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Our task is much more difficult. We have to teach you how to live in a world which will be very different from the world in which we ourselves are living, a world which will be changing very rapidly even as you live in it. We, for instance, know very little of television, automation, atomic power, supersonic speed and space travel because we have not lived with them. Yet we must train you to live in a world in which such wonders will be commonplace, and new and greater wonders will be just around the corner. First and foremost then, we must teach you to be resourceful and adaptable, self-reliant and courageous. You must have high ideals and much wisdom, for you will certainly have to face circumstances which will be happening for the first time in human history.
Then again there is so much more to learn these days. Those who aspire to be scholars and leaders have a harder task than ever before. A few generations ago an intelligent, industrious fellow could get to know almost all there was to know about quite a number of things. Now the boundaries of knowledge are so far away that very few can attain them even from a lifetime's work in a very small field of knowledge. If you aspire to become an expert, you must work very hard at all stages of your High School course. Time lost cannot be caught up in this race to the boundaries of knowledge.
Most of you, however, will not have the determination or the ability to go far towards these boundaries. For you, I think, the main problem will be how to spend your leisure most profitably. This problem did not trouble an older generation, for they worked all their waking time and had no leisure. As automation, however, replaces hand labour, one must expect working hours to decrease and the hours of leisure to increase. How will you spend that leisure? In idleness? In the pursuit of brutal and sensational pastimes as the ancient Romans did? Or in the enjoyment of good books, good music, good pictures, happy friendships, pleasant conversations, healthy and exhilarating sports? I hope it will be the last way.
I hope, too, that the years you spend at High School will make you healthy and strong, tolerant and adaptable, capable of enjoying all refined pleasures, happy and contented, alert and industrious, your minds well stored with knowledge, your spirits keen to help others and keen to make your little community a better place.
Front Row (from left): Miss B. Gamble, Mr R. Allen, Miss D. Currie, Messrs A. Gray, T. Viney, G. Hughson, J. Cusbert, R. Blue, Miss E. Howie, Messrs C. Longworth, B. Toms
Second Row: Mr K. Beaupeurt, Mrs D. Beaupeurt, Mrs E. Gray, Mrs E. Hughson, Mrs D. Hare, Mrs J. Lockwood, Mrs M. Morris, Mrs D. Vining, Miss H. Sligar, Mrs E. Pether, Mr N. Pether, Mr W. Freame, Mr A. Judd
Back Row: Messrs L. Fowler, N. Glyde, E. Morgan, E. Rushton, J. Thomson, S. Vennell, K. Giddy, R. Wiltshire, W. Attenborough
Dept of Classics: Miss E. Howie, Mrs B. Pether
Dept of Commercial Subjects: Mr R. Blue (Master), Mr T. Pether, Mr R. Wiltshire
Dept of English and History: Mr A. Gray (Master), Mr K. Beaupeurt, Mrs E. Hughson, Mr V. Judd, Mrs B. Pether, Mr J. Thomson
Dept of Home Science: Miss D. Currie, Miss B. Gamble, Miss H. Sligar, Mrs D. Vining
Dept of Manual Training: Mr R. Allan (Master), Mr W. Attenborough, Mr E. Morgan, Mr B. Toms
Dept of Mathematics: Mr C. Longworth (Master), Mr L. Fowler, Mr N. Glyde, Miss E. Howie, Mrs J. Lockwood,, Mr S. Vennell, Mr T. Viney
Dept of Modern Languages: Mr W. Freame
Dept of Music and Art: Mrs D. Hare, Mrs M. Morris
Dept of Physical Training: Mr K. Giddy (Sportsmaster), Mrs D. Beaupeurt (Sportsmistress)
Dept of Science: Mr M. Cusbert (Master), Mr N. Glyde, Mrs E. Powys, Mr S. Vennell
Careers Advisers: Mr V. Judd, Mrs J. Lockwood
Counsellor: Mr F. Higgins
Librarian: Mrs E. Hughson
Specialist Teachers: Mrs E. Gray, Mr E. Rushton
Cadet Unit: Captain Pether
John Probert and Enid O'Meara
Front Row (from left): S. Cochrane (VC), E. O'Meara (C), Mr Hughson, Mr Viney, J. Probert (C), C. Mannigel (VC)
Second Row: G. Young, M. Hathaway, M. Oakey, G. Withnell, N. Goodisson, C. Donaldson, D. de Saxe, M. Caichiolo
Back Row: R. Calabria, R. Morrow, D. Wilcox, P. Guild, R. Butler, R. Viney, P. Little, C. Reading
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THE COCKATOO
By Joyce Cadorin (Yr 1A)
Upon the tall blue gum
Sits the white cockatoo,
Shrieking and flapping
It's wings all the day.
It screeches and scratches,
And jumps from side to side,
Until the plains are dark
And western fires alight,
Then it flutters off
To it's nest.
