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Title A name given to the resource Kevin Yon, playing tennis for University High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Age Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 27 May 1939, 31 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/b5646e7824f9755ca7a8bcb7a21270bc.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flickr</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Northcote Conservation Study Sheet 07 19_1982 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/cd64175b0c1cdbf107a4a15b389e08dd.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/9c1c81dfd3bb0570d92da54ee62c7c53.jpg da764de6c99128a77a4bb7728794b259 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Upwey Higher Elementary School [later Upwey High School] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1284321&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2014.1019/1</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937–1945 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1920s Education Primary: North Brunswick State School, Melbourne, Victoria (1920s) Secondary: University High School, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (1930s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1940s) Occupation Teacher: Upwey High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Burwood High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Dandenong High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Blackburn High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Nunawading High, Melbourne, Victoria Acting Principal: Eltham High School, Melbourne, Victoria Principal: Northcote High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1975–1980) Principal: Waverley High School (1981) Biographical Text Kevin was born in Brunswick in the 1920s. His family were pioneering tobacco growers in the King Valley in Northern Victoria. His father’s family are related to the Ah Kets, ‘probably one of the most prominent Chinese families in the early Chinese history here’ and his mother’s family have links to the Hoy Lings; his grandfather was a merchant in the goldfields in Castlemaine and owned Ling Na restaurant in Little Bourke Street. Kevin was an only child and remembers that he was very independent and active: ‘I was always a go-getter, I was always a leader, it didn’t matter what it was’. He believes he went to ‘one of probably the best Primary schools in the State’ in which the students were expected to be inquirers and researchers. He then sat the entrance exam to University High School and, as an ambitious student, sportsman and leader, he excelled in everything in which he was involved. Although he was guaranteed a job with a leading sporting firm when he finished school, he opted to become a teacher instead and worked in a large number of Melbourne high schools in the 1950s and ’60s, including Upwey High, Burwood High, Dandenong High, Blackburn High and Nunawading High. In 1974 he became principal of the all-boys Northcote High School. He remembers this as a time of hope with the Whitlam government giving greater funding to schools; however, many were particularly run down, under resourced and in huge competition with independent schools. Northcote High had a population of mainly Greek and Italian students at the time, which created some racial tensions. While Kevin was principal he introduced female enrolments, creating what is now the co-educational Northcote High School. Of his teaching philosophy and principles Kevin notes that ‘my method of teaching was not that you had to remember things, I didn’t care what they said as long as they thought about it’. He remembers that he learnt during his time as Acting Principal at Eltham High School and Principal at Northcote High School during the 1970s that ‘there was no formula that any Principal or teacher could adopt for the rest of their life for teaching; you had to adapt to the circumstances’. He also states that good principals are ‘people who can communicate with people and understand how to handle staff’. Kevin made significant contributions to the secondary education sphere as a Chinese-Australian amidst both overt and subtle racism, however, he remembers his ambitions to achieve kept him competitive: ‘I’d be better than them anyway, what they could do I could do better’. Birthplace Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria Death Date 2012 Image credits 1. Kevin Yon as a young tennis player, c1930s–1940s. <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/kevin-yon-obituary?pid=155874779&page=2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Legacy Obituaries</a> 2. Kevin Yon, playing tennis for University High School, 1931. Photographer unknown. Age, 27 May, 31 via <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205632371" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Trove</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> 5. Upwey High School (originally Upwey Higher Elementary), 1937–1945. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1284321&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H2014.1019/1</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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