OGG NEWS
Left to right: Lachie Stevens (M’96), newly elected OGG Committee member Will Caldwell (P’83) and Nina Anderson (Thomas, Cl’93) at the OGG AGM; The School’s first Headmaster, the Very Reverend George Vance; Peter Chomley congratulates newly appointed Honorary OGG Jenny Jackson (Doak, He’67), one of three new Honorary OGGs who have celebrated over 20 years of service as staff at GGS; Bronze sculpture by Geoff Lambert peaks above scaffolding erected around the Cloisters
OGG News OGG GOLF DAY
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS
The 26th Annual OGG Golf Day is once again being organised by OGG Vice President, Andrew Ramsay (Cu’68), and will be held on Derby Eve, Friday 2 November, at the Barwon Heads Golf Course. The event is open to OGGs, current and past parents, but you must have a current club handicap to enter. Invitations are via email, so if you would like to receive an invitation to the Golf Day, please register your interest with oggs@ggs.vic.edu.au.
Three Old Geelong Grammarians, including novelist Peter Carey (FB’60), were made Officers of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours List on Monday 11 June. Peter was joined by The Honourable David Hawker (M’67) and Professor Simon Molesworth (Bb’72) as recipients of the honour. For more on these exceptional OGGs, see Michael Collins Persse’s pages in this edition.
OGG MOTORING EVENT This year’s OGG Motoring Event will celebrate ‘the ute’. Organised by OGG Committee member David Henry (FB’70), the scenic drive from South Yarra to Corio will be held on Saturday 10 November and is open to all members of the OGG and wider GGS community. The first official entrant is Gus Syme (M’77) with his wife Michelle, who have entered Gus’s 1982 WB Holden ute, which has covered 370,000 kilometres and is on its third engine. Visit the School’s website for more information.
RESTORATION OF THE CLOISTERS The restoration of the School’s War Memorial Cloisters, installed in the 1920s as a memorial to Old Geelong Grammarians killed during war, commenced on Tuesday 5 June. Designed by leading Australian architect Harold Desbrowe Annear, the War Memorial Cloisters are very important to the heritage of Geelong Grammar School. They were originally built with funds raised by Old Geelong Grammarians and stand in honour of the 246 past students and staff who died in active service (alongside a bronze sculpture by
George Lambert symbolizing the triumph of heroism over evil). The OGG Association will contribute $25,000 towards the refurbishment of the Cloisters and, as part of this project, the Association is also, with the assistance of James ‘Bim’ Affleck (Cu’67), researching those OGGs who have given their lives in service to the country since World War II. The result of this research will be the commissioning of a new memorial plaque to be placed in the refurbished Cloisters near the existing memorials. Bim and others have identified some other OGGs who gave their lives in earlier conflicts but were not recorded in the existing plaques, so their names will also be included in the new memorial. You can still support the restoration by donating through Annual Giving to the War Memorial Cloisters. For further information on Annual Giving, please contact Jennifer Wraight, Associate Director, Community Relations, on Tel: +61 3 5227 6297 or email jwraight@ggs.vic.edu.au
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