Opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates
Title
Opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates
Date
30 October 1956
Subject
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Description
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".
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".
Creator
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Identifier
CSURA SA1/334
Original Format
Photographic print
Collection
Citation
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College, “Opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates,” Charles Sturt University Regional Archives Digital Gallery, accessed November 22, 2024, https://csuregarch.intersect.org.au/items/show/1125.