Professor Russell Stone is pictured with cadet Nick Blanks.
MAGS remembered its fallen Albertians today at the Anzac Service Assembly in the F.W. Gamble Hall with a special guest: Albertian Professor Russell Stone, who has just celebrated his 102nd birthday.
Professor Stone, who served in the Air Force and Army during World War II, joined other guests who were escorted by piper Andrew Wilkie into the hall, already filled with the Year 9 audience.
Our Gloriana choir performed Hine e Hine following Deputy Head Prefect Tyler Yare reading Sigh Not by Albertian John Clarke.
Year 13 History students Nora Pecher and Head Prefect Campbell Buchanan spoke about our fallen Albertians.
Norah focused on brothers Reginald and Ian Grant and how Reginald, as his brother’s commanding officer had to report Ian’s death to this parents.
Campbell spoke about the service of Roger Whitfield and Athol Kilner (see more about Athol below) – and put their service in perspective as young men who gave their lives so we could enjoy peace and prosperity.
As at every ANZAC Service, the names of fallen Albertians were read aloud, the Ode of Remembrance was read, and a laying of wreaths was performed at our cenotaph during the Last Post and Reveille, played by student Kiri Lovatt, as the school flag was lowered and raised both inside the hall and at the cenotaph, where the names of the fallen Albertians are inscribed in stone.
