Objects of Substance - Giddy and Guileless Grammar Girls Acr

groups in the curricular and co-curricular programs? Here we have confirmation that organised concerts involving choral groups were a fixture of school life by 1931, attended by friends and family. Of interest also is the dress code for these events: white dress. This code persisted into the 1960s with Speech Night attended by students in white. For boarders this was also Sunday dress for church.

Creina O’Dwyer’s (1965)

The 1960s usher in clever depictions of Grammar life. One artist, Creina O’Dwyer (1965) was prolific in her renditions of Grammar girls and her sketches feature in many School magazine entries for her time, 1962-1965. Creina is also rememberd for the gifted photograph album her VID Form class presented to their Form Mistress, Miss Doreen Thomas. For Creina, drawing was a way to record the funny and quirky stories of friends at BGGS in the 60’s. Creina gave them away and now when she meets fellow old girls, she finds they have kept them, which is a delight for her.

1964 Unidentified artist July BGGS Magazine p27.

The sometime crowded life in the day of a Grammar Girl is captured in the chaos of the changing room and the homeward bound journey by bus from the old infamous number 23 bus stop which took students into the city to connect with further transport home.