Blue and Gold Alumni Association Inc.

Newsletter OCTOBER 2020 Postal Address: PO Box 4041, Norwood South SA 5067. Website: www.blueandgoldalumni.com.au Facebook page: TBA Patron: Frank Seeley President and Treasure: Tom Frossinakis 459475164 85682188 tomarias777@aol.com Secretary: Trevor Molde 0417 838 740 82350634 tmolde@internode.on.net Membership: Contact the Secretary on the above email

Calendar (subject to change) Old Scholars’ Luncheon - Wednesday October14 – Walker’s Arms hotel 12 for 12.30pm

Farm Day - Nov 8 Second Sunday in November at Tom Frossinakis’ Birdwood home.

1970 Adelaide Technical High School 50 year Reunion - Friday November 27. A school tour and lunch are planned for Matric students of 1970. Expressions of interest to athsclassof1970@gmail.com ”

Carousel Day - Semaphore – Neil Merkel

Yarralumla wine bus trip and sit-down-meal - Tom Frossinakis.

Pt Adelaide and Adelaide Historical Talk and excursions -Trevor Molde-when Port Freemasons Hall is available after COVID 19 restrictions are lifted.

President’s Notes. We hope that you enjoy our third newsletter, very ably put together by our Secretary Trevor Molde.

Our next three functions are planned to offer members and their partners chances to enjoy each

others’ company and recall many wonderful memories of our school days at ATHS, GHS and GIHS.

Details were in newsletters and emails sent to members in the last few days.

1) Luncheon Wednesday October 14, 12 for a 12:30 pm start We are inviting 4 guests from GIHS- Wendy Johnson (Principal), Rob Love (Coordinator Innovative and

Entrepreneurial Thinking Initiative) and the two Head Prefects Lexi Martin and Alex Nancarrow.all of whom will speak to us briefly about what is happening at GIHS. A choice of four main meals and two desserts must be made from the menu sent in our previous

email and letter. Tea and coffee will be provided and and a door prize and raffle will be held.

2) Farm Family Day Sunday November 8 from 11 am to 4 pm at Maria and Tom Frossinakis’ farm

All members partners, children and grandchildren are invited to enjoy a good old-fashioned day of

farm fun with a wide range of activities for all to enjoy.

A delicious barbeque salads, and desserts; Country cooking;Tours of the farm, orchard,vineyard,

native plantations;the naming of 5 newborn calves.

There are sports for all ages – cricket, baseball, netball, quoits, croquet and darts.

Cost is $10 per adult and children over 12 years of age. An existing member who brings a new

member will not have to pay the $10

3) Meet and Greet – Friday November 27 from 5pm to 8pm at the Combined Ex-Servicemen’s

Mess, Torrens Parade Ground Victoria Drive, Adelaide. An evening devoted to what the name

implies – members and partners meet and greet and chat about the ‘good old days’ and

hopefully the even better ones to follow for us all. ‘Finger food’, soft drinks and nibbles will be

available at no cost. Bar facilities will be made available for the purchase of drinks, Tea and

coffee is available at $2. There will be a door prize and raffle.

We hope to gave the pleasure of your company at these functions.

What do they say about 6 degrees of separation between people? Because of the August newsletter the following email was received –“ I need to have Bryce’s email address. Why? It would appear that my wife’s grandfather and Bryce’s grandfather both served on the ‘Protector’ on the China venture. Peter Kopli Bryce can’t recognize his relative as a young man.

Vale 1934 Mrs Laurel Iola Bennier (née Lane) Born 31/5/21 and died 19/8/20 aged 99; 1934 Mr Lindsay Burton Bowes AM Born 27/8/21 and died 13/8/20 aged 98 Mr Bowes was the Permanent Head of the SA Department of Labour and Industry.....one of a number of Public Service Heads educated af ATHS 1949 Dr Desmond Charles Hoffman OAM He began at ATHS in 1949 played League Football for SANFL club Norwood 1943 Rev Don Warren From the last Newsletter - passed away 23/4/20 aged 89. Ex committee of ATHSOS and President for a number of years 2003-2005

As he said, “Life is full of surprises. I turned up at the AGM in 2003, innocently asked “What does a President do?” and returned home as the new President”. “Well I’ve found out what the President does. It would be summed up as giving leadership, but there’s also ‘donkey work ‘to do, It has meant catching up with our more senior old scholars. It has meant making events planned happen. On the whole it has been interesting and rewarding. The Association is in good heart, new members are being added and we have plans for the future (he said in 2003). We need to continue adding more new members to the

Committee, particularly those from the latter years of the Tech (meaning today, from GIHS)” Words that is as true today, as they were in days gone past.

Committee meeting with the Prefects Promised photos of the Head Prefects, Comm-unity Day etc, not forthcoming, we will have to be content with cartoon images in lieu of the real thing. Your Secretary was told that there would be no photos taken of children, pictures published without consent etc. Students of ATHS went through without this political correctness and so we have photos to remind us of our yesterdays. It will be a poor thing and for a long time, if there are no images except on volatile pages of ‘Facebook’.

The Blue and Gold Committee met with the present Head Prefects: Lexi Martin and Alex Nancarrow – and also the Head prefects of 2021. Good planning and a great idea to have the up-and-coming Head Prefects learn the job under the present ones. These four young people certainly impressed us and they discussed the Comm - Unity Week, HUMANS at GIHS and GIHS Old Scholars having a more active role with the BGA.

The prefects explained the Leadership Teams at GIHS. There are 12 Prefects and the year-after boy and girl Head Prefects are selected beforehand. There are 4 different Councils - SRC , International, Well-being and something Councils. Yr 7s will start in 2022 with a new building and new uniform. There is a chance for students to become involved in some form of

leadership at every level. 800 students are involved in clubs.

We saw just one of apparently several videos showing cultural diversity involved in the ‘HUMANS’ Project –- a staff member from Turkey explained her role at the school. Mention was made of the recent Comm-unity Day held at the school involving international foods, costumes etc. GIHS has had ‘Harmony Days’, ‘Indigenous Australians Days’ and a ‘Walk a Mile Event’ to raise cash for the ‘Hutt Street Centre’ for people experiencing hardships An insightful comment was made by one Prefect “School is so much more than the students”. Committee Meeting with Rob Love – Coordinator of Entrepreneurial Innovation at the School

Two sheets were handed out explaining what the school was doing regarding entrepreneurial studies starting in year 8 which will continue through each of the year levels. 16 teachers have had training in helping their students in entrepreneurial work. Each student had been given $20 –with the expectation that they will make this and $1 more to hand back $21.

Several skills are involved in setting up what the students wish to sell directly and online- design, critical thinking, Web page and Facebook advertising and much more. At the end of this activity, what has been learnt and achieved will be placed in their 21st C Portfolios This will develop into a SACE subject worth 10 points and will lead the students into employment a full year ahead of others. The scheme increases employability and demonstrates the creativity and adaptability of students in business. Schemes talked about which the students will work on – recycling, community Projects, making School a better and more attractive place. WHAT THE OLD SCHOLARS CAN DO IN THIS PROJECT –

OS with skills in starting a business, design, working and solving problems, manufacturing etc are necessary for seeing the students’ projects and giving meaningful feedback. The GIHS coordinator would like a register of interested people and a skills list on Old Scholars . The committee was enthusiastic about the whole idea of increased employability of students in their own businesses and their being given the opportunity of a head-start in the business world.

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Illustrations of the new $30 million Technology Centre at GIHS Building is now starting on accommodation for the new intake of Grade 7s. When they move in, GIHS is going to be a school with 2,200 students! – and a waiting list, a sign of a top flight school. At the same time a new Technology Centre is going to be built. This is what it will look like.

Brookman Hall – North Terrace in the now ‘ University of SA’ building

The finance to build this edifice came in large part from Sir George Brookman. The whole structure should have been named ’The Brookman Building’ but there was another of that name owned by him in Grenfell Street. Hence his name was attached only to the Hall, to honour the first great benefactor towards the realization of a people’s university for South Australia. Sir George Brookman KBE (15 April 1850 – 20 June 1927) - who made a

fortune from a gold discovery in Western Australia, and is remembered as a generous

benefactor of the South Australian School of Mines and Industries and the University

of Adelaide.

The son of a printer, George came to SA from Scotland as a two year old in 1852. His

first job was with D & J Fowler, but by his 30s he was a partner in a big grocery store in

King William Street. By the 1890s he was a sharebroker and financial agent with a seat

on the Stock Exchange (1890-96). In the 1890s he had the best leases on the ‘Golden

Mile’ in Coolgardie supervised on site by his brother William. He was knighted in 1920.

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The School of Mines was operating from the

basement of the Exhibition Building and the

enrolments were curtailed because of the lack

of accommodation. The State’s Colonial

economy relied heavily on the exploration of its

mineral wealth, but the Government had to be

persuaded every year for a budget for materials

for teaching more than a thousand students in

more than 30 subjects.

Sir John Langdon Bonython (KCMG, editor, newspaper proprietor,

philanthropist, Australian politician and journalist, was a Member of the First

Australian Parliament, and was editor of the Adelaide daily morning

broadsheet, The Advertiser, for 35 years) approached George Brookman to

help and this resulted in a 10,000 pound cheque for a building (5000 pounds

added half way through its construction) on Bonython’s preferred site which

was a corrugated iron shed on the East end of the Exhibition Building. The first classes were held in

1889. The School of Mines being part of the University of Adelaide had people like Sir William Bragg

(Nobel Laureate) and Robert Chapman, the Professor of Engineering, give intellectual rigour to the

courses offered.

Brookman Hall figured predominantly in the life of Adelaide Tech students. There we sat for entrance exams in Maths and English; did our external examinations; had our end of term concerts; had dancing classes in Year 11 and for many of us who did not have girlfriends, were told by the Principal that we were allowed to escort the girls to the busses or trains. I remember well that on the evenings of the Senior School socials, the boys at one end and the girls at the other. When told that we could ask a girl up for a dance you could almost hear the shout “CHARGE!”. Of course the boys had already selected preferences from watching the girls do their ‘conga’ dance downstairs in the Hall during wet weather when the school was inside under ‘lockdown’, while we boys watched from the gallery upstairs. We also had Physical Education there under Hurtle Hahn and Gordon Haskard. One early student

reported that whilst his year was having pushups, there was the Principal, Sydney Moyle doing

pushups with one arm!

Brookman Hall was also the place where we had singing lessons under Sable Grivell (he must have

hated those classes but I guess he was paid well) and Elsie Woolley his pianist (also his wife who kept

her maiden name because she was a professional singer in her own right). If it hadn’t been for dear

old Sable, our years would never have got to know any of the Gilbert and Sullivan music (Tan tan

tarrah Sing Boom!)Sable was always good for a recitation on Speech Nights which ended our

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academic year. The staff were there in their academic gowns, capes, robes and if they earnt them,

hats.

The night went off as the saying goes ‘like clockwork’ and the number of prizes for academic

excellence and people who had won scholarships added to the prestige of the school. It was very

apparent from the audience’s participation that the parents though very highly of Adelaide Technical

High School as a school of achievement. This has carried over into the ethos of GIHS.

Remember the Stained Glass windows in In Brookman Hall?

“The first object to catch the eye on entering Brookman Hall are the magnificent ‘Empire Windows’, the central one bearing portraits of King Edward VII., Queen Alexandra, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, surmounted in each instance by appropriate crests. At the top are placed emblematical birds and animals, representing South Africa, Australasia, India, Canada. The idea of this scheme, was well calculated to typify loyalty to the throne and the feeling of Imperial brotherhood,

Construction of Brookman Building coincided with the federation of the Australian colonies and the Boer War. Fervor surrounding these events is evident in the stained glass windows designed and installed in 1903. The Empire Window in the northern wall of the hall, radiates imperial patriotism.

The western side window carries the shields of the six Australian states and the eastern window the

shields of England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, Fiji and British New Guinea. The idea for this

scheme ‘well calculated to typify loyalty to the throne and the feeling of Imperial brotherhood’

(Register, 24 February 1903).

The Website The website at www.athsos.com.au is going strong. I urge you all to look at it periodically because it will provide you with the latest information on the Old Scholars Association – Newsletters, current

news, and forms for renewing membership and changing details, including addresses will be included. This is your website. If you have any suggestions for improvement, we will be glad to hear and consider them for periodic upgrades. If you or your company would like to be an official sponsor of the website, please contact the Secretary on 8235 0634. Sponsorship would include having your company logo etc. on the site.

Memorabilia We still need memorabilia for our archives. Photos, Magazines, Uniforms & Information. Write to Trevor Molde 4 Green view Drive Grange SA 5022 82350634 0417838740

tmolde@internode.on.net OR : PO Box 4041, Norwood South SA 5067.

Class Photos The older magazines never had class photos in them. Photographs, particularly with names, are particularly valuable and really essential for our archives. We can scan and return, or you can scan and send them to the Secretary – all are really important, before they are lost forever.

Leaving Honours Class 1953 Donated by Max Jacquier

Back row (L to R): B. Lodge, T. Lewis, R. Trebilcock, D. Warner, M. Jacquier, D. Hoffmann, O. Billinghurst

Front row: R. Gower, R. Russell, Mr Canney (Class Teacher), K. Collins, R. Bauman

Photos from the Past- selected because they show teachers when they were young 1923 – Rifle Club I knew that I was right! The rifle club did use a Martini single shot (Zulu), but it looks as though they used 0.22s as well. The early magazines always show a rifle team along with what we are used to – football, tennis and basketball. I guess that they had to justify the cost of having their own rifle range alongside Frome Road.

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Back row (L to R): Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster), C. McFarling, G. Dicker, H. Foster,

Mr G. Haskard (Sportsmaster),

Front row: W. Howe, C. Pelham, G. Frisby Smith (Captain), K. Weidenhofer, R. May

Rifle Club –This photo shows a young Percy Thiel who taught a lot of us Physics. It also mentions

that we had a ‘cadet corps’ and Mr Thiel was in charge of it at this time. No concern then about the

cost of ammunition or upkeep of the rifle range shed. It would have been supplied and supported gratis

by the army. ….

1923 – Boy Prefects. Some in short pants and others showing individuality (as always) There were 3 years of

schooling and then Leaving and then Leaving Honours for going on to Uni. Remember when it was possible

to jump year 9?

1925 Girl Prefects OK girls – the next two photos -pretty ‘heavy stuff -‘cold weather stockings or ‘modesty coverings’. My grandmother had a dining room table with a table cloth which reached down almost to the floor on all sides. Years passed until I asked her why? The answer astounded me! Because women of her era wore long skirts and this carried over into not allowing even the legs of a table to be exposed! God’s honour!

Back row (L to R): O. Freudenberg, H. Smith, B. Lewis, W. Mundy, Z. Wilson, G. Verner

Front row: M. Paterson, H. Adams, M. Eardley (Head Prefect), Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster), S.

Wilson, D. Trotter

1926- Basketball team .. Ballet shoes?

Back row (L to R): Miss I. McBride (Sports Mistress), M. Dorsch, M. Poole, I. Delaine, A. Mutton,

Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster)

Front row: J. Harwood, B. Lewis (Captain), I. Rowett

1957 Girls A Basketball team. What a difference as soon as things were accepted

Left to Right: Patricia Whimpress, Dawn Nicholson, Roslyn Hargrave, Patricia Lewis, Katie Saral (Captain) Joan Davies, Ruth Kelly

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1932 Football team an early photo of ‘Hurtle’ Hahn with hair

Back row (L to R): R.B. Knapp, K.E. Bishop, C.N. Wilson, R.F. Letherby, D.S. Corston Middle row: Mr H.W. Hahn (Football Master), D.R. Gapp, H. Loveder, N.V. Richards, A.E. Cornish, T.B. Kent, J.A. Vogelesang, L,K. Rudd, Mr S. Moyle (Headmaster) Front row: M.J. Slade, R.L. Hooper, S.B. Gitsham (Vice Captain), R.W. West (Captain), D.L. Hackett, E.G. Hannan, T.N. Heritage

It is now going to be the policy to show photos from the past more in line with the current ages of OS 1957 A Football Team Warren Cookson the football captain has been asking for this photo

Back row: D.M. Porter, D.W. Hutton, R.E. Marks, Mr H.W. Hahn (Master in Charge), P.B. Lang,

P.L. Sandery, H.J. McCulloch

Middle row: L.R. Russell, J.J. Abbott, G.H. Eime, M.B. Cannell (Vice Captain),W.J. Cookson

(Captain), J.A. Gniel, P.R. Collins, R.J. Payze

Front row: R.D. Shute, J.P. Welford, P.R. Letheby, W.G. Henderson, L.T. Nesbit,P.R. Middleton,

R.J. Doyle

There was second Headmaster of Adelaide Tech at North Terrace- Cedric Cannel

A group photo of a staff occasion – Oscar Knauhaser, Mme Ellershaw and others

NEEDED - MORE ANECDOTES, NEWS ABOUT OLD SCHOLARS, EVENTS AND PHOTOS- ESPECIALLY

OF GLENUNGA AND GLENUNGA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Your Committee: Years Phone President /Treasurer:: Tom Frossinakis 58-62 8568-2188 0402 475 184 Vice Presidents: Neil Merkel 63-68 8353-0550 0403 125 146 Secretary /Membership/ Newsletter/ Archivist Trevor Molde 54-58 8235-0634 0417 838 740 Committee: Social:Sue Thomson (Jennings) 66-70 0402 356 010 Web Master: Mark Thornthwaite 61-65 0438 606 219 Mark Brindal 61-65 8298-1102 0407 713 578 Advisor: David Stoba 51-54 8266-0007