'Report Cards' — the last 30 years

The guys taught me how to use a gun one summer, and I got to be a pretty good shot lying down, or if I had something to rest my gun on.   But I never got to feel really familiar or comfortable with guns, and decided I was more scared of guns than I was of bears.   more...

My life so far has been great. My health is very good and that of my family and everthing seems to have just fallen into place (touch wood).   more...

I knew exams were on but I didn’t know the subject and I asked my old mate Tony Bandle what the subject was.   more...

Martin Brady went to ANU, then worked in Foreign Affairs and Defence.   Currently, Director of the Defence Signals Directorate.   Married Helen Michalak (yes, he is Mrs Michalak’s son-in-law) and they have lived happily ever after in Canberra apart from a few years in Fiji.

Having been the youngest in the Class of ’67, I have maintained my relative immaturity to the present day.   more...

Having escaped PM&C temporarily from advising the Prime Minister on nursing home policy, I have sought six months of relative peace in ABSTUDY policy in DEETYA. These are the outcomes from the sins of an upbringing in Canberra.

Love travelling — we have a four wheel drive and have driven and camped across most of Australia.   more...

Resident of Canberra since leaving school. Completed a Bachelor of Economics degree at the Australian National University. Joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1972 and worked in various local agencies. Transferred to the ACT Public Service on self government. Currently Deputy Chief Executive of ACTION in the Department of Urban Services. Living in Waniassa. Married (for the second time) to Robyn. Two children aged 10 and 12 at school locally.

1 x daughter : 1 x son : 1 x dog : 1 x divorce

I should have shown more respect for the offers by at least giving them longer consideration — unfortunately, we cannot operate ‘sliding doors’.   more...

Maried: 26 years. Three children: Tamilyn (24) with daughter Sarah, Leigh (21), Nada (19). Partner in our accounting firm for past 20 years. Live in Nowra on a quiet acre on the outskirts of town.
Leonie Finch née Gladwin

I have worked in mines, bars (many), as a salesperson, a drinks machine mechanic and a chook slaughterer (and various other less savoury things).   more...

Late starter!! Don’t know what I did with the first half of my life!! Married the young man I was going out with when I was in Year 12 – miracle is, stll married to him!!! I’m now working in House Museums for the Museums Unit of ACT Government, and half way through a degree in Cultural Heritage Management. Mother of three children, Miriam 15, Adam 20 and Deena 21 – which reminds me what I did with the first half of my life!!!
Adele Rosalky née Hoffman

... Surviving 12 months of almost solitary confinement and finally esacaping from Egypt.   more...

Have held Australian Masters Records and once won a Masters World Championship (but there was no great opposition at the Meet).   more...

I hope to retire early and consume much of the local grape crop.   more...

... hitting the surf, the beaches, the parties, playing football, cricket and squash, and falling in love every six or eight weeks.   more...

Arts degree from Sydney University. Worked as journalist. Masters Degree from University of Wisconsin, USA. Two years with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria, in West Africa. Worked at Australian Wheat Board, Melbourne. Last 15 years in Melbourne working in public affairs roles with major mining companies (CRA and more recently WMC).

Invitation to all who visit the Sunshine Coast to stay at my house   more...

When Australia pulled out of Vietnam I began my life as an army wife — there followed 12 moves within 12 years   more...

Two major events have meant most to me since leaving school, coming into a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and marrying Helen.   more...

About this time I realised there was more to life than racing cars and fell in love with someone other than a car.   more...

Sandra Miller... Sandy Gane... Sandy Honey...   more...

Daniel Neumann (Alfie to many at TPHS) is one of the ones who escaped from Canberra.   more...

Life was tough for Lindsay in the army, you know, out of bed at eight and off to Sydney north Head Artillery School and then back home by six. Made a man of him.   more...

Does anyone else in our year have children attending or have attended Telopea? In 1A’s first maths lesson, I remember Mrs Gilhome saying she had taught some class members parents or uncles so perhaps there are some 3rd generation Telopeans!   more...

A potted history: I moved around Canberra, further study and government jobs quite a bit after school, then around the world a bit after that. I settled in Sydney in 1983, after I threw over everything all at once (marriage, job, family, Canberra   more...

After bombing out 1st year at ANU (but honing my snooker and golf skills), I joined the Reserve Bank in Sydney. Did Economics at Macquarie University part-time and full-time under a bank bursery and ended up with 2nd class honours.   more...

Presently living on a 42ft boat in Hong Kong because I can’t afford to buy another house. Still a very keen surfboard rider and am now the proud owner of four surfboards.   more...

'His name richochets down the canyons of [thirty years] — richochets, because the trajectory of his zigzagging life, never direct, dodged this way and that, ever elusive and often devious.'   Sounds like my life.   more...

Worked for a while on a trawler as a diesel fitter cum 'deckie' until a 30 hour storm 'cured' me!   more...

When '67 was over, I went to Sydney to study Arts at UNSW. I lived in Sydney for 4 years returned to Canberra, completed a DipEd at CCAE and started teaching at Higgins Primary.   more...

I arrived at TPHS in 1963 (second form) fresh from the USA attired in my sports jacket, slacks and white socks. I was given one week my Mr McPherson to front up in full school uniform — or else...!   more...

I spent at least 15 years working for NASA at Honeysuckle Creek, Orroral Valley and Tidbinbilla Space Tracking Stations in the ACT — a great adventurous spirit showing for someone who was raised in Tharwa!   more...

If life is not so busy I’d give you a reasonable write up for this special occasion.   more...

"... a few lines about successes and failures ..."   more...