1981 School Magazine

Editor: Sue Wilson Assistant Editor: Cathy Birkbeck Graphics Editor: Merryl Markwell Photographer: Sue White, Kathy Tilbury :dit6tiii^t"+#e#iffi.;|, nlfat4"6a..; c olhers wh tot

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It seems but a short while ago thot the keen, eager and enthusiastic Year 11's of 1980 were waiting in anticipation for the coming year, when the well-meant, hut basically ineffectual efforts of the then Year 12's, would be replaced with their own cool, calm organization, and what they envisaged, somewhat mistakenly, as their obvious superiority. All too soon, or so it appears to those of us departing, the Year 11's of 1981 are plotting our overthrow, and telling us of their hopes and aspirationsfor 1982, and of the improvements they have plannedfor B.G.G.S. in the year to come, They sre re-enscting the role once again, andfor those who care to ponder on this, there is evidence ofhopefor thefuture and I daresay that this will continue to happen as long as there are hard-working, but weary Year 12's and energetic, if op- timistic Year 11's. Some Year I2's are tempted to deprecate this optimism,forgetting their own visions of a kind of Utopiu, a school run- ning like clockwork where all plans reach fruition, having been nurtured by their own skilfal hands. Unfortanutely, however sincere the intentions, we must learn that we probably never fuffil our gouls completely, and that the striving towavd them may be just as rewarding, as many girls discover throughout their school career. A sense of true fuffilment csn only be gained through involvement, We could do worse thun to reflect upon Browning's affirmstion: "Ah, hut a msn's reuch should exceed his grasp, Or what's s Hesven.for?"

SUE WII,SON