2015 School Magazine

RANGAKARRA NAMING DAY ZAHRA KNIGHTS (12R)

On Saturday 23 May, the new Fig Tree Pocket sports campus was officially named, as part of the School’s 140th anniversary celebrations. At the opening ceremony the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Ms Elizabeth Jameson (Head Girl, 1982), announced Grammar’s newest campus as the Rangakarra Recreational and Environmental Education Centre, a name taken from our school war cry. Ms Jameson also revealed that the main playing field would be named the ‘Daphne Welch (1949) Oval’ after Mrs Daphne Pirie (Welch, 1949), an old girl of the school who was a Queensland track and field champion and represented Australia in hockey. The School was also fortunate enough to be presented with new front gates for the campus, donated by the Old Girls’ Association. Two symbolic plantings,

an ANZAC Grove and the planting of ‘Learning Trees’, also took place. Following the official ceremony, hockey and cricket teams gave sporting demonstrations, and there were musical performances by the Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, Big Band and Contemporary Ensemble. Daphne Pirie also proved a ‘good sport’ in more than one sense as she borrowed a hockey stick to participate in some ball play on the oval named in her honour. Overall, the day provided a great preview of what is to become of the fields. The new campus will offer the School their first home ground, allowing Grammar girls to pursue co-curricular activities in an environment of which they can be proud.

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