Denis Hitchens. Operator on LEO III/15 at Shell Australia
Neil Lamming interviewed me and conducted the aptitude test. But the person I was
really trying to dredge from my memory was Bill Cheek who along with Jack Dankert
encouraged me to return to full-time study. I was 19 and 20 at the time, turning 21 about
a fortnight before I went to RMIT — imagine a 20 year old shift leader with the fate of
SCO in his hands!! So for me as a whippersnapper training 35+ year olds was a life
defining experience and one which a bit later in life when I was President of the Students’
Representative Council (elected leader of some 12,000 students) I was able to refer to
when addressing Melbourne Rotary ( yes, all the big wigs). A fuller version of the
reminiscences are available in the LEO Dropbox archive at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bqgrbhxh9cp4s4k/Denis%20Hitchens%20Reminiscences.docx?dl=0
