Remember Anne 'Ma' Jennings?

... English teacher, STHS, 1965 - 1970?

This was 'Ma' Jennings on her wedding day in 1946. Feeling younger, yet?

A crack team from the STHS Special Archival Patrol Group, led by the dashing Lieutenant-Colonel 'Mick' Stewart, Class of '71, has been bravely and frequently delving, disinterring, and accumulating a dossier in re this extraordinary woman, of whose life story we at Tech saw only a glimpse; a short episode within a startling saga.

Instalments from this thrilling tale will be coming soon to a blog near you.

Though we knew it not, we were in the presence of greatness, of a kind.

Mugshots ... who is it?

 

Yes, that's right. It's Finlay Vincent Cook, joining the Second AIF in 1942.

You can read his full military record by clicking here and then clicking on 'View Digital Copy'.,

Remembering Mrs Bechard

Mrs Bechard. Teacher of French, STHS.

This just in from Mick from STHS Class of 1971.  Remember Mrs Béchard? Teacher of French? Arrived STHS 1967, I think.

We called her ‘Mrs Mauritius’, because she could speak barely a word of English.
If you misbehaved, she would point a finger and shout ‘You!’. That was the extent of her vocabulary, it seems.