Our thoughts are with you.

Keith Robertson was a highly respected educationalist for many years in various schools.
He was Principal of Rutherglen High School between 1984 and 1992 and is well remembered by many locals.
Keith impacted the lives of many students and left his mark on our town and wider community.
It is with profound sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Keith and pay our respects to family and close friends.

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Keith taught at St Albans High School in the early 1960’s when he was playing with North Melbourne. He was a gun winger and gained Victorian selection too. We all looked up to him and were rapt when he coached our senior footy team in 1962, We were only Form 5 and 4 boys playing against more established schools with mainly Form 6 boys, so we struggled for wins, but that didn’t matter to us. One match we had Keith as our coach and Bobby Skilton as the umpire, can’t remember whether we won or not but we were as happy as Larry on the bus trip home. He also attended ‘sportsmens nights’ at the school, Alan Killigrew was there with him one night, both spoke to us about the VFL game. There were always lots of questions, my only clear memory is him him telling us he didn’t drink milk, preferred a beer. Not sure why that stuck with me, but I think milk consumption declined in our group afterwards. We also faced up to his bowling at the Teachers v Students match. I opened the batting, the headmaster bowled donkey drops, then we had to face Keith… he took it easy on us… until he batted, he belted us around for a bit till he retired. Only match the staff ever won I think . He was a great role model for us young blokes. A few of us trained at North in 67, Keith had moved on, but we got to meet some of his old teammates who spoke highly of him. I met him again when I was teaching in Sunraysia, at one stage I was at the Catholic School trying to teach Dale Weightman Economics I think, and later had a run out in the Millewa playing with Bambill where one of my team mates was Keith’s brother, Alan, a classy player too. I was sorry to hear of Keith’s death, he made a big impact on us. Condolences to the family.