A BOATER, banners and a 1975 record entitled We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing… is among memorabilia put on show to celebrate 150 years of The Scots School Albury.
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Slices of birthday cake were shared among 600 staff and students as the institution marked its sesquicentenary on Friday morning.
It was on July 22, 1866, that Albury Grammar School began with 30 students in Olive Street, before undergoing several name and location changes.
Today, after becoming The Scots School in 1972 with the merger of Albury Grammar and Woodstock Presbyterian Girls' School, it has just under 500 students.
Principal Peggy Mahy is delighted to be overseeing the 150th which is being marked with a weekend of events.
“I’m out of my skin with excitement,” Ms Mahy said.
“I think it’s a highly significant achievement to be a high quality provider of education in any context for that length of time, but especially in a regional setting where we’ve become a hub community for many generations.”
Ms Mahy was joined by her three predecessors, Heather Norton, Warren Howlett and Alistair Todd, at a celebratory dinner at the Albury Entertainment Centre on Friday night.
The commemoration will continue on Saturday with a lunch for 100 past students coinciding with other activities at the school’s grounds.
They include a room displaying artefacts including a 1910 work book, school banners, trophies and the album We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing…
It was released in 1975 and its cover featured members of the Scots School Singers and St David's Youth Choir crowded around QEII Square's former fountain.
A school boater hat, which was part of the student uniform for boys until the late 1930s, is in a case next to a photograph of a school picnic.
Tours of the campus and a concert by the school band will be held on Saturday.
The 150th celebration will end on Sunday morning with a service in the school chapel.
Among those attending the events is David Bottomley, 94, who taught at the school in the 1940s and lawyer John Bottoms who was involved in the landmark Mabo native title case.
Year 12 students Oscar Bird, a school captain, and Jacqueline Coughlan have been on the 150th organising committee for two years.