Foundation Day or Reunion was celebrated on 22 April in 1950, the closest date available.
Reunions, previously held in October, were now scheduled to coincide with the first celebration of Founders' Day and all future Reunions were to be arranged for the date on which Founders' Day was observed.
In these years, Founders' Day began at 9.30am with the solemn and impressive Commemoration Service held in front of the main school buildings. The presentation of the lectern constructed by DC Scott from yellowwood removed from the original school building occurred this year (1951).
New branches were opening up and old ones were flourishing as the new decade began.
C Wakeford and 40 Old boys celebrated Reunion in Rhodesia in Salisbury and others in Bulawayo.
The Natal, Port Elizabeth and East London branches were going well.
There was talk of trying to revive the Johannesburg Branch, at one time the strongest of all.
The following year the Bloemfontein Branch (also known as the Free State, Basutoland and Northern Cape Branch) was instituted.
The QCOBA was well to the fore in the events surrounding the inauguration of the long-planned and awaited War Memorial Hall. The association had been heavily involved since HQ Davies had conceived the idea in 1944.
The Memorial Hall's primary purpose was the honouring of Old Queenians who had made the supreme sacrifice and, in some other sense, it was to serve as the hub of school activities of many different sorts.
It was therefore fitting that Old Queenian and former QCOBA secretary, master at Queen's and then headmaster of Wynberg Boy's High School, Commandant WE Bowden MC, was invited to perform the opening ceremony.
This took place in the presence of Mrs R Knight, who had lost two Old Queenian sons in World War II and who represented all mothers who had suffered the loss of sons, husbands or other dear ones in the war.
