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Volume 26 No.1 April 2016 TOOWOOMBA GRAMMAR SCHOOL Welcome Concert Showcasing the amazing depth of musical talent to be found among our Senior School Flying at 15 years old One of youngest solo pilots of the CT/4E aircraft ever in Australia Australasian Champions Under 16 team win the Australasian Futsal Championships From the Headmaster ...................................................................................2 From the President ......................................................................................19 Year 12 Results....................................................................................................3 OBA Generations Gathering .................................................................21 National Youth Science Forum ..............................................................4 Old Boy News ...................................................................................................23 QCE Achievement Award ...........................................................................5 Obituaries ............................................................................................................27 Three Cricket Captains in the one family ......................................6 Old Boys' Reunion Weekend ................................................................28 Summer Holiday Mathematics Camp ..............................................6 Donations to Africa .........................................................................................7 Editor: Toowoomba Grammar School Publications Department Charity Closer to Home ...............................................................................7 Design: Jason Seiler, Publications Arts Leaders ..........................................................................................................8 and Digital Media Officer Photography: TGS Publications TGS Passion ...........................................................................................................8 Department and various students and staff members Australasian Champions.............................................................................9 Front Cover: A collage of images from this year's Welcome Concert National Finalist in CPA Business Plan .............................................9 Photos: Hunter McDouall (Year 11) Flying at 15 Years of Age..........................................................................10 A publication of Toowoomba Grammar School Three Overseas Student Exchanges ...............................................11 PO Box 2900, Toowoomba Qld 4350 24 Margaret Street, Toowoomba Qld 4350 Education Charter .........................................................................................13 Tel: 07 4687 2500 Fax: 07 4687 2582 Email: [email protected] Web: www.twgs.qld.edu.au Junior Sports Star of the Year ..............................................................14 Cricos Registration No: 00525D ABN 86 510 299 250 Incorporating Balliwanga, the newsletter of the Welcome Concert ..........................................................................................15 Toowoomba Grammar School Old Boys’ Association Inc. Email: [email protected] Web: www.tgsoba.org.au Junior School ....................................................................................................17 ABN 38 614 918 181 1www.twgs.qld.edu.au Download the TGS App Toowoomba Grammar School @toowoombags From the Headmaster I commence my fourteenth year as Headmaster of Toowoomba Grammar School with the same enthusiasm and commitment that I felt in my first year in 2003. We have now welcomed the new and Grammar School in 1913 at the age of 12. The book is titled On Eagles Wings – the returning students and quickly settled them The remarkable part of this story was his Atkinsons of North Queensland by Marjorie into our routines that provide structure and journey to reach school. It commenced at his Gilmore. Old Boy John Cox concluded his guidelines to make their schooling settled home property “Greenvale Station”, situated letter to me by writing: and supported. For many of the boys, life is some distance north of Charters Towers. The “Times have certainly changed since somewhat comfortable. That said, I readily first leg of the journey involved this 12 year those days, some for the better, others acknowledge that some of the boys engaged old boy setting out on his bicycle for a ride perhaps not. Hope you enjoyed the story; in part-time employment during the summer of 4 days to Charters Towers. He left home it certainly puts any complaining about holidays. Certainly many of our boarders had equipped with his bike, a rifle (to shoot what a long trip home into perspective.” to complete very long and hot days working food he could along the way), a bed roll and I wish all of the Toowoomba on grazing and cropping properties. a small knapsack. After arriving at Charters Grammar School family a positive year. Over the summer holidays we improved Towers, Jim left his bike and rifle with the the learning environment for our boys by local Stock and Station agent before catching Peter B. Hauser air-conditioning every classroom in the a train to Townsville. From there it was on Headmaster Senior School (all Junior School classrooms to a passenger schooner for a sea voyage to have been air-conditioned for some years). Brisbane, followed by another train trip to At the same time we have completely Toowoomba. The entire trip lasted two weeks. refurbished the bathroom areas for all boarders in Groom and Stephens Houses. At the start of the year we also moved all boarders in Boyce and Taylor into their newly constructed Boarding Houses offering a level of boarding facility unheard of in years past. Reflecting on the relative comforts of life facing our current students, I have been made aware of a different life for some of our Old Boys. During the holidays I received a note from Old Boy John Cox (1971-75) whose son, Clancy, also attended our School (2009-13). John was recounting his own experience as a TGS boarder having to travel to school from Proserpine over a distance of some 1000 kilometres involving a number of plane, bus and taxi trips. John then told me of his attending a book launch in January of his ancestors, the Atkinson family, who were one of the earliest settlers and pastoral pioneers in North Queensland in 1860. It was Some TGS Boarders, 1910: Photo taken outside School, ready to leave for a weekend camping holiday over the Range near at this book launch that the story was told Table Top. Back row: Wright, McDonald (New Guinea), Jack Walmsley (SW Qld), McDonald (New Guinea). Front row: Willis (Sydney), –, Gerry Fuljames, Hensler (Goondiwindi), and the dog that always followed. Photo taken S A Morgan, 1910 of Jim Atkinson being sent to Toowoomba 2 The final assembly of the 2015 Senior cohort Excellent Year 12 Results Chart Title The School has celebrated another 35% excellent set of academic results from Over 35 per cent of OP 1-5 the boys studying an academic course for entry the Year 12 school leavers from 2015. to tertiary study gained an OP in the range of 1-5 The results included: • 7 boys gained an OP1 OP 1-5 • 10 boys gained an OP 2 46% Chart Title • 13 boys gained an OP 3 Over 46 per OP 1-7 OP 1-7 • Over 35 per cent of the boys gained an OP in the range 1-5 cent of the students achieved an OP in • Over 46 per cent of the boys gained an OP in the range 1-7 the range of 1-7 Chart Title The School also commends those Year 12 students who completed a vocational and educational training (VET) and School-Based Apprenticeship and Traineeship program. Many of these young men have now directly 92% OP 1-15 entered the workforce. Over 92 per cent The Staff are delighted to see the Year 12 young men achieve their of students were in academic and vocational goals whilst at the same time combining this the OP range 1-15 with a full commitment to the sporting, cultural and other co-curricular activities of the School. We congratulate the Year 12s of 2015. OP 1-15 3 National Youth Science Forum “It was probably the best two weeks of my life” said Lachlan Dowling, a Year 12 student, whilst reflecting on his attendance at the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) held in Canberra in January. The NYSF has been in operation for thirty Andrew Lumsden was another Grammar The third Year 12 student who attended years as a national not-for-profit organisation student who attended the National Youth the NYSF camp was Jim Anderson who also with the support of Rotary and with the Chief Science Forum and who shared the same regarded it as an amazing experience. Scientist of Australia as its Science Patron. views as Lachlan. “It was incredible; you can’t The NYSF aims to nurture and encourage possibly understand unless you were there”, young Australians to be the next generation Andrew said. “Our lab visits varied from world- of leading scientists and engineers for our class, 10 storey-high telescopes to electron nation. microscopes and from high-powered lasers Lachlan was one of three Toowoomba to bottled rockets. But the science was just Grammar School students who attended the start. The students in charge of NYSF this forum encouraging them to consider ran a series of activities, including evening the latest developments in science, presentations, games to pass the time and engineering and technology. Their selection even boot camps in the mornings. I am to attend the seminar was after successfully now proud to say that