Objects of Substance - OGA Badge

2021 Keyring and OGA Badge gifted to all Year 12 students at the Valedictory Dinner.

The only other appearance of the OGA badge design was as a blazer pocket. At the 17 April OGA Committee meeting in 1934, a letter to the Committee was tabled from Miss Madge Fryday (1924), suggesting an OGA blazer. This request was considered by the OGA, but progress was slow with Miss Jessie Stephenson (1922), the OGA Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, making three recommendations in her 1934 report for the School magazine. Number 3 of these recommendations was “that an O.G.A. blazer be decided upon, available to members.” (BGGS December magazine 1934 p51)

The 1949 OGA President, Jessie Stephenson (1922)

With this clear Jessie Stephenson instruction, a pocket was designed and submitted. This design was an exact representation of our Old Girls’ badge. It appears that this blazer with the embroidered pocket was well received by past pupils as the 1936 Annual Report reads, “ The Sports coat has