Gryphon 1957 - Adm.monash.edu.au

• FORM 1D NOTESHere we are boys ! Just a fe w notes'(N o com me nts, pleose")" Ga ssy", our star late-comer, alwayssee ms to have some excuse .Harvey , well , there's not much hopefor him. With Hendry these two makea good poi r. To the br ighter s ide ofthings we ha ve " Professor of Science",(T. Herbert), always thinks o f somet hi ngbrainy , for example, .A-bombs.J . Brownlee has the rec ord of beingthe number one chatterbox of the c loss.R. Holbrook is one of the brain (less)boys and we think he is a teachers' pet.G. Hood is always g iving chee k tobigger boys.Hadden and Hoy (they are both hopeless) are always chasing girls.Grey - th is brainy boy come tap ofthe form in the mid-year exams.Jenkins - this curly-headed galah iswe ll known for leaving his locker key athome.• FORM 1E NOTESDuring the yea r our form has goneon many interesting excursions. One ofthese was to Carlton where we studiedthe slums.We left Caulfield at about 9 o'c loc kand a rrived at Carlton at a bout 10 . 1S.As soon a s we arrived we be gan ta kingnotes and those of us with ca mera s tookso me ph otographs. After about twohours we returned to school.All in 0[1 it wa s a ve ry en joya b le andeducational morning .Our form capta in is J im Leitch.• FORM 1F NOTESJust before the first term holidays, weof Form 1F went with Mr . Tonkin on anexcursion to see how th e people in thes lums at Carlton live .We caught the train at Caulfieldstation at 9 o'cl ock and arrived at Flinders St reet at about 9.45. We then t ra v­elled by tram from Hinders Street toCarlton, arriving at the Carlton Missionat about 10.30. We went ins ide theM ission buildings and the people theretold us about the co nd itions under whichthe pe ople of the slum areas live. Wethe n left the Mission and walked aboutthe streets to see what we had just beentold about.The whole morning was a very pleasantouting and we would like to goagain. (Form captain, K. McLeish.)• FORM 1G NOTES1G is the form where Iittle angelsdwell, such as "Shortie" Pel lot, " C rewCut" Porter, "Lanky" Proctor, "Pornmie" Pattison and " Hepcat" Pervis.Alfred Ortner filled the top place inthe half-year exams, while Barry Priceand Syd . Porter filled second and thirdplaces respectively.Most of our high marks would nothave been obtained without the helpfulteaching of Mr. Davis, our form teacherand our moths. teacher, Mr. Satchell.Earl ier this year ou r fo rm went on anexcurs ion to the docks of Melbourne. Atthe dry docks we saw some ships be ingrepa ired.This is 1G signing off till next year.77• FORM 1H NOTESWe are now broadcasting fromsta tion 1H. Our c lass is one which ca n­not resi st taking on jobs. In other wo rds,we are all ready to vo luntee r for anyposition of importance. M ost of ourc loss are fair scholars while a few excell.The c lown of the closs is Lindsay Sims(better known as " Dim Sim" ) who usually picks M r. Davi s to c lown with,There ore some boys in our form whoare keen on sport and who entered inthe House Sports with some success,They include Ray Simmons, Gra e meTownsend, Alan Turner and Gary W ishart,Please d on't mention it to anyb odybut we are proud that we got a highermid-year exam average than our brotherform, lG.Thot is the end of the broadcast fromstation 1H.