I guess it is time that I entered this dialogue-although it is a bit of a worry when one of our mates puts out of date pictures on his web page (note Dave Hay’s home page was last updated 5 June 2006).
My school years at Fort Street were a great time and gave me a basis to launch into life after school. I was happy to be in the middle of the pack and enjoyed all the facets of school life. Fort Street gave us opportunities to try, and for some excel, at a wide range of activities-rugby, water polo, cadets, academic studies, drama etc etc. All the things we tried to find for our kids at the schools they went to, we had back in the late 60’s
By the way I am married with only one wife, 35 years, two children-Matthew trained as a solicitor and now teaches Latin at Cranbrook and Anna studying in Berlin and Cambridge - Julie and I still live at Epping in Sydney.
Nick Bogduk’s recollection of teachers was amazing but I would like to add a couple of things.
- I was lousy at French but Ron Horan must have been an amazing teacher as I still have a good grounding in the language and have not found it hard to pick up French in later years,
- Alan Dalgleish was an incredible man taking us for water polo and putting up with our antics
- Moalem was an exceptional teacher- I can still tackle most mathematical problems and do my kids homework (although I did do several years of maths at University which helped).
- We had a young teacher John Weir for science-again a lot of the basic science stuck-got to give credit where credit is due
Unfortunately I have missed the reunions as my work involves a lot of travel (mainly interstate) but I have locked in the 60th birthday party and look forward to catching up and hearing all the war stories.
Don
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