Melbourne, Victoria
CLARKE Dudley The Directors of the Board and the Principal join with the other members of The Peninsula School community in expressing their deepest sympathy on the passing of our friend and our founding Headmaster, Rev. Dr Dudley Clarke. In this, our 50th year, we remain indebted to Dudley for...
Read MoreI remember Dr. Clarke as Headmaster of The Hutchins School. He inspired in me a love of learning, and a great vocational commitment to schoolmastering as a profession.
My sincere condolences to his family, and to all those who knew and respected him. Godspeed, Sir.
Richard Adams
December 27, 2011 | Canberra, AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
When I was a boy Rev Clarke was my Headmaster at The Peninsula School. Whilst having the utmost respect for him he was very scary at the same time and we were all so frightened of him. Quick! Run! 'Skull' is coming! was a catchphrase you would hear in the playground. He was the archetype headmaster who loved literature, drama, music and his assemblies used aspects of all of these. He would tell us stories of his time in the RAAF during the War and if we were in trouble he would use his...
Neil Rumble
December 13, 2011 | Perth, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Dr Clarke taught me at Hutchins. My first meeting was not that great, as I was causing trouble in Drama, and the new headmaster gave me a whack. That whack set me on the straight and narrow so to speak, and Hutchins school gave me the education of a life time. Thankyou Dr Clarke. RIP
John Colquhoun
December 12, 2011 | Melbourne, VICTORIA
CLARKE. - Dudley. The Directors of the Board and the Principal join with the other members of The Peninsula School community in expressing their deepest sympathy on the passing of our friend and our founding Headmaster, Rev. Dr Dudley Clarke. In this, our 50th year, we remain indebted to Dudley for his inspired leadership of our, then, fledgling school. Our sympathy and prayers go out to his family and all his friends who will be feeling this great loss.
December 10, 2011