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Eddy Svalbe has just one ambit ion .This may be to obtai n a d iploma, butwe ' re not q uite su re.J ohn Clement has a Standa rd thatdoes 100 m .p .g . - o il we mean, ofco u rse . This boy come s from the GoulburnVol ley and is inter ested in the developmentof three different peaches.Little Johnny Pethybridge loves 101 ­lies and on ce bought on all-day suckerfor five bob.Jimmy Szpakowski has a Vauxhalland one day may buy a car. Jim comesfr om Sale and boards with Bill Matchettwho comes from Merrigum. Bill has aStanding Standard and will one daysu rprise everyone by c rawling fr om h isbed before five to nine.Doug Johnson is another product ofShepoorton . This boy does not like ournew wind ows and thinks the roo msshou ld have mo re ve nti la t ion.Dove Brewer copied his gea rbox desiqn from hi s father's Morris Oxfo rd.T h is car ha s three speeds - forward,re verse and both .Dove Evans wo nts to buy a voc ht, butis wa iti ng un til th e pr ice of potatoe srises so that he ca n buy W esternportBov to so il it in .Eric Waechter spends all his ti me ont he football f ield a nd will one dayrealise that you kick the boll at thewh ire posts - not at th e opponents.Richard Ellis sa ys that evervthinq isridiculous, but it is rumored that Richis a bit of a dark horse where th efemmes are co ncerned.Greg Kemm is a boy with a huge appetite.Nat content with a lun ch thatwould be sufficient for a family of sixfor a week, Greg a lso devours his opponentson the other side of the net.Ke ith Porter rides a motorbike drivenbattery. Ke ith must be a very popularboy judging by the number of engagementrings he hands out .However, there is one thin;) to be saidfo r 7A , a lthough lias a class we a re unsati sf a cto ry, " we are a ll MEC HANICALSand not one je rke r is permitted entry toour form or is g iven the honor of applyingcoolant from little ja m t ins withpoo r-quality paint brushes.G.R.D .• FORM 78 NOTESAfter a s low start, we of 7B are f inallyfinding out just what it means to bebudding e lectricals at Coutee. We feelthat after three ye ars we are at lostbeginn ing to f it into the inst it ution andit wa s onl y recently that we noticed tha tou r inst ructors are at lost becomingaware of ou r many and varied talents.These include talkina about cars formost of the moths periods , evasion ofcertain report lessons and the boycottingof R. K.' s le sson s with TV , g irlf riends and similar sub jec ts of conversetion.The f irst member of th is branch ofhard workers is Bruce McRae. We be ­lieve that Bruce has a sha re or two inthe Victorian Rai lways, he is a lway s soanxious to su ppo rt them. He is also ve ryinterested in certain control methods,and this makes us th ink that Bruce maywind up in the automation fie ld. Ofco u rse this statement carries the provisothat he doe s not go sh orr-circu iting tooMa ny ph a ses of h is a ctivities. It was thisshort-circuiting characterist ic of Bruce'sthat in it iated h im into the ve ry few whohave been able to br ing out the servicefuse on a particular phase , thus inte r­rupting the supply to R. K.'s fluorescenttubes and making it ra the r hard for thelower mechanical bods to work withthree phase lathe motors on only twophases!Next to fall victi m to the pen is Bill" the famous Eccles" Echa rdt. Bill is acomparatively quiet chap, but he a lwayswa lks round with hi s eyes ope n. By thiswe mean that to get to the library Billwill a lways go up the sta irs at the frontof the building rather than the stairsat the libra ry en d of the building .An associate of Bill's is Bob Mcinnes.Bob, like many others of our clo ss , hasbeen looking very Goon ish lately. Occasionally Bob has a fling of modnsss andhas been known to blow fuses, do arewelding with the lob . botte rie s and onone occa sion, to perform f) ba lancinga ct with the choirs in room 39 .One of the most interest ing cha ractersof our form is one Norman Melford.This lad special ises in such th ings aslectu res in Report Writing, co unt ry6-1