06/06/2023 – NTHS&Tech OSA

President’s Message

Posted on 06/06/202306/06/2023 by Tim Oxley

The current president of the NTH&TOSA is Rick Cazaly (1966-1969) After leaving NTHS Rick joined the well-established Cazaly family Health & Fitness enterprise and spent several decades promoting healthy lifestyle activities across many industrial and community settings. In 2002 he was recognised for that work with the Prime Minister’s Centenary Continue Reading

Students at our school need your help!

Posted on 06/06/202306/06/2023 by John Barker

Good day. You have not heard from us for some time but the Committee has been very busy working to establish and complement relationships with the new school communication to preserve the heritage of the school and to support the new school the NTHS and Tech Old Boys Association, while Continue Reading

Vale – Eric Clifton (Cliff) Isles

Posted on 06/06/202306/06/2023 by Grace Guerzoni

11.9.1927 – 11.3.2023‘Human beings are storied beings, traipsing life paths paved with stories.’ The story Eric Clifton Iles tells of his time at the Hobart Junior Technical School might have been published in a boys’ own almanac, might have found its way to a cinema screen. As the nonagenarian old Continue Reading

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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