40 Years of Memories

∆ New College

Flash Back to … 1969

Colin Denney shared the north-east corner group of rooms on the first floor during 1969, the first year of New College. Featured here are some photos from that era and a present day one of Colin.

Colin graduated from UNSW with a BSc (1971) and DipEd (1972) and then commenced science teaching in 1973.

“I have taught in Adelong, Young, Norfolk Island, Macksville and finally Nambucca Heads when its High School opened in 1993. I am still there, but am looking forward to retirement in July 2009 and some serious travelling.”

 

Flash Back to … 1977

• The NCSA Fee was called a House fee and it was $20 p.a.

• Their were two NCSA Chairman Craig Lockart (S. 1) and Stephen May (S. 2)

• 15 members of the NSW Police Force ‘attended’ the College’s Anzac Parade luncheon

• Stephen Hodgkinson was in his first year at New College and did more than double his fair share of work. Steve had this quality to get out of bed in the morning after a Ball and clean up the mess of 400 “raging” persons.

• Ashley Cooper (New College 1977–1979) was in his first year: “Despite having graduated with an Honours degree in Psychology I have worked in IT for over 20 years. In between work I still manage to travel fairly frequently, with my 17 year old son already having visited 4 continents with his parents. I actually dropped in to have a look around the College last year (2007). It of course looks different with an extra floor added, but it still brought back many fond memories of my time at New. It is no exaggeration to say that people I met there had a profound impact on my life since then – including
my subsequent career choice.”

Flash Back to … 1997

• John Quinn received the New College Award in only his second year in residence at New College. In his time at New College he was 1996 NCSA Social Director, 1997 New College Play Director, 1997–1998 Tutor; 2001–June 2002 Senior Resident Adviser and Session 2 2002 Acting Dean of Residents.

• Ian Walker entered his fourth year as Dean of New College, Allan Beavis his third year as Master.

• Rev. Brian Stolarczyk (see photos below) was an exchange student from the U.S. in 1997 living in 3AB. He is married to Sarah with a 5 month old baby boy Raymond. “We currently reside in Merrill, Wisconsin, USA. I have been back to visit the friends I made at New College four times since leaving and have very fond memories of the friendships I made there.”