Great Hairstyles - cont.

Here is the next installment in our look at some of the special NSBHS hairstyles. What can be said here? I just hope that time I clocked Adrian with a baseball bat didn't contribute at all to this look. and Ben, well, all I can say mate is "sorry".

Recognise this pretty boy?

Lets face it the girls always loved him, from Tina Phan onwards. And he looked great in a pair of footy shorts. Just a pity his lucrative modelling career was cut short by, well, other lucrative opportunities.

The Unidentified

Just publishing the up-to-date list of the people we still need to track down:

David Anderson, Renis Balpurvis, Adrian Buddle,Sean Burns , Philip Chang, John Cornell, Simon Correy, Oliver Cousins, Jason Diepeveen, Matthew Dixon, Bruce Doig, Mark Elliot, Nicholas Endusa, Nathan Gilbert, Leonard Gillespie, Cameron Glendinning, Brent Gowland, Richard Gracia, Rod Gregor, Craig Harre, Paul Hodgetts, Graeme Homan, Gordon Hume, Michael Jones, Bruce MacLennan, James Mathieson,Campbell McLeay,Ross Morrison , Mark Oakley,Giles Parker,Benjamin Patterson,John Pilato,Stephen Porter,Nicholas Radford, Jeremy Riches, James Ridley,Adam Rigby,Darren Robertson,Adam Shields, Simon Spicer, Suresh Tharmalingam,Andrew Townsend, Ting Walker,John Wardle,David Westwood, Angus Wilson, David Withington, Ivan Zizic

Owen and Jim in '87

I know after seeing Owen and Jim in Central Park you were wondering what they looked like in '87 so here they are - along with a fresh faced Damo King, Mike Lee (who had thankfully sorted out his hair by that stage) and some other smiling lads!

Profile - Owen Gan

Memories of nsbhs
Lets see…… brandings, king gees, handball (darren clarke and nick radford cleaning everyone up), weird bell times (17 minute recess, 53 minute periods??), bus run, custard tarts, some church in lindfield that thought they were getting kids off the street on friday nites in year 10, but were just giving us a place to get hammered (and to use the leigh Sanders developed laminated fake train pass age IDs – interestingly, I still use fake ids now, but for the exact opp reason…), water bombs, memorable teachers – lynch, weiss, williams, becker (shark wrestler), brown, hilditch, armour (we could start a separate blog on mr armour alone!), mcbride (thanks for the hotel laundry cleaning work experience gig), that lady english teacher that used to say f*ck a lot, bizarre school trip to indonesia in year 11 with simon, jim, cameron and co, morning bus sojourn with jim and wayland, blob and “bad beard”, bennie teh in pyjamas by 5pm, great sports, great atmosphere

Comment on attached photo - last year in ny with mr copland - temp was well into negative numbers - jim spent the day leisurely walking around with a simple long sleeve shirt on whilst I froze with about 7 layers and a ridiculous hat

Life since school
Gotta say, ive enjoyed reading the previous profiles, really interesting - ted's ice hockey in lebanon the stand out! Scary that it took me quite a while to remember what actually happened in the 90s! Well, went to uni after high school – was a commerce degree, so could squeeze lectures into just 2 days and worked various jobs. Lived for holidays and overseas adventures for some years. Kind of a groundhog-week existence for a while (that can happen when you go and finish uni early and aren’t ready for serious work..). Lot of sports (badminton – inc some overseas tours) until knee packed in in 94… Finished a MBA in 97, then got a “proper” job, which started with the set up of a SAP consultancy in Singapore – a three month deal, that has turned into 7 and a half years in Asia! Was involved in the set up of the Siemens IT Services business for the region, more recently was managing some product groups for CA across Asia, before very recently joining a start up Telco software vendor (would have been called a dot-bomb several years back..)
As always seems to be the way when you live overseas – particularly in Asia, you freeze at the age you were when you arrived… which makes me still 27. the personal and emotional life has followed this pattern also. Was engaged when moved up here, but that relationship couldn’t take the change, unfortunately…
Btw - If anyone is passing though Singapore, don’t hesitate to contact me. do have some nsbhs mates here that finished in like 1998!! (see 2 sentences back).

Who is important to me now?
Girlfriend, great group of local and expat mates, family…

another pic

will have to post a few of these highlighting some of the special hairdo's - Darren Robertson is he first of many inspired by Flock of Seagulls. and whoever knew that Trent Allen was actually a hardman for the Aryan Brotherhood (you can see it in the eyes....)
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New Feature - pics from the past

Hi all, thanks to Ben Brown I have my hands on our "87 yearbook and will post up some pictures regularly to take you back to where it all began. To start we have a George Kostas portrait of our Senior Leadership Team - Hendy, Young, Andrews and "World Party" Wilson.

Year Photo?

Does anyone have a decent quality photo of our year (preferably in Year 11 or 12) that they can scan and send through to nsbhs87@gmail.com so we can post it on the blog?

Profile - Jim Copeland

What are your strongest memories of NSBHS?
Our year's obsession with sport and the art of sarcasm.
Paddy's reign of terror.
NSBH winning chess and debating vs Melbourne High (ie losing everything else!) and them swaying in time on the stage behind, and out of sight of, the "official party" as we sang "Soars the Falcon".

Summarise briefly your life since school
After year 12, Owen Gan and I worked in a the life savers factory near his house in Lane Cove West. Then everyone went to Uni, but I wasn't ready, so I went to Western Australia, and worked on a sheep station north of Kalgoorlie for a year. Then Chris White persuaded me that Sydney Uni was better than New South, so I went there, joined the Athletics Club, and studied geology and law. By this time, it was 1995. I saw Phil Boas one night at the Greenwood, and we organised the NSBH 1987 10th year reunion, which may not have been all that well publicised beyond that night. After that I went back to the sheep station in Kalgoorlie. Then I got a job working as a geologist at an underground gold mine just south of Kalgoorlie for a couple of years, and played rugby for the WA School of Mines (there were only 4 teams in town, but we still only won one game in 2 years). The bright lights beckoned, so I went to Perth, and worked as a very junior solicitor for Clayton Utz, mostly mining related stuff (ok, I was in a room full of old documents most of the time). Which was pretty much where I thought I'd stay until a bloke from an America investment bank got my name through a mate of a mate (yep, Owen Gan), and wanted someone with no financial experience to help him out analysing gold companies. So in 1999 I took the chance, and went to New York, where I found Pak Chwee Yeoh, Curtis Smith and Luke Tristram eking out an existence. I was there until last year, and I came home. After the last 10 months of soul searching, reading Tom Allard in the Sydney Morning Herald, seeing Dan Wylie on TV, and catching up with Chris White, Trent Allen, Benny Teh, Tony Robinson, Curtis Smith, even calling Wayland Gock from Ben's phone, I am only now just back in WA, in Perth, working for Macquarie Bank and playing rugby again for the first time in 4 years, trying to anyway. I'm looking forward to the reunion. Go the mighty Bears!

Who are the most important people in your life today?
Mates

Dan Wyllie - Silver Logie

Hey did everyone see that Dan Wyllie won the Silver Logie this year for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series? We haven't got his contact details yet but he shouldn;t be too hard to track down now....
http://tvweek.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=82052