{"id":2446,"date":"2023-02-23T00:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2025-07-16T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T04:11:07","slug":"university-of-otago-colleges-a-few-flashbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/university-of-otago-colleges-a-few-flashbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Otago colleges – a few flashbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post researched and written by David Murray, Archivist<\/em><\/p>\n

With many students settling into their University of Otago colleges, here are some flashbacks to colleges and halls of residence back in the day. Many were captured for the university’s marketing and publicity purposes, others were formal records.<\/p>\n

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Selwyn College tennis team 1972. Individuals unidentified. Morris Kershaw photograph, ref: 84-086\/66.\u00a0 Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Toroa International House (now Toroa College) in 2001. Individuals unidentified. University of Otago Marketing and Communications Department, ref: MS-5249. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The dining room at St Margaret\u2019s College in 1949. A publicity photo for the Prime Minister\u2019s Department, ref: Box-184-087. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Salmond Hall (now Salmond College) dining room, [1988]. University of Otago Marketing and Communications Department records, ref: MS-5249. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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First-year Home Science students at Studholme Hall (now Studholme College) in 1936. Individuals unidentified. Unknown photographer. Association of the Home Science Alumnae of New Zealand records, ref: MS-1516\/075\/001. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Knox College, around the late 1980s. University of Otago Marketing and Communications Department , ref: 5249. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aquinas College students and staff in 1976. The college opened in 1954 and was run by the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) until its closure in 1980. The building was sold to Elim Church, and then to the University of Otago, which reopened it as a student residential college, known as Dalmore House, in 1988. It was renamed Aquinas in 1996. Hurst & Palmer photographers. Records of Aquinas College, ref: MS-4752\/025. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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City College from Cumberland Street, about 2005. Opened in 2000, it became Caroline Freeman College in 2018. University of Otago Marketing and Communications Department records, ref: MS-5249. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A room in Cumberland Hall (now Cumberland College), around the late 1980s. Cumberland was earlier the Dunedin Hospital Nurses’ Home. University of Otago Marketing and Communications Department records, ref: MS-5249. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Carrington Hall (now Carrington College) around the late 1980s.\u00a0 University of Otago Marketing and Communications Department records, ref: MS-5249. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Helensburgh House, Wakari, in the 1980s. Glenys Roome papers, ref: MS-4676. Hocken Collections – Uara Taoka o H\u0101kena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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192 Castle Street. The Glendermid Ltd warehouse and offices on this site were completed in 1958. The company had a tannery at Sawyers Bay. In 2005 the building was partially demolished and redeveloped as LivingSpace hotels and apartments. It became Te Rangi Hiroa College in 2014. A new Te Rangih\u012broa College will open on a new site on Albany Street 2023. The old building is now Te K\u0101reti o Castle, 192 Castle College. Ref: Home and Building magazine, vol. 22 no. 10 (March 1960).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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