Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 1999

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LIST OF DONORS WHO HAVE DEPOSITED ITEMS WITH Tnn BCGS ARCHiv, !;S OR

LOANED ITEMS FOR COPYING

1999 BAm (mee West), Mrs Yvonne= Form Prize, Form un a. .ower) Dec. 1892 awarded to Maude Bam This donation was given to the School on the occasion of the 800S OGA Centenary Dinner Bees OGA he's Minute Book 11/5/1983 to 20/2/1989 2 Minute Books 4/2/1991 - 2/6/1997 EGGS Parents & Friends' Ass foes AGM Minutes and agenda papers 1991 - 1997 Correspondence 15/4/1994 to 23/3/1995 I photogaph of six girls CV, 1946 BGGS Magazines June & Dec 1944, June 1945, June & Dec 1946 BULLOCK tmee Roberts), Professor Margaret: Researeh to opimtse human performance by Margaret Bunock AUSnalinn Physiothempy Original Article, 40' Iub"co Issue. 1994 COOKE truer runey), Rfrs Itr^a BGGS Fun Annual Dinner for the Sixth For my of 1967, Menu Copies of photogaphs from 1967 BRUNCKllORST (nee Memers), Mrs Bald:

roninRmGHAM, Mrs ME

Botany Practical Book No. 224 velyn Fothetingham). 1916 Autogyaph books belonging to Phyllis and Evelyn Foiberingham Excerpt from the AUShalasian Tmveller4/3119/6 reEvelyn FouledDBham's Association Scholarship presentation

30 photogmphs of students and staff from 1944 and 1945 Photograph of Drs Cadrryn and Margaret Mine the user. 1998 Copies of Fees Brochure 1961 and 4 photogmphs BCGS Hymn Sheet Hymn Sheet used 1951-52. BGGS

EARBISON (mee) Mrs J= LYCEUM CLUB BRISBANE: MCLENNAN, Mrs BS Me NAMAM, Mrs Lorraine= OSWm (mee Kreigher), Mrs Noela=

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Prospectus Ca 1952 Fees Cineular 1952 FURWS (mee Steindl), *"s Chitstine: Studio pornalt of Kanuleen M Lilley Chiimas card from Mss Liney

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Newspaper cmpping reporimg death of Miss Liney BCGS OGA Newsletters May 1995,1996.1998 and OGA Centsnery Dinner invitation 3 texts used by Mila Skindl (nee Somey while at Girls Gramiar in 1933 and one History un Exam Paper Nov. 1935

Photograph of room in original school building of class with Mss Eihott*

List of texts used at BGGS 1961 to 1965 Copies of photogaphs of coups from the 1940s

RED, Lynne= VAl, LIS (Lee Genn), Jam=

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I Hat Band which belonged to joyce Wheat (nee Ham) 1929 - 1931 The Shadow of, he Almighty by Joyce Wheat

*The Archivist would very much like to contact the Old Girl who gave us this photogaph. if she could please telephone or write with her contoct details this would be appreciated

Thes donutio, is are most grate6411y ackiiowledged. With 129* Anniversary Celebrations 0011@r away it wo"Id be wondetyi, ! to have more donations of mumor@bindfiom limit schooldcy. s from past shide, ,is of Girls Gra, ""10r. If yoi, IIOPe material yo" wisli to donore to the Archives please do not hesirate to eonmct Ihe Arcl"\, ist on 3332/358. email. In!a. @bggs. 41d. edi, .ai, o1 ipn'te to Jan Riley, Arc/, it, 1st, Girls Grammar School, Brisbane, Grego, y Terrace. Brisbane. 4000

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' As the speeches that educating women was of paramount rolled on, oar table importance and it did not deviate from that o0al' started to express Guest speakers from the various these intangibles Why were we really decades told their funny stories of staff here? Was it just to and students. Yvonne Bam, Paula see each other aoain? MCKe"ar, Beth Woods and Saran-Jane J Wein, we could have St Clad amused and enlightened us with

ery!fling 801 boiled?" We

"Re, ,, e, ,, her wl, e, , tile FFqfects wo"M cineck @"r Jants @,, d 810"es at tJ, e g@te before we we, ,t nome?" On 13 March this year, about two hundred old Granunar girls were gathering in forbidden territory. Yes. we were on the front venndah, in the front hallway and spilling into what was once the holiest of homes, the Headintstress' Office! We were there to attend a dinner cerebratin0 100 years of the Old Girls' Association. To stand in the forbidden territory with a drink in one hand and a tasty nibble in the other, sineking welcomes to each other, caused some of us to reflect that things have changed somewhat at the old school.

fill Ashmore - Past Sinde"t 1956 - 1959 r<17ects o" the Old Girls ' Assoctotto" Cente"", y Dimmer

remembered the boarder who used her feet and the bathtub to wash her clothes. wits, ing her mother's new washing machine

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their perspectives and memories of the School. But we were still wrest Und with the fundamental question of why we felt the School was important in our lives. Each person had a particular point of view and, surely, that is what the School encouna"ed. People should think for themselves.

done that at a restaurant in town. Could it be that we wished to acknowledge a dimension in oar hves that come from attending this

Down the steps we went to what was once the gym. "Renumber whe we ran School?

"p dad dotvn Ihese sinirs nanny times a dry? " The dinner was ready for us Above every table floated royal blue and silver haloons. At every setting

The speech of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr CherreU flitst ready provoked a thorough examination of what she referred to as the Ginmmar

The address by Airs Inchth Hancock and was a scroU tied with royal blue ribbon Each place had a special memento of the tradition. What was this tradition? We her Toast to the School was supposed to decided it was not elitism. We were not complete the dinner with guests leaving occasion, a sitver coaster. The at 1030pm. That was opfunistic! At Committee had done us proud! taught to rule the world but we were

"Remember when we @11 stood every morning for assembly in !he lull and

Gincounaged to be exceMent. We decided 11.30pm when weary waiters were

cloning tables, the last people gathered up their souvenirs of mugs, photos,

it was not a "snob' school. We came

song 11y","s?" "How did we awnt in?" Chistine Plumis, President of the Old

Once agaln we stood in the ban but this Girls' Association, gave a warm speech from attending state primary schools

where we had mixed with people from coasters, stationery and key rings and

of welcome and we were launched into an evening of remitntscences, sweet memories and nitnor notes of instresse

time for photographs in front of the Honotrr Board. "Look! There's o"r year. , Weren'Iwe a byig!, I 101!"

an walks of life and we were not expected to be on any social register

chatsd back up those stairs that we once so vigorously ran up and down

A Ton can of the decades produced one We were taught the value of ""11 sine

labore" and to valuelearnino. We were A wonderful evening was over and we Very old dins old girls and young old wonderful representative from the girls swirled and rimtrled. laughed and 1920s. She was given a rousing cheer. not hidebound in any rigid tradition but were all proud of and gateful to the were diven skins to be flexible and have Committee of the Old Girls' Association We began to have a feeling that we talked. Oh! how we talked! were attending a significan if not great, open rimds to change. The talk fumed who had worked so hard for this event, "Rane, ,Ibe, file s, ,, ell of cabbage at serious and many people began thinkino the 100 year celebration of its existence occasion. The school did stand for I"lien !i, ,Ie! Poo, . boa, ders! " The Going out of the gate, we said, "Funny! kitchen was umecogiisable, all stainless something in our lives. The school had consciously about the traditions and Who wears gloves these days?" values that this seat of learning had diven us somethino that was real but steel and modem equipment given us. The School had recoonised frequently unexpressed "Rel"e, ,, bel file Jail, ,dry IPhe, e GRAMM^R GA^ITE Am Y 1999 - Page 7