Radschool

Newsletter

Vol 11

Page 10

Where are they now?

If you know where any of these people are now, please let us know.

And if you’re looking for a long lost mate, send us your “Where are they now” photos

along with a few words. Perhaps we can help find him/her.

We’ve lost contact with 2 blokes, Arthur Turner from Innaloo, WA, and Mike Johnson from Kalgoorlie, WA. Does anyone have a current postal address for either??

Now here’s a blast from the past. The photo below was sent in by Bob Mathers.

AWOL at the time the photo was taken were Harry Stockdale, Mick Collisson and Dave Stretton. These old bodgies work (???) for Defence Air Publications in Melbourne and recently saw our magazine. Bob said that “the recent newsletter photos of old acquaintances such as Bob Bocus and Gil Lunn brought back many memories”.

Bob also said “In particular it was pleasing to see a photo of an old workmate like Keith Fletcher as well. He was my mentor when I first arrived back at Radschool as an instructor and I was especially grateful for his guidance at the time”. Angus Maclean reckons that these old stagers are probably the largest collection of ex Radschool blokes working (???) in the same area—anywhere in the known universe.

Col Price is looking for Ian Turner, Evan Wyatt and Wayne Ison—all ex Radschool blokes for the late 60’s. Ian was a telstech and spent time at Brookvale near Manly, Evan was from Wellington in NSW, but no-one has heard from him for yonks, and it is believed that Wayne Ison was working in Sydney in Real Estate. Any-one knowing the where-abouts of any  -  please get in touch.

Bill Bastion is trying to find Ian Scheutze. Bill last had contact with him at East Sale before he (Bill) was posted to Forest Hill in Wagga many years ago. Ian was a Rad Tech A and was also best man at the Bastion’s wedding and they would like to make contact again if possible. Bill asked if we could put a note in the next newsletter.

Done Bill—can any-one help.

We get some very funny mail here, and we are always pleasantly surprised at the great sense of humour that some of you blokes and blokettes have. Some of the answers to our little competitions are hilarious and definitely worth sharing, so we’ll share a few with you.

For the Darwin competition, Peter Holmes wrote:-   In my endeavour to win said bottle of your Royal Quaff, I contacted 4 Ex-Army personnel at the Burnie RSL who had all been in Darwin during WWII. It appears from their unanimous answers that your examples are all wrong. Their most explicit replies were to "How many bombs were dropped on Darwin during Japanese attacks. The result, a resounding....................... "A BLOODY LOT OF 'EM"

Dutchy Forster reckons that:-   More bombs fell on Darwin than fell on Pearl Harbour, and during the raid it was recorded that the Lord Mayor of Darwin rode his pushbike down to Alice Springs in one day....without a chain.

Doug Pankhurst wrote on the back porch question:-   The back porch is that area of the television signal from the trailing edge of the sync pulse to the start of the scan line. It is at black level and is typically around 6µS in length. It is also the area where the colour bust reference signal resides to allow decoding of the colour info that is contained in the 4.43MHz colour subcarrier.                Strewth……

John Cureton said:-   Isn't the back porch where you sleep when you get locked out?

Phil Holden complained:-   It wasn’t a fair question as he wasn’t there to count them.

And a bunch picked C just because that’s the way they did it at Radschool (is that true Frank??).

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