Profile - Ted Hartnell
What are your strongest memories of NSBHS?
Playing basketball at Melbourne in the Crawford Shield. After our first game one of the Melbourne coaches took pity on us and started putting us some through drills. By the third game we had improved so much that we lost by only 99 points!
Summarize briefly your life since school.
My current life can be summarized by the words “Ice Hockey”.
Right now I’m living in Lebanon, New Hampshire (USA) and while I’ve never been to Beirut, I’m pretty confident that New Hampshire’s Lebanon has nothing in common with its more famous namesake. For one thing, we are completely isolated up here – halfway between Montreal and Boston there are lots of trees, lots of snow, and no people.
We are here because my wife, Song, is attending nearby Dartmouth College – the university that inspired the movie “Animal House”. Specifically she is attending the Tuck School of Business (http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/). I love business school (having done it once already at Berkeley, California) so I jumped at the chance to quit my job and move out here with her.
Nick Verne’s job sounds so cool that it is going to be hard for me to convince you that my previous San Francisco job was awesome. But it was! I worked for this company called Wind River (http://www.windriver.com/) that wrote software for everything that America thinks is important. Our software not only runs the Internet, but runs all of those guided missiles in Iraq. In fact, our software is running the Mars Rovers (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/) and it was my bug that famously crippled “Spirit” for a week when it first landed on Mars.
So where does ice hockey come into this story? Well, I’ve been playing ice hockey for Tuck for the last two years and, while I spend most of my time warming the bench, I’m getting pretty good! In fact, we played Harvard Business School a couple of weeks ago in a tournament and I scored an assist! While an “assist” is not actually a goal but is credited to the guy that made the goal happen, it definitely ranks up there among my proudest moments!
Who are the most important people in your life today?
The Tuck Hockey Team. Oh, and Song I guess.
For more photos of the Tuck Hockey team go to:
http://tuckhockey.shutterfly.com/
For more photos of Song and me (the “Holiday Hartnells”) go to:
http://www.onegen.com/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/Family/FamilyPhotos
posted by NSBHS 87 @ 5:04 PM
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NSBHS fielded an unofficial ice hockey team at Narrabeen Ice Rink once in 1986.
(Not Approved or sanctioned by Paddy in any way despite request. I actually asked Paddy to seriously consider it being put up as a sport to play Melbourne in the Crawford Shield.)
We thrashed the two northern peninsula school teams that played ice hockey for school sport in regular competition. (They combined their best players when they saw the NSW state team colours on our players leggings.)
With over 50 goals scored in the first period (20 minutes) the game was abandoned due to its lopsidedness.
NSBHS team members were as follows with the year of completion of studies at NSBHS.
Marc de Rosnay (HSC NSBHS 1989) Rhodes Scholar [(Macquarie Bears Bantam){NSW state team captain}]; Jason Deiperveen (HSC NSBHS 1987); Alex Melinsky (HSC NSBHS) 1989; Pontas Valsinger (HSC NSBHS 1988)[{Victorian tange state team captain}{Prince Alfred Park Icemen - Midget + Juniors}]; Pavo Walker (HSC NSBHS 1989){Icemen bantams}, Ting Walker (HSC NSBHS 1987) {Icemen Midget + Juniors}.
It was an interesting day and certainly changed their attitude about all NSBHS students being faggots.
Hi Ting, mate send through your email address to nsbhs87@gmail.com so I can keep you updated on the reunion cheers john chambers
Ted - it was great to read your blog (albeit very much delayed). I too attended Tuck at Dartmouth (Class of 2000 - T'00) and know Lebanon NH well. My wife, Debby and I had great memories up there. We now live just west of Boston MA (Ashland) and have done for 7 years. I would love to catch up with you and your wife in person some time soon. My email address is adam.shields@comcast.net.
All the best,
Adam Shields
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