July 10 1999 More fine-tuning. The staff photos for 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1925, 1960(new) and 1963 have had their captions either corrected or completed.
Another planet jousts with the moon on the science page.
Richie Benaud's story at PHS is told through the pages of the school magazine, "Phœnix". Of particular interest here is Richie's own interpretation of the game, written when he was about 13.
The story of the infamous Porter Line of 1943 is revealed at last.

June 14 1999 (Happy Birthday, Liz) Mostly history "catch-ups" today.
The 1940s are added to our brief history of the school.
A 1936 plan of the school shows us just how crowded it was then.
On 27 August 1927 the Saturday Telegraph News Pictorial featured PHS' athletics carnival on its front page. Read all about it.

June 4 1999 The first decent wind for weeks yields these kite aerial photographs.
None too spectacular, but worth a look...

May 9 1999 Administrivia, mainly.
The faculty index page has been updated (trendy image map.)
Some "genuine" aerial photos of the school are linked at the foot of the images index page.
What's Gnu has been archived again. The latter half of 1998 may be found here
A milestone of sorts - (confession, maybe) Today this site exceeded 1000 separate files: 354 pages with 663 images. Oh dear...

April 24 1999
This site gets a mention in today's Icon computing lift-out in the Sydney Morning Herald. It features your web author's list of favourite Kite Aerial Photography sites including, of course, this one. Read it here.
The Herald's on-line version of the article may be found here.(link now dead)
On the same day, the "Herald" also published a feature on ex-Parra student Phil Chapman, and his quest to build the Roton single-stage reusable rocket.

April 21 1999
Shocking weather across Sydney - huge hailstones, punishing rain, temperature plumetting... but with it, more wind, and with that, another set of photos taken from a kite.

April 12 1999
Here's a change of pace. When does the New Millennium begin?
Is it in 8½ months (or so), or is it in a year and 8½ months? Click here to find out - once and for all.
Would you like to know what a Polaroid© 2100 with 4096:1 ratio intervalometer looks like?
(I knew you would.)

March 27 1999
After a hiatus of over a month, this site is active again. There is a backlog of marvellous historical material (soon!), but first - something more topical.
The Royal Easter Show opened yesterday. Two of our girls were there, and were featured in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Read their insights here.
The last few events of the 1999 Swimming Carnival were washed out, but here you can view a panoramic photograph of the proceedings before the heavens opened.

February 16 1999
Parramatta High School Web Site has moved!
The old site will remain as it was on Feb 11 1999 at the Ozemail (and Tripod) address. You are now at the new site: http://www.faxmentis.nsw.edu.au , which, I'm sure you'll agree, makes much more sense.

February 11 1999
Some writing from early editions of the School Magazine illustrate eloquently the effect of the War on the Parramatta school community.
ANZAC Day is commemorated in 1916, and ex-student Victor Harding writes from the front in 1918, explaining why he now calls Australia home.

February 5 1999
At last! A no frames version of this site is available. At any time you can click the new button at left. This will bring you back to this page, sans frames. To reinstate frames, simply return to the home page (click the small badge at the foot of most pages) then re-enter the site as usual.
In a similar vein, the navigation buttons and the frame that contains them have been reduced in size, to allow more screen space for the content of the page.

January 26 1999
A new portfolio of historical images for Australia Day. The theme is the original staff of PHS, and features short biographies and portraits of some of the founding staff members, with reference to the first staff photo, taken in 1913.

January 14 1999
A new, multi-page, semi-graphical site map is now available.
Hopefully this will ease the complexity of navigating this site of >325 pages!

January 5 1999
A companion for the faithful Delta Conyne is conceived and delivered.
Yet, no sooner launched than she leads Old Faithful astray - or was it the other way around?