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fro m the A rchives
1950s: Lyn, Lady Garland (Jamieson, 1955) and Frances 1970s: As with tennis, JCH has had significant success
Murray (Low Chow, 1955) donated photos from their time since women joined the intercollegiate rowing regatta.
in College to the archives, with some wonderful images The Women’s Regatta began in the 1950s when members
from student days in the 1950s – including of Mary Tyler of Janet Clarke Hall (as 2014 Intercollegiate Regatta notes)
(Mackney, 1955) (left) Mary Young (Tait, 1955) (centre) and ‘decided it was about time that women had a race of their
Lyn (right) having fun in the Melbourne General Cemetery own’. The College dominated over the early decades of the
after Chapel, and of a Rabelaisian Hockey Match against women’s race – and as these images from 1971 suggests,
Trinity c. 1957. a winning culture was mixed with a sense of fun on the
banks of the Yarra.
A powerhouse eight (left to right) Jenny Webb, Jenny Ross,
Diane Cameron, Alison Finlay, Robyn Vines, Laurie Patrick,
Brenda Grabsch, Diane Jane Rouse (all 1970) and cox Bill
Harbison (Trinity).
Relaxing in the cementary
1972 post win celebrations
Hockey match Cast in to the Yarra
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