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Nonagenarian contributor Len Payne of Malabar has more folklore on World War II Lancaster pilot-come-Sydney pro golfer Dan Cullen (C8): \u201cA great bloke and good company. After a pro event in Germany, he was asked by a local representative if he had ever been to Germany before, Dan replied \u2018never in the daytime\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeff Wall of Thirroul knows all about creative school designations (C8): \u201cIn the 1960s, weekends on the beach saw us all equal but to match our female school friends who attended \u2018St Mary\u2019s Star of the Sea\u2019 us young males from Bulli High preferred the scholastic heights available to all at the \u2018The Ursula Road Academy\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cNice to see another Granny Souffer (C8) in Mark (Rooey) Roufeil and one familiar with my childhood home,\u201d declares Suzanne Saunders of Wadeville. \u201cNever forget the school motto, \u2018Sick it, Alice\u2019 (sicut aliis) and the emblem, a dingo (named Alice) on a rock.\u201d<\/p>\n
Geoff Maynard of Paddington leans into the prefab classroom discussion. \u201cSpeaking of Shacktown, my year three (1971) classroom at Pennant Hills High was one of a pair of \u2018temporary\u2019 aluminium demountables from sometime in the 1950s. It was an oven in summer and fridge in winter (no aircon, fans or heaters unlike today\u2019s wusses). If it rained we had to do reading or art because we couldn\u2019t hear the teacher. When, for the first time in many years, I passed the school recently, the \u2018temporary\u2019 classrooms were still there, at least 70-years-old, and there were two more \u2018temporary\u2019 classrooms.\u201d <\/p>\n
Dermot Perry of Mount Keira was reading the package his coffee beans came in while grinding them: \u201cThe label said \u2018apricot, caramel, peach, toffee with a long milk chocolate finish\u2019. It just tasted like coffee and reminded me of Graham Kerr, \u2018the Galloping Gourmet\u2019 who used to make fun of the flavour descriptions on Australian wines.\u201d<\/p>\n
The brainy Andrew Mowat of Beecroft found clinging to one\u2019s bushie beginnings (C8), a learning experience: \u201cI have to admit to going to a sandstone uni and living in an adjacent sandstone college. I got there thanks to a cadetship and was looked upon with some bemusement. Their first question was often \u2018what does your father do?\u2019 and when told he was a station master, followed up with \u2018how many head?\u2019 As a far north Queensland railway employee\u2019s son, I was quickly learning how the world worked in the big smoke.\u201d <\/p>\n
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