Photos prompt Ohakune School memories

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 521, 1 February 1994, Page 5

Photos prompt Ohakune School memories

Schooling in Ohakune will celebrate its centennial in 1996. It was on 1 October 1896 when the first school was opened with Miss Ethel Manson teaching 'six or seven' pupils of various ages. A meeting will be held 7 February at the Ohakune Primary School, to form a jubilee committee. Ruapehu College staff member Merilyn George has produced the photographs at right, which she says should prompt some memories for readers. Staff 1954, (bottom right) This was the staff for both the primary and the secondary departments, during the year prior to the full separation of the secondary department and the beginning of Ruapehu College. They are, from left back row: M Watson, B Carlton, P

Jenkins, W McLea. 2nd row: P Phippen, Sandford ?, K Pound, N Cochrane, O Labrum, S Drayton, L Roache. 3rd row: S Frost, P Youngman, B Pawley, J Browning, Sandford, M Miller, J Bryers, M MacKintosh, I Taylor. 1 st row: K Eising, T Edmond, D Callaghan, T McCullough, W Seerup, unknown, Eileen (sumame unknown). Students 1 935, top photo. Pictured is the secondary department pupils from 1935, from left back row: Leo Herbert, T Larsen, J Graham, R Mosen, C Climo, R Murphy, R Bryers, T Crowley, W Waite, H Morgan, G Bolstad, J Minnieth, H Pumphrey. 2nd row: G Anderson, M Cosford, A Rzoska, K Kaanga, J Hardy, R McCready, J Cohen, I Millard, J Coffey, D Guthrey, A Goff, M Parr, N Fagg, G Chan. 3rd row: L Keightly, H Jones, J Watson, E Henricksen, W Fleck, J Briffault, A Goodman, M Munro, E McCarthy , C Slater, E Plunket, B Murphy, O Shout, J Larkin, J Millar, J Hall, H Ashwell, B Marshall. 4th row: G Thomas, N Bowman, J Windle, K McHugh, N Cosford, M Lynch, G Herbert. 5 th row: G Volkerling, B Lysaght, A Chan, T Dixon, P Nation, M Turrell, N Levick, G Goldfinch, M Langstone, G Hussey, A Blinkhorne, D Davis, M Lane, D Montgomery, J Banks. 6th row: H Windle, R Urwin, A Warner, A Purves. 7th row: M Pearce, J Adams, J Hardy, A Fredricksen, J Pearson, P Ogden, B Laing, H Walmsley, D Hancock, A Morris, M Pearce, T Purves, unknown, unknown, ? Wood. The jubilee committee would like to hear from anyone who has any further names.