History
During the 1950s the department of Education bought land from a company called Bankstown Pipe Works. The land was formerly a brick pit.
- From 1963 to 1965, the school operated as Bankstown Junior Boys High school
- From 1965 to 1990, the school was known as Bankstown Boys High School for 24 years.
- From 1990 to 1991, there was a brief transitional period where the school went by the name of Bankstown Community High School.
The schools current status as a co-educational Senior College has been in place since 1991 to this present day.
Read more about this topic: Bankstown Senior College
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)