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The 1994 School Magazine

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President's Report to the Annual General Meeting (1994)

B.G.S.O.B.A. Inc., held in the Great Hall on Monday 7 March 1994, by Neil Summerson (62), President — his first as President for a full year.

1993 was the School's 125th year and our Association was represented at most of the School's official events during the year — we enjoyed being part of history. I have had regular contact with Dr. Lennox and believe effective communication has been maintained. I also wanted to see many younger Old Boys active in the Association, and I am pleased to say this is gathering momentum. This year's dinner was a fundraising success, but from feedback I believe we should now revert to our traditional dinners. Finally, I was hopeful of establishing some basic outline of our Centenary Celebrations in 1998.

Neil Summerson, President

The Association

Office-Bearers, 1994

  • President: Neil Summerson (62)
  • Senior Vice-President: Joel Barnett (63)
  • Vice-President: Colin Lamont (56)
  • Secretary: Roger Cater (60)
  • Treasurer: Ross Duus (58)
  • Co-ordinators, OBA Section of Magazine: Michael Bishop (76); Richard Gilliver (59)
  • Members of Council: S. Bale (55); D. Castles (86); A. Crane (53); D. Bell (51); M. Staniforth (74); A. Lacis (57); D. Huppert (77); D. Laidlaw (56); P. Jempson (51); R. Holt (64); I. Whittle (63); R. Barrett (62); C. Green (87); E. Singleton (87); A. Todd (70); G. Willing (57); S. Gilliland (70) (Dec.)
  • Honorary Auditor: G. E. Brown (43)
The Year

Foundation Day, 1994 — Awards

(From the Foundation Day photographs and captions.)

  • The R. H. Roe BursaryRodney (Rod) Larsen.
  • The A. J. Mason ScholarshipSimon Hewett.
  • A Trustees'/Entrance Scholarship was awarded to Timothy Burgess.
Old Boys in the News

School Leaders, 1994

  • School Captain: Luke Gaffney
  • Vice-Captain of the School: Adrian Clutterbuck

Registers note

The 1994 issue carries Marriages, Births and an Obituaries list.

They are not reproduced in this transcript.

Family Notices

Notable Old Boys & Obituaries noted in this issue

Obituaries (Vales):

  • Sir Charles Spry (Charles Chambers Fowell Spry, 1924) — appointed Director of Military Intelligence in 1946 and, by Sir Robert Menzies, the second Director-General of ASIO in 1950 (a four-year appointment that lasted nineteen years); he played an important role in establishing Australia's postwar foreign and domestic security services (ASIS and ASIO). Remembered above all for his Cold War work.
  • Leonard Teale (born Leonard Thiele, 1935) — the well-known Australian actor, best remembered for the television series Homicide and the dramatisation of Seven Little Australians; a member of the Premiership-winning 1937 BGS Athletics Team; served with the RAAF in WWII. (He visited the School in 1977 to recite Australian verse.)
  • J. S. D. (Don) Edwards — former Second Master and Acting Head; came to BGS in 1956, Senior Master (Deputy Head) and Master-in-Charge of the Middle School from 1959; a renowned mathematics teacher and rowing coach (the 1960 Head of the River crew won 6 of 9 races). Passed away 20 December 1993.
  • John Roe (grandson of R. H. Roe, son of Arthur Stanley Roe; brother of Dr. Charles Roe '32) — died 10 September 1994.

Other notable Old Boys:

  • Dick Johnson (59)third Bathurst 1000 win (1981, 1988 and 1994); a remarkable race in which the lead changed 7 times in the first 30 laps, won from 10th on the grid.
  • Ross Fitzgerald — Associate Professor of History and Politics, Griffith University; historian, author and broadcaster, then writing a biography of past pupil Fred Paterson (15) — Rhodes Scholar, ARU official and prominent radical lawyer (Australia's only Communist member of parliament).
  • Dr. Michael Cohn — President of the Australian Medical Association in Queensland (pictured in the Gold Medallion at the Ecumenical Centenary Church Service, with Professor John Pearn).
Source Excerpts from the 1994 School Magazine: the Old Boys' Association and Old Boy content. The complete magazine is held in the School's archive.

A note on year designations

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.

For example: Tom Smith (93) Tom Smith '97
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