YOU are invited to the 2025 Hall of Excellence Induction of Ex-Ogilvie & New Town High/Hobart Technical High Students Where: Hobart City High School, Ogilvie Campus, New Town Road. When: Friday, 21 November 2025 5.30pm for 6.00pm $5 entry – Refreshments will be available RSVP: Wayne Fletcher waynejock@hotmail.com 0419034410 This Continue Reading

Forthcoming Events

Health and Fitness sessions – Now with Tuesday evenings!

Tuesday at 6:15 pm, Thursday at 6.15 am and Sunday 8:15 am at The Pavilion, Midwood St. Just turn up.

AGM 2026 – Tuesday 8th September – 5pm at the New Town Campus of Hobart City High School. Midwood St New Town

HALL OF EXCELLENCE INDUCTION 2026 AWARDS –

Sunday 20th September 2026

All former students of the schools, and any supporters, family or interested people are invited to attend this celebration of achievement of former students of the schools.

School Reunions – Is yours next? If you are planning a school reunion, please let the Old Scholars’ committee know and we can help you contact and organise.

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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