December 1943 School Magazine

December, 1943

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December, 1943

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

IN MEMORIAM. To Miss Lilley and the members of her family the Association extends its deepest sympathy in the loss of her Mother, Mrs. E. Lilley, who passed away on the 21st October, 1943 . The late Mrs. Lilley took a very keen interest in the school and its activities all her life ·and to those who had the honour of knowing her, her strength of character proved a wonderful example. The Association extends its deepes t sympathy to Mrs. Brockway, Miss Dorothy Brockway and Mrs. Hill in the loss of the late Dr. A . B. Brockway who passed away on the 13th October , 1943. Dr. Brockway for many years took a keen interest in the swimming and other sporting activties of the school. ENGAGEMENTS.

ETHEL DONALDSON, V.A.D., has !:low left Greenslopes Military Hospital and is up in New Guinea . MAIDA FURNESS is now a member of the W .A.A.A.F . Word has come to hand that RHODA FELGATE has been appointed as an Examiner attached to the Queensland Universi.ty. This is the first occasion this honour has been conferred on a woman and we extend our congratulations ;o Miss Felgate. Our President, MISS HELEN M. CAMPBELL, has been Matron at the school for the past year and has achieved splendid results notwithstanding the present war-time difficulties which confront us all. LIEUT. JOYCE ENGLAND, A.W.A.S ., has now set up house with her hus- band Lieut. E:ngland , who_was recently returned from the middle East. JOYCE C. KENT, A .W.A.S., is now a Sgt. with the Ambulance Car Co. JOYCE JACKSON is now doing a job w ith the A.W.A.S. ALICE DOWN is now a Lieutenan1 in the A.W.A.S. EDY'I'H CORNELIUS can now add A.F.l.A. to her name, as her provisional Degree became absolute this year. Extract fro.m a letter written by Marjorie Walker, V.A.D., A.I.F., to her Mother at Toowong. Marjorie, who alter 18 months service in the Middle East recently came back to Australia with the 9th Division and is now in New Guinea, is continuing her valued work and writes thus. "I wish you were all he re with me to enjoy the surroundings as I write. 'Retreat' is just blowing 6 o'clock sharp and below me everyone has just frozen into immobility. I am sitting on our piazza outside the Mess, high on our r idge dividing our lines from the hospital a nd the view is lovely . Behind me are our line s where we live and on a ll sides a re the tall mountains, very blue at this hour , their tops touched with clouds . It is rather cloudy a nd a lmost s tormy looking. In the hollow below ar.d in front of me are the hospital buildings-wards, kitchens, adminis tration blocks and so on and through the trees can b~ seen the ambulances on the roads, the red crosses making them d istinctive, the blue of the patients ' uniforms and the khaki dresses of the g irls and the grey of the sisters as they move on their way to the Mess or back on du ty for the evening. Jus t below where I am sit ting the Sentry is at the entrance of h is box- we are well guarded by our men and over the whole scene is an air of such utter and complete peacefulness it is almost impossible to realise that such a thing as war exists and so very close at hand." 1n one of her letters to her Mother Pat Voller writes of a trip North as follows : "We flew out over the reef, quite low and I have never seen such an array of colour in the water-it w as unbelievably beautitul. I saw some whales spouting and sporting in the sunshine and another having a fight with a killer shark. Coming back we !lew over the suciar cane farms which look so neat from the air. " Rona writes of a _short holiday whilst in South Austraiia. "I had a marvellous lit tle holiday up a t Clare . We storied off by the train which goes to Broken Hill but changed la ter into a rail motor. It stopped jus t near th e gate of the property to which I was going. lt was late and cold w hen we arrived so it was very enjoyable to have our supper in tront of a large open fire. The p lace is up on the range and the v iews areo glorious. Currants , raisons, sultanas; p lums , e tc. are grown here and I had plen ty of milk and cream.' 48

Christine Law to Lieu t. Tom Cross Ena Dalton to Mr. C. R. Fitzpatrick Ira Thurlby to Mr. E. T. Smith Pat Morgan to Lieut. Robert Runnion (U.S. Army) . Marie Middleton to Mid shipman M. Richards (R.A.N .V.R.) Pat Lahey to Sgt. W. Tomkins (U.S. Army). June Crys tal to Lieut. A. Hyland (U.S . Army) Barbara M. Given to Major Geoffrey C. Hogg (A.l.F. ) MARRIAGES. Hope ThatcheD to Flying Officer J. Turnbull Betty Fraser to Dr. J. Isles Dorothy Donaldson to Mr. Alan Anderson Alison Gatwood to L/Bdr. R. L. Montague (A.I.F. ret.) Joan Pollock to Dr. J. Trotter.

Olive Pearce to Captain W. A. Fe rguson Heathe r Walker to Lieutenant D. Heaven BIRTHS.

We extend our congratulations to-

Mrs . J. E. McCarthy (nee Paula Groves) Mrs. A. C. Nielsen (nee Barbara Fa irlie)

Mrs. E. Webber (nee Beryl Carrick) ·Mrs . Rex Brock (nee Alison Knowles) to whom babies have been born during the year. The following Old Girls a re continuing their studies a t the University this year: -

FACULTY OF ARTS.

DAY STUDENTS June Stoodley Phyllis Heath Ruth Da r t

PHYSICAL EDUCATION Audrey Brother ton Nancy Trudgian Betty Baker Noela Moorhouse Nancy Shannon PHYSIOTHERAPY Rhonnda Kelly

Dorothea Skelton Anthea Francis Valerie Phillips Margare t Green ·· Olive Milne EVENING AND EXTERNAL Enid Richa;dson Margaret Bla nsh ard Una Smith June Crys ta l Mary O'Rourke-Brophy Dorothy Brem.ne r Be tty Bayliss Margaret Clu tterbuck

Joa n Beech June Ashton

SCIENCE

Ailsa Robe rtson Dorothy Dunsta n

MEDICINE

Lillian Goh stan d

DENTISTRY

Mavis Hinckley

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