Class of 1979 45 Year Reunion Booklet

CLASS OF 1979 45 YEAR REUNION

We honour and acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional custodians of this land. We honour and respect their ongoing cultural and spiritual connection with this country.

We pay our respects to the Elders both past, present and future, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of Indigenous Australia.

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CLASS OF 1979 Katrina Alvarez

Jane Cornwell

Sally Ginter

Karen Anderson

Amanda Crerar

Barbara Good nee Guy

Penny Attiwill

Judy Croagh nee Lusk

Jennifer Greenwood

Leanne Austin nee Harvey

Tamar Dalton

Rosie Hatten & House

Megan Baumann-Wakefield

Robyn Dance

Elizabeth Heggie

Renate Beilharz nee Vollmer

Lisa Davis

Pam Henry nee Morgan

Kathy Bennett nee Pascoe

Maria De Felice

Amanda Hewitt nee Harris

Linda Bieniasz

Clare Dopking nee Vickery

Penelope Holdsworth

Julie Blandthorn nee Barrow

Miranda Downie

Rosie House

Melinda Bock nee Foster

Fiona Eagger

Heather Hunton

Sally Bodinnar

Shelley-Anne Eckley nee Baker

Rebecca Illarietti nee Haberl

Pam Bowron

Brigitte Edgar

Jaynia Inge nee Brown

Susan Brookes nee Kerr

Vivienne Egan nee Muntz

Heather Janes

Andrea Bruce nee Day

Cheryl Erskine nee Gilmore

Marion Johnstone

Bridget Bygott

Diana Everist nee Rosenhain

Katherine Jonnes

Deborah Chubb

Rosemary Ferguson

Gabrielle Kavanagh nee Evans

Margaret Collins

Kerry Forbes nee Commins

Kym Kelly nee Thomas

Sandra Cook

Kerry Gilchrist nee Ryan

Jacqui Keogh nee Smith

CLASS OF 1979 Fleur King

Susan McKinnon nee Telford

Catherine Shield nee Owen

Julie King

Meg McPherson nee Hutton

Lisa Skillern-Brown

Suzanne Kinnersly

Amanda Miller-Amberber

Margaret Sperrin nee Skipworth

Christine Kirby

Amanda Oldridge nee Elsum

Margaret Steel

TamraeKlavins nee Kerr

Katrina Palmer nee Young

Tanya Stockill nee Brown

Joanne Kotaidis nee Young

Sharon Phillips nee Oliver

Andrea Thompson

Fiona Lake nee Mckindlay

Beverley Prest nee Paynter

Julie Thomson

Sally-Anne Lane

Leanda Prettner nee Nash

Amanda Todd

Sandra Lemke nee Brown

Helen Price

Lisa Tyler

Pam Leversha

Penny Richards

Wendy Van der Meer

Serena Lillywhite

Trudi Richards

Wendy Veldhuizen nee Roberts

Heather Little

Julie Rickard

Wendy Wait

Hayley Luscombe nee Mason

Merrin Robertson

Jennifer Walters

Debra Mackenzie nee Becher

Michelle Robinson nee Thoma

Kathleen Ward

Rachel MacKenzie

Maxine Rodgers

Narelle Weston

Bridget Maling

Julie Sampson nee Lithgow

Alexandra Williams

Shan Manley

Jane Sanbrook

Angela Williams nee Murphy

Claire McKenna nee Stephens

Libby Sangster

Jeanette Young

CLASS OF 1979 Jeanette Young Philippa Youngs Kairsty Zorlu Nee Wilson In Memoriam:Patricia Hind Wendy Surtees nee Maartensz

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 1 1968 CLASS OF 1989 GRADE 10AN

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 4 1971

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 8 FORM 2G - 1975

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 8 FORM 2S - 1975

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 8 FORM 2W - 1975

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 9 FORM 3M - 1976

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 9 FORM 3S - 1976

CLASS OF 1979 GRADE 9 FORM 3W - 1976

Images from the Brooks 1979

Back of Senior School Classrooms

Staff from 1979

Tuckshop ( Matriculation Building from Hawthorne

Senior School Looking towards Music area and Alexandra Road Entrance

Comments in the Brooks made from Class of 1979 INANE COMMENTS OF THE 1979 6th FORM Jane C:

"Don't get me excited, I'll get a headache give me sympathy!"

"I've arrived!"

"Does anyone want a ride?"

"Mum's going to have me on toast tonight!"

"The world is plastic."

"Have a banana Mandy."

"I thought this was meant to be a democracy."

"I wasn' drunk!"

"He's not old. Forty-five's not old " (in reference to Dr.Who).

"I'm never sorry - not yet anyway."

Marion J: "Oh, leave me alone."

Jacqui S: 'Tm a cold blooded person. (I need warmth Tracy M: and affection!)."

"Want a bite?"

Kerry R: "They bash me around like nobody's business!"

Cathy 0: Tamrae K: "Oh, reeeeally!"

Mandy H: "Paul Newman rang me up last night."

"Who wants some NIVEA?" Penny R: "Steven's coming home in ... weeks."

Cheryl G: Katrina A: "It's just not flippin' blossoming!"

"Bonzo!"

Karen A: "Mrs. Raven - would you please repeat that."

Judy L: (with a sigh) "Oh no, not another spare!"

Cathy P: Renate V: "And when you undress him, he's got SUCH a fat tummy!"

Wendy W: "It hasn't happened like that for me yet."

Pam M: "Oh yeah 62 million times " (accompanied by various hand movements). ,.

Philippa Y: "I'll send him a bomb to remind him I'm here."

"Does anyone want to read in assembly?"

Kath W: Diana R: "I'm trying, Drain - Jane!"

Sue K: "Quick hide! Mrs. Watt's coming and I've got my desert boots on!"

Merrin R: Kate I: Serena L: Melinda F: Mandy E: Penny A: Clare V: Alex W:

"Can't you ever remember saying something dumb in one of those stupid moods of yours?"

"He was the only fella in the room who wasn't gay and he only came up to my chest!"

"Oh it's just so pigpoo!"

Pam L: Margaret S: "I'd do ANYTHING for a muffin!"

Bridget B: "He's as camp as a row of tents."

"How are you?"

Sue T: "Oh Youu ......!"

Christa: Maria D: "I'm a total bore."

"If Greek philosophers are meant to spend all Julie B: their time preparing for death, I wish you were a Greek philosopher.

Linda B: "I haven't got it - it's up your end!"

Brigitte E: "No don't!It's too negative!"

Penny H: "Well I guess I'm not a naturalist!"

Leanne H: "She sh ...... bothers me."

Clare S: "I'm going home to my Bum " (dog).

Meg H: "I know it's dangerous - I do it all the time!"

Mandy M: "I'm getting desperate-really, really desperate!"

Kerry C: "Being the Head Boarder's a dog's job!"

Sally L: "Anyone want a date with David?"

Fiona E: "It was really superb!"

Viv M: "Don't look at me like that!"

Mandy T: ".......oh yeah!"

Helen P: "Oh, stupid!"

Fiona Mc: "You piglet!"

Marg S: "The mind boggles!" (with rolling eyes) Denise G: "Err there were so many Tintern girls at the Pub." Jaynia B: "Oh no!"

Sandra B: "But Mrs.Mathieson ....."

Bev P: "Good morning fat guts!"

Lisa S: Absent.

Wendy M: Kathy J:

Past Reunion Images

25 Year Reunion - 2004

10 Year Reunion - 1990

Past Reunion’s

30 Year Reunion - 2009

35 Year Reunion - 2014

Biographies 2024 Heather Little:A little bit of what I have been up to : I continue to Instruct and Coach Skiing at Mt Buller in Victoria and have also been Instructing in Niseko Japan. At Mt Buller, as well as coaching my own group of competitive skiers each year, I am also the Head Coach of the Mt Buller Squad and Teen Evolution programs, which are curriculum based seasonal programs. This has me overseeing around 280 competitive skiers and snowboaders and around 38 Coaches. I also Instruct all levels of skiers outside of Squad hours.

I have just completed my 38th season working full time at Mt Buller Snowsport School. My other passion, dating back to the ’70’s and my Tintern years, is figure Skating. I recently podiumed in first place at the 2023 Oberstdorf international Adult Competition as well as coming 2nd place in the Winter World Masters Competition in Bormio earlier this year.

I hope you all have a wonderful reunion and hope I can make it to the next one !!!

Merrin Robertson:- Since leaving school after Year 12 I have travelled extensively both around Australia and overseas, have two children - Adrian (25) and Georgia (22) - and am working as an Office Manager in a small manufacturing business. I have been living on the Mornington Peninsula for 27 years and looking forward to retiring within the next couple of years. My husband and I are currently building a new home in Rye where we intend to enjoy our years and still do a lot of travelling.

Kathy Bennett: Since leaving school I qualified as a psychologist and have worked in chronic illness where I facilitated a cancer support group, created a memorial garden in memory of those who shared their journey and the last 20 years in DFR as a Recruiting Psychologist. In 2023 I retired and thoroughly enjoy doing what I love most such spending as much time with grandkids and helping out where i can, working on fitness and health, creating art and music, traveling the world especially the Islands as I’ve discovered I’m an ocean lover. I have brought up 4 beautiful children all successful in their own right, have 4 wonderful grandchildren now entering their teens which is great to watch. I have very fond memories of the farm at school, throwing sheep, driving the tractor, great long term friends made, singing in the choir, playing piano, sports day and swimming carnivals and the pine forest and the houses we made, all good fun.

CLASS STORY Alice Clague Visual Arts Co-ordinator 1974 – 1987 Each year the H.S.C. Art class travelled to Canberra to study the works in the National Gallery of Australia. The students were expected to research an art work relevant to our studies in The History of Australian Art and to make a presentation of their research to the group. This occurred after dinner at the motel where we were staying.

In 1983 Georgina Knol, a talented art and music student chose a painting by Roy de Maistre. This suited Georgina’s interests very well for in 1913 de Maistre moved to Sydney to study music at the Conservatorium as well as art at The Royal Art Society. In 1916 De Maistre joined the A.I.F. but was later discharged suffering from T.B. During his convalescence he met with a doctor who was interested in the psychological effects of colour. This awakened de Maistre’s interest in music theory in which specific colours were related to musical notes. Prior to our trip to Canberra, Georgina was fortunate in procuring a set of coloured bells from a children’s toy shop, which perfectly matched the scale of “Red Major”. It comprised seven separately mounted coloured bells on a wooden turntable, painted in the colours of the spectrum – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, matching in tone the 7 notes of the A Natural Minor musical scale, a linear sequence of seven notes.

On the second day in Canberra we were assembled, together with an Education Officer, in front of Roy de Maistre’s colour music painting “Arrested Phrase from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony”. During the talk and after speaking with the Education Officer, I suggested that Georgina could demonstrate to all the sound that the painting represented. The demonstration brought the painting and the concept of” colour music” to life and was enjoyed by our class, our gallery guide and a growing audience as it went on. Soon more gallery guides were summoned and they too joined in the growing excitement. Even the attendants in the Cloak Room heard about this school girl who had brought a painting to life and thus brought great credit to herself and to her school.

Georgina went on to study at the School of Art in Canberra between 1984 and 1987 and had the opportunity to present this talk many times as a guest gallery guide on Sunday mornings.

It is interesting to note that more research has been undertaken since then and the correct title of the work is now thought to be ”Colour Composition Derived from 3 bars of music in the Key of Green”

Alice Clague Alice Clague was the Visual Arts Co-ordinator at Tintern commencing in 1974, retiring after 14 years. Alice says that, ‘Tintern is in her blood!’ and has stayed in contact with many of her students and the school over the years. In response to Covid19, Alice kindly shares some of her memories of Tintern.

In 1975, 10 works of art were selected for an exhibition in Britain to celebrate the Commonwealth, including a machine embroidery

by Year 11 student Rosie Weiss. Rosie and Alice, along with other Tintern students, were invited to an exhibition at St Johns Home for Boys and Girls in Canterbury, where they were honoured to be presented to H.R.H Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Alice recalls, ‘The protocol for this was included with the invitation. Shelagh Alvarez, English and Drama teacher, tutored Rosie and myself in the art of curtseying. However, when the time came, both of us were so overcome by the Princess’ stunningly beautiful violet-blue eyes and flawless complexion, we forgot to curtsey.’

Rosie’s work was based on her sketches of the sea at Wilsons Promontory, and her first venture into creative machine embroidery. Pictured is a close up of the detail from this very successful

venture. Rosie pursued a career as an Artist and Educator, you can see view work here: http:// www.rosieweiss.com/ During Alice’s time at Tintern the Art and Craft exhibition became famous in educational circles, including being recognised by the Education Department as an In-Service resource for teachers. Mrs Walton said in her newsletter in December 1985, ‘Mrs Alice Clague and her staff… are to be congratulated on the scope, excellence and presentation of the art and craft.’ The exhibition that year was opened by the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Mr Patrick McCaughey, who was extremely impressed with the girls’ work.

Alice left a lasting legacy. Her farewell in the Brook said, ‘Her influence on staff and students under her care has been profound; her positive leadership and personal example in the pursuit of excellence have long been recognised not only within the school community but in the wider educational world.’

Lyn Bartold

were available to her at Tintern and she has great memories of her time there.”

Lyn Bartold first joined the Physical Education Department at Tintern CEGGS in 1972. She became part of a wonderful and enthusiastic staff, led by Margaret Hamilton (Headmistress 1969 - 1982). School life was always busy, with lots of sports, trips and social activities.

It was the early 90s that saw Lyn start the Tintern Rhythmic Gymnastics Club. Affiliated with the Victorian Rhythmic Gymnastic Association, they held many competitions in our gymnasium and produced some successful gymnasts.

Lyn has fond memories of those days, “The outside swimming pool would get pretty chilly as Term 1 progressed, and the Pottery classroom (now the Heritage Centre) was home to my Form 2 class and I. As we did not all fit in the room for roll call, I stood on the steps with the girls around me!”

Leaving Tintern in 1975, for further study and her children, Lyn returned in 1982, welcoming new Principal Sylvia Walton (1982 – 2005). In 1983 Lyn became the Co-ordinator of both Year 9 and Outdoor Education. Year 9 became a year focussed on Outdoor Education, with three camps throughout the year.

1986 saw Lyn take on a different role, that of Tintern parent, with her daughter Amy studying from Grade 3 to Year 12, “Fortunately, we had an excellent relationship at home and school. Amy benefited from all of the wonderful offerings that

In 1991 Lyn was appointed Director of Physical Education, followed by Director of Co-curricular Activities from 1998. In this position she oversaw all aspects of school activities outside the classroom. These included trips, tours and camps of all sorts, as well as the School Musical, Rock Eisteddfod and much more.

Jenny Collins came on as Principal in 2006 (2006 – 2014) and Lyn retired in 2009. Since retiring, and now with Bradley Fry as Principal (2015 to current), Lyn has continued as Costume Director for every Tintern Musical and loves to keep that connection to the school.

Lyn says, “I feel a very strong connection to Tintern and love to have the opportunities to return, through the Musicals and events. I have many friends whom I met at Tintern and wonderful memories. I am often stopped by ladies who say “Hello Mrs Bartold, you taught me at Tintern”, and the conversation begins!”

Vale Dr Sylvia Walton AO 1941-2024 We pay tribute to former Principal (1982 – 2005) Dr Sylvia Walton AO at her passing on Saturday 27 January 2024.

A committed educator and visionary leader, Sylvia recognised the importance of individual student needs, a support structure and culture that continues at Tintern today.

Sylvia came to Tintern from Caulfield Grammar, Wheelers Hill, where she was Deputy Head of campus and highly regarded at the School and among the educational leadership fraternity. A committed educator and a fearless leader, Sylvia was determined that Tintern should lead the agenda for the education of girls in Australia and more broadly.

She was a true visionary in her view of the future of education and her determination in making girls education more equitable and progressive was extraordinary. During her 23 years as Principal, she grew Tintern which enabled a broader and more fulfilling program to be offered, creating the groundwork for the wonderful school we are today. She was at the forefront of curriculum and staff development, driving innovation in programs and providing the buildings and resources to support it.

Sylvia’s vision for a boys’ school was realised with the opening of Southwood Boys’ Grammar School in 1999 and she was remembered speaking of her satisfaction in ‘seeing a Tintern school for young men, joining the long-standing offering for girls’.

Sylvia’s influence on education was even broader than her chapter at Tintern. After her resignation at Tintern, she went on to enjoy a very successful tenure as Principal of St Catherine’s School, she was also Chancellor of Latrobe University and served on several independent school Boards.

Sylvia was truly a towering figure in education in Australia. The Tintern community celebrate both her influence and achievements and express sadness at her passing, truly signalling an end of an era in education in our country.

Remembering Dr Sylvia Walton AO with enormous respect and fondness for her contribution to the Tintern Grammar community.

TINTERN SCHOOL SONG Come Tinternites all young and old, near and far.

Lend your voices and swell our school song.

Our school with its burdens well borne in the past, Its foundations laid steady and strong.

‘Tis by deeds, not by words, that we stand or we fall; So we’ll work with a will. Yes we’ll work one and all, For the welfare and honour of Tintern.

Of our homeland we’ll sing, young Australians are we, And in love of our country we’re one.

In our minds be the breadth of her wide rolling plains, In our hearts the glad warmth of her sun.

‘Tis by deeds, not by words, that we stand or we fall, So whenever she needs us we’ll answer her call.

And we’ll work for our own land, Australia.

To be true to our God, to our country, our school And repay the great debt that we owe, Let our joy be in service with no thought of self, So that all those who meet us may know ‘Tis by deeds not by words that we offer our praise To the school, and to those who, in earlier days, Helped to build the traditions of Tintern.

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STAYING IN TOUCH TOGA & TGA Committee Welcome back to Tintern. If this is your first time since leaving then there will be plenty of changes for you to see. I know that every time I am here I notice something new.

The new Tintern Grammar Alumni (TGA) and TOGA (Tintern Old Girls Association) play important roles in our community, understanding the importance of maintaining the links with our past.

The fenced-off area between the Bush Car park and the Administration Enriching the present and building for the future of our school and our building which had goats in it! When I was at Tintern back in the 1970s, Alumni. this area was out of bounds.

We are committed to preserving our history and maintaining our Life changes and evolves and so does Tintern. Tradition is still strong connections both past and present, creating ongoing memories, providing however without change we cannot learn or grow. I love coming back valuable networking opportunities and a continued historical legacy for to Tintern to see these changes and am looking forward to hearing the our future alumni. new school song which reflects the current school. Our old school song TGA TOGA committees meet throughout the year and together with the will still be around as are many of the experiences - such as the farm and I am grateful to be able to be here today watching you mingle with School these committees create opportunities through events, activities and communications supporting a vibrant, healthy and inclusive alumni past peers. community.

We have all grown, changed and evolved since school and please enjoy A membership fee is paid to the TGA upon enrolment. Alumni from today with new eyes, listen to your school friends as they are now, be interested and most of all laugh with those with whom you have shared previous years are welcome many experiences. Factis non verbis. to join by downloading a membership form on our website: If you would like to join TOGA with a once off $75 Life membership fee https://www.tintern.vic.edu.au/community/alumni/ and emailing to support their ongoing legacy please download a membership form to alumni@tintern.vic.edu.au here: https://www.tintern.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/TinternOld-Girls-Association-form.pdf and email to TOGA@tintern.vic.edu.au Carol Robertson (Hogan YG 1980) TOGA President

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