Objects of Substance- The Swimming Pool

What resulted was a Bovis Lend Lease 16m suspended construction designed by M3 Architecture. The Health and Physical Education Faculty suffered a long and challenging four years without an on site pool where Grammar girls went “back to the future” either walking to Spring Hill Baths or bussing to the Centenary Pool for their swimming and lifesaving classes.

2008-09 Pool Construction.

The challenge of fundraising was as vital an issue for this pool as it was for the 1960 pool. However, a more sophisticated appeal was mounted. The elegantly named Desiderata Pool Appeal reached its goal, with 210 donors contributing a total of $1,068,140. Once again, the Parents and Friends Association gave most generously, as did the Mothers Group. At the time, the School received a bequest from the late Frederick John Noblet and his sister, Judith Dalton Noblet (1944), a strong academic student and certificate of merit winner. It appears that the School made the decision to allocate this bequest to the Pool Project as it seemed both timely and appropriate. Acknowledgement of this most generous bequest by John and Judith Noblet can be seen on the wall at the pool.

2010 Plaque on the pool wall acknowledging John and Judith Noblet’s contribution