Petersham Public School

I had an email from Linda Woodward yesterday.

Linda is in our class photos in 1957, 1958

Wow,  what a great night it was on Saturday 9-apr-2011 at Divino Restaurant, Audley St, Petersham!

Barbara Chessell described at as being back at school again,  but there was no teacher in the classroom!

One thing that struck me as unusual – we have not heard of anyone from our class cohort who has died!  In the same age cohort at Fort Street BHS we know of about 8% who have died from illness or motor accidents.   So maybe growing up in Petersham helped breed us tough and healthy and careful!

The following group photos are all the work of Ian Andrews,  or his partner Kate. Please bring any typos or spelling errors to John Young’s attention.

Fig.1 Back row L to R: Lynne Newbon, James Coskerie, Murray Rodgers, Keith Ash, Tony Stathakis, Alan Hibburt, John Young, Sam Scuderi.
Front row L to R: Barbara Chessell, Angelika Lamberger, Andy Georgiou, Victor Elton, Deidre Acheson, Pat Beed, Betty Fenn, Ian Andrews

Fig. 2  Back row L to R: Carl Magrath, James Coskerie, Murray Rodgers, Keith Ash, Tony Stathakis, Pat Beed, Alan Hibburt, John Young, Ian Andrews, Ian Pratt.
Middle row L to R: Janet Austin, Janette Hancock, Lynne Newbon, Angelika Lamberger, Andy Georgiou, Victor Elton, Deidre Acheson, Pat Beed (hidden) Betty Fenn, Sam Scuderi.
Front row L to R: Rhonda Dagg, Barbara Chessell, Miae Common (sitting, Angelika’s 2nd daughter).

Fig. 3  L to R Janet Austin, Rhonda Dagg, Janette Hancock, Carl Magrath, Barbara Chessell, Lynne Newbon, James Coskerie. Angelika Lamberger, Murray Rodgers, Andy Georgiou, Keith Ash, Victor Elton, Tony Stathakis, Deidre Acheson, Pat Beed, Betty Fenn, Alan Hibburt, John Young, Sam Scuderi, Ian Andrews.

Fig. 4 James Coskerie, Murray Rodgers, Andy Georgiou, Keith Ash, Victor Elton, Alan Hibburt, Carl Magrath (hidden).

Fig. 5  L to R: James Coskerie, Murray Rodgers, Andie Georgiou, Keith Ash, Tony Stathakis, Ian Andrews (sitting), Sam Scuderi, Alana Hibburt, Carl Magrath, John Young.

Fig. 6 L to R: Janet Austin, Rhonda Dagg, Janette Hancock, Lynne Newbon, Barbara Chessell, Angelika Lamberger, Pat Beed, Betty Fenn, Deidre Acheson.

Fig. 7 L to R:  Rhonda Dagg, Janet Austin, Janette Hancock, Lynne Newbon (rear), Barbara Chessell (front), Angelika Lamberger, Pat Beed, Betty Fenn, Deidre Acheson.

Fig. 8 L to R: Rhonda Dagg, Janet Austin, Janette Hancock, Lynne Newbon, Angelika Lamberger, Pat Beed, Betty Fenn, Barbara Chessell, Deidre Acheson.

STATUS

PAYING FOR TICKETS


I have to pay a substantial deposit to the Divina Restaurant next week.  So I need you $60 per head paid before close of business next Monday 4-apr-2011, please.


Still trying to work out who deposited $120 cash into my bank account about 8 weeks ago now.  Please drop me an email or an SMS to 0407 940 943 if it was you, please.

• post me a cheque to

John S Young 

PO Box 929

Spit Junction  NSW  2088

• or better still, by direct payment via the Internet if you can cope with that technology!

Bank:      St George Bank
BSB:       112 879
A/C:        437 586 518 

             ref:          PPS (your name)  or your phone number       

n.b. the reference is important so I can match payment to your names

STUFF


Jan Austin did an advert in the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph 6-8 weeks ago.  It has been successful in helping link us up with about 6 people who were not already on our horizon.  Not all all them were in our 1956 – 1963 class cohort.   


It is interesting how many people moved forward or backwards between 2 cohorts, because of the birth date, illness, or other issues, such as overcrowded classes.  I think I was only in Kindergarten for part of 1 year, before being banged up into Transition and 1B,  before rejoining my original cohort in the next year or so.


The other thing that is interesting is tracking the siblings of people in our class cohort.  For example,  many pupils in our cohort had brothers or sisters in classes 5-6 years ahead of us, or several years after us.  


Amazingly I can still remember many of these siblings, i guess because

• Petersham was a fairly small community in those days
• we all walked to or from school in the care of older siblings or an older pupil who lived in the same street
• Petersham Public School was very much the centre of the local community – we went to a school within walking distance, public or catholic
• we interacted with the same kids at weekend sport, Cubs, Scouts, Boys Brigade or church youth groups
• we went round to the houses of school mates to play after school or at weekends
• our parents didn’t ferry us around by car all the time!
• there were very few formal out of school activities, unlike today,  so I can remember spending a fair bit of time at the homes of school mates,  and getting there alone, on foot,  or cycling, from quite an early age

The following photos were supplied by Graeme Grubb.

 Fig. 1  Class 2A 1958, Petersham Public School NSW

 Fig. 3  Class 3B 1959, Petersham Public School NSW

Fig. 7  Best mates Harold Graycar and Graeme Grubb

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20-mar-2011

The following information and photos come from Suzanne King Santas and Louise Davis Martin.  


Help would be appreciated to identify pupils and teachers in these photos.

 Fig. 1 Upper Kindergarten 1952, Petersham Public School.

 Fig. 2 Class 1A 1952, Petersham Public School.

 Fig. 3  Class 4B+5B, Petersham Public School.

 Fig. 4  Class 6B 1959, Petersham Public School.

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20-mar-2011

I remember Miss Searle being the co-ordinator for Girls Sport at Peto Public during our era.  She was very enthusiastic about encouraging girls to play netball, softball and to compete at our School Athletics Carnival, then at the Zone Carnival, and occassionally at a NSW Schools Athletics Carnival.  Dominic Calnan is one name that I recall very well as making it through to the state competitions as a sprinter.

Do any of the girls have photos of netball, tennis or athletics events that they participated in?   


John Young
Petersham Public School
Class of 1956 – 1963

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I have not had time to identify all the people in these photos.   But please send me back a comment if you know people in these photos.  Thanks to Graeme Grubb for the following photos.

I have added these photos into our growing collection of photos.  Most of the boys in this team were pupils at Petersham Public School.   Lorn and Bill Madigan, with their sons Peter, Bernard and Ray, who lived at 39 Wardell Road, Petersham, were the driving force behind the Petersham junior baseball teams.  


Many of you will also remember that Mrs Lorna Madigan also ran our School Canteen, the Petersham Public School P&C Association, Marrickville Marching Girls Team, and organised all those costumes for the folk dancing around Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park in Education Week for quite a few years, every August.


Her youngest son, Ray Madigan, is somewhere in these photos.  If you think you can help us identify people in them then please use the Comments tool following this post to pass on any relevant related information to us.