COMMUNITY
Friends of the Senior School (FOSS)
The 2014 academic year has flown by.
FOSS has continued to be very busy within
the Senior School and would like to thank
parents and community members for their
continued support of our various activities.
Our Liaison Parents have been very active
throughout the year and have coordinated
many successful events across the year
groups to enable parents to come together
and network in a variety of settings. Any
parent of a boy in the Senior School is
welcome to come along to the FOSS
meetings and see what we are about. Our
role is to support the Senior School boys,
staff and parents in a range of ways through
catering, service to the School and liaising
with parents.
In May we hosted another successful
luncheon for mothers, timed to coincide
with the mid-term break so as to enable the
mothers of boarders to attend. In September
a number of parents embarked on a bush
walk in the Kalamunda Hills, followed by
lunch at the Kalamunda Hotel. FOSS also
hosted the Fathers’ Day Big Breakfast in the
Senior School on the last day of term. We
welcomed over 600 guests to this event with
all funds raised being donated to Lifeline
in support of Youth Suicide Prevention.
We were very pleased to again provide an
opportunity for parents and community
members to purchase their Christmas
Puddings from Gravel Road through FOSS.
Finally we would like to take this opportunity
to thank our Year 12 parents for their
support and to wish them and their boys
every success in the upcoming exams. We
hope to still see you from time to time at a
Guildford Grammar School community event.
Ruth Warden
Chairperson – FOSS
MOGS visit to York
On a very warm day in October, a group of MOGS (mothers of
Old Guildfordians) set off from the DLD car park in the school bus
heading to York to spend the day at Sally Boyle’s gracious old
home. Tim from the Kitchen had packed us a delicious lunch.
Our bus driver for the day was Robin and while she drove us
towards York the MOGS chatted away catching up with each other’s
news. On arriving at York we easily found Sally’s home as she had
tied a Guildford Grammar School apron to the letter box.
Sally and her husband Tony (St George’s 1963-1967) have a
wonderful old home named “Panmure” which was built in 1906.
On arrival, the MOGS gathered under a lovely old gazebo and
were given champagne and orange. Two MOGS from York, Kerrie
Robinson and Beverley Marwick, also joined us for the day. Jan
Pittman and Louise Day travelled up from Gidgegannup by car and
joined us after looking through antique shops in the York township.
President Adrienne Spencer presented Sally with the gift of a
pomegranate bush and our bus driver Robin was asked to draw the
tickets for the raffle.
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After devouring the sandwiches outside we were all glad to join Sally
inside the cool rooms of her home where she dished out wonderful
homemade ice cream. Sally and Kerrie had also made a wonderful
selection of cakes and slices and the recipe of a very old favourite for
macadamia and ginger fingers has been circulated to all the MOGS.
After gathering for a photo on the steps of the home we boarded
the bus back to Guildford. We all had a wonderful day and arrived
back tired but happy.
Rosemary Waller
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