101 Quick Memories

Here are some memory prompters from the 1970s:

 Remember when ...

1. Cherry Bellies
2. Caps
3. Brent Campbell's mini-bike
4. Chris Herrod's first day in Form 4 (does that ring a bell?)
5. Mrs Schlesinger:"Put the periodicals away"
6. PT instructors Vaughan and 'Chook' Fowler
7. Circuit Training
8. The old lockers in the changes rooms (old grandstand)
9. John Baldock planting a tampon in the chocolate milk machine
10. The smokers' tree
11. 'The Jungle'
12. Cooka's Dad's EJ Holden
13. Scotty's Party: "Dagsville At Dogs"
14. "Cor Limey"
15. The Official 4HR Censor (J.R. Scott)
16. Boxing matches in the old gym ("It wasn't the KO, it was the BO")
17. "The Mystery Bed Warmer" at the Boarding House
18. Lobby Lloyde and the Coloured Balls
19. The Boarders' Dance
20. Kush (The Band)
21. The Cuddly Couple Calculator
22. 'John Baldock's Rubber Goods' part-time income
23. The Madrigals
24. Marcel Nyeholt's Chalk Holder
25. "IGGS Toilets Ablaze" - the Scandal edition that a-l-m-o-s-t got Ash expelled
26. "Bad lads"
27. "Being a chum is fun" theme song
28. Cadets' firing practice at Williamstown
29. Ration packs
30. Sending cheerios to Ian "Bruce" Paton on 3AK
31. Mr Poole crowned as 'Miss Scandal' in 1972 dancing classes
32. Sid Simpson's music machines
33. Johnny Marshall's Friday afternoons
34. "You are truly doomed", "Bah McColl"
35. Short-cuts on the cross country runs
36. Fund-raising for Dick Austin, we called it the 'Dick-A-Thon'
37. Frank English's English Sheep Dogs
38. The 1975 Scandal Car Rally
39. Eric Smith's hearse
40. Peter Huxley's sunglasses every Friday morning
41. Irving Reid's hand-painted car
42. The IGGS Bomb Scare
43. Bunsen Burners, asbestos ... and that Science test
44. McColl's Empire/McColl's revenge
45. Brainbusters
46. Cheap phone calls at IGGS
47. The Symposium
48. Mark Robino's love of the Victorian Railways
49. Barry Humphries' brother teaching at IGS
50. St Stephen's, Darebin - and choir practice

Plus Memories from David Masson
51. "I'll Git You Jenkinson" - Scott Moir
52. Doc and Don
53. Mutton Chops - 1969
54. Hoges ... and Terrence Marini - 1974
55. Mrs Pedley - and Tuck Shop give-aways
56. TV Room - 1968
57. Cubs and the One Eye - 1967
58. Milk Monitors - 1966
59. Comet Ice Creams - 1963
60. Moseley's Bottles
61. Secret Agents - 1972
62. Who let the tyres down inquest - 1968
63. 'Spaghetti Joe' - 1971
64. Bicycle shed - and Andrew Howarth's racing bike
65. Exotic food at the Fete
66. Tractor rides with Jack
67. Stiffy ... Jack's dog
68. Jack Dumbrell and the Vespa - 1973
69. Recess cricket in the nets
70. The Tunnel
71. John Aldred and the Shanghai - 1971
72. The Bulleen Connection
73. Hot Chocolate - 1966
74. Dropping The Pie - 1963
75. Kenton Savage - 1966
76. We Learn A New Word At The Symposium - 1974
77. David Masson Goes To The Scale Farm, Alexandra - 1970
78. What Jean-Paul Had For Breakfast - 1970
79. Glenn Bear and the Flare Gun - 1973
80. Weasel Leaps For Joy - 1972 (We All Know This One!)
81. "I'm in my cups today and everyday" - 1972
82. Jensen Interceptor - 1974
83. Man On The Moon, and Tim's cousin - 1969
84. "Once you were top of the heap, now you're not" - 1969
85. Bike trouble with Garry Rimmer - 1971

And just finally ...
86. Fatigues
87. Detentions
88. School sport - and bus trips to Peninsula and Assumption
89. Last Day of HSC - November 1974
90. Jock's TV set
91. Jex hair
92. Tramways buses to Olympic Park for AGSV sports
93. Divinity lessons with the Rev. that turned to sex education
94. Free photo-copies
95. Gumby's politics lessons
96. Sammy Slater in gum-boots
97. The Quadrangle
98. Bell Monitors
99. Curators for Buckley Hall
100. Shirts v Skins basketball
101. Dwop Dwyer

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