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Grahame Ginn

He was then successful in gaining the position of Director of Studies at The Southport School (boys, P – 12) on the Gold Coast, commencing there in January 1986. Whilst at the School he was appointed as Commanding Officer (Lt.Col.) of what was then Australia’s largest Army Cadet Unit, he was appointed as independent school representative to the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies Curriculum Committee, he was part of the Queensland Government’s Committee to Review Assessment and Moderation procedures and he completely re-established the curriculum at TSS and subsequently set in place a major ($1.5 million) Information Technology re-structuring of the school. Also. whilst at the School he also coached rugby, soccer, tennis and karate. He taught Chemistry and Information Processing and Technology to senior students. Mr Ginn has always enjoyed sport and devoted his fitness training, at that time, to the study of karate, in which he became an instructor.

In early 1994 he was appointed as Foundation Principal to Fraser Coast Anglican College. It is partly due to his unusually wide range of experiences in all manner of things (from building to computer programming, to financial management, to timetable development, to project management, to curriculum construction, to selecting staff, to managing military units and understanding so many aspects of schooling that the Diocese had confidence to appoint such a person to found a school in an area somewhat remote from mainstream interest. During his time at the College he has generally held the roles of Principal, Business Manager (or that role shared with Mrs Anne Patterson and Mr Russell Green) and teacher of Information Processing and Technology. He has also coached cricket. His major task, of course, was the strategic development of the school from nothing and to ensure its successful and viable future as one of the region’s (and Australia’s) finer schools. He purposefully introduced International education to broaden the students' horizons (he travelled to other countries to set up sister school links and to market our school overseas), enabled the school to have a leading edge Information Technology position, enabled an excellent Outdoor Education and leadership challenge program, ensured a strong sporting and cultural climate and made sure of strong academic results – all this in an environment of strong pastoral care and Anglican ethos. He and Kathryn devoted themselves completely to the development of the College.

Mr Ginn is currently Chairman of the Queensland Anglican Schools System – both Board and Council, Chairman of the [Queensland Anglican Schools Commission]] Marketing Committee.

Mr Ginn is also the Founding President of Education Hervey Bay (Inc.), which is an organisation developed to enable links between all educational bodies, Council and Commerce bodies for the overall development of education as an industry in Hervey Bay. Its major focuses, to date, have been the development of International Education for Hervey Bay, the implementation of the State Government’s Education and Training Reforms, the setting up of interschool activities (sport and debating as starters), the support of funding applications for local educational groups and the support of teachers in their roles as educators and carers. This latter body has enormous potential for the development of this region.

On Australia Day 2005, Mr Grahame Ginn was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to education, particularly through the promotion of educational opportunities in Hervey Bay.

Sources

http://www.fcac.qld.edu.au/

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