Gifts to Clarendon
Thank you to the following people who have generously donated items to our collection in recent times. Over 500 items have been catalogued to the Museums Victoria database, Victoria Collections, and can be viewed here.
In the following notes, the initials BC stand for Ballarat College, CLC for Clarendon Ladies College, CPLC for Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies College and Clarendon for our present school. Peer years (the year the peer group would have completed Year 12) appear in brackets after names.
If you have any items or memorabilia to contribute, please reach out to Archivist, Hugh McKenzie-McHarg, at archives@clarendon.vic.edu.au to help us preserve our shared history.
We respectfully advise First Nations readers that these pages may contain names and images of deceased persons.
These notes were compiled by Archivist, Hugh McKenzie-McHarg.
Coulter Cup
Lisa Dawes on behalf of her great aunt, Joan Curtis (1927) (dec)
Coulter Cup awarded to Joan in 1927.
The Coulter Cup was a solid silver cup awarded annually by Mrs P Sutherland (Coulter) to a CPLC student who excelled in work, sport and moral character from 1927 into the 1950s. Mrs Sutherland dedicated the cups in memory of her own schooldays, her former home site at CPLC and her two brothers who were killed in World War I.
Joan’s cup is particularly special as it was the first to ever be awarded.
Original CLC navy blazer pocket with basketball colours embroidered c1925.
Student photographs and postcards c1925.
Program from the official opening and dedication of CPLC in 1926.
CPLC report and prize list from 1959.
Centenary year Christmas card and Centenary Church Service program from 1968.
CLC blazer pocket
Nicola Abel on behalf of her mother, Antoinette Abel (Louden) (1951) (dec)
Touchstone magazine from 1948.
CPLC Central Australia Tour tickets
Elizabeth Tatoulis (Kamaretsos) (1967)
Itinerary, travel requirements and Ansett flight tickets from the CPLC Central Australia Tour in 1966.
Andrew Oliver (1970) on behalf of his mother, Nola Oliver (dec)
Whole school portrait on wooden backing from 2007.
CPLC year level photo c1970
Margaret Harris (1972)
CPLC year level photo c1970.
School song
Kate Clarke (Sheludko) (1992)
Copy of the original hand written school song.
Clarendon’s current school song was the winning entry in the 1989 School Song Competition. It was composed by Kate, with lyrics written by her mother, Rosemery Sheludko. Rosemary was a member of the Clarendon Council during the late 80s and early 90s and Kate attended Clarendon between 1987-1988. Kate was just 14 years old when she wrote the melody.
Geoffrey Stevenson (1957) (dec) and Tania Archibald (1986)
Elspeth Stevenson-Matthews
Newspaper articles relating to Clarendon from 2007-present.
Photograph of Geoffrey Stevenson (1957) (dec) and Tania Archibald (1986), taken after Tania won the first Geoff Stevenson Prize for Legal Studies in 1986.