To be not to be

Winners of the Interhouse Play Competition presented 1971 by Doreen M. Yeates

The first school magazine to mention an Interhouse Play Competition was in 1971 when a former staff member, Doreen Yeates (nee Thomas) donated a cup to the winning House, Woolcock. The first official mention of the Doreen Yeates trophy in the 1973 Annual Report detailed that the cup was awarded to Lilley House who had also been victorious in 1972.

1971 VIB Play in the Auditorium.

Doreen Yeates arrived at Girls Grammar in 1951, having been educated at St Margaret’s and the University of Queensland. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1933, she taught at St Margaret’s and was the first female teacher at Toowoomba Grammar School. Mrs Yeates taught History, Geography, and Mathematics for twenty-one years at BGGS and finished in 1971 as the Second Mistress, the term given to what would be the modern-day Deputy Principal. It is not known who introduced the competition, or even if Mrs Yeates had a special interest in Drama, but certainly