Malcolm Irvine was an OTC trainee/ technician in the early eighties. Peter Szewczyk thinks that once Mal finished his traineeship he left OTC. Mal was part of the mass intake of trainees between 1979 and 1981. This is confirmed by his LinkedIn profile details.

Sadly Mal’s 57th birthday was last Thursday.

He passed away in Royal North Shore Hospital in the early hours of Monday 16^th October after a 12 month battle with brain cancer.

He has been living with his wife Jenny and his 2 sons Kent (22) and Gerard (19) at West Ryde in Sydney.

The Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday 24^th October 2017 at 10:30am at St Joseph’s School Chapel at Hunters Hill. If plan to attend Mal’s funeral service please be early to get parking.

May He Rest In Peace

Brian’s daughter, Sarah, has passed on the sad news that Brian Brennan, who worked as a computer programmer at OTC at both the Broadway and Paddington terminals from 1971 until it merged with Telecom into AOTC in 1992, died early last week.

The funeral is arranged for the Wednesday the 18th of October at Guardian Funeral Chapel (Cnr of Sunnyholt Rd and First Avenue) at 10:30 am.

In preparing for the funeral Sarah found this photo which she thought might appreciate to identify Brian and use in this email. It was taken at the Official Closing of the MRSC at Paddington in May 1988. Brian is in the ‘man in the middle’. with John Wall (Interplex Operator) on the right hand side of the picture.

Also the Funeral Service for Maisie VAHTRICK, wife of the late Cyril took place on Monday 9 October 2017 at Magnolia Chapel, Macquarie Park.

Tom Barker, Zenon Kochman and Chris Von Willer attended the service.

May She Rest In Peace

The wife of the late “Shelley” (Shelton) de Silva, (once a clerk in the OTC Supply Branch), is mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald Death/Funeral Notices dated 10 October 2017.

She was in the family home at Hunters Hill up to her passing.

Hi Peter

Just been advised that Jack passed away back in September at Tweed Heads aged 88.  He was a Senior Telegraphist ex-SOR who took the redundancy back in the 80s and went North.  Back in February this year my emails bounced back and I got Ray Horeau to check, as I knew they played a lot of golf together.  Ray sent this pix to me too of Jack who was by then in a nursing home.

The funeral service was held on the 18th September at Tweed Heads so the news was a bit slow coming

May He Rest In Peace

Ray Horeau & Jack Bowes in the nursing home.

Thanks to Glenn McMullen for sharing photos that he took on a recent road trip.

You can still see a faint OTC presence on the tower in these pictures.

The following photos are courtesy of Ron Beckett

Peter Dee passed on the sad news of George’s passing on or about Wednesday 16th August 2017 after losing his battle against several illnesses over recent years.

The details of a Funeral Service will be held for George are as follows:

WHEN:               2:00pm Thursday 24th August 2017

WHERE:            South Chapel, Northern Suburbs Crematorium

199 Delhi Road, North Ryde NSW

In lieu of floral tributes, people are asked to consider a donation to the Cancer Council, Kidney Health Australia or

any cat-related charity (my parents have been cat breeders and cat lovers for over 40 years).