{"id":1388,"date":"2020-03-26T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1388"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:12:23","slug":"from-the-senior-library-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/from-the-senior-library-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Senior Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>\u201c125 Years in 125 Days\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our second week of counting down to the School\u2019s birthday!<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This Week in the Senior Library we have been featuring special prizes, House Cups and past SCEGGS girls\u2019 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\u2019 camp photo took place? Which year was the first House Cup for Sport awarded and who won it? Why is the <em>J, B and P Wootton Cup <\/em>given?<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1388 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/03\/Senior-and-Junior-Swimming-teams-000225-002.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"Senior and Junior Swimming Teams Winners of both Relay Races and Championships, 1936.\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/03\/Senior-and-Junior-Swimming-teams-000225-002-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>Senior and Junior Swimming Teams Winners of both Relay Races and Championships, 1936.<\/figcaption>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/03\/001029-Crusaders-Camp.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"Guess which year this Crusader Camp took place?\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/03\/001029-Crusaders-Camp-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>Guess which year this Crusader Camp took place?<\/figcaption>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Zara Ibrahim, in Year 8, who submitted the correct answer to last Friday\u2019s <em>Lux <\/em>magazine question. Mrs Prue Heath, from Archives, kindly let us display the first 1900 edition of <em>Lux<\/em> in the Library, secured in a locked glass case, of course. Congratulations to Old Girl Julie McCrossin, whose post on the Old Girls\u2019 Facebook page, revealed she not only knew our first student but could quote the day and month she started school.<\/p>\n<h5>Answers to last week\u2019s questions<\/h5>\n<p>Mary Watson was our very first student.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Edith Badham Memorial Prize<\/em> is awarded for English as well as two Religion prizes in the Junior and Senior categories.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Spencer Horrocks Cup <\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Lady Anderson Memorial Prize<\/em> is awarded, in her honour, to a Year 12 girl for Modern History but was first known as the <em>Gift of Josephine WIGHT (1902)<\/em> and was first awarded in 1921 for English and History to Grace Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for this Friday\u2019s featured quiz question about our House Cups.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dorothy Wilkinson Memorial Library and Archives<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c125 Years in 125 Days\u201d Welcome to our second week of counting down to the School\u2019s birthday! 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