Document. From the Bishop of Bendigo, The Right Reverend Ben Wright, Dear Parents, it is with much sorrow and regret that I write to inform you that Girton College must close at the end of this academic year. 13 August 1992.document, memo, girton college closure

In 1884 Mrs Aherne and Mrs Mrs Willward founded Girton and named it after the first residential college for women at Cambridge University in England. It was controlled by the Anglican Church. By 1992 the church could no longer afford to run the school and announce its imminent closure. A group of parents and citizens formed the "Friends of Girton" and with massive plans and fund raising they managed to reopened the school in 1993 as an independent school with no gap in classes.Bendigo Advertiser from Saturday March 28, 1964. Girton's "goodly heritage" 80 years of educational leadership.girton, education