YEP News 2.3.10
Nici’s Report. Nici moves to her new host family tomorrow. That’s the Rebecca’s, so I think from now on Nici will be doing a full report for these pages!! She did however do a great job riding to conference and finished the ride without riding in the bus despite her injuries from a fall. She along with the other students did a fantastic performance on the last day of the conference with their potted history of Australia. It was the best YEP presentation yet!
Read MoreYEP News 1.3.10
Maddy’s Report. I never thought catching planes were so difficult! It really knocks out the little energy you do have left. I arrived in Bremen at 10:30am (German time) I was with 3 others, we were wait for our bags when it really hit me that my host family is waiting outside the doors we were going to go through it just a few minutes, me being a very calm girl I took it well, no way I nearly hyperventilating! I was the first to go out the doors out of the exchange students and I felt all the eyes of the waiting host families’ fall on me. But all I could see was my small new family, just seeing them looking at me with big eyes and huge smile on each of their faces made me want to cry, it was really an emotional moment for me, to know I was finally here...
Read MoreVale Major Max Armstrong
Maxwell Thomas Armstrong PHF 17/01/1910 – 24/02/2010 Major Max Armstrong (Retired) was born in Sydney on 17 January 1910 and married Jean Rigby of South Yarra on 23 December 1939, only a few weeks after he enlisted in the Australian army with the number VX108. Max was in artillery and saw service in the Middle East and New Guinea before being discharged on 28 May 1946. After military service Max became a businessman, first with shoe shops in the City and later Frankston, then investments in property and the stock market. Along the way, Max and Jean had three sons, Ian, Edward (dec.) and Howard. Max was inducted into the Rotary Club of Frankston on 22 October 1953 and was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship in 1994. For 22 years Max led the Anzac...
Read More