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HIGHLIGHTS
REUNION 2020 Social events postponed due to COVID-19
LAGOON DASH Runners needed on Friday 24 July. Please contact Tom Porter.
DAWN 2018 & 2019 Dawn magazines are for sale at the main office. 2019 - $25 2018 - $10
Class of 2019 at their ‘Back to School BBQ’
PRESIDENT’S REPORT Welcome to the new and improved Connection magazine. We have changed the format to a two-page newsletter that will come out each term. It will also be tied in with our Facebook page and website. I hope you
DONATIONS
enjoy the new improved version.
We are on the lookout for
The year 2020 will go down in the history books as a year to remember. I never thought that we would be
items for our archive collection. If you have any
living in a time where a global pandemic would change the way we live and go about our everyday life. The school staff have been amazing throughout this period with additional cleaning and sanitation of the school,
items to donate, please drop them to the school reception.
and teachers delivering both face-to-face and online learning for the first five weeks of Term 2. The sad thing is that we have had to postpone our 2020 reunion plans since restrictions on travel and social
VALE OWEN ELLIS We are deeply saddened by the passing of Owen Ellis (Class of 2000). He was an outstanding
distancing make it impossible to hold our annual events. The School’s Foundation Day Service and Lagoon Dash will be recorded and posted to the PSA Facebook page. I hope that we can hold a social function around the lagoon by the end of the year. Our first event for 2020 saw 25 past students come to their ‘Back to School BBQ’ for the Class of 2019. It’s always a great event and we hear from our most recent graduates on where they’re headed post school.
student and a beautiful person who will be sadly missed by all who knew him. His name is on
This year’s PSA scholarship holder was announced on the final assembly last year and we must congratulate Ella Keough on receiving this year’s scholarship.
the School Honour Board as
The school’s Archive Centre is really coming along. We have acquired a room in St Mary’s where we will
Dux of 2000, and the paper
house all our historic records and have a workspace. The PSA has allocated funds to set up the facility. If you
butterflies he made in 1996 are
have any school publications, uniforms or other items you would like to donate, please drop them in.
framed and still on display in the
It was great to see so many comments and photos on our Facebook page over the old boarding house
Junior School. Owen became a
pictures we put up for National Boarding Week in May. Boarding memories obviously remain strong!
maxillofacial surgeon; a wonderful career ended all too soon. Rest in Peace, Owen.
PSA President Mr Tom Porter Telephone (07) 4722 2000 thomas.porter@cathedral.qld.edu.au
I hope that all our past students are staying safe during this time and my thoughts are with you all.
Tom Porter| PSA President
cathedral.qld.edu.au/past-students-association Facebook @theCathedralSchoolPastStudentsAssociation 154 Ross River Road, Mundingburra PO Box 944, Aitkenvale, QLD 4814 Australia t
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LEO CLUB WINS NATIONAL AWARD
VIRTUAL OPEN DAY
The Cathedral School Leo Club has been declared national
The COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the way we live,
winner of the inaugural Leo
but it has not stopped the
Club Project of the Year Award
students and staff from inviting
for their community service
their future classmates into
project which involved packing
their school with an online
birthing kits for PNG. These
Open Day that was held on
small packages are loaded with
Saturday 16 May. The Open
supplies to assist pregnant
Day had various platforms from
women give birth in poor
an interactive website and
conditions and to help save the
online live chat. We heard from our School Principal Ian
lives of mother and infant. About 40 of the club’s members gathered in a sterilised room and neatly packed medical supplies including
Gamack and the Heads of the three sub-schools. The Open Day also
scalpels, gauze and gloves, a plastic sheet to lay on, and a piece of
involved a carpark drive-through where we held active displays and
string to tie the umbilical cord.
people could stay in their cars and enjoy what The Cathedral School
Club Vice-President Charlotte Anderson said, ‘It is amazing to realise
has to offer. Our online reach was incredible; we had families watching
that such basic supplies can make a huge difference to the survival
from all over the world. Here are some stats from the day: 12 from the
rates of mothers and babies in developing countries. It made us
USA, 5 from Hong Kong, 3 from South Korea, 3 from Netherlands and
grateful for the high standard of medical care we generally take for
492 from Australia.
granted and made us feel good that we were helping women deliver
The Open Day website is still live and I encourage all past students to
their babies safely in poor conditions.’
jump on and check out their school. https://www.cathedral.qld.edu.au/virtual-open-day
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? TONI LANPHIER Toni has taken on the role of school archivist
FAREWELL MISS TURNER Ms Jill Turner concluded her wonderful contribution to The Cathedral School after 28 years of
on a part time basis. Toni’s passion for the school and knowledge make her perfect for this role.
outstanding service to the school, including 14 magnificent School
BRITTANY YEATMAN
Productions and eight
Brittany has been nominated in the
School Plays. ‘Footloose’
Queensland Training Awards for the Bob
would have been her 23rd major production if COVID-
Marshman Trainee of the Year award and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year.
19 had not intervened. A person of genuine empathy and care, Ms Turner supported Chatham House students for 11 years as Head of
RONALD THOROLD
House and more recently as a Tutor, while taking on another important
Ronnie has completed 11 years within the
role as Head of Music and Performing Arts. Ms Turner is a much loved
Australian Regular Army in the Catering
and highly effective teacher that our staff, students, and parents will
Corps. He is balancing his career as a
deeply miss. At her farewell function, she was presented with the Toni
solider, chef and mentor to diggers in the
Lanphier School Service Award. Miss Turner’s replacement as Drama teacher is past student Bonnie Nicholas (Class of 1998).
PSA President Mr Tom Porter Telephone (07) 4722 2000 thomas.porter@cathedral.qld.edu.au
Army. If you have any news (career, marriage, births etc) please send us a short paragraph and a photo to paststudents@cathedral.qld.edu.au
cathedral.qld.edu.au/past-students-association Facebook @theCathedralSchoolPastStudentsAssociation 154 Ross River Road, Mundingburra PO Box 944, Aitkenvale, QLD 4814 Australia t