(Past Students and Staff Association PSASA)
Coburg High School Historical Group, Inc
Newsletter … December, 2014
WEBSITE
We are currently developing a new web-site where we will be able to keep you informed of our activities. A link will be posted on our current site http://home.vicnet.net.au/~coburghs when the new site is active in the near future
Please register your details by completing the online version or print out a hard copy. Post Registrations to Pauline Atkins, Hon. Secretary. 22/8 Pottage Circuit, Macleod. Vic. 3085 Please make cheques for membership payable to Coburg HS Historical Group and post to Pauline.
We wish to keep updated details and hope you will avail yourself of Membership. Contact us via our website or email
Photos from past reunions will be available on the new site and some new collections will be uploaded shortly.
PROMINENT PEOPLE We are very keen to expand our records and acknowledgement of prominent ex students and would gladly receive your nominations or biographies/autobiographies to share this important feature of our school.
An excellent and interesting resource is The Australian Dictionary of Biography. The first 12 of the 27 names which come up are relevant. It captures student and teacher details.
Also enter Coburg High School into TROVE, the National Library of Australia digital newspaper collection.
On the website you will see a list of ex students awarded Australian Honours (AO and OAM) If you have received an award or know of someone please Email us the details. You can check the website for details of their fields of honour. (www.itsanhonour.gov.au) **
Congratulations to Noel Blencowe and Coral Dixon our most recent recipients.
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Tom Anderson (1951) President. Brenda Langmaid (1958) Vice President. Pauline Atkins (1947) Secretary. Ian Huntington (1943). Bruce Henshall (1937). Don Trewella (1942) Barry Mitchell (1948) Elisabeth Grove (1958) Valerie Dripps (1959) Carolyn Rasmussen (1958) Enza Moffett (1975) Martin Clements (1960)
MEMBERSHIP FEES.
The listed fees are $10.00 per annum or Life Membership of $100.00. Please give this consideration to preserve the school name and its history and help finance new developments. Your fees and donations are used for the newsletter, website and organizing secure, protective storage for materials and cataloguing to aid access. If you wish to locate family details or donate materials or memorabilia use our Hotmail address or contact committee members to arrange a visit.
MORELAND CITY COUNCIL has provided us with funds from their Community Grants Programs again this year. This grant will be used for development of our web-site and communication with ex-students.
SCHOOL MAGAZINES Digitized copies of The Scribe and Echoes are now available for purchase at $10 per disc plus postage $2.
The Scribe 1916-1930, Echoes 1946-1963
Echoes and Other CHS Magazines 1964-1990.
NEW HIGH SCHOOL FOR COBURG.
Coburg is to have a Junior High School starting with year 7 from 2015. We have been invited to provide input with a place on the Community Consultative Committee set up by the Coburg Senior High School Board.
Several tours have occurred and current enrolment figures are in excess of 170 students. Their website is www.cjhs.vic.gov.au where you can see details of the philosophy of the school and also images of the buildings currently being refurbished.
COBURG HIGH CENTENARY
Planning for our 100th ANNIVERSARY on SUNDAY OCTOBER 23rd 2016 is well underway. Do you want to join in celebrations at the new Coburg school on the Coburg Senior High site? We welcome your ideas for this significant event in our history. Would you help with planning? We need a few representatives from each era of the school e.g. 1940s, 1950s, 1960s etc. Please contact us via our email address listed below.
coburghshg@hotmail.com
Click on the link below to see our plans to date
Coburg High School Historical Group, Inc
Newsletter … December, 2014
WEBSITE
We are currently developing a new web-site where we will be able to keep you informed of our activities. A link will be posted on our current site http://home.vicnet.net.au/~coburghs when the new site is active in the near future
Please register your details by completing the online version or print out a hard copy. Post Registrations to Pauline Atkins, Hon. Secretary. 22/8 Pottage Circuit, Macleod. Vic. 3085 Please make cheques for membership payable to Coburg HS Historical Group and post to Pauline.
We wish to keep updated details and hope you will avail yourself of Membership. Contact us via our website or email
Photos from past reunions will be available on the new site and some new collections will be uploaded shortly.
PROMINENT PEOPLE We are very keen to expand our records and acknowledgement of prominent ex students and would gladly receive your nominations or biographies/autobiographies to share this important feature of our school.
An excellent and interesting resource is The Australian Dictionary of Biography. The first 12 of the 27 names which come up are relevant. It captures student and teacher details.
Also enter Coburg High School into TROVE, the National Library of Australia digital newspaper collection.
On the website you will see a list of ex students awarded Australian Honours (AO and OAM) If you have received an award or know of someone please Email us the details. You can check the website for details of their fields of honour. (www.itsanhonour.gov.au) **
Congratulations to Noel Blencowe and Coral Dixon our most recent recipients.
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Tom Anderson (1951) President. Brenda Langmaid (1958) Vice President. Pauline Atkins (1947) Secretary. Ian Huntington (1943). Bruce Henshall (1937). Don Trewella (1942) Barry Mitchell (1948) Elisabeth Grove (1958) Valerie Dripps (1959) Carolyn Rasmussen (1958) Enza Moffett (1975) Martin Clements (1960)
MEMBERSHIP FEES.
The listed fees are $10.00 per annum or Life Membership of $100.00. Please give this consideration to preserve the school name and its history and help finance new developments. Your fees and donations are used for the newsletter, website and organizing secure, protective storage for materials and cataloguing to aid access. If you wish to locate family details or donate materials or memorabilia use our Hotmail address or contact committee members to arrange a visit.
MORELAND CITY COUNCIL has provided us with funds from their Community Grants Programs again this year. This grant will be used for development of our web-site and communication with ex-students.
SCHOOL MAGAZINES Digitized copies of The Scribe and Echoes are now available for purchase at $10 per disc plus postage $2.
The Scribe 1916-1930, Echoes 1946-1963
Echoes and Other CHS Magazines 1964-1990.
NEW HIGH SCHOOL FOR COBURG.
Coburg is to have a Junior High School starting with year 7 from 2015. We have been invited to provide input with a place on the Community Consultative Committee set up by the Coburg Senior High School Board.
Several tours have occurred and current enrolment figures are in excess of 170 students. Their website is www.cjhs.vic.gov.au where you can see details of the philosophy of the school and also images of the buildings currently being refurbished.
COBURG HIGH CENTENARY
Planning for our 100th ANNIVERSARY on SUNDAY OCTOBER 23rd 2016 is well underway. Do you want to join in celebrations at the new Coburg school on the Coburg Senior High site? We welcome your ideas for this significant event in our history. Would you help with planning? We need a few representatives from each era of the school e.g. 1940s, 1950s, 1960s etc. Please contact us via our email address listed below.
coburghshg@hotmail.com
Click on the link below to see our plans to date