Good memories, good friends, average marks, lots of torn school uniforms 

playing pack to pack football, or basketball, at lunchtime, spent plenty 

of time with Alex at the Esplanade in St Kilda, he was my best friend 

at school. And there were Jack and Leon and others who I lost track off 

as they went into tertiary education and I went to work in a bank and 

then a drawing office. I got poorer and more foot-loose, they got more 

respectable and richer and married, so ...  Fishing off St Kilda Pier, 

cycling around, ogling delightful girls at swimming and netball 

practice, suffering the pangs of pimply adolescence, good and mediocre 

teachers, a school I enjoyed and fondly remember. A little miracle 

happened a few years ago when Jacki Story tapped me on the shoulder in a 

Bendigo Bank teller Machine queue and said - aren't you ? ... Yes, I 

said , and you are Jacki ... We had a coffee and there you are, 

reconnected in the wilds of Bairnsdale after 40+ years since Elwood High.

After many jobs and adventures and a family I live in a very remote 

setting in East Gippsland as an invalid Pensioner of 63. I am relatively 

fit and very happy, my daughter Elfi is 27 and still at uni (almost 

finished a science degree)  and her half sister Ali is happily occupied 

in horticulture, hospitality and whatelsenot. I manage five acres of 

bush and home-made infrastructure. See my web site 

http://www.lifesupportinternational.org - I am a very outspoken and 

combative philosopher with a Christian core. Life is great and I am a 

lucky man to be alive. Hail Elwood High and Melbourne in the balmy, 

peaceful sixties! KS