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Peter Freitag Peter Freitag donated a plaque for the 1999 First XI Premier Team he coached featuring an enamel hockey stick symbol embedded in wood. The team members comprised Captain Geoffrey Boyce (OSC 1999) and Vice-Captain Jeremey Robinson (OSC 1999).
Don Bantock Don Bantock (OSC 1950) donated a rare photograph of the 1949 Football Team Tour to Adelaide and photographs from OSC 1950 reunions.
Valerie Gmeiner 1949 Football Team Tour to Adelaide
Gretchen Bantock Gretchen Bantock, the wife of Don Bantock (OSC 1950), donated photographs taken by her mother, Gwendoline Toop. Gwendoline, the mother of Greg Toop (OSC 1954), was a commercial artist and created costumes for Scotch’s Dramatic Society. The photographs feature David Buckfield (OSC 1954) and Peter Smith (OSC 1953) as male and female characters in Victorian attire from the production You Never Can Tell, which won the Festival of Perth’s drama category for that year.
Bruce Bott Bruce Bott (OSC 1964) donated several Clans and a book he authored titled Nemes & Coss’ Effective Legal Research, 7th edition, now housed in the Heritage Centre’s Reading Room.
Andrew Devitt Andrew Devitt (OSC 1991) donated photographs from his final year at Scotch featuring the theatre production, students on the Playing Fields, Year 12 School Ball, and the First VIII rowing the Head of the River at Canning Bridge.
Michael Fairclough Michael Fairclough (OSC 1981) donated two early postcards belonging to his great-grandfather John Norman Fairclough (OSC 1917). John began at Scotch in 1914, commencing the family tradition. Five generations of Fairclough sons have since been educated at Scotch. John features in the 1914 Football XVIII Team and mid-1910s Athletics Team postcards.
Valerie Gmeiner donated a maroon felted school cap belonging to her late brother Ned Gmeiner (OSC 1953). Ned’s mother, Jean, held onto it for many years until it came into Valerie’s possession. The cap holds great significance, the family having lost Ned as a young man. Scotch is honoured to receive this meaningful donation from Ned’s sister, who remembers him as a “loving and caring brother”. Ned is remembered in the 1954 Reporter as “one of the finest examples of young Australian manhood”.
Nick Hargraves Nick Hargraves discovered fascinating Collegiate memorabilia at a Tasmanian garage sale. He generously posted his findings to the Archive, including bound Reporter editions from 1922 to 1926 and boarder turned day boy Frederick Edwin Birmingham’s (OSC 1926) valete notes.
Boarders on the Top Oval with teacher Alisdair Courtney, c. 1960s; Campbell House boarders Trevor Mclean, Bruce Campbell, Phil Herbert and Grayden Clack, c. 1960s; Campbell House boarders including L. McCory, J. Parsons, A. Evans, Ross Wright, c. 1960s
Grayden Clack Grayden Clack (OSC 1969) donated photographs of Campbell House boarders in the 1960s and a typed memoir of his Boarding experience. He wrote: “Mr McIntyre was our Housemaster; we called him ‘Old Macky’. He drove over to WA in his 1950s Morris Minor, which he called ‘Miss Geelong’, after a career at Geelong Grammar. He was a great guy, around 70 at the time, who treated
us well and spent a lot of his own money on us, taking us on excursions and buying treats for parties. He was a UK squash champion in his day and introduced us to the game. The only squash I knew before then was lemon squash; we had never heard of the sport. He would hire taxis to take us to the squash courts on Stirling Highway. Some were lucky enough to travel in Miss Geelong.”
The photographs feature trips to Leighton Beach, Governor Sir Douglas Kendrew, birthday parties, Claremont Showgrounds Henry Dale (OSC 1929), c. 1926–28; Two students inside Boarding House, c. 1926–28; Scotch College andM-Block Fremantle Harbour.
marching at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games at Perry Lakes Stadium, 1962
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