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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Opening of the E.H. Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Mrs. Phyllis White, daughter of Eddie Graham, cuts the ribbon at the opening of the EH Graham Memorial Gates, with the Premier of NSW, Mr JJ Cahill, looking on.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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The Dame Mary Gilmore Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Staff, students and visitors gathered at the entrance to the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College (at the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates in College Avenue) on the occasion of the opening of the E.H. Graham Memorial Gates in Urana Street.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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The E.H. Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The E.H.G. Memorial Gates were a gift to the College from the students of the 1958-1959 Session and memorialised the State Member for Wagga Wagga, Mr. Edgar H. Graham, who had died in office the previous year. The gates were installed at the entrance to the playing fields on the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College Campus.
The gates can still be seen on the Wagga Wagga Campus of Charles Sturt University at the entrance to Pugsley Place, close by the Graham Building, which was also officially opened on 19 September 1958.
The original gate posts are still in situ in Urana Street.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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The E.H. Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Vice-Principal George Muir spoke at the opening of the EHG Memorial Gates, in the absence of George Blakemore, who was seriously ill at the time.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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The EH Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The EH Graham Memorial Gates at the Urana Street entrance to the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College ovals.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1960s
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