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VALE VICTOR BERQUEZ

Followers of the Virtual Yallourn website will be deeply saddened by the recent passing of Victor Berquez. Victor died on the 19th March after a long and courageous battle with debilitating illness.

Victor, who commenced his studies at Yallourn High School in 1961, was a most popular identity throughout the Latrobe Valley. He was a talented sportsman whose passion for music and supreme sense of humour will long be remembered in years to come.

John at Yallourn Primary School

THE LATROBE RIVER - 1920’s & 30’s

Title: Rowboat

YALLOURN HIGH SCHOOL ‘PYLON’ MAGAZINE COMMITTEE

1973 - 50 YEARS AGO

Caption:   Pylon ‘staff’ at work

Source: This photograph was in the 1973 edition of the YHS ‘Pylon’ magazine

GRACE ROULSTON (SCOTT) -  A CARING AND HUMBLE ACHIEVER OF YALLOURN

INTRODUCTION

This article is to place on record Grace Roulston’s positive influence on the lives of many children of Yallourn and the district; and to document her keen involvement in the local community. 

Researched and written by Kaye Brill 2022

To read the full article, please click on the pdf link.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE

Caption text: WASHING DAY AT YALLOURN. Employees of the State Electricity Commissioners are seen at the wash-tubs In the main construction camp at Yallourn. Eventually, perhaps, cheap electricity will dispense with manual labour in the laundry, but that era is only just dawning. H. Krantz, South Melbourne, Photo.

Jim Collins & Chris Rutter

Source: Les Gunn

Anne Marie Harrington attended Yallourn High School & trained to become a registed nurse at Yallourn Hospital. She spent many years at Central Gippsland Hospital Sale, before retiring in 2010. Anne passed away 13-12-2022 RIP Anne.

LVCH Nurses one Christmas in Yallourn (circa 1965)

Yallourn - Year by Year - 1933 - Robert Dixon above

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920); and for the next six decades the township of Yallourn ‘took root, bloomed, withered and died’….

This photograph is said to have been taken in 1922. The first school at Yallourn was a weatherboard cottage at 4 Hillside. Source: ‘Virtual Yallourn’

1922 - Yallourn State School

NOTES ON EARLY DAYS OF SCHOOLING AT YALLOURN 

Back Row:  Ian Brown, Richard Christie, Clive Scott, Tony Smith, Brian Shaw, Frank Shine, Eddie Wissmer, Tony Rozenstein, Walter Zajarski, Terry Sullivan, Alan LeLivre, Eddie Blythe, Neville Douglas, ? , Neil Clancy, Svetle Petrovic, Ron Cook, Maurice English, Roger Vale, Wayne Mooney, David Hebb

Middle Row: Peter Ganz, Richard Kurec, Arkie Ivanic, Katrina Anderson, Diane Edwards, June Morgan, Barbara Malek, Janice Cole, John Thorpe, John Walsh, Murray Champion

Front Row: Maureen Kitney, Eunice Hill, Monika Karpinski, Penny Heath, Thelma Daniels, Elizabeth Armstrong, Greta Kunca, Olga Tabaczynski, Jillian Dolphin, Judi Vincent

1981 - Time Capsule from St John's Church 1923

This photograph shows Rev. Blair Grace, of St Aidan’s Anglican Church in Newborough, holding one of the items placed in a time capsule and buried at the St John’s Church in Yallourn in 1923.

The contents of the time capsule included a selection of documents related to the Church in that era. Among the capsule’s contents were a letter, an advertisement and various handwritten notes by the Parish Minister at that time - Rev. Dicker.

1955 - LVFL GRAND FINAL:   YALLOURN  v  SALE

INTRODUCTION

As the 2022 AFL Finals approach, the above press release may prove of interest to football followers and former supporters of Yallourn Football Club.  

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920); and for the next six decades the township of Yallourn ‘took root, bloomed, withered and died’….

Title:  Yallourn-Railway Station staff with local Victorian Railway employees group on steam locomotive 131. 12-7-1948.

Source: State Library of Victoria. Reference:  H2009.18/234