December 1956 School Magazine

December, 1956

Brisbane Girls' Gra:mmc:r School Magazine

December, 1956

Erisba11e Girls' Grammar School Magazine

feel sure they will have very happy associatwns with us . The Office Bearers whose names appear above were elected un- opposed and it was gratifying to have so manY nominations for the five Committee vacancies. Reports from affiliated bodies, the National Council of Women and the Queensland Girls ' Secondary Schools Club, and of the Old Girls' Tennis Club were read and received. The Annual Report and Financial Statement was tabled and approved. Representatives appointed to the National Council of Women were Mrs. G. L. Blyth and Miss B. Cavaye, and to the Q.G.S.S. Club Misses G. Nevill, F. Cossins and E . Furness. The appointment of a representative to the A.B .C. Youth Concert Committee was left to the direction of Miss Crooks. The 1956 representative was Jeanette Lolua. Mrs . Sylvia Jury was reappointed Auditor of the Associa- tion and the appointment has the approval of administrators of the Charitable Organisations Act under which the Association is registered. _ At the meeting, activities for the year were discussed and it was left to the Committee to arrange for the Foundation Stone of the School Library to be laid, the Combined Grammar Ball and any other functions it desired to be held. 1955 PRESIDENT'S AT HOME As is usually the case, the Old Girls ' Notes go to press before the President's At Home is held so that we have to report that the 1955 At Home was held at School on 25th November , 1955, at which Mrs. Gehrmann presided. The attendance of over 60 guests was very pleasing and Mrs. Gehrmann was able to report that the School Library project had reached the stage of draft plans and approaches to the Trustees, all of which were reported in last Year's notes. In token of appreciation of the work done by Mrs. Gehrmann a small gift was made to her at the At Home . On what would have been our usual Old Girls' Day, we were greatly honoured to have His Excellency, Sir John Lavarack, perform the ceremony of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the School Library on Saturday, 14th April, 1956, and also to have present, Lady Lavarack, Mr. W. Power (Attorney-Gener al) cand Mrs. ·Power; Miss K. M. Lilley, our Trustees, members of the Parents and Friends' Association, Mr. and Mrs. A. E . McLucas, Mr. H. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Eadie, a verY repre~ sentative gathering of Old Girls, and, of course, mistresses and ACTIVITIES

present girls of the School. His Excellency was . presented with a silver -wine coaster as a memento of the occaswn. After the completion of the ceremony o~i~ial guests were entertained at afternoon tea in the School Dmmg Room. The day will be one long remembered in the annals of the school history. It was a most thrilling sigh~ to see ~o m~ny interested people present, and it gave a feelmg of satisfaction to all those persons who., over the past four ye~s, have worked so diligently and have giVen so much of their time, energy and money to make the day possible . Our heartfelt thanks go to the members of the Paren!s a~d Friends' Association for all their efforts and for the splendid g1ft of £900 towards the Library Fund. They were also responsible for the serving of afternoon tea to all guests on the afternoon, a truly noble work for which we as an Association are most grateful. During the afternoon the usual matches between Tennis and Basketball teams from the Old Girls and Present Girls were played and resulted as follows: Basketball, A team-won by Old Girls-17-14. Basketball, B team-won by Old Girls-28-8 . Tennis, A team-won by Present G~ls-27-17. Tennis, B team-won by Present Girls-39-27. Our thanks go to Mrs . S. Elms for arranging the Old Girls' Tennis Teams comprising: A team: Esme Knowles, Jean Scarborough, Vera Attwell, Sybil Elms. B team: Bell Kessells, Doris White, Lome Kessells, Thelma Neumann. C team: Maureen O'Connell, Jennifer Jones, Patricia Tre- vethan, Marlene Allman. · And to Anne Pickburn who arranged the Basketball Teams, players in which were : Carole Bristow, Pamela Rogers, Cynthia Cruickshank, Glenda Machin, Yvonne Endersby, Margaret Green, Elizabeth Marks, Mrs. Loveday, ShirleY Rooney, Lois Murphy. Veryan White, Margaret Allen and Anne Pickburn. GRAMMAR BALL The Grammar Ball held fu conjunction with the Old Boys' Association, on Friday, 25th May, 1956, at Cloudland, was once more a most successful social function. Seventeen Debu~ tantes, whose names appear below, were presented to His Excel- lency, Sir John Lavarack, and Lady Lavarack by Mrs. McLucas. the Matron of Honour:

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