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School Archivist – Mr Paul Mishura
Obituaries
dream come true when in 2008 he
joined the family business as the
logistics manager. Jamie was a fifth
generation Turnley member of the
family business.
Jamie’s other loves in life were
Mazda RX-7s, computer games and
his much-loved rescue dog, aptly
named Esme (‘Ere’s-me-dog’). As
well as owning several RX-7s, Jamie
worked for a few years at rotary
specialist, SelectMaz, in Epping.
This certainly honed his mechanical
knowledge, which he used when
tinkering on his own cars. His skills
with computer games extended
beyond playing: his expertise
enabled him to develop significant
improvements for the Operation
Flashpoint game.
Jamie had a magnetic
personality, loved to talk, and had
a lot to say about his varied and
fascinating experiences, which
made him a good fit with the
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
a social group formed by blokes
from the Class of 1990.
In December 2016 Jamie
was diagnosed with advanced
stomach cancer, and died at the
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Centre,
Heidelberg, on 25 March 2017.
WARDLAW,
John (’42)
John’s wife,
Joan, wrote:
John
Wardlaw
was born at
Canterbury on 8 August 1925 and
left Camberwell Girls’ Grammar
School at the age of eight to attend
Scotch from 1933 to 1942. He was
a keen rower and also enjoyed
rugby. While at Scotch, Scouting
was one of John’s main interests.
He was a Troop Leader, and later
a Rover. He also assisted with the
Scout Troop at the Royal Victorian
Institute for the Blind.
John completed his
Matriculation Certificate and
commenced a medical degree
at Melbourne University. In 1944
he joined the Royal Australian Air
Force and was trained as a flight
electrician, based at Tocumwal,
where he worked on Liberator
bombers. He was demobilised as
a leading aircraftman in 1946 and
returned to Melbourne University,
later switching from medicine to a
science degree.
After graduation, John became
a research chemist at the CSIRO,
where he did research into cement
and ceramics, until his retirement
in 1985.
John grew up in a strong
Presbyterian (later Uniting Church)
family, and the Paton Memorial
Church in Deepdene played an
integral part in his life, including
introducing John to his wife,
Marjorie Joan Alston, daughter of
the minister, Rev W A Alston. He
married Joan in the church on 7
January 1951. As a young man in
the church, John and his brother
Harry ran the Boys’ Club and he
was a member of the church cricket
team. He was also a Sunday school
teacher, (eventually Sunday School
Superintendent), a member of the
board of management and an elder.
However, it was the church choir
that was John’s passion, in which
he sang as a tenor from his late
teens till his 70s.
John’s sons Peter (SC 1961-70),
And