1954 History
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Class Photographs
1954 '1st Academic I' class photograph.
Thank you Margaret McCahon for providing this photograph.
1954 '1st Academic I' class photograph.
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1954 '1st Academic II' class photograph.
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1954 '1st Academic II' class names on the back of the class photograph.
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Newspaper articles
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£35,030 for schools
Thursday 07 January 1954, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 2.
Various works to State and State High Schools to cost £35,030 were approved today.
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Secondary School Principals Seven Appointments
Friday 08 January 1954, The Cairns Post (Qld), page 1.
Seven principals of State secondary schools were included ia the appointments announced by the Minister for Education (Hr. G. H. Denies) to-day after a meeting of the Executive Council.
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Promotion For Mr. C. N. Crosswell
Friday 08 January 1954, Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld), page 3.
MR. C. N. Crosswell, deputy principal of Mackay State High School, has been ap pointed * principal of Mt. Isa State High School.
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Seven Principals in School Transfers
Friday 08 January 1954, Warwick Daily News (Qld), page 5.
Seven principals of State secondary schools were included in appointments announced by the Minister for Education (Mr. Devries) yesterday after a meeting of the Executive Council.
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New Block For School
Monday 11 January 1954, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 2.
Expenditure for the erection or a manual training and administration block at the Indooroopilly High School has been approved by the Executive Council. Mr. A. W. Munro, M.L.A., has been advised by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Hilton) that the block will con tain an upper and lower floor. The upper section of the manual training portion will be of prefabricated units. The administration section, main floor staircases and lower section will be built with materials sup plied by the Public Works Department. The Work will be carried out by the construc tion branch of the department as early as possible.
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Finish Schools Rush
Wednesday 13 January 1954, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 1.
In a race to beat the first "schools in" bell this year, an army of workmen throughout the State is assembling school buildings worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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New Buildings Ready As 120,000 Back At School
Monday 25 January 1954, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 6.
BUILDERS in most cases have won their race to complete new school buildings for the opening of primary schools in south-eastern Queensland today. For about 120,000 children the holidays are over and they will be at school today.
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Scholars Flock To New "Nests"
Monday 01 February 1954, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 5.
Four new State High Schools which were built in a rush to be ready for the new school year will be occupied tomorrow.
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School Crowding Eased
Saturday 06 February 1954, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 7.
Three new State High Schools opened in Brisbane this year have relieved congestion in other secondary schools.
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Fast bowler takes 7/12
Saturday 07 October 1954, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 18.
State schoolboy fast bowler Frank Spearer yesterday took 7/12 for Indooroopilly State High School against Salisbury High School at Victoria Park.
Queensland State Archives
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02 February 1954 Admission Register - Indooroopilly State High School
Beautiful cursive script handwriting to mark the student attendance roll on Tuesday 02 February 1954 at Indooroopilly High School.
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Queensland Heritage Register
History
Indooroopilly SHS was one of the three high schools planned to open in Brisbane in 1954, each with room for 250 students. The suburb of Indooroopilly was chosen so that the school could service the western suburbs, with Banyo SHS servicing the northern suburbs and Salisbury SHS the southeast suburbs, thus reducing the number of secondary pupils travelling to and from the city area.
Indooroopilly SHS opened on 2 February 1954, with one classroom building (known as Block A in 2016), erected on high ground near the centre of the site. The opening enrolment comprised 167 Year 9 students.
In 1954 the type was improved by replacing the proliferation of stumps in the understorey with a timber truss that spanned the width of the classrooms above and provided an unimpeded play space. This truss system, introduced to support Boulton & Paul prefabricated units, was subsequently adopted for conventional timber-framed school buildings.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=650035