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was again awarded a Medal for General Academic Merit with an average of First Class Honours, the equivalent of straight sevens During the 1995/1996 Christmas holidays, Emily embarked on the four-week school eXchange trip to ingou16me and Paris, France. Since then she has welcomed her host-sister to her home on her eXchange to Australia and kept in contact with her host-family. Emity has definite hopes of continuing with her French both in her studies and as a possible facet of her career She is presently undertaking work experience with a barnster in Melbourne. As well, Errxily is looking into the possibitity of participating in an eXchange program offered by the University of Melbourne, involving studying six to nine months of her Law

degree in France. Presently she is interested in a career in sports or international law, although she has no concrete plans as yet She has just been awarded a Melbourne Abroad Scholarship for French Language Study. The scholarship is worth $2,500 and Emity will use it to spend at least six weeks in France. it is great to see that Emily is "really enjoying herself', and has no regrets about her decision to move and that she continues to do well in her variety of sporthig and acaderinc activities. The School wishes her all the best for her future endeavours

SUSAN FORD

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he electroritc economy is reshaptiig the way we do

addition, she co- wrote chapters on Marketing and Research and Global Competition for the text- book "Marketing andlntemational Business" edited by Peter Carrol. Between 1993 and 1995 she completed her Bachelor of Bust- ness - majoring in marketing. Dun ing this degree she was awarded a Certiticate of Merit And to the future? Katische hopes to be working in the Us, the hub of electronic coriumerce, within the next five years' Apart from that she is try- ing to improve her golf, applying

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business. Indeed ITa Magazina, the Us presidential adviser, has said that econunerce is as impor- tant as the Industrial Revolution. Katische Haberfield (who at- tended Girls Granmiar from 1988- 1992 as both a daygirl and a boarder) is working in the thick of the econimerce revolution Working for Andersen Con-

SUIting since 1997, Katische works on Australian econunerce projects for the company. Specifically, Kgttscbe a) with be, sister Mtb"!", at Kgtiscbe ^ gindt, @tore ceremony Katische has established a repu-

tation for her knowledge of marketing in the electronic world This is currently being used at one of Australia's largest financial institutions where she is working as part of the econitnerce Team. She has also been involved in the relaunch of the client's web site, and the subsequent training of staff on how to maintain and update the web site Prior to coriumencing her career with Andersen Consulting, Katische completed her Master of Business at QUT majoring in Marketing for which she was Awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in 1997, The Australian Marketing Institute awarded her the Student Marketing Excellence Award, for the Incentive Market- ing Category, for one of her projects that she worked on during her Masters Course While she obtained this postgraduate qualification she held a variety of positions at QUT, namely organising conferences and taking tutorial classes in Marketing and International Business, Consumer Behaviour, Product Innovation & Market Development and Strategic Marketing. She also worked as the Research Assistant to the Senior Lecturer in Marketing. in

the interior decorating skills she obtained from her last course and developing her Thai cooking skills. She is excited about the possibility of her host sister Munira 00matia coming to Australia later this year to undertake the final part of her study in an Australian organisation.

EMMA PRIOR

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