{"id":4030,"date":"2026-07-07T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/?post_type=article&p=4030"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:04:44","slug":"old-oxleyans-return-to-oxley","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/article\/old-oxleyans-return-to-oxley\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Oxleyans Return to Oxley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It was a pleasure to welcome back Matt Smee (Class of 1989)<\/strong> and his family to Oxley.\u00a0 Matt was one of Oxley\u2019s earliest students and part of just the third graduating year group in the College\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Smee family\u2019s connection to Oxley runs deep.  Matt\u2019s father, Mr Grahame Smee was an integral part of the establishment of Oxley, and contributed a significant amount as a Founding Governor and later Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Smee and Family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grahame Smee, Founding Governor and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claire Smith (Ingram, Class of 2000) <\/strong>came to visit Oxley while she was back in the Highlands recently. In her graduating year, Claire was the winner of the Oxley Award, and was the Florey House Captain.\u00a0 Luckily, her visit coincided with a Florey House Meeting so she was able to relive some of the Florey spirit with our current Florey House Students and Mr David Spies, Head of Florey House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claire with the current Florey House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With Headmaster Mark Case and Deputy Head of College, Tristan Bevan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a pleasure to welcome back Matt Smee (Class of 1989) and his family to Oxley.\u00a0 Matt was one of Oxley\u2019s earliest students and part of just the third graduating year group in the College\u2019s history. The Smee family\u2019s connection to Oxley runs deep.  Matt\u2019s father, Mr Grahame Smee was an integral part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[17],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4030","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-college-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}