The year 1991 was significant in that, taking 1912 as the year of inception of the QCOBA as a whole, it was the association's 80th birthday and the occasion was celebrated with a will.
The December newsletter of that year carried the wonderful headline notice of the purchase by the Queen's College Trust of the Victoria Recreation Grounds for R450 000 from the municipality.
The entire block, bordered by College Avenue and Frost, Berry and Trafalgar streets, encompassed about six hectares with the most superb sports facilities – at that stage including the Olympic-size swimming pool – and gave the school an extraordinary amenity.
In 1993, with the updating of the QCOBA constitution, the organisation's structures were more clearly set, so as to provide every Old Queenian with an overview of how it worked.
At its head lay the national executive, with the important subcommittees of finance and communications, and then the national council, with the national secretariat accommodated in offices in the Old School, though independent of the school organisation.
Each of the 13 branches operated through its own committee and there was an overall listed membership at the time of 3 700 Old Queenians. The two main aims of the association were identified once more as being service to the school and to the members of the QCOBA.
The three major projects, organised nationally at this time, were the Bonanza fundraiser, run untiringly and for years by Johan du Plessis, Roley Godley and Norman Jakins, the Directory/Diary, of the greatest use to Old Queenians, and the National Golf Club competition, staged at different clubs each year.
The sale of Lukin House, an asset of the QCOBA, went through in 1994.
