Recipients of long service 

Recipients of long service to education awards

Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to walk on the Moon 50 years ago and on Sunday 21 July 2019, a small group of educators made another kind of history by being the recipients of ‘long service to education’ awards. The ceremony, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Collins Street, Melbourne celebrated the contributions career teachers had made to thousands of students under their care, over the years. When we began our teaching journey, we used a blackboard and coloured chalk and reports were hand written. The school year was divided into three terms. There were no computers in schools or photocopiers. Stencils had to be typed using a typewriter and printed using a duplicating machine. As technology progressed, computers appeared in schools and were shared in the ratio of one computer per three students and later reduced to two students per computer. Printers used dot matrix technology, presentations were conducted using photographic slides and mobile phones had yet to be invented. It sounds so last century and unfortunately, it was.

Robert Fox, Robyn Edwards, Alan Cahill, Angie Temouskos (not pictured)