'OASIS' HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE

One of the functions of a school is to teach you how to work, to give you the opportunity of discovering the kind of work you are best fitted for, and to enable you to experience the satisfaction to be found in work. Work is necessary to satisfy the needs of the human race. It also helps to make us the kind of people we are. Equipping yourself for your life's work, therefore, is tremendously important for your own welfare as well as for the nation's.

School is the chief training ground for life's work. Here the work is often difficult, demanding courage and perseverance to master it. On the other hand, the sense of achievement brings great satisfaction, and interest grows with mastery of the task. Most important of all, perhaps, is that true happiness is to be found in work.

In an essay entitles "El Dorado", R. L. Stevenson describes how man journeys through life towards a goal he never fully attains, yet finds satisfaction in the journeying. He is like a traveller who, searching for some golden city of the west, some El Dorado, trudges up the slope of some mountain range, believing that just beyond the crest he will find his goal; but when at last he breasts the summit, it is only to find another range beyond, beckoning him on to new conquests. Happiness is to be found in the sense of achieving. As Stevenson expressed it:

I ask you not to be misled by people who regard work as something to be avoided if possible. Ours is a vast country, only partly developed. She needs men and women with the imagination to glimpse the tasks to be done, and the courage and zest to accomplish them. And make no mistake about it! There is much satisfaction to be had in playing your part with good heart.

The idea of Federation grew gradually. In 1846, the first suggestion of a political union of the six separate Colonies, was made by Sir Charles Fitzroy. In 1862 Duffy attempted to arouse interest in such a scheme but he, too, failed. In 1867 Sir Henry Parkes began his long and earnest campaign for Federation, but for years he was unsuccessful in swaying public opinion. However, in 1889, his speech at Tenterfield, NSW, aroused great interest and led to further steps being taken. After a series of political events, the Convention of 1891, the Corowa Conference of 1893, the Bathurst Convention of 1896, and the National Convention of 1897, opposition was overcome and the Constitution Bill was passed in the Imperial Parliament in England in 1900.

Today, Australia, no longer a land of separate colonies, celebrates fifty years of Federation, a great Commonwealth in the greatest Empire in the world.

"From all division let our land be free,
For God has made her one; complete she lies
Within the unbroken circle of the skies,
And around her, indivisible, the sea
Breaks on her single shore."

GHS STAFF

Front Row (from left): Mr D. Biddle, Mr H. Kirk, Miss J. Breen, Mr R. Booth, Mr E. Smith, Mr H. Egger, Mr K. Andrews, Miss E. Howie, Mr C. Ward, Miss B. Gamble, Mr J. Graham, Mr W. Wilde
Second Row: Mr P. Steinmetz, Mr E. Morgan, Misses B. Christian, B. Neville, M. Welfare, C. O'Donnell, Mrs E. Powys, Miss M. MacGregor, Mrs J. Lockwood, Mr W. Attenborough, Mr K. Robertson
Back Row: Messrs W. Freame, K. Wilson, L. Fowler, N. Glyde, O. Morris, S. Vennell, A. Judd, B. Love, N. Pether

STAFF DIRECTORY

Headmaster: Mr K. J. Andrews
Deputy Headmaster: Mr H. Egger
Girls' Supervisor: Miss E. Howie

Dept of Art: Miss C. O'Donnell

Dept of Classics: Miss E. Howie, Miss B. Christian

Dept of Commercial Subjects: Mr R. Booth (Master), Mr D. Biddle, Mr H. Egger, Mr N. Pether

Dept of English and History: Mr E. Smith (Master), Mr D. Biddle, Miss B. Christian, Mr V. Judd, Mrs J. Lockood, Miss C. O'Donnell, Mr C. Robertson, Mr W. Wilde

Dept of Home Science: Miss B. Gamble, Miss M. McGregor, Miss M. Neville

Dept of Manual Training: Mr W. Attenborough, Mr J. Graham, Mr E. Morgan

Dept of Mathematics: Mr C. Ward (Master), Miss B. Christian, Miss E. Howie, Mrs J. Lockwood, Mr C. Steinmetz, Mr K. Wilson

Dept of Modern Languages: Miss B. Christian, Mr W. Freame

Dept of Music: Miss J. Breen

Dept of Physical Training: Mr B. Love (Sportsmaster), Miss M. Welfare (Sportsmistress)

Dept of Science: Mr L. Fowler, Mr N. Glyde, Mrs E. Powys, Mr S. Vennell

Careers Advisers: Mr D. Biddle, Mrs Lockwood

Librarian: Mr A. Judd

SCHOOL CAPTAINS

Barry Edwards and Jennifer Mannigel

SCHOOL PREFECTS

Front Row (from left): E. Tully, C. Polkinghorne (VC), Mr Ward, J. Mannigel (C), Mr Andrews, B. Edwards (C), Miss Howie, W. Bested (VC), S. Richie
Second Row: J. Polkinghorne, F. Esler, P. Cooper, J. McKirdy, M. Lockwood, N. Farrell, M. Barley
Back Row: F. Johnson, R. Mills, H. Gardiner, B. Brown, R. Graham, B. Duchatel, F. Moore

DEBATERS
Front Row (from left): R. Graham, E. Tully, B. Edwards, M. Lockwood, S. Ritchie, J. Mannigel, R. Mills Second Row: M. Drummond, M. Barley, A. Myott, D. Holden, B. Procter, M. Dalby, C. Cole Back Row: D. Lockwood, D. Tranter, M. Cole, R. Coram

CITY AND COUNTRY
By H. Mendham (Yr 2A)

People running, people walking,
Hear the noises 'bove the talking,
Up they go, around and round,
See their faces, how they frown,
Racing, racing, here and there,
Up and down and everywhere.

In the country all is still,
Where the willows stand until
Through the trees we hear the sound
Of a tractor turning round.
Soon the stillness comes again,
Peace reigns twixt God and men.