Richard Hopman interviewed by Matthew Higgins for the Tharwa oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2258449
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hopman, Richard, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies: written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 29 June 1993
- 3 sound tape reels (ca. 33 min.) : 7 1/2 ips. ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Tharwa oral history project.
- Summary:
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Mr Hopman, teacher, speaks of his teaching background; his arrival in Tharwa in 1949; the school building; the woodfire; cricket pitch; climbing ropes between trees; planting trees; school bell; radio; projector; School Magazine; discipline; maturity of country boys; teaching his own children; preparation for teaching in a one teacher school; recorders; flag raising ceremony; Empire Day; school garden; hygiene inspections; combined sports day; excursion to the Snowy Scheme; hide and seek; horse cropping the grass; brown snake near the river; school inspections; rainfall records; P&C meetings and dances; kerosene lamps; Junior Farmers Club; roads; floods; swimming lessons; shooting foxes; being roustabout for his brother, Harry, in the Davis Cup; cricket; Tharwa's links with Queanbeyan; being shot down during World War II; relationship between Tharwa and the large properties; card nights.
- Biography/History:
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Mr Hopman taught at Tharwa school from the late 1940s to the 1950s.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken by the Tharwa Primary School in conjunction with the National Library of Australia.
- Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Higgins, Matthew, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Tharwa oral history project.
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1993
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