Prefects' Party invitation, 6 December 1968

This was an end of year event run jointly by the prefects of Grammar and Queens. On this occasion it was held in the woolshed of Carngham, a property outside Ballarat.

I designed the invitation. Well, it didn't take much designing: I used a panel from the trendy comic strip Modesty Blaise Tiffany Jones which ran in the Melbourne Herald at that time.

There was some controversy about the invitation because for some reason the headmistress of Queens objected to the name of her school appearing on it. (I think it had something to do with the party being held on private premises after exam time and so being outside of school control.)

The original cards had some space around the comic strip panel which carried the names of the two schools. Before the invitations went out the Queens prefects had to alter the wording in some way by writing on the cards. I was so annoyed by the final effect that I trimmed the card before preserving it in my diary.

I was one of the Grammar prefects who somehow persuaded the organising committee to hire Compulsion, a wild and loud Jimi Hendrix-style band from Melbourne. This blew most of the budget for the party so that little was left for refreshments.