman, Gregory
23 Locksley Rd, Ivanhoe, Vic 3079
Phone: (03) 9499 4113
Weekley, Philip
141 Charles St, Northcote, Vic 3070
Phone: (03) 9481 5916
Weller, Greg
103 Mannish Rd, Wattle Glen, Vic 3096
Phone: (03) 9438 4743




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White, Stephen PO Box 166, Gisborne, Vic 3437
Wilson, Peter
Wong, Thomas 10 Jalan Rembia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia
Wood, Christopher PO Box 1, Walwa, NSW 3709 Phone: (02) 6037 6223. Workshop: (02) 6037 6207 Fax: (02) 6037 6229. Mobile: 0427 553 661 E-Mail: marwood.chris@bigpond.com
Yann, Warwick
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We are proud to be members of Ivanhoe School With its record that's second to none And whatever the contest let this be our rule That no battle is lost till it's won
For our colours, brown and white We will strive with all our might Till we win each fight, each hard-fought fight For Ivanhoe, for Ivanhoe
Though the words of our motto in Latin are writ, Yet their meaning is easy to see. As we go through this life, we must all do our bit For it's 'Faithful to Death' we must be
For our colours, brown and white We will strive with all our might Till we win each fight, each hard-fought fight For Ivanhoe, for Ivanhoe

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