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making co mme nts at the wrong t ime . Itis not surprisi ng for h im to come upwith, " Gad lad, " " You fool" , or "Nowonder the ra iIways run at a loss", duringa pe riod , particu larl y metallurgy ." Burrv", however, is a br illiant st ude ntand wa s most disappo int ed when heonl y rece ived 98 % for maths. 2A in t hemid-year exam. Next is Alan Tappin,who th inks he can play golf. He a nd RonCe rini (when he attends) provides aheadache for Mr. Forti on Tuesdayafternoons. " Suck" is al so gifted withthe ability to be absent from ne arly allS.R.C. meetings. Bob Eckhardt is nicknamedConchie, because he prefers togo home and " st udy" (we have our suspicions)rather than to attend someclasses.John Barnes, on electrical genius, isour hi-fi fan and can usually be foundin the record bar in Caulfield market.Roy Drew effectively d ivides his timeinto two halves; one is spent f ixing hisfamous " Drewmobile", the othe r, defendingt he Victorian Ra ilways. HeinzEde lmaier (the 58 th varie ty) carries hisarm in plaster and s lee ps throughphysics IB periods. H is nome is usuallyabbreviated to " H". Geoff Bowdenstudies applied mechan ics on t he tram,whil e Alan Hoskin leads a comparative lyquiet life , at school, that is.We are convi nced that the reason whyRon " Mont" Bishop cannot catch a ballis t ha t his thin lenses suffer fr om ch romaticaberration, or d id I hear someonemention astigmatism. Ion Catt andBarry Wonnacott are seldom seen apartand are familiarly known as "Catty"and " Cotty."Peter Shaw spends a lot of time in thelibrary, but sleeps in phys ics almost aswell as " H". Ron Nathan - Mr. Forticalls him " Nuthun"-is more at homewiring A.c. c ircuits than writing HeatEng ine s reports. John Bride would beearly every day if school began at 10o' clock. We see horns beginning tosprout fr om his forehead in preparationfo r h is debut with the Demons. BrianCul ley, who hopes to become a bu ilde r,is known as "Deadness". One must getto know him we ll to oppreciote th isquality.The " tandem t wins", Fra nk Whitbya nd Trevo r Boundy, are progressingwe ll with their women fr iends and"T rev" . ha s recent ly acquired a motorscooter. Noe l Hanabe rry is not quite t hesa me as the res t of th e form-he's nor­mal. However, he fit s q ui te pleasant lyinto the gen eral routine of 68.M r. Sambe ll may be interested toknow that we ha ve decided to fit an integralto our cor instead of a d ifferential, beca use you increase the power byone.Sport ing representatives in the fo rmare:Football-Catt, Cerini, Toppin.Athletics - Boundy, Bride, CulleyTappin.Baseball-Bowden, Wonnacott.Cr icket-Hughes.Swimm ing- Bowde n, Eckhardt.The wr iter of this manuscript doesonl y one thing we ll, that is, fail in exominations.-JuJianHughes.64• FORM SA NOTESOn arrival at Caulfield Tech. (wh icha tall physics teocher to ld us was a collegeof knowledge), we realized that theteache rs (who see med to enjoy workinga t top speed all the time) co uld not seethat we d id not comp lete ly agree wit htheir methods . Howev e r, a fte r the firstfew week s, having overcome the ini tia lshock, we began to settle in.As time went on we adjusted ourselvesto the annoying mannerism s ofthe staff. For example, one of ou r moths.teachers walks from the staff room reciting, in a voice which can be heardfrom room 23 , a problem. He a rrives atthe abovementioned room hopefully requestingon answer . Another maths.teacher amuses us with f ine vertical athletic mo vements of h is whole body(mostly up and downl ).We have lost count of the numbe r ofcommittees and groups formed fo r Englisha nd we ra the r suspec t that ourteacher has also. Chem. is rather morenormal than other subjects except that" Buck" Ryan is often rec it ing a page ortwo ahead of us. Most boys f ind all su b­jects inte rest ing, despite these setbacks.Spo rt has attracted many of our fo rm