Objects of Substance - The 150 Year Badge

The Interhouse Athletics Aggregate Cup aka The Mollison Cup with Olympian, Barbara Wilson’s (Jordan 1969) spikes. Many myths have been uncovered and mysteries solved. For example, the Mollison Cup for Interhouse Athletics Aggregate Points, the Marrapatta Stone on the Spring Hill Campus, Grace Wilson’s photograph simply named Auntie Grace’s photograph, and the story of the ‘saving’ of Main Building’s front door keys. One Object, despite all these efforts, continues to elude us and that is the Foundation Stone placed in 1883. We leave that great challenge and mystery to those of the future. As 150 years is honoured and celebrated in 2025, we place now before our School 150 Objects of Substance: A Treasury of Material Culture at Brisbane Girls Grammar School. So now, with this golden gift, the sesquicentenary is fully launched with every student and staff member bound by a special symbol of their connection to this special institution.

Ms Jacinda Euler Welsh

Principal