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Old Girls’ Association
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Ardens Sed Virens - Burning Yet Flourishing
Since 1921, the Fairholme Old Girls Association has maintained a rich tradition of connecting past students of the College with each other while creating new connections with present girls.
It’s a place celebrating the lives and careers of Fairholme Alumnae, where the breadth of our Old Girls achievements and contributions to the community are wide and varied. Fairholme Girls maintain a strong connection with the community, often returning to the campus to share their stories, their passions, their successes - those which were developed and nurtured during their time at Fairholme.
Our Old Girl community engenders a sense of belonging, mentorship and support to our girls that extends well beyond the gates they depart each year as they step confidently into their futures. Our Old Girls are forever linked by the unbreakable bond of being ‘Once a Fairholme girl - always a Fairholme girl’.
FOGA is dedicated in helping our girls build a network with other alumae. Our growing membership base - more than 11,000 Old Girls - allows girls to reconnect with classmates, further career networks and engage with other girls who share the Fairholme history.
Key aims of the Old Girls’ Association are to:
Meetings are held in Toowoomba at Fairholme College in the Homestead each month. Please email foga@fairholme.qld.edu.au for the next meeting.
We would love to see new Old Girls come along and join our enthusiastic committee which regularly plan activities - as fresh ideas are always welcome
We welcome President Sarah Jane Macdonald (2009), Vice President Rebecca Vonhoff (2000), Secretary Georgia Soutar (2008), Treasurer Naomi Aird (1983) and Patroness Marie Cameron (1961).
Sarah Jane, a lawyer with Macdonald Law, already has great plans for FOGA including networking events, mentorship programs and Old Girl Reunions.
“It’s about connecting our past with the present and engaging old girls and new in a vibrant space. We are so grateful to the outgoing committee for their work, commitment and dedication in safeguarding the history and relevance of FOGA. I am looking forward to continuing to strengthen the bonds of Fairholme Old Girls.”
As our girls graduate from Fairholme, they automatically become a part of the Fairholme Old Girls Association - a vibrant and united alumnae network of trailblazing leaders.
All past students are encouraged to stay connected with the College. Update your details to keep connected and engaged with upcoming social and business networking events, mentoring opportunities, reunions, meetings and developments at Fairholme College.
To update your details, please use…
Your help in locating Past Students is invaluable. The Past Student listing › allows you to instantly find the names of all Past Students including those whom we have been unable to locate.
Through the FOGA Office you may also request contact with another Fairholme student. Personal information (other than name and year) is not disclosed in the listing.
This facility is proving to be a very valuable tool as it is being extensively used to provide us with updated information as well as enabling many ‘Old Girls’ to reconnect with each other.
‘Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit.’ Indian Proverb.
You can help a future Fairholme girl by financially supporting a scholarship, or simply providing funds for a uniform, a new schoolbag of her first Panama. Your contribution will help build the future generation of Fairholme Girls who will learn, grow and be empowered to make a difference in her community. Your support can give girls from all backgrounds the opportunity to live and study within the supportive, inclusive and vibrant community of Fairholme College.
Donors can make a direct deposit into the FOGA Special Fund (details below), or call the Business Manager, Mark Freeman, on 07 4688 4688 to talk about a contribution.
Fairholme Old Girls Association Special Fund:
BSB: 638-080
Account No: 700398 S24
Keen to hear about how other Old Girls’ news and adventures? Please see the pages dedicated to Fairholme Old Girls in the latest edition of Focus on Fairholme.
Focus on Fairholme 2023 (6.5 MB PDF)
Focus on Fairholme 2022 (7.8 MB PDF)
Focus on Fairholme 2021 (14 MB PDF)
Focus on Fairholme 2020 (8MB PDF)
For any information about Fairholme Old Girls, please email contact:
Helen Lange via
2022-2023 F.O.G.A. Executive
President: Sarah Jane Macdonald (2009)
Vice President: Rebecca Vonhoff (2000)
Secretary: Georgia Soutar (2008)
Treasurer: Naomi Aird (1983)
Patroness: Marie Cameron (1961)
FOGA Fairholme Positions
Alumni Officer: Helen Lange foga@fairholme.qld.edu.au
Reunion Co-ord & Memberships: foga@fairholme.qld.edu.au
Focus Correspondent: Mrs Kathryn Doyle kathryn.doyle@fairholme.qld.edu.au
Fairholme College is proudly a college of the
Presbyterian Church of Queensland