'Memory Lane' pres prepared for 40 year reunion

1. A HEARTY WELCOME TO THE
40 YEAR REUNION OF THE 1972 MARCELLIN
COLLEGE MATRICULATION CLASS
October 19, 2012

3. Bulleen - 1963

4. Bulleen Campus – Early days

5. School in flood -1971

6. Staff -1972

11. Student Senate
•Mark Rischin (Captain)
•Frank Woollard (Vice-
Captain)
•Peter Ebsworthy
•Jack Pearce

12. House Captains
• Red - Cliff Price
• Blue – Mark Rischin
• Green – Mark Stevens
• Gold – John Stanton
• Maroon – Rob Frazer
• White – Frank Woollard

13. Noteworthy at the Time
• BECAME CO-ED WITH OLMC GIRLS IN SCIENCE.
• YEAR 12 ‘COMMON’ ROOM INTRODUCED
• SMOKING ALLOWED, AND GAMBLING
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP (WALSHY’S RECORD SALES)
• PILLOW FIGHTING!!!!
• ROCKIN’ AWAY TO CLEVELAND ROAD, STONEHENGE, LONDON
EXPRESS WITH COMIC RELIEF BY FRABUL.
• 1st XVIII INFLICT FIRST DEFEAT OF ASSUMPTION IN MANY YEARS
• A THOUGHT FOR MARK RISCHIN, GERRY COLLINS, KIERAN
MORELY –SADLY NO LONGER WITH US.

17. Schoolboys smoking – Who?
Where? What?

18. Ciggy Brands – Which Did You
Smoke?
• Marlboro – top seller since 1972
• Others
– Camel
– Benson & Hedges
– Kent
– Stuyvesant
– Dunhill
– Alpine
– Kool

19. But Anyhow!

20. The Year 1972 – Memory Lane
• Newsmakers and Events
• Music
• Film and TV
• Sport
• Cars
• Best Selling Books
• Fashion and Lifestyles

22. Famous image - Vietnam

23. Apollo Space Missions

24. Nixon and Mao

26. IDI AMIN

27. MAJOR AUSTRALIAN
EVENTS/PEOPLE IN 1972
Labor wins power for first time in 23 years.
Conscription ends.
Diplomatic relations with China established.
Faraday School kidnapping.
Warning ‘Smoking is a Health Hazard’
became compulsory on cigarette packets.

29. First VB stubby is released

30. Puckapunyal Training – remember
the ballot – close call for us?

31. Converted from imperial to metrics
– furlongs to metres

34. Misses Universe and World

35. Germaine and Ita – Both Told Us

36. Old Currency - $1 bought couple of
packets of cigs, $2 how many pots?

37. 7c stamps – remember Norm

38. 1972 in Music
1st Sunbury Festival on Jan 29-31
Debuts
Wings, ELO, ABBA
Average White Band, E-Street Band
Ol’55, Steely Dan, Van Halen
Disbanded - Credence Clearwater Revival

39. 1972 in Music (cont) –Top Albums
Harvest, Thick as a Brick
Slade Alive, Machine Head
Exile on Main Street,
Chicago V, Caravanserai
Divine Miss M
Transformer, Hot August Night
Bridge Over Troubled Water

40. 1972 in Music - Top Singles
Superstition, Without You
Boppin’ the Blues Heart of Gold
Horse With No Name Day by Day
American Pie Imagine
Long Cool Woman I Am Woman
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Most People I Know Think That I’m Crazy
School’s Out Forever

41. Vinyl 45s

42. Carson – Boogied at School Social
August 7,1972 Kew Town Hall

44. Rolling Stones

45. Elvis

46. Jacko

48. A Popular Magazine.
Remember Hoadley’s ‘Battle of the Sounds’

49. Thorpey, Sabbath

50. Mad Dogs and Englishmen

51. Rod (still going strong)
Blackfeather- Boppin’ the Blues

52. Tina Turner –Nutbush?

53. J. O-K

54. All Things Must Pass!

55. 1972 in Film –Top Films
Godfather – Best Picture
Poseidon Adventure,
Deliverance,
Cabaret, The Getaway,
Roy Bean, Frenzy,
Lady Sings the Blues,
Valachi Papers,
Deep Throat, Fritz the Cat,
Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Stork

59. Stork McKenna – Oyster anyone?
Barry McKenzie –Oz Ambassador.

61. King Curtis, Spiros Arion and Mark Lewin/ Jack Little
and Waldo Von Erich

67. Golden Bear - Masters and US Open
Champion, Smokin’ Joe

68. Rosewall and Wade
1972 Australian Open Winners

69. Munich Olympics - Australians at
Opening Ceremony

70. Black Power Salute

71. Munich Olympics - 1st ever loss of USA B’ball
team – to USSR

72. Spitz – 7 Golds, Gould 3

73. Olga Korbut

74. Terrorism

75. 1972 in Australian Sport
o AFL
o Carlton premiers,
o Len Thompson Brownlow,
o Peter McKenna 130 goals
o Cricket – Ashes drawn 2-2, WA wins Shield.
o Swimming – Shane Gould 3 Golds at Olympics and
Australian of Year
o Melbourne Cup – Piping Lane

76. Ashes 1972 – Massie the Hero

78. McKenna and Thompson

79. Piping Lane wins the Cup
John Letts the jockey

80. Bathurst - Brock Wins

81. Holdens - Kingswood, Monaro, Torana, Ute
and the XA Falcon

82. Best Selling Books
• 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
• 2. August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• 3. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
• 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• 5. The Word by Irving Wallace

83. Twiggy - The 1st Super
Model

84. Fashions in the Field and Mini-Skirt

85. Hot Pants and other fashions

87. Nike Cortez – 1st Nike Shoe and
Adidas, plus other shoes

88. •Thanks for coming.
•It’s great to see you all.
•Happy Reminiscing.
•We hope you enjoy the
evening.