Class Photo 1980 Year 11 (all)

Courtesy: Greg Kent

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Class Photo 1980 11-1

Courtesy: Deb Brown

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Student List - Year 10 of 1980 - Girls

Here's an alphabetical list of girls who were awarded the Year Ten Certificate in 1980


Jacqueline Abel
Michelle Armour
Ebby Armstrong
Louise Armstrong
Leanne Baker
Elizabeth Bennett
Sandra Bilbow
Kim Bright
Sheridan Brown
Margaret Bugg
Karen Burgoyne
Cathy Calderon
Ingrid Champion
Rachel Chapman
Barbara Choy
Karen Cooksley
Catrina Cowan
Lisa Crawley
Julie Dale
Cathee Davis
Maree Davis
Tracie Devlin
Sonia Dolby
Kathy Durie
Lynette Dwyer
Jo-anne Dyos
Jane Edgar
Carolyn Evans
Sharon Fastough
Lynette Fernance
Denise Finley
Sharon Gane
Lisa Garland
Elsa Girling
Kerrie Gordon
Christine Gould
Helen Gould
Deahne Gray
Jennifer Grimes
Kim Groenwoud
Patricia Grooms
Leanne Harris
Ruth Hickey
Donna Hope
Kristine Hudson
Donna Huxley
Deborah Ireson
Elizabeth Jenkins
Helen Keen
Kim Keirnan
Louise Keirs
Gaelene Kelley
Colleen Kelly
Jennifer Kilpatrick
Denise King
Lesley Kinnear
Sharon Kipp
Susan Kitchen
Tracey Lee
Jennifer Leeuwestyn
Elizabeth Mackenzie
Sharon Mackeson
Joanne Maguire
Kerry Mahon
Leanne Marshall
Karina Martin
Yvonne Martin
Julie Maxwell
Charmain McCulloch
Sandra McKelvey
Lori McLeod
Kimberley McPhan
Donna Mills
Sonia Mitchell
Tracey Morton
Cindy Ninness
Tracey Norris
Jennifer Northcott
Sharon O'Connell
Donna Parrish
Julie Patterson
Terryle Proctor
Maree Reiher
Christine Rigney
Kimberley Saladine
Annette Saunders
Kathleen Schelling
Ann-Maree Shepherdson
Cheryl Smith
Connie So
Deborah Somerford
Deborah Swan
Billie-Jean Symington
Penny Taylor
Sandra-Gai Thew
Wendy Thomas
Samantha Tomlyn
Celile Trapman
Barbara Tye
Julie Tyler
Cathy Uebel
Lucy Vettoretto
Jennifer Walker
Denise Walsh
Michelle Wendt
Belinda Weston
Sharon Wolfe

Student List - Year 10 of 1980 - Boys

Here's an alphabetical list of boys who were awarded the Year Ten Certificate in 1980


Nick Agius
Allan Ambrus
Dean Amos
Brett Anderson
Mark Anderson
Morgan Angel
Lance Ashcroft
Anthony Auckett
David Bain
John Barnett
Mark Beauchamp
Mark Booker
Scott Bradley
Michael Bristow
Craig Broadley
Michael Brock
Steven Brokenshire
Michael Brooker
Ken Brown
Peter Brown
Colin Buckley
Robert Burns
Andrew Cahill
Brett Cameron
Scott Carpenter
Darren Chaffer
John Clancy
Robert Claxton
Christopher Coble
Trevor Craig
Michael Crump
Jefferey Davis
Peter Deane
Gerard Dodds
Lee Donnelly
Glenn Duffee
Peter Ecroyd
Scott Eliot
Craig Falconer
David Falconer
Wayne Feletti
David Fernance
Andrew Field
Peter Foley
Michael Forgacs
Mark Funnell
Darren Gates
John Gatt
Kevin Gibson
Stephen Gleeson
Scott Goddard
Mark Gordon
Michael Grant
Clifford Greentree
Warwick Grieve
Christopher Gunn
Robert Hackl
Phillip Haddow
Luke Hall
Greg Hamill
Ken Harder
Anthony Harman
Grant Heggie
Craig Hemers
Steven Hemsworth
Mark Hennessey
Brett Howard
Murray Howard
Nicholas Hoyes
Rodney Hutchison
Ian Johnson
Brian Judge
Grant Kay
David Kelly
Trevor Kelly
Peter Kelty
Stephen Landers
James Lappin
Dino Legovich
Mark Lewis
Shane Lock
Michael Lund
Michael Maher
Tony Malafant
Graham Mastello
Wayne McDonald
Phillip McLaughlin
Colin McMurray
Glenn Metcalf
Paul Miller
Greg Mitcherson
Martin Mostogl
Adam Munn
Anthony Nichols
Peter Nicolas
Scott Nieass
Alan Northcott
Glen O'Brien
Shane O'Connell
Richard Pike
Clive Proud
Ian Raines
John Robertson
Ian Robinson
Michael Rumbel
Stephen Rush
Duane Sharpe
Darryl Slatyer
Dean Smith
Derek Sonter
Michael Stevens
Rodney Sutherland
Brian Swift
James Thompson
Shane Thurston
Adam Tritton
Paul Trott
Hank Veltman
Douglas Vincent
Clayton Wennerbom
Mark Williams
Ian Wilson
Sam Wisemantel
Greg Zaal

Class Photo 1980 10S7

 

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Class Photo 1980 10S6

Courtesy: Sonia McElhinny (nee Mitchell)

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Class Photo 1980 10S2

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Courtesy: Friends Reunited (thumbnail image only)

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Class Photo 1980 10S1

Courtesy:  Peter Deane

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Back Row: Darren Chaffer, Phillip McLachlan, Peter Foley, Mark Williams, Steven Hemsworth, Clive Proud, Dino Legovich, Peter Brown

Second Row: Ian Johnson, Peter Deane Gregory Behrendt, Peter Nicolas, Scott Goddard, David Kelly, Clive Coble (vale), Mark Beauchamp

Third Row:  Sandra Bilbow, Jennifer Grimes, Lynette Fernance, Annette Saunders, Ruth Hickey, Cindy Ninnes, Michell Armour, Karen Cooksley

Front Row: Jane Edgar, Ingrid Champion, Carolyn Evans, Lucy Vettereto, Jacqueline Abel, Deborah Somerford, Sandra Thew, Lynette Dwyer

Class Photo 1980 9M9

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Class Photo 1980 9M7

Courtesy: Raymond Locke

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Class Photo 1980 9M6

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Class Photo 1980 8E2

Courtesy: Nicholette Qunintano (nee Pommering)  NB:  Need a larger image

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Class Photo 1980 7C2

 

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Class Photo 1980 7E1

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(Incidentally this photo is so small, the actual class depicted could well be wrong.  It was 1980 - you can tell from the two "broomsticks" behind the students - but the actual class details on the sign are illegible)

Press: 1980 Joseph

Here's the article from the Tuggerah Lakes Advocate published in advance of the opening of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.  Notice how (minor) errors of fact, which still plague the paper today, were evident in this article.  For instance they reported fact that the band Traction is "made-up of students from the school".  In reality only one member of Traction came from GHS, and that was the bass-player Chris Coble (vale), the others came from The Entrance High.

It's also unclear exactly which special prologue to the "play" (sic.) Mr Hibbard "wrote".  The paper refers to Joseph as "the father of Israel", whereas in my bible he actually IS called Israel (although I suppose you could make a case for this based on the definition of "father").  The paper also says "if you want to know how the story ends, you'll have to go and see the 'play'", where of course referring to numerous copies of the Bible that would be available is also another method.  Oh, and they spell "Potiphor" incorrectly, but we can perhaps forgive them for THAT!

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Video: Jacob and Sons (1980)

The Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat video is in better condition picture-wise than Dracula, but there is one small problem.  It has NO audio.  At the start you can hear Neil Aubrey flicking about two dozen bars of chords, really quietly and with a bit of a buzz over the top, but no picture underneath.  There's then a flicker, the picture pops up, and the audio drops out, and is gone completely for the rest of the show!

There is, however, a cassette tape of the soundtrack for the final night, which will contain the entire show apart from probably 20-30 seconds when the 45-minute side ran out, and it had to be flipped over and the recording re-started.

It is possible to re-join the soundtrack with the pictures.  The problem is the cassette and video don't play at precisely the same speed, so a song on video might be 3:00, and the song on tape might be 3:02.  This pushes the lip-synch out by an annoying amount; however most of the pictures are from way back in the hall and you can't see the lips too well as it is.  I can also make slight adjustments with the software I've got.  I will have to cut the video up into small segments (eg a song) and add audio under each one, and I can tell you it IS tedious and very time-consuming.

However, the result isn't too bad, and here is the first song Jacob and Sons which sounds bloody fantastic.  With Neil on accoustic guitar and Kay Bridge (nee Doessel) and her beautiful almost pitch-perfect voice, this comes over as a pleasure to listen to.  Here's the song.  Just a reminder, the pictures don't start until just over a minute into the show (where the audio disappeared).

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Way way back many centuries ago,
Not long after the Bible began
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan,
A fine example of a family man.

Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Depended on farming to earn their keep.
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Spent all of his days in the fields with sheep.

Jacob was the founder of a whole new nation
Thanks to the number of children he had
He was also known as Israel, but most of the time
His sons and his wives used to call him Dad.

Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Men of the soil, of the sheaf and crook
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
A remarkable family in anyone's book.

Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel
With Simeon and Levi the next in line
Naphtali and Isaachar with Asher and Dan
Zebulun and Gad took the total to nine

Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Benjamin and Judah, which leaves only one
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Joseph - Jacob's favourite son

Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob Jacob Jacob
Jacob and Sons ...

1980 Joseph Soundtrack

I'm experimenting here, and trying to make the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat soundtrack publicly available.

It has been converted into individual Mp3 tracks (as listed below) much like the stuff you'd add to an iPod.  To keep the file sizes down, the Mp3s I'm releasing are only sampled at a 64,000 Hz bitrate.  (Personally, I reckon that's more than sufficient, as the human ear can only hear 20,000 Hz maximum, but many puritans release their Mp3s at 320,000 Hz these days.  Overkill, and much larger file sizes IMHO).

Anyway, let's get down to tin tacks.  The files have all been uploaded to a free fileserver called "FileDropper" http://www.filedropper.com/.  You can click the links on this page, you'll be taken to the Filedropper host page, which will open in a new window.  Make sure you scroll down and click the "Download this File" icon (and none of the other click-bait that they put up). 

After you type in the Captcha characters it should then send you the Mp3 file.  You can either Open it or Save it.  Choose Open if you only want to deal with the file once, and it should open into an Mp3 player and start playing for you.  If you want to keep it for future use, then select Save and choose a spot on your hard drive to save it to. (It might pay to make a directory for the Joseph soundtrack as there are 22 files).

Rinse and repeat as necessary, trying to keep track of which file you're up to if you're getting the whole thing!  Sorry about all the ads from the fileserver, but it is a free service, and that's obviously how they pay for it.  I might revise this all one day as it does seem a bit cumbersome, but for now, please persist.  If you only want one or two files, it's not a problem.

1. Jacob and Sons                   2. Joseph's Coat
                         



3. Joseph's Dreams                  4. Poor, Poor Joseph
                                           



5. One More Angel in Heaven         6. Potiphar
                                            



7. Close Every Door                 8. Go, Go, Go, Joseph
                          



9. Pharaoh's Story                 10. Poor, Poor Pharaoh/Song of the King
                          



11. Pharaoh's Dreams Explained     12.Stone the Crows
                         



13. Those Canaan Days        14. The Brothers Come to Egypt/Grovel, Grovel
                         



15. Who's the Thief                16. Benjamin Calypso
                         



17. Joseph all the Time            18. Jacob in Egypt
                          



19 Any Dream Will Do               20. Any Dream Will Do (1st Encore)
                         



21. Song of the King (2nd Encore)  22. Speeches and Thanks (14 minutes)   
                         



23. Full Joseph Libretto (text form)

1980 Joseph Picasa Photo Album

I've come across a selection of quite a few photos from the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat production in 1980.  There are simply too many to be able to post on the blog directly. So let's try a Picasa Web Album.  This will give you a lot more control over the viewing.

Click on the image below to visit Picassa.  Have fun, and we'll see you back on the blog a bit later on...



1980 Joseph Photos

Here are some rehearsal pics of Joseph.  Many thanks to Rachel Quirk for supplying these (at last they end up online, eh, Rachel?)

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1980 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Wow: 1980 saw the ambitious presentation of a full musical, and what a better way to start off than Joseph, a rock opera produced by several schools over the years.  Joseph and the Amazing Tecnhicolour Dreamcoat was presented in the hall using an oratorio format (ie a whole bunch of kids standing around in a formation, singing).  The play was performed for three shows; Thursday 8 October, Friday 9 October and Saturday 10 October 1980.

I'll reproduce the programme here in the blog as jpeg images. Don't forget - to get a larger image of the picture you can click on the image. To download it, right-click on the image and choose "Save Target As". To get an even larger image of the pages, right-click the image and choose "Open in New Window or Tab". When the image opens in a new window or tab it will be scaled to fit into the window, however you can click the image and it will appear full size and you can scroll around in it for the absolute best visibility.