b'A H I S T O R Y O F C O O G E E P R E PPrep boys, did not open its Prep schools, at St.Ives and Edgecliff,until the mid-1950s. Thus it was left to the many small indepen-dent Preparatory Schools to provide boys with the required back-ground to enter the G.P.S. and Associated Schools.A notice in the Sydney Morning Herald of 5th. January, 1907shows that the Association of Preparatory Schools of N.S.W. thenincluded Chatswood Prep in Mowbray Road, founded by LanceBavin(whichclosedin1955);ChurchofEnglandPreparatorySchool, Mosman, founded in 1904 by A.H. Tibby Yarnold, M.A.(controlofwhichpassedtotheChurchofEnglandin1977);Esmond Prep at Dalley Street, Waverley with E. McKenny; HayfieldPrep at Homebush with J.C. Tait; Newington College PreparatorySchool,Stanmore;SydneyPrepatDarlinghurst,foundedbyGertrude Robson; and Tudor House School at Moss Vale with theRev. W. Fisher. The following year, North Sydney Prep, under H.N.Crisford, B.A., joined the group and others followed.Edgecliff Prep was founded in 1911 by Isabel van Heuckelum,or Miss Van as she was known to generations of boys and parents.She ran it for forty-four years (with the help of Mr. H.M. Butterley,1 9'