1989 School Magazine

MRS LOUISE McDONALD Mrs Louise McDonald, Headmistress of The Brisbane Cirls' Crammar School, from 1952-197O died on Sunday, November 20,1988. Born in Belfast in 1904, Louise Warden Crooks arrived in Australia when she was eight. Educated at St Margaret's Anglican Church School, where she became Head Cirl in 1922, Louise Crooks graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Queensland, before embarking on a teaching career which took her back to St Margaret's, then to lpswich Cirls' Crammar School, before finally joiningthe staff of B.C.C.S. in194O, where she served a valuable apprenticeship under Miss Kathleen Lilley. Appointed Headmistress in 1952, Miss Crooks was strict, but understanding, sympathetic to the needs of Aboriginal girls at a time when priorities in this area were low. As an active member of both the Assistant Mistresses and Headmistresses Association, Miss Crooks had a real under- standing of employer - employee relationships. ln 1957, she married Hugh McDonald. Her interests not only lay in Education - she was a Member of the Australian College of Education - but extended to music, where she was a member of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Subscribers Committee for many years. Mrs McDonald's funeral service was held at 11a.m. on November 23 at St Mark's Anglican Church, Bonney Avenue, Clayfield.

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EVELYN LESLEY MARSLAND Evelyn Lesley Marsland was born in 1919, and during her youth, the world slipped inexorably into severe economic recession. Lesley was educated at Brisbane Cirls' Crammar School where she was an outstanding student, but times were hard, and she was the eldest of six children, so University was out of the question. Her remarkable talents led her into various interesting fields' At different times Lesley worked as a commercial artist and lithographer while studying at the Melbourne Art Callery, a secretary in a French firm building dams at Cympie where her French was fluent enough to take dictation in that language, and later as a draughtsman and architect. While working as secretary to the Professor of French at the University of New England, Lesley built single-handedly a small house for herself in Armidale, having outside help only with the roof. Her lasting dream was to live by the sea, and she worked hard first to buy land at Coff's Harbour, and later to build there. Meanwhile, Lesley was working full-time, studying for her B.A. degree, and drafting house plans for clients at night. Somehow, she also found time to produce a learning program (which she also illustrated) for disadvantaged children. Stricken with cancer, she fought the disease with characteristic fortitude, and recovered sufficiently to travel to Europe and America, an adventure she greatly enjoyed, despite bouts of illness and pain. She retired to her house by the sea where she enjoyed many interests including teaching and painting. She also wrote and illustrated a collection of light verse, a bestiary from A to Z called "Animal Tales". She died in 1988 from a recurrence of cancer. Lesley foun

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