December 1954 School Magazine

December, 1954

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Maqazine

December, 1954

QUEENSLAND GIRLS' SECONDARY SCHOOLS' CLUB The B.G.G.S. Old Girls' Association is affiliated with thi s Club and all financial members can join. The club itself is affiliated with the Sydn~y and Melbourne Secondary Schools' Club and all club members can go and join in the activities of these clubs. . This year the three delegates to the Board of D1rectors are: Misses G. Nevill E. Furness and F. Cossins. ' The' club rooms are open for use any time of the day up to 7 p.m . for meals, leaving parcels, resting or just gossiping. The re is also .a library which receives a new book each month. Day and evening handi- craft lessons are held in the rooms at which one can learn to make a hat or a basket. On the second Monday of each month, all Grammar Old Girls (including those who are not members of the Club) can go to a luncheon in the club rooms-come along, the more the merr ier. Next year at the A.G.M . the day in the month may be al~ered. . . . On the third Thursday · in each month a Soc1al Evenmg (mcludlng supper) to raise funds is held. Members may bring friends. The entrance fee is 2 / 6. The entertainments this year have been an Arts and Crafts display Films showing Canada , Coral Seas of N.Q ., etc., also..•a Coronation film· by courtesy of Dr. Ruth Molphy. After the film a talk was given by a member, Miss Hutchinson, who was a guest at Westminster Abbey. A very good debate was held between a University group and an Adult Education Group. This was arranged by Miss M. Furness, a member, who is al so a Grammar Old Girl. Three one-act plays were pr f sented by B.A.T. Mr. Robert Haines gave a talk on Appreciation of Art, while Mr . Farns- worth Hall gave a talk on music. As you can see, the entertainments are varied and interesting. The Club will wind up this year with a Christmas Party in the nature of a fork dinner on 9th Decembe r when this magazine goes to press . The annual tennis and basketball matches between the Old Girls' Associations in the Club will be held at B.G.G.S. by the kind permission of Miss Crooks, on Saturday, 30th October. Results will be published nexT year. All Grammar Club members wish Miss Crooks, Matron, the O.G.A. and Present Girls a very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year . FAY COSSI NS (Delegate). CITIZENS' WELCOME TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN At the citizens' welcome to Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh , your O.G.A. was represented by your President, Miss Beth Cavaye and your Secretary, Miss Joan Beech . Although we had to be at the Exhibition Grounds early, it was worth every minute of waiting as the Royal couple circled the oval four times and we had ring-;ide seats. ITEMS OF INTEREST Any Old Girl visiting New Guinea may contact a fellow member in MRS. FRANK NOLAN (Helen Hardy) at radio station 9 P.A. The Com- mittee were very pleased to welcome her to our last A.G.M. RUTH RICHARDS has made great use of her nursing profession to see the world. This year we report she has been nursing in Ontario (Canada), following work in England and Switzerland. PHYLLIS CANNON has been furthering her physiotherapy studies at White 's Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles , U.S .A., and from there was going to Canada and England. BEVERLEY BURNS also has completed her nursing training and is bound for England. 50

AUCIA LAMBERT has had an interesting experience as industrial nurse with Electrical Musical Industries, near London , who do records for Columbia and Hi s Master 's Voice . Another Old Girl who has entered the nursing profession is JOY SUTTON . She is training at the Melbourne School of Nursing. BETH EVANS has also joined the staff of a Melbourne Hospital. The Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg. News comes from England of MARY BONY (England) and PAT- RICIA HAWKINS. The former, who was recently married, is now living in London and the latter has been a res ident there for the last two years . MARGARET BAKER (Pestorius) lives in Toronto, Canada , since her marriage and was vis ited by her mother in May this yea r. AVIS WOOD is once more in the news. Firstly, she was in the Guard- of- Honour of Guides at Eagle Farm airport to welcome Her Majesty the Queen in March thi s yea r, and secondl y, she carried off more prizes with .her weav ing at the 1954 R.N .A. Show in August. Congratulations Avis! GLENDA MITCH ELL had a ve ry interesting holiday during fhe year. She travelled through Central Australia, saw Darwin and then Adelaide and broke her journey home to stay with fellow OLD Gl RL, VALDA Rl DGEWAY (Hendren) at her home in Canterbury, Melbourne. AILSA ROBERTSON has been on the staff of the Australian Scienti- ·fic Liaison Office in London and by the time you read thi s she should be .almost home again in Australia as she was booked to sa il from England in the Arcadia on October 25th. Ll NDSA Y CRAWFORD will be away from our shores for approxi- matel y two yea rs. Old Girls will be pl eased to know that Honorary Life Membership of th e O.G.A. has been bestowed on MRS. S. E. W. TUCKER , a former mistress at our school. I am sure all Old Girls who were at the Fair would .have seen how hard she wo rked for the sweets stall on that day. This was her first appearance at an Old Girls' function since she was made "one of us ." JEANETTE LOLUA has replac:d Anne Baird as school' s rep re sentative ·on the A.B.C. Youth Concert Committee. Once again We are happy to report the success DIANA EVANS has .achieved overseas. She ha s transfe rred from Sadlers Wells chorus to principal roles with the Grand Opera Group of the Arts Council of Great Britain. After rehearsal s in October, they go on tour of England, Scot- 'land and Wales with one night stands, doing about nine performances in a fortnight . Thi s continues till Easter, 1955, with a month 's break in December I January with only a few rehearsals. MARGARET PEEL is now at the Jervis Bay Rehabilitation Centre as :Senior Phys iotherapi st. She, with three others, have invested in a small sailing boat . MISS K. M. LILLEY emerged temporarily from retirement to take over the French classes left stranded by the sudden death of Madame Smikoff in September. JUNE WHEELER left Australia in March to continue her studies in physiotherapy in England . KATHLEEN CAMPBELL-BROWN has also been in England and the Continent. JEAN STEWART is home once again after some months in Hospital with a broken leg. 51

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