1990 School Magazine

BRUCE DAWE The English Department was once again niost fortunate and very privileged to be able to welcome one of Australia's leading poets. Bruce Dawe. to the School o11 1st11 October Dr Dawe spent a day in the school working witlT English students in small and large group situations. Wi'iters of poetry in the Junior and Senior school wei'e able to shai'e their poetic efforts and experiences witli Dr Dawe In the afternoon all Year Twelve students attended a presentation by Dr Dawe in the Gehi. manii Theatre Readings of his poems were in tel'spei. ed willI the delightful. witty and perceptive observations WITich make Bruce Dawe. the man. as respected and as popular as his poeti'y

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CHALLENGE IN CHILE They talk about "facing the challenge" but wlio would have thought that the challenges I would encounter on an Operation Raleigh expedition to Chile would include such extremes as having to dig a snow hole to shelter overnight from a blizzai'd. or learning to di'ive all ox-calt in a tiny village straight out of a wild-west movie Operation Raleigh is an organisation that selects young people from all walks of life and sends them to various parts of the world where they work in small teams o11 special projects. These include community work. or assisting in scientific reseai. ch. and usually involve some element of adventure as well. Besides helpino the areas they work in. young people have the chance to open the 11' minds to the rest of the world. and are stimulated to become more involved in the problems of the 11' own community I left London with Operation Raleigh mid-January and found myselfin steamy Santiago, capital of Chile. Next we spent forty-eight hours travelling south by bus and boat to Coyhaigue where Operation Raleigh had set up headquarters. We were further south than Stuart Island,

New Zealand. and ill the second 1110st soutliern of the twelve Chilean regions. After a fewdays orbriefiiTg we wei'e sent to a tiny village of about a nundred wood shingle houses Niregtiao itself was established dunno the time the counti'y was under military rule - the Pinochet years - because it was so close to the Argentinean border. In fact. it ~.-. **. .,-.* ~ - ~ "-*- ,**^ 4*, t;$.*^: ; , ; 6#,***,***,. 4*. . *;,,****. I _ . . . ,-;* ' ' '--* .,. ,. ::^'<;: '.-.~,. ,*,,* - "" * ' "" ' '

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