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Blue and Gold Alumni Association Inc.
Newsletter OCTOBER 2020 Postal Address: PO Box 4041, Norwood
South SA 5067. Website: www.blueandgoldalumni.com.au Facebook page:
TBA Patron: Frank Seeley President and Treasure: Tom Frossinakis
459475164 85682188 [email protected] Secretary: Trevor Molde 0417
838 740 82350634 [email protected] Membership: Contact the
Secretary on the above email
Calendar (subject to change) Old Scholars’ Luncheon - Wednesday
October14 – Walker’s Arms hotel 12 for 12.30pm
Farm Day - Nov 8 Second Sunday in November at Tom Frossinakis’
Birdwood home.
1970 Adelaide Technical High School 50 year Reunion - Friday
November 27. A school tour and lunch are planned for Matric
students of 1970. Expressions of interest to
[email protected] ”
Carousel Day - Semaphore – Neil Merkel
Yarralumla wine bus trip and sit-down-meal - Tom
Frossinakis.
Pt Adelaide and Adelaide Historical Talk and excursions -Trevor
Molde-when Port Freemasons Hall is available after COVID 19
restrictions are lifted.
President’s Notes. We hope that you enjoy our third newsletter,
very ably put together by our Secretary Trevor Molde.
Our next three functions are planned to offer members and their
partners chances to enjoy each
others’ company and recall many wonderful memories of our school
days at ATHS, GHS and GIHS.
Details were in newsletters and emails sent to members in the
last few days.
1) Luncheon Wednesday October 14, 12 for a 12:30 pm start We are
inviting 4 guests from GIHS- Wendy Johnson (Principal), Rob Love
(Coordinator Innovative and
Entrepreneurial Thinking Initiative) and the two Head Prefects
Lexi Martin and Alex Nancarrow.all of whom will speak to us briefly
about what is happening at GIHS. A choice of four main meals and
two desserts must be made from the menu sent in our previous
email and letter. Tea and coffee will be provided and and a door
prize and raffle will be held.
2) Farm Family Day Sunday November 8 from 11 am to 4 pm at Maria
and Tom Frossinakis’ farm
All members partners, children and grandchildren are invited to
enjoy a good old-fashioned day of
farm fun with a wide range of activities for all to enjoy.
A delicious barbeque salads, and desserts; Country cooking;Tours
of the farm, orchard,vineyard,
native plantations;the naming of 5 newborn calves.
There are sports for all ages – cricket, baseball, netball,
quoits, croquet and darts.
Cost is $10 per adult and children over 12 years of age. An
existing member who brings a new
member will not have to pay the $10
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3) Meet and Greet – Friday November 27 from 5pm to 8pm at the
Combined Ex-Servicemen’s
Mess, Torrens Parade Ground Victoria Drive, Adelaide. An evening
devoted to what the name
implies – members and partners meet and greet and chat about the
‘good old days’ and
hopefully the even better ones to follow for us all. ‘Finger
food’, soft drinks and nibbles will be
available at no cost. Bar facilities will be made available for
the purchase of drinks, Tea and
coffee is available at $2. There will be a door prize and
raffle.
We hope to gave the pleasure of your company at these
functions.
What do they say about 6 degrees of separation between people?
Because of the August newsletter the following email was received
–“ I need to have Bryce’s email address. Why? It would appear that
my wife’s grandfather and Bryce’s grandfather both served on the
‘Protector’ on the China venture. Peter Kopli Bryce can’t recognize
his relative as a young man.
Vale 1934 Mrs Laurel Iola Bennier (née Lane) Born 31/5/21 and
died 19/8/20 aged 99; 1934 Mr Lindsay Burton Bowes AM Born 27/8/21
and died 13/8/20 aged 98 Mr Bowes was the Permanent Head of the SA
Department of Labour and Industry.....one of a number of Public
Service Heads educated af ATHS 1949 Dr Desmond Charles Hoffman OAM
He began at ATHS in 1949 played League Football for SANFL club
Norwood 1943 Rev Don Warren From the last Newsletter - passed away
23/4/20 aged 89. Ex committee of ATHSOS and President for a number
of years 2003-2005
As he said, “Life is full of surprises. I turned up at the AGM
in 2003, innocently asked “What does a President do?” and returned
home as the new President”. “Well I’ve found out what the President
does. It would be summed up as giving leadership, but there’s also
‘donkey work ‘to do, It has meant catching up with our more senior
old scholars. It has meant making events planned happen. On the
whole it has been interesting and rewarding. The Association is in
good heart, new members are being added and we have plans for the
future (he said in 2003). We need to continue adding more new
members to the
Committee, particularly those from the latter years of the Tech
(meaning today, from GIHS)” Words that is as true today, as they
were in days gone past.
Committee meeting with the Prefects Promised photos of the Head
Prefects, Comm-unity Day etc, not forthcoming, we will have to be
content with cartoon images in lieu of the real thing. Your
Secretary was told that there would be no photos taken of children,
pictures published without consent etc. Students of ATHS went
through without this political correctness and so we have photos to
remind us of our yesterdays. It will be a poor thing and for a long
time, if there are no images except on volatile pages of
‘Facebook’.
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The Blue and Gold Committee met with the present Head Prefects:
Lexi Martin and Alex Nancarrow – and also the Head prefects of
2021. Good planning and a great idea to have the up-and-coming Head
Prefects learn the job under the present ones. These four young
people certainly impressed us and they discussed the Comm - Unity
Week, HUMANS at GIHS and GIHS Old Scholars having a more active
role with the BGA.
The prefects explained the Leadership Teams at GIHS. There are
12 Prefects and the year-after boy and girl Head Prefects are
selected beforehand. There are 4 different Councils - SRC ,
International, Well-being and something Councils. Yr 7s will start
in 2022 with a new building and new uniform. There is a chance for
students to become involved in some form of
leadership at every level. 800 students are involved in
clubs.
We saw just one of apparently several videos showing cultural
diversity involved in the ‘HUMANS’ Project –- a staff member from
Turkey explained her role at the school. Mention was made of the
recent Comm-unity Day held at the school involving international
foods, costumes etc. GIHS has had ‘Harmony Days’, ‘Indigenous
Australians Days’ and a ‘Walk a Mile Event’ to raise cash for the
‘Hutt Street Centre’ for people experiencing hardships An
insightful comment was made by one Prefect “School is so much more
than the students”. Committee Meeting with Rob Love – Coordinator
of Entrepreneurial Innovation at the School
Two sheets were handed out explaining what the school was doing
regarding entrepreneurial studies starting in year 8 which will
continue through each of the year levels. 16 teachers have had
training in helping their students in entrepreneurial work. Each
student had been given $20 –with the expectation that they will
make this and $1 more to hand back $21.
Several skills are involved in setting up what the students wish
to sell directly and online- design, critical thinking, Web page
and Facebook advertising and much more. At the end of this
activity, what has been learnt and achieved will be placed in their
21st C Portfolios This will develop into a SACE subject worth 10
points and will lead the students into employment a full year ahead
of others. The scheme increases employability and demonstrates the
creativity and adaptability of students in business. Schemes talked
about which the students will work on – recycling, community
Projects, making School a better and more attractive place. WHAT
THE OLD SCHOLARS CAN DO IN THIS PROJECT –
OS with skills in starting a business, design, working and
solving problems, manufacturing etc are necessary for seeing the
students’ projects and giving meaningful feedback. The GIHS
coordinator would like a register of interested people and a skills
list on Old Scholars . The committee was enthusiastic about the
whole idea of increased employability of students in their own
businesses and their being given the opportunity of a head-start in
the business world.
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Illustrations of the new $30 million Technology Centre at GIHS
Building is now starting on accommodation for the new intake of
Grade 7s. When they move in, GIHS is going to be a school with
2,200 students! – and a waiting list, a sign of a top flight
school. At the same time a new Technology Centre is going to be
built. This is what it will look like.
Brookman Hall – North Terrace in the now ‘ University of SA’
building
The finance to build this edifice came in large part from Sir
George Brookman. The whole structure should have been named ’The
Brookman Building’ but there was another of that name owned by him
in Grenfell Street. Hence his name was attached only to the Hall,
to honour the first great benefactor towards the realization of a
people’s university for South Australia. Sir George Brookman KBE
(15 April 1850 – 20 June 1927) - who made a
fortune from a gold discovery in Western Australia, and is
remembered as a generous
benefactor of the South Australian School of Mines and
Industries and the University
of Adelaide.
The son of a printer, George came to SA from Scotland as a two
year old in 1852. His
first job was with D & J Fowler, but by his 30s he was a
partner in a big grocery store in
King William Street. By the 1890s he was a sharebroker and
financial agent with a seat
on the Stock Exchange (1890-96). In the 1890s he had the best
leases on the ‘Golden
Mile’ in Coolgardie supervised on site by his brother William.
He was knighted in 1920.
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The School of Mines was operating from the
basement of the Exhibition Building and the
enrolments were curtailed because of the lack
of accommodation. The State’s Colonial
economy relied heavily on the exploration of its
mineral wealth, but the Government had to be
persuaded every year for a budget for materials
for teaching more than a thousand students in
more than 30 subjects.
Sir John Langdon Bonython (KCMG, editor, newspaper
proprietor,
philanthropist, Australian politician and journalist, was a
Member of the First
Australian Parliament, and was editor of the Adelaide daily
morning
broadsheet, The Advertiser, for 35 years) approached George
Brookman to
help and this resulted in a 10,000 pound cheque for a building
(5000 pounds
added half way through its construction) on Bonython’s preferred
site which
was a corrugated iron shed on the East end of the Exhibition
Building. The first classes were held in
1889. The School of Mines being part of the University of
Adelaide had people like Sir William Bragg
(Nobel Laureate) and Robert Chapman, the Professor of
Engineering, give intellectual rigour to the
courses offered.
Brookman Hall figured predominantly in the life of Adelaide Tech
students. There we sat for entrance exams in Maths and English; did
our external examinations; had our end of term concerts; had
dancing classes in Year 11 and for many of us who did not have
girlfriends, were told by the Principal that we were allowed to
escort the girls to the busses or trains. I remember well that on
the evenings of the Senior School socials, the boys at one end and
the girls at the other. When told that we could ask a girl up for a
dance you could almost hear the shout “CHARGE!”. Of course the boys
had already selected preferences from watching the girls do their
‘conga’ dance downstairs in the Hall during wet weather when the
school was inside under ‘lockdown’, while we boys watched from the
gallery upstairs. We also had Physical Education there under Hurtle
Hahn and Gordon Haskard. One early student
reported that whilst his year was having pushups, there was the
Principal, Sydney Moyle doing
pushups with one arm!
Brookman Hall was also the place where we had singing lessons
under Sable Grivell (he must have
hated those classes but I guess he was paid well) and Elsie
Woolley his pianist (also his wife who kept
her maiden name because she was a professional singer in her own
right). If it hadn’t been for dear
old Sable, our years would never have got to know any of the
Gilbert and Sullivan music (Tan tan
tarrah Sing Boom!)Sable was always good for a recitation on
Speech Nights which ended our
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academic year. The staff were there in their academic gowns,
capes, robes and if they earnt them,
hats.
The night went off as the saying goes ‘like clockwork’ and the
number of prizes for academic
excellence and people who had won scholarships added to the
prestige of the school. It was very
apparent from the audience’s participation that the parents
though very highly of Adelaide Technical
High School as a school of achievement. This has carried over
into the ethos of GIHS.
Remember the Stained Glass windows in In Brookman Hall?
“The first object to catch the eye on entering Brookman Hall are
the magnificent ‘Empire Windows’, the central one bearing portraits
of King Edward VII., Queen Alexandra, and the Prince and Princess
of Wales, surmounted in each instance by appropriate crests. At the
top are placed emblematical birds and animals, representing South
Africa, Australasia, India, Canada. The idea of this scheme, was
well calculated to typify loyalty to the throne and the feeling of
Imperial brotherhood,
Construction of Brookman Building coincided with the federation
of the Australian colonies and the Boer War. Fervor surrounding
these events is evident in the stained glass windows designed and
installed in 1903. The Empire Window in the northern wall of the
hall, radiates imperial patriotism.
The western side window carries the shields of the six
Australian states and the eastern window the
shields of England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, Fiji and
British New Guinea. The idea for this
scheme ‘well calculated to typify loyalty to the throne and the
feeling of Imperial brotherhood’
(Register, 24 February 1903).
The Website The website at www.athsos.com.au is going strong. I
urge you all to look at it periodically because it will provide you
with the latest information on the Old Scholars Association –
Newsletters, current
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news, and forms for renewing membership and changing details,
including addresses will be included. This is your website. If you
have any suggestions for improvement, we will be glad to hear and
consider them for periodic upgrades. If you or your company would
like to be an official sponsor of the website, please contact the
Secretary on 8235 0634. Sponsorship would include having your
company logo etc. on the site.
Memorabilia We still need memorabilia for our archives. Photos,
Magazines, Uniforms & Information. Write to Trevor Molde 4
Green view Drive Grange SA 5022 82350634 0417838740
[email protected] OR : PO Box 4041, Norwood South SA
5067.
Class Photos The older magazines never had class photos in them.
Photographs, particularly with names, are particularly valuable and
really essential for our archives. We can scan and return, or you
can scan and send them to the Secretary – all are really important,
before they are lost forever.
Leaving Honours Class 1953 Donated by Max Jacquier
Back row (L to R): B. Lodge, T. Lewis, R. Trebilcock, D. Warner,
M. Jacquier, D. Hoffmann, O. Billinghurst
Front row: R. Gower, R. Russell, Mr Canney (Class Teacher), K.
Collins, R. Bauman
Photos from the Past- selected because they show teachers when
they were young 1923 – Rifle Club I knew that I was right! The
rifle club did use a Martini single shot (Zulu), but it looks as
though they used 0.22s as well. The early magazines always show a
rifle team along with what we are used to – football, tennis and
basketball. I guess that they had to justify the cost of having
their own rifle range alongside Frome Road.
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Back row (L to R): Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster), C. McFarling, G.
Dicker, H. Foster,
Mr G. Haskard (Sportsmaster),
Front row: W. Howe, C. Pelham, G. Frisby Smith (Captain), K.
Weidenhofer, R. May
Rifle Club –This photo shows a young Percy Thiel who taught a
lot of us Physics. It also mentions
that we had a ‘cadet corps’ and Mr Thiel was in charge of it at
this time. No concern then about the
cost of ammunition or upkeep of the rifle range shed. It would
have been supplied and supported gratis
by the army. ….
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1923 – Boy Prefects. Some in short pants and others showing
individuality (as always) There were 3 years of
schooling and then Leaving and then Leaving Honours for going on
to Uni. Remember when it was possible
to jump year 9?
1925 Girl Prefects OK girls – the next two photos -pretty ‘heavy
stuff -‘cold weather stockings or ‘modesty coverings’. My
grandmother had a dining room table with a table cloth which
reached down almost to the floor on all sides. Years passed until I
asked her why? The answer astounded me! Because women of her era
wore long skirts and this carried over into not allowing even the
legs of a table to be exposed! God’s honour!
Back row (L to R): O. Freudenberg, H. Smith, B. Lewis, W. Mundy,
Z. Wilson, G. Verner
Front row: M. Paterson, H. Adams, M. Eardley (Head Prefect), Mr
S. Moyle (Headmaster), S.
Wilson, D. Trotter
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1926- Basketball team .. Ballet shoes?
Back row (L to R): Miss I. McBride (Sports Mistress), M. Dorsch,
M. Poole, I. Delaine, A. Mutton,
Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster)
Front row: J. Harwood, B. Lewis (Captain), I. Rowett
1957 Girls A Basketball team. What a difference as soon as
things were accepted
Left to Right: Patricia Whimpress, Dawn Nicholson, Roslyn
Hargrave, Patricia Lewis, Katie Saral (Captain) Joan Davies, Ruth
Kelly
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1932 Football team an early photo of ‘Hurtle’ Hahn with hair
Back row (L to R): R.B. Knapp, K.E. Bishop, C.N. Wilson, R.F.
Letherby, D.S. Corston Middle row: Mr H.W. Hahn (Football Master),
D.R. Gapp, H. Loveder, N.V. Richards, A.E. Cornish, T.B. Kent, J.A.
Vogelesang, L,K. Rudd, Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster) Front row: M.J.
Slade, R.L. Hooper, S.B. Gitsham (Vice Captain), R.W. West
(Captain), D.L. Hackett, E.G. Hannan, T.N. Heritage
It is now going to be the policy to show photos from the past
more in line with the current ages of OS 1957 A Football Team
Warren Cookson the football captain has been asking for this
photo
Back row: D.M. Porter, D.W. Hutton, R.E. Marks, Mr H.W. Hahn
(Master in Charge), P.B. Lang,
P.L. Sandery, H.J. McCulloch
Middle row: L.R. Russell, J.J. Abbott, G.H. Eime, M.B. Cannell
(Vice Captain),W.J. Cookson
(Captain), J.A. Gniel, P.R. Collins, R.J. Payze
Front row: R.D. Shute, J.P. Welford, P.R. Letheby, W.G.
Henderson, L.T. Nesbit,P.R. Middleton,
R.J. Doyle
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There was second Headmaster of Adelaide Tech at North Terrace-
Cedric Cannel
A group photo of a staff occasion – Oscar Knauhaser, Mme
Ellershaw and others
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NEEDED - MORE ANECDOTES, NEWS ABOUT OLD SCHOLARS, EVENTS AND
PHOTOS- ESPECIALLY
OF GLENUNGA AND GLENUNGA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Your Committee: Years Phone President /Treasurer:: Tom
Frossinakis 58-62 8568-2188 0402 475 184 Vice Presidents: Neil
Merkel 63-68 8353-0550 0403 125 146 Secretary /Membership/
Newsletter/ Archivist Trevor Molde 54-58 8235-0634 0417 838 740
Committee: Social:Sue Thomson (Jennings) 66-70 0402 356 010 Web
Master: Mark Thornthwaite 61-65 0438 606 219 Mark Brindal 61-65
8298-1102 0407 713 578 Advisor: David Stoba 51-54 8266-0007