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The Friends' School Alumni Community

Locality: North Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6210 2200

Address: 23 Commercial Road 7000 North Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.friends.tas.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Check out this amazing artwork! Sophia Adelstein (Class of 2018) left The Friends' School in 2017 to travel to America with her family. Now we see here her winning entry Lunawanna Wrapping Cloth, a mixed-media piece in the 2019 Massachusetts Art Educators Association Art Show! Her former art teacher, Alice Bowman-Shaw remembers Sophia as an "Art Star" who worked a lot on dying fabrics with natural materials, an art that we can see she has taken with her across the world.

20.01.2022 The ABC Australia chats to Friends' Alumnus Charlie Potter (2019) on the effects of COVID-19 on young people in Tasmania. "Many young Tasmanians' plans had been thrown into limbo by the pandemic, but there was the potential for new opportunities."

20.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! Science Competition Winners, Roger Fleming and Bernard Gunther, displaying two Commodore 64 computers (possibly awarded as prizes). We think this photograph is from 1984, can anyone help us confirm this?

18.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! Two photographs of students in the tennis shed (c1970s) were found behind the mantlepiece in the old Accounts office a number of years ago. Could they be the same ‘casino-cuties’ referred to in Geoffrey Colbeck’s remembrances of 1972...

16.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! A drawing of the portico by Colin Campbell for the 1952 edition of Echoes. Colin Campbell, a boarder from Bothwell, attended Friends’ between 1946 and 1952.

15.01.2022 As 2020 draws to a close and we reflect on a year of challenge and change, it is interesting to look back even further to 1919 to a snapshot of school life and to see how the Friends’ community responded to the last great pandemic the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, also known as the Spanish Flu. High School Library Technician, Nicole Parums, has written a fantastic article on this very subject, which you can read by following the link below. https://www.friends.tas.edu.au/2020/11/16/the-last-pandemic/

15.01.2022 An interesting piece written by 2003 Alumnus Katie Quirk (Woolway). "As a person and professional, I’m extremely cause-driven and it’s important to me to work with clients whose overall ethos aligns with mine, who has a story worth telling and whose end goal goes beyond money-making."

14.01.2022 Recognising the growing concern of our students, the school has made the decision to create a Climate Impact Policy and set of guidelines. These documents will set the philosophy, tone and narrative with regards to climate and environmental impact for The Friends’ School into the future. As part of this process, we are seeking feedback from our alumni and School community through a 5-minute survey. Please follow the link for more information and to access the survey.

12.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! Friends' has always had an amazing selection of sports available and some amazing athletes to go with them. Here is a selection of Sports action shots from the 1940s to the 1960s. Check each photo for some more information.

10.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! Friends’ Middle School Junior Red Cross, 1970. Red Cross groups were set up in the Middle School during the early 1960s. An extract from the 1970 edition of Echoes documents their activities and fundraising efforts during that year.

04.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! 1994. How many Clemes students can you fit in a Kingswood? Can you help us identify these students? Update: We have some of the names of the students: Daniel Ten Broeke, Ben Duffy, Stefan Giameos, Chris Cooper, Scott Richardson and Jessie Bills.

03.01.2022 How incredible is this? Yesterday our archivist received this in the mail: It's a certificate for Alumnus John Henry Gould (father of Alumnus John Lyndhurst Gould) from the University of Tasmania stating that he passed his Junior Public Examinations. The best bit? This certificate is from 1898! Thank you to Rosemary Butler for sending in this very special artifact.

01.01.2022 Throwback Thursday! Ernest Unwin teaching a science class, c1935. Ernest Unwin, Headmaster of Friends’ from 1924 to 1944, was an educator, scientist and artist. Shortly after his arrival Unwin introduced Botany, Biology and Art classes to the curriculum, as well as promoting and supporting all aspects of the dramatic arts. ... He was described as a ‘positive, buoyant, constructive and progressive man with an ability to combine the arts with sciences and inspire his many students’ and an artist and scientist who could ‘bring romance into a subject which to a beginner might well appear devoid of any warmth’.