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Rockhampton Grammar School Past Students Association

Locality: Rockhampton, Queensland

Phone: +49 360776

Address: Archer Street 4700 Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

Website: http://rgs.qld.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Event Cancelled: The RGS past student all years reunion in Brisbane scheduled for 23 May has been cancelled due to the changing environment surrounding COVID-19. We wish our past students all the best during these challenging times.

22.01.2022 In 1967 this group of friends from RGS formed the band "Created Soul". Fast forward to 2020 -Lindsay Palmes, Robert Lang, Doug Yuille and Jim Randell still enjoy belting out a tune. The 1968 photo was taken at RGS (before the days of Palmer and Woolock buildings) and in 2020 the old school mates reunited in a similar location.

22.01.2022 It's always great to see RGS past students still catching up and remembering their school days. John Kaputin (wing), Lance Currie (fullback) and Mike Evans (center) caught up for lunch recently in Brisbane and relived the glory days of their undefeated Firsts rugby league team of 1958. That year they played teams from Rockhampton High, Mt Morgan High, North Rockhampton High, St Brendan's College and Christian Brothers. In a season of 10 home and away games, RGS only had one try scored against them!

22.01.2022 Congratulations to entrepreneurial chartered civil engineer Jessica Kahl (RGS 2012) on winning this year's Griffith University QBM MBA Responsible Leadership competition. https://news.griffith.edu.au//2020-griffith-qbm-mba-schol/

20.01.2022 Congratulations to Ben Condon (RGS 2017) on being named to make his NRL debut for the North Queensland Cowboys against Penrith this Friday night.

18.01.2022 Great to see Melanie Martyn (RGS 2016) - Vet Science - promoting the QCoal Foundation Scholarship programme for James Cook University.

17.01.2022 Ben Condon (RGS 2017)

14.01.2022 Event Postponed: The 2020 RGS Distinguished Past Student Awards Dinner scheduled for July has been postponed. Nominations for the 2020 awards will be carried over for the 2021 awards dinner and nominations have been reopened for people still wanting to nominate a past student. For more information on the award categories visit - http://www.rgs.qld.edu.au/distinguished If you have any questions please email [email protected]

13.01.2022 The RGS Past Students' Association Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, 18 June, at 5.30pm via ZOOM. If you would like to join the meeting please RSVP to [email protected] The ZOOM meeting link will be sent to all attendees. Nominations are called for all positions - President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Committee Members.

12.01.2022 The Rockhampton Grammar School Past Students' Association Annual General Meeting was held last night. Congratulations to the following past students on their election to the executive committee for 2020/2021: President - Thomas Birkbeck (RGS 2009) Vice President - Robert South (RGS 2009) Secretary - Alison Payne (RGS 1985) Treasurer - Nick Johnson (RGS 2015)... Committee - Adrien Lang (RGS 1993) If you wish to contact the RGS Past Students' Association please email [email protected]

09.01.2022 An inspiring story on Larry Farquhar (RGS 2014).

09.01.2022 The latest edition of The Grammarian, your RGS Past Students' Association newsletter, is now available on the RGS website - http://www.rgs.qld.edu.au/the-grammarian-newsletter Thank you to this edition's contributors. We now look forward to preparing the "Summer Edition". If you have any interesting stories or photographs to share with our school alumni, or need to update your contact details, please email [email protected]

08.01.2022 Well done to RGS 2017 School Captain Ged Moriarty for helping raise funds and increased awareness for mental health (the below article was published in The Morning Bulletin newspaper): GERARD Moriarty is in training for a gruelling challenge to help raise money for LIVIN, an organisation which aims to break the stigma around mental health. The Rockhampton Grammar School graduate and two of his university mates Luke Bellamy and William O’Mealley will run 5km every four hou...rs for 48 hours from Friday, July 31, to Sunday, August 2. The men have mapped out a scenic course at Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point and met recently to devise a game plan for the event. Gerard said they believed in the philosophy of LIVIN, which focuses on connecting, supporting and encouraging people to talk about their feelings and challenges because It Ain’t Weak to Speak. The three of us agree that this is such an important issue and we’re pretty passionate about it, he said. I love everything that LIVIN stands for, breaking the stigma around mental health and saying that it’s okay to speak out. Luke and Billy are my mates. If I’m feeling down I know I can always go to them; they create that environment where you feel you can talk whenever you need to. The trio is now in training for what promises to be a mental and physical challenge. It will be pretty tough on the body but hopefully with the next month of training we can get ourselves in the best shape possible to do it, Gerard said. We’re planning to get an Air B’n’B close to the course so we don’t have to travel far between each run. That way we’ve got time to recover, sleep and get back there for the next 5km. The three of us together are pretty good at motivating each other. I know we will be able to push each other to get through the 48 hours. Gerard said they were all capable of doing 5km in 22 minutes but they were aiming for 30 minutes to ensure they didn’t wear themselves out. They have been overwhelmed by the financial support, and are calling for people to join them on the run. They set a goal of raising $3000 and are well on the way. In 24 hours it hit about $1700, which is unreal, Gerard said. We’d love to see the total soar beyond $3000 and I’m sure LIVIN would too. Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/622592548352934/

05.01.2022 The Grammarian past student newsletter is due for circulation in July. We would love for you to share your stories and photographs by emailing [email protected] For those RGS past students living overseas, maybe you could share how COVID-19 has impacted your life in that part of the world. Looking forward to hearing from you.

04.01.2022 It's wonderful to see former RGS Board Chairman Ken Coombe honoured at Beef Australia 2021 - https://beefaustralia.com.au/the-ken-coombe-tech-yards/ Mr Coombe was RGS Board Chairman from 1998 to 2001 having previously served as a member on the RGS Board of Trustees from 1978.

04.01.2022 Our students at The Rockhampton Grammar School are preparing to take their study into the "remote learning" space for the start of Term 2. Here's some online reading material for you - the RGS Term 1 Capricornus Quarterly. Enjoy the read - http://rgs.qld.edu.au/thequarterly Snapshot: It was great touching base with RGS past student Natalie Raborn (nee Ryan, RGS 1994) on her mountain biking pursuits in the USA.