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75th Anniversary - Armidale Express special insert
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Jean Newall, archivist at NEGS, has come across this article regarding TAS's 75th anniversary celebrations. The article was originally produced as a 4 page insert for the Armidale Express, 18 August 1969. (6.4 Mb PDF) |
A rare treasure has been sent to the School for which we are indebted to Mr E John Mereweather.
This version of The School Song by Elsie Hope Docker,written in 1911, turned up in the papers of Mr Mereweather's uncle, the late Robert Wallace Docker who was at TAS during WW1 (1916-21).
Robert Docker's father, Tom, was the manager of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. (His sister Hope was Mr Mereweather's mother.) It was Tom's wife Elsie who wrote the words and music.
The words of the song:
We've a song to sing, may its echoes ring, from
the Gulf to the the Southern Bight.
We've a name to make and a place to take in our
country's struggle and fight.
We must follow the rules of the ancient schools,
which have done so much for the world.
For their names are known and their work is shown,
wherever the flag's unfurl'd.
Then together we'll work and together we'll play,
doing our utmost in every way
for the pride of the hearts in our homes far away
and the fame of The Armidale School.