Recent Event: Beer and Chat

On Friday 2nd August 2019, over 100 Old Boys gathered for a beer and chat at the Hudspeth Hall, NTHS. The informal event was attended by former scholars of Hobart Junior Technical School, Hobart Technical High School and New Town High.

Principal Dave Kilpatrick welcomed all former scholars to the event. He outlined the history of the school starting at the Hobart Junior Techical School, and particularly welcoming the old HJTS boys present.

Alec Young, Rodney Pyke and Rob Rossiter.

Dave encouraged all present to attend the other forthcoming Centenary events – see sidebar for details.

Dave asked those present to consider mentoring Year 11 students next year. (Watch this newsletter for more information about mentoring.)

Neil Mayne, John Barker and ? See below.

Forthcoming Centenary events offer more opportunities to renew old friendships and if this event is anything to go by, there should be many more. “Keep in touch and get involved”, Mr Kilpatrick said.

Kenneth Gregson, Ron Plummer, Leigh Sealy and Tim Oxley (all 1971) discuss the quality of English expression in recent letters to the editor.

Since the event, NTHOSA has received many messages of thanks, and offers of assistance from OBs.

Two former HJTS students have written some of their recollections of their time at school. We thank them and will publish these contributions .

Other OBs have offerd to assist NTHOSA is various ways and this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Many thanks to the NTHS staff and their partners who assisted on the night, by organising registration, school tours and running the bar. A big thanks to them all!

Thanks also to our supporters who donated lucky door and raffle prizes for this event:

Jason Vesinger, Bob Jane T-Marts Moonah

Rob Luck of Allgoods

Graham Cowie of Battery World

Names: Please help by letting us know the names of these old boys by adding info at Contact Us. Thanks.

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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