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5. 1871 BOOKKEEPING
TEXTBOOK
6. 1870S SKETCH
BOOK ALBEIT
CONTAINING 20TH
CENTURY ARTWORK
7. PARSING NOTES,
10 AUGUST 1876
8. SELECTION OF
1870S TEXTBOOKS
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which is added a Chapter on Decimal Coinage (1875) and Lessons in
Elementary Chemistry: Inorganic and Organic (1875).
His handwritten 1876 Arithmetic and English grammar notebooks
and the absence of anything from 1877 suggest that Duncan only
attended Scotch for the last five months of 1876, but it left an enduring
impression on him. His sons Kenneth (born 10 June 1906, SC 1919-22,
died 22 October 1980) and James Tom McDonell (born 11 June 1910,
SC 1923-26, died 27 July 2000) followed him at Scotch, and items
of theirs are in the collection. The gems include previously unseen
editions of The Bunyip Magazine – The Junior Boarders’ Paper from
May and June 1919. The cover note ‘All Funds for the New School’
shows that they helped in the mighty fundraising effort for building the
Senior School at Hawthorn. A woven belt in Scotch colours is also from
their time.
Skipping a generation, Duncan senior’s great-grandson, Tom
McDonell, attended Scotch from 1981 to 1986, and a member of
the fourth generation is keenly waiting for the day when he too might
take his place at Scotch, with as much excitement as his great-great
grandfather so obviously did.
The 25 oldest known living Old Boys
1. Rev. William Morgan, b. 23 October 1915. Captain 1935. Aged 104 15. Edward McLaren Holmes, b. 9 November 1921
2. Harold Knights (Hal) Oxley OBE, b. 22 November 1916. Aged 103 16. Donald Graham McDonald, b. 23 November 1921
3. Sir Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt OBE, b. 7 May 1917. Aged 102 17. Robert Dennis Greenslade, b. 5 December 1921
4. Arthur Henry Chesterman Atkins DFC, b. 5 August 1917. Aged 102 18. Geoffrey Martin Dalton, b. 18 December 1921
5. Dr Herbert Culvenor Purton, b. 21 November 1917. Aged 102 19. Alan Peter Flockart, b. 22 February 1922
6. John Morton Parker, b. 24 July 1918. Aged 101 20. John Henning Paterson, b. 24 July 1922
7. Daniel (Neil) Glasser MVO, b. 28 September 1918. Aged 101 21. Barry Eastwood Christophers, b. 6 September 1922
8. Joshua John Pitt, b. 31 May 1919. Aged 100 Russell Norman McNaughton, b. 6 September 1922
9. Alexander Marshall, b. 18 September 1919. Aged 100 22. Harcourt Hilton Long, b. 23 September 1922
10. Malcolm Robertson Riddle, b. 18 December 1919 23. Geoffrey Arthur Tingate, b. 30 October 1922
11. Ronald Taft, b. 3 June 1920 24. Warwick Laslett Exton, b. 20 November 1922
12. Kenneth George Dumbrell, b. 17 January 1921 25. Dr James Ashton Keipert, b. 31 December 1922
13. Graham James Carrick, b. 5 March 1921
14. Peter Richard Thodey, b. 17 June 1921
The youngest boy is Ronak Shaw, b. 21 March 2014
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