1916 Monday 4th December, 1916. Despite the unseled weather, hundreds of visitors descend on Brunswick Technical School for an evening of praccal demonstraons and musical diversion. In the Physics Lab students experiment with delicate apparatus made at the school. In Commerce a class of boys and girls are busy typing, while in another room future poers are busy modelling with local clay. A concert featuring Lile Miss Peddle, Messrs Davis & Sharpe and a student quartet is filled to capacity. Progress since the school opened in February is plain for all to see. “Many who lingered in the Metal and Wood Work sections were unfortunate enough to miss a chance of securing a seat for the concert” Brunswick and Coburg Leader, Friday 8th December 1916 “Expressions of surprise and admiration at the progress made by the students…were voiced by crowds of interested residents and parents at their visit of inspection.” Brunswick and Coburg Leader, Friday 8th December 1916 J.P. Hutchinson was employed to teach art and technical drawing at the new Brunswick Tech. Late of Nhill Art School, he arrived on a Saturday morning in early February. He found an unfurnished and unstaffed school. Waing for the other teachers to arrive he set about designing furniture to be built on site. In the following months the students built seats around the quadrangle and a bicycle ‘stable’ below the balcony. Maintenance man Mr Hoary dismantled the old fences, built a strongroom, erected parons and moved doors and windows to make more space. The first school garden was dug from yellow clay by Mr Hutchinson and the principal Mr Evere. All their hard work culminated in that crowded house on a rainy night at the year’s end. The first in a long tradion of displays, exhibions and fundraisers, it was a roaring success. Brunswick Technical School was here to stay. A Crowded House “Wonderful was the enthusiasm, the energy and the success of that and following years…the staff were often at the school on Saturdays, and yes, sometimes Sunday afternoons.” J.P. Hutchinson, art teacher, 1916 Foundaon staff, 1916 – Principal Percy E. Evere (seated centre), and Drawing Teacher J.P. Hutchinson (back right) George Sedgman’s Reference Leer, April 1918 Demonstrang experimental apparatus in the Physics lab, 1916 Mixed senior students typing class
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1916Monday 4th December, 1916. Despite the unsettled weather, hundreds of visitors descend on Brunswick Technical School for an evening of practical demonstrations and musical diversion. In the Physics Lab students experiment with delicate apparatus made at the school. In Commerce a class of boys and girls are busy typing, while in another room future potters are busy modelling with local clay. A concert featuring Little Miss Peddle, Messrs Davis & Sharpe and a student quartet is filled to capacity. Progress since the school opened in February is plain for all to see.
“Many who lingered in the Metal and Wood Work sections were unfortunate enough to miss a chance of securing a seat for the concert”
Brunswick and Coburg Leader, Friday 8th December 1916
“Expressions of surprise and admiration at the progress made by the students…were voiced by crowds of interested residents and parents at their visit of inspection.”
Brunswick and Coburg Leader, Friday 8th December 1916
J.P. Hutchinson was employed to teach art and technical drawing at the new Brunswick Tech. Late of Nhill Art School, he arrived on a Saturday morning in early February. He found an unfurnished and unstaffed school. Waiting for the other teachers to arrive he set about designing furniture to be built on site. In the following months the students built seats around the quadrangle and a bicycle ‘stable’ below the balcony. Maintenance man Mr Hoary dismantled the old fences, built a strongroom, erected partitions and moved doors and windows to make more space. The first school garden was dug from yellow clay by Mr Hutchinson and the principal Mr Everett.
All their hard work culminated in that crowded house on a rainy night at the year’s end. The first in a long tradition of displays, exhibitions and fundraisers, it was a roaring success. Brunswick Technical School was here to stay.
A Crowded House
“Wonderful was the enthusiasm, the energy and the success of that and following years…the staff were often at the school on Saturdays, and yes, sometimes Sunday afternoons.”
J.P. Hutchinson, art teacher, 1916
Foundation staff, 1916 – Principal Percy E. Everett (seated centre), and Drawing Teacher J.P. Hutchinson (back right)
George Sedgman’s Reference Letter, April 1918
Demonstrating experimental apparatus in the Physics lab, 1916
Mixed senior students typing class
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