The 1980 School Magazine

(The 1980 issue restored the full office-bearers list — unlike the abbreviated 1978 and 1979 issues.)

• President: C. C. (Colin) Lamont (56)
• Vice-Presidents: J. A. Dowsett; J. B. L. Heading
• General Secretary: R. C. S. Jackson (to the A.G.M.), then R. H. Abbott (since the A.G.M.)
• Treasurer: M. T. Weil
• Membership Secretary: Ross Duus
• Magazine Secretary: K. A. Lemon, B.A.
• Members of the Council: T. G. Bain; S. G. Corone; A. J. Crane; N. W. Hirst; I. A. McGhie; M. E. R. Peake; C. A. Waldron
• Honorary Auditor: G. E. Brown, F.C.A.
• Trustees of the Association: R. A. Dore; P. M. Silcock; H. A. Becconsall
• Honorary Life Members: R. W. Walker; V. G. Burris; K. A. Lemon; R. A. Dore; H. A. Becconsall; W. W. Thomson; P. M. Silcock; F. J. Walduck; S. G. Corone

Subscription — Annual: $10.00, due in advance on July 1st. Life Membership: $200. (Up from $8 / $160.)

Mr. Colin Lamont (56), our new President, is a man with an unusual background. Since leaving the School in 1959, he has taught at both primary and secondary levels in Queensland schools and at the University of Queensland; he was a master at B.G.S. from 1972 to 1974. He has also been a member of the Queensland Parliament for three years and a Detective Inspector of Police in Hong Kong. He is now employed as the Executive Director of the Queensland Deaf Society.

Colin went from the School to the Kelvin Grove Teachers' College and studied at the University of Queensland at night, completing a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Political Science, before taking himself off to London to begin a Master's degree. There, recruited by the then Colonial Office, he was sent to Hong Kong as an officer-in-training with the Royal Hong Kong Police, rising within three years to Detective-Inspector during the Cultural Revolution. In 1967 Colin was seriously injured by a terrorist bomb which exploded only a few feet from him; after several months in hospital and in bomb-demolition work, he recovered to resume full duties.

A former President of the Queensland Debating Union (and a Queensland representative for five years, for a period Captain), he has also been National Director of the Aboriginal Scholarships Scheme, a State Executive Member of the International Year of the Child, and is on the Executive Committee for the International Year of the Disabled, a member of the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, and currently President of the Australian Deafness Council. We wish him well — though Old Boys must remember that no President, particularly such a busy man, can do everything himself: team-work gives the best results.

• School Captain: D. I. K. (David) Fielding
• Vice-Captain of the School: I. D. G. Biggs
• Prefects (1980): P. J. Tait, A. W. Burke, B. Lawrence, R. S. Thomis, G. J. Martin, D. I. K. Fielding, and others (full row per the prefects photograph).

The 1980 Old Boys' Section carries the usual Births, Marriages and Deaths registers. These registers are not reproduced in this transcript.

They are not reproduced in this transcript.