For Moranbah parents Jenny and Doug MacGibbon, sending their sons to board at Brisbane Grammar School continues a tradition spanning four generations.
The connection to BGS goes back on both sides of the family. Jenny's grandfather, Dr Lionel Leggett, was a city boy who moved to Nebo after completing his degree in medicine. He combined his work as a local doctor with cattle grazing and was eventually Chair of the Nebo Shire Council.
Jenny said her grandfather embodied the BGS school motto, nil sine labore – nothing without work. Despite being dux both years he attended BGS, he left after junior and worked to later put himself through senior school and a science degree, becoming BGS Science Master from 1928 to 1934.
The MacGibbons' son Andrew was a Prefect and Harlin House Captain as a member of the graduating Class of 2018. In a lovely coincidence, he graduated 100 years after his great grandfather Lionel Leggett won the School's prestigious Lilley Silver Medal in 1918.
Source: Grammar News Summer 2019. Read the original edition