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South Sydney High School
South Sydney High School is a public school located in Maroubra, Sydney,

, Australia. Established in 1953 as a boys high school, it is today a

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

operated by the

New South Wales Department of Education The New South Wales Department of Education, a department of the Government of New South Wales, is responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of early childhood, primary school, secondary school, vocational education, adult, migrant and hig ...

for students from years 7 through 12. It primarily serves those coming from

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and the

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regions.

History

Following the

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, it was determined that the Maroubra Junction Technical School would be crowded out of its premises on Anzac Parade. A site for a new school, bounded by Paine Street in the north, and Walsh and O'Sullivan Avenue in the south, had been selected in 1945. This area was originally taken over by the Commonwealth Government for defence purposes. It was cleared as early as 1948 and preparations made for what was to be known as South Sydney Technical School. The building foundations were laid on 27 May 1950 by then Minister for Education, Bob Heffron. Due to long delays the first portion of the school was not ready until July 1952, with the school not being occupied until February 1953. On 5 April 1954, South Sydney Junior Technical High School was officially opened by the Governor of New South Wales, Lieutenant-General Sir John Northcott. At the beginning of 1959 it was decided that South Sydney Junior Technical High School would be renamed South Sydney Boys' High School, with the name taken from the reconstituted Maroubra Bay High School nearby. The end of 1961 saw the retirement of the school's first principal, William Dutton. In his place Thomas Tasker, who was headmaster of Northmead High School, was appointed. In 1962 the annual school magazine, "''Southerner''", was published for the first time. That same year, in honour of the contribution made to the school by Heffron, the library was named the "R. J. Heffron Library". In August 1980, the Minister for Education, Paul Landa, announced that South Sydney Boys' High School and Maroubra Junction Girls High would be partly co-educational in 1981 and fully co-educational in 1983 to become South Sydney High School and Maroubra High School respectively.

Principals

Houses

A House system was established by the early 1960s, dividing all students into four houses named after one representative from four main educational disciplines: *Banks – Science – named after botanist,

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. *Dutton – Education – named after the first headmaster, William Dutton. *Lawson – Literature – named after poet,

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. *Northcott – Defence – named after the NSW Governor who opened the school, Sir John Northcott.

Notable alumni

*Professor John Boyages – 1975 DUX, Professor of Breast Oncology and Director of ALERT (Australian Lymphoedema Education Research and Treatment), Macquarie University. * Tolu Latu – rugby union player and current

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. * Adam Liberman – 1969 School Captain, General Counsel for the CSIRO and Visiting Professorial Fellow of the

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. * Col Loughnan – former member of The Delltones, and

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, and lecturer in saxophone at the

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since 1978. *

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– fashion designer. *

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– rugby union player * John Sutton – rugby league player for

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league club based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-southern Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and are one of nine existing tea ...

. * Mike Whitney – former Australian Test Cricketer and television personality. * Scott Wilson – rugby league player * Macario De Souza – Australian filmmaker

References

External links

South Sydney High School Facebook page
{{Authority control Public high schools in Sydney Maroubra, New South Wales School buildings completed in 1953 Educational institutions established in 1953 1953 establishments in Australia