Tumbulgum Public School Genealogy Project

1956
Lower Division

Left to Right
Front Row
Pauline Jacobson, Christine Buchanen, Robyn Jacobson, Janice Martain, Christine Brunner.
2nd Row
Jim Cross, Wayne Taylor, Barry Prewitt, Norm Silley, Noel Holmes, Barry Holland, Peter Charles.
3rd Row
Wendy Monks, Judith Legge, Sandra Gilmont, Megan Nicel, Annette Silley.
Back Row
John Vickery, Ross Williams, Gerald Eglington, Jimmy Alexander, Ross Bunner.

1956
Upper Division

Left to Right
Front Row
Ellwynne Dore, Joan Prewitt, Susan Jackson, Carol Williams, Dianne Forsyth, Elizabeth Legge.
2nd Row
Richard Jacobsen, Graham Wright, Ray Avery, David Martain, Richard Taylor, David Eglington.
3rd Row
Edna Maloney, Denise Flanagan, Ann Williams, Nolene Flanagan.
Back Row
John Jackson, Earle Silley, Ross Stanger, Trevor Mudge, Bernie Alexander, Keith Holand, Gordon Vickery, Mr. E.E. Bridger. (Headmaster.)

Events of 1956

First Australian Olympic Games held in Melbourne.
Commercial television starts in Australia.
The winner of the 1956 Melbourne Cup was Evening Peal .

Born:

Mel Gibson
Film actor.

Died:

Arthur Eames Budd
Past Murwillumbah mayor.

The information on this page was collated by pupils at Tumbulgum Public School, 2002.

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