2008 School Magazine

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Happy birthday to us! B is bane Girls Grammar School has always valued the enrichment to the lives of its students offered by he resources provided by a library. The School has benefitted from a purpose- built library since the opening of the Kathleen Lilley building on the 7 June 1958. This year its fiftieth birthday was celebrated. The Kathleen Lilley Library was originally a two storey structure sponsored by donations from the Old Girls Association, a support that significantly pre-dated the building itself. in 1975, on the centenary of the School, two new buildings were constructed, one of which replaced the library. One of these has become the Kathleen Lilley wing of C Block and houses the present library which has reverted to its original The Beanland Memorial Library Miss Soph'a Beanland, Headmistress from 1882 to 1889, eft a bookcase and many of her books when she left the School. This fledgling collection has been added to by subsequent principals and many graduating students' While it is wonderful to look back over the School's rich history, it must be recognised that this attitude of service and giving to the School is a tradition carried on by the current students, parents, staff and the wider community. The Valedictory Gift Programme is generously supported by the families of leaving Year 12 students as one way of "returning" something to the School. name

Other members of the School and wider community have also enriched the collection with generous donations of resources for the students-the Rhoda Felgate (1918) collection includes books about the people and craft of the theatre from the library of a past student; the Nancy Under hill collection is a donated a collection of screenplays and parent Mr Gordon Bennett, contributed books, magazines and catalogues relating to his work as an arts . Therefore, while a library rel'es on members returning their resources, what is even more s'gnificant Is the bigger return-the years a library serves and is valued by, its users who never seem to lose the desir o give back. "^.@ t" ^00kZ; P"eF^?@^. substantial gift of art books and in aga ines; Ms Eleanor Witcombe (1944) collected and

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