Great Scot - The Scotch Family Magazine - Issue 151 September 2017 GreatScot_Internal_Sept_2017_FA | Page 76

OSCA
Adelaide
Scotch Family
Branch
26 April 2017
A Toast to
Scotch College
by Andrew Sinclair (’80), for the Scotch Family
Adelaide branch dinner
I want to recall our days wearing cardinal, gold and blue,
And remind us of phrases that bind us, like glue.
A plot in Hawthorn Victoria – to us it means loads,
Bounded by Morrison Street, Glenferrie and Callantina Roads.
Where ‘sometimes in your dreams you’ll hear a deepening roar’,
We’re Scotch Collegians all – to the very core!
We’ve got our own memories from what was founded in 1851,
Your teachers, sport, music, art – if like mine, t’was all fun.
Powerful is the School motto – ‘Deo Patriae Litteris’,
It means for God, Country and Learning, but to rhyme would be
. . . [long pause] awkward.
So I trust that ‘scenes long past will rise up to meet you’,
Like the Mem Hall, Quadrangle and Main Oval do for me too.
ADELAIDE SCOTCH FAMILY BRANCH ATTENDEES
NOEL AND BEV ALLISON (’50), GRAHAM BOWIE ('68), ANDREW BUCHANAN ('58), MARG AND GEOFF CAMPBELL ('64), JULIE AND ROWAN EVANS
('68), ROBERT KEARNEY, ROSS LECKIE ('59), GEOFF MCLEAN ('66) GERALDINE AND ROSS MCOMISH ('66), SCOTT MONTGOMERY ('85) OSCA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JOSEPHINE AND DAVID PETCHELL ('62), JUDY AND RON RULE ('66), PETER SCHLOEFFEL ('65), GRACIE SHEPPARD,
ANDREW SINCLAIR ('80), BARRY STEELE ('88), ANDREW WILSON ('78) OSCA COUNCILLOR, JOHN WOODSIDE ('60).
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Here’s to Scotch College – from Adelaide, nowhere near us,
Yet we all agree ‘Thou best of schools and dearest’.
So ‘gladly now our glass we raise’. To Scotch
Great Scot Number 151 – September 2017