Social Function: OHS, NTHS & Tech Old Scholars

Former Ogilvie High and New Town High and Tech students and teachers are warmly invited to a social function on Friday 24 May, 6pm to 8pm at Ogilvie Students’ Centre.

Drinks and finger food will be provided and a lucky door prize and raffle conducted. The entry fee is $5.00

Proceeds from the function will benefit a Hobart City High School project, announced on the night.

Your attendance is most welcome.

For background some former Ogilvie High students and the New Town High and Tech Old Scholars Association have joined with the School Association to form Friends of Hobart City High School to rekindle old friendships and links and contribute to and support the growth of the new school and its students.

Lead Principal Britany Roestenburg will speak on the HCHS structure, its objectives and the current $23 million building improvements.

Could you please advise your intended attendance to:

Helen Rigley 0410294147 / email dandhridley@gmail.com

Alec Young 0402260298 / email akyoung5@bigpond.net.au

Or reply to this email by 5pm 17 May

Please feel free to advise any of your old school peers!

Regards John Barker, President NTHOSA

What: Social get-together for former students of Ogilvie, New Town and Tech

Where: Ogilvie Students’ Centre, Ogilvie Campus, 228 New Town Rd.

When: 6 – 8pm on Friday 24th May 2024

Cost: $5, food and drinks available

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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