COGA Top: Clyde and St Catherine’s girls dine after the 2010 Fun Cup. Far left: Pictured at the Fun Cup Golf 2010 were Flo Grimwade (Cl’43) and Sybil Baillieu (Barr Smith, Cl’68) Left: The winners of the Fun Cup Golf at Peninsula Golf Course in October 2010 were Victoria d’ Antoine (Hughes, Cl’69) Julie Cole (Baird, Cl’68), Sybil Baillieu (Barr Smith, Cl’68) and Angela (Gadge) Alcock (Gardner, Cl’65)
Clyde Old Girls’ Association ANNUAL JUMBLE SALE On Thursday 23 June the annual Clyde Jumble Sale will take place at St John’s Church Hall in Toorak, behind the Church on the corner of Toorak and Orrong Roads. Helpers are encouraged to arrive by 9am to help unpack, sort and display the goods and clothing. The sale commences at 10.30am and there is a general frenzy for an hour or so until it concludes at 12 noon. A charity truck from the Uniting Care Prahran Mission will then collect all unsold goods for distribution to its opportunity shops. This brief and crazy sale generates considerable funds each year which are donated to the Isabel Henderson Kindergarten in North Fitzroy. Donating the unsold goods to charity-run shops means that several different community groups can benefit from this annual effort. Clyde Old Girls have been holding the Jumble Sale for nearly 60 years. It’s a wonderful day to reconnect with old friends and rummage through some amazing paraphernalia, including books, clothing, ornaments, artwork, gadgets, and all manner of household items. Please encourage your young friends and family to come and help, and bring a bag of things to sell. You’ll be glad you did! See contact details in Diary Dates.
COGA AGM & OLD GIRLS’ DAY On Sunday 16 October the COGA AGM & Old Girls’ Day will be held. There will be a brief AGM, as usual, followed by a guest speaker, lunch and refreshments. The venue and speaker will be confirmed in the next issue of Light Blue and in the Cluthan to be posted out in September. After the excitement of our
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Diary Dates big Centenary Lunch in 2010, it seems a quiet year for COGA but it’s always good to have a chance to gather with old friends. In the words of a school song from the 1960s and 70s: “Hold fast to what is good, to all that keeps its worth forever. To faith and brotherhood (or sisterhood!), to steadfastness and high endeavour. Scorn not the little things – the golden evanescent minute; the passing linnet; the month of May...” (from ‘Endeavour’, sung by the School on Speech Day). Words worth remembering.
CLYDE SCHOOL ARCHIVES The Clyde School Archives are housed in the Fisher Library at GGS, Corio. All memorabilia, photos and articles are welcome. Sue Schudmak and Jackie Mackinnon are working in the library almost every week on Wednesdays to catalogue all material for posterity. If you would like to help, please contact Jackie at email: jackmack@bigpond. net.au or tel: 0417 371 496.
VALE CAROLINE WALFORD With great sadness we note the passing of Caroline Walford (Cl’71) on 27 December 2010. Caroline was a long-serving COGA Committee member, and editor of The Cluthan 1993-2003. She taught French at Highton during the late 1970s, and also at Timbertop while living in Mansfield in the 1980s. In recent years she was a keen member of the Lyceum Club in Melbourne, serving as President with distinction in 2003-2004. Her intellect, energy, initiative and witty sense of humour will be missed by her family and wide circle of friends.
THURSDAY 23 JUNE
ANNUAL COGA JUMBLE SALE St John’s Church Hall, cnr Toorak & Orrong Rds, Toorak. Enquiries to co-ordinator, Jane Loughnan (Weatherly, Cl’70) on 03 5264 1628. SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
COGA AGM & OLD GIRLS DAY Time: 11am-2pm. Venue and guest speaker to be confirmed. Enquiries to COGA President, Margie Gillett (Cordner, Cl’71) on 03 9525 3698, or email: gillett22@bigpond.com. MONDAY 17 OCTOBER
FUN CUP GOLF, BARWON HEADS GOLF CLUB Time: 8am for shotgun start at 8.30am. Enquiries to Coordinator, Anna Tucker (Kimpton, Cl’71) on 03 9592 0952 or email: annatucker@owendavies.com.au
THE CLUTHAN 2011 The Cluthan editor Cathie Mahar is collecting material for this year’s issue. Please write and send news and articles by early June to Cathie Mahar, PO Box 93, Leopold, Vic 3224, or email: cathie.mahar@gmail.com
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