Altona’s Marjorie Sculley, 99, will help Altona Primary School celebrate its centenary this month.
Ms Sculley – who back then was Marjorie Phair – is the school’s oldest-known former pupil. She will return for the celebrations from Monday, October 19 to Friday, October 24.
“Everybody knew everybody in those days; we were a very small school,” she recalled this week. “I was happy here.”
Her son, Rob Richardson, will broadcast live from the school for his WYNFM 88.9 radio show,
The Sound of the West, from 3-5pm on October 19.
Mr Richardson said his family had a long connection with the school.
“My mother started here in about 1920,” he said. “My grandfather was working on building the school at the time and my grandmother ran the tuck shop across the corner in Upton Street.
“So there was a connection with my mother and her sister and her brother for all their schooling. Later, in the 1940s, I went to school here.”
Images, memorabilia and stories have been collected from people whose families have been part of the school for generations.
Altona Primary will be open to the public from 1.30-3.30pm during the week-long celebrations.
For more information, call 93982925 or visit altonaprimarycentenary@altonaps.vic.edu.au, from 1.30-3.30pm.
