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ANNANDALE CAMPUS This year’s Founders Week, acknowledging the 124th anniversary of the founding of the School was particularly special with the official opening of the Performing Arts Complex on the North Ward Campus. The construction of this multi-million dollar facility has affirmed the importance of the Arts as a pivotal component of the School’s unwavering commitment to the ethos of a broad holistic education for all.

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the centrepiece of the new facility and it was therefore especially Olympic swimmers visit appropriate that the Board of Trustees acknowledged the iconic Townsville Grammar service to the School of Mrs Glennys Perry, by naming this

1 Brazier Drive past grandparent and former long-serving English and Drama Annandale, QLD 4814 teacher (1979-2010).

P 07 4725 3588 With an enrolment of over 1,500 boys and girls, F 07Townsville 4725 3016 Grammar is now one of the largest co-educational independent schools in th anniversary year in 2013, we Australia. As we approach our 125 E tgs@tgs.qld.edu.au have good reason to not only be W proud of our special heritage and www.tgs.qld.edu.au the contribution of so many Past Grammarians to society but also uplifted by our current cohort of young Grammarians, who are so ably maintaining our high standards of endeavour and citizenship.

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particular teaching and learning space in her honour. Glennys Perry has served the School as a Past Grammarian (1951-1954),

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NEWS OFtoPAST 4 Helping save babies 5 Grandparents and Special Friends Day GRAMMARIANS 5 Olympians visit Townsville Grammar Weddings, births and more 6 Introducing our new Deputy Principal (Operations) ALL IN THE FAMILY

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School captains Senior School Captains KATE mack & harshil pillai

Middle School Captains julia reilly & dylan zischke

Junior School Captains lillian carson & dylan anger

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said that assisting with the Middle School Assemblies, Open Night and Anzac Day have been some of the highlights for them so far in 2012.

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Kate and Harshil have risen to the challenge of being School Captains as well as dealing with the pressures of Year 12. Both are dedicated students academically and have major co-curricular involvements such as Music and Dance.

& Special Friends Day as well as represented TGS on several occasions. Asked what being a captain means to her, Lillian said, “Looking after my peers, respecting teachers, lending a hand when needed and being a role model to younger students.” Both Grammar Grammar donates donates record record Lillian and Dylan are wholeheartedly looking forward to the rest of 2012 and continuing their leadership roles.

While the demands of Year 12 have been very draining, they have learned that being extremely organised and well prepared as well as having a cohort that is supportive of each other has helped lessen the burden. “I am very thankful to my friends, cohort, my teachers and especially my family,” Kate said.

Glennys Glennys Perry Perry At the Junior School, Lillian Carson and Dylan Anger have worked hard to Performance assist with the Junior School Assemblies and Grandparents Performance Space Space

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Charters Towers and has been boarding at TGS since Year 7, while Julia started in Year 1 at the Annandale Campus back in 2004. The dynamic duo

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Reflecting on her final year at Grammar, Kate’s advice to younger students was to “Get involved in everything - make the most of every opportunity that comes up.”

Pictured from left to right: Harshil Pillai, Dylan Zischke, Dylan Anger, Lillian Carson, Julia Reilly and Kate Mack.

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make friends with day students and to get out of their comfort zones. In boarding, it can be easy to stay at the ‘boarding’ end of the School, but having a diverse group of friends from different backgrounds helps to make our time at school much more interesting.

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As Mr Wilson, Director of Boarding, says ‘A busy boarder is a happy boarder’ and although it sounds clichéd to us now, it is definitely true. This year we have encouraged younger boarders to become involved as much as possible, go beyond their comfort zones and make new friends because those people are the ones who will help you through the tough times of boarding and school.

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Townsville Grammar School Magazine The annual celebration of Boarding Week versus day students touch football and Vol 16. success 2012again this year. Events tug-o-war match. was a great included a full School Assembly, inviting a day student to experience a boarding lunch, Year 7 and Year 8 boarders inviting a day student friend for a boarding sleepover on the Friday night, boarders

As Head Boarders we have set ourselves goals which we hope to achieve for the boarding community. This year’s goal has been to encourage younger boarders to

Although graduation seems a long time away right N now, know O Rwe T Hboth WA R D it will be over before we know it and C A M P U S although we will miss being boarders, we look 45 Paxton forward to pursuing our Street future careers.

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supporting our community f o o d dri v e TGS students contributed to the School’s annual Food Appeal in May by donating over 2,500 items of non-perishable food to the Food Relief Food Bank NQ to assist those in need in Townsville.

This amazing contribution was the largest donation that the Food Bank has ever received.

The Grammar Interact club co-ordinates the Food Drive and encourages Form classes to compete against each other to see which one can contribute the most food items. While the primary

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aim is a philanthropic one, the Form class collecting the most items receives a pizza party, donated by the Interact club. This year, the winning Form class was Ms Deal’s Year 12 class, who stepped it up and donated 431 food items.

The ute loads of food items were delivered to the Food Bank at the Bohle. The motto of Foodbank is ‘An Australia without hunger’.

Foodbank is a non-denominational, charitable organisation which sources donated and surplus food for people in need.

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Zonta International Club to produce ‘Zonta’ kits - birthing kits to be sent to less developed countries to help safely deliver babies.

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NEWS NEWS OF PAST OF PAST Over 585,000 women die annually in childbirth with 99% of these deaths occurring in developing GRAMMARIANS GRAMMARIANS countries. The Zonta kit helps to reduce this

Weddings, birthstheand births more numberWeddings, by allowing mother andand child more to be born in a clean environment that decreases the risk of death from infection and bleeding.

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Meet ourMeet mother-daughter our mother-daughter to traditional birth attendants to not only allow the kits to be used properly, but also to identify teaching teaching teams teams high risk pregnancies and refer these women to hospitals.

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Grandparents and Special Friends Day was held on the last day of Term 1 at Townsville Grammar School’s Annandale Campus. The day invites Junior School students’ grandparents and special friends back to school for the morning.

Grandparents and special friends arrived in droves, many from other cities, a number from interstate and even some from overseas, to be a part of this day with their grandchildren.

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Olympic swimmers visit Although you might not know Glenn’s name, his swimming Townsville Grammar achievements include many things, most notably his representation

of Australia at both Olympic and Commonwealth levels, winning a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Glenn is also is one of only four platinum standard swimming coaches in Australia.

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TGS student and potential future Olympian, Regan Leong, was Opening doors photographed with the Olympians and Kokoda Spirit coach, Glenn since 1888 Beringen. Regan, having recently returned from the Olympic trials in Adelaide, shared stories about personal bests with James, who was suitably impressed, given the times which Regan is achieving as a sixteen year old.

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2012 broaden their horizons and to discover more about themselves Steven Morris and their abilities.

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This year TGS has over 60 students involved in the programme and these students are achieving their awards by participating in some form of physical recreation, learning a new skill, performing community service and completing an expedition.

Townsville Grammar was delighted to welcome Steven Morris to the Grammar community as the new Deputy Principal (Operations).

Steven Morris (M. Ed. (Deakin), M.App.Sc (UQ), M.Mus.St. (UQ), B.Mus., Grad.Dip.Ed. (UNE), MACEL, AIMM, MACE) comes to Grammar from Emmaus College in Rockhampton (2009-2011) where he was Acting Deputy Principal. Steven has fulfilled roles as diverse as Head of House, Head of Boarding, Director of Swimming and Director of Music in schools Olympic Olympic swimmers swimmers visit visit such as Guildford Grammar School (W.A.) and The Hutchins School (Tas). Grammar Townsville Townsville Grammar

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While Steven considers the position of Deputy Principal of TGS the pinnacle of his professional career thus far, his teaching background in music and science have provided him with many highlights Glennys Glennys Perry Perry during his outstanding career.

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Originally from Ayr, the move to North Queensland has allowed Steven to see his family more regularly.

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performed internationally with choirsrecord and as a solo Grammar Grammar donates donates record musician. He enjoys composing music and his music breaking breaking amount of amount has been included in television and of radio broadcasts. canned food canned food Steven is also a silver licenced swimming coach and has a background in biomechanics and the physiology of swimming. He has joined the coaching team at Townsville Grammar’s Swim@Grammar and Kokoda Spirit Swimming Club.

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Weddings, Weddings, births and births and more His educational philosophy is more to ensure each student

is nurtured and challenged to develop their full potential in the areas of academic performance, cultural involvement, pastoral growth, social development and sporting participation.

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Meet ourMeet mother-daughter our mother-daughter Steven has quickly established a genuine presence teaching teaching teams teams within the School and we welcome him to the Grammar community.

Boys in Music At Townsville Grammar School we believe that our core purpose in music is to provide students with a foundation for life-long growth in music. In order to ensure music is accessible to all students, TGS has introduced strategies that take into account the cultural, social and developmental needs of boys.

The School embraces diversity in music which allows for many varied styles of musical bands and groups. In curriculum music, students study a range of musical styles from baroque to rock. The knowledge that all music is validated at TGS has increased the attractiveness of music for boys.

Although most of our music ensembles are open all students with the appropriate skills and ability, we have some ensembles designed exclusively for boys - for example Lezom, (the Senior Boys Vocal Ensemble) which is directed by Mr Steven Morris, and the Junior School Boys Choir directed by Mr Noel Nethery. In 2012, TGS introduced a Middle School Boys Choir. These choirs provide the boys with an environment to feel comfortable singing with others as well as to learn and model that it is a ‘cool’ for boys to sing. These choirs, like all the School’s choirs and vocal groups, are not auditioned, and are open to all boys.

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Nicky Horstmann International Baccala u reate R E treat The International Baccalaureate (IB) Retreat was held at Mission Beach this year. The focus was on two of the ‘core’ components of the IB curriculum, namely CAS (Creativity, Action, Service) and Theory of Knowledge (TOK).

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At the end of 2011, a familiar face at Townsville Grammar walked into her classroom for the last time. Mrs Nicky Horstmann, a much loved Science and Year Level Co-ordinator, retired after having commenced at TGS as a contract teacher in 1989.

Nicky was first employed at TGS as a temporary Maths teacher after relocating to Townsville from the Brisbane West region. Nicky then taught Junior Mathematics and Multistrand Science and went on to teach Hospitality, Junior Science and Earth Science.

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Townsville Grammar School Magazine As trends in education saw the concepts of middle schooling develop, Vol 16. 2012 Nicky was appointed Teacher in Charge During their stay in Mission Beach, students were involved in white water rafting, an adventure camp (complete with mud) as well as helping to reforest some areas that were devastated by Cyclone Larry and Cyclone Yasi. The Licuala Forest is home to much of the east coast’s cassowary population.

Working with Mr Peter Trott of the Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation (C4) the group were introduced to the range and roles of Aboriginal tools and indigenous plants from the forests by one of the traditional owners Mr Leonard Andy.

of Junior Science in 1995, enjoying the challenges of developing a cohesive curriculum that best suited our students.

In 1997, Nicky took on the role of Year 10 Co-ordinator, a new concept for the School. Nicky then followed those students on the next year as Year 11s. Nicky forged and fostered many successful pastoral and academic initiatives specific to 16 year old school students. Her acknowledgement and

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Sue Harvey-Latham and Lizzii Watson (pictured with Lizzii’s son, Harry), Glennys Perry as well as Pamela Abraham and Lisa Vollugi (below).

Performance Space Although it would seem that teaching runs in their blood, not all the daughters originally planned to follow their mother’s career path. Lizzii was determined to break the family trend as her mum, dad, step-mum and step-dad were all teachers. However, after finishing her Honours degree in Science, Lizzii took a gap year to teach at an outdoor science Grammar donates record camp in the USA and realised that teaching was her passion. Lizzii went back to university to study breaking amount ofher postgraduate teaching qualification and two years later was at the front of a classroom.

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The daughters all agree that it is definitely a benefit to have their mums

Opening doors since 1888 on staff. “Being able to ‘steal’ resources and freely ask for advice or help when needed is definitely a bonus”, Karyn said. “There are surprisingly not too many cons.”

The mother-daughter teams try not to talk about work on the weekends, however with some of the teachers teaching the same students, this can prove difficult at times. “Yes, we do sometimes talk shop, even when we have said we won’t. But Harry [Lizzii’s son] usually interrupts and we can concentrate on him instead!” Sue explains.

“I think enjoyment of teaching is in our genes - there are many teachers in our family and we continue to enjoy teaching here at Grammar,” said Sue. Lizzii’s son, Harry has a few years ahead of him yet, but maybe one day he’ll follow in his family’s footsteps and take up teaching as his career too.

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Thank you Mum! TGS Pre-Prep students and their mums celebrated Mothers Day a few days early this year with a special morning tea at the Annandale Campus held on the Friday prior to Mothers Day. After sitting down to the individually and creatively decorated tables with handmade table centrepieces, placemats and name tags, mums were treated to a special morning tea prepared by their children. The mums were then entertained by heart-warming performances by the young students, with two songs, Skidamarink and Happy Mothers Day to You (sung to the tune of happy birthday). As a thank you to their mums for coming to the morning tea, the children gave their mums special handmade gifts such as picture frames and handbags.

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At the end of the morning, the mums had the tables turned by having a story read to them with a book about mums read by Director of Pre-Prep, Kerry Strickland.

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In May, the Courier Mail published the Queensland Schools Guide, releasing a series of ‘Queensland’s best’ tables.

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Townsville Grammar School is the only school in NEWS NEWS OF PAST OF Townsville to appear in any PAST one of the lists and more importantly to be ranked in the ‘top 50’ on GRAMMARIANS GRAMMARIANS each of the four lists.

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NAPLAN performance (Year 3 to Year 9 inclusive).

In their rankings of schools ‘outside Brisbane’ for Years 3, 5 and 7 (Primary) and Year 9 (High School), Townsville Grammar is one of only three schools ranked in the ‘top 10’ on both lists and the only school outside the south east corner of Queensland, ranked on either list.

Primary Schools (2008-2011): Year 3, 5 & 7: Townsville Grammar School; 10th High Schools (2008-2011): Year 9: Townsville Grammar School; 8th No other school in North Queensland appears on any of these published lists of ‘best results’ in Queensland.

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Relay team wins for final race together

NEWS OF PAST After swimming together as a team since Year 9, the Grammar 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay Girls Open team won their final race GRAMMARIANS

as well as breaking the interschool record. Three of the girls Weddings, births and more have been swimming in the TGS relay together since Year 7, with Zoe coming on board in Year 9.

The Year students, pictured right (Zoe O’Brien, ALL IN12THE FAMILY Rebecca Golightly, Pia Astbury and Celene Franklin) said it

Meet our was a great waymother-daughter to finish their final race together. teaching teams “I think we took two seconds off the record and we were 25

metres ahead of the other teams so it was a big win,’’ Pia said.

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Vol TGS 16.teacher Vol 2012 16.Past 2012 Many current and retired staff members as well as past students were in attendance to congratulate Mrs Perry for this very well deserved achievement.

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125th Celebrations in 2013 2013 marks Townsville Grammar School’s 125th anniversary of operations.

To celebrate, TGS has organised a number of special events and publications: Gala Reunion 10 August 2013 - ALL Past Grammarians are invited back to this gala reunion including a tour of the School in the morning.

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Commemorative Cook Book The School Community (current and past students, parents and staff) are encouraged to include their favourite recipes in this special cook book that will be released in 2013.

Old Fashioned Circus Fair 31 August 2013, Annandale Campus - Current students will be encouraged to dress in circus attire with this festive themed evening.

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History Book A colour history booklet will be mailed to current and past students.

125th Anniversary Boarder Family BBQ 21 June 2013 - All current boarders and their families will be invited to attend a function and the end of Term 2, 2013, to celebrate 125 years of boarding at TGS.

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History Book - A colour history booklet will be mailed to current and past students.

Colonial Fair - Annandale Campus - Current students will be encouraged to dress in colo with this ‘olden day’ themed evening

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ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE Nine current staff members have their names forever remembered in gold writing on an honour Grammar donates board recognising 20 years ofrecord service to Townsville Grammar. breaking of an amazing 235 years at Townsville Grammar School!

Between them,amount they have amassed canned food

Pictured above - Trish Christensen (commenced in 1986), Nadene Moorhouse (1984), Annette Cook (1992), Nigel Treloar (1991), Kevin Couper (1983), Carol Saunders (1985), Noel Gallagher (1984) and Larry Thomson (1988). Absent: Bill Muller (1980).

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Past Grammarians N e w s o f past S T u dents Neil Russell (1934) recently appeared on national television stating that he was determined to march on Anzac Day. Aged 94, Neil was awarded the DCM for bravery displayed during the Papua New Guinea campaign in World War Two.

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purpose of civil jurisprudence liaising with the Greek and Turkish Police.

Ian Fanning (1985) is now working as an accountant in Mackay.

gg rr am am mm a ra irai n an Patron of the Past Grammarians Association, Edna Shaw (1938), maintains a keen interest in the association and the successes achieved by the School and its students. An avid reader and collector of books Edna, has to date, donated over four thousand books to James Cook University.

Natalie Weir (1983) continues her successful career as a choreographer and Director of the Expressions Dance Company based in Brisbane. Natalie who is married to Peter Marshall (1982) had the unique distinction in 2011 of winning two Helpmann Awards for her work with the Expressions Dance Company. Two of Natalie’s close friends at Grammar were Alison Haly (1983) and Joanne Wolters (nee Cassells 1983). Alison is a successful lawyer in Brisbane and worked on the recent Flood Commission.

Joanne is a graduate doctor but now works as a medical writer for the pharmaceutical industry.

The family of the Grazioli brothers have been in contact Townsville Townsville Grammar Grammar School School Magazine Magazine regarding a donation of archival material from the family estate.

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2012 became a community leader in the Ingham district after leaving school. In recognition of his community involvement a football field in Ingham has been named after him.

Another former student who has had a sporting oval named after him is Keith Oliver (1956). The School recently received a wonderful email from Professor Glen Figger, Professor and Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Arts, Education and Law Faculty at Griffith University. In his email Professor Figger regards Keith as a ‘superhero’. He states that it was Keith with his great interest in his students and his ability to inspire children that set him on the path to an academic career. The field named after Keith is at a school in Bundaberg.

Diana Macgregor (nee Bell 1957) has been active on the local scene organising get-togethers of past students from her era.

A recent luncheon on April 16 (Founders Day) saw the following Olympic Olympic swimmers visit visit Glennys Perry (nee past students attend:swimmers Ernie Hoolihan (1952), Brown 1954), Gwen Morris (1954), Dave Whebell (1954), Don Townsville Townsville Grammar Grammar Gibson (1952), Jill Nikolas (nee Gardiner 1952), Judith Kerr (nee Brackstone 1952), Hazel Bird (nee Hutchison 1953), Joan Baker (nee Brackstone 1954), Carol Gillett (nee Greske 1954), Gloria Poulsen (nee Foster 1954), Anne Zander (nee Gregson 1957) and Ed Spriggens (1957).

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The Lindsay family are all residing in Canberra. Eamon Lindsay (1989) is working for the Commonwealth Government, Amelia Abrams (nee Lindsay 1990) is enjoying motherhood and has completed two Masters degrees and Joseph Lindsay (1991) has recently completed a Masters Degree in Law and is working in the Australian Navy.

Still enjoying life in Andorra is Peter Lucas (1991). Recently married to a woman from Barcelona, Peter is working in rugby union administration in Andorra. Peter has the distinction of representing Andorra in 22 rugby internationals. He occasionally gets back to Australia and catches up with Gordon Waddell (1989), Eddie Ansell (1989), Noel Collyer (1989), Ian Fairbairn (1989) and Cameron Johnson (1989).

Julian Wicksteed (1994) continues to alternate as a teacher and an author. Julian has written three successful books on fishing.

In his book A Catch on Africa he writes about fishing in Africa, in Alaska on the Fly he writes about fishing in that state. His latest book deals with his travels through Patagonia. Julian is also a noted photographer and has produced a coffee table book of photographs taken on his travels around the world.

Williams 1948) who between 1952 and 1953 taught commercial subjects at school. She was later to form her own commercial subject school in the Townsville region.

Matthew McKinlay (1993) joined the Australian Army on leaving school. He served in East Timor during their independence fight before moving on to become a policeman in the Northern Territory in 2002.

Grammar Grammar donates donates record record Alex Mitchell (1957) was recently in the news with the publication Come the Revolution .

Alex of his book, breakingbreaking amount of amount of completed his schooling at Town High before becoming a journalist. He worked in London for canned food canned food many years and was, for a time, a close associate of the actress,

Congratulations to the following on making the North Queensland representative rugby union teams: Cameron Rowland (2005) and Scott O’Neill (1999) in the Open team and Tom Butcher (2011) and Andy Beric (2011) in the Under 19 team.

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NEWS OF PAST OF PAST AnotherNEWS past student who keeps a keen eye on the progress of the school is Virginia Thorley (1960). She writes that her four years GRAMMARIANS GRAMMARIANS at the School were very happy ones and she writes highly of the

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andour is Meet looking forward to the 125 anniversary celebrations in Meet mother-daughter our mother-daughter 2013. As part of an interesting career path Graham served in teaching teams teams Cyprusteaching with the Australian Police Force during the turmoil in that th

Chloe Butler (2003), sister of the actor Nathin Butler (2002) has been in the news recently advertising the American game ‘Lingerie Football’ to an Australian audience. Chloe was a successful sportswoman at School and also represented the ACT at rugby union.

Following the successful appearance of Mark Maclaughlin (2000) in 2011 on the television show The Farmer Wants a Wife, two past students have also appeared on reality television shows. Jana Peterson (2004) has been on WAGS while Ben Bennett (2008) was a recent success as one of the youngest performers on the very successful show The Voice.

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Congratulations to Natasha Testi-Fraser (2003) on being awarded a $1000 prize from James Cook University for Excellence in English. Natasha who enrolled at Grammar from the International School in Lusaka, Zambia, is currently completing her second degree at JCU. After serving as an Officer in the Air Force with deployments to the Middle East and Afghanistan, Cavin Wilson (2005) (pictured right) has cofounded a charity for wounded soldiers called ’Soldier On’. The charity helps servicemen and women who have been wounded, physically or mentally, on contemporary operations.

Pop star and television judge, Tina Arena, has come on board as the official patron of ‘Soldier On’.

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Michelle Dennert (2003), daughter of Residential Services Manager, GRAND OPENING Annette Cook, married Simon Hallam (2002) last year (photo 2).

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Julian Wicksteed (1994) and his wife Lyl on the birth of their second daughter, Jessie.

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Grammar donates record of their second child, Harlan, who is younger brother to Austin who is two years old (photoamount 4). breaking of Lori Neilsen-Carr canned food(1994) and her husband Adam on the birth of their daughter, Scarlett (photo 5).

Robert ActonOF (1998)PAST and his partner, Melissa Kermond, on the birth of NEWS their baby daughter, Annabel Jane.

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Vale O u r deepest S ympathies The School and Past Grammarians Association would like to extend their deepest sympathies to the following families who have recently lost family members: The School has lost a valued member of the School community with the passing of Frank Sim (1940). On leaving Grammar Frank joined UnionFidelity as a trainee accountant.

In 1942 he enlisted in the RAAF and served in Europe as a rear gunner and navigator reaching the rank of warrant officer.

While based in Scotland he met and later married the love of his life, Win. They were married for 60 years living in Paxton Street throughout their marriage. After the war Frank completed his studies in accounting and continued to work for Union Fidelity.

On retirement he was manager of the Townsville branch. Frank involved himself in a variety of community services including chairman of the Red Cross for 14 years and fund raising for the Masonic Lodge.

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Frank joined the Board of Trustees of the School in 1968 and became Chairman in 1972, holding the position until his retirement in 1992. He was Chairman during the period regarded in the 1988 School history as the ‘Golden Years of the School’. Many buildings were constructed during this period and his contribution to the School was recognised when the F.D.Sim Building was named after him. For relaxation Frank was an avid collector of stamps, books and records. He donated his comprehensive music collection to James Cook University.

gg rr am am mm a ra irai n an Thora Whitford (nee Marshall 1941) enrolled at the School in the same year as Frank Sim. Thora had three years at the School and counted them as the happiest years of her life. Highly intelligent she was offered a medical scholarship at the University of Queensland but because of the war was not able to take up the scholarship. After the war she worked for the Liberal Party for 25 years including 11 years as secretary to the then member for Herbert, R.N.Bonnett. Married to Bill Whitford for 50 years Thora willed her body to science, specifically for Parkinson’s Disease, a disease that was with her for 16 years.

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Our sympathies also go out to Judith Johnston (nee Lovell 1959) on the passing of her partner, Blair Salter.

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