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Dec 21, 2019 · What started as the school’s Scientific Society, set up by McCrorie, soon expanded into the Philosophical Society. Teaching about life’s wider curiosities mattered to him.
Jan 4, 2020 · Ian spent most of his life in and around Greenock Academy. His father taught Primary Seven there and Ian himself was a pupil all the way from Primary One to sixth year, when he was head boy.
- Matt Vallance
Jun 15, 2012 · Ian’s father taught Primary 7 at Greenock Academy until 1951. Ian was a pupil there from 1946 till 1959 (in the Nelson Street building) in both primary and secondary departments. He was Head Boy of the school in session 1958-59.
Story 68 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie. On my way to school one bitterly cold winter's day, I passed a house in the early stages of being built. The workers were framing the roof. The wind was howling, the snow was blowing, and they kept at it because that is what we all must do.
Ian has recently retired as sssistant head and teacher of chemistry in Greenock Academy. As official historian of Caledonian MacBrayne, he has published extensively on the vessels, sea routes, and piers of the Clyde and the Western Highlands. He was appointed MBE in 2007 ‘for services to Music and to the community in Inverclyde’.
Dec 6, 2019 · TRIBUTE has been paid following the death of Ian McCrorie who was much-loved and highly-regarded in many aspects of life in Inverclyde including education, music, Clyde ferries and steamers and the church. Mr McCrorie, who taught chemistry and was assistant rector at Greenock Academy, was 78 years old and lived in Greenock all his life.
Story 57 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie. One parent-teacher evening, a parent caught me alone at my desk and asked to see me for a few minutes. She seemed upset over some perceived injustice or oversight. She started in on me before she had sat down.
