Our Campus WHERE Developments ARE THEY Sporting NOW? Highlights Farewell Mr Leo 2013 Class of 2012 Welcome to FACES By now, you are well into the next chapter of your lives. Chasing with the Emmanuel Community. Take the time to activate your your dreams, immersed in study, beginning careers. FACES account at www.facesonline.com.au or check us out on our Facebook page. FACES exists to help you maintain contact with Emmanuel throughout the coming years, no matter where you reside. We We look forward to connecting with you. provide organised events, updates on the college, classmates and Adele Ramsay (Class of 1991) regular communication, years after you have graduated. President of FACES (Former Students of Emmanuel College) You can use FACES as a resource and a way to stay connected Reunion Date Contents Claimers for 2013 From the Editor Gordon Johnstone 3 Class of 2003 From the Principal It’s your 10 Year Reunion Graham Leo 4 - 5 Saturday 14 September 2013 From Chairman of the Board At Emmanuel College Mary-Anne Rulfs 6 From Head of Spiritual Life Class of 1993 Mark Gladman 7 It’s your 20 Year Reunion Campus Developments 8 - 9 Saturday 12 October 2013 ECA From Head of Senior School At Emmanuel College Eliot Sanger 10 Emmanuel Contact Fiona Gregory The icy cup maker and (FACES Co-ordinator) Community Head of Hospitality Di Ayscough 11 for further information Association Faces - Corey Lun 12 [email protected] We would like to express Alan Reid 13 www.facesonline.com.au appreciation to the ECA Emmanuel Community proprietors of businesses Association 14 that have advertised in this Faces - Lynton Allan 15 issue and encourage the Class of 2002 - 10 Year Reunion 16 Emmanuel Community to Class of 1992 - 20 Year Reunion 17 support these businesses. Faces - Where are they now? 18 - 27 Would you like to be more Connect Trips 28 - 29 actively involved in the Luther House 30 Saturday 17 August 2013 College? Julia Roberts, our Taylor House 31 ECA President would love Wesley House 32 11.00am – 6.30pm to hear from you: jroberts@ Wycliffe House 33 www.emmanuelfete.com emmanuel.qld.edu.au 2 FROM THE Editor Welcome to Connections 2013. As this is the last edition of • Senior students have been challenged to become blood Connections that will be published whilst Mr Graham Leo is donors and the Year 12 Beach to Beach Day continues as a Principal of Emmanuel College, the theme of this edition is highlight CELEBRATE OUR MOMENTUM! • Our sports men, women and teams continue to amaze and the demand for our learn-to-swim program bodes well for We celebrate the achievements of our Principal for the last 17½ Emmanuel’s future excellence in the pool. The netball and years and the following list of some recent achievements and tennis courts have been upgraded. In December 2012, both present developments and events of Emmanuel College is to our Open Girls Athletics team and Open Girls Volleyball be read as a tribute to the man that has led our institution to its teams were crowned Australian Champions present status as one of the most respected and loved schools in Queensland and Australia. We honour and salute you Mr Leo as • The Spiritual Life of the College is flourishing with staff you have honoured God and taught us to do the same. focussing on the specific needs of junior and senior students. The quiet garden adjoining the Chapel is a beautiful new In Semester 2, 2012 and Semester 1, 2013 ... place to enjoy solitude and quiet prayer amongst the frenetic • Our 2012 Year 12 academic results were outstanding (68% activity of the College campus OP 1-10 and 96% OP 1-15) as were our NAPLAN results and • Little e’s Kindergarten enjoyed a hugely successful first year other academic achievements of operations in 2012 • The Emmanuel Theatre was opened in October 2012 and • Early years students arrived to find an upgraded play area amongst others, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Octet in E-flat waiting for them major Op. 103 and Mozart’s Gran Partita have recently been performed in this magnificent facility. Contact the College The activities of the ECA were valued and well-supported if you’d like your name to appear on a seat plaque as we with the annual Fete again being the highlight. Business Link acknowledge the families sponsoring the seats. To celebrate Breakfasts, the Mother’s Day Luncheon and The Musicians’ Ball the opening of The Emmanuel Theatre, all students and staff were fun-filled times for community. Many families ‘made their ‘made their mark’ on the painting of Sunday Afternoon On The mark’ by purchasing pavers bearing their names in the new junior Island Of La Grande Jatte, now featured on the exterior Theatre school play area. The new ECA website was launched. Would you wall closest to the administration building. Drama, dance and like to be more actively involved in the College? Julia Roberts, our music are thriving! ECA President, would love to hear from you: jroberts@emmanuel. qld.edu.au • Our new Junior School play areas have been completed The aim of this edition of Connections is to keep past and • The northern half of our ovals have been renovated and current families up to date with the events at the College and upgraded it’s our opportunity to look back at a few selected events and • The Library is a hub of activity with over 140 students using achievements of 2012 and 2013. Connections is about you – our the facility as a study venue each afternoon. The Book Fair is students, parents, alumni(FACES) and staff so please send any always a great success as is ‘Dad’s Reading’ articles, news or comments to our Community Relations officer, Lisa Tregoning, on (07) 5561 4072 or [email protected]. • IT developments have continued and a new student edu.au and contact Lisa if you would like to advertise in our 2014 dashboard that was launched as e-learning is mushrooming edition. We do not advertise in our weekly newsletter, so this is • Our student guides once again represented their school with your opportunity to reach the Emmanuel Community. This and pride on Open Day previous editions of Connections are also available in electronic form and some in hard copy form from Lisa on request. • The Connect program now includes new projects on Mt Tamborine and our work with Mission Educate (Mozambique) Gordon Johnstone Head of Campus and Effective Aid (Thailand) has grown 3 FROM THE Principal I guess that since this is the last issue of Connections that I will You can see in this short extract, the beginnings of our definition write for, as Principal, I should reflect a little on the last nearly 18 of the ideal Emmanuel Graduate – the very last phrase above years. is the evolutionary ancestor of our phrase, “unafraid to be”. As I reflected on what I had said then, I realised that I have I read recently the speech I gave at my very first Senior School had an unchanging core vision from the very start of my time Presentation Night back in 1996. I was surprised to see how at Emmanuel. With the entire team of staff and Board and our many themes there were in that speech that I am still saying now, Emmanuel community, we have endeavoured to make a place nearly twenty years on. This must mean either that I am very where young people can be directed towards what might be boring, or that I am convinced that these things really matter. called “the good life”. Here are a few excerpts from that speech: We have strived to create a place where it is safe to come to Earlier this year I attended a seminar where the guest school – for students, staff and for parents. We have strived to speaker had been the Chief Magistrate of the Children’s nurture a culture where students can enjoy being successful. Court of Queensland. I jotted down some of what he said. We have strived to nurture the whole person – through excellent Let me repeat some of his lines. academic training, through music and the performing arts, The primary causes of child crime are family breakdown through sport and through a range of other activities. and a lack of home discipline…. Crime cannot be cured by Every year for the past decade or so, I have greeted new students governments, laws and courts. Moral responsibility rests with to the Senior School on their first day with the line: No-one at families in the community… As a nation, it seems that there this school has the right to hinder anyone else from learning, is less and less effective family training; as a nation, we are or to make them feel unsafe. Every teaching moment and every living off our moral capital. cultural symbol and practice that we have put into place over time He also said, “We do not need to do studies on why people has endeavoured to reinforce this fundamental belief. commit crimes. What we need to ask is why some None of what has been achieved could have been achieved people do not commit crimes.” without the blessing of Almighty God. In my first year here, I recall Isn’t that a clever question? The answer is simple. Those giving a talk to a small group of parents, using a picture of the people have been taught to be moral. They have been Emmanuel campus as it looked a few years earlier.