Word: timbertop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in 1966, the Prince jumped to Australia and Timbertop, a Gordonstoun-like branch of Melbourne's posh Geelong school. Charles arrived in February, and for the next six months took 50-to-60 mile hikes in the outback, cooked johnnycakes over his own campfire, fed the pigs and chickens, and chopped wood by the cord. His schoolmates were friendly, though he recalls being chaffed as a "Pom" (Aussie slang for an Englishman) on at least one occasion. "I had an umbrella with me," he said. "It had been raining quite heavily, and they all looked rather quizzically at this...
...students, walked around the college grounds alone with his head down. He will probably mix eventually; after five years at Cheam, then five more at his father's old school of Gordonstoun in Scotland, he gained a good deal of self-confidence during a six-month stay at Timbertop, the roughing-it school in Australia from which he returned last year...
Birds, Beetles & Butterflies. Timbertop, patterned largely after Gordonstoun, is a branch of Australia's Geelong Grammar School, an exclusive institution operated by the Church of England. It is designed to toughen up 130 young aristocrats every year. The boys do all their own housekeeping except cook. They make overnight hikes across 1,300 acres of rugged Crown land, watch birds, hunt beetles, collect butterflies...
...outdoor ruggedness, however, Timbertop still accents the academic. Tough courses in English, math and science are compulsory, and boys must learn either French, German or Latin. The school charges $405 a term; it is so popular that parents normally have to apply ten years ahead of time to get their children on the Geelong waiting list...
...Timbertop students spend much of their time "slushing around" in kitchen and cleaning duties...