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Otago Girls' High School Location 41 Tennyson Street,
DunedinCoordinates 45°52′30″S 170°30′00″E / 45.874981°S 170.499946°ECoordinates: 45°52′30″S 170°30′00″E / 45.874981°S 170.499946°E Information Type State single sex girls secondary (Year 9-13) Motto Recti Cultus Pectora Roborant - The Right Education Makes The Heart As Strong As Oak Established 1871 Ministry of Education Institution no. 378 Principal Jan Anderson School roll 772 Socio-economic decile 9 Website otagogirls.school.nz 
Otago Girls' High School main block building
Otago Girls' High School (OGHS) is a secondary school in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. It was opened 6 February 1871, after a long campaign by educationalist Learmonth Whyte Dalrymple. It is reputedly the oldest girls state-run secondary school in Australasia and the sixth oldest of its type in the world[1].
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Building History
At its foundation the school occupied a neo-classical building on its present site which it shared with Otago Boys High School. A new building on another site was built for the boys which they marched away to occupy in 1885. In 1910 the present main block was opened, designed by Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948) and the old building on Tennyson Street was demolished. Anscombe's conception of a rouge-brick Elizabethan mansion, dreaming in the sun, was slowly extended. Temporary structures were replaced in the 1970s by Ministry of Education blocks, contextualised by the use of brick to the Anscombe building. In the 1980s the main block was scheduled for demolition. After protest it was restored and extended by a sympathetic addition designed by E.J.Ted McCoy, and in 1987 was listed as a Category I Historic Place.[2] The school has since acquired part of the old King Edward Technical School site. It has erected structures there accessible by way of a pedestrian underpass beneath Smith Street.
Notable alumnae
- Ethel Benjamin - New Zealand's first female lawyer[1]
- Kelly Brazier - rugby union player
- Sylvia Cartwright - former Governor General of New Zealand
- Mai Chen - constitutional lawyer
- Constance Clyde - writer
- Margaret Cruickshank - New Zealand's first female medical doctor
- Elizabeth Gunn - paediatrician
- Alison Holst - cook
- Grace Joel - painter
- Juliet Marillier - author
- Shona McFarlane - artist, journalist and broadcaster
- Emily Hancock Siedeberg - New Zealand's first female medical graduate
- Olga Stringfellow - writer
- Nancy Tichborne - watercolour artist
- Yvette Williams - first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal
References
- ^ Otago Museum article
- ^ "Otago Girls High School Main Block". Register of Historic Places. New Zealand Historic Places Trust. http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=2202&m=advanced. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
External links
Categories:- NZHPT Category I listings in the Otago Region
- Girls' schools in New Zealand
- Educational institutions established in 1871
- Secondary schools in Dunedin
- Edmund Anscombe buildings
- New Zealand school stubs
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