Official Launch: Hall of Excellence

A key feature of the Centenary Celebrations will be the opening of the Hall of Excellence.

Site of the Hobart Junior Technical School, Bathurst St, Hobart

Nominations have been received in the categories of:

Academia and Professional;
Arts / Culture
Community Service and leadership; and
Sport

An independent commitee has considered the 40+ nominations and 22 will be inducted into the Hall of Excellence. More will be added over time, so please read the criteria and make a nomination here.

To launch the Hall of Excellence, please join us for an informal event as follows:

What: Launch of Hall of Excellence
When: Friday 1st November 2019 from 5.30
Where: Hudspeth Hall, NTHS Midwood St, New Town
Donation: $5 on entry, drinks at bar prices
RSVP: Complete this form and press send OR call Karin Hodel on 03) 6278 0400 or Karen Commane on 0407 445 238

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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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