December 1941 School Magazine

December. 1941

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbaiw 'Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December, 1941

Sports Notes SWIMMING.

BOARDERS' NOTES-1941. This year we began with nine Senior boarders in the House. We were very sorry to lose Sylvia Corrie early in the year, and feel sure that she will make a success of her nursing career at the Alexandria Hospital in Sydney. Our numbers were also diminished when Shirley, Pat and Genifer left the House, but their places were filled by Joyce and Jean, later in the year. We have enoyed many outings to various picnic spots in- cluding Walton Bridge and Indooroopilly Bridge. One was a very pleasant day with Miss Lilley and Miss Hetherington at Mt. Coot-tha, where we successfully cooked sausages and toasted bread for our lunch-successfully, we say, since there were no ill effects. We greatly enjoyed the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the Boys' Grammar School Dance, and our School play, "Hansel and Gretel," in which many of the boarders participated. We were well represented in School sport, eleven girls being in the various teams. We offer our congratulations to the day- girls for their victory in the net-ball match which we greatly enjoyed. We finished our knitted rug in record time, taking only three days; and cannot forbear to congratulate ourselves once again since it was the first to be finished. We are all sorry to hear that we are to lose Miss Donaldson and take this opportunity to thank her for her many kindnesses to us and to offer her our best wishes in her work as a V.A.D. We wish to thank Miss Lilley for arranging our various entertainments, and everyone else who helped with our pre- parations and contributed greatly to the pleasure of the out- ings. We hope they gained as much pleasure from them as we did. We wish the Juniors and Seniors success in their forthcoming examinations and extend Christmas greetings to all. I.J., VI.

This year quite a number of girls interested themselves in Life·Saving and under the coaching of Miss Y orston and Mrs. McMaster, Beryl Brennan and Barbara Wilson each gained the Queensland Cross, while Eileen Mitchell, Joan Caswell, Margaret McWilliam and Marion Chalk gained Bronze medals; Beryl Brennan also won her B. grade Instructor's Certificate. In·spite of the enthusiastic coaching of Mr. Collin, Miss Tom- linson, Miss Y orston and Mrs. McMaster and the help of Mrs. Marshall, our teams were unsuccessful in the various Inter- School competitions; however, several of our competitors gained places in events a nd all the team showed fine spirit. Sylvia Corrie, a member of our team has left School and is now nursing, but she is still continuing her swimming.

SWIMMING TEAM, 1941.

A. Lambert H. Hartigan

M. McWilliam E. Mitchell

G. Fairbrother D. Dunstan (capt.)

M . Chalk A. Faroe

B. Brennan.

The School seems to take a great interest in swimming and Miss Tomlinson always has her hands full of enthusiastic would-be swimmers. Since the beginning of the year they 29

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