Alumni, May

The first public school educational establishment founded in the colony and with the longest continuous history of any public school in Australia was the Launceston Church Grammar School for boys.  An initial meeting to establish the school was held on May 14, 1838 and found a suitable piece of ground in Elizabeth Street Launceston with the school opening on June 15, 1846.

As a group of Alumni working in the Launceston Grammar and Broadland Archives it was decided to commemorate the 175^th anniversary by displaying the many changes over the years of the School uniforms. Café 1846, with its wonderful display cases, gave us an opportunity to display both Launceston Grammar and Broadland school uniforms received from donations of past Alumni to the archives over the years.

We hope you will visit the Senior Campus to  reminisce over the many different school uniforms.   The straw boaters with black hatbands worn by the boarders when leaving the school grounds from 1895 to 1928 is displayed and belonged to Leonard Lindsay Lawrence, who was a boarder in 1892 at Elizabeth Street.  School Captain in 1955 Philip Roff’s sports blazer is on display. Phillip was the son of a former Headmaster Norman Hollidale Roff 1936-1940 who whilst serving as headmaster enlisted in the army and paid the supreme sacrifice when killed in action in Timor in 1942.

During 1910 to 1940 the striped blazer and straw boater with striped hat band were worn by senior sport teams, then later worn by all sports teams along with the light blue cap.  In 1924 to 1974 The grey suit was worn with the royal blue cap, with the white cap worn by prefects.

A Broadland brown felt hat with the school band once was worn by Mary Dent (nee Wilson) who attended the school as a boarder in 1942. In the 1950s, the summer uniform of brown and white gingham was worn by students in Kindergarten to Grade 3, all students wore a Panama hat and gloves.  From 1955 to 1971 during winter, the brown uniform was worn with a beret, prefect’s blazers were piped in blue braid.  The uniform again changed to the brown check in 1972 until 1982 when the school amalgamated with Launceston Grammar.

Both the Launceston Grammar Archives on the Senior Campus at Mowbray and the Broadland Archives on the Junior Campus at Lyttleton Street wish to thank the past Alumni for the many donations to the School and are always thankful for any new items that past students would like to donate.

Rosemary Stobart – President BHOGA

John Seaton was born in Launceston Tasmania to James Worsfold and Esther May (nee Boyd) Seaton. The second of 3 children (Valerie Florence, Betty Jean), he attended Launceston Grammar School.

He left school in 1943 to work with Australian Newsprint Mills, but returned in 1945 and completed his leaving certificate, while also representing his school as a Prefect, a NCO Cadet Sergeant, and gained Blues in rowing, football and athletics.  He won the McLeod Trophy for best rifle shot. On leaving school he held positions with local firms including Bushby Property Specialists Launceston.

He took up a 2-year contract with the Shell Company in Rabaul in 1949 (Asst Distillation Superintendent, aviation refuelling). John applied to join the RAAF at the start of the Korean War in 1950 but was not accepted until his Shell contract finished in November 1951.

He commenced flying training with no. 8 Pilots Course in January 1952 at Archerfield Queensland (No 1 ITS) and then onto Uranquinty, NSW (No 1 BFTS) then Point Cook (No 1 AFTS). He graduated in 1952 and was then posted to No 2 (F) OUT, Williamtown, where he operated on Mustang and Mark 30 Vampire before posting to No 77 Squadron, to Iwakuni, Japan and then on to Korea on Mk 2 Meteors.

He completed 49 missions before Armistice on July 27, 1953. He remained in Korea until October 21, 1953 then posted to Iwakuni to assist Gus Goy at Conversion Unit. He was posted back to Australia on November 1953. After long leave until February 10, 1954, he went to No 11 FIC at East Sale. Graduated QFI June 7 of that year and posted to No 1 BFTS, Uranquinty, as instructor on DH82, Tiger Moth and Wirraway.

After 18 months at Uranquinty he was posted to Antarctic Flight on November 14, 1955.  After 6 weeks at Point Cook on Beavers and Austers (wheels, skis, and floats) he went to Antarctica on December 26, 1955.

He spent 15 months away from Australia, 12 months at Mawson doing wide range of flying duties including photographic, transport, exploring, depot-laying etc. Whilst on an exploratory photographic flight he had the good fortune to find the largest glacier in the world – the Lambert Glacier. Mt Seaton, and Seaton Glacier, were given his name to recognise his contribution to mapping previously unexplored areas of the continent. His daily Antarctic Journal has been produced as a family archive.

Returning to Australia, and after 3 months leave, he posted to Williamtown as an RAAF instructor (75 Squadron) in June 1957. There he met Barbara Luise Harry, then a radiography technician at Newcastle Hospital. They were engaged when he left the RAAF late in 1957, and took up a role at Qantas Empire Airways in TPNG in 1958 on flying boats, floatplanes, and DC3’s.

He returned to Sydney for his investiture for the Polar Medal, and he and Barbara took that somewhat unexpected opportunity to marry on 1 October 1958, at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Barbara joined him in Port Moresby where they lived for 2 years, and where the first of their 3 daughters Peta Louise was born in October 1959.

Returning to Australia in 1960 they lived briefly in Harbord NSW, and then Dolphin Crescent, Whale Beach, where Nicola Ann joined the family in February 1962. John flew Qantas’s first B707-138 A and B’s to routes including Hong Kong, Karachi, Cairo, Rome, San Francisco, Hawaii and New York.

After 6 years with Qantas he returned to Australia and between 1964 and 1966 worked with CSIRO on aerial fish survey over the Great Barrier Reef, including 300 miles seaward, and the West Coast of Tasmania and Victoria. Work included use of infrared thermometer equipment assessing water temperature for fish research.

The Pacific beckoned. On September 1, 1966 he joined Crowley Air (Rabaul), and on December 11 1966 John took up a flying role at Megapode Airways, relocating with Barbara, Peta and Nicola to Honiara, British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP).

Megapode Airways was owned by a Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG) based private company owned by Laurie Crowley/Crowley Air, and then sold to Macair (Melanesian Airways Company). Under this ownership expansion a company called Solomon Islands Airways Ltd (Solair), the Solomon Islands national airline was born. John was Chief Pilot of Solair, and became Managing Director, serving on the Board for 7 years.  On his arrival, Megapode Airways owned a de Havilland Dove and a Piper Apache, and John quickly evolved it into a contemporary inter-island airline, with aircraft including Cessna, Beechcraft Baron, and Britten Norman Islanders, operating out of the historic WWII Henderson airfield, Honiara. He extended the network of destinations, built airstrips, liaised with communities, plantation owners and missionaries as local agents, and created some occasional international routes to Vanuatu and Fiji. Solair was a training ground for local Solomon Islander people including ground staff, administration, and engineering. Qantas cadets including Gordon Phillips and Rick Fry, and ex  Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm graduate Tony Alder, along with others, gained experience in commercial aviation under John’s supervision before embarking on successful senior careers at airlines including Qantas and Cathay Pacific. Barbara played a key role as Solair Office Manager through this period and Tania Caroline was born in Honiara in June 1967. They lived on the waterfront in Rove (west of Honiara), first in a duplex and later in a larger family house.

During this period John undertook considerable aerial exploration and discovery of WWII sites, assisting US historians to complete their records. He encouraged the BSIP Superintendent of Aviation and the Director of the Public Works Department to develop outlying airfields. He helped geologists observe the rare event of a submarine Kovachi volcano emerging in the Western Solomon’s waters. As a senior businessperson in the BSIP, he contributed to numerous official duties including the visit of HM the Queen in 1974, and other formalities. He was involved in flying Japanese officials to airdrop leaflets to remote islands where it was thought Japanese soldiers may still be hiding. He was a member of the Guadalcanal Lions Club, along with the Guadalcanal Club and the Point Cruz Yacht Club.  As Solair was a member of the Pacific Area Tourist Association (PATA) he contributed to international tourism development in the region and represented the BSIP overseas and at PATA Conferences.

In recognition of his contribution to tourism and aviation, he was awarded an MBE in 1975, with an investiture conducted by HM the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

John left Solair in 1976, having navigated the airline through the commencement of the period of Solomon Islands self-government (when Barbara and the girls returned to Avalon Australia in January 1976), and then the process of independence.

Following independence, he returned to Australia and from 1977 was in semi-retirement at 78 Patrick Street Avalon, a house they had built in 1964. For the next 4 years he returned occasionally to Honiara for relief management and flying for Solair.

Commissioned to fly sectors of a circumnavigation of Australia for a TV show and book ‘Pelican’s Progress’, he had the opportunity to see the north and west coast from the air including places impossible to access by sea or road. He continued to fly amphibious aircraft (Beavers for Aquatic Airways, Palm Beach) between Pittwater and Sydney Harbour, and managed a small building business Mona Vale Glass, including enrolling in further business management training at TAFE.

His last commercial flight was on June 16, 1985 in a Cessna 150 at Warnervale, NSW, a flying career that had included 17 types of aircraft and over 13,000 hours.  However, some people say he was sighted performing a barrel roll over Bribie Island with a former Naval pilot on his 85^th birthday.

He was awarded the US Air Medal in c2015, and (with Barbara) a NSW Government Community Service Award in c2014.  John was a long-time member of the Palm Beach RSL and led many local and CBD Anzac Day commemorations for 77 Squadron. An active member of ANARE Club Inc for more than 50 years, he was asked to speak at schools about his work in Antarctica. He was a lifelong member of the RAAF Fighter Squadrons Branch Association and was interviewed for the archives of the Australian War Memorial which holds this material. He was invited to visit the Republic of Korea (RoK) as an honoured representative of Australia and visited war-sites with Korean dignitaries. He returned with Barbara as part of a ‘re-visit’ tour on a second occasion. He received along with many other veterans a medal from the RoK Government for service in the Korean War. He also worked with Korean veterans to establish a Korean War memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra which was opened in September 1999 by the President of the Republic of Korea and John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia. On 3 June 2004 he led a group of 77 Squadron veterans and serving personnel to hear a Private Members Statement made in NSW Parliament in honour of the Squadron and its history, an event at which the ‘Grumpy Monkey’ squadron tie was launched. His Korean flying helmet is in the Imperial War Museum, London, on loan from the Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra.

John was a member and long serving Secretary of the Peninsula Toy Repair Group, which repaired and distributed toys to needy children. His private interests included building and fixing almost anything, including machinery and stone walls. He maintained a keen interest in navigation and was adept at using slide rules to solve any problem. He was an avid gardener all his life, something he learned from his Tasmanian father, a keen bird watcher, and loved marching music. He and Barbara sailed the Penita on Pittwater, moored at Careel Bay near their house. His main interests in later life were his grandchildren Unity Paterson, Samuel Bloom, Henry Kerr, Bradley Bloom, and India Kerr, Barbara, and his house and garden at Patrick Street.

JOHN ALEX SEATON MBE

21 April 1927 – 13 April 2020

Sources: Appreciation to the Air Force Association Fighter Squadrons for the details in this summary of John’s RAAF service details.

Three OLD BOYS came together to make documentary on the value of art and live music at the Launceston General Hospital.

In retirement Paul A.C. Richards AM is Honorary Chair of the visual and performing Arts at the Launceston General Hospital. He manages the LGH art collection and several galleries at the LGH precinct including the John Morris Gallery at the Clifford Craig Foundation. Paul is passionate about the value of art and music as an essential ingredient in the healing process and with the support of two music coordinators Dr Karlin Love and Suzanne Turner introduced a live music programme into the hospital in 2017. As a means of transplanting their programme into other health institutions and hospitals in Tasmania, Paul invited the expertise of David Brill AM, an internationally renowned video/journalist, to shoot a documentary and John Brett, to edit footage of the exceptional programme which has been introduced to the Launceston General Hospital.

Paul and David started School at ‘ Little Grammar ’ in 1950 and were reunited only a few years ago when they finally caught up with each other. Paul and John caught up over a coffee about four years ago with Keith Adkins which was the precursor to the formation of the OLD LADS- Mos Patrius Et Disciplina– who meet every few months for lunch having become a very active group within the Alumni of LCGS during the past few years.

All three met over a long  lunch on 29 March and shooting began mid afternoon at the LGH. However, during lunch we realised that all three of us had spent much of our professional lives overseas.

David as a video/journalist with SBS and the ABC covering more than he can remember of military conflicts around the globe, Paul a Nuclear Medicine Scientist researching iodine deficiency and radiopharmacology in the USA, UK, Sweden and John heavily involved internationally in IT and computer science in USA and the UK. It was a stimulating lunch and one where three Launceston Grammar boys had returned to their stomping ground in retirement and enjoying their individual associations with the School after almost 60 years.

I guess that there are many more stories like this where old school friends reunite and enjoy each others company, professional interests and are profoundly proud of being a Grammar Boy.

Paul A.C. Richards AM
17 May 2021

The Savigny Bat was gifted to the School in 1923 as a bequest  by the Savigny Family as a prize to the First X1 cricketer who scored the highest number runs in the season. Jack Savigny the son of Headmaster W.H.

Savigny 1872-1885 was an outstanding cricketer scoring 164 against the touring English side in 1904.

There has only been one reunion of the Savigny bat winners and that was in 1993.

The 70^th Savigny Bat Reunion, 1993

At this reunion Paul A.C. Richards (61,62)  brought one of his Savigny Bats along and had every participant at the reunion dinner sign it. Like those who attended the ink has faded. However in 2015 Paul gifted the bat to the School suitably inscribed in memory of the 70^th reunion. It can be viewed in the 1846-Hub along with other bats of significance. And is part of the D.V. Gunn Archive.

Savigny Bat Winners signatures on the Bat

Paul A.C. Richards,1961, 1962: Max Green,1943:Ian Fraser, 1967:Tom Room, 1925: E (Ted). A. Pickett,1926: Christopher Bassano,1991, 1992, 1993: Roul Harper, 1988, 1990: Jim Hughes, 1939: Ray Wright, 1954: Peter Shepherd,1945: Fred Marriot, 1927:John Martin, 1936: Harold Bennett, 1937:Conon Dunning, 1995, 1996: Jack Bain, 1960: Jock Swan,1957:Kim Hennessy, 1963, 1964, 1965: John Oldmeadow, 1947: John Bailey, 1971, Michael Stevens, 1974:R.A. Ferrall, 1924

Like the winners they have faded over time.

The 70^th Reunion dinner, organised by Sir Raymond Ferrall on the evening of Tuesday 7 December 1993 at the Launceston Church Grammar School, was a huge success and now 30 years on the centenary of the Bat will be with us in 2023

In 2023 the centenary of the bat will be celebrated at the School. We would like winners which appear below to contact us with their latest address phone number an email.  Although many of the winners have died in subsequent years they will be remembered at a special function and unveiling of the ‘Savigny Bat Board 1923-2023’ in the Rolph Pavillion in 2023.

A special luncheon will also be arranged on the day by the School

The Savigny Bat

1923- Present Day

If you are on this list please contact Tamara Clark via Community@lcgs.tas.edu.au so we can complete your contact details. Please also feel free to contact Paul Richards on pacrichards1@bigpond.com

SAVIGNY Bat, 1923 (Jr)         Henty, James Wilson

SAVIGNY Bat, 1923 (Sr)        Rock, Alan Dennis V.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1924 (Sr)        Wood, Paul Hamilton

SAVIGNY Bat, 1924 (Jr)         Pickett, Edward Arthur

SAVIGNY Bat, 1924 (Sr)        Ferrall, Raymond Alfred

SAVIGNY Bat, 1925 (Jr)        Taylor, Bernard Lowe

SAVIGNY Bat, 1925 (Sr)        Barnard, Alan Sigismund

SAVIGNY Bat, 1926 (Jr)         Stansfield, Charles Joseph Gordon

SAVIGNY Bat, 1926 (Sr)        Room, Thomas Dudley

SAVIGNY Bat, 1927 (Jr)         Gatenby, Norman Roy

SAVIGNY Bat, 1927 (Sr)         Marriott, Frederick Arthur

SAVIGNY Bat, 1928 (Jr)          Cleaver, Rennold Justin

SAVIGNY Bat, 1928 (Sr)          Tyson, Geoffrey Gordon

SAVIGNY Bat, 1929 (Jr)           Wingrove, Leo Ernest

SAVIGNY Bat, 1929 (Sr)           McIntyre, Laurence Rupert

SAVIGNY Bat, 1930 (Jr)            Williams, William Reginald

SAVIGNY Bat, 1930 (Sr)            Wood, John Peter Maurice

SAVIGNY Bat, 1931 (Jr)             Richards, Geoffrey William

SAVIGNY Bat, 1931 (Sr)            Dean, Philip Harden

SAVIGNY Bat, 1932 (Jr)             Daglish, Lawrence Alexander

SAVIGNY Bat, 1932 (Sr)             Sankey, Clarence Joseph

SAVIGNY Bat, 1933 (Jr)             Room, Richard Donald

SAVIGNY Bat, 1933 (Sr)             Williams, William Reginald

SAVIGNY Bat, 1935 (Jr)              Wardlaw, Bruce

SAVIGNY Bat, 1936 (Jr)              Hopwood, Maxwell

SAVIGNY Bat, 1936 (Sr)             Martin,  John Francis

SAVIGNY Bat, 1937 (Jr)              Denton, Derek Ashworth

SAVIGNY Bat, 1937 (Sr)              Bennett, Harold Sadlier

SAVIGNY Bat, 1938 (Jr)               Palmer, John Wheatley

SAVIGNY Bat, 1938 (Sr)              Martin,  John Francis

SAVIGNY Bat, 1939 (Jr)               Hudson, Keith H.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1939 (Sr)              Hughes, James Richard

SAVIGNY Bat, 1940 (Jr)               Hay, John Boyes

SAVIGNY Bat, 1940 (Sr)              Denton, Derek Ashworth

SAVIGNY Bat, 1941 (Jr)               Dawson, Alan Peter

SAVIGNY Bat, 1941 (Sr)              Denton, Derek Ashworth

SAVIGNY Bat, 1942 (Jr)               Lillico, John Alex

SAVIGNY Bat, 1942 (Sr)               Hudson, Bruce Balfe

SAVIGNY Bat, 1943 (Jr)                Griffin, Patrick V.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1943 (Sr)                Green, Maxwell John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1944  (Jr)                Ferrall, John Alfred

SAVIGNY Bat, 1944 (Sr)                Chester, John Askin

SAVIGNY Bat, 1945 (Jr)                 Hood, Robin K.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1945 (Sr)                Shepherd, Peter J.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1946 (Jr)                 Brain, John L.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1947 (Jr)                 Hawksley, Barrie Stephen

SAVIGNY Bat, 1947 (Sr)                Oldmeadow, John V.R.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1948 (Jr)                 Parry, Lloyd Trewlis

SAVIGNY Bat, 1948 (Sr)                Maddox, John Montgomery

SAVIGNY Bat, 1949 (Jr)                 Simpson, Warren John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1949 (Sr)                Craig, Warren H.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1950 (Jr)                 Sutton, David Bligh

SAVIGNY Bat, 1950 (Sr)                Bennett, Donald Granville

SAVIGNY Bat, 1951 (Jr)                 Hay, Ronald J.B.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1951 (Sr)                Watson, Brian Paul

SAVIGNY Bat, 1952 (Jr)                 Henty, William James

SAVIGNY Bat, 1952 (Sr)                Radford, Geoffrey William

SAVIGNY Bat, 1953 (Jr)                 Rundle, Anthony Maxwell

SAVIGNY Bat, 1953 (Sr)                Gunther, Arnold Rudolph Billing

SAVIGNY Bat, 1954 (Jr)                 Swan, Thomas Geoffrey

SAVIGNY Bat, 1954 (Sr)                 Wright, Raymond Maxwell

SAVIGNY Bat, 1955 (Jr)                  Taylor, Allan Robert

SAVIGNY Bat, 1955 (Sr)                 Rundle, Anthony Maxwell

SAVIGNY Bat, 1956 (Jr)                  Wherrett, Benjamin Charles Blanchard

SAVIGNY Bat, 1956 (Sr)                 Johnstone, Gerald Joshua

SAVIGNY Bat, 1957 (Jr)                              Clemons, Phillip Lloyd

SAVIGNY Bat, 1957 (Sr)                              Swan, Thomas Geoffrey

SAVIGNY Bat, 1958 (Jr)                               Sankey, Kevin Ross

SAVIGNY Bat, 1958 (Sr)                              Taylor, Allan Robert

SAVIGNY Bat, 1959 (Jr)                               O’Kines, Peter Ralph

SAVIGNY Bat, 1959 (Sr)                              Taylor, Allan Robert

SAVIGNY Bat, 1960 (Jr)                               Burbury, Michael James

SAVIGNY Bat, 1961 (Jr)                               Stewart, Ian Gilbert

SAVIGNY Bat, 1961 (Sr)                              Richards, Paul A.C.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1962 (Jr)                               Stewart, Ian Gilbert

SAVIGNY Bat, 1962 (Sr)                              Richards, Paul A.C.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1963 (Jr)                               Dehnert, Robert John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1963 (Sr)                              Hennessy, Kimball John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1964 (Jr)                               Dehnert, Robert John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1964 (Sr)                              Hennessy, Kimball John

Only the Senior Savigny Bat Presented from 1965

SAVIGNY Bat, 1965                                    Hennessy, Kimball John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1966                                     Dehnert, Robert John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1967                                     Fraser, Ian Andrew

SAVIGNY Bat, 1968                                     Dehnert, Michael William

SAVIGNY Bat, 1969                                     Henry, Robert Peter

SAVIGNY Bat, 1970                                     Russell, John Francis

SAVIGNY Bat, 1971                                     Bailey, John Brooke

SAVIGNY Bat, 1972                                     Russell, John Francis

SAVIGNY Bat, 1973                                     Gillard, Kim Andrew

SAVIGNY Bat, 1974                                     Stevens, Michael Bernard

SAVIGNY Bat, 1975                                     Boon, David Clarence

SAVIGNY Bat, 1976                                     Boon, David Clarence

SAVIGNY Bat, 1977                                     Faulkner, Peter Ian

SAVIGNY Bat, 1978                                     Faulkner, Peter Ian

SAVIGNY Bat, 1979                                     Bennett, Richard John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1980                                     Bennett, Richard John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1981                                     Smith, Anthony Peter S.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1982                                     Bennett, Richard John

SAVIGNY Bat, 1983                                     Courtney, Nicholas C.P.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1984                                     Courtney, Nicholas C.P.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1985                                     Courtney, Nicholas C.P.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1986                                     Holyman, Josef

SAVIGNY Bat, 1987                                     Last, Justin Mathew

SAVIGNY Bat, 1988                                     Harper, Raoul David

SAVIGNY Bat, 1989                                     Last, Justin Mathew

SAVIGNY Bat, 1990                                     Harper, Raoul David

SAVIGNY Bat, 1991                                     Bassano, Christopher W.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1992                                     Bassano, Christopher W.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1993                                     Bassano, Christopher W.

SAVIGNY Bat, 1994                                     Fraser, David Ian

SAVIGNY Bat, 1995                                     Dunning, Conan

SAVIGNY Bat, 1996                                     Dunning, Conan

SAVIGNY Bat, 1997                                     Green, Bradley

SAVIGNY Bat, 1998                                     Green, Bradley

SAVIGNY Bat, 1999                                     Bailey, George J.

SAVIGNY Bat, 2000                                     Bailey, George J.

SAVIGNY Bat, 2001                                     Terry, Christopher Michael

SAVIGNY Bat, 2002                                     Wallace, Paul R.

SAVIGNY Bat, 2003                                     Purcell, Michael Peter Owen

SAVIGNY Bat, 2004                                     Sundra, Ramesh

SAVIGNY Bat, 2005                                     Faulkner, James

SAVIGNY Bat, 2006                                     Faulkner, James

SAVIGNY Bat, 2007                                     Triffitt, Thomas

SAVIGNY Bat, 2008                                     Triffitt, Thomas

SAVIGNY Bat, 2009                                     Whelan, Zackary

SAVIGNY Bat, 2010                                     Pyecroft, Alexander

SAVIGNY Bat, 2011                                     Taylor, Alistaire

SAVIGNY Bat, 2012                                     Taylor, Alistair

SAVIGNY Bat, 2013                                     Cox, Aram

SAVIGNY Bat, 2014                                     Hine, Kayden James

SAVIGNY Bat, 2015                                     Cox, Matthew

SAVIGNY Bat, 2016                                     Elliston-Buckley, Samuel

SAVIGNY Bat, 2017                                     Rawlings, Dominic

SAVIGNY Bat, 2018                                     Elliston-Buckley, Samuel

SAVIGNY Bat, 2019                                     Curran, James

SAVIGNY Bat, 2020                                     Bennett, William

A great turnout of OLD LADS for lunch at Dynasty Chinese Restaurant which has now become the venue of choice. On this occasion we met on a Friday which saw a few familiar faces who had not been able to make our usual Thursdays.

The Headmaster, Richard Ford and the chairman of the School Board Nigel Bailey joined us and were pleased to meet a number of past students for the first time. Both Richard and Nigel will be regulars at our lunches.

Filling three separate tables was a record attendance of 20 with 8 apologies. It was pleasing to see the camaraderie which exists between the group. Stories flowed as customary at these lunches and I am hopeful that some of them will reach the 175 stories being assembled for the 175^th anniversary of the School this year.

The group is looking forward to the Elizabeth Chapter Chapel Service, luncheon and School walk with the Headmaster on 30 March. It will be interesting to see the converted old woodwork shop into the new Aviation Centre and also the refurbishing of the Gordon Rolph Pavilion which is long overdue. I have requested that the spiked floor boards from cricket boots 1961-2021 be kept and reused for the framing of the “centenary anniversary, Savigny Bat board 1923-2023”. Also that it be used for other material projects reflecting the history of the pavilion.

Alf Champion and David Saunders who have attended the OLD LADS lunch on visits to Launceston and myself were asked for a list of Hymns sung in the Chapel around 1955-60. We came up with a list and hope that they will form part of the service for the Elizabeth Street Chapter as we will at least recognise the tunes this year.

Paul A.C. Richards AM
pacrichards1@bigpond.com

Celebrating Launceston Grammar’s 175th Anniversary

The Melbourne Reunion is scheduled for Friday 11 June 2021.

Please note that may be subject to change due to any unforeseeable possible COVID-19 restrictions.

The School will advise any attendees of these changes if they occur.

EVENT DETAILS:

• Date: Friday 11 June 2021
• Time: 12pm for 12.30pm
• Venue: The Kelvin Club
• Cost: $65

RSVP by Monday 1 June

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Our Headmaster, Richard Ford and new Head of Boarding Ash Keatch had a wonderful time in Perth, Western Australian recently catching up with local alumni.

Our Headmaster, Richard Ford had an enjoyable time reconnecting with our North West Coast alumni.

A special thanks goes to Vivienne Locke and Sue Quinn for all of their hard work and commitment in organising this wonderful annual event.

The Savigny Bat book was published and donated to the School by the author Paul A.C. Richards AM and the Little Grammar book was published in 2015.

Anyone interested in purchasing these books please contact Community@lcgs.tas.edu.au