August 11, 2025 • 6 mins
As the Festival of Clairs continued, the team tracked down Clairsy’s high school media teacher, Janice Sander, to find out more about him in his school days and whether his talent was recognised even back then. It was a lovely chat and a trip down memory lane.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, this week is the Festival of Claire's, isn't it.
Mister Clare's is leaving us at the end of the week,
leaving breakfast radio, not leaving work, you don't get off
that the rights, but leaving getting up at a ridiculous
time of the day. But we're kicking off our trip
down memory lane with where it all started. We are
(00:20):
so excited. Denise Sander is with us. Good morning now
you were Missus King to CLAIZI when you were his
media studies teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's craz Good morning, Missus King did that? This is freaky?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good morning Dean.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, I'm good, I'm good. Thanks. So, yeah, Dean was
in my very first media class. I just started media
up at Greenwood Senior High School. Yeah yeah, and we
started with your eleven and twelve, so only new Dean
for two years.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, did you get a feeling straight away that this
kid might have have the good Well.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Let me tell you no, I mean I've been I
was an education for over forty years. So he was
one of my first students. And it's actually Dean and
another student from Greenwood, Lindsay Flair, who went into animation
and was involved in all the animated films that have
come out that I remember, you, I really remember, because
(01:21):
Dean really stood out with his really deep voice. Yes,
and we did sixteen year old. He had a really
deep voice. And he was tall and a lanky guy
and fairly quiet. But in all the productions he really
shone because he had hit this great voice and also
this sort of I guess personality, and he would do
(01:45):
all the radio productions and help the other students, you know,
because he was just seemed to have a natural ability.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, all of us that know Clerzy and have I've
known him for years now as well, we all know
him to be a really nice guy. Was he a
nice teenager?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I was thinking about this and I thought I wanted
to say he was really naughty and got in trouble
all the time. It was all wrap back nice. It
was actually pretty good. He was really good. And I
remember saying to him, you know, you should really, you know,
think of doing something with you, you know. And I
know he went off and did a cadet ship in
(02:24):
the country, so I heard that. I was really pleased.
And then years went by and then he popped up
on another station, which I listened to and then when
he moved across to Nunty six fim, I listened to
him that again.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean, you know those early years were I mean
I did say on the radio yesterday that Mark Haddy
and I best mates. We went, let's do media. That
looks like a cutchy cruisy subject so crazy, and then
sort of fell in love with it. But I don't know.
You probably don't remember this, but my first thoughts was
we're doing TV units and then radio stuff. I wanted
to be the next Regard and she glad I didn't
(02:56):
wait for him to quit.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You could have been both. You could have been radio
or TV. I saw it like this, but you did
have the looks back then.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean, no, not that you don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You're on It must be ancient.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you remember the first time that you heard him
on air? Was it was it at six pm or
a station like.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Six pm?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah four point five? And then yeah
yeah yeah I did, I did, Yeah, I remember thinking
and then it was clear it's clezy. And because he
was called clericy at school as well, his mates called
c What about the Eagle, because that was.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That was where Clary and I met the Eagle, which
didn't you know, take off because I didn't get the FM.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You met my first radio crush. That was nineteen eighty nine.
Because I've been to Canberra and I've been in the
Bush and then Camber and Adela six thirty six years. Yeah. Absolutely,
I've been stalking Lisa to radio stations ever since because
when she went to the.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So media is when did you When did you stop
teaching media or are you still teaching?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
No, no, I retired three years ago, okay from media.
No no.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I was a principal when I retired, So I was
quite quite ambitious, like Dean, Yeah, top of radio. Yeah, no,
I loved working in education, but you know, I talked
media for about fifteen years and then I was got
involved in ahead of English Deputy Prince Ibrillian and then
retired three years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Because media has certainly seen some changes over the years
from from what you would have been teaching.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Back here, and as Dean said, it was mid eighties.
It was seen as a light subject back then, and
of course we were always trying to get to get more,
you know, sort of seeing there's more serious subjects. It
was really important subjects English and it did eventually get
into Atar, but that took a very very long time. Yeah,
but we had so much fun. I had Media Camp
(05:00):
and I don't think you went on it, because I
think in my first group.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, so I'm so glad.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I was really wad that you guys were going to
mention things because back then it was quite different.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, and you were on camp.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Kids had to be very resilient.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It was his time on media camp when I first
when I first got a job, I was seventeen, right,
so I just fresh come out of real class and
I got to Meriden, and I remember, I remember my
first night in Meriden. I had no idea what I
was doing, and I think I cried like a baby,
to be honest, because I left home as well. But
I was playing record, playing Vinyl records and this is
(05:34):
how angel I am, and everything off real to real
machines and stuff like that. But soon fell in love
with it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So I guess it must give you great joy to
you know, to come this full circle to be here today.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's your fault.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It was ready for tuitors meeting one of your work
colleagues and yeah, and I said, oh, you must stay
high to him. For me, I've always listened thought about
how you know, I thought about him and I heard
him and thought, how great is this? He got into this,
into intermedia, into radio, and it's just like, oh maybe
the medium.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That was freaky that our producer.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah yeah, well, Denise, we blame you.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You're responsible.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You kicked it all off. You gave us closy, so
we thank you for that. It's been lovely to me.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
What it's going to be up to now is he
I know I'm not retiring, you're not ready to not.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
A sixty, but it is funny that people a bit
suspicious I'm going, well, not because of what happens people
do Reitarre at sixty.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah I didn't, but yeah I.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Don't think I'll sit around and do nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah it's good. And I'll still be catching up with
this one for coffee.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I can recommend it wonderful
Well, this week is the Festival of Claire's, isn't it.
Mister Clare's is leaving us at the end of the week,
leaving breakfast radio, not leaving work, you don't get off
that the rights, but leaving getting up at a ridiculous
time of the day. But we're kicking off our trip
down memory lane with where it all started. We are
(00:20):
so excited. Denise Sander is with us. Good morning now
you were Missus King to CLAIZI when you were his
media studies teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's craz Good morning, Missus King did that? This is freaky?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good morning Dean.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, I'm good, I'm good. Thanks. So, yeah, Dean was
in my very first media class. I just started media
up at Greenwood Senior High School. Yeah yeah, and we
started with your eleven and twelve, so only new Dean
for two years.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, did you get a feeling straight away that this
kid might have have the good Well.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Let me tell you no, I mean I've been I
was an education for over forty years. So he was
one of my first students. And it's actually Dean and
another student from Greenwood, Lindsay Flair, who went into animation
and was involved in all the animated films that have
come out that I remember, you, I really remember, because
(01:21):
Dean really stood out with his really deep voice. Yes,
and we did sixteen year old. He had a really
deep voice. And he was tall and a lanky guy
and fairly quiet. But in all the productions he really
shone because he had hit this great voice and also
this sort of I guess personality, and he would do
(01:45):
all the radio productions and help the other students, you know,
because he was just seemed to have a natural ability.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, all of us that know Clerzy and have I've
known him for years now as well, we all know
him to be a really nice guy. Was he a
nice teenager?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I was thinking about this and I thought I wanted
to say he was really naughty and got in trouble
all the time. It was all wrap back nice. It
was actually pretty good. He was really good. And I
remember saying to him, you know, you should really, you know,
think of doing something with you, you know. And I
know he went off and did a cadet ship in
(02:24):
the country, so I heard that. I was really pleased.
And then years went by and then he popped up
on another station, which I listened to and then when
he moved across to Nunty six fim, I listened to
him that again.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean, you know those early years were I mean
I did say on the radio yesterday that Mark Haddy
and I best mates. We went, let's do media. That
looks like a cutchy cruisy subject so crazy, and then
sort of fell in love with it. But I don't know.
You probably don't remember this, but my first thoughts was
we're doing TV units and then radio stuff. I wanted
to be the next Regard and she glad I didn't
(02:56):
wait for him to quit.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You could have been both. You could have been radio
or TV. I saw it like this, but you did
have the looks back then.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean, no, not that you don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You're on It must be ancient.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you remember the first time that you heard him
on air? Was it was it at six pm or
a station like.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Six pm?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah four point five? And then yeah
yeah yeah I did, I did, Yeah, I remember thinking
and then it was clear it's clezy. And because he
was called clericy at school as well, his mates called
c What about the Eagle, because that was.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That was where Clary and I met the Eagle, which
didn't you know, take off because I didn't get the FM.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You met my first radio crush. That was nineteen eighty nine.
Because I've been to Canberra and I've been in the
Bush and then Camber and Adela six thirty six years. Yeah. Absolutely,
I've been stalking Lisa to radio stations ever since because
when she went to the.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So media is when did you When did you stop
teaching media or are you still teaching?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
No, no, I retired three years ago, okay from media.
No no.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I was a principal when I retired, So I was
quite quite ambitious, like Dean, Yeah, top of radio. Yeah, no,
I loved working in education, but you know, I talked
media for about fifteen years and then I was got
involved in ahead of English Deputy Prince Ibrillian and then
retired three years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Because media has certainly seen some changes over the years
from from what you would have been teaching.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Back here, and as Dean said, it was mid eighties.
It was seen as a light subject back then, and
of course we were always trying to get to get more,
you know, sort of seeing there's more serious subjects. It
was really important subjects English and it did eventually get
into Atar, but that took a very very long time. Yeah,
but we had so much fun. I had Media Camp
(05:00):
and I don't think you went on it, because I
think in my first group.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, so I'm so glad.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I was really wad that you guys were going to
mention things because back then it was quite different.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, and you were on camp.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Kids had to be very resilient.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It was his time on media camp when I first
when I first got a job, I was seventeen, right,
so I just fresh come out of real class and
I got to Meriden, and I remember, I remember my
first night in Meriden. I had no idea what I
was doing, and I think I cried like a baby,
to be honest, because I left home as well. But
I was playing record, playing Vinyl records and this is
(05:34):
how angel I am, and everything off real to real
machines and stuff like that. But soon fell in love
with it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So I guess it must give you great joy to
you know, to come this full circle to be here today.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's your fault.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It was ready for tuitors meeting one of your work
colleagues and yeah, and I said, oh, you must stay
high to him. For me, I've always listened thought about
how you know, I thought about him and I heard
him and thought, how great is this? He got into this,
into intermedia, into radio, and it's just like, oh maybe
the medium.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That was freaky that our producer.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah yeah, well, Denise, we blame you.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You're responsible.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You kicked it all off. You gave us closy, so
we thank you for that. It's been lovely to me.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
What it's going to be up to now is he
I know I'm not retiring, you're not ready to not.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
A sixty, but it is funny that people a bit
suspicious I'm going, well, not because of what happens people
do Reitarre at sixty.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah I didn't, but yeah I.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Don't think I'll sit around and do nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah it's good. And I'll still be catching up with
this one for coffee.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I can recommend it wonderful
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