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WE REMEMBER... Lois Dron (Eckert) 2 July 1929 – 6 July 2020
Ingeborg Lepp (Stein, 1953) 20 August 1934 – 20 May 2020
After spending four years in a one-teacher school at Lyndoch, Lois was called to St Peters by the Headmaster, Mr W Lohe, in 1947, as a Primary Teacher and remained until her retirement in 1994.
Inge came to Australia with her parents as part of the Australian post-WW2 migrant intake. She attended St Peters as a day scholar from Wacol, and left part way through Junior.
Her teaching service was interrupted by her marriage to fellow teacher Carson Dron, who was to become Dr Dron, Headmaster of the College. She and Carson started a family, so in addition to her own teaching, she embraced the roles of mother and Headmaster’s wife. Lois has been honoured, along with her husband, in the naming of the Dron Auditorium in 2018. Norma Green (Zipf, 1949) 298 September 1930 - 2020 Norma was a founding student at St Peters, enrolling in the Scholarship class. She grew up in the cane country of Woongoolba via Beenleigh and had a difficult time settling in as a boarder, away from her family. She left St Peters after Term 1, becoming St Peters’ first Old Scholar. Neville Stallman (1949) 15 April 1931 - 5 October 2020 Full eulogy on page 61. Alamine Gray (Peters, 1950) 15 April 1932 – 13 March 2020 Alamine grew up in Woolloongabba, in Mt Alford with the Weissman, Carpenter and Hammermaster families and in Wallangarra. She was the first child of George and Rebecca Peters. Having attended small local primary schools, newly opened St Peters was an ideal choice for a weekly boarder which, in later years, Alamine recalled with much fondness.
Inge was a member of the Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in the Tannum Sands area. Her niece, Renee Michalkow, wrote: “The eldest of three sisters, Inge, Aunty Anne (middle) and my mum (Monika) the youngest, were such a tight-knit family growing up together in Rockhampton and Gladstone. The laughter, the happiness, fond memories, I can’t even begin to describe how much we’ve lost. The one thing that sticks in my mind is a proverb It takes a whole village to raise a child. I have felt fortunate to have an amazing family when I was growing up. I was lucky to have four mothers, my mum, Grandmother, Aunty Anne and Aunty Inge. There were so many incredible times together, so much laughter and fun. It's because of these women in my life that I have been a positive person, optimistic and always loving the stories that were told about our family background. Family is so important.” Pam Turner (Waters, 1956) 6 January 1938 – 3 April 2020 Pam attended St Peters from Scholarship to Senior, as a day scholar. She trained as a teacher at Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College, but left teaching to pursue community and charity work. Pam Married Derek Turner in 1959 and they had two children. Pam was a poet and writer: a children’s book and works of family, local and church history. Ailsa Horn (Vandersee, 1956) 31 August 1938 - 21 July 2020
It was while working at the Greenslopes Hospital, that Alamine met her one and only boyfriend, who later become her husband – Kenneth Gray. They were married in 1954 and had four children – Glenn, Rhonda, Bryan and Keith.
Ailsa attended high school at St Peters as a boarder in the early 1950s, and would catch the train from Abercorn to Brisbane.
Alamine's legacy includes Alamine Street in Holland Park, named for her by her father who had developed the culde-sac with his brother, building numerous houses, three of which became Mater prize homes.
While attending a dance in Abercorn she met Mervyn Horn and they married 18 months later on 11 May 1957 in Monto. They lived in a tent under a large bottle tree while Merv built their house in Mt Kitchener, and over the next 16 years they developed the property and bred hereford cattle.
Plus Ultra | November 2020
