TAS Old Boys' Union
Andrew Heap
President
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About the Union
In 1999 The Armidale School Old Boys’ Union celebrated its Centenary - 100 years of continuing association and contributions to the welfare of the School. The maintenance of that association with The Armidale School community keeps the spirit and ethos of the School alive as well as preserving amongst Old Boys the friendships and contacts gained at the School.
Our Union works very hard to enable its members to keep in touch with their friends and the overall School community, whilst at the same time contributing in many ways for the benefit of present and future students at TAS. This encompasses everything from year reunions to annual OBU weekends, invitations to School activities and functions, and to working bees (and fundraising) for specific projects for the well being of the School. A very successful Old Boys’ project was the magnificent Lych Gate at the entrance to the Chapel.
Objectives of the OBU
- To Promote the best interests of the School having regard to its traditions as a Great Public School and to cooperate with the School Board, the Headmaster, the TAS Foundation and the P&F Association;
- To maintain an active association of the Old Boys;
- To hold reunions and other functions;
- To arrange and effect sporting contests with the school;
- To provide for the distribution of Binghi to members of the Union;
- To cooperate with the NEGS Old Girls’ Union and Unions of other Schools in matters of common interest;
- To establish and maintain in memory of Old Boys of the School scholarships and bursaries tenable at the School.
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Archive 16mm Film (1968-1969 vintage) This film has been recently converted from 16mm stock (Quicktime - run time 20 minutes - file size 111 Mb)
Out-takes 1968-1969 (H. Hall) (.wmv) - Silent - run time 15 minutes - file size 120 Mb)
Useful historical link
trove.nla.gov.au is a website where all of the old newspapers have been digitised. You can see the actual article/photograph and then the electronic transcript of that article down the lefthand column (although this is not entirely accurate). It is amazing what made news in the Sydney Morning Herald/Brisbane Courier etc back in the late 1800's and early to mid 1900's. Very interesting read. You can search for all sorts of things too!
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