Opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Mrs Dorothy Catts officially opening the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates on Tuesday, 30 October 1956.
The gates were designed for the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College by Lionel Gaylor and were donated to the College by the students of the 1956-1957 Session.
Mrs Catts was a vice-president of the Society of Women Writers and an Austrailian writer. She had been chosen by Dame Mary to represent her at the opening.
Mrs Catts unveiled the plaque at the gates, which had been draped with an Australian flag. She then cut the ribbon stretched across the gates, keeping pieces of the ribbon and cutting a rose from a bush next to the gates for Dame Mary.
The Inscription on the plaque read: "These gates are a memorial to Mary Gilmore, D.B.E., Pupil (1875) - pupil-teacher, and then assistant in the old Gurwood Street School of Wagga Wagga. Session 1956/57 gift".
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
30 October 1956
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Swimming Carnival
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College swimming carnival champions in 1956: (l-r) unidentified student, Leo Tobin, and Cherie Hingu.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Intercollegiate: Newcastle Teachers' College
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Newcastle Teachers' College students and a teacher arriving at the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College campus (corner of College Ave and Charleville Rd) for Intercollegiate week, 1956.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Intercollegiate: Hockey
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The Wagga Wagga Teacher's College hockey team who played against Newcastle Teachers' College during Intercollegiate week in 1956.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Intercollegiate: Netball
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The Newcastle Teachers' College and Wagga Wagga Teachers' College netball teams during the 1956 Intercollegiate week in Wagga.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Intercollegiate: Rugby Union
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The Newcastle Teachers' College and the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students playing rugby union during the Intercollegiate week held in Wagga in 1956.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Intercollegiate: Soccer
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The Newcastle Teachers' College and the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students playing soccer during the Intercollegiate week held in Wagga in 1956.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Intercollegiate: Softball
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The Newcastle Teachers' College and the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students playing softball during the Intercollegiate week held in Wagga in 1956.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Back of Cooinbil
From the reverse side of print: "Reg Edwards, Roy, and Wally. Back of 'Cooinbil', taken after breakfast. We reached here yesterday dinnertime from Peppercorn, and left about 9 o'clock this morning for town with Peter Newman driving jeep. Eight or nine camped here last night. Fences on job - Bill Feint? No fish yesterday - river too high with recent rain. Tues. 24th Jan. 1956. 8.00 a.m. Sun".
Albert Green
24 January 1956, 8am
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