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SIXIssue Six July 2014

Remembering Sylvia Centenary Day Growing up in a Griffin House AEON Issue Six July 2014

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Scenes from our MidWinter Ball 2014: ‘The Musician’s Club’

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Winter 2014 CONTENTS

elcome to AEON 6, providing a glimpse 04 Centenary day AEON gives a glimpse into the of the Glenaeon school community in the rich learning community that is Wmidwinter season of 2014. It's been a mild 06 Glenaeon, established as one so far, but the lessons winter brings us remain a world of possibility Australia’s first school for Rudolf as eternal as ever and our MidWinter festivals Steiner . The magazine celebrate this enduring meaning. We have enjoyed 08 Growing Up In is a record of school life, featuring a busy and engaging first half of the year, and a Griffin House: people and events that are AEON chronicles some of the many aspects of »» Memories of Castlecrag important in our community. our school during this time: Year 10’s production Marie Nicholls Glenaeon pioneered the vision of a creative and collaborative of their musical The White Rose, our Outdoor 10 “Australia's Education program in the Wolgan Valley (Year 9) education in Sydney, and we and the Whitsundays, our MidWinter festivals. Young Shelley” celebrate the unique community In this edition of AEON we have also published »» Remembering Sylvia that has grown around the school. a full statement of the talks presented at our Linda St Clair AEON is a voice and forum for the rich learning that remains the Centenary Day in October last year marking the 12 MidWinter Festival 100 years since the arrival of the Burley Griffins in school’s core impulse. Whether Australia. This was a special and memorable day 14 The White Rose currently involved with the school, or one of our many alumni families telling the story of Glenaeon's origins, and the talks »» Year 10 performance were of such an excellent quality and value we and friends, we invite you to enjoy present them here complete and as delivered for 16 Glenaeon 2014 in the following pages the unique vision of a Glenaeon education. the archives. We are grateful to our presenters for »» Year 10 and 11 Whitsundays their contribution to Glenaeon's historical record. Sea-Kayaking Expedition »» Year 9 Wolgan Valley With warm greetings, »» The Musicians Club

Andrew Hill 22 GlenX Collegiate Chair »» GlenX: The Class of ‘93 »» From Glenaeon to Archbishop »» Brenna Hobson »» Glenaeon Foundation

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p10 Glenaeon Alumni and Friends is the new body bringing together Glenaeon School Ltd Sylvia Brose with her our diverse community of present and former students, parents ABN 94 000 385 768 first class (circa 1957) and friends of the school. We look forward to many events 5a Glenroy Avenue, Middle Cove including Linda St Clair celebrating the Glenaeon community and our 57 year history. NSW 2068, Australia front row on the far left. Phone: 9417 3193, Fax: 9417 5346 Zoe Green is our Alumni Coordinator and she welcomes www.glenaeon.nsw.edu.au enquiries about alumni activities and feedback about AEON. For all details of alumni events, contacts and general information, or to receive AEON electronically, you can contact Zoe on: [email protected] Design: Campbell Van Venrooy (cvvdesign.com.au)

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FOUNDERS DAY: Saturday 18 October 2014, 3pm

The Marion Mahony Griffin Memorial Lecture Marion Mahony Griffin Hall, Castlecrag

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entenary Day 2013 was a celebration of the Burley CGriffin’s heritage in Australia, and their connection with the founding of Glenaeon. The day was DAY so successful we will be instituting an annual event to tell the story and maintain our connection to the school’s heritage. Founders Day will bring together our community, past and present, and the local community, in celebrating the vision and values Lecture will be given by Hugh that guided the work of the Burley MacKay, well-known and respected Griffin’s, and the work of Sylvia social commentator and novelist, Brose and Eric Nicholls in the who also grew up in Castlecrag. founding of Glenaeon. There will Hugh has published 16 books of We are happy to announce that be local heritage walks, displays of which his most recent book is the inaugural MMG Memorial Lecture Burley Griffin memorabilia, school The Good Life, and he is about to will be given by Hugh MacKay. historical displays, and a sumptuous publish The Art of Belonging. Hugh’s afternoon tea. Centrepiece themes resonate closely with the of Founders Day will be the vision and values of Glenaeon, Marion Mahony Griffin Memorial and we are delighted that he has Lecture, given by a prominent accepted our invitation to deliver this commentator that links the Burley first Marion Mahony Griffin Lecture. Griffin and Glenaeon heritage with We invite all alumni and current contemporary issues. members of our community to join We are happy to announce us for the lecture, afternoon tea, that the inaugural MMG Memorial and community gathering. 

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his compelling story was told through the presentations of Tsome distinguished speakers, each bringing an aspect of this narrative to a large audience.

»»Professor James Weirick, Program Director, Urban Development and Centenary Design, UNSW, and President of the Society »»Alasdair McGregor, (author of “Grand Obsessions”, a biography of the Griffins): The Griffins and Day their Legacy The Marion Mahony Griffin Hall at Castlecrag »»Marie Nicholls, daughter of Griffin partner Eric Nicholls and co-founder was officially dedicated at our Centenary Day on of Glenaeon, on growing up in October 19th, 2013. The day celebrated the role of Castlecrag and the community the Burley Griffins, particularly Marion, in designing around the Griffins Canberra, establishing Castlecrag and inspiring »»Linda St Clair, niece of Glenaeon the founding of Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. co-founder Sylvia Brose and founding Glenaeon student, on Sylvia Brose and her Verse Drama Mirrabooka written for performance in The Haven Amphitheatre, Castlecrag »»Mark Baxter, from Baxter and Jacobson Architects who designed the Marion Mahony Griffin Hall »»Councillor Judith Rutherford, Willoughby City Council, who performed the official dedication.

The Glenaeon Alumni Choir, nine recent graduates of the school, interspersed the talks with beautiful singing that gave the afternoon a festive and very happy mood. The talks each present a particular aspect of the narrative that links Canberra, Castlecrag and Glenaeon, and we publish some of them here to celebrate this story so central to the history of Glenaeon.

»»Marion Mahony Griffin a world of possibility Alasdair McGregor (p8/9) »»Growing Up In a Griffin House: Memories of Castlecrag Marie Nicholls (p10/11) »»“Australia's Young Shelley” Remembering Sylvia Linda St Clair (p12/13)

Marion Mahony: Casurina (She Oak) & Ficus ca mid-1920s Source: Marion Mahony Griffin Drawing the Form of

PAGE 4 The Marion Mahony Griffin Hall Dedication

“Good Afternoon, I am very pleased to be here today representing Gladys Berkijilian, Member for Willoughby and Minister for Transport, who sends her apologies but the press of business precludes her attending. It is however a very sincere pleasure for me, in my capacity as a Willoughby City Councillor, to unveil and present to you these sandstone plaques which officially name this beautiful hall the Marion Mahony Griffin Hall. It is a particular pleasure as I have followed the progress and growth of Glenaeon over many years, and today is a special one for the school. We have heard this afternoon something of the rich and extensive story that is the Griffins in Australia, and how this remarkable couple helped to shape the identity of both our country, and also our local suburb here in Castlecrag. Today is dedicated to one half of this couple, Marion Mahony Griffin, and we are celebrating her unique artistic vision. Her broader vision for the human being, the community and the environment is embodied in so many of her drawings and her writings which we see around us here today. Her legacy though is also a community of people: from her inspiring work in Castlecrag, the seeds of Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School were laid. Her working relationship with Eric Nicholls as the successor of Walter’s architectural practice, and the inspiration she provided to the young Sylvia Brose, Glenaeon’s founding teacher, were the two key foundation stones in the establishment of the school. Today we acknowledge Marion’s contribution and how fitting it is there is now a building named after her in the Judith Rutherford AM, heart of the suburb she helped to found. This Hall was funded by the Commonwealth Government’s BER program in 2010 and opened in October of that year as part of the BER program. That year marked the 80th anniversary of Marion’s joining of the (in 1930), a decisive step in her growing involvement with Dr Steiner’s work. Through the 1930’s she cultivated study groups, artistic performances and festivals here in Castlecrag, all of which contributed to the unique quality of community for which the suburb is so renowned. She was also deeply interested in children and was involved in a Kindergarten in Sunnyside Avenue run by Mrs Trinick. How appropriate then that her name will now grace this hall which is used daily by the children of Glenaeon school. It gives me great pleasure to officially name this hall the Marion Mahony Griffin Hall, and to formally present to you the plaques bearing her name. They have been designed as simple adornments to the building, to blend with the local streetscape and to be as integrated as possible into the visual aesthetic of Edinburgh Road. They try to capture some small essence of Marion’s life and work, and while they stand at the doors of this building, as they will from next week, may they keep her memory alive. May they suggest to all who pass into this hall that the values for which she stood (beauty, design, Nature, community, the human ) are as pertinent now as they were to her, and embodied here in the vision of Glenaeon School, they will live on for future generations. Thank you”. 

Judith Rutherford AM, Councillor, Willoughby City Council:

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MARION MAHONY GRIFFIN A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School Griffin Centenary Day, Saturday 19 October 2013

Teacher, , thinker, artist, architect, a woman who delved deeply into the spiritual realm of existence, Marion Mahony Griffin lived a passionate life. It was a life brim full with possibility, soaring achievement and dashed hopes, a resilient, defiant, extraordinary life, lived to the full and then more. There is much to be learnt from the creative free spirit that was Marion Mahony Griffin. She was born in Chicago in 1871, the year of the Great Fire, and surely there is something symbolic in that? As a young woman, Marion Mahony became that rare commodity in late nineteenth-century American society: a woman functioning as an equal in a professional world dominated by men. She had been born to progressive parents – both were teachers – and grew up in a household and wider circle of strong and socially engaged women. Education was prized above all other attainments. It is not surprising then that Marion Lucy Mahony, as she was known then, became only the second woman to graduate from an American university with a full degree in , and was the first to be licensed to practise under any state regulatory system anywhere in the world.

Above. oday, I would like to dwell on developed a reputation among uncanny spatial – a Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Marion’s art as I think it provides her peers as a brilliant artist and powerful faculty for any architect. Burley Griffen, Tso much evidence of her creative draftsman. It was a reputation that His three-dimensional imaginings Sydney 1930. spirit, how she and how she would endure throughout her life. were as natural as a breath taken felt about life, the world, and our Most famously perhaps, it was her and a breath exhaled, yet as a Marion Mahony Griffin drawings place in the universe. dazzling draftsmanship that propelled draftsman he was no better than of Castlecrag and Prior to her 1911 marriage Walter’s design for Australia’s average. He could readily visualise Canberra. to Walter Burley Griffin, Marion national capital to the head of his bold architectural forms, but Mahony had worked intermittently, the pack in the 1912 international was frustrated at his limited ability along with Griffin, at the epicentre competition and sealed the fate of to illustrate them to others. In of an architectural revolution, the the Griffins, husband and wife. Marion, he had found the perfect unlikely venue of the suburban The Griffin marriage heralded a complement to his talents; in her Chicago studio of that mercurial remarkable and enduring partnership skills abounded the other half of and redoubtable genius, Frank in both work and in life, one that was the whole. Lloyd Wright. Marion worked on particularly unusual by the societal But Marion’s art is not just a and off for Wright for a total of 11 norms of the day. Most importantly, catalogue of beguiling impressions. years. It was in illustrating Wright’s in the all-consuming sphere of Her art is so much more; through revolutionary designs at the forefront their work, Walter and Marion her she teaches us much of the so-called Prairie School of were completely complimentary. about the world we inhabit while domestic architecture that she Walter was possessed of an almost also enticing us to enter another

PAGE 6 world of infinite possibility. In her And at the completion of Feeding Thinking of her forest portraits renderings, Marion’s pencil or ink the Herons, she gave a talk to the I know of none more perfect than lines were always weighted precisely children. Always the teacher, her the one she entitled Angophora to their specific descriptive tasks; didactic purpose is clear: lanceolata/Ravine dwelling. An she wove an illusion of space, light I explained to them that the unidentified Castlecrag house sits and air with a frugal but stylish kind of thinking that enabled on the edge of a sandstone bluff, at . Shading, shadows and them to see the fairies was first glance almost incidental to the coloured washes were kept to a the same kind of thinking that towering and twisted forms of the minimum, and flat surfaces – walls, made people able to function Crag’s signature tree, the angophora. roofs and hard landscaping – were as geniuses so, if they wanted But on closer examination the left plain or only sparingly hatched. to be among the geniuses in harmony of building, existing But in a wondrous counterpoint of their work, they must be ready for rather than against nature continuous line-work, an exuberance to develop that kind of thinking is powerfully evident. Marion’s of trees, flowers and sometimes which someday would enable angophora guards and protects, a even birds, framed and grounded them to see fairies. portal to a magical world beyond. the illustrated building, creating The dwelling is fused to the rock the impression that the structure In Marion’s Forest Portraits, a from whence its constituent was indivisible from its landscape lithe and confident line predominates. materials were had; rearranged surrounds. species and At their most successful, they atoms in Marion and Walter’s cosmic plant forms were clearly delineated evoke the paradox of the Australian realm. Remove the building and the and readily identifiable. Marion’s environment – delicate but robust; composition is very much the poorer use of vegetation was not some triumphant over drought, flood for it. Untrammelled nature is the gratuitous enhancement, or idealised and fire; impoverished of , yet poorer without it. softening and masking of the impact extravagant in diversity. There is both of a building, but a reinforcement strength and fragility, simplicity and …through her creativity she teaches us much of that particular building’s complexity in the distillation of her about the world we inhabit while also enticing us organic credentials. subjects. And all this from a woman to enter another world of infinite possibility. not of antipodean birth, someone who instinctively understood this Marion was a woman of forthright o me, Marion’s art is both landscape from first sight, or even opinions and deep convictions. beautiful and didactic. Whether before, when one considers the Throughout her long career, she Tit is her architectural renderings perceptive clarity of her Canberra never sought fame or glory for showing the affinity of sensitive drawings. herself or even for her beloved architecture as part of nature; or the With their delicate tracery and husband. mural she executed in 1931 for the pattern, sinuously tapering limbs, Rather, what she longed for George B. Armstrong Elementary economical perspective and sparse was a and understanding School in Chicago where her sister use of transparent colour, Marion’s among all who would listen that taught; or her ravishing Australian Forest Portraits stand apart from, there was always a better way than ‘Forest Portraits’, there is always though are comparable to, the the expedient, short-sighted or a message in Marion’s art. ‘Look work of contemporaries with an second rate that infected so much closely and you will learn’ is what affinity to the Australian flora, such of 20th century western society. she is saying persistently and as Hans Heysen, Ellis Rowan, or Through her eventful life with Walter, coaxingly but never harshly. Her Margaret Preston. Though her absorbing the wonder and magic message is sung but never shouted. delicate forms are hardly analogous of the three continents on which Take for instance the Chicago with Heysen’s heroic oil , they dwelt – teaching, bewitching, school mural entitled Fairies Feeding both sing with a certain sad beauty. badgering and cajoling all those with the Herons. Marion of course Heysen’s paintings eulogised the whom they mixed – Marion never maintained that a depicting forest giants around Hahndorf in his resiled from a belief that there is fairies was no fantasy at all, but a beloved Adelaide Hills, trees often a better way for the individual, for window to an infinite and numinous within earshot of the farmer’s axe. communities, for humankind and . In her magnum opus, Magic Similarly, the denizens of Marion’s for our . To me, that is what is of America, she wrote: forests cry for . As with inspirational and creatively relevant Again we must convince the all of Marion’s art there is a lesson about Marion today. The values minds of the children, warped to be had – look, appreciate and she espoused through her art and by the superficialities of our treasure, or to quote Joni Mitchell, her life are as fresh now as they present day thinking, that they another great American activist of were a century ago when she first are surrounded not only by a a later generation, ‘you don’t know came to this country. And she still world that they can see and hear what you’ve got til it’s gone’. has much to teach us. Her spirit and touch with their physical ‘The sad part is that white man lives on in the educational aims of … but that they are also so rarely does his part’, Marion schools such as this, where Marion, surrounded by another world, lamented: I believe, is still that bewitching, the world of causes just as [He] has so lost his touch with cajoling force encouraging all those diverse, just as rich, just as full the spiritual, that he is not even with an open mind to look beyond of adventure, which they can conscious of his obligation to the physical to a world of infinite learn to perceive and in piercing add beauty, destroying none, as spiritual possibility.  to enter, and in entering to his contribution to creation but become a creator in this realm of everywhere what he does these Alasdair McGregor alasdairmcgregor.com creation, the realm of life. days is hideous.

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GROWING UP IN A GRIFFIN HOUSE: Memories of Castlecrag Marie Nicholls

Interior view of The House

Well here I am, Marie Nicholls a child of the area. My first 22 years, I lived just the corner at what was then 12 The Parapet, now known by the Griffin Society as 'The Moon House', after the original owner. This house is also where Edith Williams lived in the early twenties. I will speak more of her later. Then after my mother's , my brother and I sold the house to John and Adrienne Kabos who later founded the Walter Burley Griffin Society. Marion never got a mention some 25 years ago. I do not remember Marion or Walter as I was born in Melbourne, 2 weeks after Walter died and my parents brought me back to Castlecrag in May 1937, just before Marion returned from . Marion went back to Chicago when I was in my second year, and never returned to Sydney.

he Griffin's Castlecrag had been fortune to meet up recently with the first communists in Australia, and laid out, and many years of some of those playmates and all mother, an outstanding playwright. Teffort and community building agreed when they left Castlecrag Then again Karen, Paul and Margo work had been devoted to this that special community was like Deans were more playmates, wonderful area. So I had the great no other. whose father Edgar was the GSDA enjoyment and pleasure of growing I vividly remember the freedom secretary, a pillar of the community, up in a marvellous natural setting to wander in the native bush that and Mayor of Willoughby with a so thoughtfully planned, created so abounded then, playing in the strong affiliation to the Church of and kept in the best possible way, moss surrounded pools where the England So, I have just mentioned by those fascinating people who fairies lived, picking the delicate tiny a few to show the extremes of the inhabited the Crag in my early days. purple, and rarer white orchards. I views, capabilities and interests that Off I would wander as a toddler, used to sit at our pond and feed the encompassed my world. During the there being no fences, and once lizards when the frill necks weren’t war years, life was Castlecrag as we I was found half way down the standing in the middle of the path had no car, there was little public hill following my father to 'the scaring me. Trees to climb, and transport, and no money. job' in actuality 'Camelot', a house houses too, due to the lovely forms However I had the love of my designed by my father for Betty and stonework of our house. The parents and the best play area Roland and Guido Barrachii. It must geometry of the forms and shapes in nature. have been a nightmare for my imbibed unconsciously in childhood, Some people living at Castlecrag mother keeping track of me. would certainly have enhanced my when Marion was there, included When Marion left her house in love of geometry. Now a little of the Louise Lightfoot, the first woman the Rampart in 1938, the Strattons people I remember. The Heslings to receive her Architectural degree moved in and Greta Stratton were a charming couple, who had from Melbourne University. organised a playgroup for the pre a great joy of life so delightfully Cappy, secretary invited from the preschoolers, 5 of us who met once expressed by Bernard in his artistic Griffin's Melbourne office and later a fortnight at each parents home. enamel work, and humorous married Edgar Deans. Ida Leeson I have fond memories of finger cartoon Christmas cards of the local and her partner Florence Birch painting, cubby houses and many residents. I was friends with Gilda lived at Castlecrag in the 1930's creative activities. I had the great Barrachii, whose father was one of before Ida, so masculine, became

PAGE 8 1. Eric Nicholls with young Castlecrag resident

2. Exterior view of The Moon House (from collection of Eric Milton Nicholls, National Library of Australia vn3914891)

3. The Grant House, Castlecrag Designed by Walter Burley Griffin, completed in 1922, (National Library of Australia 1 3 vn3466314)

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the Mitchell Librarian in 1932 and became the centre for a large more of the plays soon. As Sylvia were staunch friends of Marions, range of plays to be performed as Brose told me...... 'Marie it was like as was Packie McDougal, famous part of the four Anthroposophical a university in the open air, for a for 'Packies', a club for writers, Festivals held for a number of years young woman like me and inspired artists and actors. It was here that after 1934 at Castlecrag. What a me for life.' This great well of Bim Hilder, sculptor and Castlecrag gift those early years were in a spiritual activity was to produce the resident met the Griffin's when community that sprang from the dedicated people who would found the Griffin's and their whole staff special who lived here. Glenaeon on such a strong financial turned up as Aztec , shown in This lively friendly community grew and educational footing in 1957. that famous photo. No time today from the twenties into the thirties, My father was one of those to mention the many, many more. and the war years followed, when dedicated people, chosen by Lute Of course now thanks to James due to wartime restrictions the Drummond in 1948 to carry on as and Alasdair, you know much about wonderful plays in the amphitheatre Leader of the Society in Sydney. the Griffins, but I actually lived stopped. These years were very and experienced life from inside a dire, little to no work, little to no …heartfelt dreams of bringing Steiner’s Griffin designed home, with those money, however the ideals, and a new form of education into reality… big thickstone walls, that kept the and hopes of the Griffins were not house so cool in summer, and the stunted, always looking to a more In this capacity and following many wonderful experiences of an open positive and enlightened future. As unexpected twists and turns he fire in winter, watching the flames far as the Griffins were concerned proposed to the members that and sparks shoot forth, and making Castlecrag must have been a fresh money from bequests to the Society toast in the old metal toaster. The start after the disillusionment of the be used to buy a property to start original copper sink in the kitchen Canberra years. It is fascinating that a school. This was accepted, and and seeing in amazement the dark this destiny move brought them into so Glenaeon began at a little brown disappear when a cut lemon contact with Mrs Edith Williams, a kindergarten Dalcross, in Pymble. was left to clean the sink to a shiny leading Anthroposophist, who, as My father was a major force and gleam again. Growing up, I was I mentioned earlier, lived close by determined to support the school surrounded by uniquely designed the Griffins in the early twenties. in every way he could. As an Griffin furniture, and beautiful Although the Griffins had quitean architect and town planner he laid artefacts chosen by the Griffins that involved contact with out the original plans at Middle came to my family after Marion left. and did work for Theosophists, Cove and was a major personal Bedtime to my mother's lullabys became their benefactor, as well as funnelling and reading nursery rhymes or chosen . Marion, it Society funds to the purchase of fantastically illustrated stories from seems, became deeply involved in land which the Society later donated books Marion had given to her niece reading, and translation of Steiner's to Glenaeon. Here was a free gift to and then brought for Glynn and I to German lectures, held study groups, the community for the possibility of share. A special memory was sitting and became a member of the a new form of education. There are on my father's lap as a small child Anthroposophical Society in 1930. many here today who have benefited in ’the big chair‘ one the Griffin's That year, she also left for Chicago as Glenaeon students, including had brought to Australia, but not for 2 years, leaving Walter ‘a free three of my four sons. designed, with Marion's stunning man’ as she said in her memoirs Marion is here with us today. study of Eucalyptus Uningera alightly ‘Magic of America’. ‘ Free’ Walter Her heartfelt dreams of bringing washed silk lithograph in a beautiful was, but after two years, Marion Steiner’s philosophies and a new timber frame on the wall behind, returned to live with him and he also form of education into reality were remains a profound influence. joined the Anthroposophical Society, so inspiring and vital at that time Of course all these memories in 1931. When Marion returned, of her life, and to those around came because my father, Eric she devoted her considerable her, that others and particularly my Milton Nicholls was strongly energies into Anthroposophical father and Sylvia worked on for many influenced by those outstanding Festivals which, as Director, Miss years, each with the aim to bring a individuals Marion and Walter Burley Lute Drummond, as The General school into reality. As Sylvia used Griffin. They prepared the ground Secretary, or Leader organised at to say, you have to work every step at Castlecrag, for my father’s life Castlecrag. There were many plays of the way. And so the dream was and future direction, although that and lectures for Easter, St John’s, brought to reality and is carried on was not their intent. First in the and Christmas for by many equally dedicated people, environmentally sound planning and the Anthroposophical Society. The and Glenaeon is filled with young buildings, secondly in attracting lectures were held in various houses people who will become citizens a wide range of people to come and would continue over a weekend of the future. To them I wish every and live here, and thirdly in helping or two, sometimes depending on success and simply say, never forget establish an open air theatre that the weather. Linda will be speaking to dream. 

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AUSTRALIA''’S "YOUNG SHELLEY" Remembering Sylvia Linda St Clair

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Imagine… arriving from New Zealand and coming to Castlecrag, whether by tram to Willoughby, or over the Northbridge bridge. Imagine passing the cottages and market gardens to reach the spine of the rocky promontory and wending your way down the dirt tracks until you come to a vale in the bush. Imagine this haven with its streamlet and view of the bay. Imagine the angophoras with uplifted branches, the willy wagtails, the wallabies and the waratahs, and just the bush all around. How magical! Imagine… being drawn into the Anthroposophical Society, becoming a member and meeting Marion Mahony Griffin and becoming a part of her study and artistic circle. How thrilling! Especially when you are just 20 years old.

Sylvia Brose OAM y aunt, Sylvia Brose, founder Snake and the Beautiful Lily. The “And there was the Australian 1. With Year 8 of Glenaeon, was so final festival under the inspiration of Aboriginal’ mythology, their students in 2001, Mfortunate. In 1935 she came Marion Mahony Griffin and direction Mirrabooka – The Southern 2. Class 8 students to Sydney after a year of studying of Lute Drummond in the autumn Cross – set to poetry by in 1968, medicine in Wellington – which of 1938, was Mirrabooka written by Australia’s young Shelley, 3. circa 1957, and she topped, but did not like. She Sylvia Brose and Bette Ainsworth. Sylvia Brose – one of our 4. in 1998 with took a position with York Motors in My mother, who was 12 at the actresses, herself a perfect 2nd generation students. William Street and decided to study time was a Waratah and sang in Dante Gabriel Rossetti. German. Her German teacher, Lute the chorus. Audiences numbered Sylvia and Bette, under the Drummond, introduced her to the about 150 people. inspiration of our work and our Anthroposophical Society in Sydney. These festivals and plays that study and our encouragement Her knowledge of Rudolf Steiner Sylvia was involved with as an had taken upon themselves preceded this as her mother was actress served as her classical a nine months’ painstaking reading his works in the late 1920s. education and also her spiritual study of the native lore So this wonderful experience of teaching. A ‘university in the of Australia which is truly studying and acting in the dramas bush’ is how she described it. very beautiful and which, performed at the Haven in Castlecrag But Mirrabooka, her own work, illuminated by the knowledge was under the mentorship, inspiration written at the age of 22, was which Anthroposophy gives, and encouragement of Marion extraordinary. She wrote it in the reveals itself as being full of Mahony Griffin and Lute Drummond. form of a Greek tragedy, with a deep significance…” From 1935, Sylvia participated in the Prologue, Chorus and, of course, four Christian Festivals – Michaelmas, tragedy. However, it is uniquely Easter, Whitsun and Christmas, in Australian. The characters were the performances of eleven great drawn from Aboriginal mythology Classical, significant and esoteric – Yaraan, Gum Tree and Tongue texts beginning with The Mystery of of the Gods, Willy Wagtail, Eleusis by Edouard Schure, including Messenger of the Gods, the Bat works by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and others. Marion Mahony Griffin Euripides and Goethe’s The Green in her Magic of America wrote,

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Listen to an excerpt from the Prologue, O’er that far time – the childhood of man’s age – A veil of years is drawn, hard to pierce, Yet in this land beneath the Southern Cross Where gum-trees raise their arms in tortured shapes As tho’ they bore an ancient agony Not to be stilled, and all things seem to wait 4 Release from brooding on dark mysteries, There is an echo of creation’s dawn: For here a people dwell whose minds are full 3 Of the of a time When huge and shadowy beings filled the earth, The spirit ancestors of living forms.

ithin these stories from the This cultural deed centred in School. The Anthroposophical Dreamtime, ‘a veil of years’, Castlecrag was life sustaining but Society paid for her passage home Wshe recognised the story of Sylvia knew she had to engage in (6 months on a ship) three and a half the Human Being, Creation, Paradise, a practical deed for her life’s path. years later. the temptation by the evil snake This was her task – to found and I never understood why the land Goonear, the Fall of Adam, his develop a Rudolf Steiner school, at Middle Cove was purchased for wandering in the wilderness, the within the vision engendered by a school with its very narrow and Christ event and the Resurrection. Marion Mahony Griffin, Castlecrag, limited access. But I do now. It is This is Mirrabooka. In the drama it is and the magical experiences there. It a replica on a larger scale of the through a vision that the Christ event was a vision of a school in the bush, Haven at Castlecrag. Both were and the Resurrection transform for boys and girls, in the Classical valleys with a creek flowing to our Southern Land in the Southern tradition. She was given the help of the bay, so immersed in the bush Hemisphere, from ‘an ancient agony’ the Anthroposophical Society and civilisation retreated. Also, both were portrayed by the cross of death to such committed, good men as Eric approached by a dirt track and both the cross of hope. Nicholls, Chairman of the first school were a paradise, a ‘place of flowers’, Council and my father, Ron Laycock, Ghiraween. It was here, the school “…The children of the sun its Treasurer. It was a very humble in the bush for boys and girls in the United are in an eternal brotherhood. beginning, with 3 students, of which Classical tradition, was realised. The portals of the shrine shall open wide I was one. It is Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. And the world have vision of a land afire Sylvia had spent the years from So, how appropriate to be in this That makes of worthless aims a holocaust – the end of the festivals to the lovely hall, here in Castlecrag, a Afire with purpose never lost, but overcast opening of the school training to be a part of Glenaeon, commemorating In long years of denser life.” Kindergarten teacher, working in an and honouring this history in the inner city Kindergarten and then at name and personage of Marion Frensham in the Southern Highlands. Mahony Griffin.  Winifred West, another education pioneer and mentor, paid for her trip Linda St Clair Former pupil, teacher, parent, to Edinburgh where she studied and College and Council Member taught at the Edinburgh Waldorf October 19, 2013

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WINTER

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.” Yoko Ono

never thought I’d be quoting Yoko friends forever. The extra effort active. In summer we can relax and Ono, but her pithy summary of builds strength, and extra effort with “float” in the outer warmth: the air Ithe seasons really has something. others builds bonds that endure. itself keeps us warm. Winter seems to be here at last There is an old poetic device In winter our inner warmth of after an extended warm autumn that winter is a time when the earth comes to the fore, and there of balmy days and pleasant golden sleeps. Many animals hibernate are all those traditional images of twilights. The bite of the cold and during the winter and yes it seems people gathering joyfully around the shortness of light brings on like a sleep when the earth is cold the hearth with mugs of soup and/ those deeper reflections that always and frost covered. “I wonder if the or ale, laughing and sharing the joy accompany the chill of a darkening snow loves the trees and fields, that of community. This inward soul landscape. Winter is harder to get it kisses them so gently? And then warmth is what gets us through through than summer, and as Yoko it covers them up snug, you know, winter, an inner warmth that we “One kind word can warm with a white quilt; and perhaps it need to foster ourselves, and says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the to share with others. There is a three winter months.” summer comes again.”, as Lewis Japanese proverb that puts this puts it, our perseverance is what Carroll puts it in Alice’s Adventures thought so nicely: One kind word gets us through, and we remember in Wonderland and Through the can warm three winter months. it. Even here in temperate Sydney, Looking Glass. Glenaeons’ MidWinter festivals the winter months have a particular Dr Rudolf Steiner suggested a are a moment to ponder these quality: they can be hard and view of winter that at first seems deeper considerations of the demanding, asking of us an extra counter-intuitive to this . He seasons. As we walk the spiral and effort in simple things like getting suggested that in winter the earth each light our individual candle, children warm and snug before actually “wakes up”, while in we are celebrating the inner light, going outside, even keeping the summer it goes to sleep. For us the inner warmth. Our human soul house warm at night. For the human beings, that thought certainly life can triumph over the outer homeless on Sydney’s streets, can describe our experience, and darkness and the outer cold. As every winter night is a challenge there is a kind of reversal of where the French existentialist writer to survive. we physically feel the warmth. Albert Camus put it: In the depth There is a saying: summer When the outer cold is strongest of winter, I finally learned that friends will melt away like summer we need to be more inwardly within me there lay an invincible snows, but winter friends are conscious, more aware and more summer. 

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“Uh oh, this is a dark place!”

“Lucky we’ve got a lantern.“

Heard from the mouths of babes at the unique and beautiful event that is the Kindergarten MidWinter festival…

his was some of the overheard of childhood as being just “child’s and innocent dialogue among play”, a somewhat empty rehearsal Tthe children as we threaded on small scale for the big things our way in a long weaving line of to come. Kindergarten children and parents But through the imagination, around the streets surrounding the through metaphor and we can campus at Castlecrag. Down from speak directly to the child about the street and car lights of Edinburgh some of life’s big issues. Carrying Road it did get dark, and hence the a candle through the darkness dialogue above. The waxed paper is a powerful image of our life lanterns, carrying candles that journey, as each of us strives to glowed with a subdued but radiant make meaning and purpose out of brightness through the orange and the often chaotic and seemingly golden lantern covers, were the high meaningless challenges that life points of light in the long dark line throws at us. of parents and children that shuffled If we can build a of a along the footpaths, finally returning deeper inner direction, we can be to the playground and gathering guided through the challenges of around the leaping flames of a existence by something like a light, bonfire for songs and soup. a of being guided The magical quality of this by something higher than our own gathering began with the singing personal ego. in the Hall and the fairy tale told Our MidWinter festival holds a through marionettes by teachers beautiful place in the year for us all, Catherine, Kristy and Sarah. child and parent, and thank you to It lingered through the lantern walk, Catherine, Kristy and Sarah for the the singing, the shared meal of care and dedication that underlay soup and bread, and wrapped up in the whole evening. Special thanks a final song before everyone was to class parents for their meticulous farewelled for the evening. preparation, and to all the parents Here was another enchanted who contributed so much to making moment in the Kindergarten year, this festival the special event that it laying a foundation of reverence and is. Who knows how it will return as a joyful sharing that will last for each special moment and memory in each child’s life journey. child’s life, sometime in the years It has always impressed me ahead? Then it might sound more that Steiner education deals with like… the big issues at every stage of the “Uh oh, I’m in a dark place! journey. We can sometimes think Lucky I’ve got the Light.” 

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Bravo Year 10!

he standing ovation from a leave school. The White Rose will The story is one that deserves packed house at the final be no exception. to be told, and retold, a tale of Tperformance of Year 10’s musical Such productions represent a heroism for our age and the century The White Rose was a fitting tribute huge collaborative effort from the to come. One of the characters in to the cast and crew for the way whole school community. Sincere the story may even still be alive: they brought the powerful story thanks are due to the parents Traute Lafrenz was imprisoned for of Sophie Scholl and her fellow who supported the production in over a year but three days before resistance fighters to life. This many ways: sewing costumes, set her final trial was due to take place, little known musical turned out to building, front of house, parking, a trial which would have almost be a particularly powerful vehicle finding props, make-up and certainly resulted in her execution, for Year 10: the story of university keeping the cast fed and watered the American army liberated students who resisted the Nazi state during the last days of rehearsal. the prison. She went to the US, in Munich in 1942, and who paid Congratulations to our completed her medical studies, and the ultimate price. remarkable directorial team of worked as a physician and director of The Year 10 musical is now Prasad (Musical Director), Scott a school for developmentally delayed an established part of the school Henderson and Liz Chan (Directors) children. She was also a student of program and this class again showed and Liza Lillicrap (Guardian and Dr Rudolf Steiner and was involved that it is possible for a single year inspiring “angel”) who have worked in the anthroposophical movement group to meet the many challenges wonders in lifting the class up to in the US for half a century. She in staging a full length production to such heights. With a very smart may still be alive, as the most recent a very high standard. It has become set by Sarah Sandberg, who also records indicate she is living in a kind of ‘rite of passage’ into the made the impressive poster, and South Carolina. Senior College and is a statement Jacqueline Rees and parents that a class has made its mark; that coordinated by Kris Lojek doing ongratulations to one and all it has been able to work together costumes, the students, teachers for this wonderful achievement with a new sense of responsibility to and parents produced an evening Cin honouring the memory of create something significant. These of marvellous theatre that was truly Sophie Scholl and the members events are often transformative and uplifting as a narrative, and a real of The White Rose. ‘There is remain with students long after they life one at that. no need to journey on alone’.

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GLENAEON 2014

OUTDOOR Leaving Hook Island EDUCATION was" challenging as it required paddling directly into the trade wind for 18km. Years 10&11 2014 Whitsundays " Sea-Kayaking Expedition

ith the trusted trade-winds sped across the channel, reaching Leaving Hook Island was and incredible scenery, the other side early before stopping challenging as it required paddling Wit’s easy to see why the for a long lunch. Once the tide directly into the trade wind for Whitsundays are one of the world’s was on the turn, we floated to our 18km. Luckily the students had most favoured sailing destinations. campsite with the tide running out. chosen the perfect tide time and As the wind dropped to 10-15 knots The next 5 days featured we reached our campsite on and with near-perfect sea-kayaking snorkelling with turtles, battling with Whitsunday Island at high tide. On conditions, our trip to the first tides and plenty of eating as we the last afternoon we walked up campsite on South Molle Island made our way around Hook Island. Mt Jeffrey to enjoy some stunning began from Shute Harbour. Laden Students were split into groups views of the Whitsunday Group. down with all food, water and with each group responsible for the The Whitsundays trip was a true snorkelling gear for the next 10 days, catering for 3 days – a birthday cake achievement for the students, and we set off. was even cooked up one day! Those we look forward to taking the next Our first crossing of the groups who were not on catering group in 2016.  Whitsunday Passage as we headed duty used the time off to explore for Whitsunday Island was complete mangroves, go snorkelling, play and with great weather, whale beach volleyball and wander along Scottie Williams sightings and eager paddling we butterfly-filled creeks. Outdoor Education Program

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GLENAEON 2014

YEAR 9

With a fierce bang and a crack of thunder, the 2014 Year 9 Wolgan Valley Program began. The class was split into four groups, and as each group participated in their respective activities, the pressure was on to ensure that the 'tarpology' would provide sufficient protection from the elements (the shelter of the cave was highly sought after). The students thoroughly enjoyed the simple daily routine of eating, adventuring, and sleeping under the stars. They spent two days on each activity, consisting of climbing, canyoning, walking and traversing the region. The walk through the Wolgan Valley was particularly spectacular, offering impressive views of Australia's largest unbroken cliff line, sightings of the rare Glossy Black Cockatoo, and the clatter of the Wonga Pigeons wings. All groups were inspired by their group leaders to take on more and more responsibility each day, and achieve various goals. The size of each group made for a harmonious environment, old friendships were strengthened and new friendships developed. Overall, it was agreed that the camp had been a thoroughly enjoyable experience. 

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GLENAEON 2014 Chill out this Winter at sydney’s Coolest neW night spot MUSICIAN S HE ' CLU T SATurDAY 14TH JuNE B 6.00-10.30PM

Pay tribute to all your Musical Heroes Past & Present, Alive or Dead. MidWinter Beethoven to Daft Punk - Adam Ant to Abba. Show us your Musical Alter Ego Ball or be Your Own Star Dress up encouraged & VIP Plain clothed Fans also admitted.

77777 $50/head

(includes food & The Night will include a entertainment) Drinks for sale at the Bar. Musical Trivia Competition,

Tickets available at Live Music & Dancing. www.trybooking.com/86052 And a Silent Auction.

This is a School Fund Raiser Hosted by Year 7 Parents with a Silent Auction Goodies Table on offer during the night so you can splash around some philanthropic cash.

Saturday June 14th our Abba (all four!), Stevie Nicks, …the Slient Auction alone Year 7 parents hosted Lady Gaga, Janis Joplin, and on raised over $10,000. ON our annual MidWinter it went with Mary Heard taking Ball, this time with the theme of up the big one and coming as a The Dave Clark Five really only the Musician’s Club. The “Ball” (for very credible Elvis. A longer time have four members?). The want of a more accurate title), is frame was provided by some very floor then got a great workout to our annual dress up night, when romantically-garbed classicals also conclude a great evening. the Sylvia Brose Hall is transformed in the party. Our thanks to Year 7 parents into a themed micro-world, and we Entry was of course via a roped for all the months of work that all (or most of us) dress up as the off red carpet with some Year 7 goes into such an event: they avatars that inhabit it. dads being serious looking bouncers gave the whole community a very and others as paparazzi snapping happily received gift. Year 9 parents …the theme was simply all the celebrities as they arrived. we thank you for the extremely “Be your favourite musician!” Inside, the Hall has its annual generous donations to the Silent night club style makeover plus Auction and to Kerryn Agnew for band, with a very extensive Silent putting it all together: the auction Over the past few years we Auction provided by Year 9 parents. alone raised over $10,000. Special have had various themes of Highlight of the evening was the mention has to go to Year 7 parent medieval, Arabian, Circus, Shanghai very knowledgeable “Dr” Tim and GPA Chair Deanne Hardwick night club, even 70’s Disco, but this Arrowsmith’s musical Trivia contest whose experienced and very adroit one was a more generic muso’s with hopeful contestants on stage hand was evident in guiding the night when the theme was simply struggling with questions that event to its very happy realisation. “Be your favourite musician!”. ranged from the musically erudite to A wonderful and memorable night, And what a range we had, from the obscure (eg Did the 60’s group thank you to all! 

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

GlenX: The Class of ’93 he Class of ‘93 held their 20 year reunion in the Sylvia Brose Hall Tlate last year. They wanted to see the Middle Cove campus, so we did a tour, as that campus is all they remember of Glenaeon (we acquired our Castlecrag campus in 1994, and the Preschool in 2006). The reworked Lute Drummond Building (High School), the new Arts/ block were both new, and the Round Oval replaced the famous Bamboo patch, so long a feature of student memory. We had to prepare them for the loss of such a central Glenaeon icon of yesteryear, but they were highly impressed by oval that now fills the space, such a jewel in the crown of the school. The sharing of professional paths since leaving school was also interesting, including two pilots, a Treasury economist, a landscape architect, a marine biologist, a Fairfax journalist plus a range of other interesting life stories including that of Brenna Hobson, well known now minister to conduct her funeral in Sydney theatre circles. From Glenaeon to service. When the time came There were others there who left Archbishop in September 2001, the then in Class 4, yet all still remembered ou will have heard of the Rev Davies conducted a beautiful this class’s long surviving contribution election of a new Anglican service for Sylvia with great dignity to the school in the form of the Archbishop for Sydney, and Y and poise in St John’s, Gordon. “Wendy House”, now resited outside that the Rev Glenn Davies is Of contemporary Glenaeon Class 6 and adjacent to the walkway. a former Maths teacher. What people, teacher Mr Green Beginning life as their Class 3 building you may not have heard is that remembers being taught Maths by project in 1984, the house (which has Glenn Davies began his career at Archbishop Davies when he was had a few other names from time to Glenaeon. His first professional a student here, but is the first to time) is now enjoyed by Class 6 as position was teaching Maths and concede that he doesn’t hold his their own shelter in the playground: French at Glenaeon in the 1970’s. former Maths teacher responsible the Class of 93 were delighted to find He had two stints at the school, for his current mathematical ability. their construction is still being used one for a few years before heading We wish our former Maths and and enjoyed by our students. They to the US for theological study, French teacher all success in his recalled that John Simpson, one of the then another short time on his new role.  parents and a builder, had hand cut return before entering the ministry. each piece of timber to size so that the He retains a long held affection children could hammer and screw all for the school and his colleagues the planks together. We agreed their of the time. So much so that contribution needed recognising in the our school’s pioneering founder form of a small but official plaque.  Sylvia Brose asked him to be the

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Brenna Hobson Glen X News to launch in 2016. A Glenaeon (GlenX: ’93) »»The Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School Scholarship will enable a student to enjoy the benefits of a renna was appointed General Alumni Facebook page is now live. Glenaeon education who would Manager of Belvoir Street We will keep you upto date with otherwise not be able to do so Theatre Company in 2008 events, reunions and the latest B for financial reasons.  with her title changing to Executive news from fellow Alumni. Please like us at https://www.facebook. Director in 2013. During Brenna’s Some dates for the diary tenure Belvoir has committed to com/glenaeonalumni international touring with productions »»The Alumni Community site »»August 15 – Glenaeon School in New York, London, Seoul, Oslo, launched in 2013 and is a Concert, The Concourse, and with more great place to stay connected Chatswood from 7pm. The planned for 2014. Prior to this her with your Glenaeon friends. inaugural concert in 2013 was a work at Belvoir she was the General Please register your details at wonderful event with exceptional Manager of Jigsaw Theatre in www.glenaeoncommunity.com.au. performances from students Canberra and Production Manager The site has a business directory in Year 4-12. This year’s event for Bangarra Dance Theatre. ad provides a great opportunity for promises to be an equally After leaving Glenaeon in 1993, networking as well as all the latest memorable one. Open to all. Brenna’s career began at Belvoir Glenaeon news.  Tickets available through in 1994 when she started out as trybooking from August 1. »»September 13 – Class of 2004 an Assistant Stage Manager. The 2014 Annual Giving Appeal following year she was appointed 10 Year Reunion. Please join us at hank you to those in the Production Coordinator and was Glenaeon Middle Cove campus for Glenaeon community who promoted to Production Manager a tour and drinks at 5pm. We will donated so generously to our in 1999. Brenna is the secretary T then move onto The Willoughby Annual Giving Appeal 2014. of the Belvoir St Theatre Limited Hotel from 7pm. For more details Annual Giving provides much Board, a member of the Company please contact Seaton Kay-Smith at needed funds that are unable to B Ltd Board and a board member [email protected] be met by tuition fee income and of Arts on Tour as well as a member »»October 18 – Founders Day supports the longer term needs of the Seymour Centre’s Artistic 3pm-5pm at the Castlecrag of the school. Advisory Panel. Campus. Please join us and hear In 2014 over $35,000 was As an independent producer Hugh MacKay present the inaugural donated through our community Brenna has produced Vital Organs Marion Mahony Griffin Memorial of parents, alumni, teachers and (B Sharp), Now that Communism Lecture followed by afternoon tea friends. Annual Giving contributed is Dead My Life Feels Empty and a special performance by the to the following projects: (B Sharp, Seymour Centre, and Glenaeon Alumni Choir. »»Providing seating for the High Malthouse Theatre / Melbourne »»November 13 – Glenaeon School students to gather and International Arts Festival), The Foundation End of Year Cocktail enjoy their recreational time. Suitors (Old Fitzroy Theatre) and Party from 6.30pm at the Middle We commenced the construction the documentary With Hearts Cove Campus. For further details on the Terracing over the June/July and Hands. please contact Nicole Crabb on holidays. Brenna holds a Masters of Arts [email protected] »»Purchasing equipment for the Management from the University »»December 1 – Glenaeon Carol Primary School Playground. In of , Sydney. She was Service. Please join us for our the second half of 2014 we will appointed to the Sydney Opera Carol Service at the Uniting Church, purchase a timber climbing wall, House Trust in January 2014 Pitt Street in the city for our log stumping, a tunnel slide and where she sits on the Audit and celebration of a non-denominational a sand pulley system as well as Risk Committee.  Christmas festival with an evening landscaping the entire area. of reflective music.  »»Supporting our new Scholarship program which we are hoping

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COMIN G EVENTS

We welcome all former students, parents and friends to join us for these key events in the upcoming year.

 School Concert Years 5-12 15 August  Year 12 HSC showcase 19 August  Spring Festival 19 September  Founders Day 18 October  Glenaeon Art Show and Family Fair 8 November  Glenaeon Carol Service 1 December

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