↓ SECTION 02 — 100 YEARS AT CORIO
100 EXCEPTIONAL STORIES The School’s 100 Exceptional Stories multi-media project attracted more than 10,000 page views within three weeks of its online release at the end of Term 1. As part of the 100-year anniversary of the School’s Corio Campus, 100 Exceptional Stories celebrates the lives of 100 exceptional past students who attended Corio between 1914 and 2014. Groups of four video interviews will be released each school term in the lead-up to the launch of the 100 Exceptional Stories book, which will be published by Hardie Grant Books in October.
The first release featured interviews with singer/songwriter Missy Higgins (Cl’01), mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape (M’73), novelist Peter Carey (FB’60) and bomber pilot Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons (M’36), whilst 2013 Dux of the School, Danielle Davidovits (He’13), narrated a short introductory clip. The 100 Exceptional Stories book will profile 100 eclectic and interesting people who have achieved in an incredibly diverse range of fields, from cabinet minister James Fairbairn (M’14), who was killed in the 1940 Canberra Air Disaster,
to leg amputee skier Cam Rahles-Rahbula (FB’02), who was the Australian flagbearer at the 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympics. The profiles have been written by a team of accomplished Old Geelong Grammarian writers, including historians Andrew Lemon (FB’66), Vicki Steggall (Mendelson, P’74) and Jo Hook (Rattray, Ga’85), academic Matthew Ricketson (M’75), novelist Anson Cameron (M’78), poet Jamie Grant (M’67) and journalists Jim Darby (A’74), Charlie Happell (P’79), Andrew Dodd (T’80) and Rachel Baxendale (Cl’04).
Visit www.ggs.vic.edu.au/100exceptionalstories
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