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Old Castlemaine Schoolboys Association

Locality: Castlemaine, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5472 2202

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25.01.2022 Cooper A Thanksgiving Service to Honour the life of Mr. Neville Alexander Cooper will be held at the... Community Centre, Elizabeth St, Campbells Creek On FRIDAY (Aug 11) at 11-30am A private cremation will follow Campbells Creek Fire Brigade Honours

22.01.2022 Have you ever wondered what our archives looks like? Well thanks to the Mt Alexander Community Enterprise, we have been able to place our documents in archival sleeves and new storage boxes. This is one of our many steps towards getting our collection onto our page at https://victoriancollections.net.au//old-castlemaine-schoo The Old Castlemaine Schoolboys Association would like to thank the Mt Alexander Community Enterprise for their support with our project!

21.01.2022 Havent gotten around to booking your spot for our upcoming dinner? Dont panic! There are still plenty of spaces available. Get in touch with us and we can put a place aside for you.

21.01.2022 For those of you who may be interested, Castlemaine Secondary College (the former high school) has just opened a new tech area. Heres a short clip which shows the new space.

21.01.2022 It's usually this time of year when we contacting our members about the Annual Old Castlemaine Schoolboys reunion in October, which has been held on the 2nd Saturday in October since 1913, 107 years ago. Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic the committee has decided that this year the Reunion and family BBQ cannot go ahead. We will not be asking for your membership this year, but we do hope you can consider making a donation to our school book program. Each year we don...ate books to all primary schools in the Mount Alexander Shire. and give support to chaplaincy at Castlemaine Secondary College. You can make a donation directly to our bank account: Ref: Your Name BSB: 633-000 Account: 123 613 135 We understand that times are tough and encourage you to touch base with your fellow old schoolboys by letter, phone or online. Please also try and encourage a NEW OldBoy to come along to next years reunion. Our Secretary would be pleased to send out many new invitations if you could supply contact details to him for a new Oldboy. Membership is open to Oldboys you have attended a school within the Mt Alexander Shire and is over the age of 30 years. We look forward to seeing you all at the 2021 Reunion. See more

21.01.2022 Might be of interest. I am in the photo along with - maybe some of you???

20.01.2022 Congratulations to Peter Thompson, Terry Robinson and Ron White for becoming life members of the association tonight. Well done

18.01.2022 Once again the reunion has come around and I look forward to meeting you all on the 8th of October, The Committee hope you will make the effort to join us to make this day a success. I take this opportunity to thank the Committees for the support given to me throughout my year as your President, and my thanks is extended to Mrs. Lyn Timmins who has co-ordinated our ladies committee. Thank you Lyn for your loyal support to our association. Thank you to our stewards for the won...derful effort that they go to each year. To our Ladies Committee and their helpers, my appreciation for their continued support; without them our reunion would not be the success that it is. The Barbecue is to be held in the Botanical gardens on Sunday 9th and I ask you all to make the effort to come along as it is a great opportunity to meet old friends and their families, To help our Association continue we need New Members. I strongly urge you to help find new members and their addresses, so that I can encourage them to attend. It is up to all of us to make the effort and invite new members to our reunion or we will be faced with the fact that it will not be able to continue. My congratulations and support to our incoming President, William Sikora. I wish him the very best during his term of office. P. Cole, President https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/old-castlemaine-schoolboys-

15.01.2022 Members are advised that the AGM for the Old Castlemaine Schoolboys Association Inc. will be held on 16/07/2017 at the Castlemaine Trades Hall, 127 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine at 1:30 PM. Agenda: Attendance... Welcome Minutes of Previous AGM Treasurers Report Election of Office Bearers General Business A copy of our rules can be found on our website. Please Contact Peter Thompson if unable to attend on 03 5472 2202

15.01.2022 This week our members would normally be delivering new books to all the Primary Schools within our Shire as part of our ongoing commitment of support to the Schools that gave us our educations in our younger years. Due to COVID this year our Annual Reunion was cancelled but many of our members still sent in their donations to help keep this part of our tradition going. Thank you Old Boys the Schools do all appreciate this support. Pictured at the Maldon Primary School after collecting their Books for the Library.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to our newly elected president Bill Sikora. This photo shows L-R: John Sikora (Senior Vice-President Elect), Bill Sikora (President Elect), Peter Cole (Immediate past President) , and Peter Thompson (Secretary). Bill will be inducted as president at our reunion in October.

12.01.2022 It is with great sadness that i post to inform our members that Ken Martin a Life member of our association and a member for over 60 years, Ken has served on our commitee as Treasurer for 35 years and has also served as our President. Ken passed away in Bendigo yesterday. Our kindest thoughts go out to his family. Ken will be in our honours list at this years reunion when we pause for our minute of silence to remember our members who have passed since our last reunion. Rest peacefully Ken. A true and loyal Oldboy.

12.01.2022 Its usually this time of year when we contacting our members about the Annual Old Castlemaine Schoolboys reunion in October, which has been held on the 2nd Saturday in October since 1913, 107 years ago. Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic the committee has decided that this year the Reunion and family BBQ cannot go ahead. We will not be asking for your membership this year, but we do hope you can consider making a donation to our school book program. Each year we don...ate books to all primary schools in the Mount Alexander Shire. and give support to chaplaincy at Castlemaine Secondary College. You can make a donation directly to our bank account: Ref: Your Name BSB: 633-000 Account: 123 613 135 We understand that times are tough and encourage you to touch base with your fellow old schoolboys by letter, phone or online. Please also try and encourage a NEW OldBoy to come along to next years reunion. Our Secretary would be pleased to send out many new invitations if you could supply contact details to him for a new Oldboy. Membership is open to Oldboys you have attended a school within the Mt Alexander Shire and is over the age of 30 years. We look forward to seeing you all at the 2021 Reunion. See more

12.01.2022 It is with great sadness that i post to inform our members that Keith Odgers a member of our association for over 25 years passed away in Queensland on New Years Day. Our kindest thoughts go out to his family. Keith will be in our honours list at this years reunion when we pause for our minute of silence to remember our members who have passed since our last reunion. Rest peacefully Keith

11.01.2022 So we found the Sheet music for the old boys song. see if you can follow the words!

11.01.2022 Renewals can now be paid online

11.01.2022 Great find by Peter Cole & Bill Sikora

10.01.2022 The Barkers Creek School honour board

08.01.2022 Have you visited our archive yet? Over 100 new artifacts have been added to the site including various yearbooks and photographs. Be sure to let us know what you think!

07.01.2022 The Age,Thursday 12 September 1912, page 15 (Source-Trove) The members of the Castlemaine Old Schoolboys Association are having their first annual reunion at the town hall, Castlemaine, on Wednesday next. The function promises to be a great success as a large number, of "old boys" now residing in Melbourne and other parts of thc State have signified their intention of being present. Members of the provisional committee are working enthusiastically to secure the success of the associations first social reunion. The local secretary, Mr. P. C. Baker, will be pleased to communicate with any old boys who attended school in Castlemalne prior to 1890 who have not already .been communicated with. Information can also be obtained to-day and every Thursday from Mr. C. T. Hasler, of Citizens-chambers, Collins-street

04.01.2022 It was great to see so many of our committee members today at our AGM . Congratulations to all of our elected committee for this year and our new elected President is Jake Cutlack. Jake will be taking over from Ian Gallagher who led us well over the past year, we congratulate them both . This years official school to visit is to be Olivet. Looking forward to seeing you all at our reunion weekend October 12 & 13

04.01.2022 Have you seen Our Honour Boards? Eight honour boards were created and distributed to schools in the district and we are wanting to obtain a list of the pupils names to go onto our website. If you have a photo, or know where we could find these boards, please contact us!

01.01.2022 Our special assembly also included some musical items and a presentation of books for the library. Thanks to Drew from DTM Education for the music tuition throughout the year and the Old Castlemaine Schoolboys Association for the books. They are greatly appreciated!

01.01.2022 An update to the Honour Boards: There were infact 14 honour boards created by the Old Boys association. They Were: Barkers Creek: Unknown Campbells Creek: Castlemaine South: Names and Photo obtained.... Castlemaine North: Names and Photo obtained. Chewton: Elphinstone: Names and Photo obtained. Faraday: Unknown Fryerstown: Names and Photo obtained. Guildford: Harcourt: St. Marys: Names and Photo obtained. Winters Flat: Woodbrook: Believed to be lost due to fire Yapeen: Names and Photo obtained. See more

01.01.2022 Looking to renew your membership, or to become a member? you can now do this online at: http://goo.gl/forms/sJZMwQ8U4BwYTMt03