Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2017

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GRAMMAR WOMEN

The Generational Grammar Women Afternoon Tea , held on Saturday 9 September, welcomed past students and their mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers to together celebrate and strengthen connections to the School and each other. A panel comprising 2017 Head Girl, Lucinda Duke, and her two sisters, Phoebe Duke (2011) and Caitlyn Duke (2013), shared their experience of the ‘Grammar sisterhood’ with President of the Old Girls Association, Mrs Julie Caton (Cleghorn, 1981). It was very special event for five guests who also celebrated their ‘seventy years or more’ School reunion at the afternoon tea.

AUTHOR Ms Antonia Swindells Community Relations and Events Manager

AUTHOR Mrs Julie Caton

(Cleghorn, 1981) President of the Old Girls Association

Grammar Women celebrating seventy years or more since graduation with 2017 Head Girls, Elizabeth Prins (12B) and Lucinda Duke (12H)

The following is an extract from one guest’s reflection on the gathering. What a wonderful afternoon I spent at the School after seventy years from when I first entered and discovered a whole world of education I had never envisaged … surrounded by younger past students as well as beautiful, young, fresh students of today, I was entranced by the feeling of welcoming friendship and that exciting sensation of belonging in this roomful of like-minded people, encouraging me to give glimpses of memories of my time at this School. Mrs Doreen Semple (Urquhart, 1946), pictured above second from left

Three generations of Grammar Women: Ashlee Warat (12R) with her grandmother, Mrs Margaret Davies (Robinson, 1965); and mother, Mrs Karen Warat (Davies,1989)

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