Memories and photos of our years at Balwyn High School

These are the pages where we want to post your photos and anecdotes about Balwyn High. If you have something you want to share, send it to one of the 'organising mob' on the Contacts page. If you want to write a piece, send it to us and we shall put it up on your own page - with photos if you wish! We have attempted to name all the students in the following class photos but obviously there are many gaps. Please forgive us if we left you out and contact us to help put names to faces. 

'The tree' so beloved by all of us, and mourned when it was unceremoniously cut down. Nowadays it would be preserved as a memorial perhaps! Photo from the 2004 publication "A History of Balwyn High School 1954 to 2004" (We learned at the dinner on 27 October, that Sylvia Garnham (Geddes) still has a leaf from the 'tree'!

Swimming sports, Olympic Pool (photo courtesy Gerd Kratzer)

1962 Prefects room 'hairdressing'. Left to right, Val Brooks, Julie Asker, Kath Semmel. (Photo courtesy Gisela Olbrich).

Robert Bennett and Bruce Hinkley, Olympic Pool 1960 (photo courtesy Gerd Kratzer)

1962 Prefects Room. What a messy lot we were! It was really just the end of the corridor screened off with that curtain. (Photo courtesy Gisela Olbrich)

Assembly address by Principal Arch Rogers. Note all those wonderful boys caps! Deputy Principal Mr. Willis lurking in the background to check on the 3%! (photo courtesy Lindsay Cook)

Prefects Room 1962

Assembly - Monday morning

Canteen 1962 (boys and girls at separate windows of course)

Canteen 1962 (photo from 1962 school magazine, courtesy Ian Priestly. Upper left Dick Banks, Centre front: Jimmy Haw(e)?, behind him Steven Weill and Rod Anderson (with glasses), bottom right, Noel Chong. (extra identification thanks to Don Costello)

Girls' Cookery Class

Cookery class 1962. Not known what year the students are from but it might be year 7 or 8, the years when cookery was compulsory - for girls only! Photo from the 1962 school magazine, copy courtesy Ian Priestly.

Prefect Duty

Peter Keller, Head Prefect 1962, undertaking checking of students as they arrive at school - no doubt for correct uniform or lateness. Photo from 1962 school magazine courtesy of Ian Priestly.

Cartoon by an artist known only as L.G. in the 1962 school magazine. Illustrates the tension amongst students between "jazzers" and "rockers". Photo courtesy Ian Priestly.

Brian Stagoll with Rob Bennett and Stuart Ashburner and a Cathade Ray Oscillscope in Physics