Objects of Substance - OGA Badge

maintained its popularity and twenty-three orders have been issued during the year.”(OGA AGM 1936) One assumes that these blazers were worn by old girls to matches where Girls Grammar old girls played the current school teams in netball and tennis and when fixtures were held under the auspices of the Queensland Girls’ Secondary Schools’ Club which was formed by the various affiliated Old Girls’ Associations.

Bessie Phillips’ (1921) OGA pocket.

The Archive collection has one example of the OGA pocket which adorned the blazer. The pocket belonged to Bessie Phillps, Head Girl in 1921, donated by her daughter-in-law, Carmel Boyle, in 2002.