Cricket Premiers 1979
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C.G.C.A. Annual General Meeting Annual Re-Union Dinner News-Sheet (see back page) of the Geelong College Community No_ 41 MAY, 1979 CRICKET PREMIERS 1979 1946 - 1947 - 1963 (shared) and in 1979 • • • the first team to win every match played, a team quite different from any previously fielded by the College. This was a team which gained results as a team. There were some spectacular Congratulations to each member of the team and sincere thanks to their coach, Mr. performances by individu a ls but , Mark Seeckts, who took such a keen interest in their training throughout the whole season. throughout the whole season, during each of the seven matches played, it was a team effort and it was the whole team which won six of those matches on the first innings and gained outright victory in the other match. Eight of the thirteen who played during the season played in all seven matches. In batting, Tony Hodgson, a fifth form player. scored a total of 336 in his eight sessions at the crease. This included 60 not out against Carey, 100 not out against Geelong Grammar and 82 against St. Kevin's. These excellent figures resulted in the top batting average of 56. Other excellent batting performances were the chanceless century (101 to be exact) by David Gordon against Caulfield, 58 not out by opening bowler Mark Russel l, another fifth former, and 49 by Barry Mann. The overall average of the eight who played in all matches was 28.66 and two of these were essentially bowlers. Evidence of team effort in batting was The Geelong College the overall average of the whole team, A.P.S. Premiership Team - 1979 including bowlers, a remarkable 25.11 , with standing: B. S. Mann, S. Armstrong, A J . Ught, M. A. Ru ssell, W. N. Thornton, A. J . Mitchell only one of the thirteen players recording seated: P N Holloway. D. R. Gordon, D. l. Howarth (Captain), Mr. M. W. Seeckts (Coach), G. R. Allen (Vlce·Captain), less than an average of eleven runs. A. B. Hodgson, P. A. Rossiter absent: A. S. Laidlaw There was equal depth in the bowling results. The main attack came from four bowlers who delivered 381 of the 463 overs during the seven matches. Their figures 'AD ASTRA' Publication dates were quite remarkable. Each of them con tained the batsmen to three runs or less per Some may have noticed that this issue of The November issue will con tain news over bowled and their average runs per 'Ad Astra' is later than usual. relating to the second half of the year, thus wicket ranged from 13.48 to 15.36. They For many years 'Ad Astra' has been providing a more up-tO-date coverage. Sport were well backed up by the change bowlers published and distributed each March and ing fixtures and dates to remember for th e as the average runs per wicket taken by all September. early part of the following year will be in · bowlers was a creditably low 14.61. cluded in the November issue. It was necessary to have all copy for the There were some notable individual bowl March issue in hand before the end of News of interest about Old Collegians ing performances. Geoff Allen opened the February, consequently most of the school will be published in the fi rst issue after the season well w ith 4 for 54 against Xavier. In news related to the latter half of the information has been received . These items the second match Mark Russell claimed 4 preceding year. are always a source of great interest to Old for 29 against Caulfield. Then Russell took Collegians, scattered th roug hout the \(Vor ld, 5 wickets against Scotch and St. Kevin 's In future 'Ad Astra' will be published and and the editors hope that a conti nued fl ow and Allen took 3 wickets in each of these distributed in May and November each of items of this nature wi ll be received. matches. Tony Light took the most wickets year. in anyone innings when he captured 6 It will now be possible to include news of Readers' comments, suggestions and Haileybury wickets for 39. This followed his school activity during Term 1 in the May construc ti ve criticism wi ll rece ive care fu l fine performance in the two preceding issue, together with fo rward notice of sport attention at al l times, wit h th e object of matches when he took 5 for 35 against ing fixtures and similar even ts for th e re conti nuing to maintai n a hi gh standa rd in Scotch and 4 for 67 against Carey. mainder of the year. the publicati on of 'Ad Astra'. Archi(!es Vispla!l STAFF APPOI NTM ENTS Campbell House: Late in 1978 Miss Since he retired as College Registrar at was 'saved' by Garry Armstrong ('29) when Barbara Matthews was appointed as Direc the end of 1978, Ewen McLean ('27) has the old boat shed was replaced in 1933. This tor of Campbell House, to commence duty spent many hours sorting and cataloguing is now among the treasured College as from January 1, 1979. th~ multiplicity of photographs, programs, archives. pri ze awards, items of school uniform From 1964 until 1974 Miss Matthews was (which have changed considerably through A photo of the oval taken on Sports Da y Teacher-in-Charge of Canberra Grammar the years) and other memorabilia of the Col 1939, looks more like a picture of the Bar: Northside Infants' School. When in England lege which have been filed. found featured won River. On the other hand, the photo of she was a remedial teacher at th e Caldecott and, in some cases, forgotten for'decades. the boat shed area during the record flood Community Res idential School for Deprived of 1891 looks nothing like the Barwon River and Maladjusted Children. She was also a In April Ewen arranged an extensive on which so many rowers have toiled and classroom teacher at Bramcote Hall display o f many of these re lics of the past sweated. Preparatory School in N'ottingham, Kent. together w ith some of the more receni items which will also gather historical value A crioket ball looked rather incongruous In the U.S.A. Miss Matthews was an as the years roll by, in the Arts and Crafts among the many historical records but the instructor in the graduate program course, Displ ay Centre. now located in the area inscription on the shield attached ' records Fundamentals of Child Development, at the which once housed the long rows of wash that this is the ball, presented to J. B. Bank Street College of Edu cation, New troughs in the school block. Hawkes (, 13), w ith which he took his hund York, and a classroom teacher and redth wicket in APS matches against workshop leader at the University of Pitts Among the many items on display was a Wesley College in 1919. burgh's Arsenal Family and Children's series of photographs of the College Centre. buildings w hich showed the gradual Sporting photographs, copies of the development from the ori ginal building, 'Pegasus' (i t was first published in 1909), a Miss Matthews was awarded the Austra erected in 1871, through to the completion spate of school-boy journalistic efforts - lian-American Edu cational Foundation of the cloisters quadrangle when the war 'Chez Nous' etc. etc., cups, portraits of Prin Teacher Development Study Tour Award in memorial wing was added in 1950. c ipals and so many other items which con 1972 and the. Au stralian Pre·School e jure up memories of years and years of Col Association Alice .Greswick Scholarship for Of considerable interest were two bound lege history were on display. Master's Degree study in 1973. booklets of hand written news-sheets dated March to May, 1882, (possibly the first ever Few of those who had passed through In addition to her wide range of to have been prod uced by College the College portals in earlier years had an experience with lower-p rimary and infant students). They are headed Vol. 1 - No. 1 opportunity to view this excellent display grade children, Miss Matthews has a and continue t hrough to Vol. 1 - No. 11 and but. their sons and daughters and, indeed, number of publications relating to young their grandchildren showed considerable children to her credit. at the foot of the title page of each issue is interest as the Arts and Crafts Display Cen an apparent acceptance o f responsibility, tre is located centrally in the school block Other Appointments: neatly printed , which reads: " Pri nted and thus attracting the attention of students as Mr. J. Jacobs - to teach English published by Alex H. Moore, Geelong". they move from class to class during the Mr. D. Mac Bryde t t h th t' The name plate 'Norman Morrison 1', day. Mr. R. McLaren - 0 eac ma ema ICS which indicated the place on t he racks Miss W. Schofield - to teach mathematics which this famous rowing shell occupied , and general science Mr. W. Underwood - to teach economics REV. E. C. McLEAN and social science Mr. D. Backwell - to teach Grade 3 THE GORDON DIRK The photograph of the Rev. E. C. McLean Mr. P. van Miltenburg - a teaching Fellow The Geelong College is the custodian of looking at the Gordon Dirk was taken at th~ recent retrospective exhibition of the to be involved in fine arts and a Scottish military dirk, once worn by physical education officers of the Gordon Highlanders.