News – NTH&Tech OSA

2025 Hall of Excellence Induction

Posted on 10/10/202510/10/2025 by Roger Cutcliffe

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

Notice of AGM – Tuesday 23rd September 2025 5pm

Posted on 19/09/202520/09/2025 by Roger Cutcliffe

The 2025 AGM of the New Town and Tech Old Scolars Association (NTHOSA) Ltd. will be held at the New Town campus of Hobart City High School. Midwood Street New Town at 5pm. Access to the meeting room is via the main entrance of the school. Your committee is working Continue Reading

December 2020 News

Posted on 17/12/202018/12/2020 by Tim Oxley

At our AGM in September, Geoff Dodge was elected President. Geoff says, “I was at Hobart Technical High School from 1957 until 1961 and was in the last Matriculation class at the school. In fact, the school was renamed New Town High School the year after I left. I spent Continue Reading

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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