In 1991, Kelvin Grove is undergoing another major change, and the expected scale of the change prompted this book. The changes at Kelvin Grove have been quite frequent, and there are recurring themes in the interviews.
Author's Introduction
Having said this, it remains for me to point out that the College's records of its past are not extensive. It really seems a shame that there aren't even complete sets of the student newspapers and magazines that come out every now and then.
Genesis: Jack Greenhalgh
WE SIT FOR SCHOLARSHIP
When we came out to Kelvin Grove there was only one building there to be used for the College. Over time, additional buildings were needed to accommodate the expanding enrollment at the College.
Only for Girls: Clare Van Homrigh
He informed me that they had to replace the art teacher, Miss Morgan-Jones, who was getting married and needed a new art lecturer at the Teachers College. Well, I had to report to the Teachers' College on Monday morning and I never came back to Norman Park School - my books and all sorts of things, I don't know what happened to them.
34; CHILD ART " QUESTION BOX
Of course later the war came and I was in the army for four years and when I got out of the army they had moved to Kelvin Grove. Of course, there have been some changes within the College as a whole that I don't think have had a good effect.
Manning the Trenches
Clarence Diefenbach
He then asked me if I thought it was appropriate to wear in front of class. But it was obvious to my youthful mind that there was something troubling him about the matter or he wouldn't have brought it up - maybe he was Catholic or something.
OURTTC
They had to demolish the old building, so the college had moved from early 1942 to the site of the North Brisbane Intermediate School at Kelvin Grove. In the midst of all this - I think it was May of sophomore year - we had our Class III exams.
No Intercourse in the Corridors
Geoffrey and Doris Swan
We would have been in the dorm with them one day a week, but most of the JIIs were appointed to schools during the year and started moving out. We didn't take a minute out of the schedule - but we did go to the Queensland Art Gallery and the Canberra Gallery.
Acquiring the Knack: Phil Cullen
We should have been the first batch to complete the two-year course, but most of us were appointed at the end of the year and a half. And when we came back at the end of the August vacation, of course we were asked to give a full report to the school assembly, the entire faculty.
The Old Yellow Barn: Valerie Cocksedge
About the time I was appointed lecturer, Miss Staeheli introduced classes in the Home Science department of the college on a Monday evening. It was on television and radio and was a very good PR exercise as far as Jar as Home Economics and the students of the college were concerned.
No Parking Problems: Betty Grulke
I was there for forty years in the art department, although I had to resign for three weeks in 1957 to get married. In the 1950s and 1960s, you had to be a proven teacher to get on the faculty staff - all students went to the classrooms to teach.
Tilting at Windmills: Cecile Falvey
One of the areas I really enjoyed was going as a chaperone to the physical education camps in Tallebudgera. That was one of the privileges; they still had to wear their ties for practical school. Thus in 1977-781 he was involved in the development of the dance course at Arts Sclwol.
A Bit Sissy: Molly Woodward
Well, I had tried to overcome that, but it was difficult because my predecessor in the position had published those books. We used to have terrible concerts at the Town Hall or the Rialto, and we had to perform. Molly: Well, in terms of oral communication, we gave speeches and all kinds of speeches.
A woman's vision gave Kelvin Grove
I had a lot of help in planning the lighting in the theater and the stage block, which would provide flexible theater - for theater in the round or for regular stage theater. I also got a lot of help from the young architects; they were avidly interested in it because they had been members of the University Drama Society. I remember a review of a play at the Woodward Theater noting that it was really inadequate as a theatre; but that's never what it was intended for.
Magnolias and Mint Juleps
Dennis Pryor
Each of these areas told me something about what the Australians thought, what their attitude was, that although they spoke English, they were not English people living in another part of the world. I felt that everyone there was determined to tell me something about this wide, brown and incomprehensible land, to teach me something about the written and unwritten laws, the tribal rituals of a culture called Australia. And that the best of the speakers also had as a subtitle "let's teach these people about the world they live in and the world they have to teach".
A Venue for Chasing Girls: Tom Dixon
The teacher was Alwyn Krebbs, who later became part of the Faculty of Education at the University of Queensland. Interviewer: Let's talk about some of the changes that have happened in Kelvin Grove in the last fifteen or twenty years. Interviewer: One of the reasons for making Kelvin Grove a CAE was that it was not considered useful for trainees to be so isolated from all other students.
A Plan for All of Us: Lin Powell
There were nine families in the Main Roads camp and two families at the station who had children on their way to school. I was inspected that year by the Regional Director from Townsville, Arthur Whitney; and you know, it was a pretty scary experience for a young teacher out there in the mountains. In the second week, the school made up ninety minutes by working from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and.
34;Who's Michaelangelo?": Coll Portley
Out of the two-year course, one year was done in the same way where everyone went through basic training. Next year we will be moving a large part of the art department to the South Bank in the old Greyhound bus terminal. The dream was to have a creative and performing arts school on the South Bank.
Just Like a High School
Graham Shipstone
I think maybe in high schools it is taken quite seriously, both by teachers and students. They talked about educational theory and there was another subject, I think it was called 'method' - but we didn't really look at what you could do in the classroom. We got paid too, five pounds a week - of course, we were tied up because of it, but it was very useful money.
At No Charge: Gordon Jones
Mr. Jones: He did well, but he was very gracious and said that it was basically a good submission, and I was encouraged by that. I made sure it kept rolling as well as I possibly could - and it was a great period. By and large, I think the proposals from that committee were pretty well accepted by the College community and we really felt like it was starting to move forward again.
A Ladder of Mobility: Bob Leach
I really didn't want to be a teacher - and neither did most of the kids here. The Education Department controlled us, so the College was an outpost of the Civil Service - got very little money, very little. I think what's going to happen now is that you're going to find an aging of the staff like I experienced in the fifties.
Finding Sabbatical Leave: Peter Wilson
I remember we had to do an applied test and teach it to the rest of the group in the class. The Tallebudgera camp was one of the organized trips at the college and it was notorious for its exertion. It was very successful, but it is something that Kelvin Grove has lost as the exchanges are now organized by a centralized committee in the BCAE.
A Good System, Difficult Territory
Jeff Shaw
They had no idea of the revolution that had taken place in art and art education. And it was certainly much more suited to the needs of the school and the individual. Under a new constitution the College provided the board members and I became President of the Flying Arts School.
Miracles of Coordination: Colin Brumby
For example, in the late sixties I formed the Queensland Opera Company, as it was then, and the company spent nine months each year touring small operas for schools. Interviewer: Do you remember the annual concerts - sometimes in the Rialto, sometimes at the town hall. We then investigated the possibility of including for transfer with it in the Journal of the Teachers' Association.
A Job and a Hobby: Kevin Boyle
They were in my single days - withered, I could get so involved in what I was doing that I very rarely took note of the time. I am currently working with one of the Home Ee tutors on food photography for magazines. I used to have a lot of contact with the other activities on campus, especially with the School of Aviation, I photographed a lot of the paintings that were brought down or duplicated slides for them.
Ode to St Cecilia: Michael Toohey
We've involved Kelvin Grove in our programming and possibly one of the most exciting things we've ever done was our first live broadcast. As for the official coursework, over the years we have tried to involve Kelvin Grove more, especially the music department. Christmas Day is very quiet at Kelvin Grove - there are only 4MBS and the caretaker.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Peter Botsman
The younger ones who were less stuck in the old traditions could do that - so that was one of the quality things I did at Kelvin Grove. When he went back, he said that the College that impressed him most by its vitality and its dynamism and its forward direction was one of the last visitors - Kelvin Grove. Dr Botsman: It was a nook off the side there in an old red brick building that stood on the plateau next to the caretaker's flat at the back of the Science block.
Great Camaraderie: Michael Lannen
The Sydney course prepared us to be teachers, whereas the Kelvin Grove course was a real education - it was interesting and exciting, and the people who taught it were mostly interesting and exciting. Later, when it was over, he came up to me and said, "Mike, that was really well done and you're never too old to learn. It was a great course too, BEd, and it meant I could stay here for another year.
Knocking Down Fences: Peter Lavery
I have to say that the time I was in the theater early on in England changed me very much into a drama teacher, very process-oriented, very anti-product, the kind of teacher in England who shouted at the principal. Working in the slums of England that's what you had to do - they couldn't act and it wasn't about that at all. The pram factories, the Nimrods, all these different things that happened made for an exciting time for drama and an exciting time to be in England - it was a real hotbed, a very important period.
