1920s

Key date

September 1921: The College Crest was drawn and the motto was adopted.

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1920 Fancy dress at Women's
1920Fancy dress at Women's
From the earliest days of the College, residents demonstrated an enthusiasm for college activities and a penchant for dressing up.
1921 Swimming at Mowbray Park Baths
1921Swimming at Mowbray Park Baths
Pictured are Jessie Smart (alumna 1921 – 1929; left) and her friend (right) swimming at Mowbray Park Baths in 1921.
1922 Harriet Marks
1922Harriet Marks
Pictured is Harriet Marks outside the back of Oskarsholme in 1922.

Harriet Marks began her association as a resident scholar of Women’s at Kangaroo Point in 1920. After graduating with a Science degree, she taught physics and chemistry at Queensland country high schools. During World War II she returned to Brisbane to engage in war work. In 1943 she assumed the position of Senior Tutor at The Women’s College where she remained as Assistant to the Founding Principal, Dr Freda Bage, until 1953.

Miss Marks then resigned from the College to become the first Inspector and Supervisor of domestic science courses in the Queensland secondary school system, ‘putting science into domestic science’. Miss Marks continued her close association with The Women’s College as a Council Member and was President of Council in the decade of the 1970s. After a long and distinguished contribution, Harriet Marks resigned from the Council in 1986 for health reasons.

Her devotion to the College is recognised in the naming of the dining hall in her honour, the Harriet Marks Dining Hall.
1923 Kangaroo Point tennis courts
1923Kangaroo Point tennis courts
Pictured are Dot Yates (alumna 1922 – 1923) and Sal Hooper, attending to the nets at the Kangaroo Point tennis courts in 1923.
1924 Women's in the news
1924Women's in the news
This article about The Women’s College from the Bundaberg Mail was published on Tuesday 1 July 1924. The article details the proceedings of a meeting at the City Council Chambers where dignitaries and community members spoke about the continued need to financially support The Women’s College.

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1920Fancy dress at Women's

From the earliest days of the College, residents demonstrated an enthusiasm for college activities and a penchant for dressing up.

1921Swimming at Mowbray Park Baths

Pictured are Jessie Smart (alumna 1921 – 1929; left) and her friend (right) swimming at Mowbray Park Baths in 1921.

1922Harriet Marks

Pictured is Harriet Marks outside the back of Oskarsholme in 1922.

Harriet Marks began her association as a resident scholar of Women’s at Kangaroo Point in 1920. After graduating with a Science degree, she taught physics and chemistry at Queensland country high schools. During World War II she returned to Brisbane to engage in war work. In 1943 she assumed the position of Senior Tutor at The Women’s College where she remained as Assistant to the Founding Principal, Dr Freda Bage, until 1953.

Miss Marks then resigned from the College to become the first Inspector and Supervisor of domestic science courses in the Queensland secondary school system, ‘putting science into domestic science’. Miss Marks continued her close association with The Women’s College as a Council Member and was President of Council in the decade of the 1970s. After a long and distinguished contribution, Harriet Marks resigned from the Council in 1986 for health reasons.

Her devotion to the College is recognised in the naming of the dining hall in her honour, the Harriet Marks Dining Hall.

1923Kangaroo Point tennis courts

Pictured are Dot Yates (alumna 1922 – 1923) and Sal Hooper, attending to the nets at the Kangaroo Point tennis courts in 1923.

1924Women's in the news

This article about The Women’s College from the Bundaberg Mail was published on Tuesday 1 July 1924. The article details the proceedings of a meeting at the City Council Chambers where dignitaries and community members spoke about the continued need to financially support The Women’s College.