Objects of Substance- The Mackinlay Honour Board

scholarship. The Mackinlay Scholarship was awarded for the first time in 1906 to Elsie Pascoe, who left for Sydney University to study medicine the following year.

1904 Fifth Form with Mrs Jessie Dakin – Elsie Pascoe seated 2 nd on the right.

Once qualified, Elsie went on to work in the NSW Public Mental Health System as the following newspaper article reports:

1927 20 August Smiths Weekly NSW p.13.

In 1904, two years after her death, students who attended the School during Mary Mackinlay’s principalship collected funds for a memorial board in her honour. Led by Eva McLay [nee Hockings] (1882), the Old Girls Committee raised funds for the board, in memory of Miss Mackinlay, to be erected in what was the Assembly Hall (now known as the Annie Mackay Room). The money was presented to the School to commemorate what Head Mistress, Milisent Wilkinson described as the “splendid work she did for the School”. (Wilkinson,1904) The Honour Board was unveiled in 1904 by the Acting Governor, Sir Hugh Nelson and attended by numerous Brisbane dignitaries. It is interesting to speculate why an acting governor and dignitaries were present at the unveiling not of a building but of an honour board with no mention of any family. Reginald Roe, who had been Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar, and had worked for several years with Miss Mackinlay, supported such a memorial. He spoke of her wholehearted devotion to the School and that she had allocated most of her own funds for the advancement of the School. ( The