1989 School Magazine

E D ITORIAL Our School ethos encourages us to strive for our ideals and to lay the strong foundations essential for success. While the world at large has begun to address the global issues related to a better future, Brisbane Cirls' Crammar School, too, is looking towards the twenty-first century. This year, the school has embraced the concept of a new communications centre, worthy of the next century's technology and the school's continuing aspirations. An old proverb states "High Building, Deep Foundations". Meticulous planning and organization will not only provide the ground work for new endeavours, but also ensure the envisaged results. Similarly, our school helps uS, as individuals, to lay the foundations for our future. Our Secondary School years, characterized by homework, training sessions, exams and rehearsals, all help us develop the self-discipline which is the final basis of future success. At school level, successes in the academic sphere, sporting competition, music and other endeavours are all built on these foundations. These are well documented in the following pages. Thanks must go to Mrs Kiolle, Mrs Kimber, Mrs Hadgraft, and the Magazine Committee, for their thoughtful preparation of this year's school magazine.

MAGAZINE COMMITTEE

Kristin Stewaft Rachael Fox, Kim Skubris

Ed itor: Art Editors:

Committee: Anastasia Anastas, Edwina Astley. Margot Cowen, Peta Crease, Stacey Ede, Erica Fryberg, Alison Handfield, Clare Murphy, Mei Onions, Kirsten Pietzner, Jennifer Stewart-Richardson.

Magazine Committee Back Row (ltoR) Mrs Kimber, A. Anastas, R. Fox, C. Murphy, J. Stewart- Richardson, K. Skubris, P. Crease, A. Handfield, Mrs Kiolle, Mrs Hadgraft Front Row E. Fryberg, K. Pietzner, K. Stewart, M. Onions, M. Cowen Absent E. Astley, S. Ede

have a small population, we consist of a mix of many nationalities the majority of whom are proud to call themselves Australians. The changes that have occurred in this country over the past two hundred years, but more particularly in the past thirty years, place great responsibilities on our Schools to develop programs that will not only allow for cultural enrichment of our young people, but also help them develop greater tolerance and understanding for people with different ethnic backgrounds. This year therefore has provided many opportunities for the eight hundred and fifty-five students to be involved in community activities, not only associated with the Bicentennial celebrations, but also with the World Exposition. Through the project "schools Across Australia" students have been corresponding with the Falmouth School in Cornwall and the Crosskeys College in Wales. As well, there has been a link to Casuarina High in Darwin and we were pleased to welcome members of that School when they visited Brisbane for Expo. The annual service of Praise and Thanksgiving held in April at St. Andrew's Uniting Church, focused our thoughts on the Bicentennial and its implications for us all. ln the address by Rev. Dr. John Moses, we were reminded that in the contemporary world we need to build on the experience of the past, shored up by the foundations of honest and rigorous modern thought if we are to solve the complex problems of racial and class conflict and other aberrations which wrack our society. We must be part of that emancipating, reconciling and healing process which promotes the interdependence and solidarity of the entire human race. It was not long after this Service that one hundred members of the Senior Orchestra and Concert Band participated in the Official Opening of World Expo BB. This was a unique experience for the girls and one which they will remember for many years. Penelope Boys in Year 12, was privileged to be selected to perform with the Fanfare Ensemble to mark the arrival of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, to the Ceremony. Expo also provided the opportunity for nineteen drama students to work with a cast of eighty who performed on the River Stage in July. The play, Synth the Electric Muse, was written in conjunction with students from nine Schools with two of our girls successfully filling principal roles in the production. Community activities however are not the only way in which students are encouraged to develop greater tolerance and understanding for others. The Language Department has developed broad-based programs that allow students the oppoftunity to interact with people from various cultures and, as a result, the place of languages within the curriculum is being increasingly strengthened. By the end of five years of secondary schooling, many of our students converse at a very high standard in a language other than English. On Japan's National Day, peta fennedy was chosen to give a welcoming speech to visiting Japanese dignitaries at the Japanese Pavilion. Colinette Margerison was awarded first prize in the Japanese Speech Contest at Year 10 level. Taueva Caesar won an Alliance Francaise Competition at Year 9 level. Elsina Wainwright and Julie Adsett received Scholarships through the Australian

Mrs l. Hancock

PRINCIPAIIS ANNUAT REPORT :'l9BB It is with great pleasure that, as Principal of the Cirls' Crammar School, I welcome you, Your Excellency and Lady Campbell, to the Annual End of Year Assembly and Prizegiving. Since its foundation in 1875, the School has been pleased, and indeed honoured, to welcome the Covernor of Queensland to various functions, pafticularly in his capacity as Official Visitor to the School. This is not the first occasion on which you have honoured us, Sir, with your presence and we appreciate the interest that you show in the School. The position you hold as Covernor of this State allows us all to recognise the link that you provide between the School and the history of this Nation, and it is therefore most fitting that in this our Bicentennial Year, you have agreed to address our School family and present the prizes to the top scholars and for those who have achieved success in various co-curricular activities. Australia is a young nation and we are proud to know that this School, in providing young women of this State with access to education of the highest standards for the past one hundred and fourteen years has helped in its development. Our country is no longer isolated from the rest of the world and, although in comparative terms we

Cerman Student Exchange Program to study in Cermany for six weeks. I have only been notified today that, in further recognition of their excellent performance in Cerman, additional Prizes have been awarded to Elsina and Julie. Elsina has won the Australian High Flyer Award of the Coethe Society of Queensland and Cerman lndustry. This Award includes a free flight to the Cerman Creek, North Queensland, with a visit of the Mines of Ruhrkohle Pty Ltd. Julie has won the Cerman Travel Award of the Coethe Society Queensland, which this year amounts to $500. This year is the Tenth Anniversary of our Sister School relationship with the Hirayama Cakuen Tsushima Cirls' High in Nagoya Japan. ln recognition of our ten years of association, the School donated a Japanese Carden to Cirls' Crammar. This has been a wonderful addition to our School grounds and will serye as a permanent reminder of the friendship that exists between our two Schools. Mr. Hirayama visited the School to dedicate the garden in August, and in October, I reciprocated by visiting Japan to present our Sister School with a sterling silver Friendship Medal which is to be awarded each year to the student who is most proficient in English. While in Nagoya it was pleasing to meet with four of the Japanese students who had studied in our School under the lnternational Program and to hear from them of the value of the exchange.

ln June of this year seventeen students from the Cerman Department, together with Mr. Miles and Mrs. Kiolle, travelled to East and West Cermany, Austria and Switzerland. At the same time nine students from the French Department were involved in a four week exchange trip to Bordeaux, arranged through the Youth for Understand ing Program" The English Department has continued to offer students a rich and diversified program, with a spectrum of language experiences ranging from Wordsworth to Word Processing. Units of the Senior English course have been given added impetus and impact by the inclusion of seminars conducted by guest speakers, including the A.B.C. television journalist, Janet Wilson, and the award-winning Australian poet, Mark O'Connor. Such experiences provide students with the opportunity to listen to, and talk with, professionals who are expeft in using language in varied ways. Students have been encouraged to enter National and State competitions and all students who entered such competitions have benefited from the experience, whether they gained prizes or not. First prize winners include Jennifer Stewart-Richardson, who won the Senior Section of the Bicentennial Project "Sharing our Future - Australia in 2010" Competition, and Erica Fryberg, who won prizes in the 1988 Q.AJ.l.S. Literary Competition. Jennifer's prizes include a trip to the National Capital to meet with the Prime Minister and Covernor Ceneral. ln a modern society the art of communication is of paramount importance, and through the Speech and Drama Program as well as the Media Program, students have been given many opportunities to improve their skills and to strengthen their use of English. This year students have been involved in a number of Theatre Sports Competitions including one at interschool level. Lunchtime performances in the Cehrmann Theatre have proved to be very popular, as were the matches against Brisbane Crammar School. Twenty-eight students participated in the lnternational lnterplay Festival, where they devised and perfornred The Daisy Chain, the story of Daisy Bates. This Festival at La Boite, allowed our students to appreciate performances from students from Canada and New Zealand, as well as from the Brisbane area. A number of other successful performance evenings were held to enable parents to see students work. A play reading group has also been established which provides the students with the opportunity of reading and reviewing plays, thereby helping to develop an appreciation of drama. This year's lnterhouse Drama Festival provided opportunities for students to write, produce, direct and act in plays. The winning play came from England House and was written and produced by Erica Fryberg. Abracadabra adds to Erica's long list of writing achievements. Debating has been very successful again during 1988 with students being given the opportunity to pafticipate at lnterhouse or lnterschool level. Sixteen teams panicipated in competitions organised through the Queensland Debating Union, Apex and School Circuit Debating. A record number of teams'made the final rounds in the Q.D.U. Competition and the Senior A Apex teanr

While I was in Japan I signed an agreement with a second School, Matsusaka Cirls' High, which unlike Tsushima Cirls' High School, takes students from the age of twelve years. This new relationship will allow younger students to participate in an Exchange Program, thereby strengthening their knowledge of language and Japanese culture at an earlier stage than has been possible previously.

pafticipated in the District Finals in Cladstone. Students also gained the oppoftunity to debate in public through the media, in such programs as "Rewind", which is seen across Australia on the Seven Network, and in the "Creat Debates" on 4BC. The School fosters and appreciates the experiences that the media can provide for students. The School's Media Department works to consolidate learning support facilities within the School, and this year the video studio facility was improved with the addition of a new studio camera. This will provide the opportunity for the recommendations contained in the new English Syllabus to be quickly implemented. The study of media as an integral part of the English program raises the "critical consciousness" of students who from infancy are bombarded by the often spurious messages. An alarmingly high percentage of students asserts that they receive their knowledge of the world through the mass media and predominantly through the medium of television. The aim of the program is therefore to encourage students to analyse and criticise what they see. The Media Department is just one segment of our entire Resource Department and it would remiss of me if I did not mention the changes that have occurred in the Library this year. An on-line circulation system was introduced at the beginning of the year which involved initially putting bar codes on all books and entering bibliographic information into the computer. Students were given ldentification Cards and bythe middle of Term 1, borrowingwas much simpler and more efficient. Since the installation of the system, some fifteen thousand book loans have been transacted. This figure does not include books borrowed from the reserye collection for use on a daily basis. Currently the Library holds over thirty-five thousand volumes, covering reference, non-fiction and fiction and we subscribe to fifty- one periodicals. Non-fiction purchases for 1988 have endeavoured to respond to the changing curricular needs of the various Departments. Responding to a request from Senior students and Boarding students, the Library opened until 9.00 p.m .on two nights a week and for three hours on Saturday afternoons. This is for a trial period and will be evaluated to ascertain whether there is a permanent need for extended hours. The two Resource teachers, Mrs. Farley and Mrs. Pepper- Budge, have continued to work with individuals, small goups and within regular classes to cater for individual needs and to improve the basic skills of all students' Study skills workshops and tutorial sessions in Maths, Science and English, have been conducted at lunchtime and after school. A study skills booklet, entitled "Successful Study in Maths" was prepared for all Year 8 students. This series provided opportunities for parents and students to have a detailed insight into proficient methods in Mathematics. Results in Mathematics and Science have been very pleasing this year with record numbers of students gaining bistinctions in local and national competitions. Cristina Vergara, Jan Milford and Hilary Fisher all received prizes in theWestpac Mathematics Competition. ln Science, Katrina Biltoft and Linda Campbell received prizes in the Science Teachers Competition and Rachel Balmanno has been chosen to go to the National Science Summer School in Canberra.

New computer software has allowed students access to programs, which develop their basic skills in Mathematics and English. This year has seen the addition of a classroom set of twenty-five Aztec Computers. This was achieved through the generosity of the Parents & Friends' Association who donated the $70,000 that was required for the facility. The School now has three rooms of computers, together with a number of others scattered through various Departments. These facilities provide the girls with access to various types of software that will aid their studies in all areas. Accounting students have benefited greatly from the new machines by being given the opportunity to gain insight into Computer Accounting. They can now move easily from spread-sheeting to report writing to analysis and interpretation, to graphical illustrations and to using a program which encompasses many aspects of the two year COUTSE, Next priority is for Year 1 1 and 12 students to experience, as closely as possible, what is happening in the world of work. Senior students undertook a four week intensive course on the use of Word Processing, and they are now able to use the facilities for class writing exercises. The lntegrated Studies students received their own IBM compatible computer through the year, and are now kept busy developing their touch-typing skills and other computing skills which are essential for most employment situations today. Computer Literacy at Year 8 level continues to provide every student with reinforcement in the nature, scope and limitations of modern information technology. This has been extended by the English Department to be an integral paft of their program and provides students with the opportunity to create and produce a large range of formal and informal written work. High levels of student proficiency, coupled with the popularity of our new system, have placed a heavy demand upon existing facilities, both in and out of class time. The result has been that the majority of students have a most positive approach to the use of computers as tools within the educational process. I have spoken at some length about the opportunities for students to have access to courses that will provide them with the foundations for their further education, but there must be a balanced approach to the academic program. Physical fitness is essential if young people are to function at the highest academic levels, and this year it was pleasing to see the Memorial Outdoor Education Centre at Imbil become fully operational. On the first weekend of the School Year, students in year 12 who wished to participate in the Year B, 9 and 10 Outdoor Education Program, attended a Leaders' Camp at the Centre. This introductory weekend provided students with an insight into the types of activities and situations they would be involved in as leaders on School Camps, and it also provided the staff at the Centre with opportunities to know the potential camp leaders. The girls who attended the camps certainly fulfilled their roles with many showing very good common sense and responsibility in a number of challengin g situations.

John's Ambulance First Aid Certificate and all will be involved in the Lifesaving Program. This year we once again won the Royal Lifesaving Society's Soden Shield for having the highest number of Lifesaving Certificates in a Queensland Secondary Cirls' School, and for the first time, were awarded the Crigson Shield for having the largest number of Lifesaving Certificates awarded to any organisation in Queensland. The skills that students gain through both the First Aid and Lifesaving Program will be of value to them throughout their lives. Over half the students enrolled in the School continue to be actively involved in the Music Program. ln August, the Music Department participated in the Bicentennial Queensland Festival of Music with a number of groups being successfully placed. The Senior Concert Band represented the School at the Conceft of 2000 to celebrate Warana and of course as previously stated they were actively involved in the Official Opening of World Expo. This year there have been some outstanding student achievements in Music. Susannah Webb was selected as a finalist and recitalist in the 19BB National Youth Concerto Competition, where she gained third place. She also is to be congratulated on attaining her A.Mus.A in violin with Distinction. Pianist, Rosemary Pallister, has achieved many awards including the Wight Memorial Medal, and today we are privileged to hear her choral composition which gained Cibson House first place in the lnterhouse Choral Competition. Marion Biggs who received the R.T. Jefferies and Anne Ethelreda Jefferies Bursary in 1987 also received her A.Mus.A. for violincello in 1988. Mary Jane Bennett in Year 9 achieved the highest mark in Queensland for her Crade 5 AMEB Pianoforte examination, and Sarah Broughton in Year 8 was awarded the Junior Woodwind Championship in the .1988 Brisbane Eisteddfod. ln Term

At Years 8 and 10, a seven-day program was introduced which allowed greater time so that a variety of activities could be developed that would extend the academic, social, and physical skill experiences of the girls. One of the main features of the program is to facilitate the social devel- opment of students at both personal and class grotrp levels' Aithough some outcomes are impossible to measure objec- tively, the staff have witnessed the development and ma- turing of students' self-confidence and self-esteem, even through such simple experiences as preparing the evening meal ior the whole group. The program provides an added dimension to the individual student's experience, which cannot be fully provided in the classroom setting. We have also been able to utilise the Outdoor Education Centre for the Boarders in an effort to provide them with a quiet recre- ational weekend. Other schools have also used the Centre and at Christmas time, holiday programs for students in Year 11 will be offered. The School has been extremely fortunate to have the permission from the Forestry Commission to use the surrounding area for its programs. On Sunday, 6 November a social afternoon was held at the Centre to thank all the local lmbil community for their support during the year. As weli, it gave the School the opportunity to thank Mr. Peter Wilson, Chairman of the lmbil Working Committee, who has successfully organised so many working bees throughout the year. This group has worked very well with Sue and Tim Lanham to improve the environment at the Centre and to make it a very pleasant area for our students' The Physical Education Department has likewise had a very good year. The lnterhouse program had two major iompetitions, Swimming and Track and Field, held at the Valley Pool and QEll Nathan, respectively. Taking our athletes to venues of this quality has helped their performance at lnterschool level, where there has been considerable i mprovement. A combination of talent, enthusiasm and dedicated athletes and coaches, resulted in the Swimming Team coming second, and the Athletics Team coming third in the Q.C.S.S.S.A. competitions. Success continued into Cymnastics, where we won all grades in the Artistic section and two events in the Rhythmic section. Our newly formed Rhythmic Cymnastics Club entered three State Competitions, resulting in eleven of our gymnasts gaining places in the State Team that competed at the National Championships in Adelaide. Cross-country runners put B.C.C.S. on the map with wins in the Under 13 and Open Division and our First Xl cricketers won their lnterschool competition. The A Crade Hockey Team played in the Brisbane Women's Hockey Competition winning the President's Cup and t!'t" Premiership in Division 8. Crade 8 Tennis won the Q.C.S.S.S.A. Premiership and five of our eight Basketball Teams played in the Brisbane Basketball Finals, with three teams going through to the Preliminary and Crand Finals. Although it is always pleasing to see our teams and individual students doing so well in spoft, I believe the most important paft of the Physical Education program is the core program that attempts to improve the skills of every student within the School in an effort to give them confidence in their physical and social environments. By the time students enter Year 10, all must have sat for the St.

Each year when School resumes, it is never a surprise to open the newspapers and read articles which reopen the perennial education debate - What is the fundamental purpose of education? This year was no exception when in January, The Times on Sunday, presented an article entitled "What Every Child Needs: Beauty, Truth and Maths". Whether it be business, unions, teachers, parents, or politicians, all think they have the answer. Unfortunately such debate is always strongest when a nation is facing economic difficulties, for it is perceived that education, or lack thereof, is the cause of all the ills that beset a nation. lt is therefore not surprising that during the past two to three years there have been unprecedented efforts to reorganise and change educational structures in all States, as well as at the National level. lt is saddening that much is being attempted without proper consideration of the question posed above - "What does every child need?" - and that little has been done to determine the rationale for change or even to determine if, at this time, major changes are really desirable. More utilitarian programs have been designed and often implemented, replacing much of the liberal tradition that has been the hallmark of our Schools and their curricula. Continual negatively geared debate about education does not help to breed confidence in parents, students, and prospective employers, and indeed, can be considered as most destructive to the health of the nation. I do not intend to debate this issue today in either its historical or political context, but rather to raise it in such a way that each one of you will be able to consider your own position and to determine your own personal responsibilities in this matter. Only a few weeks ago an article appeared in a local paper which alluded to the increased benefits perceived by parents for their children if they attend non-government schools. lt assumed that a "good" education can be bought and that those in the so called private sector have an edge over those not in that sector. What a sad state of affairs when we cause divisions between those who have and those who have not. All children, irrespective of the School they attend, are entitled to a good education. Carth Boomer recently stated in a paper entitled Making State Schools Creater that "Sadly, while we tend to have confidence in our own neighbourhood school and its teachers, we are not so sure about other State Schools. The media slurs, gossip replete with alarnring anecdotes of decay and dissolution, dinner table horror stories of bad spelling and worse discipline in the "elsewhere school", all seem to fuel a panic that our State Schools generally are on the slide, not the local School mind you, but the system in general". These sentirnents are not limited to people with students in State Schools, and I believe too many of us readily criticise other systems and other Schools without considering the damage that we do to the image of education as a whole within this country. It is often said that we are a nation of "knockers" and this is no exception in our attitude to education. We need to stop "knocking" and accept how much good is going on in our Schools, whether State or Private. There is a need for continuous effort on the part of teachers, students and parents to promote a constructive attitude so that good

Three, it was pleasing to welcome Miss Bronwyn Myers back from Hungary after she successfully completed a one year Music Course at the Kodaly Pedagogical lnstitute of Music. She was awarded a Distinction in the area of Chamber Music and offered the Mrs. Z. Kodaly Scholarship to continue for a further twelve months. This was an outstanding achievement internationally. ln July of this year, Miss Trisha Cook was awarded a Crant from the Queen Elizabeth ll Jubilee Trust for Young Australians which will allow her to attend a course in Choral Conducting at Princeton next year. Various professional development activities have been organised during the year for members of the staff. Of particular note were the discussions relating to the Dawkin's Creen Paper at which the Chairman of the Board, Dr. Crassie, preserrted a Paper and a Workshop at which all staff addressed the issue of Pastoral Care within the School. Later in the year a workshop was arranged on developing strategies for future planning. This involved members of the Board, Senior Staff, and selected parents and was held over two days. As a result, several initiatives have been taken by the Board to consider future planning. Discussions have been held also between the Boards of Brisbane Crammar School and Cirls' Crammar with the aim of developing greater cooperation. This year, School Day was held on the same day as the Brisbane Crammar Open Day thus allowing parents and students from both Schools to have the opportunity to see the worl< in which our students are involved. Plans are under way for a joint development of an oval which will greatly improve sporting facilities at both Schools. Other areas of cooperation between the two Schools include Athene Club and combined musical activities, both of which provide added dimensions to the educational program. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Brisbane Crammar School for their generosity in allowing us to use the Centenary Hall for Assembly each Monday and their ovals for sporting activities. The above report has been only a summary of some of the 'rnajor happenirrgs within the School during the past year. lt would be indeed impossible to record everything that has occurred. The contributions of so many help to mal

Schools can become even better, and increased confidence in the educational system as a whole, can again permeate and influence our social attitudes. The l

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His Excellency, Sir Walter Campbell, presenting Speech Day Awards

ADDRESS TO END OF YEAR ASSEMBLY AN D S PE ECH DAY BY HIS EXCELLENCY SIR WALTER CAMPBELL 18th November, 19BB Chairman of the Board of Trustees - Dr Crassie, Principal - Mrs Hancock, Members of the Board of Trustees, Members of Staff, Students, Ladies and Centlemen, Thank you, Dr Crassie, for your kind words of introduction. I am pleased to be here this afternoon in order to present the prizes to those students who have excelled in their studies and in other aspects of school life. One of the benefits of having been invited to present the prizes is that I am also able to speak to you, a large group of young women who are going through some of the most important and formative years of your lives. Those students who are completing Crade 12 are on the threshold of that stage in life when they will elect to go on to further studies or training for their chosen career or to enter the workforce for the first time. The final days at school are at the one time excitlng and sad. I know that they bring very mixed feelings: relief that examinations and assignments are over; pleasurable

anticipation of a long summer holiday, and excitement about the next stage of your lives - whether you will be undertaking studies at a University or at a College of Advanced Education, commencing training for a career such as nursing, beginning an apprenticeship or taking a secretarial or similar course of study. Many of you will regret the termination of your school days - knowing that you will miss the close friendships, the keen competition in sport, the association with teachers for whom, particularly in your senior years, you will have found yourselves developing respect, appreciation and affection. Feelings and preoccupations such as these are probably uppermost in the minds of those students who are facing their final days at school. However, because of the education and guidance which your parents, in partnership with your school, have made available to you, I know that you will have given also a good deal of thought to deeper concerns - to matters such as your responsibilities to the school community, to your family, to yourself and to the world at large. lt is about the ideals of service to your community and to your nation, and about your potential to contribute to the development of this great country that I wish to speak to you this afternoon. At this point in our history, there is a huge potential for young women to go forward into areas of business and professional life and into occupations and trades which, only as recently as tvventy years ago, were regarded as the right and proper pursuits of men only. Fortunately for women, and for society in general, many of those attitudes are changing and many people now recognise that women may take their places alongside men in occupations and professions which have traditionally been the province only for men. lndeed, a recent national repoft about education for engineering - once considered that most male of occupations - the Williams Report - said: "The Engineering Profession is impoverished by its failure to attract females." Apart from the impoverishment which engineering suffers because of low participation by women, there is a general concern that Australia will lose its technological base as a productive, exporting nation if more young people, and women particularly, are not encouraged to enter the engi- neering profession. Measured in terms of the technology exported by Australia per head of population, we rank fourth last out of the group of twenty-four O.E.C.D. countries to which we belong. This means that we are not considered as being in the forefront of nations who are designing and making the products which are in demand throughout the world. lt is estimated that in order to overcome this technological backwardness, an additional 20,000 professional engineers are required. Sir James Foots, the Chancellor of the University of Queensland, when speaking about this problem recently, said: "lt is sad that the Engineering Profession, which makes such an important contribution to our living standards, is missing out on so many of the best brains in the country." He went on: "The Profession has a responsibility to break down the kinds of misconceptions that picture engineering as being involved with big machines, dirt, grease and sweat rather than intellectual skills, creativeness, computers and human problems." Fortunately there are signs that bright young women with the necessary mathematical skills - and importantly - the

capacity for problem solving, are starting to respond to the opportunities in engineering. For example, the Williams Report shows that in the seven years from 1979 to 1986, the percentage of women graduating from engineering courses around Australia rose from 2.5o/o lo 6.1%. Furthermore, the Dean of Engineering at the University of Queensland has told me that in 1988, 14.5o/o of the first year intake to the faculty were young women. Although these figures indicate that the majority of practi- tioners in these long established professions are still men, it is a fact that formal or legislative barriers against women have long been removed. There has been, as we all know, a great deal of discrimination against women in the Professions, and it reflected certain attitudes, many of which, fortunately, will be foreign to young women of today. For example, the first female medical students who gained entry to medicine at Melbourne University in 1887 found that they nad great difficulty in obtaining appointments as Resident Medical Officers in hospitals. Queensland admitted women to practise as Lawyers only in 1905, and in New South Wales women were debarred until 1921 when Miss Emily Evans, a Sydney Law Craduate, succeeded in signing the roll after a long campaign. ln England prior to 1919, the lnns of Court, which have the exclusive right to admit persons to practise as Barristers, had refused admission to several women applicants, and the Law Society had obtained a Court Judgement preventing them from being admitted as Solicitors. ln 1919 in England the Sex Discrimination (Removal) Act was passed and it opened all professions to women. There was one impoftant exception made to this act by Order-in- Council, namely, that the Diplomatic and Consular Services and ceftain Higher Civil Service Appointments were reserved to men, and this barrier was not removed until 1946. But, despite the enactment of liberalising legislation, women were, for some time, inhibited from participating fully in professional life. May I illustrate this point by referringto the case of the First Woman Craduate from the University of Queensland Law School, Miss Una Bick - who later became Mrs Una Prentice. She said that when she sought employment she found that Society and the Legal Profession were not then ready to accept a woman as a Legal Practitioner if suitably qualified men were available. However, the onset of war with its accompanying depletion of the ranks of male Lawyers provided her first employment opportunity with the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor. This was two years after she had graduated. From the initial interview she well understood that her position would be temporary, namely, for the duration of the war when it was to be relinquished in favour of a returned serviceman. Fufthermore, the Commonwealth Covernment at that time had no salary scales for women in occupations other than Vping. She was duly remunerated according to the salary scale for typists, and was then junior to some typists many years younger than herself whose education had not gone beyond Junior or Scholarship. As well as her legal dutiei she was required also to perform the role of bookkeeper, a task not assigned to her male colleagues. Many anomalies such as these have now been removed

and a small number of women have made their way through to the higher levels of Legal Office. For example, in 1965 Dame Roma Mitchell became Australia's first female Supreme Court Judge when she was appointed to the Supreme Court of South Australia. Last year, twenty-two years later, the first woman - Mrs Justice Matthews - was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales. She is reported as having said that, in order for women to take a place in the highest echelons of their Professions, they should resist being typecast into working only in those areas considered by some people as being suitable for women. ln Law, for example, such areas would include Family Law and Conveyancing. Many of the more eminent Barristers and Judges have had extensive experience of Litigation and Commercial Practice, and women wishing to rise to the top should pursue similar career paths. Judge Matthews is reported to have said that, in order to do so, women need to be able to work the very long hours which are worked by men within the highly competitive world at the Bar. This can be difficult to combine with the domestic responsibilities which are borne by many career women. However, she claimed that, if women do the necessary hard work, the rewards of High Office can be within their reach. There are many other occupations and fields of work which I could mention which hold the promise of fascinating and impoftant careers, and which should be considered by young women who are undertaking their secondary education. For example, the expanding Tourism Industry will provide many rewarding opportunities for young people who apply themselves to that interesting area. Apprentice Chefs are already finding themselves to be in great demand, and there is broad scope for young women to be more actively engaged in some skilled occupations, where their numbers at present are low. ln short, I trust that all girls at this School have now been made aware of the many ways in which they might pursue fulfilling and satisfying careers whilst contributing to the progress of their nation. Cirls who have benefitted from the many fine resources of the Brisbane Cirls' Crammar School, where there is an environment designed to promote a sense of responsibility and service to the Community, have an obligation to themselves, to their parents and to their school to return some of that investment by developing their human potential to the full. By this I mean that you should seek to become balanced and well-rounded people who will play active roles not only in fostering your careers and your family lives, but also in the many community organisations which contribute so much to the good of this socieW. Once you leave school and begin to pursue your several vocations in the sophisticated civilizations of this era, you will not infrequently be confronted with many diverse and difficult problems of how to behave - but nothing which cannot be solved by integrity and a sense of responsibility. You should by now understand the values and the purposes of the Legal System under which we live. Our io.iety will not function properly if our Leaders in the community are not men and women of integrity, men and women who have respect tor, and seek to obey, the rules of law governing our behaviour which are laid down from time

to time. I am optimistic that you, the girls of this highly regarded School, will respond to the challenges and to the opportunities which lie before you, throughout what, I hope will be, long and fortunate lives. lf you were to carry away with you from this school the conviction encapsulated within your school motto: "Nothing Without Hard Work", you will be armed with the first element of the essential knowledge on which a successful and happy life is built. I congratulate all students who have done well in their academic subjects and those who have pafticipated with enthusiasm in the several activities outside the classroom, partrcularly to the 6th formers who are now leaving school, I give my best wishes for their future success. I am sure that each will look back fondly on the years spent at Brisbane Cirls' Crammar and each will appreciate the value of the instruction and counsel which she has been fortunate to have received from her teachers. lt does not appear to me that it could be said to be the fault of this School if you fail to become well balanced, successful, well rounded and educated persons in the years to come - people who will make important contributions to the development of this country, and, in so doing, will advance the position of women within our Society. I am sure you will always be proud of your School and that the School will be proud of you, its students. THE RESTORATION AND BUILDING APPEAL School Day, 1989, marked the official launch of the Restoration and Building Appeal by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr M. Crassie. The Launch heralded the beginning of the first major development at Cirls' Crammar since the completion of the Cehrmann Theatre and associated Classroom Block, opened by His Excellency, the Covernor of Queensland, Sir Walter Campbell on School Day,1986. ln January of this year, the Restoration and Building Appeal Committee was established under the Chairmanship of a member of the Board of Trustees, Miss Margaret Mittelheuser. The Committee includes past, present and future parents of the School as well as past students. Those actively involved at present are Mr Ceoff Wilson (Vice- Chairman), Dr Coralie Porter, Mr Michael Crant-Taylor, Mrs Elizabeth Teeland, Lady Schubeft, Mr Tony Moscato, Mr Bob Hart and the Principal, Mrs Hancock. Until June, Dr Maurice Costello was also involved. The aim of the Committee is to raise $7.25 million over the next five to six years, which will be used to restore the original School building to its former glory, to renovate the Boarding House in such a way that the School can retain boarders, and to construct a modern state of the art

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Miss Margaret Miltelheuser

PARENTS & FRTENDS' ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED

This yeal 1989, has again been a busy one for the whole school family. The Parents & Friends' Association lras participated in its many areas of school life with great service from all of its hard worl

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