Comments on: What have you been up to lately?

By: Adam Farrow-Palmer (2006)

Adam Farrow-Palmer (2006) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:30:03 +0000

I just landed a new job as a programs producer at Sky News in Sydney.

By: David Moses (1991)

David Moses (1991) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:33:24 +0000

My firm, Horizon Habitats, won the NSW Master Builders Association “Excellence in Housing Award” for Renovations, Alterations & Additions in the $3 Million+ category.

By: Philip Gerber (1972)

Philip Gerber (1972) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:48 +0000

Greg Perry (1975) came up to me at Church in the Northern Territory recently and asked if I’d been the CSM of the SHS Cadet Unit in the 70s. He is now heading up the Renal Unit at Royal Darwin Hospital. We’ve certainly have done some catching up.

By: Allan Ramsay (1967)

Allan Ramsay (1967) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:51:43 +0000

They say there is nothing better than new challenges later in life. Recently my wife put forward the proposition of climbing Mt Kinabulu in Borneo. Being both avid long distance bushwalkers we decided to implement a hard hill climbing regime before making the attempt on the 4100m. We found that getting acclimatised to that sort of height within 24hrs is indeed a massive challenge. However after rising at 2am on day 2 to take on the final ascent of 800m we managed to crawl our way over the last few hundred metres (with heads spinning)to the summit. And what an awe inspiring view over the South China Sea. The journey down was far easier. I would recommend this experience to all of the older ‘old boys’ but get a physical first.

By: Wayne Donaldson (1967)

Wayne Donaldson (1967) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:19:18 +0000

The late Bill Lucan-Roberts who with the late Allan R.Jessep and Jim O.Rigby taught me Latin at High once (~1966) said “Until you can read some Greek, you’re not really educated”. Stupidly I believed all my teachers told me. However, now I can say I’m “educated” for I’ve just finished a part-time BA(Hons)in Greek externally at UNE. My thesis on aspects of Galen’s surgery earned a First but having practised orthopaedic surgery for 35 years in Sydney was of little help. In part I needed to translate a 35 page long passage from a Renaissance edition which was quite like doing an unseen at school but there were no cribs to lean on. Let my experience show it’s never too late to do something you might have always wanted to do.

By: Cam Lyon (1964)

Cam Lyon (1964) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:12:12 +0000

During a recent holiday in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, I happened to be seated in a restaurant in the night market area of Chiang Mai, Thailand, downing a cooling ale with my wife. I got chatting to a fellow sitting adjacent to me and discovered that we had a little more in common than just being Australian. He was an old High boy (1971) and we had both worked at school holiday jobs as assistant posties at the Coogee Post Office, although at different times. He told me that he was now resident in Thailand and that his name was John Sulman (otherwise known as Ned) He had also attended the same primary school as my wife (Rose Bay), before his family moved to Clovelly. He had also been a rugby team mate of our current deputy, Con Barris. Quite coincidentally, a photo of the two of them appeared in the issue of the High Bulletin that arrived in my mailbox today, in the 12a rugby team of 1966. High boys are everywhere!

By: Phil West

Phil West — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:57:55 +0000

I was at High 1957-9. I am currently Director, Corporate Services with Barkly Shire, 2nd largest shire in the world. It is 42% larger than Victoria and HQ is in Tennant Creek, 500km north of Alice and 1 000km south of Darwin. we have a population of about 8 000, 75% of whom are Aboriginal.

Housing is an issue as it affects health, safety, education (how do you study if there are adults making noise at all times and grog doesn’t help), and life skills (poor education and no job prospects). anyhow, I got really interested in this and am doing a PhD at Charles Darwin Uni on th eproblem. it involves the Commonwealth and NT Governments as well as Aboriginals who must accept some form of responsibility for their own houses.

How to break the nexus - that’s the problem.

Are there any re-unions coming up?

Phil at Tennant Creek where it is about 35 degrees C.