HIGHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PHOTO 5TH GRADE

LEFT TO RIGHT

1ST ROW
BILL LAURIE, MAX JAMES, …….., MAURICE KITNEY, JIM HOLYOAK, BOB SELBY HELE, BOB AMOS, BILL MCLARTY, ALBERT TROAK, RAY BOLGER

2ND ROW
BRUCE MACHINE, FRANK RANDALL, BILL JONES, TWIN HARKIN BOB CONNELY, PEG WELFARE, …. PARRY, FRANK SUTTON, STAN WRIGHT, GERRY KNIGHT, WARWICK SQUIRES, MERV PRICE, BILL WHATELY

3RD ROW
LAURIS STANGER, JUNE MOULD, WILMA IRVINE, FAE LAWSON, MARY SUTTON, DOREEN POWELL, SHIRLEY WHITMORE, MARYL JOHNSTONE, IRENE HULL, BARBARA O’BRIEN, KATH O’BRIEN

4TH ROW

1938 Yallourn Blues Junior Soccer Team
Back Row: Bruce Spenser (reserve); Doug Wilson; Tom Melbourne; Ron Welfare
Middle Row: Bob Crookston; Roy Whelan; Ray Stanger; Ray Tate
Front Row: Tom Mills; --- Drane; Don McAllister; Syd Tate; Brian Downey
Coach: Tom Oddy
Photo taken at Yallourn Oval 1938
Syd 'Spudda' Tate (1925 – 2015) later played VFL football for Geelong Football Club between (1947 – 1951) and was a member of their 1951 Premiership Team.

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CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY
THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FAMILIES OF YALLOURN IS NOT KNOWN.
YEAR: UNKNOWN
REPRINTED FROM ‘YALLOURN WAS ‘ BY PRUE MCGOLDRICK (1984) PAGE : 69.

Pat Brennan, Malcolm Roberts, Peter Roberts - 12 Parkway - approx 1949