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In step with the remarkable improvements in this district, namely: new railway underpass, new bridge across the Saltwater River, transformation of Dudley Flats as the centre of the heavy transport industry, is the development of this College. If one reviews the many changes and alterations that have been necessary to meet the challenge of the times, one can be very proud that our Technical College has taken its share in meeting the demand for more Tradesmen, Technicians and Technologists.

A reference to the chart shown on the opposite page indicates the important part this Technical College is playing, for it is

providing the training at the four levels of Technical Education — Trade, Technician, Certificate and Diploma.

We must stress that the Diploma Course is equivalent in standard to the second year Engineering Degree Course at the Melbourne University, and any students who gain the Diploma in Engineering can complete the Engineering Degree by a further two years of study. It is of interest to recall that, of 700 Diplomas issued by the College, over one hundred students have gained University Degrees.

I am surprised that more High School students of Leaving Certificate standard do not transfer to the Technical College to gain a Diploma as the first step to a professional career in Engineering, for Industry requires approximately six Diploma standard engineers to one graduate of University standard, and if the lad has the ability to go further, he can change over to the University in step with the student who goes on through the High School to the University. No fees are paid throughout the Technical College Diploma Course. Commonwealth Scholarships, Cadetships and other Scholarships are readily available to the Technical College lad with ability to complete the course.

New Courses are: Diploma of Commerce, Diploma of Structural Engineering, full course in Civil Engineering, full day class for girls in clerical subjects.

The opportunities are particularly promising for the bright hard-working student.

The steady development of the College is shown by the following figures: 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Day Diploma 146 187 224 247 304 Junior . 954 912 827 812 828 Senior .. 2431 2516 2643 2950 3137 3531 3615 3694 4009 4269 Outstanding Improvements and Additions in Last Two Years: 1. Additional Welding Workship, and modern equipment.

2. New Junior Library fully furnished.

3. Improvements to Moulding Workship.

Improvement to Electrical Engineer4. ing and Electronics Laboratory.

Additional and modernisa5. tion—Seniorequipment Machine Shop.

Improvements and equipment to Mech6. anical Engineering. rearrangement and modern7. Complete isation—Electrical Trades Workshop.

Improvement to car parking facilities.

9. Improvement to Office facilities.

10. Improved facilities in Assembly Hall.

11. New building at Ballarat Road to provide eight classrooms and, later, serve as Assembly Hall.

12. Improvements to College grounds.

THE C O L L E G E COUNCIL Back: M r . J. Ebelins. Director of C. Ebeling & Sons Pty. Ltd.; M r . R . G . Schintler, M . L . A . ; M r . J. A .

Smithson. Technical Manager of O l y m p i c Tyre and Rubber Co.; M r . R . C h a p m a n , D . L ; M r . R . L. Rankin, Council Treasurer. Engineer, V . R .

Front: Cr. A . N . Barlow, Engineer V . R . , M a y o r of Footscray; M r . R . G . Parsons, formerly Manager, Colonial Gas Association, President of the Council 1932-43 and 1951-55; M r . R . F. Vian, President of the Council, Area Manager A . C . L Subsidiaries; M r . W . G . Cuming, Junior Vice-President, Technical Manager. C u m , ing. Smith & Co. Pty. Ltd.. Vice-President, 1958-59; M r . M r . A . G . Hallenstein. Senior Vice-President.

Director of Michaelis Hallenstein Pty. Ltd. Left: Dr. M . H . Box, Foundation member of Council 1915, President 1918.

Right: M r . E. J. Herbert. Past President. Controller of Ordnance. Dept. of Defence Production.

THE C O L L E G E Everyone at the College is aware, more or less vaguely, that there is a Council: few, however, would be able to say exactly what it does and who serves on it.

For this reason, we are introducing its members to our readers, who will perhaps then realise the importance of the work it does, and hear something about the gentlemen who give up a good deal of their time to the essential task of presiding, benevolently, over the administration of our College.

About fifteen pages of the Education Department's '"Regulations and General Instructions" specify, in detail, the scope of the Council's responsibilities, and without attempting to summarise these, we can say that they are by no means formalities. It is sufficient to say that almost no feature of the

COUNCIL life of our College is outside the range of its interest and control: finance, maintenance, courses of instruction, fees, records, educational standards.

The Council meets at least once a month, with the Principal, and as a result keep in touch with the College activities throughout the year. As we can see, all the members of the Council occupy positions of high responsibility, a fact which reflects the close co-operation between technical education and the community, and we should all be grateful for the lively interest taken in the College by these gentlemen.

Mr. J. McDonald, our Registrar, and Mr. Beanland, the Principal, are known to all of us, so we shall now introduce the members of the Council.

T H E PRIZE W I N N E R S Back: J. Stals, P. Wellspring, G. Walker, W. T a y l o r . J. Walsh. R. Bowron. R. Carthew.

Front: J. Kipluks, P. Podolak, B. Ellis, J. McLeod. R. Watt. J. Harsley. R. Chappel.

DIPLOMA NIGHT AWARDS On Wednesday evening, 29th July, the Assembly Hall was filled to its capacity by the appreciative audience that came to see the conferring of diplomas and certificates and the award of prizes to outstanding students.

The guests were welcomed by Mr. R. F. Vian, President of the College Council, who observed that the occasion was one on which the parents of our students could feel a justified pride in the success of their boys and gratitude to the College which had given the diploma and certificate holders the beginnings of their professional training.

Speaking particularly to the recipients of the various awards, Mr. C. H. Beanland offered a brief and interesting report of the progress made in the College in the short time since they completed their studies here.

The introduction of a full course in Civil Engineering has now been officially approved, and will begin next year; the new Commerce Diploma Course is now in operation, and it will probably have three sections next year; the Structural Engineering section, which will specialise in welding techniques, is now in operation.

The general progress of the College is reflected in the numbers enrolled in the daytime diploma courses: from 128 in 1954 we have gone to 304 this year; and with an expected increase of about sixty a year, the problem of finding accommodation for classes will be acute by 1961. A very pleasing feature of the work done recently, said Mr. Beanland, was the close co-operation between the College and industry; for industrial leaders have come to realize that active interest in technical education is essential to progress: industry has some to give to as well as some to get from technical education.

The total number of diplomas issued by the College has now reached 732; and it is of interest to note that 100 of the diploma holders have subsequently taken degrees at the University of Melbourne.

Prizes were presented to first-year students by Mr. R. C. Russell; to second-year students the Mayor of Footscray, Cr. W. Richards, who congratulated the students on behalf of the Footscray City Council, which had always had a keen and sympathetic interest in the College. Mr. J. A.

Smithson presented the prizes to the third and fourth-year students.

"The young men who have chosen the arduous way and are now getting their rewards," the winners of the Dux prizes, wer-e addressed by the Director of Education, Major-General Ramsay, who gave high praise to "those whose energy and determination have brought them success," and many of whom are continuing their education at the University. He was particularly impressed by those students who have taken their diploma courses by part-time study: "it is good to hear that a student has persisted over seven or more years, and congratulations are due to the parents who have supported and encouraged them over the difficult years.'

The Chief Inspector of Technical Schools, Mr. O. E. Nilssen, presented the Certificates. including one awarded in the relatively new Production Engineering; and speaking with the authority of his wide knowledge of technical education here and overseas, he drew attention to a distinctive feature of technical training in Victoria.

While in Europe the only practicable way to the highest positions is through the technological universities like the German Technische Hochschulen, our Colleges give a training that qualifies diplomates for membership of the engineering and chemical institutes and enables them to reach the top of their professions. References by the Heads of Departments to the work being done by the recipients of diplomas confirmed this opinion; to mention only one. there is Ian Stringer, who is at present Senior Demonstrator in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, and is working for the higher degree of Master of Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Nilssen spoke with appreciation of the "solid backing" that MajorGeneral Ramsay—who was making his last appearance at a Diploma Conferring—has given to technical education in Victoria.

Before presenting the diplomas, Mr. Vian congratulated the students who had now reached the culmination of their years of study, most of which had doubtless been interesting; and although the tangible evidence of the diploma was important, what they have been incidentally given, namely the awareness of a valuable tradition, cannot be engraved on any certificate. Hs urged the diplomates to remember that the ability to work co-operatively with others was as

essential to their success as the technical knowledge they have absorbed in the class room. The College has reason to be proud of its contribution to industry and technical skill, and he concluded by offering the College Council's thanks for the sterling work done by Mr. Beanland, whose unflagging devotion to the interests of the College is conspicuous in his energetic co-operation in the work done at Council meetings throughout the year.

The second part of the evening was taken up with a presentation of Sheridan's "A Trip to Scarborough," reported on another page of this magazine.

More than one member of the audience noted the improved quality of the Diploma evenings in recent years: the proceedings have enhanced dignity which reflects a more lively appreciation of the place that diploma holders have in the world of industry and education.

Mr. BROOKS ON AMERICA AND BRITAIN "If all speakers on education were laid end to end—it would be a good thing": with these opening words Mr. Brooks set himself apart from the host of argus-eyed travellers who are ready to discourse, after a month's cursory inspection, on the history, economics, literature, educational customs, destiny and shortcomings of any five foreign countries you choose to name.

His own observations, piled up in an address to the diploma students on July 29, raised a substantial edifice of concrete, wellpresented information—some of it about education—entertainingly different from the airy generalities that make up the heavy burden of too many travellers' tales.

Equipped with a travelling scholarship, a Fullbright grant and a round-the-world air ticket—length unspecified but valid for a year and worth £603—Mr. Brooks visited U.S.A. and Britain, with shorter trips occupying weeks, days, or hours to several European cities. In America he spent much of his time at a variety of schools, colleges and universities, his chief pre-occupation being, naturally, with technical education. The immense variety of standards among American schools makes it impossible to frame any point to point comparison with the range and status of work done in colleges like ours; by and large, however.

this is comparable to what is done in colleges that give a degree of diploma after the two years of preparation beyond high school, which most American students attend until the age of eighteen.

One summary comment can be made: the American people—especially the students, with whom Mr. Brooks spoke often—are enthusiastic about education. Characteristically, press reports which underline the news value of the exceptional, following the "man bites dog" maxim that allots excessive space to eccentric dress and mindless telephone-box antics, offer us a hbellously distorted picture of the American student.

Over there, the accessibility of higher studies is tacitly assumed as an original democratic right; and this is an echo of the predominantly classless ground tone of American society.

There is diversity of wealth; but this is not thought to entail the view that you can base class distinctions on it. In this respect there is a notable similarity to Australian attitudes.

But there is an equally striking difference: despite our very mixed origins, evident if you go back to our ultimate forefathers through a thousand years or so, we Australians are, in the main, of Anglo-Saxon provenance: America, not much older than Australia, has drawn its population from dozens of European nations. This polyglot structure shows up in education, accounting for much of its diversity and local variation.

It has damped out, in American usage, one of the harsher overtones of the term "foreigner"—(just consider the "foreign" names of eminent hundred per cent. Americans like Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and if you must, Sinatra). Although we speak—almost —the same language, visitors from British countries are more apt to feel foreign than the American citizen whose parents came from Poland: he will show with pride the historic place "where we beat the British in 1812"; a war which most of us have never forgotten, only because we had never heard of it in the first place.

The steady resonance of America's short but lively history is heard in the pervasive awareness of tradition, an awareness intensified by the importance given to history and social studies in the schools: echoes of the War of Independence are still audible; reverence is felt for the great political leaders of the past: Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln; all of this readily understandable in

a society which has set itself the task of building, largely through the schools, a new nation in which the most disparate ingredients are to be amalgamated.

Behavior in the schools—again despite the outsider's impressions, vaguely entertained, of a seething blackboard jungle—is conspicuously good: corridors are quiet, classrooms are orderly, relations between teacher and pupil candid and sympathetic.

The size of schools brings its problems, there as well as here: at one school in Philadelphia there were four thousand students spread over three classes; and the particular solution has been found in staggered hours of attendance. Even the lunch hour has to appear—as a moveable feast— on the time table, so arranged to keep the work going through the day.

With his interest heightened by reports in our newspapers, the observant visitor in U.S.A. turns his attention to the negro question; and Mr. Brooks noted the great advances that have been made in the "past fifty years, especially the last fifteen or twenty. He saw classes containing coloured and white students, white students taught by negro teachers, and coloured classes with white teachers. Harmony and good relations were the rule, discord exceptional and decreasing; and it can be said that this "problem" is being solved through the gradual growth of tolerance and understanding which is carefully fostered in the schools.

There are no school uniforms: for the Americans, they connote regimentation; yet there is no prevailing extravagance in dress, the earmuffs and hooded duffle coats are strictly utilitarian in a climate where the temperature often soars up and down between 7 and 13 degrees Fahrenheit. To offset these rigours central heating keeps school buildings at a uniform 70 degrees.

During a visit of several months in Britain, Mr. Brooks was impressed with the sense of long historical tradition, the numerous houses in London with plaques commemorating the residence there of Dickens, Keates, or some other great man.

Then there were the thousand-year-old cathedrals, and the Chamber of the House of Commons, which was at the time debating the Cyprus question.

Browning's lines, "O to be in England now that April's there," took on the full rneaning in the spectacle of English springtime with its fresh and vivid colours; and in

London itself you were made aware of the delight in gardens.

One perceptive comment on Mr. Brooks' address was that it contained material enough for several assembly talks, and the students applauded him for a most interesting half-hour.

EDUCATION IN SINGAPORE

In Singapore, the first problem that parents have to decide is: which language they want their children to be educated in.

Now that the Singaporians have taken over the governing of the State, there is a greater tendency for parents to send their children to Asian schools.

The four main languages used in Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, together with a few less important ones. Nearly all the schools where the Asian languages were taught were privately owned, whereas the English schools are run by the government; there are quite a number of mission schools too. Now all the schools are either government or government-aided.

With the present birth rate, it is estimated that in a few years' time, one school will have to be built per week in order to accommodate every youngster. Now each primary school is occupied by two sets of pupils, one in the morning and the other in the evening. After six years of primary education, the students are ready to attend the secondary schools. Only about half the candidates are admitted, about eight thougiven by the Education ministry. The examination is largely set to test the intelligence of the pupils; the unsuccessful candidates may be given another chance to sit for the examination or they attend adult classes which are held in secondary schools at night. Since Singapore is short of qualified teachers, the same teachers who teach in the morning take these students at night.

The secondary schools provide four years of education, taking the Cambridge School Certificate examinations at the end of thĂŠ' last year. The examinations are approximately equivalent to Leaving standard here.

Co-education in secondary schools is not favoured, and there is no contact between boys' and girls' schools, except in debates or other extra-mural activities. There are different kinds of societies and clubs in all schools, and they are organized and run by the students themselves. Sport is taken up

with great enthusiasm by most students, and matches played between schools attract a great number of enthusiastic supporters.

Singapore is not very well provided with technical education. There are a few technical schools, but they do not offer the sufficient technical training. Students who pass the Cambridge School Certificate examinations are unskilled in any particular technical work. The Polytechnical College which was established recently opens the door to many who wish to acquire technical knowledge.

Students with university education in mind either go abroad or remain in the school for two more years to take the Higher School Certificate Examinations, and the successful ones may be admitted to the University of Singapore; some others apply for scholarships to go abroad for specialised courses.

The educational facilities and the educational standard in Singapore can be regarded as among the highest in South-East Asia.

TAO HAI SIN.

GEOLOGY EXCURSIONS Especially The Werribee Gorge

So far this year 6C and 6D have visited Studley Park, Beaumaris and the Werribee Gorge with the purpose of studying geological and other features. Three more excursions are yet to be completed and all of these have been, or will be, accompanied by Mr. Baker, without whose help they would certainly be run far more raggedly. Nothing of great importance took place on the former two trips, but future geologists will have trouble finding any graptolites at Studley Park, and it was also confirmed that all major fossil discoveries take place within a mile of a hotel.

On the 8th of July, a very enthusiastic group of informally clad students gathered outside the college in the early hours of the morning (approximately 8.30), waiting for a bus, which was half an hour late.

During the trip to Bacchus Marsh, Mr. Baker managed to make various comments, between interjections, on the surrounding countryside. After passing quickly through Bacchus Marsh, much to the disappointment of many, the bus struggled up the Rowsley Fault Scarp and shortly afterwards stopped at Pyke's Creek Reservoir, where we noticed the nonconformity between Saul

and the tellite and also watched him narrowly miss a car with a large boulder.

After taking a side track, we left the bus by the railway line. To everyone's delight, Mr. Baker informed us that we would now have to walk the remaining stretch to the gorge. With much grumbling and looking like a gang of railway workers, we walked about twenty miles along the line, saw some examples of hillside creep, a decomposed dyke and finally stopped for lunch. During lunch Mr. Baker, for some strange reason, decided to exhibit his tree-climbing skill and also had to hurriedly quell a miniature bush-fire. After lunch we began the descent into the gorge and a magnificent panorama of the surrounding countryside was seen.

In fact, the view was so magnificent that most of the Asian students decided to stay and watch it rather than continue into the gorge.

Somehow most students reached the bottom, and we made an uneventful journey along the river, except when George Bray made a rather poor attempt at executing a swallow dive. Ably led by Mr. Baker, we began the ascent. The gorge walls had suddenly become much steeper than before, but Bill Robertson, with enough stones in his bag to put a quarry out of business, seemed to be making light work of it.

On arriving back at the bus, everyone took an oath that they would never walk again. Mr. Baker then proceeded to count us, and after taking three recounts and averaging them, decided that someone was missing, the someone being Lee Hung Nien.

We all raced off enthusiastically to look for him and had soon established a loud but rather confusing communications system.

After nearly losing some of the search party, we decided to leave him there and made our way back to the bus. On the way back to Bacchus Marsh we stopped at the Ballan Police Station and were informed that the officer was down at the local on business.

Mr. Baker courageously decided to stay behind and help the search party. On the way home we were stopped by a police car, from which Lee was produced. It seems that he had wandered into the Bacchus Marsh Police Station after deciding that the quickest way home was to walk.

At last, at aprroximately 7 p.m., a very dishevelled bunch of students arrived at the College, and most had great difficulty in alighting from the bus. Everyone agreed

that the trip had been very successful and that Mr. Baker's organisation had been first class. So 6D made their way homeward looking forward to their Geology Practice examination the following day.

D. LUMSDEN, 6D.

CLEAR THINKING A Talk By Professor Gasking On Wednesday evening, 29th July, several members of 6Dâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a form distinguished by its enthusiasm for and skill in this sort of thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;turned up at the University with the hope of getting some stable tips on a matter that will concern all the Matriculation English Expression students all too soon.

After a vast number of students had been crammed into the lecture room, the talk started at ten to eight. Most students, obviously from High Schools, seemed far more interested in Aerodynamics than English, and a great deal of excitement was created when a well-directed paper plane floated onto the speaker's platform.

The professor started by saying that he had attempted to evaluate a passage that afternoon, under examination conditions, giving himself about half an hour, and, he added, had made quite a mess of it (sympathetic laughter).

His main concern was telling us how to pass the Matriculation English examination.

He said that we would be given a piece of argumentative prose in which the writer puts forward an opinion which is supported by a set of reasons. The first step was to find the main opinion the writer was expressing and then to see what reasons he gave in support of this main opinion.

He then proceedd to work his way through an actual piece of prose. Firstly he discovered the main argument and wrote it in precis form, in order to "cut the cackle" and boil it down into a brief statement. He then made a precis of the arguments presented in each paragraph and compared them with the main argument. This seemed to be very boring to many of those who, unlike us, were herded there by teachers, and a lot of interest was centred on various types in the back rows who launched misguided missiles at frequent intervals. At times it was very difficult to hear the crowd talking through the noise made by the Professor, who at last announced, amid cheers.

analysis of the oil in the sump was made to determine the amount of sludge present.

From this, and the rate at which sludge was added, the amount of sludge removed by the filter, and the efficiency of the filter were calculated. This laboratory was also concerned with the testing of lubricants. We were shown pistons from test internal combustion engines, which had been run with various lubricants; they included straight oils, and also oils with varying amounts of detergent and oxidant additives added.

Later we saw another laboratory connected with the lubrication section, where the measurement of viscosity of oil was the major work. It was explained to us how oils thin out on rise in temperature. It is desirable to lessen this as much as possible and this is the object of "viscostatic" and "multigrade" oils. These oils contain additives which at normal temperatures do not alter the viscosity of the oil, but at high temperatures tend to polymerise and form compounds, similar to soluble gums which increase the viscosity of the oil.

After the lubricants we inspected the textile laboratories. The main work here was the testing of fabrics for rot-proofing and dyes for fastness. The main method used was microscopy supplemented with chemical tests. It was explained to us how nylon fibres were damaged and weakened, due to exposure to ultra-violet light from sunlight.

This was found to be due to an impure titanium dioxide used by the manufacturers to give nylon a dull finish. After the textiles, we were shown fractional distillation for the purification of carbon tetrachloride at normal atmosphered pressure, and a fractional distillation apparatus for the purification of dilutyl phthalate under reduced pressure, because it decomposed at its normal boiling temperature.

An apparatus for the analysis of organic compounds was explained to us, which would do away with the necessity for doing Organic I Practice. In this apparatus the compounds were vapourised and carried on by an inert gas, helium, or by nitrogen, to where they were absorbed on another inert material. From this the gas was passed into a cell and the conductivity measured.

From this a graph was drawn by the electronic apparatus which showed the time for which each constituent vapour was retained.

By checking this graph so produced against index graphs, the compounds could be ide.n-

that "we haven't got very far." Eventually everyone quietened down when it was seen that the Professor, his voice now reinforced by a task force of microphones, was outtalking the audience. The second piece of prose used as an example was an argument against Democracy, and it brought back many nostalgic memories of our mid-year examination.

Over-all, the main points made by the Professor were: firstly, pick out the main line of argument, discarding all irrelevancies.

Then see whether the various reasons put forward bear on the conclusion. Don't be misled by persuasive devices which, he said, are often used to cover weak reasons.

Lastly, always examine the passage coolheadedly, and don't be blinded by your own strong feeling of disagreement.

We are happy to report that these recommendations bear out what we hear often in the classroom here: we know what has to be done in general and the only problem now is to know how to do it on the day of judgment.

D. LUMSDEN, 6D.

TOUR OF DEFENCE STANDARDS LABORATORIES

On arrival at D.S.L. we were firstly conducted to the paint section. Here we were told that there were three basic ingredients in paint: pigment, which is the colouring matter, natural or synthetic oil or resin as base, and an organic solvent to enable the paint to be apphed whether by spraying or brushing. We were shown the steps in painting and enamelling of metal surfaces.

It was stressed that the preparation of a surface for painting is very important. Tests such as brushing or spraying properties, colour, finish, hiding power, hardness, flexibility, adhesion and durability are carried out to ensure the standards of paints. We were given a short talk on colour, and it was explained how hard it was to quantitatively measure colour. We were shown how one colour appeared as a different shade when the light was on it, or the surroundings about it were changed.

Next we moved on to the lubricants section. Here we were shown an apparatus for testing the efficiency of oil filters. Oil was continuously cycled from a sump through the filter and then back to the sump. Sludge was continually added to the sump at a steady rate, and at difierent intervals an 10

tified, and from the areas under the graph the percentage of each compound could be calculated. This electronic apparatus could do an analysis in an hour which would take a month by conventional methods.

Next we were shown to the General Chemistry section. The first laboratory here was concerned with the determinations of small quantities of gases in metals. Under high temperature and very low pressures the gases were drawn off the metal samples and then a gas sample was taken and analysed.

Both the apparatus for the extraction and the apparatus for the analysis were designed and built at D.S.L. Because of the very low pressures ordinary stopcocks were too susceptible to leakage, so solenoid operated valves were used where necessary. The main work was concerned with chromium, titanium and alloys.

The next laboratory was where all the general chemical analysis is carried out. The work done in this laboratory is held as standard for other laboratories throughout the State, therefore all work was done by two analysts, each using a different method and doing duplicate determinations. We were then shown an appartus used to quickly determine carbon in steel, and a second apparatus which is used to determine sulphur in steel.

Next we saw a polaragraph, which is used to analyse for Na and K, and a spectrograph, which is used to quantitatively estimate traces of impurities in metals and alloys. This completed a very interesting tour, during which we were all impressed with the excellent equipment, and large scope of work carried out at D.S.L., Maribyrnong.

friendly people. Therefore, you can imagine what a warm welcome I had from them, and it wasn't long before I found myself at home in this strange land so far away.

As for the Commerce Course I am doing, it is most interesting, because besides the main accounting subjects we have to do, there is a very wide field of other subjects to cover, too.

For instance: Economic Geography, Office Practice, Commercial Correspondence and so on, and they do really enlarge our knowledge beyond our course and they are most essential for our future lives. 1 am very happy with my college and the good teachers we have; our Head of Commerce, Mr. Dyall, tries his very best to help his students, especially us Asians, as we find it hard to follow the English language. Mr. Clancy and Mr. Hoadley are very helpful, too.

As you can guess, 1 found many strange as well as interesting things here in Australia.

For example, lunch is known as dinner here, and dinner is called tea. On Saturdays most people have their day off, though some establishments like banks are open till 11 a.m. it seems that the Sabbath Day, i.e., Sunday, is followed very strictly here. As a result, Sundays can be pretty dull, when shops and amusement centres like the cinemas are closed all day. You sure will spend a nice quiet day at home.

Another thing 1 found strange and at the same time intriguing, is the excessive use of slang and colloquialism. To quote some, they are: "fair dinkum" for in truth; "no guts" for afraid, and many others of the same kind. The pronunciation here is a little bit different, too, i.e., "to-day" often sounds like "to die." All these do take me quite a long time to get used to.

The houses here are very different, too.

Most of them are single-storey houses. There are storied houses as well, but these are not very common except in the city. There is usually a garden to each single house and it's a common sight to see many beautiful flowers planted, and the grass kept short; so that everything looks very neat.

One of the funny sights you usually see is the hustle and bustle as everyone seems to be going somewhere in the shortest possible time. Another thing is, people walk quicker in winter than in summer. This is probably to keep warm, when you come to think of the reason why. There are usually a lot of people having their lunch as they walk along

FIRST IMPRESSIONS Dear Eddie, 10th August, 1959.

I know it has been some time now since I arrived in Australia, and I suppose you are wondering whether I have forgotten you as I have not kept my promise to write.

However, I assure you that I cherish pleasant memories of the times we spent in each other's company.

You are no doubt anxious to know how I am getting on and to hear of the many things around here. Well, for a start, I am keeping fine and having the most wonderful experience of my life. I should like you to know that the Australians are extremely 11

the streets: it is a common scene in the city between twelve and one, as most of the office workers have this hour off for luncheon.

I am afraid I'll have to end now as I have written most of what I could. However, if you want to know anything about Australia, please let me know. Until next time then, I'll close with best regards.

Yours sincerely, CHAN DAI CHOU, 5E.

ship to the wider fellowship of W.S.C.F. Other visiting speakers were: Rev. John Westerman, who gave us a challenging message on the "Social Implications of the Gospel," and Mr. Ray Spears, who spoke on "What is a Christian." Mr. Norm Curry gave us an introduction to the Bible, referring to the book, "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," by Drummond. Some of our meetings were occupied with open discussion and Bible studies, which were led by our College Chaplain, the Rev. Morgan.

We would like to thank Mr. Beanland, Mr. Heard, and the Physics Department for their co-operation throughout the year, Mr. Hartney for giving us his free time for projecting our films, and Rev. Morgan, whose enthusiasm and guidance have been appreciated by all.

Throughout this past year, we have had wonderful Christian fellowship in this interdenominational group, and in closing I should like to remind you that our meetings are open to all and we are looking forward to your presence in 1960.

S.C.M.

The Student Christian Movement commenced on the first week after school resumed and continued meeting every Thursday lunchtime throughout the year.

Our programme varied: at some meetings we watched films, at others we listened to

DIPLOMA OF COMMERCE EXCURSIONS

The first year of the new Diploma of Commerce course this year was highlighted by a large number of excursions to enable the students to see in practice what they had been learning in theory.

For a practical demonstration of Commercial Law, students visited the House of Parliament and the Law Courts, where law is made by the State and by judges respectively. At the Public Library the judges' decisions could be seen recorded as precedents. The Newmarket Saleyards and the Stock Exchange provided illustrations of the law of Principal and Agent at work, while the visit to the latter establishment assisted the students to gain a knowledge of Stocks and Shares and to read Exchange reports in the newspapers.

Modern factories visited included the Industrial Service Engineers Pty. Ltd., where factory, office and plant ledgers were inspected, and an attempt was made to visualise the accounting records needed. At the British Australian Carpet Manufacturing Co. Pty. Ltd., raw materials, especially imported ones, were examined, while at the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Co. Pty. Ltd., the students encountered a different type of factory and therefore different accounting problems.

THE STUDENTS' CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT Back: P. Wellspring, P. Jones, D. Ashley, G. Davidovs, D. White.

Front: P. Rumpf, M. Telfer, P. Austin, N. Simpson.

speakers whom we invited and at others we enjoyed informal open discussions and Bible studies.

Early this year there was held in Melbourne a Billy Graham Crusade. In conjunction with this, our group viewed the film entided, "The Mighty Fortress," a film of Billy Graham's Crusade in Europe, and listened to the Rev. E. R. Phillips speak on "The Challenge of the Crusade."

Throughout the year we had many speakers, who provided us with a large range of topics. Mr. Elso van der Mark, an S.C.M. travelling secretary, spoke to us about the purpose and work of S.C.M. and its relation-

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T h e institutions most closely connected with finance were naturally of great interest to commercial students, and the visits to banks and to the Royal Mint were therefore important. At the National Bank, and the E. S. & A. Bank, there was plenty to see as we watched a modern, large bank in action.

Of particular interest were the large modern accounting machines at both banks, and the use of television by the E. S. & A. Bank.

At the Royal Mint the students saw how money was made and were impressed with the care taken to ensure that all coins are true. This helped them understand the problems of decimalisation, but they were disappointed, though not surprised, that on this excursion there were no free samples.

in huge 20-ton hoppers. The silica is taken f r o m these bins to the scrubbers and then by conveyor belt to the mixers, where it is mixed with the other ingredients. T h e mixture is then transferred by conveyor belts to the furnace.

The furnace is made of special bricks, reinforced with metal and stands approximately 40 ft. by 40 ft. by 60 ft. high. We were very lucky to see the enormously expensive rebuilding of a furnace while on our tour. The mixture is passed in through the top and is gradually heated while going down the furnace. At the bottom the pure melted mixture is forced out while the other unmelted mixture is returned to be reheated. F r o m the furnace the hot glass is passed to the different bottle and jar-making machines.

Here intricate and fascinating machines punch out bottles at the rate of hundreds per minute. The actual manufacture of bottles is very interesting and the groups spent much time watching the process.

The hot glass is first put into a mould where the neck is formed; the half-completed bottle is then passed into another mould, where it is blown into shape. The completed bottle must then be annealed to prevent cracking. This is done by passing the bottles down an "annealing lehr"; this is a long tunnel in which the botdes are gradually cooled.

After the bottles have been annealed they are packed ready for delivery to the diiierent companies. Moving f r o m the furnaceprocess room, we crossed the street to the bottle-labelling department. Here the boys watched with interest as machines passed the bottles to men, who placed them in the silk-screen stencilling machine. After the bottles have been stencilled they are annealed to seal in the label.

At the Myer E m p o r i u m , students could see how one of the world's largest retail stores deals with accounting records, and also how goods are tested against sample.

M o d e r n printing methods were observed at "The Herald" Printing Works, where reports f r o m the L a w Courts, the Stock Exchange, Parliament and Newmarket, were printed.

T h e working of communications systems, and of essential information services was the centre of interest at the P . M . G . Telephone Branch. Students saw the method of handling trunk calls for Victoria, Australia and overseas, and the recording of the time f r o m Mt. Stromlo and the weather f r o m the Bureau.

We should like to thank all the firms and organisations who so readily and courteously agreed to show our students how the knowledge they acquire at the College will be of immediate practical value in the careers that they will enter.

J.C.

EXCURSION TO A.C.I.

Passing f r o m the stencil room we went to see the manfacture of beer bottles (no free samples) and jar tops.

In this factory women operators punch out jar tops f r o m strips of metal, the top being completely finished in the one operation.

Adjoining this room is the room where the dies are made for the bottle and jar moulds. The boys were keenly interested in the manufacture of these dies, which are made by hand.

The next and newest place of interest was the plastic works. Here we sav/ the manufacture of polythene plastic, plastic squeeze

O n Tuesday, 7th July, the boys of 5C travelled in cars to Yarraville for an excursion to A.C.I. T h e boys were accompanied

by Messrs. Gordon, Johnson, Baker and Porter.

Arriving at the factories, the boys were divided into two groups to begin their inspection of the glass works. Before we bsgan our tour we were taken to the lab., where the Chief Chemist, Mr. McKellar, explained the manufacture and the flow chart of glass.

F r o m the lab. we went to the store yard, where the components of the glass are stored 13

more than one million, and the figure has increased greatly after the change of government in China, and to-day there is a population of nearly three millions. The result is that there are not enough houses for people to live in, and it is quite a big problem to the authorities concerned. High buildings with five or six stories or even more are seriously required. It is not like in Australia, where each family has its own flat with garden both back and front; usually several families stay together on one storey, and even a family of six or more members live in a rented room. People who can afford to have one storey of their own are surely lucky enough; only the rich are able to own a flat like those in Australia, and, of course, rich and poor live separately.

bottles and combs.

Plastic bottles and combs are made from a mixture of the plastic powder and liquid. The paste is fed into the machine, which feeds it into the presses and moulds. A most interesting process in this factory is the manufacture of a plastic tube which is non-corrosive, weatherproof and flexible. This tube is replacing many steel water and other mains, as it doesn't have to be sunk into the ground. The tube is of two types, one type for heavier liquids and the other for lighter hquids.

After seeing the plastic stencilling, we moved back to the main ofiice to thank all responsible for the tour.

In closing, the boys of 5C would like to thank Mr. Gordon for taking us on this tour, which helped to make even clearer to us many of the things we learn about in classes.

A L A N TEMPEST. B R U C E HOWE.

Concerning their education: all school children, most of whom are Chinese, are under the British Colonial Education System, in which students are expected to study the books authorised by the government.

There are government schools, and auxiliary schools which are financially aided by the government; and their teachers are under the control of the department of education.

Moreover, there are schools which are sponsored by the church authorities, and private schools sponsored either by public organisations or private bodies. Some of the private colleges are run very well, and they have gained a very good reputation. Generally, students coming from government schools will have an advantage in applying for a position, for all firms, factories, and offices prefer government school students to private school students, because it is recognised that government schools have a higher standard.

THE PREFECTS Back: J. Hursley, G. Lowe, R. Carthew, M. Royal Front: P. Wellspring: R. Watt, B. Ellis.

SOiMETHING ABOUT HONG KONG

Primary students, chiefly in the government schools, are required to learn English when they come up to their last two years.

During the five years' time spent in the secondary or high school, English is selected as the approved language in all lectures.

High school students who pass their School Certificate Examination by the Education Department are theoretically supposed to be able to work in society providing they do not intend to take further studies, but, practically speaking, nine out of ten can hardly find a job, no matter how willingly they are prepared to seU their services.

A very popular Chinese saying "Graduation means a loss" is really a significant comment on this state of affairs.

In comparison to Australia with her vast area. Hong Kong is really a small place, a increase. The bigger the figure of populaminute spot on the world map; but in proportion to population, she is more crowded than the former. The increase of population is partly due to the continuous flow of Chinese from the nearby Red Continent, and partly the result of her own daily tion, the busier the city, and, on the other hand, people find it harder to earn a bowl of rice, owing to the fact that there is a shortage of all sorts of work for the people coming to settle down in the Colony.

Since the Second World War, Hong Kong has had an increase of population of 14

There is only one university, named the Hong Kong University, which is financially aided by the government and is under the control of both the government and some cultural authorities. The governor is invited to be its honorary Rector, but he takes no part in its administration. Every year thousands of matriculated students fervently wish to get into this highest palace of study in the country, but unfortunately, quite a number of them are strictly and coldly refused, for the reason that there is not enough room for them. This is, perhaps, one of the main factors which cause hundreds of students to turn their attention to the overseas universities every year. In order to solve this serious problem, many former Chinese university professors and lecturers who are in Hong Kong suggested several years ago that a few Chinese colleges, equivalent to the university standard, should be estabhshed, and this has been done. They are now going very well and will in the near future be approved by the Hong Kong University as one of its sections.

though the power station is smaller than the installations in Victoria, the way in which visitors are able to walk about and see things for themselves could well be adopted by the S.E.C. In the afternoon our coach, which was to be the same during our trip, called for our visit to the Australian Aluminium Production Commission at Bell Bay, 36 miles from Launceston on the banks of the Tamar river. The works are divided into two parts: the first where the raw materials are crushed and filtered and the second where the actual refining and casting is done.

When we entered the plant, our watches and cameras were taken from us, in the second stage we found out why. As D.C. is used in the refining process (approx. 5 volts at 40,000 amps.) intense magnetic fields are set up sufficient to magnetize door keys then demagnetize them in another field while the key is still in your pocket.

The next day, Tuesday, we left Launceston for Hobart via the Great Lake with stops at the Hydro-stations of Tungatinah Tarraleak and Wayatinah which are all generating capacities—the largest being 90 megawatts. The surrounding countryside is very mountainous and rugged with close packed trees and dense undergrowth.

At about five o'clock we arrived at Hobart. After dinner we left for an inspection of the town under our own steam or rather trolley bus power. The first stop was the pictures, the second an espresso bar, where after we left, the proprietor found certain advertising signs had 'walked.'

On Wednesday after breakfast, our coach called for the inspection of Cadbury's chocolate factory at Claremont, where after President Eisenhower, Mr. Khrushchev, Tom Dooley and Mr. Nixon had signed the visitors' book, we commenced the inspection. After seeing how chocolate was made, everybody vowed never to eat that stuff again, but at the samples section we all had our fair share.

In the afternoon we went to the pinnacle of Mt. Wellington which rises over 4,000 feet above sea-level. The view which is seen from this peak had the camera fiends working overtime, but Mr. Wilhams put on the binoculars to look for the boys, who without cameras went shding over, and disappearing behind rocks in search of snow which

To sum up, schools and colleges, including the primary and the secondary, are not sufficient for the continuous increase of old and young students who, unfortunately, are missing the chance of becoming educated, are forced to work at an early age, or perhaps to become criminals through ignorance. It is believed that quite a long time and a great amount of money are necessary to decrease the number of uneducated children. The Hong Kong Government is trying its best to solve this tremendous problem.

K. Y. L E U N G , Commerce Course.

TOUR

OF TASSIE

On Monday, 7th September, a party of 25 boys left Melbourne by plane for Launceston, Tasmania, arriving there at 9.40 a.m.

Our coach met us at the booking office in Launceston, taking us to Trevallyn house—where we were to stay—which is built on the side of a hill giving a good view of all Launceston. The roads on these hills are well supplied with hairpin bends— it takes a bus two tries to get around them.

After fixing up our accommodation and with Jack Simpson's pipe going full blast, we left for the Hydro dam at Trevallyn and the power station at Riverside. Al15

was found with the inevitable snow fight that followed. After the fight Dave Waring proclaimed, "This is the site for a 'shop'."

On the way back to Grenda house where we stayed in Hobart "the strength" introduced a new song, something about "Oh Sir Percy."

After our return, some groups of boys went into town and some business was conducted with the hire car people, and this concluded with three cars turning up at Grenda. However, "the strength" preferred to walk about and explore the town, visiting the Museum, the docks. Parliament House and watching the antics of a seal by the docks.

That evening we went to a dance, but were not admitted as some of us wore reefer jackets and not dark suits, so The Saphire, a real rockin' joint claimed our four bobs. At eleven it closed its doors and we made our way to the Domino and watched with watering mouths as Mr. Williams tried to eat some substance superheated with chilis; however Mr. Faulkner's crayfish soon captured our interest.

We arrived back at Grenda house to find that our rooms had been done over; as the chemists were the only ones at home, well, that explained it. A Council of War was held and a report went something like this: 1.00 a.m. Removed louvres from chemists' toilets. Neil Meaden and Dave Waring enter; (chemists asleep) open door, boys enter lights on Bruce Stirling and Mai. Royal on floor, room hit by tornado. 1.15 a.m. Enter Fred Sargeant's room same way, chain goes, Fred sleeps on, boys enter, light on, Fred sails into wardrobe followed by blankets and mattress. 2.00 a.m. Outside Butler's room commence removal of key.

2.30 a.m. 5 pieces of wire and 2 screwdrivers later, Alan Horsley and Jack announce job completed, boys enter, Butler hits floor followed in quick succession by blankets and mattress. 2.45 a.m. Stirling and Royal asleepâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;crash! Bop! Stirling and Royal wide awake prepare to fix room again. 3.00 a.m. Job completed, chemists a defeated and submissive rabble, we retire to bed.

After Wednesday's late night (or early morning) many of us were still in the land of nod at breakfast time. Robin Davies could only be wakened by a glass of Adam's Ale.

After breakfast for those who had it, we left by our same coach for the Electrolytic Zinc Company's plant at Risdon. On our arrival, our watches were removed but we retained our cameras. The place where the zinc is refined by electrolyis looks as is it was the first wooden building put up in Tasmania. In other sections of the plant S 0 2 fumes were very strong, most of the men wore nose pads, while we wore nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except clothes.

At the plant liquid air is produced for the extraction of H2, N2 and 0 2 needed in the plant. On all sections of the plant, but mainly in the Ammonium Sulphate Section, the corrosion caused by the chemicals handled is very great, and the section of the plant must be closed down to clean out the corrosion.

At the end of the inspection tour our bus returned us to Grenda house for lunch, after which we packed our bags and left for Ansett-A.N.A. booking office.

Our arrival started off a big souvenirbuying spree which soon turned into a hunt for a mulga wood nose ring for Jack. Coles stores, for a small fortune, supplied the marble for the All-Australian big ring championship in Franklin Square and "Colonel" Nasution with a shot which made every schoolboy look just a beginner took off the title.

A look at our watches showed time was running out, anyway the gardener was running in our direction so we moved off to the booking office and then to the aerodrome where we boarded our plane for Melbourne.

At Launceston there was a five minute break in which a marble game was started on the tarmac, Alan Horsley coming to the fore won the game, however Ned Apperly entered a protest as he says he saw through his sun glasses Juris Puce from the salt mines funudgin. Back on the plane we arrived in Melbourne at about 7.00 p.m. a tired but happy group.

In all we had a very enjoyable trip both educationally and otherwise and we would like to thank Mr. Faulkner and Mr. Williams who looked after us so well. This is the only true account on record, because it was written by an engineer.

BY O N E W H O WAS T H E R E . 7B.

APPENDIX

The S.E.C. kindly provided two buses equipped with guides, and we were taken firstly around the perimeter of the immense open cut and then over the power station, the first stage of which, with an output of 42,000 k.w., was completed early this year.

Construction of the briquette works is well under way, and the steam heated drying drums were plainly under construction. In the distance the gasification plant of the Gas and Fuel Corporation could be seen.

A conveyor one mile long will be used to supply the raw coal for this purpose, and it is claimed that this is the longest belt conveyor in the southern hemisphere.

This authentic and true to fact account of the important incidents on the Tasnianian trip cancels any previous nonsense or rumour. The six chemists, as expected, showed their superiority over twenty engineers, by completely outmatching them at every stage on the tour.

Firstly, having acquired the best rooms at Trevallyn House, the best chemists, or strength as they are usually called, controlled the best seats on the bus, namely the rear ones and entertained the lower classes with their musical talent.

On Wednesday night the chemists sabotaged the engineers' rooms. The chemists held to the tradition that quality is better than quantity.

After being in Hobart only a few hours, the chemists drove up in an F.E. Holden.

Here they had a slight problem: to distinguish between the green of traffic lights and the glowing faces of engineers. Later the peasants did manage to hire a heap, but they could only afford one day where the chemists had theirs for three days. We would also announce that all noise in the early hours of the morning came from the engineers: in fact this is the only thing the engineers do well. Still, we must be tolerant with those less fortunate than ourselves; and if the engineers keep their place we might use them as bag-boys again.

This first half of the tour was completed when the guides took us back to the main gate and showed us a petrified "log" of brown coal. This museum piece subsequently disappeared into the boot of a wellknown Austin.

Lunch was taken in Morwell proper, at various establishments, depending on taste, and we re-assembled at Yallourn Power Station at approximately one o'clock to await the arrival of our mentors.

Then at two o'clock we began our tour of the Yallourn undertaking. The party was divided and each in turn taken over the open cut, briquette works and the power station. We were requested to use our own cars and after a Le Mans start Angus McWynd drove off at high speed in the wrong direction.

The remaining cars descended into the open cut to get a closer view of a bucketwheel dredger and the narrow gauge rail system. Since the rails must follow the dredgers, they are not fixed to the ground, but are of an integral construction,"^ which enables a special bogie to move the track sideways in the desired direction.

A.J.B.; M.J.R.; F.A.S.; B.A.S.; G.P.T.; G.S.W.

TRIP TO YALLOURN Accompanied by Mr. Beanla.nd and the Rulers of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments in their respective chariots, the final year mechanical engineers recently contested the winding ribbon of bitumen between Melbourne and Morwell with a cosmopolitan group from the seventh form :the prize for this speed and reliability trial was a tour over the brown coal undertakings at Morwell and Yallourn, by courtesy of the S.E.C. A staggered start was adopted, whereby each driver was instructed to arrive punctually at 8 a.m. opposite Caulfield Tech., to receive final instructions and various passengers. Despite gloomy predictions to the contrary, all arrived safely at the main gate of the Morwell Open Cut on time, and the tour commenced.

On leaving the open cut, we next stopped at the briquette factory, losing Leo Jones and company in the process. The briquette factory proved to be interesting for all concerned, and the tour climaxed in a thwarted attempt to fill up the boot of the Siddeley with ballast for the return journeyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;namely, nice shiny briquettes.

The final step of the tour was the Power Station, where we were shown over the boiler house and turbine hall. It was here that we finally managed to convince many of our electrical brethren that those large circular drums suspended beneath each 17

our instructor, reading novels that reflect or criticise the way things were and are in the Totalitarian States, making notes as we go along on our reading, and finally writing short repoits and comments.

With all this, there is a lot of discussion in the classes, question and answer, assertion and argument, and we say what we think—the idea is that you can disagree with the author you're reading, with the others in the class, and with the t e a c h e r provided of course that the rules about parliamentary language and so on are observed.

We found the Totalitarian States topic especially interesting, for to talk about it we read — with satisfaction — books like "1984", "Animal Farm", "Fontamara", "Darkness at Noon", as well as referring to events in German and Italian history by consulting the books especially provided in the library. Another topic was the growth of science; and to deal with this we read and heard a lot about the work of early Greek thinkers and the development of this in the 17th and 18th centuries, when modern science began to grow.

Speakmg for our group, a mixture of 7B and 7C, I can say that we have learnt a good deal: the subject hasn't been at all dull, and some of us at least, will continue to be interested in all these matters after we leave the College. We have read many more books than we would otherwise have done, and we have even bought and shared a large number—especially the paper-backs.

One of the good things about this subject is that—so far anyhow—there isn't any formal exam at the end of the year; so that we know at the beginning that the books are to be read for interest and enjoyment, not to be swotted up.

The other group, 7A, have also had excursions to the National Gallery, where Mr Clancy led them around among the pictures; but the time-table hasn't permitted us to do any of this.

It seems that we at this College—as well as classes in some other places—have been used as guin:a pigs for this new experiment which is going to lead to an established course in all Diploma Colleges; but we can report that the inoculations haven't been painful and the "social scientists" have been as humane in their methods as can be expected.

DAVID WARING, 7B.

turbine were indeed condensers and not boilers.

Subsequently we reunited at the main gate, thanked and farewelled our patient guides, and set off home amidst several million workers—all intent on crossing the road to buy the evening paper before we got out of the car park.

In its own peculiar way, the return trip proved to be extremely eventful, providing enough test data for group discussion for the rest of the terms. In a sentence: a good time was had by all.

B.T.U.. 8A.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Until this year, we all assumed that as soon as the ultimate hurdle in English, the matriculation exam, had been jumped, soared, stumbled or floundered over, we had 'done' Enghsh: and when talk began to be heard about a new subject covered by the unpromising title English 111, there were some doubts, groans, forebodings — and much curiosity.

Then the expression "History of Ideas" came up, and before long we began to gather what it was about: something called Social Sciences, and within a few weeks it was there; and for the benefit of those who come after us, will tell you what it's about.

The purpose is to give us an understanding of the social, political, and historical devTopment of those ideas which have produced that very complex thing that we call our western civilisation. It isn't History, because we have moved back and forth, in our reading and discussion, in a manner that historians would call unsystematic: it isn't Political Theory, because that is only on 2 of the topics that came up, often when we don't expect it. And it isn't just literature, although we have read and talked about many books, including novels.

From about nine topics, such as "The Greek World," "The Totalitarian States," "The Chall nge to the Victorian Age," "Expression of Modern Thought," we try to find five or so—at the beginning—that will interest us: then we have lists of books given to us f om which we can choose those that seem interesting. Before long, without knowing quite how it has happened, we are doing this subject: listening to introductory talks—not too many of these—by 18

APPRENTICESHIP

WEEK

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Mr. T. W A S L E Y A p p r e n t i c e Supervisor, w h o goes to Cauifield T.C. next year, with o u r best wishes.

APPRENTICESHIP WEEK Mr. Vian. Mr. M o l l a r d , Mr. Bloomfield, Ministei of E d u c a t i o n . Mr. Beanland.

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APPRENTICE WEEK

THE GOOD SAMARITAN

The exhibits on view in the College Assembly Hall always supply manifest confirmation of the observations made by the speakers who draw attention to the significance of this yearly event. The growing importance of craftsmanship in industry, and in particular, the work done by the apprentices trained in our ColLge, are evident in the photograph of the section of a house quickly assembled and effectively located in the Hall.

The weary workers in their overalls, like blue-clad monks Doing penance for the accident of birth That made their lot so little, should.

If that good book, that guides our lives Speaks any truth at all, inherit most of Anything that's left, when what we have is finished.

Then who can blame the idle rich for pressing The advantage while they have it And saving others from that self-same wretched fate That tradition says shall overtake the wicked Small wonder too that some should try To gain the best of both and when they die, Bequeath their estates to charity or church.

The Principal opened the proceedings by introducing the President of the School Council, Mr. Vian, who congratulated Mr. Beanland, the staff and the students on the sterling quality of the work done through the year.

The Minister of Education Mr. Bloomfield, apologised for the absence of several other Members who regretted having to miss, because of other important commitments, what he described as "a colourful and interesting exhibition." The young craftsmen whose work was on view, he continued, were "fortunate in living in an exciting era." New materials, more advanced techniques, even new colours used have made work in the various trades "no longer stereotyped and dull," but the lasting source of pride in skilled craft. Each tradesman, in his particular way, is doing much to make the material basis of our daily lives more pleasant, comfortable and aesthetically satisfying.

So churches grow and charity unloads this weight On those that best can bear it The wretched and the poor Who trade their chance of being first in line When things are shared anew.

For a little pleasure now.

Bear up then, beggarman And clutch your rags around you I'd give you alms, but for my kindness!

I couldn't rob you of your only chance of Paradise.

H A R R Y MILTON, 5A.

The craftsman has the satisfaction of knowing that his is no dead-end occupation: rather one with unlimited scope for improvement, and a guarantee of personal contentment.

The kind of education obtainable at the College is made possible by the closest co-operation with industry, a relationship in which everyone concerned derives benefit.

Subsequently, Mr. Vian introduced Mr. E. A. Mollard, a Director of Industrial Service Engineers Ltd., who has the additional distinction of being one of the College's earliest students and the first of our "old boys" to serve on the College Council.

Mr. Mollard congratulated the students on their work, and officially presented to the College a compressed air unit which will be a valuable aid to instruction.

Mr. J. H E A R D The Vice-Principal, to w h c m we offer our best wishes for success in his new position at Brighton.

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his general supervision of the Club and its cameras, developing, printing and enlarging equipment. Any student who wishes can join the Camera Club for the sum of three shillings and join in using the fairly extensive range of equipment available.

On the surface, the Camera Club, a loosely-bound collection of students with one common interest, does not seem to have been very active during this year; but judging from the amount of material ordered through llford's, quite a lot of work has been going on. The club's main facility is the dark room and its associated equipment around which centres most of the club's activities. Membership at the beginning of the year was about a dozen and since then the numbers have nearly doubled.

This year was also marked by the purchase of new developing and printing equipment and a general reorganization of the dark room equipment.

Thanks are due to Peter Hargraves for

DRAMA CLUB

After the great successes of previous years, this year's drama group found it had a name to live up to. An initial setback was encountered in the loss of Mr. John Howells, who so successfully produced the previous two plays; but much to our delight, the school engaged a professional producer, Lorna Kirkwood-Jones.

The next step was to choose a suitable play, this was easier said than done; but after much deliberation "A Trip to Scarborough" was finally chosen. This play, written by Richard Sheridan, was set in Scarborough in the year 1777.

The initial preperations complete, the auditions drew near. Many new faces were seen in the audition room, and it must be said that without the enthusiastic support of these new members our ambitious attempt at further improvement would not have met with much success. After a number of auditions, the cast was selected, everyone including back stage staff being on it.

Now began the arduous period of rehearsing, organising and still more rehearsing. Mr G. Johnson designed the sets and with some help soon produced excellent scenery, while Peter Hargrave, with the professional assistance of Mr. Alec Brown, made suitable lighting arrangements. At this stage, the first night was rapidly draw-

THE CAMERA CLUB Back: L. Campbell, V. Gozhevski, G. Mullin, A. Daniels, M. Hufschmid.

Front: O. Pfeiffer, J. Bertins-Berzins, Mr. J. Grainger, P. Hargreaves, B. Delaney.

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ing near, rehearsals were becoming more frequent, costumes and properties were arriving.

The College Assembly Hall had become a hive of industry.

Morale was at it's highest with the club members painting, setting up lights, repairing costumes, arranging drapes, cleaning; and above all, rehearsing again and still again.

O n the evening of the 29th July, the audience listened in the usual dignified manner to the speeches as the last of the diplomas were presented. How this scene contrasted with the air of activity of the

Fashion was penniless, he was not to be pushed around.

Fashion's devoted slave.

Lory, was played by Tom Main who fitted into the part perfectly.

He made such a good job of fighting Sir Tunbelly Clumsy's servants that we thought he was paying off a personal grievance. Barry Chandler played the part of the Postillion, but had the unenviable task of changing not oni> costume but character for the next scene, where he did the excellent job of portraying a quack doctor who, once he had the patients secured in his "surgery," did not

THE D R A M A CLUB Back: N . Simpson, P. Hargreaves. M . Telfer, R . Crossthv/aite, P. Podolak, L. Dyson, Billing, H. Webb, D . Waring, R . Davies, R. Chappel. B. Chandler.

P.

Austin,

V.

Front: T. M a i n . J. Harsley, Miss A . Currie, Mrs. Bargoine, A . Marriage, Miss C. Allen, Mr. A. Baker.

Miss L. Middleton, Miss J. Wills, D . White. M . Edmonds.

previous weeks. The atmosphere backstage was tense as all concerned took up their positions for the curtain-rise.

Max. Telfer had the pick-up raised, ready to play the opening music. Peter Hargrave was ready to bring up the lights, Victor Billings was prepared to raise the curtain. Jack Simpson (the man we hoped we wouldn't need) the prompter, was in the wings.

The play was announced, the music began; then the stage manager whispered the one word which begins a performanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; "Curtain." First on stage was John Harsley who played the part of Tom Fashion, the penniless brother of Lord Foppington. His acting was up to its usual high standard and he soon showed us that although Tom

pronounce them cured until he had extracted thei'- finances.

Colonel Townley was well played by Peter Austin whose specialty is a military part, although he has been promoted somewhat in rank since last year when he was a soldier.

David White made his debut in the leading part of Lord Foppington. Lord Foppington, a member of the English aristocracy of the period was, as the name suggests, quite a dandy. David played this difficult part admirably, sometimes sarcastic, then aggressive, a ladies' gentleman, or a typical fop who was always trying to create the impression of nobility.

David Waring, Ralph Chappell, Hugh Webb and Laurie Dyson did such an excellent job of fitting

that some were very, very tired the next day. This may be due to acting, but . . . .

An excellent job was done by Joan Wills, assisted by Mrs. Allen who attended to the wardrobe, and by our back stage staff consisting of Robin Davies who was in charge of the sets, Mr. A. Baker, Peter Hargreaves, Max Telfer, and Jack Simpson who did an excellent job of prompting (both tim:s). We are very grateful to Mr. G. Johnson and Mr. Malbon for their work on the sets and also to Mr. E. B. Howells for his co-operation. The credit for the production must without doubt go to Mrs. Stirling whose enthusiasm never waned. We hope it will be possible in future years to concinue under her guidance. We trust the Club's policy of continued improvement will be car ied out for many years to come, the Drama Group has come a long way in the last few years; but the only way to ensure its bright future is to encourage others to join and to share the burden and the pleasures which are to be derived from an Amateur Drama Group.

the fastidious Lord Foppington with clothes that they might well be advised to enter the tailoring business. Probably the most unfortunate of all was La Varóle by Peter Podolak. As Foppington's personal servant he must have been told many times how high Foppington's social status was—

by Lord Foppington of course.

David's flair for impiovising providsd amusement at many a rehearsal. It has been said that at one rehearsal, on forgetting his lines, he calmly sat back in his chair and said "Good evening" for the want of something better to say.

The office staff again devoted much of their spare time to the Drama Group, this year Coral Allen capably played Amanda, wife of Loveless who was played by Alan Marriage. Amanda and Loveless were a tyical, v>.ry respectable, upper class country people staying temporarily in Scarborough. Their household was completely upset when Lord Foppington arrived on the scene. Loveless was obliged to protect Amanda from such a person, so a duel followed, Lord Foppington finally being badly wounded, "a little scratch between the skin and the ribs, that's all" and taken to Probe's (Barry Chandler) surgery where a "few hundred pounds" would fix him up in no time. Mrs. Burgoine left the switchboard temporarily to become Mrs Coupler, and handled her first part very well. Lynette Middleton as Miss Hoyden experienced some difficulty in finding out who her husband was, but it all turned out well since it was eventually discovered that she had married Tom Fashion. Lynette, and Andrea Currie who played the nurse put on their usual splendid exhibition which we have now come to take for granted.

Andrea assumed the role of companionnurse to Miss Hoyden. Then there was Mark Edmonds who, now well established as our most versatile member, portrayed Sir Tunbelly Clumsy. Very conspicuous by his grey beard (he has never been known to act without one), he acted well in the part of a stern very bad-tempered peer who took one whole scene to calm down.

His servants were David Waring, Bob Crosthwaite, Ralph Chappel, Laurie Dyson, Hugh Webb and Victor Billing.

A L A N M A R R I A G E , 8B.

MOTHERS' CLUB The Mothers' Club met on the second Wednesday each month and this again proved a means of uniting the mothers in an afternoon of enjoyment as well as assisting the College.

The activities of the year commenced with the picnic in the Footscray Park, and the club Birthday Celebration was in the form of a luncheon. Many members and guests were present and fully enjoyed the films shown by Mr. Green, College Headmaster. His commentary proved that he must have had a very successful overseas tour. Harmony was provided by Mesdames Voisey, Davies and Gluyas.

We were again busy during Education Week with stalls, afternoon teas and suppers. The mannequin parade, featuring students of the Millinery and Dressmaking classes, was again well received. A successful year concluded with a social afternoon in December.

To all who assisted throughout the year, to the mothers, boys and staff, we say thanks for your help and wish you all the best for the Festive Season.

(Mrs.) S. E. C U R W O O D , President.

At the conclusion of the play the drama group adjourned to—we won't say where— for a little celebration. There are rumours 23

THE Back: B. Centre: Front:

S m i t h , J . Stals, J .

Bailey. W .

S.R.C.

Ramsay, G .

R a n k i n . P.

Mullen, P. Reymann.

Austin.

S.

Kybartas,

G.

R . C a r t h e w , B. Stirling, G . Jurgelait, K . T h o r n y c r o f t . W . R o b e r t s o n , A . W a t s o n , M .

B. R i p p e r , D . L a u g h t . T. O ' B r y a n , R . H o r s b u r g h .

M.

R o y a l , J. H a r s l e y , R . L i m , R . W a t t , P. I ' o d o l a k . P. W e l l s p r i n g (treasurer), M r .

V . L a v e n d e r (president), R . C r u i s e (secretary), K . S h a r p , B. Ellis, N . S i m p s o n .

THE Back: \L R o y a l .

F r o n t : R . C r u i z e . P.

SOCIAL

Lowe,

P.

Edmonds, J.

Hunt.

COMMI ! n;i;

R . C a r t h e w , P. W e l l s p r i n g . P. H w i n g . V. l avender, B. l-llis, H. S h a r p .

Hargreaves, Miss A . C u r r i e . P. Podol ik, Miss !.. M i d d l e t o n , Ci. L o w e , R . W a t t .

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5A

At the beginning of the year, a collection of potential engineers (many have since changed their minds) were grouped and labelled 5A. Occupying one of the major positions in the form is Colin Maxfield, who comes from the small country town of Rosanna each day to amuse us with his idiosyncrasies (Ref. Page 390 Oxford Dictionary). Manfred Hufschmid is the form conshy; he's so keen he even broke his wrist while trying to get into English class.

He has two constant lunchtime companions, namely his Physics and Chem. text books.

However, this practice paid off in the midyear exams. Colin Reed never seems to get there just quite on time, and on some occasions he doesn't seem even to get there.

One of the more serious members of the form is Harold E. Milton. Harry is the proud owner of a little blue Singer, that he aptly terms the "Beetle." The only trouble with having a lift home in Harry's automobile is that the passenger is in the embarrassing position of trying to shut the door.

We feel quite sure that a Hollywood movie contract is waiting for Hughie Webb, the form's only actor in the school play. Les Hayes claims to come from a Coburg school, possibly he means the famous Coburg Bluestone College.

One person who is very concerned about the form, although not a member, is Mr. Empey, whose main objective as far as we can see is to try and teach us physics.

Famous last words could be quoted as "Hurry up, boys, or you won't finish the syllabus." However, we feel that we'd have a lot more show if we went back to first principles.

The sportsmen of the form are Colin Reed, our baseball and cricket representative; Manfred Hufschmid, the form's only soccer player, and Geoff. Sinclair, our basketballer. The form's two S.R.C. representatives are Bill Ramsay and Peter Rankin.

Mr. Baker's Chem. class has had many empty seats since he started the examination process on 5A students with his colourless, tasteless and most definitely odourless gases.

We can't understand why he didn't like John

Solo-etc.'s effort at making his own gas from a great chemical reaction.

Equation: 1 match + 1 celluloid set square = 1 Big Stink.

There is a rumour around the form that Mr. Empey required the services of "Herbie" Baker for education week. He felt that the display wouldn't be quite complete without Herbie's efforts in the physics, lab. After a very serious telephone conversation a very disappointed Mr. Empey excused a very sorry Herbie. Anybody wishing to hear the full story should see Geoff. Sinclair about how to imitate voices over the telephone.

Possibly form life will be quieter in the next term, as the whole term is faced with that ridiculous idea of final examinations.

However, the students are quite confident of bringing honour and glory to the form, even if the teachers don't share this confidence.

ANON.

5B

This gossip column, appropriately superficial and unsystematic, is what everybody's been waiting forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the form notes from the upper crust of the school. 5B consists of thirty pupils who became renowned for their excellent cards and table tennis playing; among these were six repeats, who led the somewhat quiet first year boys into some lively moments.

Gordon Watson, one of these repeats, has become quite famous for the innocent explanation to Mr. Finch, "who me"!

Gordon, along with Barry Smith "the young lover," represented the form on the S.R.C. this year. John Bailey who is also repeating, settled down and proved to be the "brains and beauty" of the form. John with his mates Peter Butler and Alan Kenny turned in some respectable exam results at the mid-year.

Otto Pfeiffer and radio enthusiast Max. Brighton also did quite well for themselves 25

are not the innocent quiet boys they seemed to be in previous years. Bob Anderson and Frank Meking have taken on the responsible job of becoming teachers, they both hold teaching bursaries from the Education Department.

Many members of the form took part in all sporting events throughout the year and helped bring success to the school many times.

in the mid-year exams. Otto is a zealous supporter of the Camera Club and often wished he had his camera at school, as he says he could catch some mighty interesting scenes from the classroom. Ian Williams, another radio enthusiast, revels in selling dud electrical equipment to John "Know all about it" Wilkinson. Ian sometimes wishes John didn't know so much. After receiving his son's report card, Mr. Reeves somewhat deflated Ian by reducing his freedom to only one night out a week. We shall see the cffects of this move when the marks come out for the final exams. Laurie Bowman tried for many weeks to become accustomed to the intricate machinery which forms part of the Machine Shop.

There are two types of reaction that take place in this College: one is in the Chem lab and the other occurs when anyone catches a glimpse of the revealing pinups on Jeff Anderson's locker. While speaking of the opposite sex, if anyone ever had a moment of gloom he need only approach Gary Kemp and ask about the girls Gary knew at the Footscray Girls' School. This may be the answer to Mr Manser's question why Gary is always talking.

Geoff Costello was not unlike Len Poperecznyj's car when it came to the speed they travelled; they were both like snails. Geoff always managed to be five or ten minutes late at least. Ray "Tosca" Torrielli had the unique experience of being the only member of the Ray Torrielli fan club.

Tony Malcolm wonders why he cannot beat Gordon Watson at cards. There's been a rumour around that Gordon Watson was one of Sgt. Bilko's boys. Tom Main and Vic Billinge both represented the drama club.

If Ian Harmond didn't enjoy school he certainly enjoyed the school dances. We don't think he missed one. Bob Heard and Alf Bobek both came from Sunshine, Bob was a keen debater in our English class room debates. Alf, although proving himself quite smart, showed that his hearing was a little dull.

Harro Wunder, a front row pupil, does not believe in wasting time or money at the hairdressers. Jim Scott and Teddy Biggs

5C This year's 5C are a crew of card sharps, cads and a few conscientious chemists.

These have been skimmed from the cream of Footscray's, Sunshine's and Coburg's intellects, who have invaded Footscray with the hope of becoming trained chemists.

A distinguished member is Barry Chandler, whose hidden talents were unveiled when he played the part of "Probe" in a school play. Barry also has the habit of coming up with words found only in the remoter parts of the dictionary.

"Cookie" McMahon: Dig that Dashing Daddy O with the drooly Duffle Coat.

When Niel arrived at school one day it was thought that he had shrunk, but it was later discovered that he had had a haircut. Neil's brilliance as a student was shown by his high mid-year examination marks.

When the smoke bomb appeared out of nowhere in Mr. Baker's class, Brian Garrett said he had nothing to do with it. Two most-feared and respected members of this form are Clyde Riley and Garry Wood.

Clyde is one of these scholarship collectors who are not satisfied with just one or two.

Garry Wood not only shows his skill as a student, but as a tennis player, and has won many cups. Bruce Howe was the boy selected by Mr. Waterson to take on the responsible job of Laboratory Assistant.

Bruce likes the job and conditions very much, although he has thoughts of approaching the union for a pay rise. During this year Graham Vigor arrived at school late and insisted to Mr. Johnson that it was because the aborigines would not allow him to cross the ford.

Alan Tempest is one of the many boys of the form who have put much of their time into studying for the exams. Although Alan is a quiet, reserved type of person, he showed his ability to express himself in a class debate, where he piled up his side's winning points. Lindsay Burke is another 26

of the quiet members of the form who achieved some very good marks in the midyear exammations.

The "spirit of the west" has not been forgotten in this form, as was shown when Mr. Roberts was held up before a Maths' class by Ray Horsburgh armed with an antiquated cannon. It turned into a humorous situation when the gun, armed with a cap, went off. Mr. Roberts was blamed for extra work for the cleaners. Douglas Hagart emphatically denies that he did top the class in the mid-year exams. Doug is very quiet during the winter, but we hear that he is an excellent cricketer.

At the rear of the school could be heard the count-down 5-4-3-2-1-zero and the flames belched from the Brasso tin and the two Georges stood dumbfounded as their home-made rocket was actually launched.

George Sandilands "Spaceman" strongly believes that one of his rockets will actually contact another planet. His associate George Smillie has his merits in explosives and the rocket propellents, as has been shown in secret demonstrations.

One of the sporting fiends of 5C is Tom O'Bryan, who indulges in several sports, including football, and also finds time to take part in several miscellaneous capers with his friend Doug Hagart. Another who shines on the football field is Bob Park, who has taken some very good marks in his mid-year exams.

In this form lie the nation's future chemists, who, with fhe help ot Mr. Waterson, hope to pass their chemistry course.

Our two S.R.C. representatives, Peter Reymann and Raymond Lim, have done a good job throughout the year.

5D had representatives in nearly every school sporting fixture. We were even represented in the Inter-Tech, sports by Raymond Lim and Laurie Jenkins in the sprint; Chu Kee Ching in the high jump; and Rimantas Kepalas in the shot putt. Our representatives in the school football were George Gozhevski, and Barry Beamish, and our lone representative in the seconds cricket team was "Tiny," "Slasher" Wright. With about twenty years of solid practice behind him this boy will be good.

"Jimmy" and "Bill" (surnames not mentioned for fear of reprisals) waste time and money pondering over "Hot Rod" magazines in search of a suitable design for their dream "go cart." No wonder these boys do well in their exams. "Charlie" Hen Ying Hsu spends the English periods writing up Physics prac. experiments or Chem. prac. experiments, and occasionally writing a letter to his beloved girl friend. How this boy got 60 for English we will never know, although serious thought by other students concerning this maUer brought them to the conclusion that "Charlie" bribed the teacher.

Another grasping type in the class is "scab more marks" Valiukevicius. This boy, when credited with a somewhat lucky 50 per cent., had the nerve to weep on the teacher's shoulder for another two marks.

His aim was to try and prove that he passed without the aid of voluntary charity.

The rest of the form uphold the good example set by the remainder of us and every student's aim in this final half is to beat Tao Hai Sin. I.W., B.W.B.

5D

This is the quietest and most respectable form in the school (ask any teacher!), for it has an abundance of brilliant students.

Take, for instance, Tao Hai Sin, one of the many Asian students in our form. This lad suffers from a disease chronic swattitis (symptoms: 95 per cent, average) and naturally the rest of the form are not far behind. "Prof." Ferguson, the form's genius, constantly assist Mr. Thompson to teach the rest of us Physics. He introduces new laws and formulae that astound the whole form and also Mr. Thompson. We do not lack musical talent either: the budding pop vocalist's name is Chu Kee Ching and he and his manager, Wally Ponomarenko, really go to town.

6A

Billy Sheridan, besides giving a good account of himself when playing for Collingwood Thirds, sits down the back of the English class swapping yarns with his pal Kevin Thorneycroft. Hank is our S.R.C. representative and is also held in high regard by the "room 10 boys" where he plays a winning hand of "500." Gary Jurgelait surprises the form by gaining at least two scholarships every year, the money from which he uses travelling between Kingsville and Deer Park on" Saturday nights. He and Graham Johnson are busy 27

fourteenth birthday when he will be given the clips off the family bicycle.

Trevor Smith divides his time between wrestling with Johno and Jughead and playing football with the College team. He has little to say in class in order to fool us into thinking that he is working, but really shines at the College dances where he escorts at least three women.

The other "mac" of the form, Mak Tak Hao, is a thorough gentleman and is always immaculately dressed in his two dollar coat and forty cent pants, purchased in Hong Kong in 1951. He spends his time trying to improve his mind by arguing with Crocker.

Ian Cameron and Charley are two who are practically complete opposites. Ian is the silent intellectual who ponders great problems and is the brain behind the faking of physics experiments, while Charley sits at the back of the class talking to Eugene in broken German, and planning new bag hiding stunts.

making plans for when 'Johno' gets legal use of his Dad's car in August.

Les. Johnson (no relation to the above) has a bad habit of competing with Mossa Curwood at exam tim^. Rumour has it that Mossa plans to teach, as he is doing his diploma; probably due to the way he flashes through Maths. 11 A. Pete Crocker is the strong silent type who seems to be thinking of the girl he left behind. Although his marks and his jokes are sub-standard, the girls who take pity on him at the school dances are innumerable.

Hailing from the precincts of Williamstown City, Graham Wood and Kenneth Lachlan McFarlane take delight in the ancient sport of bag hiding. Besides discovering the hole in the floor of room 10, they claim to be the brains of the form; their only argument being their inexplicably high marks in all subjects.

The gay lads of the form are Dad Roberts and Eugene R. Their high-octane personality made them favourites with the girls at the school dances until Dad got a steady and Eugene found he cannot insure his Austin Healy. "Forder" is the Beau Brummel of the 6A crew; always immaculately attired in his Ivy League coat, silk trousers and sleek haircut.

His retiring friend Carkeek, is the dark horse of the form who never speaks unless spoken to and then only in a whisper.

Surprisingly, this mouse wears loud clothes (much to Flather's disgust) and tops the form in practically everything. Graeme Collins is a champion College swimmer and is practically married to some anonymous femme. Buff uses his wisdom to keep Charley in check, and plays in the football team. Weir is semi-strength, but could graduate. Reports have been received about his infatuation for a certain femme out Preston way.

6B Have you ever wondered about the state the world would be in if there were no such things as electrical engineers? Yes, I agree it would be disastrous. For this very reason twenty-one "electricals," just as they were recovering from the supplementary examination results, were herded into a form known as 6B. Some of the "electricals" have unique characteristics, which the following record will endeavour to describe as accurately as possible.

The first of these to attract attention is Doug. "Flossy" Nam, who is a fanatical Fitzroy supporter. So loyal is he to Fitzroy that he has even tried to convince us (poor disillusioned boy) that they will reach the four this year. Apart from this failing and his love of all things connected in any way with applied mechanics, he is well liked by all students.

Most of us keep away from electrical apparatus and such traps after hours, but not so Robert Styles, Brian "Bruno" Collins and Ian Johnston; consequently many an electrical engineering period has been somewhat delayed whilst these three and Mr. Faulkner argue about the possibility of a negative frequency.

Every morning around about 9.30 a mysterious figure, crouched low, is seen

Walker is the rabble-rousing agitator of the maths class, and never fails to amuse us with his accounts of old gorbi, or his raucous shouts of "Ya made a blue" to Mr. Lawlor in maths 11 A. "Walk" rides a bike (pedal version) and doesn't know what a gellatine is.

Rodney Ryan is the darling of the form and is known affectionately as "rosepetals": an allusion to his roseate and youthful appearance. He is anixously awaiting his 28

sneaking through the door, and as the teacher's back is turned, it quickly darts for the seats. Royce Deller's motto is "better late than never," and he lives up to it regularly. His other hobbies are hunting and fishing.

Doug Ashley is the only one of us who is the proud possessor of a motor car; well, let's call it a motor car for the time being.

Maybe this is the reason he is always so popular on the days we have to trudge to Ballarat Road, but car or no car, he is still popular.

We also have in our form a waistcoatwearing gentleman named George Howe, whose 80 per cent, attendance has amazed us all. Peter Yeow is also hard to detect at times, but not so that broad grin of his.

The other four members who make up a total of six Asian students are Willie Chan, Man Yung Lee, Rasjid Marzuki and Chor Hai Lim: these fellows are all triers and the quietest you'd find anywhere.

The title of form "wag" goes to Lester Mason, the happiest chap you could ever meet, always singing, whistling or trying out the latest dance steps, even during classes.

The form is not without its sportsmen either, and is represented in the football team by Neil Cousins and Jim McLeod.

Philip "Van" Jones seems to take delight in hurling the discus about, and he won this event for his age group in the Inter-House sports meeting. Our tennis stars are John Bailey, who is also our S.R.C. representative, and Ray Pruzer, who claims he "thrashes them left and right"; whether this is true or not we do not know, but we take his word for it. Honest.

is far superior to the "mechanicals," "civils" and chemists.

Ashley, Austin and John Bailey Attend their classes almost daily Cousins, Collins, Davididovs, Deller, You'll find each one a real good feller.

Johnson, Jones, McLeod and Mason Hanging subjects they're all chasin'.

Nam and Newing, Pruser, Styles, Distinguished by their happy dials.

Here's where the poem gets no betta For no good word rhymes with Weretka.

Peter Yeow with Man Yung Lee And Chor Hai Lim make up a three Marzuki Rasjid beside George Howe Are welcome visitors: and now Consult this list and you will see The finest form at F.T.C. L. R. MASON.

6C It has been the conventional procedure in the past to compile on each student our extensive and painstaking report that reads with the sparkling levity of an obituary or a police file.

However, I have got out of this rut by selecting a few trivial irrelevancies about each victim and safely exaggerating them beyond recognition: any resemblance to the truth being purely accidental.

This has solved the problem of how to convey agreeable impressions to so diverse a collection of readers as parents, teachers and girl friends, for now no one will know whether to believe it or not.

I shall begin my orgy of distortion with one Denis Andrew, whose real name is Archie. He is the owner of the world's worst fountain pen, and is too mean to buy a better one. He is always laughing at the wrong moment, but is an excellent shot with a blackboard duster.

Trevor Wilson possesses baggy trousers, a vivid green and white striped James Dean jacket, dirty boots and a large bloodstained geological hammer. He has elevated himself in our esteem by tramping, thus accoutred, up Swanston Street, City, but has otherwise done nothing spectacular this year.

Reginald B'own has secured himself a prominent position in our form, that position being with as much of his anatomy as possible draped over the room heaters on chilly mornings. Despite this evidence of his being a dead-end kid, he is really quite smartâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for a Sabrina fan.

The mid-year examinations came and went and left a number of wrecks in their wake, but the results show that 6B is not all brawn and no brain. Alex (Noddy) Newing, Jim McLeod and Peter Austin, who, incidentally, is our other S.R.C. representative, all did particularly well.

Last but not least is that "Coburg Hood" George Weretka.

He and Lester Mason accepted the job of umpiring the junior school's football matches and have now become first-rate umpires (reporting every second player). Another peculiar habit of George's is that he loves lending things.

That concludes the prose section of the annual report on the cream of the sixth form which, as can be seen from the above, 29

FLORAL ARTâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;In this course students are taught how to arrange flowers for all occasions; e.g., Table Decorations, Sprays. Wreaths, Bouquets and Various Modern Arrangements.

POTTERYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;These classes are conducted for day and evening students, from the hobby group to the craftsman stage, and are such that the student acquires the knowledge required to run his or her own studio. Modelling, throwing, kiln loading and firing are all taught.

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Frank Prasek is always late. The grinding of tortured ball bearings as the door is flung wide heralds Frank's tempestuous entry, and without looking at their watches, all students know it is now 9.30 a.m., for although he is always late, he is very punctual. The most interesting thing about Frank, however, is his breakfast, which is nothing really special, but on him it looks good.

Another of our cronies is Lindsay Campbell, whose chief possessions are (1) a lopsided haircut, and (2) an inexhaustible supply of corny jokes. He is also the form's authority on girls, and we are looking forward to the publication of his book on the subject.

James Sydney Bates, Perce (alias Neil) McPherson, and Frank Prasek (already honourably mentioned), constitute the ranks of the surreptitious pre-lunchtime dinner devourers. Half an hour before the dinner siren, the rustle of paper bags informs their listening audience of the state of their minds and stomach—i.e., empty.

However, by dinner time, having disposed of refuse such as crusts and apple cores by means of those convenient garbage disposal units overlooking Nicholson Street, our three gluttons may be seen making their way shopwards in search of further sustenance.

A student characterized by the possession of two ears, black bootlaces and hairy legs is Geoff. Mullen. That is all 1 will say about this bod, for he leads a respectable life, and his activities are thus unfit for publication.

The form's most peculiar specimens are to be found in John Stals and Colin Ravenhall—they actually work. They are both always twenty-seven experiments ahead in prac. work, and may be heard complaining loudly when their examination results fall below ninety. Only recently has John taken an interest in the fair sex and their ways, but Colin has known of their existence for some time.

Now, having effectively disposed of all other students in the form, I come to the most outstanding specimen of them all, possessor of the best fountain pen, neatest books and several beautifully tailored dustcoats: the student whose brilliant intelligence is surpassed only by his conspicuous modesty: ME. (I might say in passing that writing one's own eulogy is ample compensation for having to compose form notes).

The form's impeccable behaviour and studious perseverance are qualities which have been an inspiration to other forms less generously endowed with genius. Take, for example, the invention of the slow-burning cracker fuse by Campbell, and the discovery of how to lock doors from the other side by yours truly.

Before ending this report we should like to thank our Geology instructor, Mr. Aloysius Baker, without whose patient instruction we would never have known the meaning of schist.

6D

This year the form of 6D comprises 19 brilliant and industrious students who are superior in all respects to chemists. No sensible person will object to this statement, which as we have learnt in Clear Thinking, is shock-proof, fool-proof, and beyond criticism.

In the field of sport, 6D is well represented. George Bray, of doubtful reputation, is often seen with a tennis racquet in his hand and he tells us that he plays quite a fair stick of tennis. We know that George is in the rackets but we suggest that he keep to tennis.

Robert Bitmead (the boy who is tall enough to play as a goal post for Footscray) has some talent in baseball — he plays major A. We believe that it is a somewhat harder game to play than rounders: the rules are more taxing to the brain.

Alan McPherson and Bill Robertson, who have deserted Australian Rules to play soccer, find it hard to keep their hands off the ball, and the opponents. We suggest that they play with tiieir hands in their pockets.

Alan (Jerry) Lewis, the gentleman in the horn rimmed glasses, often displays a large fishing net over his shoulder each Wednesday, He goes to great pains to convince us that he plays La-La-crosse; but we believe he fishes for mermaids.

Prominent class personalities include: Michael Sosnowski who is very active with a c a m c a and has taken several good photographs—he is one of the most active members of the College Camera Club. Then there are Saul Kybartas and Bill Robertson who represent the form on the S.R.C., and Bill Taylor who topped the form in the mid-year exams. The record would be in31

complete if we forgot Alex Dobbin (Sandy) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;architectual student who finally realized that Civil Engineering is undoubtedly the best course.

The quiet five of the form are model students: David Lumsden, Alan McPherson, Neil Pearson, Bill Taylor and Bill Robertson, who take as their motto the words of Eccl. 9.17. "The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools."

In sharp contrast, are seven rowdy students who are experts in the field of aero-dynamics and sound production. These seven are Anthony Tan, Tiong Yu King, Wong Chong Peng, Graeme Rathbone, Max. Smith, Kevin Hince and Bill Richards.

The form has gone on several excursions this year. Geology excursions have been held at Studley Park, (where Dave Lumsden confused the Geology teacher with some gold paint which he had inserted into a quartz pebble), Beaumaris, and Werribee Gorge; an excursion especially suitable to the unfit.

On the Werribee Gorge excursion a certain Caruso Lee Hung Nien decided to lose himself, but unfortunately we found him again in Bacchus Marsh some three hours later, and we recorded his exploit in verse so craggy that it achieves had eminence.

With long white streamers flying high.

At Bacchus Marsh we studied Geologi, As the Werribee down the Gorge did flow, Caruso Lee decided to go; In other direction then we did went To the alluvial plains of age Re-e-cent.

Recently some of the form members attended a lecture at the University by Professor Gasking, the subject being "Clear Thinking," and a lecture at the Museum on Geology by Professor Hill. At the Museum all the students present enjoyed the lecture and slides. We considered it a very valuable aid to our study of geology.

In general, the form is an industriously working group despite occasional supression of Chemists' uprisings. A teacher was heard to refer to the chemists, who had been setting off little bung-bungs in the lockers, as "these peasants with those time fuses."

We of 6D were glad to hear that Footscray Technical College will be able to complete the Civil Engineering Course as from

1960: This evokes disapproval from certain persons around the College who don't want us around, but we are looking forward to good results for the examination and to being the first graduates in Civil Engineerina from Footscray.

W.J.R., W.J.T.

7A A band of would-be mechanical engineers is this year grouped under the title 7A. So fearless and daring is this group that the mere mention of the name "7A' is enough to strike fear into the heart of any person who has had the misfortune to cross its path.

It is perhaps fitting that the dux of the sixth form also should h i first in alphabetical order. Robin "Dinga" Bell heads this, our honour roll; when not found studying he can be located on the end of a billiard cue or with his head lost in a maze of circuitry and transistors.

Our boy "Arfie" (Ian Beynon) recently restyled his head to the tune of a new haircut, but alas, by some twist of fate it only helps to make him more conspicuous. Arfie can always be found at the scene of the slightest disturbance or irregularity; perhaps he is training to be a trouble shooter.

Where would Carlton Thirds be without Bob Cruise? They might have even been on the top of the ladder. Cruisy seems to divide his spare time between football training and escorting young ladies. He also owns an Austin 7, which has a "donk" of two boy-power (pushing).

Our defect this year, sorry, prefect, is Richard Carthew, who has the sickness called womanitis. At 9.15 every morning he raises his "voice" to the strains of "I'm Getting Married in the Morning." He spends most of his time endeavouring to convince the rest of the form that Collingwood is not a dirty side. The special place of honour goes to the "Great" Mark Edmonds, alias Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, who will shortly be leaving us for Hollywood, as he won 7A's Oscar for acting in this year's Dramatic Club presentation.

"Oh Peter" comes the sigh from the girls as tall, dark and handsome Peter Ewing walks by. "Dad," as some members prefer to call him, is also an up-and-coming basketball star. Philip Henry Grace is the dark horse of the form, although he appears to be quite harmless, reports show us that he 32

is a real woman killer. Although he won't tell us who his latest victim is, our detectives tell us she lives in the Oakleigh area.

If you are thinking of buying a "Sloppy Joe" jumper, go and take a look at Graeme "Harro" Harrison; we don't think you'll want one after that ordeal. At the conclusion of next year "Harro" will take over the directorship of the Department of Supply.

Robert Hewit is our star lacrosse player and he's also a photographic fan. You never see "Hewey" without either a camera or a lacrosse racket in his hand, but please don't say anything against those face-checking Yanks in front of him, that is if you value your skull.

The first two overseas students in our class are Tommy Fong and Hartono. These "boys" are so quiet one wonders if they are attending classes at all. Next on the roll is John Hird, who is the proud owner of a 1948 Yank Tank, sorry, Chevrolet. He is also a Railways boy, and they pay him sevenpence halfpenny a week; however, it is universally agreed that he is not worth it.

The most generous member of the form is Leo Jones, although we have our doubts, for he meets his girl-friends inside the dances he goes to.

Bruce Kuhnell is endeavouring to uphold the family tradition of keeping the Kuhnell name a topic of controversy. He has recently taken up the great game of "basketball," and now joins the distinguished society of Denis Smith, who, we are reliably informed, once represented Victoria. One of the has-beens, we mean would-be, teachers of the class is Geoff. McCorriston.

The Education Department thinks he is so unique that they have condescended to pay him, providing he will work for them for 500 years.

Toni (Brigette Bardot) Prijambada looks nothing like his namesake, unfortunately, but they tell us he used to be a gardener, for he tries to impress upon us that he knows all about slugs. "Sandy" Sanjojo is rather a quiet young man from the Islands. He drives a Vauxhall, which we strongly suspect is equipped with a set of pedals. Willie Situmorang never ceases to draw admiring crowds when he demonstrates his revolutionary method of throwing chalk. Willie has such a good grip on the Australian idiom that he sometimes puts the rest of us to shame.

"Pipe-down Zacky" is a familiar term to our ears as Les Szakacs disputes opinions expressed by a certain heat engines teacher.

"Zacky" is big enough to eat this bloke with one bite, but we're still waiting. "HotHanded" Stevens, missing the warmer weather of his home country, misplaced the frying-pan and so missed some school work.

Geoif. Willis is the boy with rectangular eyes, size 21-inch. Every morning he can be heard giving his expert opinions on the previous night's television programs. Any TV station wanting a competent critic please contact Form 7A. Over the past year there have been several scandalous statements made about the collection of gentlemen. Being true gentlemen we have turned the other cheek, and we trust that those guilty have now been enlightened on their folly.

FORM 7A.

7B

7B, the most mobile form in the school, began the year with what seemed to be on paper, an excess of about 20 students as compared with the number of 1958 6B students. Mr. Faulkner, however, a very efficient man, quickly eliminated such prominent identities as Thomas Hawk, Owen Gun and Nora (whose surname temporarily eludes me), to mention a few; but spent an unsuccessful week trying to locate Angus Tuft, the mystery man of the form.

Among the existing members of the form we find "Hotrod" Allen, who is definitely a ladies' man, and is of the strong silent type who wins them and leaves a trail of broken hearts. As he is a believer in experience, he goes of course for the older girls, usually in the 20 to 21 bracket.

Being a poor "Party" member Hotrod is known to haunt such places of doubtful repute as "431," "No. 1," and the "U" clubs.

Neddy Apperley appears to be a worried cove. This is understandable when one considers the vast distance he travels each day to school, from his fowl ranch in the arid wastes of Thomastown. Ned is alarmed at his exorbitant ink consumption of one largesize bottle per fortnight. In the few hours Ned spares himself from conshying he manages to forget his immediate worries by making appointments with his beloved librarian girl-friend.

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undreamed-of speeds, whilst no engine wear occurred. Amazing, you say? Rob said it was nerve-wracking; but Peter Wellspring's towing service is capable of great feats.

Shortly before the mid-year exams, our student teacher and part-time scene shifter on Thursday afternoon, Royce Byrne, became the proud and much-envied owner of an iridescent blue Jag. XK120. Royce has put great work into the gleaming donk, and for the few chaps that have been game enough to ride with him, he made sure that that the capabilities of his gleaming m / c were never left in doubt.

Alan "type" Horsely spends most of the day discussing with Royce and Hutch the various methods by which car power plants can be hotted up. Alan, we feel, will go a long way (if he isn't stopped) in the field of politics. He has shown he has the qualities of a first-class debater and the only blemish on his record is when he was narrowly defeated in an argument with an "old exponent of Applied Mechanics." This defeat was unfortunate, but as an anonymous but reliable source quoted at the time, "getting marks out of Ron is like getting blood out of a stone."

John Harsley took one of the leads in the school play, and also later at the "Florida."

Throughout the play, John wisely refrained from looking toward the rather noisy front row spectators. Recently John took possession of a decrepit Singer sports of similar vintage to Rob's. He believes in two engine speeds, namely idling and flat to the boards. A hint to prospective travellers in John's rod: the panic bar is on the left-hand side of the glovebox.

Ian "Robo" takes the cake when it comes to dodging work.

He has established a "two-up" and "500" school "up the back" and the main meeting seems to be of a Thursday afternoon. Quite apart from these activities, "Robo" acts as assistant to Hutch during the crossword solution periods. For the benefit of future 7B inmates Ian would like it known that the hysteresis coil in the Elec. Eng. lab. is rated to carry a max. curr nt of 3 amps.

Don Sargent tells us he is a keen scouter, but omits to tell us what he scouts for.

Although in the main he is a good Party member, his strength rating remains unknown. The other Don of the form, namely Don Dower, is the only chap in the form

Dave Waring was unanimously elected as Party leader early in the piece, and to distinguish himself as such, has his long curly hair reduced to a crew cut. This, he claims, will reduce his hairdressing account to fifteen bob per year. Dave is a secretive fellow when it comes to renewing his razor blade (for shaving purposes), and is always astounded when the chaps ask, "new blade today Dave?"

Jack Simpson, owner of a sedate Hillman, received as punishment, as a result of being expelled from the Party, the job of S.R.C. representative. Jack can always be relied upon to give an explanation of any doubtful point to anyone unlucky enough to be within earshot, and among his most attentive listeners is Neddy Apperley. We regret to say that Jack's days of bachelorhood are strictly limited, especially now that Ellen has influenced him into buying a block of land. Although the railways are at present running at a loss, we expect better things to happen now that Jack and Ralph Chappel have won railway scholarships.

Ralph Thomas Chappel can always be identified as the source of any of the form's misdemeanors; he was regarded as strictly anti-strength until he rolled up to the July College Dance with some young piece.

John Hutchison, commonly known in the pipe-smoking circle as "Hutch," claims to be an authority on the starting procedure of diesel-drivcn compressors. In a memo written for those intending to follow in his footsteps. Hutch mentions as essential "a clean pair of heels to avoid discomfort when one discovers that diesel engines have no ignition system and cannot be switched off by this means." In addition to gaining distinction in the crossword-solving periods of English, Hutch possesses a racy Prefect which, on the Yallourn trip, proved itself capable of qualifying for a ticket of airworthiness. (It is past getting a roadworthy permit.)

Robin Davies, who believes in bigger and brighter English periods, considers that the two essentials in life are cars and girls.

On the recent Yallourn and Return Grand Prix, Rob found that by using BENZOLE in the petrol his speeds were reduced by 10 per cent. On the return journey, Robin, along with his co-drivers Ralph, "Percy" and Don, discovered means by which his sporty Singer of racing green hue could reach 34

that can boast that he has come to "grips" with the quantity one studies to wire for in the Electrical Wiring shop. So great was his amazement on this occasion that he let forth a wild shriek and in the process dropped the test lamp. Never mind Don, we will probably all have a "belt" before we're through.

The day "Poe" and "Sunny" Saroto discovered the principles of the car differential proved to be rather embarrassing for them.

Earlier in the day Royce and Robo managed to pack one of the rear wheels of Poe's Fiat above ground level. When "Sunny" slammed the car in reverse gear and let the clutch out, he became aware he was the victim of a joke, but was not sure how the car had been rigged.

To Beng Tan and "Conshie" Krebet, who joined the 7B ranks this year after previously studying at the Sydney "Shop," we extend a warm welcome. From the midyear exam results these two chaps proved to be outstanding.

"Colonel" Nasution has of late acquired a charger by the name of Vespa.

The Colonel takes the cake in being the most cheery fellow at the school. Joseph Simanjuntak appears to be, among other things, a lady killer. One morning I sighted him in his sporty white Singer driving some voluptuous piece to work. When he was questioned about this incident later in the the day, it became apparent that this was "kid's stuff" to him.

Dirwan, our overcautious driver, is the proud owner of a "bomb" type Austin A70.

The prefix "bomb" inadequately describes the purr of the exhaust system minus the pong box. Almost forgot to mention that so-called sneaky character Puce. Juris Puce, commonly known in the salt mines as Pucy, appears on first acquaintance to be the model student. However, on the occasion when he suggested in no uncertain manner that we should adjourn from the English room, he shocked Mr. Howells, who at the time had been partially hidden from view while investigating his seat for. foreign bodies such as drawing pins. For an apt description of the Puce condition, see Dave, who describes the condition as a constant drifting into, sliding out of, or remaining just inside the state of sanity.

To conclude this gallery we have Neil Meaden, commonly known as Ned, who

starred in Strathmore's Hockey team until they played Footscray; however, to make up for his loss of form, he starred brilliantly in the mid-year exams. He is a charioteer of note whose speed never gets lower than 40 M.P.H. when travelling from Nicholson Street to the Ballarat Road section on a Thursday morning.

Ned is another supporter of longer English periods so that no one will notice when he comes late.

Finally in these notes all teachers names used are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any person living or dead.

N. M E A D E N â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 7 B .

Edited D.W. Censored N.J.S.

7C These are the notes from 7C. The most famous form in history.

We don't wish to brag, we don't wish to spout.

But we are the intellects without a doubt.

This outstanding form comprises Mr. A. J. Butler, consultant in party organisation; Mr. F. A. Sargent (F.A.S. being short for ferrous ammonium sulphate); Mr. M. J. Royal, our fashion expert; Mr. B. A. Stirling, advisor to frustrated bachelors; Mr. G. P. Thurston, efficient time-wasting expert and choir master; and lastly Mr. G. S. Walker, who has a figure Hke a lamp-post.

One other friend who rates a mention in this exclusive column is Mr. Janis Puce, late of 7C, who is the world's leading authority on nuclear chemistry in poultry farming.

An unchallenged record held by this most noble form is that 83 per cent, of us are studentship holders. This is basically the explanation for our exemplary conduct during lectures, and our never-ceasing cooperation with members of the teaching staff.

During the current year, much original research was done on methods of study.

We definitely and unanimously came to the decision that when girl friends and study clash; forget the study.

Andy John Dutch Henry Butler had a fascinating year, especially at parties. This quiet chap finally believes in action and not wasting time talking. Malcolm had a very varied year: Janis, Joan, June and Judy.

The only thing that didn't change was the initial. Geoff was very quiet until Easter: since Easter we have been trying to discover what goes on at Congregational 35

15 to Mr. Grainger and help him make physics even more stranger.

B.A.S.

Church youth camps. G r a h a m came back f r o m Tasmania a completely different chap for second term. All he would tell us was that her name is Joy, and she is f r o m Moona, a suburb of Hobart. We are so interested that we are all going to Tasmania next term vacation to see these Tasmanian girls for ourselves. Fred is very quiet about his social life, but we suspect there is a teenage daughter in the neighbor's house where he often goes to watch television. As for Bruce, his social life is quite steady: poor Val. The V.T.U. Dinner for Studentship Holders was a notable event. The idea of female teachers is excellent and we advocate that union meetings be held once a week.

During the year we made interesting friendships with some of the members of staff. Mr. Porter can't understand why his daughter Margaret would rather listen to the hit parade instead of reading Plato. We support his daughter fully, and are pleased to hear that schoolteachers have normal children.

Mr. Grainger, better known as "chief," finds his pay so small that he has to do car dealing on the side. First a Vauxhall, then a Jaguar and finally a Hillman. We are pleased that he enjoys his outings such as the B.P. ball, and we certainly enjoyed his sleepy lectures on the mornings after the nights before.

We extend our best wishes to Carmel and Les Johnson. Carmel must be quite a girl, if she thinks she can keep Les. and the Holden both in good running order. We enjoy a game of five hundred, but if we keep friends with Mr. Waterson we hope he will teach us bridge in the near future.

Mr. Finch is our most amiable lecturer.

He is the type of teacher who believes in keeping at least a couple of mixtures in Chem. Prac. He is a very popular gentleman and the girls even ring him during lunch hours.

G r a h a m was our representative in school football team and Malcolm played basketball with the school team. We were well represented on the S.R.C. by Malcolm as prefect member and Bruce as form representative.

Important

8A These notes represent our "official parting gesture" to the College. Continuing our policy of differing f r o m every other form in the school, we started the year with a gain in the number of students. Thus it can be seen that our true worth is realised by other potential students. After we have blundered our way through the first half year, our results would seem to indicate that we aspiring engineers should branch out to such forms of industry as garbage disposal experts and sewerage control advisers.

Firstly, in our rogues gallery, are the three new members of the form. We begin with Hokie Choi who graduated to us f r o m Melbourne University. Originally, we are told, he was an old Hong Kongonian; he shows scholastic ability hitherto unknown to 8A. Next comes our Egyptian colleague Armhet Carr, known to his parents as Bob. He comes to us f r o m the sun-scorched plains of Mt. Beauty. His favourite subject for debate is the superiority of farmers' daughters to the city sirens. Armhet and Allen Lemke, our other aquisition, have proved that it is quite easy too for two to make a rail journey on the one ticket. With this background knowledge, Allan has decided to make the supreme sacrifice and get married in January. Much to the surprise of the form, his love affairs have remained in the background as far as his academic career has gone.

This year 8A has been forming an "all leather" jazz band, John Angus MacWynd has for years quietly tapped away at all desks he sits behind, the craze has been taken on by Keith (hotlips) Hodgson who derives pleasure from blowing his horn.

Besides their musical abilities, they have many other detrimental traits, foremost of which is their desire to captivate as many of the opposite sex as is humanly, or inhumanly, possible. They are both vegetarians and never cease telling us of their conquests at Cambridge Club. We regret we will not have Keith with us on the trip to the Snowy. However we agree with him that duty at the Point must come first.

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Another budding musician is Bruce experiment wrecker McKean. He is adding to his already large collection of instruments such as pianos, trumpets and steel guitars. He still has the V.8 Lancia, but by fitting leather pistons, leather exhaust pipe and a new model's body, he has increased the compression up to 1 : 1 ratio. This is in accordance with principles laid down, by Mr. Crocker.

The eldest member of our form is Puritan Pete Wellspring, our wandering car salesman and tax-evading business man. Unfortunately space and possible police action prevents us from making a complete list of his activities, but a few are as follows: coaching University students and selling Ford Prefects disguised as baby Armstrong Siddleys.

Ian Mackintosh is our mussel man and health fiend. He misses report writing and many other classes to run his gymnasium courses in the foyer of the Tatler news Centre. Mack and Keith always race ahead of the class to see that they get their drawing designs done first.

We are pleased to note that (refer last year's mag.) Don Dingles Mathews has completed his top secret atom-powered, A l , hydrogen fueled static dynamic dust extractor for aqueous fluids, and is now carrying out modifications to an axial flow radial thrust, lamina turbulence type of convergent divergent diffuser nozzle. With this he hopes to obtain thermo-dynamic reversibility. It is rumoured that the Redwoods viscosity index will approach the permeability of air as indicated by the Rankine Cycle. This also is in accordance with the principles laid down by Mr. Crocker.

John Kipluks, a brain in his own right, has gone into partnership with Donald and they now hold Directorships of Kippies Conchy Club (total membership 2 ) . Kippy has just installed a chain grate stoker in his Austin as an air conditioner. To improve the efficiency, he has put a cyclone precipitator on his exhaust pipe with which he hopes to disprove Dingles results. This is also in accordance with the principles laid down by Mr Crocker.

Barry Homewood Esquire (well he reads it anyway) raises funds for more Esquires by having collections taken up when breaking legs. When we found out about thi^

plot we destroyed his pin-ups in his locker.

He has taken this matter to the Privy Council on the grounds of mental cruelty.

Ian McConville tells us that he has a Vespa at home, but as we never see it we take leave to doubt his word. He also threatens to bring his brother's Healy to burn off the car owners of the form, however we think he is just scared.

Ken Harry) Sharp graduated this year to ownership of a '59 (1859) Standard, However, our ever vigilant police force decided that he should fit proper tyres instead of the rope he had around the rims, and that brake lining should be mads out of something a litle stronger than plasticene. They also pointed out that the steering, tie-rods and springs are not optional extras but necessities. He still thinks the Goons are funny.

Vincent Lavender is the "sun" of a Brunswick florist. Vincent and John Reed are both extremists in that they think North Melbourne will win the flag this year. John was born with his left hand twice the size of the other so naturally he plays baseball (most base indeed). Vincent is also a keen sportsman, but the only games he can play are marbles, two-up, poker and pontoon; and so is limited in selection for College teams. John recently bought a Ford Prefect which proves to be far from perfect, as he is continually having to make trips to Albury to find out where his second gear has gone.

Dave "Neddy" Dawson is the form's second capitalist (Puritan Pete is the first) and makes his money from hot scrap metal.

He recently talked his father into fitting safety belts into the Chev so that the women can't escape his clutches while out driving.

Don Laught, ahas "Fuzzy," lives in a music shop and composes all the banned music for our leather jazz band. It was rumoured that Fuzzy hailed from Las Vegas the gambling city, and it is not hard to believe after you have seen Fuzzy sharpening his cards in room 10 every lunch time.

Last but definitely not least is Ron, McFarlane, known to anyone who respects his genius as Beanpole (or Long prong).

Bean has developed a much envied technique of taking women home from the local Willytown dance. It has been reported by our spies that he has perfected a method of getting the girls he takes home out of 37

An ardent follower of the Graeme Lowe cult is Peter Podolak, who seems to be able to acquire new Holdens from some dubious source, which you will agree is some feat.

Bruce Ripper occasionally may utter some criticism from the back of the room, but most of the time he is dreaming of June, and I am not talking about months of the year.

Each month, when the school dance commences, Brian Delany and "Lew" Dyson exchange murderous glances as they try to decide who will have the modern waltz with a certain member of the opposite sex. Bob Crosthwaite views these proceedings with a cynical smile, but when asked his opinion, he says, "don't bother me Dad, I'm beat."

John Bertins often takes a stand before some piece of electrical equipment and elucidates its mysteries. Russell Crane and Ken Elliott heckle him from the sidelines, but John just treats them to a contemptuous glance and rambles on.

Alan Daniels is a camera-bug who takes photographs of people at embarrassing moments and then attempts to sell them at exhorbitant prices; we feel that boy will go a long way in life, or go up for life.

Max Telfer's main ambition in life is to get our Enghsh "Gendeman" Alan Marriage to giggle. We think that Max may be taking an interest in collecting eggs.

Reinis Avotins can always be found gazing with awe at Robert Prudhoe, when the latter is giving lengthy descriptions of his amorous pursuits of a Saturday night.

But Tony Villegas is definitely, in Robert's eyes, a bounder and an unbeliever, because Tony expresses his disbelief in no uncertain terms. It does not require a census of opinion to see that most of the fellows share Tony's views.

Peter Rompf has sold his Triumph and invested in a Goggomobile. With this purchase he has received a veritable shower of sarcastic comments and facetious remarks about the poor little thing.

Achmed Mogandi must have a comfortable bed, for he will not venture to the College unless the temperature is around the 90 degrees F. mark and he is assured that it will not rain. It has been truly said that he is a visitor to the College from overseas.

the car without even stopping. We must also mention Bruce (we can't print his nick name) Ellis. Bruce once again upheld the honour of all mechanicals by being dux of the 7th year. This is the third time running; congratulations Bruce. He is also captain of the school base-ball team and likes taking his father's van plus Rosie on picnics.

He reckons the front seats of those vans are all right. Unfortunately Bruce has two very bad faults: he is a prefect and a student teacher; however his bohemian attire and willingness to talk cars or girls with Bruce MacKean helps to offset t h e s e disadvantages.

This is the last time we shall be represented in the school magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; however, anybody wishing to follow our movements would be advised to read the Police Gazette and the "wanted" ads in the post office.

8B It's hard to find words for the feeling you have when, at last, you have to leave the College where you have spent four years in study. But it is even harder to say good-bye to the fellows who have spent those years of fun, study and anxiety with you.

They are a queer lot; as our esteemed lecturer Mr. Pellizzer has often said; with a shudder; "I pity the power supply when you boys get loose." The exploits of each of these characters would fill volumes, but I am afraid that the space I am provided with is limited.

About the most notorious character of this collection is Peter Hargreaves, w^bo had the audacity to attend less than half the classes, and then gain equal top marks in Electrical Engineering in the mid-year exams. Most of the boys spend much of their time dreaming up devious methods of persuading their fathers to lend them the family chariot; but not this type, he persuades his girl friend's father to lend his, not only on occasions, but for every day of the week. What has he got that we haven't?

Graeme Lowe seems to have amazing faculties: he can set up experiments and answer all electronic questions at the same time. This never ceases to amaze the unenlightened; namely the rest of the students.

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Another overseas visitor is Soepadi, he is the only married member of the form and he just smil:s quietly when the boys indulge in wild speculations.

You want to read of my misdemeanors?

Well you won't because I am only writing thess form notes so that I may slander the rest of the form and get away with it. But the name is Cliffoi'd Jones, and no doubt the teachers could supply you with a lot of information about me.

C L I F F O R D H. JONES

Chem. Ill again. They say it is a great help to have two or three old faces in the class.

Terry King Trance is another of Mr. Finch's assistants. His particular job in Chem. I l l is to make sure none of the other students is last to have any work written up or has the most inaccurate results. He is a member of the boy scouts movement and glories in the title of A.C.M. (ardent chaser of misses).

His scouting activities this year included a ski trip to the Baw Baws: he assures us that this was very relaxing as he spent most of his time flat on his back. Terry has also gained a reputation as a traveller. From Moonee Ponds Town Hall, which he makes his base for the pursuit of the better things in life; he has made trips as far as the Yabbie-infested plains of Avondale.

8C Here are the form notes of 8C for 1959.

Firstly, let us introduce the form: we have seven members, one of whom spends part of his time with us and part with 7C. The members of the form are as follows: Ken Moore Bugs has been declared by the form to be a resonant hybrid between a seventh former and an eighth former. Owing to his rapid transitions between 7C and 8C at lightning speed, the Fitzgerald contraction has had quite a large effect on Bugs, making him the shortest boy in the form. He plays baseball and cricket and in his spare time, dances at the Orama, or relaxes with a well-known book.

Ron Watt Ron has won the distinction of being the first in the form to have a car. Please note the use of the word "have" as distinct from "own." Early in the year Ron got a beautiful black eye in a football match. His girlfriend refused to be seen out with him until it cleared up. During the two weeks or so it took to heal, Ron just stayed home and watched TV. He was so pleased with the money he saved that he got himself knocked out later in the season in an attempt to repeat the performance. He is a studentship holder and a prefect; the later fact has been a closely guarded secret for nearly two years, as he wears his badge behind the lapel of his coat.

Gordon Cochaud Gordon gained much distinction as one of the two students in the form to pass organic chemistry at this mid-year examination. Gordon's spare time activities include air cadets, where we are told he delivers lectures on armament.

We cannot help thinking that the result of these lectures must have something to do with the strange position of the part in Gordon's hair. In true Air Force tradition he is cultivating a moustache, and although this season has yielded a rather poor crop, we have no doubt that this will one day blossom into a genuine R.A.F. type.

Bill Vaughan Bill thinks he has some claim to the title of the first student in the form to own a car. There is some disagreement, however, over the definition of a car. Despite the fact that he owns a "car" Bill comes to school by train. He says it's quicker, and besides it's no fun to have good clothes sprayed with oil and grease.

Ian Body coat Ian has gained much merit in the eyes of Mr. Waterson by scoring top marks in organic chemistry at the half-yearly examination. In the house athletics, Ian won the half mile, and also took part in the house swimming sports. Along with two more of the more intelligent types in the form Ian has decided to help Mr. Finch out by doing

Barry Thompson Early this year Barry became the talk of the form (and the staff room) because of a number of long-distance telephone calls from the apple isle. The calls, however, came to a halt when a certain girl arrived in Melbourne. We think Barry is our number one candidate for marriage. It's only a matter of waiting until Dawn is earning 39

enough money to support him in the manner to which he is acustomed. Barry also has an uncle in Tassie, who doesn't know much about racehorses.

During the year we have had excursions to Commonwealth Fertilizers, Nobel's synthetic ammonia and nitric acid plant, Balm paints, and Unilever soaps. All of these trips were interestsing and informative and the considerate treatment received from the firms, and our guides, was sincerely appreciated.

Since this is our last year and most of us pass on to the world of industry, we should Uke to publish our last will and testament: We, the members of 8C, 1959 F.T.C., being in our opinion of sound mind, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament.

To Mr. A. J. Finch we leave "Bugs," who, we hope, will keep him amused during the next year.

To Mr. A. Baker we leave the two Cassia flasks which Barry Thompson and Terry King have had in their lockers for the best part of the year, and we hope that these may replace the one broken by Gordon Cochaud.

To Mr. L. Johnstone we leave room on the dance floor to jive in comfort and best wishes for a happy married life.

To Miss Carmel we leave Mr. Johnstone.

To Mr. K. Lawlor we leave fond memories of Lissajou's figures.

To Mr. G. Waterson we leave all who fail in Org. II. To next year's 8C we leave congratulations on the organisation of a "be kind to a well-known bloke day" and the position of the elite of the College.

To students thinking of doing a diploma course we leave this advice. If you have your Intermediate Technical Certificate at Diploma Entrance level and are willing to work, then by all means give it a go.

Scholarships are plentiful and although four years seems a long time it's soon finished.

On completion of the course you can face life knowing that you can always look forward to a well-paid, secure position in industry.

To the staff in general, and Mr. Heard and Mr. Waterson especially, we leave many thanks for all the assistance and guidance we have received not only with regard to school, but for help with employment and many other things.

TERRY KING—8C.

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SECONDS BASKETBALL TEAM Back: A. Beynon, G. Harrison.

Front: G. Willis, P. Wellspring, M. Royal.

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TENNIS NOTES

The tennis team started off the season with great bursts of speed and precision, winning most of the practice matches played. However when the actual matches got under way, the team didn't have the success expected of them. There was something lacking, and after being narrowly beaten by both Caulfield and Geelong, the team members were feeling very disappointed. Things didn't improve when the team was soundly beaten by Melbourne and Swinburne.

Then came the final match. The team set out for Ballarat determined to notch a win. We had only enough time to change.

DIPLOMA SPORT

It has been encouraging to see a greater number of students taking part in school sport this year. The College has much to offer its students, in and out of the class room, and wise indeed is he who grasps all that he can.

The sports field offers a wide variety of activities, and its benefits are considerable.

Not only is there the game itself but there are also the friendships, the team spirit and the development of body and character.

You need not be champion to enjoy a game. If you have taken no part in College sport this year think again and make more of your College life next year. Be in it.

Congratulations to all those who gained a place in any school teams. You enjoyed success and failure and played the game hard and well. May those of you who are leaving us not forget your Wednesday afternoons at Footscray.

A.E.H.

T H E T E N N I S TEAM Back: B. Kuhnell. D. Dower, K. Elliott, G. Bray.

Front: R. Pruser, B. Prudhoe, C. Jones.

and step out onto the tennis court before rain deprived us of any chance to stop the run of defeats.

All members of the team would like to express their thanks to Mr Baker for the help and support he offered throughout the season. Our thanks also go to Mr. Hames for ths time and energy he spent searching for tennis courts to enable the matches to be played. It seems that tennis is losing support in the city of Footscray due to the lack of facilities.

K. ELLIOTT, 8B.

BASKETBALL T E A M Back: G. Sinclair, R. Cruise, P. Ewing, J. Valiukevicius, G. Costello.

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SOCCER

those that stood out more often included Davidovs, Podolak, Poperecznyj and Soepadi. Among the newcomers McPherson and Reevis, who even headed the ball, were the most notable.

Now that the Soccer Team is reestablished we look forward to the next season, a home ground nearer the College and plenty of competition.

After a lapse of one year Footscray Tech Soccer Team took the field to do battle with teams from sundry Technical Colleges and High Schools. During the season the team secured a home ground at Royal Park South.

Under the leadership of Len Poperecznyj (Capt.) and John Soloczynskyj (Vice-

SOCCER T E A M Back: B. Chandler, J. Soloczynskyj, T. Prjmbada, W. Robertson, O. Pfeiffer. M. Hufschmid, ?. Soepadi.

Front: P. Podolak. A. McPherscn, Mr. Grainger. L. Poperecznyj, G. Dadidovs. I. Reeves.

FOOTBALL

Capt.) the teams were selected from a squad of some fifteen players, which included some newcomers to the game.

While the results of the games were not particularly successful, players enthusiastically enjoyed their favorite brand of football. If it was not possible to win satisfaction was achieved in holding down well established teams to a reasonable score.

Most players had their moments of glory,

Before the competitive matches started, we were very confident of having a successful season; but we were soon to find that our lack of tall timber was to be our downfall.

Our first match was against Caulfield, which we won 9-7 to 5-8; here our best players were Jurgelait, Sheridan and Mal42

THE FOOTBALL TEAM Back: R. Cruise. T. Smith. B. Collins. N. Cousins. L. Szakas. I . Jones.

Gozhcvski. E. R o m a n s k y . .

Sheridan.

Centre: D. ShowelL P. Podolak. D. Haggart.

L a v e n d e r (captain). R. Watt (\ice-captain). J. Stals. R. Avotins.

Front: G. Jurgelait. T. 0 " B r \ a n . B. Beamish. T. M a l c o l m . R. lorielli. G. Thurston.

T H E SWLM.MING T E A M Back: B. Ellis. V. Gozhevski. P. Crocker. R. K e p a l a s . R. Cruise. G. Collins. A. Lewis. G. Sinclair.

C. Reed.

F r o n t : B. M c K a y . G . Walker. J. M c L e o d . S. K y h a r t a s . P. .Austin. P. R u m p f . G . Costello.

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ATHLETICS

colm, and chief goal-kickers were Watt and Gozhevski, with three apiece.

Next we played Melbourne in a rather one-sided game, the scores being Footscray 16-17 to Melbourne 1-5; best players were Homewood, Gozhevski and Jones.

At this point in the season, we were on top of the world; but our next match was to prove to be our Waterloo.

After stuffing Geelong and I'm afraid ourselves full of Mrs. Aliens' special brew, we journeyed to Hanmer Reserve, where we were soundly beaten 17-9 to 10-12. The highlight of the game was Ron Watt's secret desire to be a "grease-monkey." He showed this by trying to make a hardness test on the ground with his headâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but he reckoned it was worth the trouble to have those Footscray nurses holding his hand for about five hours.

Next week we played Swinburne at Glenferris Oval, where we suffered our second defeat, the scores being 9-8 to 6-1. Best players were Jones, Showell and Stals.

Apparently Bob Cruise had better stick to basketball, as their umpires don't have the same pugilistic instincts as football umpires.

Our last match was at Ballarat, against the School of Mines, and it was played under normal Ballarat conditions. At the final siren we struggled off the ground against a 90 m.p.h. gale with the scores Footscray 9-10 to Ballarat 3-3. Best players were Romansky, Malcolm and Cruise. Leo Jones must have thought he turned in a dashing game, as he was in high spirits coming home in the bus. Hope that lady driver and her passenger didn't get too much of a shock, Jonesy.

Our season finished happily if not successfully, and in closing we should like to thank Mr. Williams for carrying out his tireless and difficult job of coaching the team. Apparently the strain was too much for him, as he had to call a second coach for the final match. Thanks are due also to Mr. Roberts and Mr. Hames for various duties they performed and a special thanks to young "potato-cake" Kepalas, who ran the boundary for the team on a number of occasions.

VIN LAVENDER.

This year's Athletics team was very uniformly balanced, with the exception of Bill Sheridan who had some success. Bill came first in the under 17 High Jump, clearing 5' 6". However this result, as did the majority of others, passed unnoticed, mainly owing to the fact that students of all other colleges participated in a flour fight. Footscray was caught amidst the barrage of flour, but adapted themselves excellently in the conditions. Many students wished they could have returned for the "cleaning up" which followed the next day. Footscray however, didn't win the Athletic Sports and we were congratulated by many prominent members of the staff for being non-participants in the flour fight. Considering the results Tm sure we'll be well represented at the next College sports.

R.J.C.

COLLEGE CRICKET

The College cricket team, 1st eleven, had a very successful 1959 season. Although they did not win the coveted award of being premiers, they were runners-up and were by no means disgraced. The matches were held in the best of spirit and so far as cricket was concerned left little to be desired.

On behalf of the whole team, 1 should like to thank Mr. Williams and all others concerned for giving up their time and making it available to our advantage. To them we offer our apologies for not winning the premiership and hope that they have better luck with next year's team. The results of all the games and best individual efforts are as follows: Footscray 6-73 defeated Caulfield 55.

Smith 23, Apperley 18, Cruise 4-11, Watt 2-6, Robertson 3-25.

Swinburne 8-82 defeated Footscray 72.

Stals 14, Watt 3-23.

Best batting averages: D. Smith and J. Stals.

Best bowling averages: R. Watt and R. Cruise.

B. HOMEWOOD, Captain.

BADMINTON

The Badminton team existed for only one match, the outcome of which was to our credit. For the future it may be possible to form a regular team if suitable opponents can be found.

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T H E C R I C K E T TEA\f Back: R. Cruise. C. Reed. J. Robertson, G . Watson, J. Apperley, V. Lavender. J. Front: K. Moore. J. Reed. J. Stals. R. Watt. P. Smith.

Hird.

THE ATHLETICS TEAM Back: R. Kepalas, I. Anderson, P. Rumph, L. Jen kin. P. Jones. V. Gozhevski.

Centre: L. Bowman, B. Ellis. P. Crocker. R. Lim. R. Parry. J. Thompson, G. Davidovs, J. Halliday.

Front: W. Sheridan. J. Stuls. G. Jurgelait, P. Podolak. R. Prudhoe. P. Ewing. R. Avotins, R. Cruise.

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This, however, did not deter us and we proceeded to win another one-sided game by 27 to 3. Highlights of this game were the many spectacular slides, especially that of Bob Bitmead when he stole home.

The baseball team, ably led by Bruce Ellis, was as follows:— Bob Bitmead—Pitcher.

Bruce Ellis—Catcher (Captain).

Don Laught—First base.

Denis Smith—Second base.

John Hird—Third base.

Ken Moore—Short stop.

Colin Reid—Left field.

John Reed—Centre field.

Ron McFarlane—Right field.

BASEBALL This year the baseball team had another good season, finishing runner-up to Caulfield.

The season started with a very exciting match against Caulfield, in which the scores were Caulfield 2, Footscray 0. In this game

STOP PRESS—Last Wednesday we played a challenge match against the football team. The outcome of this game was obvious, but to avoid embarrassing the footballers, we shall refrain from printing the scores.

B.E. and D.S. BASKETBALL With the opening of the V.A.B.A.'s Basketball Stadium at Albert Park, a competition on Wednesday afternoons was commenced between Technical Colleges, Teachers' Colleges and the Victorian Police Cadets. The compettiion was divided into firsts and seconds, and five entered a team in both grades. The firsts' team consisted of players with previous basketball experience, whilst the seconds' team consisted mainly of inexperienced players.

Both teams had a good season of basketball under the leadership of floor captains M. Curwood and P. Wellspring, of first and seconds teams respectively. In a game against Ballarat Tech., at Ballarat, the firsts were successful in defeating the home team 72-28. However, not all games finished in this way, as the all-Indonesian team from Swinburne and the Police Cadets always gave us keen competition. The firsts team were beaten in the preliminary final by the The most outstanding players for us this year were our snappy forwards: G. Costello and G. Sinclair. The success of both teams was largely due to the enthusiasm and team ?nirit displayed by every member of the Police Cadets, and so we finished third team.

R.F.C.

T H E BASEBALL TEAM Back: K. M o o r e , J. Hird, D. L a u g h t , R. Bitmead, R. M c F a r l a n e , C. Reed.

F r o n t : J. Reed, B. Ellis (captain), D . Smith.

the play was very tight, with Caulfield's two runs being scored in the second innings because of two errors by Footscray.

In the second game, against Melbourne, Footscray's batters dominated the game with big hitting, to score 28 runs; while good pitching by Bob Bitmead kept Melbourne's score down to 2. A new player, Bob Anderson, batted extremely well in this, his only match for the season, to score 4 runs.

For the next match Geelong journeyed to Footscray and after a heavy lunch designed to ballast Geelong to a slow pace, Footscray proceeded to hit 27 runs to Geelong's 6 in another one-sided game. In this game Dennis Smith hit two home runs and John Reed hit one.

The fourth match, which was more evenly contested, was against Swinburne. Once again John Reed showed his cricket style by hitting another home run. The final scores were Footscray 8, Swinburne 4.

For the final match of the season we travelled to Ballarat, where it rained all day.

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Iunior Section of the College

Mr. T. GREEN Senior Assistant

Nir. C. GREEN. The Headmaster Mr. J. MCDONALD Registrar

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BUSINESSES AS USUAL IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

up so quickly during their third year in the College that the remark is not surprising.

But a boy needs to be big in more ways than one. He needs to be big enough to have a purpose of his own and to work at it. Plenty of people fail for the want of a real purpose in life. They drift along and do what the crowd does. Their only excuse for doing anything is, "Everybody does it". This is the motto of little people. Big boys aim to do the thing that few others do—to be among the sensible, responsible people who get results worth having by consistent effort.

F. T. MORGAN, College Chaplain.

During this year the work of the College Chaplain has gone on as usual. Not only has each section in Forms I-IV had its weekly period of Christian Education but, as usual, boys with need for some personal help have been assisted. For the boy who has something on his mind, this is not a routine thing, but a matter of critical importance.

For the boy who has been caught up in the wrong kind of company and knows he is being led into activity he doesn't really want to be at, it is good to have somebody take steps to stop him and put him back on the right track. The boy who slips into law-breaking, even in a minor way, or into some breach of school discipline needs a friend who feels as badly about the failure as he does himself but is still on his side to help him.

The homes of some boys have been visited again by the Chaplain. Surely one of the most important things for a boy growing out of childhood into manhood's responsibilities is to have not only the affectionate concern of his parents but also their confidence and understanding. This is not easy for some parents to supply because their sons are growing up in a world that has changed in many ways since they were young. In this problem the Chaplain is always ready to help both parents and boys.

The usual church services were held in St. John's Church of England to mark the opening of the College year. The service for Diploma students was quite voluntary and was attended by almost all of the available students.

One unusual event took place this year.

The Council for Christian Education in Schools was responsible for the preparation of a T-V session from ABV-2 on Education Sunday. The session was called "The Fourth R". The work of Chaplains in Secondary schools was featured and two students from Technical schools had a part in the programme.

Ron Boucher, one of our Senior Prefects, made his debut as a T-V star and did a good job.

BIG BOYS, AREN'T

SOCIAL STUDY LIBRARY

This library is provided by the "hire of books" fund, paid by students of the College. This library saves parents considerable money, and up to 2,000 loans of books and booklets are made each week. My responsibility is to assist the form monitors with the care and maintenance of these books.

ROBERT HAMMETT, IVB.

SOCIAL SERVICE LEAGUE

A special type of microscope, and an operating table, each valued at over £200, are among recent gifts to the Footscray and District Base Hospital. On occasions, some of the money raised by the League has been devoted to a current appeal like the Anti-Cancer campaign.

The Social Service League is run by a committee of three, and is supervised by Mr. Lambart. This year's Committee is Ray Chappell, John Dowdle and Brian McDonald. Each Form collects its own contributions and sends them to League H.Q. outside the Locket Cupboard. Each year the contributions total over £200, the usual weekly contribution being Id. a boy.

Special thanks must go to the students for contributing so generously.

R. CHAPPELL, 3A.

PREFECTS

This year, under the guidance of Mr. Forster, the prefects have done their part in the functioning of the school.

Each prefect is allotted a weekly duty, with a senior prefect in charge of each duty. In addition, two prefects were de-

THEY?

How often parents visiting the College remark, "Aren't they big boys?" Boys grow 48

THE PREFECTS. ( J u n i o r Section of The College).

Basedon, D . A t t r e e d . R. H e w a t , C . E d w a r d s , J. Williams. N . F i n c h e r . C. Bendelie.

C e n t r e : T. Roberts. L. F a u x , R. H a l v e r s o n , D . W alker. F. Jurgelait.

F r o n t : R. A d d i s o n , O. D a v i d s o n (Senior Prefect), M r . H. F o r s t e r (Prefect Master). Mr. T. G r e e n . N .

Smiiiie (vice-captain). P. Olver, R. B o u c h e r .

Back:

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tached for sports duties during the year.

At various times prefects are called on to do special duties for the Headmaster, for example during Education Week and at the School Speech Night.

This year, the prefects were wellrepresented in the cricket and football teams, prefects being captain and vicecaptain of these teams. In the field of scholarship, prefects finished first and third respectively in the mid-year examinations in F o r m III, while one filled equal third place in F o r m IV. The prefects would like to thank the Headmaster and staff for courtesies that made their work easy to do during the year.

O. D A V I D S O N , 4C.

hours of the morning for the camp site at Mt. Evelyn.

On arrival, the boys settled into their quarters—Sabrinas to the Cabin, Sugarfoots to the lower Chalet, Paladins to the upper Chalet and the Beavers to the Cottage.

Lije in the Raw at Mt. Evelyn Reluctant swimmers were soon to be seen swimming fully clothed in the pool—we think rather more quickly than they had anticipated.

We would definitely advise future members of the camp to bring a considerable number of changes, as the atmosphere becomes rather " d a m p " at certain times of the day. Refer Graham Bown for further details.

SENIOR CAMP — 1959

MAY CAMP

The buses, loaded with fifty-seven eager boys looking forward to an exciting adventurous week, left the College in the early

Apart f r o m a few days of rain, the May vacation camp for first and second form boys was a great success.

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The programme commenced with a hike to the Sylvan Dam, which everyone enjoyed thoroughly. Because of the rain, the outdoor games for the evening were cancelled, and indoor games of a rough nature took their place. A competition in various sports commenced on Tuesday. On Wednesday after lunch the whole camp took part in a trip to the TV transmitting station.

That night the first court sessions at the camp were held. This was the humorous way of awarding punishment to those who had committed minor offences. Thursday morning saw sport in full swing, and, in the afternoon, a visit to Healesville Sanctuary was an enjoyable outing for all That night there was a concert left entirely to the boys and leaders, points being awarded for the best items.

Friday saw the end of a wonderful week for the boys.

Initiation Those more experienced members of our Camp decided that a fitting welcome should be accorded to our new camp members.

Judging by ther squeals, various sticky items missing from the kitchen, and a large, wellnurtured mud patch, the ceremony was a great success.

The absence of water afterwards caused great consternation and many peculiar smells wafted through the camp that night.

O Those Manners!

Certain tables were favoured by visits from members of staff at mealtimes. The occupants astonished the said "guests" by striking and original table manners and by the fact that they now can tell the difference between salt and sugar, especially when applied to wrong places.

The Blister Brigade, or Don't You Believe It We had our hike to the Sylvan Reservoir on the afternoon of Monday, 23rd. A rumour has since been circulated that certain members of staff (guess who?) and certain misguided boys (names not mentioned) were seen to enter a bus along the route of the hike. According to one member of staff this incredible "whopper" must immediately be nailed down, and denied to the full. But oh! Mr. C., why did you repay Mr. B. that sixpence? Sufficient to say that the said members of staff and the said boys were valiantly plodding away at the end of the long line of weary hikers,

who slowly wended their way back to camp and were able to show the rightful share of blisters.

What! Licked Again!

We had a very enjoyable visit one afternoon from Lilydale High School for inter cricket, tennis and baseball. Once again they proved what fine sports they are. We hope they will return for future camp contests.

Congratulations to Neil Smillie, Graham Pattison, Kelvin Blundell and John Williams for their tennis victory.

Camp Concert Under the able direction of Mr. Morgan, the annual camp concert proved a "howling" success. Refreshments were served by the Sabrinas at the conclusion of their bracket of items. (Did you enjoy the hall cleaning afterwards, Sabrinas?)

Memories We all carry away with us fond memories of those footsteps on the gravel, the creaking door in the Paladin hut, the stifled screams of another "cooled" victim, the gentle swish of willow through the air, the odour of unwashed feet, the study of logs by many "logs," Sabby's visit and deflation, our patterns of pain on our painful parts and the thoughtful visits by Mr. Harrison in the early morn.

The tense moments as Horatius Grieg held the bridge, and won the anger of all who were spotlighted by a certain senior.

Sulman's sudden shriek shaking the shrubbery as he plummeted ponderously from the cabin roof.

The practically voiceless Sabrinasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially Barlow.

The toothless tiger who, having eaten his bed nails was promoted from Corporal to General because of his many stripes.

Sharp's barracking at cricket.

Never Again!

Now that's one thing we didn't hear, but we all agree that we could stand plenty of this life. From the greasy pole to the cook house, from the cricket field to the yabbie pond, we all enjoyed a very fine camp and hope that we may be able to come once more.

For they were great days And jolly days At the best camp of all.

SYLVIA CRONIN. 50

Hobbies ticket money is going towards a new Sports Pavilion.—R.S. J I M M Y WONG astonished most visitors with his ability to make and lay out working models of radio sets. His lay-out showed clearly the different wires and their functions.—L.F. The most outstanding individual effort was two excellent oil paintings by Vincent Basile, in the Art section.—A.S. Great credit should go to Bob Southall, Reg lllingworth, Gerald Dell, Ron Roper, David Nicholson and Geoff Preston who helped so much with the organizing of the exhibition.—I.R. T A B L E TENNIS: Peter Kidd won the tournament from Johnny Miles. Nobody knows how. Peter would be lucky to be able to see over the net.—J.P. C L E A N I N G - U P : A missing desk for Room lOB was found in Room 71. Ken Dyer, recovering it, was accidentally locked in. He screamed through the key-hole, "Hey! Tell Basil we are locked in!" Back came that well-known voice: "I'll tell him myself, boy!"—R.P. L I B R A R Y : During Education week, monitors in the Library made an all-out attack on the visitors for donations of books to the College Library. Twenty-six books were donated by parents, and many forms in the school have donated a book.—J.C. D R A W I N G : The Drawing Room was an attraction for many people, especially for the female fans of Geoffrey Bell, who was operating the draughting machine.—G.R. MATHS: Mr. Lambart and Mr. Davies organized the display of students' work and projects. Mr. Davies was quite taken up with the Double Elliptical Harmonograph, made by Fourth Form boys.—D.R.

EDUCATION WEEK The Ballarat Road unit of the College was open to the public and parents for two afternoons and nights in August. Some thousands of visitors attended.

Boys' opinions about Education Week are shown in this paragraph written before the event, by Gyula Janka: "Most of the students favour the coming of Education Week as it urges them to produce their best work, so that it will go up for display. In addition, the third and fourth form boys go for excursions to many different factories to see how they are run, and the type of work that they do. This has a great value for the students, as they learn of the conditions they will face when they are working in factories.

"One disadvantage of Education Week is that the work of a minority only of the boys is displayed, and the rest of the boys are 'passengers'. Usually, the minority's work is so good that they might have work displayed in four or five different sections.

Thus Education Week only shows the best of everything, the work of a small fraction of the students, while the rest are neglected."

Paul Matthews sees many advantages in Education Week, but says that "too much time is wasted . . and too much effort put in to a mere week's display . . which halts the education of the children for one week."

OBSERVED THIS YEAR SCIENCE: This year the Science Room showed interesting experiments, with water coming from nowhere, and a table-tennis ball that floated in mid-air. All this was made possible by the good work of Mr. Bala and his assistants.—N.S. The Science rooms were quickly evacuated when John Bennett poured hot white phosporous down the sink. White phosporous burns in water, and phosporous pentoxide filled the room.—K.H. C R A F T : Outstanding exhibition of Education Week was the Craft Room display of highly developed modern art. The room was a credit to Mr. Johnson and the boys who helped him prepare it.—R.B. HOBBIES: The Hobbies Exhibition as a whole was a great success, but the Model Plane section was very poor. This was due to the fact that boys who had some fine exhibits did not bother to enter them. Over half the exhibits in the display were of poor quality.—R.M.

HOBBIES PRIZE-WINNERS First prize winners in another successful Hobbies Exhibition for 1958 were: STAMPS: R. Hammett 4B; G. Rogers 4F; A. Sonberger 2A; A. King 3K; D. Swalwell 2F; and C. Edwards 4E. CARDS, COINS: R. Makin 21; D. Hulls 2B; T. Flint 2E; K. Derrick IF. MODELS: G. Sharp 2G; R. Patterson 3F; M. Smith 3K; J. Charles l A ; W. Richards 3C; J. Wong 4D; C. Elso 3F. PROJECTS: N. Smillie 4A; A. Jenkins 3G; R. Southall 4A; R. Chappell 3A; 51

J. Bennett 4A; V. Pelligrini 2A; Geoff Magor 3A; J. Holley 4B. A R T : J. Pattison 4A; C. McCartin 3B; D. Brancatisano 3F; K. le Nepveu IK; V. Basile 4C. TRAINS: L. Erm; N. Buzza; T. Dean and T. Flint.

Seller of most tickets was John Holley of 4B, who sold 792 tickets to the value of just under £20.

SEA CADETS The Sea Cadet Corps this year have been issued with uniforms, after the misfortune when the uniforms which were to have been allotted to us were burnt in the disastrous fire in the Port Melbourne stores.

During the year the commanding officer has been Lieut.-Comdr. Cronin, who has done a great deal for the Corps'. Each week, the cadets go by bus to the Port Melbourne base—H.M.A.S. Lonsdale. The boys enjoy their stay of one afternoon a week, as they sometimes do boat-work, or see films in the theatre on warfare and saluting. The less popular aspect of the visit is drill.

This year, two camps were held at Flinders Naval Depot, the first in May and the second in September. The syllabus included rowing, firing, fire-fighting, damage control, first aid and rope-work. The Sea Cadet Corps is open to boys attending the College, and aged between fourteen and eighteen.

J. D U T T O N , 4A. J. PATTISON, 4A.

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CENTENARY

A pageant produced in the Nicholson Street Hall dealing with the progress of Footscray over 100 years, marked the beginning of the Footscray Centenary celebrations.

The next day, the Council distributed sweets, drinks, ice cream and free tickets.

In the afternoon a gathering of the children of Footscray saw their favourite sports, football and basket-ball, played on Myer's and the Park Fiats.

The celebrations were rounded off on Monday with a parade of floats and a soapbox derby in Farnsworth Avenue.

A. BRUZZESE, 4B. C. PAVIER, 4B.

FOOTSCRAY'S CENTENARY PAGEANT The Footscray Centenary Celebrations this year included a pageant put on by the children of the district's secondary schools — Footscray Technical College, Footscray G.S.S., Footscray H.S., Footscray C.S., St. Monica's, Christian Brothers and Altona Tech.

Our College contributed a great deal towards the pageant, including more than fifty of the two hundred children participating. It supphed all the actors for three scenes, and many other major parts. Miss Griffiths, of Footscray Girls', was the writer, director and producer of the Pageant, although she would not have succeeded were it not for the help of others, including our own Mr. Forster, who was in charge of the College's boys.

Major parts were taken by Geoffrey Lowe, as co-narrator with Jennifer Boyce of the Girls' School; Terry McConnell, Darryl Hulls and Ian McRae, as Tom, Dick and Harry, in a scene of their own, and in a following scene George Greaves, John Williams and Alan Bedson as Ryan, Pickett and Price. In another scene, Alfred Vezis and Alfred Mullen portrayed two sheepmen coming home from Melbourne, across the swamp. The scene was one of the most successful in the Pageant.

Other important speaking parts included: Jamieson, Hallenstein, Pushon and Forge, played by Terry Roberts, Jan Polacsek, Robert Stewart and John Dowdle; the Old Timer, Ray Nolan; Mayor, Bill Clarke and Governor, Lincoln Erm. There were also a number of minor parts.

The Pageant was held at the Footscray Technical College Assembly Hall on two nights, and over 1,000 people attended.

G E O F F LOWE, 2A. G E O R G E G R E A V E S , 2A.

STAFF NOTES At the end of 1958 we were unfortunate to temporarily lose the services of Mr. C. Green, headmaster at Ballarat Rd., for the past four years. While the greater proportion of his leave was spent in England, Mr. Green also found time to travel through France, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium.

For those contemplating an overseas tour he recommends the system of "hire and drive" cars as an ideal way to make the

most use of limited time when touring the continent. Since his return, the Mothers' Club have been shown some of the extensive range of colour slides taken by Mr. Green.

During the absence of Mr. C. Green the role of acting headmaster was capably filled by his brother, Mr. T. Green. Efficient and industrious, he has maintained the standard of administration at Ballarat Rd. at a high level. Mr. Green now fills the post of senior assistant left vacant through the promotion of Mr. E. Lovejoy to headmaster at Jordanville Technical School.

Mr. W. Ryan, previously in charge of the English and Social Studies department at Footscray is now principal of Warragul Technical School. An outstanding teacher popular with staff and boys alike, his presence here is missed, but we join together to wish him every success in his new school.

In a year of considerable staff changes Mr. F. Steeper received promotion to the post of senior assistant at Morwell Technical School. Formerly a Carpentry and Joinery instructor, Mr. Steeper had an outstanding record of service at Footscray. He conducted an advanced course in Building Construction for lads who had served their apprenticeship and wished to further their training.

During this year we lost the services of Mr. N. Martin, who had taught at the school for the last five years. Mr. Martin has joined the Psychology branch of the Education Department where he will have ample scope to apply his ability and speciahzed training. Mr. J. Howells, associated with the Drama Club at Nicholson St. for some years also left the teaching service at the end of the first term. This was to enable him to devote all his attention to a course which will enable him to enter the Anglican ministry next year.

This year will see the retirement from teaching of Mr. E. Carey. With an outstanding record of thirty-seven years teaching at Footscray, he is well known through the district by the boys and men who have been under his charge. It is hoped that he will have many long and happy years in retirement.

Temporarily the school will lose the services of Mr. B. Cronin. Through outstanding academic and teaching ability he

has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which enables him to spend ten months in American schools. Mr. Cronin is due to leave at the end of second term by the Boeing 707 for Washington. Here he will attend a four day orientation conference for all exchange teachers. While eager to investigate all aspects of teaching during his stay, Mr. Cronin hopes to assess the importance of music in technical institutions in the United States. As Lt. Comm. Cronin of the R.A.N.R., he has been responsible for the Sea Cadet Corps and would like if possible to spend two weeks with the U.S. Navy as an added experience. Two further months, spent mainly in England and Europe will be used for observation of methods and techniques, including a visit to a teacher training centre in France.

Mr. S. Sweeney has replaced Mr. W. Ryan as head of the English department.

In both academic and sporting fields he has been an acquisition to the school. In his first year at the school, Mr. Sweeney, as coach of the baseball and cricket teams, has proved an able and astute adviser to the lads. Mr. H. Morrow, previously at Footscray for seven years, has returned to take charge of the Instrumental Drawing department. At Coburg Technical School Mr Morrow was the senior assistant.

Mr. E. Bala came to Footscray from the C.S.I.R.O. where he was employed in the Division of Timber Physics. Born in India he was educated at the Madras Christian College, then at the Royal Melbourne Technical College, where he founded the Asian Students' Association. He hopes eventually to return to India to take up technical college work after practical training here.

Other members of the staff transferred to Footscray include Mr. D. Davies and Mr. T. Howell who are engaged in teaching mathematics, and Miss P. Knight from Elwood High School, to the Art department.

AIR TRAING CORPS

This year the A.T.C. commenced with two corporals in a total flight of fortythree. With a new Flight Commander, PilotOfficer Billinge, we recovered quickly after a temporary disbanding at the close of 1958 when we had no Flight Commander.

On March 7th, a Garden Party was held at Government House and Cpl. Rosan represented the Flight. General training camps were held during the May vacation at Bal53

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larat, Point Cook and Laverton air bases.

A "flip" (flight in an aircraft) was available to some cadets at camp.

Inter-flight competitions in swimming, athletics and rifle-shooting were held throughout the year. Our athletic and swimming teams lacked the experience of the other flights. The rifle team with Cpl. Greig as captain, and LAC's Cheeseman, Johnstone and McWilliams as members, made several practice shoots at Williamstown Rifle Range. July 25th turned out to be a cold, wet day, but the team survived it, and came a well-earned tenth in the competition, in which there were twenty-four flights. Congratulations go to LAC Johnstone for coming sixth in the individual aggregate. On July 28th, the Flight visited the Majestic Theatre in the city to see the film "High Flight" starring Ray Milland.

To be eligible for entry into the ATC, the cadet must turn fourteen during or before his first year in the cadets. Any boys in the third or fourth forms in 1960 are eligible to join. Uniforms, functions and camps are free to all cadets.

CPL. ROSAN, IVB.

The boys at whose homes the Footscray boys were to be billetted met their guests at Warragul station, and made their way to their farm or town houses.

On Sunday, the billeters and their parents showed their guests over Warragul and near-by towns. Many boys had their first experience of riding horses and driving tractors. Next day, our boys went to school with their hosts, and when school went in, a special bus took us to the experimental farm at Ellinbank for an interesting excursion.

In the afternoon, football matches were played against combined Technical, High and Catholic school sides. Footscray cooperated better to win both Senior and Junior matches. Best senior players were Edwards and Olver, and juniors Sonberger and Vezis.

JOHN MILES, 3F. JEFFREY SMILLIE, 2A. It was about eight o'clock when we arrived at Warragul and by half past eight we had been introduced to the people with whom we were staying.

I was to stay with the Price family.

When we arrived at the 250 acre sheep farm, I found that although Yallourn was just nine miles away, they had no electricity.

Next morning, after a glorious breakfast, Howard went about showing me a beautiful view of the Latrobe Valley from the top of a nearby hill. On the way down, I had a ride on a hay waggon. Later that day their friends, the Fletchers, and Garry Broadway came over and were shown the same sight.

On Monday morning, after an 18 mile ride in the school bus, we were shown around the Ellinbank Dairy Research Farm and the Drouin Butter Factory. We then went on to win both the football matches against the combined Warragul teams, Tuesday morning was the saddest part of all for we had to say good-bye to our friends and go back to school.

F. VEZIS, 2A.

SCHOOL LIBRARY

The Library had a good start this year, with books donated by parents last Education Week. Visitors this year saw a great improvement, with new linoleum on the floor, and new book-shelves built on to the walls, which have made more room than the old-type wooden shelves.

This year, the Library has been under the control of Mr. Billinge, a Library Committee and a staff of capable monitors, who have taken control of the Library during the lunch hour. The firm hand of Mr. Billinge kept the monitors and committee hard at work covering, listing and cataloguing, as well as controlling the lending and returning of books.

The Library has been of great use this year, with students seeking information for projects and lecturettes. At present, the number of books is close to 3,000, and we hope that by the end of 1960, the number will approach four thousand.

JOHN CHEESEMAN, IVB. RAY McWlLLlAMS, IVB.

EGG APPEAL

This year's egg collection is the best that the College has recorded. The record total was 6966. Over the past three years 11,178 eggs have been donated to different hospitals and charities. This year a contest was held 54

and the form with the most eggs (averaged per boy) received a half a day at the show.

There was also an individual prize for the boy collecting the most eggs. This prize was won by Brian Leech of form 2G. He collected 495 eggs and his prize was a Conway Stewart fountain pen. There has been a great improvement in the amount of eggs that have been collected, as shown below: 1957 516 eggs 1958 3696 eggs 1959 6966 eggs Mr. C. Green received a letter from the Footscray Hospital thanking the boys for their co-operation.

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son and Tom Main, the latter vice-captain of the School for 1958, a product of IK L in 1955, and this year a leading actor in the Diploma School's dramatic presentation "Trip to Scarborough" presented at Nicholson Street.

Junior Tech. Scholarships Based on scholarship in Form II in 1958, eight Junior Technical Scholarships were awarded on the recommendation of the Principal, Head-master and District Inspector. Holders of these for 1959 were Colin Rix, Russell Halverson, Terry Roberts, Alan Whitde, Alan Taylor, Geoff Magor, Ray Chappell and Robert Stewart.

CLASS LISTS Mid-Year — 1959

"SWOTS"

We set out below, the top ten boys in each Form in the Ballarat Road Unit, based on results of the mid-year examination.

Intermediate Scholarships Eight boys in Form IV in 1959 will be the last winners of Intermediate scholarships, as from this year these are to be discontinued, and replaced by scholarships in lower forms. The scholarships were awarded on medit to Form III students, and the holders for 1959 were Rodney Pearson, Peter Kidd, Ron Boucher, Ken Dyer, John Bennett, Ken Love, Paul Matthews and Neil Amor.

Form IV 1. Rodney Pearson 4A 2. Kevin Hauser 4A 3. aeq. Neil Amor 4A Neil Smillie 4A 5. John Mitchell 4A 6. Ken Dyer 4A 7. Darryl Rogers 4A 8. John Bennett 4A 9. aeq. Paul Matthews 4A John Holley 4B Kevin Hauser has been awarded the Ahce Duke Scholarship of £ 7 / 1 0 / - for one year, as Rodney Pearson already holds a scholarship.

Senior Tech. Scholarships Of our nine winners of Intermediate Technical Scholarships for 1958, only one was successful in winning a full DayDiploma Scholarship valued at £30 for four years. This was a poor result for Footscray, and it is expected that better results may be announced in January, 1960.

The successful candidate was Bill Ramsay, Dux of the Ballarat Road Unit for 1958, a School Prefect, and an N.C.O. in the A.T.C. Bill is now at the Nicholson Street Unit of the College.

Full Day Diploma Scholarships of £30 for one year were won by Colin Reed, of IV B in 1958, Robert McRae and Robert MacMahon. Part-time scholarships of £10 p.a. for five years were won by Tony Lion and Jim Scott, the latter a Prefect, who commenced their technical schooling in the well-known Form IK L of 1955, and showed great diligence to reach a top place in the College.

Diploma bursaries of £50 per annum for two years were won by Robert Ander-

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6. Max Ebner 2A 7. George Greaves 2A 8. Geoff Lowe 2A 9. Alfred Vezis 2A 10. Graeme Roberts 2A Fergus Deans is awarded the Edith Tomlin Scholarship of £ 3 / 1 5 / - for two years, David Mayne and Lincoln Erm being already holders of Footscray City Council scholarships.

RON PINNEY, former footballer and cricketer, who took his turn as boundary ump. at several matches this year.

In addition, many old pupils, successful in various walks of life, were present during Education Week.

PARAGRAPH PORTRAITS FORM IV JOHN C'Dexta") D U T T O N is the "Elvis" of the class. He spends most of his time serenading us (even in Maths, periods). John, an active member of the Sea Cadets is well-known (especially by the teachers) by his "beetle-crushers" (Army boots) which he insists on wearing to school.

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N E I L (" " ) A M O R is the aristocrat of the class, and is well-known (especially by Mr. Forster) for his love of large words. A champion English student and composition writer, Neil has tons of ability and uses it to the best advantage.

JOHN B E N N E T T is a keen and conscientious student. He usually gains a good place in the exams. John rides a trusty (?) old bike to school and after school he works in the Science rooms. He is a great help to Mr. Nuttall.

PAUL M A T T H E W S is the scientist of the class. A leading violinist in the orchestra, Paul plays elsewhere on many occasions and has been on the radio. Paul has a great interest in badminton and Jaguar cars.

BOB ("Where's my bag?") H A M M E T T .

As his name suggests, Bob's little blue satchel of books always seems to be disappearing. IV AB couldn't do without him because he is such a help for Mr. Sweeney turning out the lights and distributing books.

KEVIN H A U S E R is a real genius at Maths, and Science. He broke his record this year by losing a few marks on the Maths, paper. He is quite good at basketball and most of his leisure time is spent keeping fit at the "Rec." A N D R E A BRUZZESE is a member of the A T C and the world champion latecomer and chewer of gum. Nevertheless, he always manages to get good marks.

G Y U L A JANKA, our country's greatest import, is always ready to oblige with a technical discussion on any subject from

These ten boys are awarded Footscray City Council Scholarships of £ 3 / 6 / 8 for three years. In addition, the Effie Barrett Scholarship of £ 2 / 1 0 / - for three years is awarded to Ivan Brookfield l A , and the A.N.A. Footscray Scholarship of £ 2 / 1 0 / for three years to David Ryder IF, these boys being equal eleventh in Form 1.

OLD PUPILS IN TOUCH Amongst old pupils in touch with the College this year were: BOB T O D D (Prefect 1957-58), who made donations of a book, magazines and Hansards to the Social Studies library.

D A V I D LUMSDEN, who called to borrow his drawing of the historic Malakoff Castle, for reproduction in the Hume Pipes trade journal, in a feature on the Footscray centenary.

BOB SPARGO, Footscray First XVIII footballer, who wished the team good luck in its semi-final. Bob was vice-captain of our premiership side of 1955, and with Graeme Ion, John Jillard, and Bob ("Whiskers") Ware (Prefect, 1957) are doing great things at Footscray.

BOB T U R N E R (Prefect, 1957), former cricket captain, now with Footscray First XI. KEVIN FEATHERSTONE, former A.T.C. corporal, now a Sergeant in the R.A.A.F. Apprentices' School at Wagga Wagga.

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pigs to politics. In fact, if there is nothing to say, Janka is the one to say it.

R A Y McWILLIAMS, who fondly declares that food is the best invention since girls, may be seen strutting around the Library each heaven-sent lunch hour. His shapeless shape may be seen marching across the parade ground each Wednesday.

noted for his uncanny ability at kicking goals in the final stages of a match. He is also a promising member of the cricket team.

HORST ("Please Sir, more marks, I've been robbed") STUBER is an excellent swimmer, who is holder of the open breaststroke title in the ATC. CHRIS McCARTIN, better known to his friends as "Tank," is 3B's answer to Friar Tuck. Chris is an authority on the culinary art, and can devour more in one meal, than the average human can in one week.

T E R R Y ROBERTS, 3A.

J O H N PATTISON has his head in the stars and is ceaselessly expounding the latest astronomical theories. He is one of the most vocal members of Footscray Tech's navy and proudly shows his stripes to best advantage.

A L A N THESE may be seen (or heard) hurling himself across the local tennis court or dance hall. The presence of the fairer sex in our community has influenced him so much that he finds it difficult to make cime for the all-important study of his cathode tube.

K E N D Y E R , N E I L AMOR, and B A R R Y L A Y T O N , IV A.

SCHOOL ORCHESTRA After a slow start, the orchestra managed to render one of the best performances ever at Education Week and again at Speech Night.

With only three old members left from recent years, we had to search for new members. There were quite a few in the "beginners' class" and these members amazed us with the rapidity with which they learnt. Although our "senior" orchestra has only eight players, our leader, Mr. S. Wilkie, is not disappointed as he says " . . . a small orchestra of good players is better than a large group of not so good players." Many of the "beginners' group" are awaiting promotion into the main group, which practises on a Thursday after school for about an hour.

Operatic music provided most of our pieces this year, and among those learnt were the "March" from Bizet's "Carmen," which is very well-known, and "Pomp and Circumstance" and the "Gavotte" from "Misnon."

PAUL MATTHEWS, IV A. R O D N E Y PEARSON, IV A.

A GLIiMPSE OF FORM 111 TALENT J O H N D O W D L E , alias "Moose" is wellknown for his incredible interpretation of the North American Moose's call. Word has leaked out that Martin Denny (famous band leader) is negotiating with John, offering him a fabulous contract to appear with his troupe, who are renowned for their exotic sounds. John has also won medals for dancing. It seems he is as light on his feet as he is in his head.

A L L A N SAGGERS is the school's locker monitor. This lad is really keyed up. He is doing a sterling job, arriving early in the morning to tend to the worries of the frustrated fools who have misplaced their keys.

G R A E M E L E S T E R is a genius from Red Hill, who has obtained very good marks in Maths, and Science. He has recently emerged from isolation with a remarkable discovery that will undoubtedly assist Physics. According to his calculations, 2 + 2 do not make 4.

D O M I N I C B R A N C A T I S A N O is a boy with exceptional ability in art and craftwork. In this year's Hobbies Exhibition, he won a prize in nearly every Art section.

G R A E M E ("Mickey") B A R R O W is developing into a regular goal-sneak, being

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SCHOOL F O O T B A L L T E A M Back: C. Thompson, J. Mitchell, R. Boucher, P. Grdovic, G. Waters, B. McConnell, L. Faux, J. Pritchard, R. Frost, M. Barrow, C. Stephens.

Centre: O. Davidson, A. Mouser, G. Burr, C. Edwards (captain), Mr. Forster, W. Cooke. P. Olver, D. Ion. S. Culbard.

Front: K. Fordham, H. Edwards, J. Miles, J. Williams, C. Bendelle (vice-captain), N. Fincher.

FOOTBALL SEMI-FINAL

Home and Home Matches.

The school again had a combined football team, which showed first signs of a good season in practice matches against Williamstown and Footscray High Schools.

The team was handicapped by the loss of its captain, Wayne Cook, and other valuable players, who sustained serious injuries early in the season. But the team was capably led by Charlie Edwards and Colin Bendelle. The first match provided a win over South Melbourne. With this early taste of victory, Footscray went on to complete the season undefeated in the district, winning a handsome trophy. This could not have been done without the valuable help and coaching of Mr. Forster, who was ably â&#x20AC;˘eplaced, when unable to attend, by Mr. Harrison.

Generally speaking the team had few dominating players, but were a well-balanced team in all positions, not relying on one man to do all the work. The team-work of the side was mainly due to the fact that players were co-operative off the field as well as on the field.

F. Jurgelait 4a J. Mitchell 4a

Footscray fought the game out to the end, but, while doing well on the ground, could not match Preston's high fliers, and intelligent play-on football. Best players were Paul Grdovic, Barry McConnell, Alan Mouser and Colin Bendelle, and goals were kicked by Ron Boucher ( 3 ) and Barry McConnell ( 3 ) . The team for this match was: B.: Stephens, Olver, Hewit. H.B.: Burr, Walker, Nolan. C.: Miles, Mouser, Fincher.

H.F.: Edwards, Frost, Grdovic. F.: Mitchell.

Boucher, Barrow. R.: McConnell, Pattinson, R. Bendelle. 19, 20: Ion, Williams.

Football Trophy A trophy awarded by the Footscray Technical School Old Boys' Football Club for the best and fairest player in the school team was won by Denis Walker. Others to poll well, in a team which relied on being eighteen players rather than on individual brilliance were Colin Bendelle, Peter Olver, Noel Fincher, Alan Mouser. John Miles and Chester Edwards.

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of goals scored by the College for a number of years.

Basile, Culbard (both combined Technical Schools' representatives) and F o r d h a m formed an excellent goal-scoring trio, being ably assisted by Urban and C. Karametos.

The best and fairest award was won by S. Culbard, while D. Mak was the most improved.

The team was excellently conducted by Mr. Nuttall and Mr. Bala, who both devoted a great deal of their time to attending to the afi'airs of the team.

S. C U L B A R D , IV B.

During this year the school socccer team recaptured some of the glory it gained when it won the schools' soccer competition in 1954 .

We started the year with four of last year's players with us. The opposing teams were rather weak in comparison with former years, and Sunshine, last year's winners, were below their normal standard.

O u r team went through the first and most of the second round without suffering a defeatl. Playing away to Williamstown we were without the services of regular players Polascek and Basile.

O u r defence was in most cases strong enough to hold opposing forwards. Special mention here must go to G o r d o n Mullen, a second-form student (Victorian Under 14 team m e m b e r ) . He was the mainstay in this department.

The defence crumbled, however, when we met Collingwood in the semi-final, and Footscray was unable to stop them scoring six goals while we managed only three.

The forwards combined cleverly throughout the season, to notch the hishest number

CRICKET Fcotscray's cricket team played five matches, of which it managed to win only one. The main factors which influenced results were: We lacked strength in batting, one or two vital catches were dropped, and we were unable to find a useful spin bowler to support Barry McConnell.

In each case the matches were close, and could have gone either way with stronger batting. -Apart from consistent opening displays by captain Barry .McConnell and some

SOCCER TEAM Back: P. Hill. J. F o r d h a m . J. Polacsek. E. U r b a n . J. Murrell. V. Basile.

C e n t r e : G . K a v a m e t a s , G . MuHen. Mr. Bala. S. C u l b a r d (captain). Z. T a r c z o n F r o n t : D. M a k . W. Main (vice-captain). C. K a r a m e t a s .

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CRICKET TEAM Back: P. Thompson. G. Thompson, F. Jurgelait, L. Faux. R. Boucher, G. Barrow, I. McRae. Front: I. Reeve, R. Giles, B. McConnell (captain), Mr. S. Sweeney (coach), N. Smillie (vice-captain), W. Cooke, A. Sharp. G. Rogers.

good scores from two third-form boys, Colin Bendelle (who scored the side's only 50), and Micky Barrow (who hit the ball hard for some useful totals), the batting failed consistently, due mainly to lack of experience and concentration.

The bowling was always steady, with some sound performances by the medium pacers, Ron Boucher, Gary Rogers, Colin Bendelle, Neil Smillie, and Laurie Faux, all of whom obtained cheap wickets from time to time.

They were well supported by good off spinners from Barry McConnell, who obtained most wickets (eleven).

Ground fielding was excellent and some very good catches were taken. Andrew Sharp was a sound wicketkeeper, who collected a bag of six victims behind the stumps. The batting average was won by Colin Bendelle, while Laurie Faux was successful in winning the bowling average.

In the last game against Glenroy the opportunity was taken to try out several promising third formers, who should benefit from their experience. It is hoped that these boys will form the nucleus of a strong team for 1960.

Mr. Sweeney, who was very popular with the boys, proved to be a very competent coach, teaching the team many of the finer points of the game. On behalf of the boys

we would like to thank him very much for a job well done.

Results of Games Essendon 103 (Rogers 4/23) defeated Footscray 83 (Barrow 16, Sharp 15).

Footscray, 5/116 dec. (Bendelle 52 n.o., Barrow 25 n.o., defeated Williamstown 71 (Boucher 3/23) and 64 (McConnell 4/36, Bendelle 3/9).

South Melbourne 112 (McConnell 3/33, Smillie 3/14) defeated Footscray 69 (McConnell 22, Barrow 11).

Sunshine 1/66 defeated Footscray 40 (Jurgelait 11).

Glenroy 117 defeated Footscray 79 (McCrae 25).

B. McCONNELL, 4C. R. CLUNE, 4A.

BASEBALL

The baseball team played nine matches during the season, and were successful in six out of the nine. Essendon were top of the section, with Footscray runners-up.

The team started the season well by winning the first game against South Melbourne eight-nil. This was mainly due to the efforts of pitcher Ray Paice (captain), who pitched a no-hit game. Weak batting against average pitchers cost us three games.

The team had several first-year players in 60

Barry McConnell (who won the batting and fielding averages, and also hit two home runs during the season), Gary Rogers (two home runs), Ray Hewit and John Humphries. These players, with Alan Moore (vice-captain), Frank Baseden, Gordon

SECOND FORM SOCCER Playing a bigger and stronger team, Footscray lost the first game to Marian College by four goals to nil. For the second game, Footscray again travelled, this time to Moorabbin. Again our opponents were bigger, but we came home with two points, winning by two goals to nil.

In the return match against Marian College, Footscray fought well, and played a two-all draw. An easy four-nil win against Williamstown followed.

The captain, Ranko Bohnke, scored five of the nine goals. Pugh got two, with Makin and Hodgson, getting one each.

G. Mullen 2a

BASEBALL T E A M Back: T. Buckland, C. Brown, G. Rogers, B. McConnell, B. Lupton, F. Baseden.

Front: J. Galea. R. Paice (captain), Mr. S. Sweeney (coach), P. Sterritt (scorer), C. Anderson, J. Humphries.

LACROSSE TEAM FORMED In the Inter-Technical competition, Footscray were unsuccesful, losing every match.

The newly-formed team showed a lack of skill in the game, whereas the competitors were all skilful and had previous experience

Morris (catcher), and Barry Lupton gave good performances through the season, during which Footscray scored 82 runs against the opposition's 46. Ray Paice pitched 81 strike-outs.

The thanks of the team go to Mr. Sweeney, who was their able coach.

F R A N K BASEDEN, IV B. RAY PAICE, i V B .

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Footscray was soundly thrashed twice by Essendon. During the first game Arthur Gray, the captain, was the only outstanding player. In the return match, John Pace was used to counter a tall opponent, and Footscray outplayed Essendon in the second half.

We beat Collingwood at home very convincingly, the most damage being done by the little forwards. Ken Bennett and Colin Richardson.

Kevin Hauser, 4A.

LACROSSE TEAM Back: W. Solley, K. Moore, E. Moreno, B. Way. N. Sampson, E. McClurkin.

Front: J. Rolfe, N. Brown, Mr. F. T. Morgan, R. Lourensz, R. Dixon.

with the game. As the year progressed, the team improved. The first game, Footscray lost 23 goals to nil, but in the last game Footscray lost 3 goals to 4 goals.

Best players throughout the season were Russell Brown and P.obin Lorenz. Credit should be given to the goallie, Ken Moore, who did a very good job defending goals in the latter part of the season. On this year's experience, a stronger team has been built up for next season.

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2nd F O R M F O O T B A L L T E A M Back: L. Gladman, W. Taylor, L. Bowling, G. Broadway, G. Ritchie, T. McConnell, F. Vezis, L. Erm, G. Waghorne.

Centre: P. Battaglia, G. Smillie, D. Thompson, M r . K. Peake (coach), K. Norris, P. Harris, K. Menzies.

Front: G. Meares, B. Govan, J. Hodges, B. Withers (vice-captain), A. Sonberger (captain), R. Wheeler, T. Ward, J. Merry.

SECOND YEAR SPORT

For the Footscray Centenary, a lightning premiership was played, with all the district schools taking part. Footscray had two teams in the games, the " A " captained by John Hodges and the " B " by Alan Sonnberger. The "A's" won this premiership, and the handsome cup, which was the trophy.

The best and fairest player of the season was John Hodges, who won the trophy presented by FTSOB Football Club.

A. Sonnberger 2a T. McConnell 2b

A large programme of inter-school matches has been played this year by teams from Form 11, with opponents as far afield as Moorabbin and Syndal. Teams have represented the school at football, soccer, soft-ball and tennis.

SECOND YEAR FOOTBALL The second year football team has had a very successful season. The only defeats we suffered were against Box Hill and Sunshine, who fielded bigger and more experienced players. The teams we defeated were Williamstown (twice), Moorabbin (twice), Syndal and Sunshine. Matches were also played against schools other than technical schools.

Alan Sonnberger was captain of the team, with Barry Withers vice-captain.

These boys, with Terry McConnell and John Hodges formed the selection committee.

Much of the second year team's success was undoubtedly due to popular coach, Mr. Peake.

SECOND YEAR TENNIS Three tennis matches were played, against Williamstown, Moorabbin and Box Hill, We defeated Moorabbin four matches to nil, and Williamstown 2-18 to 2-13. Box Hill soundly defeated our side, four rubbers to nil. Players in all matches were Olver, Davidson, Walker, Copland, Leech and Lindner.

All players would like to thank Mr. Wild for organizing these games.

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experienced players returning from this year's teams.

The football team went through the district undefeated, though strong opposition was provided by Williamstown. However, they were well defeated in a semi-final by a much taller and stronger Preston " Z " team at St. James Park, Hawthorn. Where are the tall, powerful ruck-men and key position players of other years?

The soccer team, while not undefeated in their district, played in the semi-final, going down to Collingwood.

Continuous improvement in swimming, shown by the large number of certificates and medallions earned by our boys, led to our swimming team filling third place in the inter-technical schools " A " G r a d e carnival.

The baseball team found Essendon too strong in their own district, while the cricketers hope to restore their standing in the district in 1960.

Footscray started promisingly witii a 221 1 win over xMarian College. The second match was a little harder, but we managed to defeat Williamstown 16-8. We had a few weeks' "spell" before playing Marian College for the second time, and the match was a walk-over 33-4. The team trained harder for the second game against Williamstown and won again 12-8.

Then came the team's first base-ball game against Box Hill. Box Hill had a much bigger side, but with the assistance of a few members of the school base-ball team we scored our fifth victory for the season 6-1.

Best players were Roberts, Harrington.

Curtain, Doll and Bennett. The coach for the season was Mr. A. Wild.

David Mayne 2a

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Once again Footscray competed in the " A " section of the Combined Technical Schools' swimming sports held at the New Olympic Pool. This year we bettered our previous efforts by coming third with 133 points, to Richmond ( 1 4 3 points) and Preston ( 137 points).

Colin Peatling, who became the Australian Junior cJiving Champion earlier in the year, won the under 14 diving event.

Horst Stuber won the 50 metres breaststroke open with a time of 44.2 sees. Others worthy of mention were Alan Sonnberger, second in the 50 metres back-stroke under 13; Jan Polacsek, second in the 50 metres back-stroke under 15; Enrico Morino, second in the 50 metres free-style under 15, and Ray Wapshott, second in the 50 metres back-stroke under 15. The only second place gained in the open events was by Emilio Morino, in the 50 metres butterfly.

In the relay events we did extremely well.

The under 13 relay team gained first place, the under 15 relay team came second and a fourth place was gained by the under 14 relay team.

In the annual House Swimming Sports, the E m u s were the outright winners with 226Vi points. A very close second were the Koalas with 224 points, and the Wombats sained third place with 198 points.

E. L. M O R I N O , IV E.

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FINALS REACHED IN FOOTBALL SOCCER, SWIMMING A return to something like the p e r f o r m ances that saw football, cricket and soccer premierships a few years ago, was shown by Footscray teams this year. High hopes were held for teams next year, with a nucleus of 63

SWIMMING TEAM Back: J. Foster, R. Foy, K. Coster.

Centre: R. Race, E. Moreno, A. Loureny, G. Brown, R. Wapshot. C. Peatling.

Front: A. Sonberger. W. Glen, J. Polacsek. A. Jenkin, T. Corr. R. Frost, R. Tabor.

Tannock). After these early successes, we went to the top of the aggregate; but as the day went by, the other schools seemed too strong and we couldn't break through for another win. P. F e m e who showed courage to win the under 15 — 100 yards, and run second in the 220 yds. with a sore back, was informed by a doctor the following night that he had a slipped disc in his back. Peter will be out of action for several months.

ATHLETICS This year the standards system was again used to select the best athletes for our athletic team. All boys who reached 'A' standard in each event fought out the finals, which were closely contested; and some excellent performances were recorded.

Points were allotted for the various standards and also for the placings in the finals. This meant that nearly every boy in the school recorded some points for his house.

The individual championships were won

by Paul Grdovic — open. Peter Feme — under 15, B. Le Neveu — under 14, Terry Olver — under 13.

On Thursday, 1st October, our team ventured to Olympic Park to compete in the 'A' Grade Technical School Sports. Our team started the day well with wins in the open 100 yards (N. Smillie), open 220 yards (P. Grdovic), under 15 — 100 yards (P. F e m e ) , and under 13 Sling ball (A.

All boys who were placed first or second in an event returned to Olympic Park on the Monday to compete on the Championship day. We recorded two wins and five seconds. John WiUiams won the open 880 yards in record time. The other win was the under 14 — 4 x 110 yards relay which was won comfortable. The team was Clarke, De Lotte, Pattie and Olver.

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS In the Inter-Technical Schools' tennis championships, Footscray boys were winners of the Under 14 and Open Singles, and Under 14, 15 and Open Doubles.

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