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GOOD TO SEE: Sixty years after they first met, AFL veteran David Parkin’s lasting b……
Sixty years after they first met, AFL veteran David Parkin’s lasting bond with former classmates
David Parkin, in his fourth season as a member of the Hawthorn Football Club in 1964, was considered a tough and brave “back-pocket specialist.”
But Parkin remembers being “terrified” when he entered a primary school that same year to start his first teaching position.
Back then, football players in the VFL (now the AFL) combined their professional football careers with full-time jobs.
Following his graduation from Toorak Teachers College, Parkin, 21, was assigned to Monbulk Primary School, located in a tiny rural village in the verdant hills to the east of Melbourne. He was given a class of forty-eight third-graders, roughly twice the size of most classes these days.
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