b'F R O M T H E B E G I N N I N GAnother rousing cry used by the boys in the very early days, when thefour Comino brothers were at the School, and much of the activity wascentred around the Nimmos house in St.Marks Road, was:Warrawee, Warrawee, yep, yep, yepWe are the boys of Coogee Prep!!The school uniform consisted then, as now, of a grey suit withshort pants, although the boys in 3C could wear long pants. A greyfelt hat, with a hat-band bearing the school crest (which cost 2/6),was worn in the summer, and a cap was worn in the winter. Thegrey jumper, blue football jersey and the socks have not changed,althoughmostoftheboysworelace-upboots,asthesewerethought to be orthopaedically correct.4Alison ParkT he splendid public park happily adjacent to the Churchhasalwaysplayedanimportantpartinthelifeoftheschoolandwas,nodoubt,amajorreasonforNimmodeciding to lease the Church Hall. The park had been the origi-nal home ground of the Randwick Rugby Club. However, in theearly1900s,theClub(whileretainingitsname)movedtoCoogee Oval. Early photographs show that there was a time when the parkcame right up to the steps of the school, so that the boys did nothavetonegotiateAbbeyStreet.However,theroadwasdriventhrough within a few years, when the Church subdivided and soldthe land on its northern side.Rodney Knock (193844) writes: At lunchtime, we all ate in Mr. Nimmos large room. We brought ourfinished lunch papers out to him. Then he called, Outside! and weall poured out into the adjacent park, where Bill was on duty. When3 2'