1978 School Magazine

IIVTERAET The lnteract Club has seen a very busy and hopefully en- joyable time this year. With membership now nearing 70 girls, we have been concentrating on practical service projects throughout the year, particularly in the area of Community Service. The executive for 1978 began its term of office in early November last year with a Christmas Party at the Royal Children's Hospital. This was a combined effort, with B.G.S. lnteract Club providing ref reshments and our club providing presents, many of which were kindly donated by Mr. Ron Franklin. Parties seem to have become the Club's speciality, as we gave a second one during Easter at a family home at Brighton. The girls have also helped in three doorknock appeals including one for the Queensland Cancer Fund when they collected $32j at Lang Park. Members also took part in the opening of Anti-Litter Week, which resulted in 25 girls becoming old before their time, while others handed out litter bags at the Exhibition for the Keep Australia Beautiful Council. One of lnteract's major projects has been the creation of a park behind the bus-stop which was begun by last year's members. The majority of the trees have been planted and the grass is beginning to grow. Our thanks must go to Mrs. Ashton, and in particular Mr. Harris, for their hard work and helpful advice. Our second major project has been in conjunction with a community ser- vice group run by Julia Thiele. Every Friday afternoon a group of about eight girls go to the Geriatric Unit of the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Here the girls help with the patients by doing things ranging from merely talking with them, through shopping for and feeding them, to helping the physiotherapists with the patients' treatment. We have a roster of about forty girls and we hope that it will be carried on next year. Thank you to Mrs. Steele, Miss Greet and Mr. Logan who have given up their time to transport the girls to P.A. and to Jill Corrigan, the physiotherapist, who looked after us while we were there. Also this year, $60 dollars was raised and sent to a Vocational Guidance Scheme for students in lndonesia. ln the middle of the year we established a Junior lnteract Club for girls in Second Form, under the guidance of Elizabeth Hawes and Katrina Heer. ft

kindly donated by Mr. Flynn. The money raised from this will be used to purchase a gavel for the S.R.C. School Day was not without its lnternational side. Terumi Takahashi and her friend Mika from Somerville House, both Rotary Exchange Students, gave a very interesting display on how to put the kimono on and later sold origami made by Terumi and members of Junior lnteract Over three hundred books have been collected and sent to Papua New Guinea schools, as part of our lnterna- tional service, and a number of girls participated in the 40 Hour Famine for World Vision. Throughout the year we have been selling boxes of confectionary, the pro- ceeds from which have gone to International House, and correspondence has begun with two lnteract Clubs overseas, one in New Zealanci and one in MaJaysia. This year we have been very fortunate to have had three very active Exchange Students in the club. We said goodbye to Jo in July but will still have with us Di Charlton from South Africa and Teiumi Takahashi from Japan, who is sponsored by our Rotary Club, Windsor. Although Di and Jo have not been directly sponsored by us we hope we have been of some assistance to them during their stay. Recently we welcomed Lora Lee Brown from America and we hope she will be happy dur- ing the next twelve months. Two of our members entered Miss Study Girl lnternational and although they were not successful they were awarded, along with six others, Rotary Exchange Scholarships for next year. We wish all these girls the very best for the future. lnteract's activities this year would not have been possi- ble, however, without the help of a large number of peo- ple. ln particular we'd like to thank Mr. Logan, Miss Forster and Mrs. Hancock for their coniinued en- couragement, support and advice.

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Congratulations to Judy Simpson and the other members of Junior lnteract for their wonderJul effort on School Day. lnteract's School Day activities consisted of a free Child and Parcel Minding Service and the raffling of a suitcase,

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