Objects of Substance- School Magazine

1913 School Magazine cover

The only original copy we have is one donated and inscribed with the name Ettie Baird. The badge on the front looks, to modern eyes, more like one for Brisbane Grammar School but the contents are definitely all about the girls. The first six pages are advertisements which did nor re-appear until 1933. Perhaps the most pertinent advertisement for the School is that for a Miss Dorothy Brockway, a “teacher of physical culture and of swimming” at her “private gymnasium and swimming bath” on Wickham Terrace. Dorothy Brockway was an old girl of the school for a year before leaving, in high dudgeon, in support of Miss Fewings who was sacked by the Trustees in 1899. Miss Brockway returned to Grammar as a Physical Education teacher after studying in England establishing a comprehensive and professional Health and Physical Education platform.