Alumni, June

Celebrating Launceston Church Grammar School’s 175th Anniversary has been very exciting with a number of key events featuring so far.

Broadland House Old Girls invited the new Head of Junior Campus, Mrs Sheona Carter to afternoon tea and to view the display cases in Café 1846, which look amazing filled with former school uniforms and other memorabilia.

This week the Lawrence family visited the School to look over the uniforms and photos of their Grandfather and Uncle who both attended the Elizabeth Street school. A wonderful donation was received of two boaters, which were worn by the boys – also boarders at the School in 1892.

We all came together this week to celebrate Founders Day at St John’s Church. It is fitting to note that students from both Launceston Grammar and Broadland have attended this church over many years.

Also, this week the Archives volunteers had the opportunity to look over the refurbishing to date of the Cricket Pavilion, a wonderful new space to display some of the many cricket photos from past School days.

SAVE THE DATE: The opening of the refurbished Cricket Pavilion on Friday 15 October. More details to follow.

This week the School celebrated the 175-year-old birthday with an all-school service, a photograph on the School oval, cake cutting and cupcakes and service at St John’s. Headmaster, Richard Ford says the School is thrilled to be celebrating our 175th this year.

“In our first year we taught Latin and Greek, today we teach Mandarin and aviation,” says Richard. “As the oldest continually running independent school in Australia, this is a significant milestone and opportunity for the School community to honour our past, celebrate who we are today and imagine together who we will become.”

Click here to view the St John’s Church Celebratory Service.

Friday 15 October
Opening of the refurbished Cricket Pavilion
Senior Campus

Please register your interest here for the Cricket Pavilion

Saturday 16 October
Spring Fair and Gala Cocktail Evening
Senior Campus

Please register your interest here for the Spring Fair event 

Please register your interest here for the Gala Cocktail Evening

Sunday 17 October
Midday Chapel Service and Gala Cocktail Evening
Senior Campus

Many colourful and lively characters have walked our halls and shared our classrooms and those captivating memories and stories have partly shaped who we are today. Here is the first of our 175 stories as told by you, our parents, our alumni, and members of the Launceston community.

Click on the link below:

175 Stories

It was pleasing to see a good turnout for our regular Old Lads lunch at Dynasty on Wednesday 2 June when the weather has not been overly kind as winter starts to set in with morning frost and chilling winds.

Joined by Headmaster Richard Ford the group were reminded of some of the forthcoming events in celebration of the 175-year anniversary. Richard suggested that those who would like a tour of the new Aviation space at the Senior Campus would be very welcomed and arrangements could be made late morning on the day of our next luncheon scheduled for September. It was also pleasing to hear of the many celebratory events planned for the remainder of the year. Details are provided in this newsletter. This week’s Founders Day Service at St John’s Church was a wonderful occasion.

At the Old Lads lunch, there was the usual camaraderie with much of the conversation about those who we remember well and those who are sadly no longer with us. We welcomed Charles Jones (alumnus, 1949) who I caught up with at the Elizabeth Street Chapter Luncheon earlier this year and hope to see him as a regular at our lunches. There were several apologies which included Nigel Bailey (Board Chair), Michael Nolan, Peter Clemons, Wally Lyon, Ian Richards, Alan Beecroft, Graham Nott, Mark Brown, Ben Clark, and John Brett.

Our next lunch is scheduled for early September at Dynasty. Perhaps a little warmer with spring air following a cold winter. If you would like to attend, please let me know and I will add your email to our growing list.

Paul AC Richards AM
pacrichards1@bigpond.com

Old Lads Lunch participants (L to R) Charles Jones, John Symons, John Stevenson, Geoffrey Pask and Richard Ford

An exhibition of digital works by Dorian (Imogen) Reeves (2020) is on show in Penguin until 27 June.

Launceston Grammar is celebrating its 175th Anniversary.

The Canberra Reunion proposed event details are:

Date: Friday 6 August 2021

Venue: Realm Hotel/Ostani bar

Time: 6:00 PM

Register your interest for the event here.

Update your contact details by visiting our Alumni page.

Launceston Grammar is celebrating its 175th Anniversary.

The Melbourne Reunion event details are:

Date: Friday 27 August 2021

Time: 12 pm for a 12.30 pm Lunch

Venue: The Kelvin Club

Register your interest for the event here.

Update your contact details by visiting our Alumni page.

Launceston Grammar is celebrating its 175th Anniversary.

The 40 Year Reunion Class of 1981 event details are:

Date: Saturday 23 October

Time: To be confirmed

Venue: Café 1846 at the Senior Campus

Register your interest for the event here.

Update your contact details by visiting our Alumni page.