SETTING: Orange High School, Orange NSW (Australia)
The Class of 1961 of Orange High School had its origins in many places. The majority started back at the "old" High School site, at the corner of Sale and March Streets, Orange, in January 1957, when around 90 students began their secondary education. Some came from the Orange Rural School (Intermediate High), which shared part of the Orange Public School site at
the corner of Sale and Kite Streets. A small number came from other towns
and the central schools in villages around Orange.
In mid-1959 Orange High School opened on the current Woodward Street
site, adding the students from Orange Rural School and becoming one of the
largest High Schools in New South Wales. Mr Leo D. O'Sullivan had replaced
Mr D R Blakemore at the start of 1959, and he had the job of creating an ethos
for the new school while not losing sight of the history and traditions of
the two schools.
A large number of "What I've Done Since 1961" biographies were compiled by Peter Smee for the reunion held at Orange on 13/14 October 2001 to celebrate
and remember the 40 years that had passed since our Leaving Certificate.
However, that information is most probably well out of date, and so it has now been removed from this web site until it can all be updated.
Along that five year journey to the 1961 Leaving Certificate, students
came and left our classes. We acknowledge those friends who shared the happy,
sad and serious moments with us at that great public school, even though they
didn't make it to the 1961 Leaving Certificate at Orange High School with
us. We are building a list of those Contemporaries on this page also.
And now for the BIG NEWS:
A Reunion is planned for 2011 - that will be 50 Years since our Leaving Certificate. We are hoping many of our class mates from 1961 can attend AND we also invite the contemporaries who were with us along the way.
Please contact either Peter Smee  or Bruce Fairhall to ensure your current details are recorded.
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We are especially searching for: Robyn Anderson; Janice Henson; Wolfgang Schmidt and John Schmelling.
Does anyone have any clues as to where we might start looking, please?
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Thanks to Jess Burke and Peter Smee, we have some photographic memories
of our 2001 Reunion.
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