29/10/2021 – NTHS&Tech OSA

New Town High School & Tech Old Scholars' Association

School Reunions – is yours next?

Posted on 29/10/202106/06/2023 by Tim Oxley

The New Town High & Tech Old Scholars Association is promoting 25 and 50 year annual Reunions of boys leaving the school. This year it’s the 1971 leavers who will meet up on 13th November at the school and then catch up to reminisce about the ‘good old days’. Next Continue Reading

Working Bee – can you help?

Posted on 29/10/202122/12/2021 by Tim Oxley

We are having a working bee at the garden project on Saturday 6th November from 10am to 2pm. The garden is at St John’s Avenue – opposite the church. The aim is to finish installing the watering system and repairs to the greenhouse. It will help if you can bring Continue Reading

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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