From the Senior Library

“125 Years in 125 Days”

Welcome to our second week of counting down to the School’s birthday!

This Week in the Senior Library we have been featuring special prizes, House Cups and past SCEGGS girls’ clubs. Can you recognize this well-known Australian and Old Girl featured in the 1936 winning relay team? Can you guess what year this Crusaders’ camp photo took place? Which year was the first House Cup for Sport awarded and who won it? Why is the J, B and P Wootton Cup given?

Next week we will be featuring past School and House productions. See if you can answer some of the following questions. Do you know who won the first Interhouse Drama Festival? Which House has won the most Drama cups?

Congratulations to Zara Ibrahim, in Year 8, who submitted the correct answer to last Friday’s Lux magazine question. Mrs Prue Heath, from Archives, kindly let us display the first 1900 edition of Lux in the Library, secured in a locked glass case, of course. Congratulations to Old Girl Julie McCrossin, whose post on the Old Girls’ Facebook page, revealed she not only knew our first student but could quote the day and month she started school.

Answers to last week’s questions

Mary Watson was our very first student.

The Edith Badham Memorial Prize is awarded for English as well as two Religion prizes in the Junior and Senior categories.

Charles Kelland worked at SCEGGS as our general handyman from the early 1920s until 1961. His wife Daisy was in charge of the tuckshop and is remembered for her nutritious home-cooked meals. Well done to Old Girl Noelene Barton who knew who the Kellands were and commented on the Old Girls’ Facebook page.

The Spencer Horrocks Cup was first given as a choir cup in 1967 and is now given to the winner of House Music, which was won this year by Docker.

The Lady Anderson Memorial Prize is awarded, in her honour, to a Year 12 girl for Modern History but was first known as the Gift of Josephine WIGHT (1902) and was first awarded in 1921 for English and History to Grace Thompson.

Stay tuned for this Friday’s featured quiz question about our House Cups.

Dorothy Wilkinson Memorial Library and Archives