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59 – Irvine, William bill – – Prefect and House capt of Hunkin Graduated as a Pharmacist in Melbourne 1968 and have been in business in Caloundra Queensland since 1978. Keen Brisbane Lions supporter. Have 4 adult children.
59 – Hill, Ken – – Stock and station agency. Farm machinery sales. Business ownership. Truck driving.
59 – Brown, Douglas – – son of “Big Jack Brown”
59 – Brennan, Chris – – Yes. The teaching staff with Alan Macleod as headmaster and his Monday morning assemblies. Woodworking & Metal classes with Sid Gooding, his pipe and his long stories.I still do woodworking as a hobby.The Numurkah High School table tennis teams(and winning the 2 B grade premierships)between 1960 and 1963.I joined the CBC bank after leaving school,called up for national service in 1967 to 1969 in catering corp, went cooking in hotels for two years,joined 3M Company as a salesman in 1971 and then sales manager in ’73.Commenced and managed my commercial office cleaning business from 1977 to early 1986.Commenced a new business in 1986 called Reflective Fabrications of Australia,which I own and operate today, manufacturing reflective vests and other reflective products for Police and Emergency Services throughout Australia.
59 – Gread, Thelma – Wood – I have very happy memories of flying down to the lawn tennis courts for tennis practice with Adrian Thomas at lunch-times, the lunch-time “talent quests” in the Assembly Hall and the School Assemblies with Fleur Cottam and Betty Prideaux playing the piano for everyone to sing many classic Australian songs.
59 – Dickens, Mary – – Manager. Now living in Melbourne and managing a community services agency working primarily in aged services.
59 – Hanna, Peter – Being Captain of the Cricket Team. Involvemnet with Don Moore and his Judo Club. Wood work with Sid Gooding Managing to scrape a pass in English in the final year. Worked on the Family orchard for a few years then spent 12 months in Voluntary service in New Britain in 1968. Joined Campbell Soups in 1972 Went to Hawkesbury Ag College to study Food Technology and Duxed the course in 1977. Spent 12 months in the USA in 1979 at Campbells Soups head office in the Product Reasearch / Development area. Spent 20 years with Campbells ended up running their Mushroom farm at Mernda just out of Melbourne. Now running my own ISP business. We are living in Doncaster East have 3 boys a Poditrist, Secondary School Teacher and a nearly completed Civil Engineer but mainly hockey player
59 – Collins, Marlene – Sinclair – Being a member of the men’s gymnastic team (and the only girl in the speech night display). School colours athletics. Putting on Shakespeare’s Hamlet that Mr Lacey wrote. Cooking classes. Trained as an RN and RM Currently Business Development Marketing Manager SDS Pathology, Sydney
59 – Donelan, Brenda – McConnell – I’m looking forward to the Reunion, but when it came to picking a fond memory, I actually, couldn’t think of any!
I really enjoyed going to school, and academically, did quite well, thank goodness. Unfortunately, I was totally useless at sport, couldn’t sing or dance to save myself, painfully shy and easily embarrassed, which consequently left me among the last when it came to being chosen for any ‘team’, whether it be sport or anything else. It also made me an easy target for a couple of teachers that wanted to boost their ego.
I did enjoy the company of the friends I made at school. In fact, I met Nancy Reilly during the first week, and we have remained good friends ever since. At lunch times, Helen, Sharon, Christine, Barbara, Dolores, Nancy and myself used to often sit in the sun on the gutter’s edge just outside the assembly hall… much to the disgust of Miss Glover, who used to say “Can’t you girls find somewhere else to sit, other than the gutter?”
How many of us were in the class of one particular teacher, who would periodically slam the ruler down on the desk, for no reason, just because he could. Then of course, we had the headmaster, patrolling the corridors, strap in hand, and ready to swoop in on any poor student that happened to look sideways during a class. I’m glad those days are gone. On the other hand, I am grateful to Frank Peck (Commercial teacher in 1963). His cousin, John, played football for Hawthorn. A few of us went to the Hawthorn/Geelong match at Glenferrie that year, to check out the cousin, of course. I have followed Hawthorn since that day and am currently a member.
Since leaving school, I worked in the office at Numurkah Hospital for over 4 years, Taig Bros for a few months before moving to Warragul and worked in admissions and switchboard departments at the west Gippsland Base Hospital, Warragul. I married a diary farmer from Bunyip, had 2 children – Estelle and Mark. Of course the next 20 years were spent farming, before we decided to build in Stanhope and send the kids to Uni to study Nursing, both of them. For 10 years I worked in a textile industry in Kyabram and would probably still be there today had they not moved their business to China.
I learnt to do lead lighting a few years ago and really enjoy this very expensive hobby. My family and sister are the only recipients of my work; I wish that I had learnt this craft many years earlier and established a career from it.
I’m not an overseas traveller but do enjoy travel in Australia, having been to the Centre 3 times now, around Tasmania 4 times and I should imagine that we will do all of this again, with a bit of luck, before old age completely takes over.
For the past 5 years or so now, I have been privileged to be able to care for my grandson, Liam, while his Mum and Dad are at work. This always involves sleepovers each week, so our home has become his second home.
I hope that you have a very successful and enjoyable NHS Reunion
59 – Burke, Maureen – Frizelle – Learning typing and cooking & home management. All three have helped me get trhough my life skills. I owned and managed a business of my own for 12 years. A very interesting experience.
59 – McAllister, Wendy – – School was my life line to the outside world. I moved to Numurkah in 1961 during Form 3. I was Vice Captain of Hunkin and Vice form Captain in 1963 and loved my time there. I was in the School Softball team and Basketball(Netball) Team each year. On leaving I worked in Shepparton for 3 years and then went to Melbourne with my first husband and worked there for 8 years (PMG). Moved with my 2nd husband to Seymour Golden Fleece Service Station in 73 and 74 and then back to good old Invergordon for 12 months before we went to Wakool to work on a rice farm. Whilst at Wakool and after having 3rd baby came up with a business idea that then caused us to move to Swan Hill. Grizzly Engineering was born. Then had 4th baby so that gave us 2 of each. Husband wasn’t happy so I bought him out of business 10 years ago and now have 3rd husband and Grizzly has been going for 25 years. We now also have a factory in Bundaberg Queensland and make a variety of farm machinery for farmers and at present are quite successfully exporting Grizzly ploughs to Russia. That beats going broke because of the drought!
59 – Martindale, Elizabeth – Hine – Retired Primary School Teacher. Trained as a Primary School teacher (art & craft)Burwood & Melbourne TC’s. Taught at Bairnsdale and Bendigo.Travelled overseas for 3 years, living in London & New York.Worked in Special Educ at Dandenong (1974-5)& Croxton (1976-80). Married Tony Hine in 1975,daughter(Edwina)1981,son (Andrew)1982.Lived in Sydney from 1984-2004,returned to Vic in Jan 2005. Now retired.
59 – Newton, Lorraine – – Travelling on the bus from Yarroweyah, stopping at the Katunga store for icecreams on the way home.Watching the boys who were thrown off the bus for being naughty,(Alan Ingram, Doug and Geoff Hendy,David McCracken and Co.,)trying to catch the bus on their bikes.Getting caught smoking on Social night behind the girls toilet block(by the appropriately named Headmaster Mr Head) with I think, Janina Szymanek, Judith Fussell and someone else.Spending some “extended”lunchtimes down the street and at Cheryl Graham’s and Judith Fussells houses. After leaving school, I worked in Cobram for some years at Murray Goulburn and then went to WA for a couple of years, then worked in QLD as a Governess on an 87,000 acre station for a few years.Currently working as an Operations Clerk at Latchford Barracks Army Base at Bonegilla.I have one daughter Alison, who is twenty seven this year.Yes I was a slow starter.
59 – McCracken, David – – Not many!!! Best was when I was kicked off the bus for a month for fighting – had to ride 15kms to school each day, then 15kms home! Married to Ros, we have 4 kids, 6 grandchildren (2 more due in Jan 07). Have dairy farmed at Katunga since leaving school!!! I retired recently. I am looking forward to a change of scenery, some travel and a bit of sailing.
59 – Newton, Diana – – Administration (Real Estate)
59 – Graham, Cheryl – Anderson – Competing in all home & away sports. Since leaving school I owned a hotel/motel then a Foodtown Supermarket for many years.
59 – Thomas, Charles – – Became a successful farmer. Not many fond memories at all of school!!
59 – Ashenden, Joy – Bourke – School bus tour Gippsland, Singing in Halleluiah Chorus at end of year concert. Playing in intershool sports teams.