Objects of Substance- Speech Day Tablecloth

The School Badge centred on the tablecloth .

The women of ’42 embroidered, in royal blue thread, each of their names around the 1300mm x 2400mm edge. There are twenty-eight names on the white damask tablecloth although there were twenty-seven graduates listed in the Annual Report of 1942. Valmai Wrigley, who is included in the embroidery, left school in the “third quarter” of 1942. However, her fellow students regarded her as very much one of their cohort.

Detail of the 1992 Speech Day tablecloth.