THE TEACHERStGUILD OF NEW SOUTH WALES

PROCEEDINGS 1997 - 1998

First Impressions: Two Years in Independent Education

The Dorothy Knox Lecture for I998: The Things that Unite Us

The Changing Face of Independent Schools

Coping with Teenage Suicide

What Should we hang onto when everything is changing?

CONTENTS

Editorial

President's Report Alan Harper

The things that unite us: A vision unfilled from The Dorothy Knox Lecture 1998

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John Lambert, Foundation President, NSW Board of Studies 9

Coping with Teenage Suicide Ian Walker, Master, New College, University of New South Wales 25

What should we hang onto when everything else is changing? Joy Yeo, Headmistress, Roseville College 40

Playing in the Same Team David Raphael, Deputy Headmaster, Macarthur Anglican School, Narellan 54

A Tribute to Robert Ballard Finlay Roderic Kefford, Headmaster, Barker College, Hornsby 64

Award for Excellence in the Early Years of Teaching Sarah Tennant, Sydney Grammar School 72

The Changing Role of the Deputy Stuart Braga, formerly Senior Master, Trinity Grammar School74

Three Years in Independent Education Jason Cheers, Housemaster, Trinity Grammar School 84

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