June 1959 School Magazine

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EDITORIAL

JN this year of 1959, we, as Queenslanders, natur- ally turn our thoughts to the celebrations of the State's Centenary. As pupils of the Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, however, we realise.that our school has grown with Queensland, and is not very much younger than our State. In the past hundred years, the State of Queensland has seen great development in many fields. The drays and waggons of our great-grandparents' days have given way to jet air transport, and the outback stations are lonely no longer since the invention of ihe motor car, the pedal radio, and the inauguration o f the Fly ing Doctor Service. A Centenary, however, is not merely an occasion for reminiscence; it is also a turning point. We should now look into the future-that of our school as well as c,f our State. During the past eighty-four years our .school has grown, not only in size and scholarship, but in tradition, which is the greatest heritage of age. It remains for u s to keep alive the traditions which have been handed down to us by past generations, and to pass them on intact to those succeeding us. I

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