December 1957 School Magazine

December , 1957

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls ' Grammar School Magaxine

December, 1957

VI FORM NOTES We Quote

We are now nearing the end of our school days, and Senior looms ahead . " Nigh and nigh draws the chase With unperturbed pace " and so we should like to thank Miss Macmillan and the Staff for their help and guidance throughout the year. " For she can so inform The mind that is within us " and when ' ' . . . . . . that season comes Wherein our Saviour 's birth is celebrated" we should like to wish all a Merry Christmas , and although next year " Young flowers in the old, old gardens will echo With ever new, with ever new delight " w e will always have happy memories " Remembrance fallen from Heaven " o f our four years at the Brisbane Girls ' Grammar School.

School began this year for Si xth Form , as any other year , "Assemble all ye maidens at the door" ; · We soon began preparations for the lnte rfo rm Swim- ming and Lifesaving Carnivals . " Courage, " he said, and pointed towards the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon", and succeeded in winning the Burrell Cup and the Diving Competition . " They bade me leap to death , but I was loth to die ". Then came the Athletic season . "When in your motion you are hot and dry," and we cong ratulate IIIC on winning the Interform Athletics . "An early but enduring monument ". Sixth form began to listen weekly to English broad - casts , " . . . but lend they serious hearing To what I shall unfold Speak, I ani bound to hear", which proved both interesting and informative ; and then rehearsal s began for the Choir -s inging competi t ion . " The deep moans round with many voice" after which , Picasso's " Child with a Dove" was returned t o Si xth . The first week in third term saw frantic preparations · for the Si xth-form Dance, and the Friday night beheld " The long pomp, the midni ght masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd" . ., Soon after the Zoology class went on an excursion to Ca loundra "Where the small eels that left the deeper way For the warm shore , within the sha llows play, Where gaping mussels , left upon the mud Slope their slow passage to the fallen flood And sidelong crabs had scrawl'd their crooked race" and Sixth, on another occasion , accompanied \bv Miss McNamara saw the film " Hamlet" at the Broadway Theatre . " Bel ike thi~ show imports the argument of the play" . In the lnterform Basketball competition we reached the finals . " But soon their pat h Was vague in distant spheres " a nd we offer congratulations to VA fo r their splendid play. As for the lnterform Tennis, which we won-

Vth FORM This year there were two forms at Grammar , Fast rivals to raise the gold banner ; In sport or in lessons, In all competitio:-~s, They strove in no uncertain manner .

The first great event in the tale Was swimming, where VA prevail , Who, like fu lly-fledged fishes With kicks and with splashes,

Left VB behind them to wail. By second term both forms were sitting Encumbered with needles and knitting ; The rugs went one day , VB 's after VA, To charities equally fitting . A second place in the lifesaving For Fifth Form, was well-earned by slaving ; As congra t ulators To resusc itators , For first place 'next year we are craving. 13

"The ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes But He re and There as strikes the Player Goes" . 12