St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace Magazine December 2020 Contents 1 From the Principal 20 Farewell Glenn Brown 2 Celebration of Excellence 22 Sport update 4 Year 12 Valedictory 23 GPS Premiers 6 A well rounded education 24 Terrace Family showcase 7 The Mahoney legacy 26 Back Red & Black 8 Raising the flag 28 Celebrating World School Staff Day 9 Moving to the beat 30 Thank you for your years of service 10 Celebrating 135 years of Gymnastics 31 Terrace Giving Day 2020 12 Adapting to a changing world 32 The Foundation thanks our sponsors and 13 An island cubby volunteers 14 To love tenderly, act justly, and walk 33 Terrace Flashback Reunions humbly with our God 40 Vintage Terracians 16 School of Rock 42 Vale 18 Q&A with Jack Gardiner 43 Save the date 19 Whipped into shape Graphic Design by: Roche Creative Contributors: Ms Doreen Awabdy, Mr Glenn Cameron, Dr Michael Carroll, Mr Matt Series VIII, Volume 31, No.3, December 2020 Cocking, Mr Damien Fall, Mr Mason Hellyer, Mr Tony McGahan, Mr Edmund Scott, Ms Cathy Stacey, Mr Andrew Stormonth, Mr Terry Thompson, Mrs Bianca Wagner www.facebook.com/StJosephsCollegeGregoryTerrace St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace acknowledges the https://twitter.com/gregoryterrace1 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples @stjosephscollegeterrace of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Published by: Custodians of the lands on which our campuses are St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane QLD 4000 located. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and descendants. St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace is Edited by: committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Mrs Bianca Wagner Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and Publications Coordinator spiritual connections to the land, waters and seas and P 3214 5259 E [email protected] their rich contribution to Australian and global society. Cover photo: College Captain Samuel Dutton at the Celebration of Excellence December 2020 From the Principal Dear members of the Terrace Family, Welcome to the final edition of The The final 2020 edition of The Terracian for 2020. In a year unlike Terracian highlights the College’s any we have ever witnessed, 2020 acknowledgement of NAIDOC Week, provided the Terrace Family with World Staff Day, an end to the era of challenges, opportunities and the GPS Gymnastics, and the incredibly need to demonstrate our resilience, successful Terrace Giving Day. This care and support of each other. edition also profiles the Jones family, Despite the ever-changing landscape the Mahoney family and the EREA influenced thousands of members of of the year, the Terrace Family has Best Foot Forward Campaign – which the Terrace Family, and I thank Glenn continued to demonstrate its strength, raised funds for women’s education for all that he has done. an enormous capacity to care, and a globally. willingness to ‘make it happen’. Finally, we have farewelled many We also acknowledge the Seniors fine Terracians in 2020, including Mr This edition of The Terracian of 2020 and their journey not only Dominic Condon, Mr Guy Andrew, highlights the myriad of this year, but every year of their time Mr John McAuliffe and Mr Mervyn achievements that Terrace students at Terrace. We wish the Year 12s Carroll. May they all rest in Peace. have delivered in 2020. These the very best for their future and achievements have been in the welcome them as Old Boys of the As 2020 draws to a close and the sporting arena, in cultural pursuits College. Christmas season approaches, I take and across a range of academic this opportunity to thank the entire areas. The Gentlemen of Terrace The College also celebrated Terrace Family, past, present and overcame the challenges and our Vintage Terracians and their future for their support in 2020. I look found innovative ways to commit to opportunity to gather together for forward to sharing a successful 2021 academic and co-curricular pursuits morning tea in November. It was a with you all. ensuring that they made good on wonderful chance for many of our their 2020 promise to Be the One. Old Boys to gather for the first time Merry Christmas and Happy New this year. Year. Similarly, many of our Old Boys have continued their success in This year sees the retirement of Mr sport, academia and business Glenn Brown from the College after after their graduation from Terrace. 27 years of dedicated and committed Dr Michael Carroll Congratulations to all on their service to the Terrace Family. Glenn’s College Principal achievements. quiet, humble and caring ways have 1 Celebration of Excellence Written by Mr Mason Hellyer An important aspect of any successful organisation is to be able to celebrate success and recognise individual excellence. On Tuesday 17 November, as a learning community, we were able to celebrate and recognise the academic excellence of our student body. Congratulations to every student who was awarded an academic honour. Attaining an academic excellence award, a first in a subject or most improved award takes hard work and dedication. By publicly recognising academic success and improvement, we send a strong message to our students that, at Terrace, academic success is valued. This recognition of the core value of learning and striving to be the best you can be is one of the drivers of Terrace’s academic culture. Congratulations to all award winners, and also all who performed, organised and took part in a wonderful evening. Please note that with the introduction of the ATAR system this year, we have not been able to award the Year 12 subject prizes, the Proxime Accessit or the College Dux. These will be announced at the Scholars’ Assembly in 2021. 2 3 December 2020 Year 12 Valedictory Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different? (CS Lewis). The Seniors of 2020 ended their Good luck to all our 2020 Seniors; years of schooling like they have may you always hold the spirit of faced most things this year: in a Terrace close to your heart. Continue different but no less meaningful or to be strong, be confident, be special way. genuine, be yourself and Be the One. The day began with the traditional gathering of Seniors in College Hall for their final farewell before they moved through to the Campbell Centre for their final assembly. Parents and caregivers watched the assembly live from Tennyson where they eagerly awaited the arrival of their sons. When the Seniors arrived at Tennyson, they were greeted with a tunnel formed by their parents and caregivers before their final liturgy commenced. It was an emotional morning for all involved as the Seniors became Old Boys, donning their trademark Old Boys ties and singing Terrace to the Fore, although – as our Vintage Terracians showed at their morning tea – not for the last time. 4 December 2020 5 December 2020 A well rounded education Mr Peter Mahoney (GT 1963) started his Terrace journey in Year 6 in 1957. He graduated in the Senior Class of 1963. Peter studied Medicine at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1969. This was a cause of some dismay for his uncle and Rhodes Scholar, James Mahoney. The Mahoney philosophy for education was that, after graduation from school, one studied Arts and gained one’s Bachelor of Arts. (At the time, Senior University A Class 1963. James Mahoney was the Professor of French, Peter is 3rd from the left in the back row. President of the Professorial Board, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Member of the Senate at the University In 2011, Peter returned to the of Queensland.) Then one could proceed to a professional University of Queensland to realise a long-held ambition to achieve a degree, having achieved a proper, rounded education. PhD in History and to fulfill his uncle’s Peter’s studying Medicine first was certainly at odds preference for a more rounded education. His majors for his Bachelor with this thinking. of Arts were History and French, the latter requiring a year abroad studying in Paris at the University In 1972, after two years as a Resident and Intensive Care, working at St of London Institute in Paris. He Medical Officer, Peter undertook Bartholomew’s Hospital in London graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Anaesthetic and Intensive Care and Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge. in 2016. He went on to receive a training at the Royal Brisbane In 1980, Peter and Helen returned Bachelor of Arts with Honours Class Hospital and the Greenslopes to Brisbane where Peter began I in the Field of History in June 2020. Repatriation Hospital, achieving to practice in the specialty of Peter was also awarded a Dean’s his Fellowship in the Faculty of Anaesthetics joining the group Commendation. He is now preparing Anaesthetics of the Royal Australian Wickham Terrace Anaesthesia. He for his PhD and writing history journal College of Surgeons in 1976 by retired in 2010 at which time he was articles. examination. He married Helen registered as a specialist anaesthetist Chagoury in 1975 and they moved in 22 hospitals and day care facilities Today, his major delight in life is his to England in 1977 so Peter could in Queensland. three grandsons. further his studies in Anaesthetics 6 December 2020 The Mahoney legacy All too often we recognise a name at Terrace but are unaware of the story behind it. In this edition of the Terracian, we look at the Mahoney family and explore the name behind Mahoney House. Bernard Mahoney (GT 1928) 3rd from the left. There were four brothers in the the College’s first Rhodes Scholar.