From the Senior Library

From the Senior Library

“125 Years in 125 Days” – Welcome to our third week of counting down our School’s birthday!

This week in the Library we have been having a great time looking at past photographs of School productions and House plays. We have featured an old and new example each day. We have loved the contrast between Christian House’s 1953 Apple Pie Order and their winning production of Coraline in 2018. Can you guess what year this early School production of Trachiniae was performed?

 

In the week before Easter we are featuring items relating to important or interesting School buildings.

  • Do you know what year the Chapel was first opened?
  • When did the School acquire the Playhouse?
  • Which famous Australian Nobel Prize winner had his first play performed at the then Bryant’s Playhouse, in 1935?
  • St Peter’s church was acquired by which Head Mistress?
  • When was it first used as the official assembly hall?
  • What year was the Auditorium opened? 
  • When was the Diana Bowman Centre completed?
  • The OG Building has had several names over the years.
  • Do you know any of them and in which decade was it first opened?

 

Opening of the Auditorium

If you don’t know, or are unsure of any of the answers, stay tuned for our next update and all will be answered.

Answers to last week’s questions:
  • Of course, the well-known Australian and Old Girl featured in the 1936 winning relay team is Margaret Whitlam (DOVEY 1930-1937).
  • The Crusaders’ camp photo was taken in 1978, which many Old Girls guessed on their Facebook page and Audrey Gathy (BARAT 1966-1979) is sure she took the actual photograph.
  • Old Girl Kerrie Ikin (BEARD 1966-1971) was correct in saying Beck won the first House Cup for Sport, in 1926.
  • The first recorded winner of the House Drama Festival was Beck, in 1950, as the 1949 inaugural Drama Festival awarded no winners.
  • Between 1950 and 2020, Docker has easily won the most House Drama cups.
  • The J., B. and P. Wootton Cup is awarded to the Head House at Speech Night each year.
  • Finally, the House named Head House the most times is Barton, who first won it in 1930 and lastly in 2019.

Our Friday quiz: Do you know the name of this fabulous School Production and what year it was performed?

Email your answers to alisonconliffe@sceggs.nsw.edu.au


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