WEDDING BELLS

Several CHS students met their future life partners at school.
Here are a few that we know of including some who were in the same class.
We'd love to find more / Tell us if you or any others you know of should be here.
Photos and information will only be added with the couple's approval.

PROFESSOR HARRY RIGBY AND NORMA ROBERTSON

PictureNorma Robertson
Norma Robertson and Harry Rigby were students at CHS in the 1937 stream.
Both feature in our    Notable Former Students section.
These snapshots have been extracted from the only class photo we have of this group, taken in 1940.

Julian Tooey [1944 stream]  suggests we rename CHS as the 'Love School'

These were the marriages he recalls from the 1944 and'45 streams.
[ details provided in Juns 2019]

Julian Toohey married Meryl Eddy
 
Ian Jones married Marje Withall

Ken Beckett married  Jocelyn Piggott

Graham Gilchrist married Beverley Worsnop

And he thinks Colin Moseley married Mavis Cron.
But he's not sure, so if anyone knows, please tell us before we get into trouble for false reporting.
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Harry Rigby

Don Jones and Deidre Tuttey [1947 stream]

Bruce Henshall and June

Barry Mitchell and Bev Banks

Doug Featherston and Nancy Balaam

Some from the 1951 stream didn't look further than CHS to find a partner.

Barry Williams (1951)  Annette Brown   (1953)

Daryl Teese  (1949)   Joy Stuckey   (1951)  Daryl  died 2017

Jim Hazen  (1951)    Lorna Spargo  (1953)

Geoffrey Ng     Helen Thiessen      (both 1951)  
[Geoffrey died several years ago.  He was one of the Asian students.]

Ern Johnson   (1951)   Elaine Barclay  (1953)      Ern died in 2016

Professor Ian Bailey and Valerie Robertson [1953 stream]

Dr Peter Dyson and Diane Clark [1954 stream]

Richard Jenkins and Linda Williams [1954 stream]

Bruce Cochrane and Helen Wishart [1954 stream]

Karl Jacklin and Barbara Young [1956 stream]

Sandy [Alex] Bennet and Anette Sturtevant [1956 stream]

Dr Brian Hassett and Gwen Dyson [1958 and 59 streams]

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Sadly we lost Gwen in 2017

Rodney Binger and Gillian Clements [1966 stream]

PictureForm 6 in 1971

The couple met when Rod transferred to CHS from Glenroy Tech. in 1971.
They married in 1977  and have two daughters.
Now happily retired and  living on Victoria's south/west coast after successful careers in Management [Rod]
and Teaching {Gill]
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Taking it easy in 2014

Warwick Parkinson and Dr. Dianne Keenan [1960 stream]

A little ditty 'bout Rick and Dianne                                                           [With apologies to John Mellancamp]
Two young kids growing up in Coburg land
Rick he's gonna be an Engineer
Dianne reckons Medicine would be a good career
Oh yeah, life goes on
Long after the days of high school have gone.
PictureForm 3 1962
Warwick and Dianne went through Coburg High School together from form one through to form six.
Warwick was sports champion and head prefect in 1965 and gained entry to Melbourne University Engineering School in 1966.
Dianne was also an outstanding student who managed to do what few young women from public high schools did in those days by gaining entry to Melbourne University School of Medicine.
Warwick and Dianne married in 1971  and have three daughters.

At last report in 2017 there were nine grandchildren.
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Warwick and Dianne at CHS Centenary 2016

Jim Blamey[1960 stream] and Lyn Hiho [1962]

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   Although Lyn's brother, Robert, was in the same year level as Jim at C.H.S, Jim and Lyn didn't meet at school, but met a few years later at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. They were married on the 21st November 1970 and have two children, Steven [1971] and Jenny [1974].
   Sadly Lyn passed away on 3rd July 2010 after a long battle with breast cancer.
The Hiho family had a long connection with Coburg High School with Derrick [1958] Robert [1960]Lyn [1961] June [1964] and Kaye [1967].