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As a contribution to helping dropout teens to stay in education during their transition years 15-18, I am working on creating a fleet of Houseboat style School ships working as "Cocoons' to reset the thinking of these dropout teens at risk.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Wheelers Hill
🎸 Chris Cheney and Scott Owen
Chris Cheney grew up in Wheelers Hill and attended Jells Park Primary School, where fellow future musician Scott Owen was also a pupil. Cheney later went to Wheelers Hill Secondary College and studied jazz at Box Hill Institute. The two schoolmates became founding members of The Living End in 1994, with guitar and double bass supplying a distinctive musical partnership. Cheney's early musical education included repeated listening to AC/DC cassettes and practising what he heard. A suburban school connection thus preceded a career built on rather more amplification than the average classroom would welcome.
🏗️ Robin Boyd
Architect Robin Boyd contributed to the modern residential character of the area through house design. Monash's library collection records the Romberg and Boyd house built for Graham Moore in Lum Road in 1966, while his Appletree Hill work helped establish a pattern of modern housing and underground services nearby. The connection is architectural practice rather than a claim that he grew up in the suburb. Photographs preserve the way these designs used everyday houses to explore modern living, making architectural ideas part of the streets people actually occupied.
