1989 School Magazine

small girl attending Vida Lahey's Art classes at the old Queensland Art Callery. Judith Rodriguez has represented Australia, officially in a writers' delegation to Russia and at writers' festivals and conferences in Yugoslavia and lndia. ln 19BB she accepted a Writer-in-Residency at the Royal Melbourne lnstitute of Technology and is at present tutor in English Literature at Ormond College, Melbourne. 'l am only sorry,' she said, 'that when I returned to B.C.C.S. a few years ago to read to the girls in the new theatre (The Cehrmann), a sinus reaction to school dust overtook me, and the tape made must be dreadful testimony to the cold rather than the debt I owe Crammar.' ANGELA WARDROBE Former Brisbane Cirls' Crammar School student, Angela Wardrobe was selected as the winner of The Australian Society of Periodontology Prize for 1987. The medallion is awarded to the student in the Faculty of Dentistry, who, being enrolled for the first time in Periodontics I and ll, obtains the highest pass in those su bjects. During her five years at B.C.C.S. 1978-82, Angela achieved a very good academic standard, and made a strong contribution to sport. She represented the school in swimming, waterpolo, athletics, ballgames and volleyball. ln her final year, Angela was elected House Sports Captain and School Volleyball Captain. At present, Angela is sharing a dental practice in Woolgoola, N.S.W.

Judith Rodriguez

fuDlTH RODRIGUEZ Art speaks a universal language, so it was most fitting that one of Australia's most distinguished writers judith Rodriquez should be invited to open Songs of Colour, The Art of Vida Lahey, at the Queensland Aft Callery. Bettina MacAulay, Curator of Australian Art at the Callery, meticulously assembled a retrospective of this outstanding pioneer Queensland artist's work, and also prepared a beautifully illustrated 112 - page book giving details of her life and career. Perth born, Judith Rodriguez experienced B.C.C.S. life both as a student from 1950 to 1953 and as a Resident Mistress from 1956 to 1957. 'My mother and I were interviewed by Miss Lilley,' she re- calls. 'A Valkyrie, bulging-eyed above an enormous bosom, she demanded to know what subjects I wanted. lt was ob- vious Science and Languages were not compatible.' 'l would have liked to be talented in atrocious foolery like the class comedian, but somehow loners went around with me. The bold and bad were the girls who changed into their gym uniforms in sight of the Crammar boys.' 'Being at B.C.C.S. was truly formative and strongly rein- forced my mother's encouragement towards serious study, but I think the two years as resident mistress had more to do with my individuality. I found I could live alone and I saw the shrine of learning from a different point of view. I have remained grateful to Miss Alexis MacMillan for teach- ing me a love of English.' An Honours Craduate in Arts of the University of Queensland and of Cambridge University, England, .fudith Rodriguez has lectured in Departments of English in Jamaica, London, Melbourne and Sydney, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Curtin University of Technology, Pefth, and at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. Her literary output has been quite prodigious with several of her books featuring her own lino cuts, an art fostered as a

Angela Wardrobe

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