Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 2008

COMMUNI TY

Come On Grammar, Blue, Blue, Blue

Priya Kevat (2007), who graduated last year and is now studying medicine, looks back on it with affection: ‘ To me, Speech Day marked the end of a cherished time at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, but at the same time a fresh beginning. Saddening but also exciting, Speech Day for the Year 12 cohort was the rite of passage into the real world, a chance for us all to use what we learnt at Grammar to take

Then there are the speeches, the chance to be inspired by Old Girls like Justice Margaret McMurdo and Justice Roslyn Atkinson and realise, with a shock, that one day it could be one of us up there. Then there is the war cry in King George Square when the formalities are over. It has enough energy to light the city. Before Speech Day, the emotions start to build at the School’s own farewell to the Year 12s, circling them at one, last special assembly.

Speech Day is special and enriching. It is one of the unique traditions that sets Girls Grammar apart. It is the Art Deco ambience of City Hall on a Friday

afternoon in mid-November, the pageantry of the academic

procession, the rousing sound of 1100 voices accompanied by the pipe organ, the thunderous, foot-stamping applause for the prize winners. This, visitors say, marks Girls Grammar as special.

us somewhere in the future ’. Jacinta Livingstone (12R) Publications Captain

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