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“Like many, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Sam Neill,” says John Clarke of Lorn. “In the many tributes, however, I’ve not seen any reference to his outstanding performance in the series Reilly, Ace of Spies. It was extremely popular, and from memory, the single of the theme tune made it to the Top 40, which wasn’t bad for something based on a theme by Shostakovich. Vale Sam.” With that name, Granny was sure that John would endorse Death in Brunswick.
Keeping it reel, Alan Phillips of Mosman notes: “When I was a kid, we didn’t go to the movies or the pictures (C8), we went to the flicks.”
Andrew Lishmund of Castle Hill recalls the odd drawback regarding the University of NSW scavenger hunt (C8) in the 1970s: “A current subpoena to appear in court was devalued in the protest era – too easy to come by. A good ploy was to ‘kidnap’ an overseas performer and make them give a live show at the Roundhouse. One student was difficult to beat because elephants rated highly, and he turned up with a pair of them. He was a relative of the owner of a circus.”
“One 1950s Commemoration Day stunt that gained maximum points was when students from the sandstone edifice stormed a visiting US aircraft carrier,” writes Gillian Kendrigan of Evatt (ACT). “Dressed as pirates with cardboard cutlasses, a dawn raid gained them the bridge where one pirate pulled the Action Stations lever. About 2500 personnel jumped out of bed and dressed in their special actions uniforms before the order was countermanded five minutes later. Any C8-ers owning up?”
“In 1969, I was a 20-year-old ‘Nasho’ during the Vietnam War,” says Jim Rogers of Byron Bay. “When I was posted at Taskforce Headquarters, Moorebank, a colleague was the Brigadier’s batman and drove him around and looked after his limo. We were tasked with washing it and managed to apply a ‘Vietnam Moratorium Now’ sticker to the back bumper that wasn’t discovered for some time. The whole squad was put on punishment details but no one ratted!”
To rival those old farts clubs (C8) of the last century, Merilyn Vale of East Gosford advises that “Mitchell College of ADVANCED Education had the Bathurst Order of Old Bitches or BOOBS and yes, we still have to show our cards, or pay-up. And no, membership isn’t sagging.”
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