December 1940 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December, 1940

Dec::emb(;1r. 1940·

III. B. We hqvE) ju~t ended a very happy year with Miss Jones as Form-Mistress, she has been most kind and . heipful, and to her we tender our thanks. · · · During the year we p layed two net-ball matches, one against liLA., and the other against IILD. : w inning the former and losing the latter. . Congratulations to Elsie Vickers, Mary Ha ll , June Ell iott and Norma Oliphant who have won their pockets. Elsie won hers for net-ball and the others gained theirs for running. Thanks, mainly to Norma Oliphant, the Junior Sports Cap- tain whom we had in our Form this year, III. B. gained secorid p lace in the Inter-Form sports. However exercise did not prevent the Form from catching every germ floating about the School, a nd at one period eleven girls were absent with measles, chicken-pox and 'flu. We · have not . neglected war-work, and have contributed several knitted articies to the Comforts Fund. By our united efforts we .completed after several weeks a knitted patchwork rug for ·the Bush Nursing Association. On the day of our Form picnic, Miss Jones and III. B. ac- companied Miss Donaldson and III. A. to Petrie where an ~n­ joyable day wa9 spent. The weather was perfect for swim- ming a nd what reeked we of sunburnt backs and noses? Judith Batchen, our Form captain has had a little difficulty in keeping order between lessons, but she has carried out her duties faithfully and we hope: successfully. We are looking forward to another year at the School; I think most of us have made good resolutions for it. Let us hope that they will be carried out. We conclude wishing all a Merry Christmas and a ·Happy New Year, and thanking the mistresses who have laboured with us throughout the year. III. C. 1940! The end of this term sees the close of the first year of our secondary education. School work and sport have been equally divided and we have spent a very enjoyable year. Throughout the year we have thoroughly enjoyed our gym- nastic periods with Miss Tomlinso_n, . . What a pity we only qqve. one Jesson a week !

IIIC. CAPTAIN BALL TEAM

Photo by Audrey Wright

When the Athletics season drew near, we enjoyed our Wednesday afternoon practices with Miss Donaldson and our net-ball practices with Mrs. Marshall. Although we prefer to pass over our Athletics results on Sports Day, we did well in tennis-by topping the Thirds- and we had an exciting net-ball match against III. D. , a lthough the victory was not ours. We a ll enjoyed the address given by Laurel Martyn (an old pupil of the School) on her dancing experience and travels in England, and the talk by Mr. Whelan on h is hiking tour through Europe. . The main clubs favoured by the Form were the Handi- craft Club, the Knitting Group and the Photography Club. We wish to thank the mistresses who helped us in this <:lub work. We were a ll very pleased to show our friends around the Sch ool on the day of the Garden Party in June. One of our g irls _participated in the Folk Dancing, which we _enjoyed very much. ' Each week we look forward to our art lessons and are glad to say they have not been entirely wasted on us, for several interesting designs have been composed by some of our Form pupils. · A large number of the Form attended the weekly dancing lessons given by Miss Tomlinson, but now that summer is here we devote our Friday afternoons· to swimming ·a t the Ithaca Bath,s.

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