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Footage includes:

• Aerial views of College campus and surrounding area (especially Mount Austin and Turvey Park), the Mary Gilmore Gates, rose gardens and a gardener, and construction of new lecture block (would later become the preschool).
• College activities, such as residential areas and student life in the residences, students in the Blakemore Library, a geography lesson, a trophy presentation ceremony with Principal Hale in the Auditorium, drama, soccer, kitchen staff serving dinner, students in the dining room, students catching a bus to climb The Rock, and sailing on Lake Albert.
• Practice Teaching, such as aerial views of Turvey Park Demonstration School, college students observing classes (includes primary students dressed in costume during a history or geography class, then students dancing in the quadrangle, a college student teaching a class at Narrandera, students catching buses to attend practice teaching, children dancing outside a country school.
• End of year activities, such as a Graduation or Debutante Ball, packing up the residences, saying goodbye and catching the train at Wagga Wagga Railway Station.
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Footage includes:

• male students welcomed to one of the men's dormitories
• the enrolment desk with Mrs Wilson, the Principal’s Secretary
• students arriving by taxi on campus, with photographs by the local newspaper photographer, Tom Lennon
• students on a bus tour of Wagga up onto Willans Hill
• displays by children at the Lake Albert Demonstration School
• the inter-dormitory swimming carnival at the Wagga Swimming Baths (incl. Greg Worthington and diving competitors)
• students at the Wagga Beach
• a dinner dance in the Dining Room
• students promoting the 1965 student production in Baylis Street
• scenes from the student's production of Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan (August 1965)
• inter-collegiate sports Wagga vs Alexander Mackie College, incl. softball and tennis
• Open Day activities, incl. trampolining, sailing, tents building?, knowledge displays, etc.
• students travelling on a Fearnes bus to Practice Teaching at Bethungra School
• the end of year Graduation Ceremony and formal dinner dance
• students leaving College at the end of the year via car, taxi and train.