Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2010

OGA MILESTONES

1956 – Kathleen Lilley Library Foundation Stone

1899 1900 1904 1905 1924 1925

OGA established with first president Miss Fewings (Headmistress) Foundation student, Bertha Burdorff elected president

Mary Mackinlay Honour Board donated to the School

Commenced tennis competition between Old Girls and current students

Initiated fundraising for School swimming pool

Hosted Jubilee Year Ball

Funded extension to running track Old Girls’ Gymnastics Prize for Upper School commences. Renamed the Hilda Webb Memorial Prize for Gymnastics in 1943

Centenary window designed by Jennifer Andrews and developed by Warick Blair

1930

1933

Contributed to fundraising for science laboratory

1934

Established Annie Mackay Memorial Bursary awarded to first in Year 11

1935 1938 1940 1949

Paid for the plans for the grounds beautification

Launched fundraising appeal for School Library

formed in 1938 at a time when there was a “preponderance of very young girls in the Association” and a number of more Senior members of the Association “wished for an opportunity to meet people of their won generation”. It was also in response to Miss Lilley’s wish that she would like to see the Association taking an active part in the life of the community. The Senior Group donated monies to the Bush Book Club, the Toys for the Courier Mail Christmas Tree for the Children’s Hospital, the City Mission, the Silky Oaks Orphanage, and the Red Cross were just some of the beneficiaries. The War Work Group fund was set up to distribute and collect wool and finished articles and to organise functions to raise money for the war effort. Organisations supported included the Prisoner of War Fund and the comforts Fund. Regular knitting parties were held and for those who did not knit there was an opportunity to sew. Waist-coats from grey blankets for the troops overseas and to cut up old garments to fill pillows for the Red Cross. The Group also supplied “comforts” such as balaclavas, socks and mittens directly to the men of the 2/2 Field Hygiene Section. Dances and Bridge afternoons or evenings were held to raise money for this group. The OGA has also maintained links with and provided support for many other institutions and associations developing in Brisbane. This has included support for the movement to establish a university in Queensland and later to found the University Women’s College; an affiliation with the National Council of Women, the Secondary Schools’ Past Students’ Association and the Queensland Secondary Schools’ Girls’ Club.

Initiated BGGS War Work Group Fund

Donated War Memorial Honour Board commemorating Grammar girls’ war service Inaugural Old Girls Day (later known as School Day and now Open Day)

1953

1954

Held combined OGA and OBA Fair

Kathleen Lilley Library opened funded by OGA with aid of government grant

1958

1960

Swimming pool opened

1969

Established the Annual Mary Alexis Macmillian Prize for Poetry for Form ll

1970 1975

OGA Art Shows commence

Initiated Centenary Fundraising Project

Established Kathleen Lilley Old Girls prize for English and the Marjorie Elliott Old Girls Prize for Health and Physical Education

1983

1994 1997 1999 2003 2004 2006 2008 2009

Fundraising for new gymnasium

Association incorporated

Centenary celebrations for OGA Stained glass window in Main Building commemorates association’s centenary

Provided foundation monies towards a scholarship

Supported IYPT Final OGA Art Show

Restoration of the grave of Bertha Burdorff

Planted Wollemi Pines at Marrapatta

Celebrated 110 Year Anniversary of OGA