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o f brown ale. Says the form notes stink - - youprobably agree with him. Follows current trendof " R oll yo ur own".Mollo _ . There m ust be a form ul a .ROCHMAN·ROCKY. Proud driver of a Minorwhich badly needs a polish . He lIlay he the oldestmember of the form, but won't ad mi t it . Is fondof parking in off-beat pl aces. Dislikes bucket scats,but th en most of us do. Keeps h is private lifeto himself. Also likes bathroom quarrets.Aim in life - T o own a full size, roam rubbermodel of Bridgett Ba rdot.SEA RLE'JOHN. Proud owner of a huge 1939Chev, whi ch he trea ts lik e a baby. Som e of hiss pare time is spe n t playing w ith Public-Addresss yst em s. Has the di stinction o f actually ha ving ajob waiting for him next yea r. Otherwise he isn'ta bad type.Motto - Haven't spen t a penny on it since Ibought it.SHARP·ROnIN. D .I.I.T. F.H .B. O wns a FordAnglia Tourer, but ca n' t und erstand why . Sta rte dthe yea r off by smas h ing two gear·boxes, threec row n wh eels and losing his heart to Toni. Heis ver y keen on this girl fro m Canberra - can'twai t for th e holidays. vVe wonder why ? H as wornout five p ostmen.Motto - Who'll take me to Canberra?SMITH·LINDSAY. Is a one-woman, on e-carfan atic. Cla ims th at his V.W. will outcorner an850. Spends all hi s time a rgu ing with Turn er.Although he is a non-sm ok er , he says that everyoneshou ld smo ke Australian tobacco. He is prac·tically en gaged and ha s been forced to in vit e allthe form to the weddin g.Motto - Lee and V.W .'s for ever.TURNER-PETER. Bel ieves in the p r inciple ofa sm a ll man in a small car. Claims that a Morris85 0 will out-corne r a V.W . Spe nds all hi s timearguing with Smith. Can always be found aroundLake Wen douree when he makes frequer.t [ripsto Ballarat. He h as developed a hatred of artificiallegs. Li ves with Am y.M otto - Com e away with me, Lucille.T hus ends the long list of brilliant youn g- m eno f the future. These for m not es took six engineers.each typ in g with on e lin ger, and working in threehoursh ifts, a m er e ten days to typ e o ut .Over th e yea rs we have spen t a t th e sch ool ,we Mechanical En gin eers have b een locked inmortal combat with th e electrical mob. Our manydeci sive victories hav e been remembered by a llthose concerned . We would ask all fai r-mindeds tuden ts to di sregard the foul li es these low typ estell ab out us - - the top faculty of the school.In conclusion , we would like to thank all theteachers who ha ve some how managed to withsta nd us ove r the years."T he ir burden was a l a r~e one, but t he y ca rr iedit well , and complained never."8CWe o f t he 8C are a happy collection o f oddcha racte rs, united as a diligent, con scientious a ndfun-Iov ing famil y. This article is dedicated tothose who - willIngly or unwillingly _.. contributedto this happ'y relationship. It is a shame reallythat I feel lik e describing only o ne normal sch oolweek and not a wholc year, in orde r to tell thereader of the experiences that brought us together.Ma ybe it's just as well for som e blokes.School starts ju st lik e a Monday sh ould start:at 8.55, with the most stre nuous subject of themall- surveyin g.The som ewhat sacred atmosphere about thewho le subject doesn 't allow an y nonsen se. Sincenobody d ares to sleep we stay awake by tryingto keep up with the information handed down tous. Eve n Murray follows suit, but every now andthen he reminds himself aloud not to forget toask Sill later what he did over the week -end whileSill decides on what he can tell Murray. At10.02 Wiseman, vVooll ard and Murray ask theirinevita ble questi ons. The spell is finally brokenat 10.05 when we are asked to hand in problemswhile everyone dash es out to catch a fag. Meanwhilethe "hyd rollics" roll is being called. OnlyAI is a bse n t.The change th at now has come over th e classis fa n tastic - the a tmosph ere is as different asMonroe at school and Monroe at dances. Thereis a cons tant hummin g and buzzin g all over theroom. Murray asks Sill a bout the week- end a ndSill tells him; W oollard ge ts a " Keep quiet " forask ing "I d on 't understand it, sir"; Hogg is justre acting a pimp h e saw; Murray now asks aboutScrew's week- end and Screw tells him th at he isgo ing to a ba ll that night, Wiseman gets a redface over trying to figu re out, r ead, write andunderst and wh at's written on the board whiletr yin g to liste n to ever yone else a t th e sa m e time;Murra y looks su rp rised because he has been toldto shut up; Della has gon e to sleep; Pethel' en ­quires ac ross the room a bou t form notes; Powellgets an noye d because pa ragraphs don't fit; Murrayno w asks Screw wh ether h e is still going with th esam e girl, Spaulding still can 't remember wh ereth e reve rse gear fe ll out of th e gear box; Sm ithwants to kn ow who is go in& to be treasurer, SOCooper tries to make up a little speech but theninform s Smith sim p ly that he may be treasurer.Smith blushes. Murra y now turns his attention toSpaulding. T aylor is reading up on cars while hi spaper bag containing broken diff. parts goes roundthe class. Hogg a nd Ca rr a re now playing cowbo ysand indians-Hogg has just been scalped, Ericis solving a crossword; T ho mson is just startingto eat th e fourth orange. Brian Mac. asks Ericwhether he m et the d oll again on th e way toschoo l, to which Eric replies th at he bl ew he r akiss from behind a tree, Kinder is just ha vin g asecond d rummer 's fit. All in all it is very tortunatet ha t the period is jusr. long en ou gh toexc hange all the news, so every one is content duroin g the n ext two HE periods - but by no mean shappy, except W oollard, that is. Som ehow he ha sdi scove red the secret of r eading steam tables. Inadd ition to some p re-class rea d ing he find s greatdelight in making everyo ne feel so in ferior.Lunchtime from 1·2 has become a gathering ofthe athlet es. In stead of playing volle y ball foro nce a hand fu l of us we n t out to kick a football.H ere Po well proved himself as undisputed championin spoiling ma rks. Ca rr was allowed som ep ractice in h igh -altitude-no-di stance-shots. Hoggenlighten ed eve ryo ne by h is abil ity to keep th eball fro m his immaculate exterior. Powell againshowed a ll the con sideration a newcom er to I heart expects by not kick ing the ball too far-healways kicked a little dirt with it. Karl demonstratedthe principle of kicking th e ball away fromthe players . The psychological reason for thisbehaviour is of course the next period - Maths,The more ela ted we feel during lunchtime themore inferior we feel during Maths, except T a ylor,who thinks that nobody can teach him anything.He some ho w hasn 't learnt !O bear inferioritybravely, and often expresses wisdom such as "Don't