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The Establishment of Aspendale Technical School is a story that recalls the efforts of several local communities to gain the option of a technical education for their children. Opened in 1959 the school suffered a serious blow when fire in 1971 destroyed science, social studies and art rooms, as well as general classrooms. The principal also lost his office. A significant development occurred seven years later when the school was declared a co-educational facility.

Cr Roy Beardsworth ,a councillor in the Borough of Carrum, was invited to perform the opening ceremony of the new high school, Mordialloc-Carrum, September 1924. Beardsworth was elected to the Chelsea Council in 1922.