Congratulations to the following Old Boys for their recognition in the 2020 Australia Day Honours list.

Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia

• Dr Neil Robert Wetzig AO (1972) for distinguished service to the international community of the Democratic Republic of Congo through medical support, teaching and training programs.

Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division

• Mr Barry Kelly AM (1962) for significant service to the mining and minerals sectors, and to business.
• Professor Anthony Cassimatis AM (1982) for significant service to education, to the law, and to the community.

Australian Conspicuous Service Medal (CSM)

• Colonel Craig Lauder CSM (1989) for meritorious devotion to duty as the Chief of Staff in Headquarters Joint Task Force 633 on Operation ACCORDION from March 2018 to January 2019.

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

• Rear Admiral Jaimie Hatcher AM RAN DSC (1985) for distinguished command and leadership in warlike operations as the Commander Joint Task Force 633 on Operations OKRA and HIGHROAD from January 2018 to January 2019.

Aaron Brown (1997)
Aaron is a 2019 Churchill Fellowship recipient. He has been awarded The Mr and Mrs Gerald Frank New Churchill Fellowship to research the performance practice of medieval and baroque music – Greece, Italy

Charles Kosecki (2008)
Charles was a crew member on Ichi Ban which was declared the overall and handicap winner of the 2019 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Lachie Taylor (2015)
Lachie, the 2015 School Captain, has graduated from QUT Law with First Class Honours. In a highly competitive field this is very hard to achieve, so congratulations to Lachie on a tremendous achievement.

Angus Scott-Young (2014)
Angus has graduated from The University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Science, all whilst playing full time professional rugby with the Queensland Reds. He has also been awarded the UQ Young Leaders Award 2019 and the Rugby Union Australia Players Association Academic Achievement Award 2019. Furthermore, Angus continues his charity work with Reds to Regions, Red Frogs, RSPCA Queensland and Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Theo Milbourne (2019)
Theo completed his IB diploma in 2019 and has been accepted into Cornell University to study a Bachelor of Architecture commencing in 2020. Cornell is one of the world’s most highly regarded and prestigious schools of architecture.

Zac Stubblety-Cook (2017)
Zac has backed up his excellent performance at the World Champs with a superb QLD champs last December. Zac established a new QLD Open and QLD All-Comers record of 2:07.28 in the 200m breaststroke, maintaining his World #4 ranking to become the world’s 7th fastest performer ever in the event. Zac followed this up superbly with a first in the 100m breastroke, stopping the clock in a time of 59.83 to achieve the first sub-minute of his career in this event.

Peter Russell (1980)
Peter has received the second runner up award at the Queensland Health Awards for Excellence. Peter restores his patients’ ability to eat, speak and smile, enhancing their dignity and quality of life, and allowing them to lead as full a life as possible.

Liam Wright (2014)
Liam has been appointed as Captain of the QLD Redsm for the 2020 Super Rugby season.

Nick Malouf (2010)
Nick has been appointed as Captain of the Australian Mens Rugby Sevens Team for the 2020 season which includes the Olympics to be held in Tokyo during July and August.

Mathai Joshi (2011)
Mathai has been crowned Townsville’s best lawyer as voted by the community. A solicitor at Arthur Browne & Associates, Mathai says his faith in God and family support has helped him to combat personal battles and mental health to go on to succeed in one of the most competitive professions.

Rod Duke (1981)
Rod is the new chief of publicly-owned Energy Queensland, parent company of Energex and Ergon.

Churchie Scholars (2019)
At the School’s recent Academic Celebration Assembly, some of our newest Old Boys of the 2019 cohort were acknowledged for achieving the equivalent ATAR of 98.00 or above. George Walker, with an equivalent ATAR of 99.55, was the recipient of The Tyrwhitt Memorial Cup for Dux of School for 2019, and The CE Elliott Rhodes Scholarship Award for Proxime Accessit to the Dux was awarded to Max Crakanthorp, who achieved an equivalent ATAR of 99.35.

Lachlan Toovey (2019)
Lachlan has been recognised as one of the state’s top academic achievers at the Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) Achievement Awards. He was awarded the Highest Achievement by an Aboriginal Student or Torres Strait Islander Student. Please click here to read more.