PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE AND LINKING PAST WITH PRESENT
TGHS Old Girl’s Association still plays a significant role in celebrating past and present

 FELLOWSHIP AND PRIDE IN HERITAGE

Timaru Girls’ High School’s former students have a very strong Old Girls’ Association.  All former students are welcome to join the Old Girls’ Association and are invited to join and help preserve the special character and heritage of our school.

THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE OLD GIRLS’ ASSOCIATION IS THE FELLOWSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP, WHICH BEGINS AT SCHOOL AND IS CARRIED ON THROUGHOUT A LIFETIME.


Please Register Your Information On Our Past Students Database. We invite past students to share their contact details so we can keep you connected with Timaru Girls’ High School and our wider alumni community, especially as we prepare for our school's 150th celebrations in 2030. By joining our alumni, you can hear about reunions, events, school news, mentoring opportunities, and ways to support future generations through scholarships, facilities, and special projects.

Your story is part of our school’s story. We would love to keep in touch.

Roselyn Fauth (nee Cloake)
TGHS Student 1995-2000
ALUMNI & COMMUNITY COORDINATOR

community@timarugirls.school.nz

REGISTRATION FORM

Old Girl's history and branch information

The first meeting of the Old Girls’ Association was held in Timaru on 14 June 1920. Mrs William Raymond presided and there was an attendance of approximately 100.

Apart from the Home Association, branches are still active in Dunedin (est.1934); Christchurch (1934); Nelson (1978); Mid Canterbury (Ashburton) (1963) and Waimate (1967). There are also informal groups who meet in Geraldine and Temuka and most recently in Oamaru.


Every student is part of our story since the school opened in 1880.
The first Old Girls’ Association meeting was held on 14 June 1920. 

Since then, we have helped people keep in touch with one another and the school, celebrating the friendships, memories and sense of belonging that begin at school and continue through life. Past pupils have contributed greatly to the school over the years, gifting cups and trophies, artworks, the Jubilee Gates, a grand piano, improvements to the Gwen Avery Drama Suite extensions, the squash courts, archive support, and the beautification of the grounds.

We warmly thank our members for their wonderful support of our school and community over the association's last 100 years.
You are welcome to join our membership to keep in touch, support us, and join our events via the school's website.

Pam Gibson
OLD GIRLS’ ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT


TIMARU

See what’s on with the OGA events calendar

Through the Old Girls’ Association, past pupils keep in touch both with the school and with fellow old girls within their region – thereby strengthening membership in existing branches – and also forming new groups in other areas around New Zealand and overseas.



President: Mrs Pam Gibson 027 210 9736 03686 4730 ap.gibson@slingshot.co.nz

Secretary: Mrs Beryl Maglis, 021 150 1153 bjmaglis@hotmail.com



ARCHIVES

Pam Gibson 027 2109736

Email avolunteers@timarugirls.school.nz


Join our private Facebook page - TGHS Old Girls' Association


The OGA and branches contribute to prize giving ceremonies to celebrate past and present achievements and have contributed to the school in a number of ways including:

 

  • The completion of Honours Boards now hanging in the Nora Dickie Hall, 
  • New street signage on the corner of Hassall and Cain Streets, 
  • Portable staging for the Arts & Drama;
  •  Ongoing contributions to the safe storage and cataloguing of uniforms, publications, photographs, art work and school archives.