2001 School Magazine

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Ella Reinhold and May Reinhold Essay Prizes Last year the magazine recorded the sad death of Dr Joan Winifred Allsop AM. She was an outstanding student while at School and went on to become an Imminent Historian. Dr Allsop had been a strong supporter of the School donating monies annually to the School and in her will left a bequest of $5000.00 'for the purposes of establishing andmointoining o or more (OS the authorities of the schoolmoydeem appropriate) annual prize orprizes foressoys on Queensbnd history to be known OS the Rin REINHOLD& MAYREINHOLDESSAYPRIZES'in memory of my late mother and my late aunt" The School feels very honoured that Dr Allsop remembered us in her will and we are pleased to congratulate Jessica Campbell. the inaugural winner of the "ERa Reinhold and May Reinhold Essay PrizeI

in the top 200 students in the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences in her final year. in 1999 Michelle was awarded the FA. Perkins Senior Prize in Entomology for the top graduate and was invited to undertake honours in both Chinese and entomology Michelle chose to transfer to the University of Western Australia and study her honours year in zoology under the supervision of Dr Ian Dadour, regarded as the leading forensic entomologist in Australia Within the first month she was awarded an inaugural honours scholarship Upon receiving first class honours, MIChelle was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy, continuing her lesearch+Tom'her~honoursyear. She commenced her PhD in February this year, working between the Forensic Science Unit, the Department of Zoology and the Centre for Molecular Immunology and Instrumentation The culmination of Michelle's academic, leadership, sporting and service pursuits to date has been overseas for one year, addressing the humanitarian needs of the world and contributing to world peace. MIChelle travelled to the University of Pretoria, South Africa, studying evolutionary relationships between forensically significant blownies. She also had the rare opportunity to attend crime scenes with the forens!c entomologist, something not open to her in Australia receiving a 2001-2002 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. The award provided funds to study

independent nature of the goal setting. She is currently involved with the scheme In Western Australia, promoting the awards on the UWA campus in 1996 Michelle entered the University of Queensland and decided to entertain her science and language interests enrolling in a parallel Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts While continuing with her Chinese studies she also developed an interest in entomology and paresito109y, becoming Interested in forensic entomology, the study of insects and their interaction with legal matters During her second year MIChelle was coinmended for the Deans'11st for high achievement in the parallel BSdBA, an honour she repeated each ear at University. She was also invited to join Golden Key National Honour Society, as well as being listed

The pinnacle of her playing years was being selected in the Metropolitan North-East Schoolgirls'team and taking a hat trick in the same season She decided to concentrate on coaching as a way to contribute further to cricket at the development level. She found it a fulfilling role, introducing squads of up to 35 novice players per season to cricket Umpiring senior men's cricket was also very challenging. requiring great conviction as a young female in a traditionally male sport Michelle continued to develop her leadership skills while obtaining her Gold, Silver and Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Awards. She found the award scheme extremely challenging. requiring great motivation due to the

A Passion for Learning After attending a primary school of only fifty students, Michelle Louise Harvey enjoyed the friendly atmosphere created by over 1,000 girls at Brisbane Girls Grammar School. Although it meant travelling four hours a day to and from her Mt Nebo home. Michelle relished the task ahead of her, finding the languages the most enjoyable part of her time at Grammar. She chose a broad array of subjects for her senior years, choosing to continue studying Chinese, as she believed relations between China and Australia would be of great future importance During her years at school, MIChelle developed a passion for cricket

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