THE FORTIAN 1992 Erika Tuktens Sally Buckingham Year 10 Year 11 Jennifer Alker Year 10
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THE FORTIAN 1992 Erika Tuktens Sally Buckingham Year 10 Year 11 Jennifer Alker Year 10 Luke Hall Year 7 Lat. Viet•Chan 'Fran, Theodora Tserdanis Angela Giannakopool Madeleine Lyons, Katrina Stiles, Corin Throsby Year 11 Year 11 The Fortian Committee Committee Karina Acton Sarah Beak Louise Buckingham James Cottee J.V. Douglas Catherine Dung Maya Gazzard David Lesslie Holly Lyons Shunanda Wallace Ms Buckland Ms Davis Ms Page Mr Sorban Editor's Note As usual, there was a rush to finish the Fortian at the end of the year. There seemed a rush at this time for the contribution box too. Instead of the regular one poem per month, we received two poems and one story in a week ! Huge thanks to Ms Sarah Patterson, who did all our typing and typesetting, and Mr George Jaksic (Fortian 1966-71), who provided a lot of time and energy helping us to prepare the year book for publication and printing it so professionally. Sarah Beak Editor C 0 N T E N T S Principal's Report 1 The Year in Review 20 Athletics Carnival 46 Credits 2 Latin Report 24 Zone & Grade Sports 50 Deputy Principal's Report 3 Peer Support Group 25 Tennis Report 51 Speech Day 1992 4 Students Alive 25 Gala Day Sport Comp. 51 Year 12 - 1992 6 Tournament of Minds 25 Rugby Report 52 Eifuku Visit 7 Science Report 27 Volleyball Report 52 Clarice Kennedy 8 Mathematics Report 28 Staff & Students 1992 54 Fortians Union News 9 German Report 29 P & C Report 9 History Report 29 Debating 10 Social Science Report 29 Student Council 11 Music Report 30 Front & Back Covers: "Friends" Girls' Discussion Group 12 Computing Report 31 Addy Cobcroft Year 12 Personal Development Comp 14 English Report 31 Geography Camp Report 15 Industrial Arts Report 31 THE FORTIAN 1992 Vol. 90 Commerce Excursions 16 Variety Night 32 Published by Golden Years of Movies 17 Open Day 32 Fort Street High School Guess the Desk ! 18 Junior Drama Night 36 Parramatta Road, Quotable Quotes 19 Year 12 Picture 40 Petersham 2049 This page is sponsored by Leichha rdt Video, 107 Marion Street, L eichhardt Tel. (02) 568 2303. 2 ♦ The Fortian 1992 Deputy Principal's Report the School Counsellor, the loss of three-quarter sized so that the two classrooms, and the orchestra and the band have to "Refurbishment" is such a establishment of two music rehearse elsewhere and the long- nice word. It is made up of rooms, a Music staffroom, a suffering Maths staff still have two parts, "Re" meaning music store room, a combined very cramped quarters. We now again, and "furbish" meaning maths staffroom, two classrooms have some rooms which are to cause a maximum of chaos to compensate for those taken, a painted and carpeted, and which over as long a time as new computer room and a have windows that open, and we possible at a minimum of Board of Studies office within cost - or so it would appear. now do have some areas for the a budget and by June 30th 1992 reception of parents and the 1992 at Fort Street has been a was unable to be achieved. public. The promise of cyclic year of refurbishment, the first Many were the interruptions maintenance to update the since 1974 (hence the use of the and the disturbances to both remainder of the school to term "Re"). Plans were created students and staff; many were similar standard will threaten at least two years ago which saw the hours spent in meetings and what remains of the sanity of an enlargement of the school's "discussions"; many were the some of us, but will eventually ancillary office, and bringing the alternative logistical plans provide an environment which I school closer to the established determined when completion hope will encourage everyone to code required for a modern high dates were not met; great was show a pride in belonging to a school in regard to buildings and the amount of patience and co- great school and develop the facilities. Unfortunately, in a operation shown by students and standard of co-operation so school whose original building staff; few were the moans and necessary to achieve potential. was established in 1916, these groans about any real problems, refurbishments created much and eventually work was Refurbishment is a nice more than the normal confusion. completed to the stage of word - but much nicer after it The movement of: the Principal's occupancy by September 18th. has been enacted. office, the Deputy-Principal's The situation is far from ideal, office, the clinic, the English but certainly much improved, Bruce Leonard staffroom, the Careers Adviser, even if the Music rooms are only Deputy Principal A7,61 Nirmalan Sathiamoorth Year 10 The Fortian 1992 ♦ 3 Annual Speech Day and some never got over it. school with great traditions Sydney Town Hall In the seventies I was (which was and is true) and that 6 March 1992 travelling overseas as a member we should strive to uphold the of the Senate when I was traditions of the past and to It is a pleasure to be here today greeted at Bangkok Airport by a equal the record of those who to speak at this Fort Street man who proclaimed himself a had gone before us (which was Speech Day Ceremony almost Fortian. He had clearly been sound advice). However, there forty years after I left the school enjoying too much airline was always the implication that, to face the world. It is an hospitality. He told me he was even if we did these things, we honour to be asked to do so on a returning to his adopted home in would never quite emulate the day which marks the departure Asia from his annual trip to students of yesteryear, of a Principal as respected as Sydney to attend the Old Boy's particularly those of the Mrs. Preece who helped guide Dinner. In a very doleful and twenties, because they were in the school through times of incoherent way he proceeded to some way super-human. change and difficulty. Her tell me how he would probably Reference was always made to reception here today indicates never return to Sydney because a "miracle year" when the whole she is loved as well as respected the changes were such that of the final year went to and says more for her success civilisation as we knew it was university and did either and reputation than anything I doomed. I assumed his problem medicine or the law. I don't can say. was that the party of which I wish to take anything away from May I say immediately that was a member was in those fine teachers and times have certainly changed. government and he did not distinguished Fortians, but I ask In my day, speech days were approve of the changes. The the question: would we be very formal and dull affairs. I problem was, however, that Fort satisfied today with a school remember having to listen to the Street Boys and Girls Schools which gave to this country only procedures one year outside the were to be united and girls and doctors and lawyers? What hall because I was not wearing a women would walk the sacred would we think of teachers who, coat. A big difference is the corridors of the sacred buildings after six years of high school, orchestra and the music but the in Petersham. most marked change to me is produced a group of students the sense of happiness and I wonder if he is still there in whose vision and imagination informality which does not some foreign land mourning the was so narrow that they could detract from the importance of passing of the era he knew and only conceive of two possibilities the occasion. But that is just a imagining the terrible things he in life? Besides, I can imagine reflection of change. believed would happen. What nothing more boring or stuffy There is another indication of would he make of us here today than going to a class reunion change which is a little less saying farewell to not only a and finding everyone there a welcome to me. I used to attend female teacher, but a female doctor or a lawyer. speech days and special principal. He was not, and I The strength of Fort Street assemblies and, with my fellow daresay is not, the only old boy and schools like it and the worth students, listened to what to me or old girl who mourns the of their contribution to society, were old men making speeches passing of a bygone day but lies not in the number of doctors about the past. I am now one of times change and in twenty or lawyers or university those old men. Yet another era years time another group of graduates it produces. It lies in begins. students will look back at the the fact that from this school certainties of today and wonder Arriving at Fort Street Boys have gone forth a great diversity what you were all on about! High School in year eleven, as I of individuals into an equal did, was a bit of a shock. I had Too many people of my diversity of activities and most come from Albury High, a co- generation and of the have taken with them educational school where we had generations before look at what questioning minds with the dances several times each year, goes on, see that it is different, capacity to question the and entered a school without and equate difference with certainties of the past and females.