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Queensland Section
Founder’s Day 2007
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
Founder’s Day Dinner 2006
The Queensland Section Founder’s Day Dinner was held at 10 Nelson Place, NEWMARKET, QLD 4051 (off Brent Street), on Friday, 13 October 2006.
Content below has been archived from oldblues.com
From Arthur HC Williams (Col B 1934-41)
In November 1999, feeling that I was out of touch with day to day affairs at the school, I asked whether there was somebody at Housey who would correspond, by email, with an old man on the other side of the earth. I stated that I was a former West's Gift scholar, and that I had been in Col B.
Two days later, I had a joint email from two girls in Col B, Elisabeth Avenell, Deputy Grecian, and Helen Lyman, a Newbury West, who was in Little Erasmus. Since that time, these delightful young ladies have become part of my extended family, and over 200 emails have passed between us, giving me a greater understanding of a pupil's life at Housey so many years after I left school.
Last year, Elisabeth completed her education at CH, just 60 years after I left school in 1941. She is taking a year off before going to University later this year, and has been travelling throughout Asia with school friend Natalie Rosier (also Col B 1994-2001). During their lengthy trip, Elisabeth has kept in touch by email, from countries all over Asia - from India to Mongolia. On 13 April 2002, I was there to greet them when they arrived at the international airport in Cairns, in Tropical North Queensland, where my wife and I have lived for the past 34 years.
Helen, now at the end of her year in Greater Erasmus, has survived the strain of her GCSEs is still writing to me from Housey.
Arthur Williams (Col B 1934-41) with Elisabeth Avenell (Col B 1994-2001) and Natalie Rosier (also Col B 1994-2001).
Arthur Williams (Col B 1934-41) with Elisabeth Avenell (Col B, 1994-2001) and Natalie Rosier (also Col B 1994-2001).