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Snow at 1 Allambee Cres - August 1964

Jim Hill at 1 Allambee Cres - 1950

YALLOURN GIVES GENEROUSLY The following extract was published in the ‘Morwell Advertiser’ and again exemplifies the collective generosity of the people of Yallourn in raising funds for a ‘good cause.’ Former residents of Yallourn would be aware that there was ‘always’ a project or campaign unfolding to assist someone or a local community organization. The families of Yallourn always responded well to charitable events; and the quest to raise money for needy mothers and their children in 1954, as outlined below, was no exception.

Caption: The mysteries of a modern high-power electric switchboard being explained to a class at the Yallourn Technical School by the Principal (Mr. H. Beanland).

SOURCE: NLA: 20695587 -‘THE AGE’ TUESDAY 7th JUNE 1938 PAGE: 15.

Yallourn Basketball Team - circa 1957

Back Row: ? , Bev Mussared, Val Cook, ? , Barbara Park, Norma Oliver, Sonja Ostlund Front Row: Dianne Marshall, Brenda Sewell, Jill Grant, Irene Park, Faye Whitmore, ? , ? , Kaye Spurrier

These basketball teams were run by Sonja - her rule was "Don't turn up for practise - no game on Saturday!"

Senior & Junior Softball Back Row: Gail Fairclough, M Locke, M Griffiths, Helen Lawton, J Morris, Miss Grace Catchpole (teacher), Judy Scharinger, G Hulbe, L Mulgrew, Edith Jones Front Row: Ann Vincent, S Castleton, S Oliver, Jenny Scott, M Jenkins, B Sewell, Sue Bush, Diane Morrison

Possibly in the exchange team with Nunawading High School

Teacher: Mr Fulton Back row from left: Robert Hamilton, Geoffrey Wright, Pamela Robinson, Jean Taylor, Gayle Harrison, Jennifer Foster, Susan Barnard, Colin Gray 2nd back: Susan Humphries, Carol Moffat, Susan Collins, Jill Fulton, Ann Grinton, Elaine Denman, Florella Dorey, Shirley Rendal, Diane Prust 2nd front: Dean House, Kevin Love, Roderick Frowd, Geoffrey Daddo, Garry Vogel, Peter Fullarton, Wayne Dennis, Ian Hansen Front row: Susan Wakefield, Josie Gloss, Dianne Kromaloff, Dale Kromaloff, Rosemary Earle, Lynne Gardiner, Debra Triplett, Wendy Bodey, Christine Widdows

YTS Staff - 1986 Back Row: Olga Zelenewicz, Linda Cleeland, Gabrielle Turner, Norm Ryan, Cheryl Avery, Tony Mehew, Graham Coates, Graham Goulding, Alice Dyall 2nd Back Row: Peter Birkett, Jo Howell, Onno Van Den Eynde, Rick Toseland, Ken Peterson, John Dunwoodie, Ray Scheffer Middle Row: Carole Mann, Greg Gebhart, Steven Howe, Ron Nocentini, Bob Turner, Rod Allen, Peter Shearman, Steve Lanyon, Norm Forbes, Peter Wallin, Emmanuel Gelberidis

1928 - A CRISIS AT THE BROWN COAL MINE SETTLEMENT Life was difficult for many families in and around Yallourn in earlier times as can be seen from the following newspaper article. The story was published in ‘The Argus’ in 1928; and told of a series of deaths caused by an outbreak of gastro-enteritis at the Brown Coal Mine settlement. The epidemic at the Brown Coal Mine settlement gained widespread coverage throughout the nation; and one newspaper (‘Advocate’-Burnie, Tasmania) attracted great attention when it printed that the deaths at the BCM had been caused by meningitis.