With this number we begin a new volume. Our previous Editor, S. A. Castlehow, who carried out his duties so successfully last year, found it necessary to retire from the Editorial Chair, in order to prepare for the Sydney Senior Examination. Everybody connected with the school will be pleased to note that the school roll now contains the names of 255 boys, a number never exceeded and only once reached before, in the second quarter of 1889, just before the beginning of the financial troubles of Queensland. Of these only 50 are State school scholars, including bursars; twenty-six boys are boarders, and the sports fund, under the able management of Mr. Jones, has 205 subscribers in all.
We give an account of our annual Swimming Sports, which were well patronised by the parents and friends of the boys. The School has joined the Queensland Swimming Association this year, and will be represented in the Valley Carnival Relay Race. Our cricket team has been defeated once by Maryborough and twice by Ipswich, but we hope for "better luck next time."
S. Roe, who captained our football team so successfully last year, has left school for the Sydney University; his place is well filled by C. E. Parkinson, and we expect great things of him.
The President of the Old Boys' Association for 1904 was Mr. F. J. Heussler. (A related Old Boys' society — its Debating/Literary body, meeting every alternate Tuesday — re-elected Mr. F. S. N. Bousfield as President and Mr. E. R. Crouch as Vice-President, with Mr. F. Connah as Hon. Secretary & Treasurer.)
Old Boys' Association (Founded 1 June 1898).
No award. The Reginald Heber Roe Memorial Bursary had not yet been founded (first award 1933).
The 1904 issues carry Old Boys' registers; not reproduced here.
Source: The Brisbane Grammar School Magazine, April, August and November 1904 (three termly issues, combined). Notation: Bracketed "(year)" = year of ENTRY. (No R. H. Roe Bursary before 1933.) School Captain 1904: no distinct "Captain of the School" was printed in this era (football captain C. E. Parkinson, succeeding S. Roe). Head Master: R. H. Roe, M.A.
In this era, an Old Boy's year designation was the year he entered Grammar; the convention today is the year he finished. A boy who started in 1993 and finished in 1997 was (93) but is now '97.
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