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NEWS FLASH
Perth College Old Girls Association celebrates a very special birthday next year
The Perth College Old Girls’ Association is proud to acknowledge PC’s 120th birthday in 2022. We congratulate our School on 120 years of nurturing young women to espouse the PC values of being capable, courageous and caring. As PC Old Girls we are fortunate to be beneficiaries of the founding Sisters’ belief in girls’ education and in the potential of women to achieve great things. Next year, we invite you to join us in celebrating 110 years of the PC OGA. The OGA was formed by the Sisters in 1913 with the aim of keeping Old Girls in touch with the school and each other, and this remains our primary objective. We are planning a special launch event in early 2023 with a year of celebrations to follow. Since its inception, the OGA has made significant contributions towards many PC building and refurbishment projects. The OGA has also proudly assisted daughters and granddaughters of Old Girls through bursaries and scholarships. In 1932 the OGA Sisters Memorial Bursary was established to support daughters and granddaughters of Old Girls to receive a PC education. The OGA’s Bessie and Emma Cotton Bursary has also assisted many girls who would otherwise not have been able to complete their PC education. In 2023 our inaugural Heritage Scholarship recipient, a daughter or granddaughter of a PC Old Girl not already attending PC, will commence at PC in Year 11. The OGA is proud to engage with Old Girls of all ages to reconnect and support each other and the School.
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Please update your details on the PC website to
ensure you are kept up to date with news and events. Visit www.perthcollege.wa.edu.au, select the COMMUNITY tab at the top of the page and click on OGA & Stay up to date; and fill in the form with your best contact details. We look forward to celebrating our 110 year birthday with you in 2023. Once a PC girl, always a PC girl.
Stephanie (Jennings) Fullarton (1979) President of the Old Girls' Association
Vampire diaries
I finally ticked off a small, personal goal recently. I donated blood. Like many, I hadn’t been able to as I lived in London in 1991, during the United Kingdom’s ‘mad cow disease’ outbreak. The ban, introduced in 2000, meant anyone who’d lived in the UK between 1980 and 1996 wasn’t allowed to donate blood amid fears of spreading the disease. But with the ban now overturned, it was easy to make an appointment and roll up my sleeve at the Lifeblood Donor Centre … and who doesn’t enjoy a cuppa and a TimTam? It felt great to give. Perhaps you can too now? Just a thought.
