Mr.Pittock was a lovely man who had the respect of all the sensible ones among his students. Even though he copped a bit of ridicule because of his size, slight limp and his slightly plum-in-the-mouth way of talking, he was self confident enough to shrug it off. He often invited students to his flat near the school, where the atmosphere was friendly, personal, relaxed and very much out-of-school. This would be severely frowned on now but I am certain there was nothing suspicious going on. I h...

I attended Elwood High School from 1974 to 1977, after completing Grade 6 at St.Kilda Park Primary School. The years I spent at EHS hold some of the best memories of my life. Not that they were all good, of course. These were really the formative times, where all the usual stuff that happens in a teenagers life, happened. A lot of what I'm talking about has come flooding back to me by watching Puberty Blues on TV!

I remember the quadrangle and the buildings that surrounded it very clearly...

I made some lifelong friends at EHS and still keep in touch with four of them: Kay, Michael, Brigitta and Kathleen. Hockey was the game for me – I even captained the school team once when the ‘real’ captain was away. Art was my favourite subject and I still like to draw and paint. All my children like to draw and one of my sons turned out to be a pretty good artist. They in turn are helping their kids! Recently we were camping in the Grampians and I was able to sp...