School Reunions – is yours next?

The New Town High & Tech Old Scholars Association is promoting 25 and 50 year annual Reunions of boys leaving the school.

This year it’s the 1971 leavers who will meet up on 13th November at the school and then catch up to reminisce about the ‘good old days’.

1971 Old Boys discussing Letters to the Editor at NTHS.

Next year, 2022, will be 50 years since the 1972 ‘Form 4’ boys finished school. And the Grade 10 boys of 1997.

We are trying to contact all old boys – and the ‘not so old boys’, too.

We ask them to go to the Association website at; nthosa.com and add their e-mail address to the SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER section.

Please also complete in the CONTACT US section; your name, e-mail address and the year of leaving in the ‘Comment or Message’ box.

This will then allow us to contact old boys next year with details of the reunion.

If you are planning a reunion – please complete the Contact Us form and we will help to promote the event.

Thanks in advance for your help in spreading the word; please forward this message to any old boys you know.

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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