For The Record
Year 10 Warfare and Resistance
For the Record
Year 10 Warfare and Resitance
The Record was the UHS biannual student magazine which was established in 1910 all the way to the sixties. The year 10 Warfare students were given the opportunity to look through all the issues from 1939 to 1945.
To switch the normal curriculum up, the class chose a certain article from any of the issues and wrote a companion article in response. There were no set instructions/style for these companion articles, thus giving the students complete freedom.
The following pieces of work are the introductory paragraphs of some of the Warfare students’ work. For more information and to read all the articles, head over to this link:
The Speed of Innovation
By Ethan Nguyen
The speed at which humanity is moving today is akin to a rocket propelling up through the sky, leaving old and outdated technology behind through its smoke trails. And although the speed of progress is incredible, it can be predicted and foreseen years before the “rocket of humanity’s achievements” launches. Even in 1942 (16 years before NASA was established), in an article written by a high schooler, the entire notion of space travel was easily conceived and it seemed entirely possible that ‘a rocket [...] could be sent to the moon’. It is incredible how easy it seems for a normal high school student in 1942 to casually describe space travel 27 years before the first moon landing in 1969. No, Sol Freedman did not have any magic foresight, nor did he write the article from a place of hindsight. Sol Freedman was most likely a normal student with an interest in rockets, and it appears that back then it ‘[did] not take an expert to perceive the vast possibilities of rockets in the future…
Employing ourselves in the time of leisure
By Rose Pegler
In December of 1939, a student at Uni High contemplated the question: “how can we employ ourselves in times of leisure?” They pondered this having just witnessed a pair at a train station who appeared somewhat burdened by a spare five minutes. As a reader in 2020, the looming challenge of five minutes to fill seems almost laughable. While a pandemic had been forecast by scientists decades ago, it wasn’t taken seriously until the whole world was facing the grim reality of its effects. One of these effects, perhaps ill-considered by scientists for decades, being: “how can we employ ourselves in times of leisure?”...
Lock, Stock and Barrel!
By Xavier Schaffarczyk
This article on the left is J.H’s telling of the week that the prefects took over the library. J.H called this takeover an invasion when he published it in The Record. During the time this article was published, (July, 1944) prefects were often regarded as role model students that everyone could look up to. Perhaps the purpose of this article was to shed some light onto how the prefects of the school actually behaved: rowdy and loud students that had no consideration for others. This article is a first hand account of life at Uni High during 1944, meaning that this can be considered a reliable source. I say this because many of the illustrations depicted are extremely detailed and show the library as exactly the same as today, such as the window that the prefects were hanging their belongings from...