From the Senior Library

125 Years in 125 Days  – We have just completed our ninth week of counting down to the School’s birthday!

It has been wonderful having students back in the Library. Students have been looking at the Countdown display and marveling over how the School buildings have changed or looking at plaid uniforms that they did not know existed!

We are now easily past halfway and what a lovely way to celebrate by looking at some of the Formals and School Dances over the decades. We began with a dance card from a SCEGGS Old Girls’ Union Dance, in 1921, showing the variety of popular dances of the day. This card shows “Billy” and “Cyril” vying for dances. Note the time of the last tram leaving for the Spit Road Junction. 

Click on the thumbnails below to view the full image.

The 1965 Final Year Formal was held in the School Gym, which was apparently decorated as a barn. The 1968 dance was held in the old Barbara Chisholm Assembly Hall with a band called The Executives. 

We especially loved the posed photograph from the 1972 Year 12 Formal, clearly showing the 70s fashions. We featured an example of the 1980s dances showing some Year 12s at the “Fifties and Sixties” style dance hosted by the Year 9s and attended by guests from Scots and Kings. The 1991 Year 10 Formal photograph showcases the fashions and hairstyles of the era.  Come and see the display in the library for other SCEGGS formal fashions from years past.

Next week our Boarders will be back on site. To celebrate their return, we are featuring special memories that remind us all of our Boarding School history.

Remember to view the countdown so far, via our Cognito Senior Library page. Scroll down and click on the “Celebrating 125” to view, or follow this link. Watch the videos as we continue to move closer to the birthday celebrations!

Friday’s quiz question: Can you guess the year this photograph was taken, featuring a well-known Old Girl from the 80s?  

Dorothy Wilkinson Memorial Library and Archives