- Bib ID:
- 735942
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Catherine, Sister, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2 July 1993
- 3 tape reels (ca. 90 min.) : 7 1/2 ips. ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Tharwa oral history project.
- Summary:
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Sister Catherine, a student, speaks of the Tong family history; her father's work at Lanyon; her mother's accident; Dutton's Cottage at Lanyon; the slab school; boys pushing slabs out; walking to school; bullock drays; Fred Cleaver; the siting of the old slab school; dynamiting to build the toilets; students at the school; the plaque on the school porch; May McDonald; singing; going to the "big house" at Lanyon with her father; the shed for Fred Cleaver's sulky; inkwells; reading; aboriginal children at the school; sitting for the Qualifying Certificate; rounders; school clothes; the library; travelling on weekends; Mr and Mrs Sheedy; religious education; her joining the Sisters of the Good Samaritan; her teaching career in Queensland and New South Wales.
- Biography/History:
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Sister Catherine (nee Ruby Tong) was a student at the Tharwa school in the 1910s.
- 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 Canberra, A.C.T.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Higgins, Matthew, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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