Asquith Old Boys Club Newsletter

Vol. 10 May 2010

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Have you completed your registration to attend 50th Birthday events?

Saturday 15th May 10am – 4pm

Open Day commences with meet and greet, registration and collection of your Welcome Pack which includes a map and detailed program for the day, including displays and entertainment.

Enter via Pacific Highway. Special Needs parking is available in the school car park other parking available on the street.

Visit our ‘decade rooms’ to view faces from the past. This will be the best place to swap yarns with your peers and meet teachers you thought you’d never see again.

Donate your memorabilia for your decade time capsule. Be interviewed by enrolled students – become part of the 50th birthday video production, which will be conducted in the recording studio or you could choose your favourite place in the grounds where you hung out with mates.

Visit the Photo and Document Scanning studio and have your school photographs scanned on the spot.

Visit Faculty displays, our new industrial Kitchen, the Library and new Gym.

Refreshments will be available from the Canteen, Food Technology Stall, The Boys Barista Café and a BBQ throughout the day.

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Golf Day 10am start

Asquith Golf Club

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BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL CLOSE THURSDAY 13TH

$55 Non-member $35 Asquith Golf Club Members

Social Lawn Bowls

2pm for 2.30pm start

Asquith Bowling and Recreation Club

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BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL CLOSE THURSDAY 13TH

$25 includes tuition, games, light supper and prizes

For further details contact jenny Lewis (School Administration) jennifer.f.lewis@det.nsw.edu.au or PHONE: 9477 3508

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Parents of current students have held several working bees recently, at the School, to review and restore existing photo displays, and to prepare new displays. These photos will feature in the Decade Meeting/Display Rooms, on Open Day.

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Have you started to look for that shoebox of old photos? If you think it might hold one or two of your old School Photos, now is the time to dig it out. If you can scan them and email in, or post them on CD please do. This will enable them to be printed out and included in your groups Decade Display. As on the 40th Birthday Open Day, a Scanning room will be available on Open Day. Having your photos scanned on Open Day will have them digitised for you, and ensure they can be shared with your classmates who may have mislaid theirs. A CD will be produced of the scans, and available, packaged with the 50th Anniversary Souvenir DVD, by the end of the year.

At this stage, preparation, recording of new material, editing of archival video is well under way for the production of the 50th Anniversary DVD item. Documentation of the School’s 50th Year will feature prominently in the contents, including highlights from the weekend of celebration on 14th, 15th 16th May 2010. School students in the Year 8 Journalism class are being trained to work in small recording/interview teams, working throughout the year. Visitors to the School on Open Day will meet these students, who will be keen to hear your memories. Some student teams will have the role of ‘roving reporters’, whilst others will operate a more formal interview studio. Other contents to be included in the DVD will be an edited short film from the School’ s 40 th Birthday celebrations in 2000. Three hours of recorded material from School Open Day and the Reunion Dinner, in the School Hall provided the content for this Short Film (running time approx 10 min). Prize winning entries in the School’s 50th Anniversary Short Film Competition will also feature in the DVD, as will an item on School History. Screening of this ‘work in progress’ will be available, at the Souvenir stall and at the 50th Anniversary Reunion Dinner, on Saturday 15th May, where prepaid orders will be taken.

Saturday 15th May, 7pm Hornsby RSL Club Cost $65 per person (paid in advance) partners are welcome

Appetisers, 2 course meal, tea and coffee plus a 50th celebration cake

Table seating up to 10pp can be booked by cohort, family etc.

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For further details contact jenny Lewis (School Administration) Reunion Dinner Co-ordinator at jennifer.f.lewis@det.nsw.edu.au

includes drawing of Raffle prizes and Auction

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Keep a lasting memory of your days at Asquith Boys High School. Package includes highlights of the 25th Anniversary Cabaret, the 40th and 50th celebrations, history and future visions of ABHS, School musicals, the School in action during its 50th year, ‘Old Boys’ Moments – interviews, messages, Short Film Competition, “Out-takes”, scanned School Photos, the

answer to a question posed by one Class of 1987 student and much more! ... PRE-ORDER AT OPEN DAY OR REUNION DINNER

ONLY $30 per package includes postage. Available December 2010

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Enclosed CHEQUE (payable to Asquith Boys High School); CASH for TOTAL sum of $______ OR

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Name on card: __________________________________________ Card type: Visa MasterCard

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Church Service

10am Asquith Boys High School HALL

Led by ABHS Chaplain Peter Thomsett

Play in the inaugural Football Match between the Asquith First Grade and Invitational side and ABHS Old Boys

Matches are regarded as ‘Friendlies’ and Subs is the rule! We will be filming matches for posterity

A SPECIAL GUEST WILL KICK OFF THE FIRST MATCH

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$50 for complete 50th Souvenir kit (Shirt, Shorts & Socks)

Bring the family and friends along there will be BBQ from 12md or bring a picnic lunch

1.30pm start

ABHS School OVAL

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Ex-students and ex-teachers can become major sponsors in our 50th year. All donations over $25 are listed IN our school newsletters and in our 50th birthday publications. You can become a Patron with a donation of $300 or more, a Sponsor with a donation of $150 or more or a Supporter with a donation of $50 or more. Following the weekend celebrations, profits will go towards an Old Boys Senior 2 year Academic Scholarship. Profits will also defray set up costs for the 50th Birthday events and projects. Receipts will be available on Saturday 15 May.

Thank you to:

PATRON Ronnie Laffer David Morris Richard Pilgrim

Robert Reeve William (Bill) Roberts Tony Smith Peter Snitch Jon Stephenson Bob Symington Ian Taylor Ben Veling Kevin Wallace Anthony Ward Vernon Wildy Warren Willis

SPONSOR Lloyd Babb Bruce Collins Keith & Genevieve Dennis Ray Elkin Christopher Kent Alex Rix David Wilson

SUPPORTER Mary-Anne Armstrong Peter Bagshaw Neville Castle Errol Edge Maxwell Fisher Ian Imrie Raymond Kench Sandra Macleod-Miller Edward McKenna the late Les Miller (Teacher) Bruce Morgans Rod Nurthen Alan Perkins

DONATION Ken Booth Ian Brown Robert Cairncross David Chancellor Carol English Jason Lee Max Linigen Mark Sonneveld Alex Wardrop

Purchase your 50th souvenirs at Open Day or Reunion Dinner

T-shirts Mugs Pens Caps Etched Glassware

Tell an Asquith Boys High School Story

Winners will be announced Wednesday 12 May at a school assembly.

Short Films will be displayed during Open Day and at the Reunion Dinner

Thank you to our Sponsors Myer Hornsby – Canon Digital IXUS 100IS camera valued at $500

Les Miller Memorial Prize $350 cash

Asquith Boys High School, SRC prize $350 cash

Luna Park Sydney, Family Pass valued $200

Westpac Hornsby, $200 Borders voucher

Greater Union Cinemas Hornsby, Movie Vouchers

The Wrigley Company Asquith, Product

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Hornsby Slot Cars Hornsby World of Fitness Kmart Hornsby Learn 4 Fun, Hornsby Mrs Sandra Miller New Dimension Developments Officeworks, Hornsby P B Tiling Suncorp Sydney Bridge Climb Vern Sotter (1965) Westpac Marketing Head Office World of Fitness Hornsby

We would also like to

acknowledge the following

for their support of our

50th Birthday Celebrations

This is a fantastic opportunity for a chance to win some terrific prizes, as well as supporting the fund-raising efforts of Asquith Boys High School. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW.

Ticket sales close Saturday 15th May at 8pm and drawn at the 50th Reunion Dinner. Remember - you have to be in it to win it! Good Luck!"

$100 CASH from Suncorp Hornsby

2 x 6 month memberships to World of Fitness

Hornsby Berowra Eagles Junior AFL Merchandise

$50 meat cuts of your choice

Asquith Family Butchery

$200 vehicle detailing Service from A10tion 2 D-tail

2 Gold tickets value $190, to Qantas Wallabies vs England Game

Sat 19 June 2010 (Suncorp)

Hornsby RSL $50 Bistro Voucher

Axis and Allies Guadalcanal Board Game Value $90 (Learn 4 Fun)

Captain Cooke Coffee Cruise for

2pp value $98

TICKETS

1 for $2

3 for $5

10 for $10

25 for $20

ASQUITH BOYS HIGH SCHOOL

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2008 NRL Premiers Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles signed and framed Jersey

This piece of memorabilia commemorates the amazing premiership winning Manly Sea Eagles squad of 2008.

The framed jersey is mounted and framed to make an amazing collectors item that will be sure to grow in value and pride in years to come. Show your pride by hanging this at home or at the office. It's sure to make a great gift to a loved one or yourself.

2008 was an emotional journey for the Sea Eagles in the game’s Centenary year. The will to go a step further than 2007 and to send club legend Steve Menzies out a winner meant that the Sea Eagles were more determined than ever to claim a long-awaited premiership.

Masterminded by Des Hasler, the Sea Eagles captivated fans and vanquished rivals with a relentless defence and attacking brilliance that rekindled memories of Manly’s great teams of the past. In a triumph that will forever be etched in Rugby League folklore, Steve ‘Beaver’ Menzies joined some of the game’s greatest ever players in farewelling the game with a Grand Final. It’s a triumph that will be forever etched in Rugby League folklore.

Jersey will be auctioned at 50th Reunion Dinner at Hornsby RSL at approx. 9pm. This item has a Reserve price.

Jersey donated by ABHS PDHPE Faculty and framed by Vern Sotter (1965)