Lauchlan McIntosh - 2012 Annual Dinner Guest Speaker
Annual General Meeting
President’s Report 2012 here.
The next AGM will be held in the Staff room of the Newcastle East Public School at 5:30 pm on Thursday, 28 June 2012 prior to the normal Committee Meeting.
Formation in 1986
On 9/12/86, in a phone call between two old boys, Dale Kemp and Dick Sanders, it was decided to form the NBHSOBA.The Steering Committee of ten met at the Newcastle Police Centre on 7/1/87. The OBA was launched at the Police & Citizens’ Boys’ Club on 20/3/87, where the inaugural committee was elected by the 93 former students and teachers present. Four Sub-committees were agreed on (Membership, Functions, Education, Historical) together with their members and Chairmen. The goals of the Association were agreed on, becoming the basis for the Constitution.
The Aims
The briefing notes circulated to the first Steering Committee meeting on 7 January 1987 listed the following aims:
To Facilitate Reunions
Share expertise between reunion committees. Maintain a master class list and (computerised?) mailing list. Annual dinner (all years), as per the NGHS Ex-Students Union.
To Set Up An NBHS Collection
Relics, memorabilia: collect, restore, preserve, catalogue and display.
Personal photographs, printed matter: copy and return.
School relics (gates, honour rolls, flag etc): recover.
School prizes, student donations: current status?
To Establish a Network of Useful Contacts
The body of former students, covering almost all of this century, has a wide range of professional and personal experience from which we could all draw, to our individual benefit, and that of Newcastle.
By the time the Constitution was drafted, the following important aim was added: To solicit, acquire, establish, administer and award gifts, bequests, scholarships, prizes and benefits for students of Newcastle High School and Waratah High School and such other schools as the Association from time to time may determine.”
The Constitution was modified on incorporation of the Association.