Is there a Bonanza in your home?

We have a successful fundraising initiative that is seeking no longer required mechanical, electrical or battery operated equipment to be disposed of by the Association.

Recent donations of a chipper/shredder and rotary hoe resulted in very good sales and income for the association and subsequent benefit for the school.

Do you have any good quality items that you no longer use? Have you thought of donating them to our association for the benefit of students, the school, or other community service purpose.

We can do minor repairs and clean ups.

Items not working for unknown reasons or in disrepair are beyond our capacity and skills.

Have something that is no longer needed? Please contact john@johnbarker.biz or 0412 906 328

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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