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Some great stories about some of our ex students & staff.
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BEARD, Harold

Revered Headmaster / About Harold Beard

1948 First year as Headmaster
Address to the Students

” … I want to remind you that you have to live with yourself all your life. This is the time when you indulge in hero worship and form ideals. Whether you realise it or not, your heroes and your ideals are all the time forming your own character. Are they the ones that will make you a decent man in your own eyes, the sort of fellow that you won’t be ashamed of when you are fifty?Remember that your future – and indeed the future of the nation and the world itself – depends on what you really are. The world has never known such change and upset before as we have seen in this century. But some things don’t change. Love of truth, consideration of others, appreciation of the beautiful things around us – these will always have value. Include them in the make-up of that most important person of all to you – yourself.Then, collectively, you can go on to the task that fate has thrust into your hands – the building of a better world.“

ALEXANDER, Keith
– Hockey Rep

ALLAN, Robert & TEMPLE, Richard
– 1st Place LC 1958

ANDERSON, Ian
– at CHS

ANDREWS, Allen
– Sports Field Honour

ANTCLIFFE, Terry
– Basketball Representative 1971

ATKIN, Mervyn
– Closure of Barnett’s

BANFIELD, Ken
– Killed WW2 Aircraft England

BARRETT, Reginald
– Judge NSW Supreme Court – Wikipedia

BATES, Frederic
– Renowned Artist, Year of ’35

BEACH, John
– Newcastle East PS

BEARD, Harold
– Revered Headmaster
– About Harold Beard

BEECHAM , Alan Douglas
– Breakup Day 1940

BEECHAM, Alfred
-Renowned Sailor

BERGER, Kevin
– Founder DALE school

BLUNDEN, Tom
– NBHS Teacher

BRANDRICK, William
– Centenary of Public Education Cert.

BURKE, Family
– Bruce Burke & Cyril Burke

BURNS, Neville
– Animal pathologist

BURROWS, J (“Spot”)
– Retiring 1966

CAIN, David
– Cadets Passing Out Parade 1957 PHOTO plus attendance sheet

CAMERON, Angus
– with Admirers – Tech High Dance 1956

CARRUTHERS, Dr Raymond G.
– Letter to President NBHS OBA 2023

CAVANAGH, Alan
– Surveying in Egypt

CAVE, Paul
– Sydney Bridge Climb

CHARLTON, Allan
– Detroit Lawyer

CHEEK, Russell
– Sale of the Century

CHRISMAS, C.H.

CLARKE, Bill
– Captain, Sportsman 1942
– Play ‘The Admirable Bashville’ circa 1940

CLIFFORD, Ken OA
– Order of Australia
– NBN3 Item 01/09/2015
– Tributes on his death

COOPER, William T.
– Superb Bird Artist / death 2015

COOPER, Philip
– 2013 Funeral and Life Story

CORNISH, Jack
– Pilot to the Queen 1954

COULIN, Ted
– History of Carrington

CROSSMAN, John Dallas
– WWII RAF Fighter Pilot

DAVIES, D (“Snoz”)
– Teaching

DAVIS, Leslie
– Reference 1948

DEED, Leonard
– RAAF

DONEGAN, Brian
– Maths teacher at Jubilee 2006

DUFFEL, Tony – Life Saving

DUNCANSON, Eric – Outstanding Scientist – 1930

DUNN, Trevor – Speech night Silver Trowel

(Photo) EDWARDS, Tony – GILMOUR, Gary – Edwards-Gilmour Shield

ERWIN, John – Swimming 1941

EVANS, William Walter – WWII fighter pilot

FLOWERS, Ted Year of ’43 UoN Librarian

FREEMAN, Alfred – Year of ’30 Long Jump record

GILMOUR, Gary (‘Gus’) – Printable Tribute
Outstanding Test Cricketer & Tribute Video & Cricket Australia

GIRLE, Kelvin – WWII Airman

GITTINS, Ross – Economics Editor SMH

GOFFET, Charles
“Charlie” – professeur de français extraordinaire

Charlie Goffet – Profile

“Some of my fondest schoolboy memories were of Charlie – my French Teacher & his wife “Nita Goffet” – my Y3 teacher at Mayfield East PS” – Webmaster

EPILOGUE
(From Readers’ Opinions, Newcastle Herald, 16 November 1991]
Adieu, Charlie Goffet
Charles Goffet (or ‘Charlie’, as his many students knew him) was a regular correspondent
to these pages, so this seems a fitting place to put down a few words in his memory.
Charlie was in his element last Saturday night. It was the 30-year reunion for the fifth year
students of 1961 at Newcastle Boys’ High, and he was our guest speaker.
We were having the kind of night you would expect from a group who had gathered
together from from all over Australia after a long separation, reminiscing about the school
we loved, the teachers we knew, the friends we had. And the teacher we remembered
best was with us, still full of life.
Not only was Charles Goffet an excellent French master and athletics coach, he was
more importantly a friend to all of us, teaching us from his wide experience of a life lived
to the full.
In the greyness of our school world, he was one of the brightest and most colourful stars.
Towards the end of the dinner, Charlie entertained us with stories (mostly unrepeatable)
about our old school and teachers, delivered in his own inimitable style. It was as if the
years had been rolled back, and we were once again in the classroom.
And then we watched in disbelief as suddenly, without warning, he fell to the floor as his
heart stopped.
Charlie, you died in the full flower of life, in the company of good friends, and one could
not have wished for a better way to go.
I think you would have been proud of the Marseillaise we sang later in memory of you.
The words had been lovingly and carefully taught to us all those many years before.
Au revoir old friend.
Ian Graham