worked hard throughout her time at the College. She was Cadet Under Officer of the Braemar College Cadet Unit after spending six years in the unit. Lucinda completed multiple Defence Force leadership courses. She was a Prefect and served the College with responsibility and dedication. Lucinda always volunteered to be involved in all aspects of the College and did so with generosity.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING AWARD WINNERS Anne Kantor (Murdoch) Officer (AO) in the general division of the Order of Australia. For distinguished service to the community through philanthropic support for a range of environmental, social welfare, arts and educational organisations, and to psychotherapy.
CLYDE HOUSE REPORT 2015/2016 It has been a busy, hardworking but most of all fun first semester in Clyde. At the end of the last year, we said goodbye to our much loved head of house, Ross Patterson who has moved to the peninsula to become the head of campus down there at Peninsula School. We wish him and his wife Joanne and their three, soon to be four, cheeky sons all the best. We also said goodbye to Jane Headly as she has taken maternity leave as well as some of our other tutors, Caroline Gorden-Johnson, Dianna Martin and Timmee Grinham. At the start of this year, we welcomed our new head of house, Denise Whitten into Clyde with open arms. We also extended a warm welcome to our new tutors Nicola Perkins and Kay Long. We were pleased to have our house assistant Vivien Murrell with us again this year; she provides us with her yummy suppers and the support and guidance that is very much appreciated. Lastly we welcomed in the new year 10s from Timbertop and also outside of the Grammar community. They have transitioned into senior school and Clyde very well and are enjoying all the activities that take place around the school and in Clyde.
Anne’s service includes Founder and Deputy Chair, Dara Foundation, since 1998. The Foundation provides ongoing support to a range of charitable, environmental, educational and Indigenous organisations. COGA PRIZE FOR ENGLISH GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Alexandra Cash and Hugo Bienvenu Hugo sent the following letter to thank COGA: As winner of this year’s Clyde Old Girls’ Association Prize for English I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to you and the entirety of the Clyde Old Girls’ Association for funding the award. The generous sum of money that comes with the prize was put toward a hardcover collection of Charles Dickens’ most recognised works which I will be able to enjoy in my now extensive spare time. With the award in its fifteenth year the generosity of COGA has afforded Geelong Grammar School a consistent means with which to recognise and encourage talented students of English or Literature and, in consequence, to nurture the study of English at the school. From this I take a great deal of personal peace of mind, as I am sure the English faculty do also.
The house captain for Clyde 2016 is Lucy Stewart, who has done a wonderful job so far in making the house a welcoming, fun environment for us to be a part of. We also have eight other girls with a prefect role, Mathilda Harley (vice house captain), Sophia Balcombe Ehrlich, Alice Chirnside, Sasha Culley, Izzy Hope, Coco Hynes, Anna Keenan and Issy Luxton.
COGA PRIZE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE BRAEMAR COLLEGE
Brendan Judde Brendan was a member of a local youth group based in the Macedon Ranges Shire who developed a new initiative called ‘The Field Trip’, which billed itself as “Scouts for the 21st century” – from the Leader Newspaper. Four concepts define the Field Trip; adventure, invention, initiative and unity with weekly meetings held by leaders aged from seventeen to twenty. The Leaders facilitate sessions for younger people aged from ten to sixteen. It is a peer-led model empowering youth to empower and inspire each other.
To kick start the year off, we had our swimming competition, with Clyde (yet again) coming out with a win with help from our house swimming captains Mima Hart and Anna Keenan. We all came together as a house and everyone in some way helped achieve this victory by either swimming in various races or cheering and chanting very loudly on the side line. House music is always something that we’re not the best at so usually everyone is not as enthusiastic as they are for other events. However with the tremendous work from our music captains Matilda Finckh and Issy Luxton and also a little white lie (telling the year 10s we do in fact go extremely well in house music) we managed to come fifth overall which we were all very proud and quite surprised about. The whole house choir theme for this year was ‘The Beatles’, so
THE DAME ELISABETH MURDOCH AWARD
Lucinda Harrison Lucinda was very academic, being Dux Proximus of Braemar College in 2015 with an ATAR of 98.1. Lucinda took her studies very seriously and consistently 24