Health and Fitness Program – starts 16th Jan 2025

We are pleased to announce the start of our Men’s Health and Fitness Program, designed by Rick Cazaly and Guy Franklin.

The first session will be held on Thursday 16th January 2025 – starting at 6.45AM.

Sessions will be at the Pavilion, New Town Campus of Hobart City High School.

Who is it for?

Former scholars of new Town High School and Tech who wish to lose a few kilos and get fitter.

How much?

There is a membership fee of $20 for the Old Scholars Association – this covers public liability, and a fee of $5 per session. EFTPOS facilities will be available.

So – book your spot, and mark your diary for the 16th January at 6.45AM and lets do this!

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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