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Newcastle Herald letters to the editor, September 27, 2021

By Letters to the Editor
September 27 2021 - 4:00am
Looking back: Former Newcastle East principal Mervyn Hall with former prime minister Julia Gillard and then-principal John Beach at the school's 150th celebrations. Picture: Marina Neil
Looking back: Former Newcastle East principal Mervyn Hall with former prime minister Julia Gillard and then-principal John Beach at the school's 150th celebrations. Picture: Marina Neil

I RECENTLY celebrated Mervyn Hall's anniversary by chatting to two of his pupils from 1965. Both expressed their absolute "honour and privilege" to have been in his class and to have known him as an intelligent, wise and guiding teacher in their younger years. My father would be so humbled by this.

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