Recently added

Jean Evenden, Max Fox, Helen Gregson, Syd Davies

Helen Gregson, John Gloz

Joan Pollock, Lesley Smith

Lindie Brown, Fiona McKean, Gayle Ray, Nada Marinkovic, Kathy Parr

Tove Lerche, David McLennan

Judy Williams, Urszula Horbacz, Carole Sagar

Sandra Prust, Chris Francis, Janice Cook

Tove Lerche, David McLennan, Graham Beanland

Kendall Taylor, Suzy Taylor, Doris Jaritz, Donna Morris-Leggett

Fred McLeod, Mike Meany, Fred Dyer, Peter Turner

Val Fankhauser, Mary Lazarus, Lois Gust

Back Row: Helen Hender, Kevin Brogan, Julie Francis Sitting: Dianne Casey, Donna Casey, Heather Norden

Mr Cook was the first jeweller to have his own shop in Yallourn when a few were built in I think the early fifties, maybe late forties, between the National Bank and the picture theatre. Prior to that time, there were very few shops other than the SEC run General Store.

I am not sure that my watch came in this box which my parents gave me, I think for my 18th birthday. As it was a surprise, Mr Cook sent a selection into the National Bank (where I worked) on the pretense of it being for someone else, so I chose it not knowing it would be for me.

1947 THE RHODES SCHOLAR WHO ATTENDED YALLOURN STATE SCHOOL 4085 This news article was published in ‘The Argus’ and tells of Michael Thwaites’ impending return to Australia, from England, to take up a teaching post at Melbourne University in 1947. Michael Thwaites was a student at Yallourn State School 4085. In later years, while studying at Melbourne University, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and came to be regarded as one of our nation’s leading academics.

Michael Thwaites Source: The Australasian Nov 21 1936

Michael Thwaites 1915-2005 ex Yallourn State School 4085; Rhodes Scholar; Newdigate Prize and King's Gold Medal for Poetry Award Source: Family website

Honor Thwaites (wife of Michael Thwaites) in 1980s Source: Anglican News in 3D - August 2013