19/02/2025 – NTHS&Tech OSA

WHEN: Friday, February 28th @ 6PM WHERE: Ogilvie Campus, Hobart City High School COST: $5 (Eftpos available, cash preferred) WHAT’S ON: Guest speakers, light refreshments, raffle/lucky door prizes RSVP: Alec Young – akyoung5@bigpond.net.au Friends of Hobart City High School, incorporating former students, staff and friends of Ogilvie High and New Continue Reading

Forthcoming Events

Old Scholars Get-together

WHEN: Friday, February 28th @ 6PM

WHERE: Ogilvie Campus, Hobart City High School

COST: $5 (Eftpos available, cash preferred)

WHAT’S ON: Guest speakers, light refreshments, raffle/lucky door prizes

RSVP: Alec Young – akyoung5@bigpond.net.au

Health and Fitness sessions – Thursday at 6.15 am The Pavilion, Midwood St

School Reunions – Is yours next? If you are planning a school reunion, please let the Old Scholars’ committee know and we can help you contact and organise.

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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