Appendix to Chapter 3

APPENDIX  – People in My Childhood

Neighbours

Bob Kruger	20 James Street - Ganger on roads for Burrum Shire. Fished. Gardened, drank a little beer, went fishing, bet on horse races
Ruth Kruger	Bob’s wife – a good neighbour
Glen Kruger	Oldest son of Bob and Ruth – became curator of Hervey Bay Botanical Gardens
Trevor Kruger	Next son of Bob and Ruth
Wendy Kruger	Bob and Ruth’s daughter
Raymond Kruger	Youngest son of Bob and Ruth – only four fingers on one hand
Gordon Crocker	17 James Street
Mrs Crocker	Gordon’s wife
Carolyn Crocker	Daughter of Gordon and Mrs Crocker
Rodney Crocker	Son of Gordon and Mrs Crocker (Brain Injury from birth?)
Mr Pitman	19 James Street – worked at Howard Power Station
Mrs Pitman	Left Mr Pitman
Adrian Pitman	Son of Mr & Mrs Pitman
Mrs Witt	14 James Street
Mrs Wilmot	16 James Street
Shirley Wilmot	Daughter - Threw a rock at me one day and hit me on the forehead

Primary School Teachers

L R Black (Chook)	Headmaster
Mrs Schulz	Prep 1 – Kept lollies in a jar for birthdays
Mrs Churchill	Grade 2 or 3 - Said I had lovely blue eyes like her son
Mr Hills	Grade 4 - Rode a motor bike – fell off it one day
Mr Gillen	Grade 5 - Embarrassed me one day by getting me to spell to his class (one year above me) to show his students that they were cretinous. Bashings at lunch. In Grade 5 he thrashed me for reading a Western in his class
Polly Perkins	Human Hovell – rote learning

Primary School Classmates

Beverley Demaine	Gloria Hock’s cousin
Jennifer Fahey	Quiet girl – worked in a café on Kent Street
Gloria Hock	I had a crush on her
Anita Rampton
Barbara Royal	Became a housemaid at a hotel
Larry Ballinger
Noel Beherens
Wayne Burris
Billy Cook	We got the cuts for fighting near the rubbish bins
Neil Dempster	Beat me by one mark for Dux of the School
Ian Francis
Des Hansen	Had lots of toys, including a meccano set
Allan Hedberg
Ian Hodge	His father died. Gave me a strawberry lolly (shaped like strawberry
Neil Hodgkinson
Doug Kelly
Barry Morrison	Twin brother of Bevan
Bevan Morrison
Stan Neilson	Smooth talker
David Parkes
Colin Robinson
Marshall Sanderson
Bill Schubert
John Styles
Geoff Skerrit
Ray Suter
Les Tudman	Had green teeth
Ian Turton	Closest friend I had at school, then he moved to the Bay
Ken Wheeler	His uncle was a night-soil man
Ray Williams	In band with Barry Morrison and one other

Les’ Primary School Class

Bevan Brady	Had first TV set in neighbourhood; HUGE aerial mast – went there once, stared in awe at test pattern for 10 minutes
Dennis Melksham	Lived behind us in Ariadne Road  -  Very theatrical
Skinny Neilson	We got into trouble for swinging round the sundial pole at little lunch
Ted Singleton	Good cricketer
Merv Stafford	Caused me to break my foot once – Owned radio Stations later in life

High School Teachers

K N McKenzie	Headmaster
Les Winkle	Deputy headmaster – He & I both spoke at Youth Employment Conference once
Mr Andresen	Physics teacher
Clinker Clarke	English Teacher – made me write essay on ‘Idiotic Idiosyncrasies of Wotherspoon’
Tom Matheson	Teacher. Sang in amateur opera society
Skinny Reid	Chemistry teacher
Arnie Wilmore	Maths/English teacher ex fighter pilot

High School Students

Gerry Adams	Brother of Dave  (Scoutmaster)
Pete Barham	Bad lad
Keith Beutel	Sailed
Bunny Burchill	Scouts too
Gary Burns	Good footballer
Robin Cripps	Became a doctor – owes me 20 pounds; scouts too
Graham Durston	In Les’ class, but he and I later worked together in the Department of Children’s Services
Nev Hastings	Scouts too
Joe Hoffmann	Father kept bees at Granville, became reporter, now owns several newspapers, based at Goondiwindi – Goondiwindi Argus
Bruce Horsburgh	Scouts too
Peter Isles	Son of a doctor – sailed
Jeff Matheson	Was school teacher, hated it, all his working life, now retired to be a famous author
Les Panton	Bad lad – prefects cut his hair one day Also in Scouts
Bill Parkinson
Polly Perkins	Not the teacher, obviously – Margaret worked with his sister at Ashgrove Library
Jake Senyard	Bad lad
Geoff Skerrit	Became head of fire Services Qld
Jeff Williams	Beat me in the Primary School’s spelling bee

4^th Maryborough Boy Scout Troop

Don Downing	Scoutmaster - Duck
Jill Downing	Don’s Wife
Dave Adams	Scoutmaster
Harry Goodwin	District Scoutmaster – also alderman

Other People in My Life at this Time

Ernie Bandholz	Carpenter friend of Ern’s – wore cloth cap
Snowy Turner	Mechanic – shop next to Ern’s
Cec Titelbach	Bad lad – could balance a spanner on his, ahem; sent me on a bareback horse ride one day
Les Daniels	Baptist Sunday School – worked in Daniels Foundry making stoves
Wally Seesink	Lived in the Clifton/Leyburn areas – share farmers
Dorothy Dempster		Neil’s mother – ran an elocution school –Neil & I were in an all-boys’ choir at the Maryborough Eisteddfod. We all forgot the same line at the same time. ‘John was a tyrant, John was a tartar’ Poem.