{"id":212973,"date":"2018-07-05T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T05:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=212973"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T05:50:42","slug":"high-school-to-mark-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/07\/05\/high-school-to-mark-centenary\/","title":{"rendered":"High School To Mark Centenary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back to where it all began … a clipping from Page 6 of the Brisbane Courier , February 22, 1918
(Photo: Trove)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brisbane Courier, December 9, 2018 … At the end of that first year, the high school had 55 pupils<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 5, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

A special reunion weekend has been planned on September 8-9 to mark the\u00a0100th anniversary of Kingaroy State High School.<\/p>\n

All past and present students, staff, and other interested people have been invited to attend.<\/p>\n

The reunion will also coincide with the official opening of the new multi-purpose building at the school.<\/p>\n

There’ll reunion will include displays, school tours, souvenirs and a thanksgiving service in the Assembly Hall, with offerings going towards the school’s Chaplaincy Fund<\/p>\n

More information is available on the reunion committee’s Facebook page: Kingaroy State High School 100th Anniversary of Secondary Education<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or email the school:
\nkshs100@kingaroyshs.eq.edu.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A group photograph of the first teachers and students at the new Kingaroy State High School building in 1958 (click on the image for a larger version and a key to the names)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this year, retired Kingaroy businessman John Learmont recalled the huge amount of work the late Allan Swendson did in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2009 of the opening of the new Kingaroy State High School building.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1998, an old school friend gave Allan a copy of a photograph (above) of the new high school’s first students, taken in 1958.<\/p>\n

Allan began the task of tracking down the names of the 192 people in that photo … 175 students and 17 staff members.\u00a0 Click on the image to see the result …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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