Desmond Clive Gaunt, 1935 (Football)
'Des' Gaunt, legal practitioner and grandson of Dr George Morrison, was born at Rangoon, Burma in 1917 and first was sent to Geelong College by his parents Clive Herbert Gaunt and Evelyn Hilda nee Morrison from 1927 until 1930. He returned for the last two years of his secondary education from 1933 to 1935. He was an avid sportsman playing in both the 1st Cricket XI in 1934 and 1935, and the 1st Football XVIII in 1934 and 1935 and a member of the cricket and swimming committees in 1935. Tennis was a particular favourite and in 1934 he became, with close friend Cedric H Sloane (1915-1992), the school’s open doubles champion. He was also a lance corporal of the Cadet Corps.