Old School, 1858
Geelong Grammar School Football Premiers, 1902
1924 Dr Norman Scott Good (GGS 1898-1902) Medical Officer to GGS (-1949); The Human Pedagogue by Jennings (novel based anonymously on GGS).
22); Villiers (Vic) Tunbridge (GGS 1920-24) joins Staff (-1967; Cricket, Athletics; Housemaster Perry 1937-62; Acting Head Master 1965; eponym of Tunbridge Pavilion and Club) as does John Glover (-1969; French, German; Housemaster Geelong 1954-69); 2nd Pageant Play (The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy); Stories of a House Master by Jennings; Dining Hall and Bracebridge Wilson House extended.
1925 11 March, Cuthbertson House destroyed by fire (money donated to rebuild it); Cricket premiership; 308 boarders, 40 day-boys. 1926 Bequest from Arthur Whittingham (GGS 1885-88) endows many scholarships (still). 1927 24 June (traditional Founders’ Day), War Memorial Bronze Group (sculptor, George Lambert ARA) unveiled by Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia; Charles Bull joins staff (-1939; English). 1928 Mary Finnin joins staff (-1941; Art; poet; eponym of Mary Finnin Prize). 1929 1 November, completed Nave of Chapel consecrated by Bishop Reginald Stephen (GGS 1870-78; Council 1911-14) and Baptistery by Bishop Thomas Armstrong (GGS 1866-71); Kay Chauncy Masterman joins staff (-1955) as – by gift of Hon Donald Mackinnon in memory of son Brice Bunny Mackinnon MC (GGS 1908-15) – Classics Master (Housemaster Perry 1929-36; from 1956 founding Chair of Classics at ANU; CBE), as do Brian Coulter (-1932, 1936-72; Housemaster Barrabool 1946-62; Master of Glamorgan 1963-71; eponym of Coulter Library) and (-1967) Noel Newman (GGS 1916-24; Commercial subjects, Football; Housemaster Barwon 1934; eponym with son, John [“Sam”; GGS 1954-63], of Newman Club); literary journal If (-1939) begun by Alan Brown (GGS 1925-30; Oxford law don) and including early work of poets John Manifold (GGS 1925-33) and Michael Thwaites (GGS 1929-33).
1930 (Sir) James Ralph Darling (1899-1995; MA Oxon) Headmaster (-August 1961; CMG, OBE, FACE, Hon DCL Oxon, Hon MA, LLD Melb; HonLittD Deakin; knighted 1968; Hon Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford; wrote 319 “Saturday Reflections” for The Age 1981-94; eponym of Darling Hall, Quadrangle, and Huts); 330 boarders, 40 day-boys; senior boys involved in social work during Depression; Lucy Walker Matron of Cuthbertson House(-1950) and Rose Walker Matron of Perry House (-1950). 1931 Geelong House for day-boys starts; John Stanley Cook (GGS 1910-14) joins staff (-1958; resident OGGs Secretary 1932-62; eponym with wife Olive of Cook Theatre) as do Doug Fraser MC (-1963; Housemaster Barrabool 193340, Barwon 1945-62; Master of Junior School 1945-61, Middle School 1962; eponym of Fraser House), Colin Gordon (-1939; Classics; Housemaster Manifold 1935-39; Headmaster St Peter’s, Adelaide, 1946-60), and William (Bushy) Howard MC (-55; Physics; Housemaster Manifold 1952-55); 1st Pageant Play (for bimillenary of Virgil’s birth); meeting at Corio to found Headmasters’ Conference of the Independent Schools of Australia (Darling Hony Secretary); Morris Room starts; Apex founded in Geelong by (Sir) John Buchan (GGS 1922-26; architect; CMG), (Dr) Ewen Laird (GGS 1918-24; architect; CBE), and Langham Proud (Old Geelong Collegian), with Darling’s support. 1932 Roy White joins staff (-1959; Maintenance; supervises building of Timbertop) as does Dick Brokenshire (-1965; Laboratory Assistant; eponym of R.G.Brokenshire Prize; wife, Louie, in same role, 1961-74). 1933 Junior House becomes Junior School (Barrabool, Barwon, and Connewarre Sections; Houses in 1934); GCEGPS now part of GGS as Bostock House (eponym Thomas Bostock, GGS Council 1909-
1934 Raynor Dart joins staff (-1961; History; Housemaster Connewarre 1934, Manifold 1945-52, 1956-61; eponym of Dart Room) as do (Sir) William McKie (-1938; Director of Music; Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, 1941-63; MVO; knighted 1953 after Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; eponym of McKie Strings), John Brazier (-1965; Director of Music 1941-45, 1949-65; Sailing, Sea Cadets; eponym of Brazier Strings and Club), and John Ponder (-1965; Greek, Latin; his Patriots and Scoundrels describes his war service for Allies in Nazioccupied Greece).. 1935 Lex Spear joins staff (-1970; Physics, Cricket; Housemaster Cuthbertson 1951-61; OGGs Secretary 197178) as does John Derrick staff (-1940; Art; illness due to War prevents return but continues to serve School as illuminator of Book of Remembrance kept in Chapel). 1936 Art School; 3rd Pageant Play (Alpha and Omega, dramatization of Bible by Darling and Bull; book); Bill Cartwright (GGS 1921-27) joins staff (-1971; Cadet Corps; Master of Bostock House 1946-66). 1937 Francis Brown House opens; Revd Stephen Jones joins staff (-1958; Chaplain). 1938 August, Music School (given by Bell family and Janet Biddlecombe) opened by (Sir) Malcolm Sargent; 25 October, death in aircraft accident of Charles Hawker MHR (GGS 1905-13), by whose bequest 3 classrooms converted into Hawker Library; 4th Pageant Play (The Pickwick Papers); Barney Hutton joins staff (-1940, 1948-73; Intelligence work during War; MBE; Assistant to Headmaster 1949-55; Housemaster FB 1957-71).
Installation of War Memorial Bronze Group, 1927
1939 Ian Weber joins staff (-1978; PE, Gymnastics, Athletics); 3 September, World War Two begins. 1940 Peter Westcott joins staff (-1969; English, History, Printing; writes “Section for Schools” in The Age for 15 years) as does Rolf Baldwin (-1971; languages, Camping Club; important role in Timor during War). 1941 Carpentry and Mechanics Shops burnt down, rebuilt in holidays by boys and staff; Hugh Montgomery joins staff (-1964; 1st Master of Timbertop 1953-63) as does Manning Clark (-1944; History, Cricket; Emeritus Professor, ANU; AC). 1942 Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (Iron Cross; later pacifist) joins staff (-1957) as Art Master (colour expert in Weimar Bauhaus; a “Dunera boy”, 1940; eponym of Hirschfeld Mack Art Centre). 1943 School still at Corio, possibility of relocation for military purposes having been averted. 1944 Bushfires; boys rebuild St Wilfrid’s Church, Mount Duneed, and woolsheds for local farmers. 1945 World War Two ends (8 May Europe, 15 August Pacific) (149 OGGs and 3 Masters having died); Peg Steel joins staff (-1971; Bostock House). 1946 John Ellis Jones joins staff (-1963; Bostock House). 1947 Glamorgan (originally Toorak Preparatory Grammar School; Isabel McComas Principal 1887-1946) now part of GGS; Katharine Alexander (Glamorgan 1909-) joins staff (-1950) as do Margaret Whiteside (Glamorgan 1924-) (-1964), Edward Butler (-1980; Master of Glamorgan 1962-63 and 1973-79; Housemaster Barwon and Master of Middle School 1963-72; eponym of Butler Centre), and Wally Schaller (-1993; Chef); first Thai pupil (Kasem Kasemsri). 1948 Rix Wright (GGS 1944-48) sculpts life-size figures (Study, Sport) to stand on Art School gateposts (reinforced-concrete originals replaced 2005 by bronze replicas, gift of Graham Geddes); Ken Mappin joins staff (-1967; Chemistry, Drama; Housemaster Cuthbertson 1962-67) as does Denny Evans (-1958; Art; Italic script).
John Landy wins APS mile race, 1948
1949 Literary journal revived by Rupert Murdoch (GGS 1942-49; AC) (If Revived published until 1960). 1950 Ivan Sutherland joins staff (-1993; Housemaster Fraser 1967-71, Barrabool 1972-79; Master of Glamorgan 1980-93; eponym of Sutherland Centre); Jane Stoddart Matron of Perry House (-1982; eponym of Janet Stoddart Library). 1951 Exhibition in Geelong, then Melbourne, devoted to South-East Asia. 1952 OGG dies in Korean War; Bill Lester (GGS 1935-43) joins staff (-1985; History; introduces Japanese) as do Bill Panckridge (GGS 1934-46) (-1987; English, librarian; Housemaster Barrabool 1963-71; eponym of Panckridge Library), Herbert Eyre-Walker (-1979; Maths), Ralph Davies (-1981; Bostock House), Jimmy Goucher (-1991; Boatman, Laboratory Assistant), and Ron Cunningham (-1994; Maintenance). 1953 Timbertop (near Mansfield) begins (for IVth Form, now Year 10 ); (Rt) Revd Ken Leslie joins staff (-1958; Chaplain at Timbertop; Bishop of Bathurst 1959-81; OBE). 1954 War Memorial Gymnasium (gift of the OGGs) and William Robert Kilpatrick (GGS 193339) Memorial Swimming Pool (gift of his family) open; Junior-School boys build own Gymnasium; Frank Covill joins staff (-1995; Rowing, Shooting, Cadets; Housemaster Geelong 1970-71, Perry 1972-83; Head of Middle School 1984-95; OGG roles 1996-2003; eponym of Scholarship and Club) as does Lilias Burns (-72; Bostock House); Peter Desborough Bursar (-1972); Athletics premiership; Shell Refinery opens.
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