Incorporation of NTHOSA – NTHS&Tech OSA

As part of the process to incorporate New Town High Old Scholars Association (NTHOSA) a meeting will be held at the school at 4pm on 27 August to elect office bearers and finalise its objectives.

Office bearers required are:
President / Chair
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Public Officer
Committee (total no more than 10)

Suggested Association objectives:
 To establish an old scholars association with membership from former students of Hobart Junior Technical School, New Town Technical High School and New Town High School and former and current teachers of those schools;
 To foster relationships with the School Association and New Town High School;
 To support and organise social, educational, recreational opportunities, functions and entertainment for members;
 To acknowledge outstanding achievements of former students and staff;
 To provide and participate in mentoring current students of New Town High School; and
 Any associated matters

What: Meeting to Incorporate NTHOSA
When: 4pm on Tuesday 27 August 2019
More info: contact John Barker 0412 906 328 or john@johnbarker.biz

Myths and Legends

A Confession

My first contact with the school was in 1942 when the Junior Technical School was in Bathurst Street and I was a student studying Chemistry at University. Our laboratory was on the second floor immediately above the broad driveway on which the school assemblies were held. The boys were tightly packed into the limited space available and we looked down upon them, as it were, from a great height. We used to sprinkle them with a fine spray of water blown from apparatus called wash bottles. They would look up at us in frustrated desperation. They could do nothing about it. They were too crowded to be able to move aside and, under the discipline of the school, unable to create a disturbance. They were sitting ducks. The university students very unfairly took advantage of the situation. But if looks could kill, we would have been consigned to everlasting perdition.

Twenty-four years later I re-appeared on the scene as Headmaster. It is remarkable how greatly perspectives can change in twenty-four years.

Des Mahoney

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