Join us at the Cocktail Party to celebrate the 75th Anniversary

You are invited to join us at the 75th Anniversary Cocktail Party, at the Refectory at the University of Canberra.  CLICK HERE for a map.

To register, please click on the cocktail glasses to the right of this article, or on the second tab under the banner at the top of this page.

We will be setting up the room in different decades, so you can mingle with your former classmates and teachers.

You will be welcomed with a drink and there will be a range of finger foods throughout the evening.  A bar will be open for you to purchase other drinks through the evening.

You will be entertained with music from all the eras of Canberra High, the 30s through to the present day.  And there will be videos and photos displays for you to look at.

Please note that registrations and payments should be submitted by 11 October as we need to let the caterers know the numbers that we are expecting.  Dress is smart casual.

You will be able to collect your tickets for the Cocktail Party with your registration pack when you attend the Canberra High Open Day on Saturday 2 November between 10am and 2pm, or at the Cocktail Party itself.

CHS75: Who is coming?

As the 2nd of November draws nearer, we have started to look at who is coming and where people are coming from, based on those who have registered their interest.

At the moment we have people registering from around the world. From San Jose in California, Epernay in France, Jönköping in Sweden, and Pieks in Finland. 

Most people are coming from Canberra and Sydney.  With others from farther away including Perth, Adelaide, Claremont, Richmond, Wauchope and New Farm.

The vast majority of registrations are from former students with some 25 former or current teachers also registering.

The graduation year with the most registrations is 1968 - with 10% of all registrations.  Followed closely by 1976 - which as you may recall was a "double year" with Form 6 and Form 4 graduating with the transition to the ACT College System.

We know that many people haven't registered their interest yet so please encourage them to do so if you can.  This will let us contact them directly by email and also give us some insight into who is coming.

Connect with your Year Group

We are delighted to have former alumni volunteer to co-ordinate an extra event for year groups on the weekend of 2 November 2013. We don't have year co-ordinators for all the years, so if you are interested in being a Year Co-ordinator please let us know.


Those of you who have registered will know that we have asked for information about when you started and finished at Canberra High School.  We have tentatively assumed that your graduate year is when you finished - although it won't be the same for every on because some left before graduating.

If you have registered your interest, and you finished in a year with a year co-ordinator (as below), then your year co-ordinator may be making contact with you soon.  If this doesn't happen then please let us know if you would like us to put you in contact with these people.

We are also happy to act as a link for former teachers who may want to get together.

(Please note: To protect these volunteers private email addresses from the risk of being spammed, we can act as a go-between until you have made contact.)

Our Year Co-ordinators are:

1989: Rachel Wilkinson

1986: Alisoun Garrard

1976: Jacqui Lines and Julie Hopkinson

1975: Kathy Vicol

1974: Trevor Dowling

1970: Lachlan Kennedy

1968: David Holmesby, Marianne Johnson, Robert McKeon and

         Michael Edwards    

1967: Ross Kingsland

                    1964: Jenny Moore

1960: Pamela Murray

1959: Margo Hodge

1958: Susan Nancarrow

1957: Ian Spencer

          1956: Ron Fraser

          1950: Graeme Kelleher