Middle School
Parents’ Dinner We enjoyed a fabulous evening in May as many parents, staff and friends gathered to celebrate the 2009 Middle School Parents’ Dinner. The tone for the night was set early with toetapping jazz from our Senior School students as we entered and ‘mingled’. We enjoyed a wonderful buffet dinner and more beautiful music as we were entertained by Catherine Qian, Eloise Burns and Zoe Yang (all Middle School Music Scholars) who each performed.
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Our guest speaker, Dr John McBain, thoroughly enlightened us into the world of IVF, Mzuri the gorilla and ‘How to build a blueprint for your own grandchild’. His humorous and highly informative presentation was enjoyed by all. You know it is a good evening when you actually have to usher people out the door at the end of the night and tell them to go home! Thank you to Helen Baillie (President) and the Friends of Middle School for hosting the evening and to Ms Catriona Ainsworth for her organisation. Tony Inkster Head of Middle School 1. L to R: Carrie Felton, Suellen Landale, Caroline Faulkner and Jon Felton.
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2. L to R: Charlie Arthur, Anna Crozier, Alexandra (Min) Darling
Catriona Ainsworth
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Years 11 & 12 Cocktail Party Over 190 parents of our Year 11 and 12 students gathered at our Toorak Campus for a wonderful evening of connection, friendship and conversation. It was a relaxed and convivial evening which provided parents with the opportunity to catch up with each other, sharing stories of their teenage children. It can often be refreshing to learn from other parents with children the same age that they are experiencing similiar issues! Geelong Grammar is unique in that all students from Year 10 to 12 are either Full, Weekly or Day Boarders. With the majority of 32
students being Full Boarders, parents do not have the same opportunity to catch up. We look forward to hosting at least one occasion annually for our Senior School parents to relax and enjoy each other’s company and catch up with teenage antics. Elizabeth Pont Director of Community Relations 1. L to R: Sallyann and Peter Pollard, son Allec Pollard (Yr11 FB) and Alice (Ga’05). 2. L to R: Simon and Markela Peck (Anthony Bellofiore Yr11 FB) and Michael Bellofiore.
Sadly, we farewell Catriona Ainsworth, GGS Events Coordinator, who leaves the School to take up a new role. Catriona has had a long association with Geelong Grammar School, as her brothers Hamish (M’70), Jock (M’67) and Fergus MacAdie (M’83) attended the School, as did her four children, Jackie (Fr’92), Pip (Fr’94), Tom (Fr’96) and Will (Fr’99). Catriona has coordinated many of Geelong Grammar School’s major events including the Timbertop 50th Jubilee Celebration in 2003, the Dinner for HRH the Prince of Wales and the School’s 150th Celebrations in 2005, Reunite and Celebrate in 2006, as well as the official openings of the Glamorgan Centre at the Toorak Campus and The Handbury Centre at Corio in 2008. If you have attended any of these celebrations or some of the smaller functions organised by Catriona, you will have experienced her meticulous attention to detail, elegant but practical style and her calm, graceful and kind approach before, during and after events. After seven years in this role, Catriona will be sadly missed but long and fondly remembered. We wish her every success and happiness in her new role.