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April 2018 April Inside this issue 2 Opening Mass and Senior Induction 6 Damian Maher - our 18th Rhodes Scholar 9 Australia Day Honours 23 Thank You to our Donors Contents 1 2 4 6 8 From the Principal Openning Mass & Celebrating the Damian Maher A band of brothers Senior Induction scholars of 2017 Our 18th Rhodes Scholar 9 10 12 13 14 Australia Day Honours Liberating lives in The Terrace Family Donations to the First day at Terrace Timor-Leste gives back Terrace Archives 16 17 18 20 22 Culture Sport The Great Public Terrace Flashback Annual report of Schools' Association donors 2017 officially launches GPS100 24 28 30 31 32 Thank you to our Red and Black GTOBA President GTOBA Events Save the date Cocktail Party donors 33 Rest in Peace Acknowledgement St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which our campuses are located. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. St Joseph’s College is committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to the College and society. Graphic Design by: Miss Aimee Myatt Contributors: Series V, Volume 26, No.3, April 2018 Mr Rod Campbell, Dr Michael Carroll, Ms Zoe Morgan, Mr Joe Tooma, Published by: Mr Jarrod Turner, Mr Damian Wright St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane QLD 4000 www.facebook.com/StJosephsCollegeGregoryTerrace Edited by: Ms Bianca Anderson, https://twitter.com/gregoryterrace1 Publications Coordinator @stjosephscollegeterrace P 3214 5259 E [email protected] Find the App on App store and Google Play C | The Terracian From the Principal Dear Members of the Terrace Family, This year, the Great Public Schools' Association Welcome to the first edition of The Terracian for [GPS] celebrates 100 years. Terrace was one of 2018. I am sure that the variety of articles included the founding schools of GPS. Throughout the in this edition will again highlight the diversity of year there will be a number of opportunities our great College. to celebrate this milestone. The GPS Music Showcase was an extraordinary start to a year The 2018 academic year has begun very well with of celebrations. the Scholars’ Assembly and Academic Assembly providing an opportunity to highlight the strong Terrace has a proud history of Rhodes Scholars. ͚Culture of Learning͚ that exists within Terrace. Mr Damian Maher - GT, 2004-11 has been awarded the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship, and is The College welcomed back 30 young men from Terrace’s 18th Rhodes Scholar. We congratulate Year 12 2017 for the Scholars’ Assembly on 6 Damian on this outstanding achievement and February where they were acknowledged for their look forward to welcoming him back to the achievement of an OP1 and presented with the College for a special Assembly later in the year. traditional Buchanan Medal. Of these 30 young men, four students, Patrick Sharkey, Callum Waite, Terracians, past and present, continue to excel Patrick Cummins and Connor Ryan were awarded in a range of areas and this edition highlights the prestigious QCAA Academic Achievement just a few including Mr Damian Maher, Mr Rod Award for 2017. Campbell, Mr Noel Synnott and Mr Josh Lawson. I hope that you enjoy this edition of The Terracian The year began with the Opening School and the opportunity it provides to stay connected Mass and Year 12 Induction at the University of with our great College. Queensland. It was an extraordinary day as the current Terrace Family came together to celebrate the start of the 2018 academic year. It was a particularly important occasion for our Year 12 students and their families as they celebrated the commencement of their journey as school leaders Dr Michael Carroll in 2018. College Principal The Terracian | 1 Opening Mass and Senior Induction The University of Queensland was once again the setting for the Opening Mass and Senior Induction on Friday 2 February. This ceremony is one of the most significant events in the College calendar and one which involves the whole College community. It is a celebration of the Year 12 gentlemen and their families as they prepare for the year ahead and the final step of their school journey. The Seniors of 2018 have chosen the theme of ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ to reflect the unified commitment of the group as they aim to lead and support their fellow Terracians and the wider Terrace Family through the opportunities and challenges of the year ahead. 2 | The Terracian The Terracian | 3 Celebrating the scholars of 2017 Tuesday 6 February saw 30 of our Patrick Sharkey, the 2017 Dux example, just because a revision test 2017 Seniors return to the College addressed the students and gave is designed as a multiple-choice test to celebrate their academic success them his strategies for success: doesn’t mean you have to use it as and achievement of an OP1 – the one. Answer the question as if it was highest possible result for a student To study effectively, you must also a short-answer question and write a to achieve. minimise distraction. With this in mind, justification as to why your answer you will be a much more effective is correct. You could even take the The returned scholars were studier if you write by hand. Not only next step to write a justification as to celebrated at an all school assembly, has handwriting been shown to create why the other options are wrong. All focused not only on the students but a better link to your brain, but you of this means that you are thinking their peers, teachers and all those also remove the distractions that are more about the question than if you who helped them through their associated with your laptop when you just circled the correct response and journey. At the assembly the boys close it, use a hard-copy textbook, and are therefore more likely to retain the were honored on stage with an write on paper. Although your laptop information. academic medal given by Dr Carroll. is an excellent learning tool, you will Each of the scholars contributed a be surprised at how much work is Doing hours and hours of preparation piece of advice and their strategies possible without using it; you are given does not necessarily mean that you for successful study, which was hard-copy textbooks – try to use them will meet your goal for the upcoming presented to the current students as as much as you can. exam; that time must be used a helpful guide. Liam Byrne received effectively. By studying effectively, the student award for significant You can also maximise your study and using methods that work for you, improvement across the year in both time by adapting your study materials you can work through more material results and work ethic. to make them more effective. For in more subjects, and also afford to 4 | The Terracian spend a little more time away from also recognised a student from each Authority (QCAA). At this event the the desk. “ year level who had made significant top Year 12 students from across improvement and exhibited a strong Queensland are recognised. The College continued its celebration work ethic, whilst being respectful of Congratulations to Patrick Sharkey, of academic success on Tuesday both his peers and teachers. Callum Waite, Connor Ryan and 13 February with the Academic Patrick Cummins on achieving such Assembly celebrating the 325 Finally, in the long list of academic success, a testament to the skill, hard students who were awarded medals success stories, on Saturday 17 work and dedication by these young based on their Semester 2 results February, four Terrace 2017 Seniors men. from 2017. This number represented were recognised for their academic close to 25% of the students achievements by the Queensland receiving medals. The assembly Curriculum and Assessment Congratulations to the following scholars for their academic success: William Bingham Patrick Cummins Jack Kimmins Patrick Sharkey Hamish Brown Xavier Cunningham Charles Marshall Isaac Wade Daniel Burgess Lachlan Dunk Adam McNamara Callum Waite Joshua Cabucos Liam Falconer Jack Moore Benjamin Wilson-Boyd Alexander Campion Carl Franzmann Hunter Preston Benjamin Woodrow Joseph Cappello Sean Galloway Hamish Quinn Connor Wright Seunghwa Cheong Joshua Hagemann Connor Ryan William Cook Henry Hanson Patrick Self The Terracian | 5 Damian Maher – Our 18th Rhodes Scholar The Terracian doesn’t usually interested in looking at forgiveness Scholarship has been a long one for interview people when they are in modern writing and how Damian. He sent his application in waiting for an MRI, but in Damian’s narratives represent communities last year and sat through a series case it was one of the rare times that respect member’s differences, of interviews at Government House. he seemed to be sitting still long yet establish a commonality. Damian missed out on acceptance enough to be interviewed. Damian Damian is passionate about the in Brisbane but as a runner up phoned from New Zealand where civic role literature and the moral he was given a second round of he had completed 2000km of a imagination can and should play interviews, held in Canberra. 3000km trek of the Te Araroa Trail. in the public sphere. Unfortunately, Damian had injured Damian says it was a stressful day, his knee and was forced to slow St John’s College was founded in surrounded by the best students down and assess the damage. 1555 by Sir Thomas White, Master Australian Universities could offer, Doctors have since given him the of the Merchant Taylor’s Company, He questioned his belonging all clear to resume his trek.