Twelve of us met for dinner at the Brisbane Club on the 26th of October to celebrate Founder’s Day. We did all the proper and usual things…the graces, the toasts and sang the Votum lustily!! Everybody had a very enjoyable evening and it was great to see three new faces…William Johns,Helen Holm and Peter Zappert. Unfortunately my wife, Meg Russell-Hines, was not with us as she was adjudicating in an “Aria” competition. Present were:

• Geoff Hines Lamb B 1951–1959
• Tim Stone Prep B and Thornton A 1956–1964
• Brother William (William Johns) Prep B and Maine A 1945–1953
• Ian Homfray (and wife Margot) Barnes A 1937–1943
• David Henderson ( and wife Joan) Prep A and Thornton A 1947–1954
• Helen Holm ( and partner Keith Russell) Ward 8 1958–1967
• William Hughes Prep B and Thornton A 1948–1954
• Dick Sanders Coleridge B 1951–1958
• Peter Zappert Peele B 1955–1960

A few days before the dinner I visited Arthur Jack Barnes A 1927–1933 who is now 91 and lives in the Freemason’s Nursing Home at Sandgate, which is just a few miles north of the Brisbane CBD. Unfortunately Arthur cannot get to our dinners nowadays, but I gave him a copy of the menu and the current list of Queensland Old Blues. He was delighted to receive them and was very pleased to see me.

Hopefully we are trying to arrange a dinner with the new Headmaster next year when he will be in Queensland visiting his family in Toowoomba.

Regards,

Geoff Hines

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