I attended ECS and EHS a very long time ago. I was not a good student, however I enjoyed my time there anyway. There were a lot of great people there and we had some interesting teachers .One in particular was a real character .His name was Dr Wolff, and he taught mathematics. Maths was a subject I had difficulty with !!

I remember Dr Wolff telling me and the class, in his strong German accent, (4C I think it was)  "Woody, if you pass the algebra exam, I will stand on my head in front of t...

In the 1960s, Elwood High School was a new school of boring, grey, rendered, single-level buildings. The main two were built in 1957 at right angles to each other, in the north-west corner of the site. There was also a cluster of  three smaller buildings of the same style in the south-east corner some distance from the main ones. Its overwhelming feature was the flat concrete space near the buildings and the grassy softball and hockey fields a little further away from the buildings and wind...