Ogilvie, Tech and NTHS Old Scholars: Social Event

Old Scholars, staff, parents and friends of the former Ogilvie High school, New Town High School, Hobart Technical School all welcome!

Please join us for drinks and nibbles on Friday 25th August and meet the new Lead Principal of the Hobart City High School Britany Roestenburg. Britany will present her vision for the now co-ed school with its twin campuses of OGILVIE and NEW TOWN and how that arrangement will work.

This a great opportunity to catch up with former teachers, school mates and maybe even some old flames from the past!!!

We will enjoy catering prepared by current students and hear their thoughts on the new co-ed arrangements!

Please share this with your old friends from school.

What: Ogilvie, Tech and New Town High Get Together. (Partners Welcome!)

When: Friday 25th August 6PM

Where: Assembly Hall, NTHS

Donation: $5 on entry includes: Lucky Door Prize & catering. (drinks available at the bar)
RSVP: for catering – please RSVP by email to Alec Young akyoung5@bigpond.net.au

A ‘BONUS lucky door prize number’ will be assigned to each attendee who RSVPs.

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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