The prefect’s father also complained, highlighting the inappropriate nature of the punishment, especially for a prefect, and criticized the entire prefect system. Wilson, however, made the prefect apologise, and indicated to the Council his disapproval of their intervention in a matter of school discipline that undermined his authority.”

Mr Bill “Mousey” McKean, Boardinghouse master: “Tony Trumble’s (OM 1950) hatred of school life – of sadistic hoodlum prefects, of compulsory sport and the tyrannical matron who ruled with the cane at the Healesville Evacuation School in 1942 – is leveled at McKean, who withdrew Trumble’s right to go home one weekend for being late to a meal: ‘