Notice of Special General Meeting

New Town High & Tech Old Scholars Association Inc

NOTICE OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

5.00pm 26 November 2024

Hobart City High School New Town Campus.

It is proposed to amend the Constitution to provide for additional member of the Association other than the former students, teachers or staff of Hobart Junior Technical High School, New Town High School and Hobart City High School. This will enable other members principally but not limited to the broader school community to participate in Association activities within the Hobart City High School perimeter.

Amend to Clause 5 by adding the word Full in( 1)(a) and adding (1)(b) to read as follows

(1)(a) Full member any person who was a former student, teacher or staff of Hobart Junior Technical School, Hobart Technical High School, New Town High School and Hobart City High School: and

(1)(b) any person approved by the committee.

And Clause 18 (1) to read

Only full members are eligible to vote .

P W Fletcher OAM

Public Officer

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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