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From: Mrs Noelle Oke <>
Subject: [GSV] What was it like to be at a Boarding School between 1920 and 1946?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:35:53 +1100


I am interested in speaking with ex boarding students who were at school
between 1920-1946 at any of the following schools:

Geelong Grammar, The Hermitage, Clyde School, Geelong College, Morongo,
Ballarat Grammar, Queen's College, Ballarat College, Clarendon College,
Girton College, Hamilton College, Alexandra College, Assumption College -
Kilmore, Albury Grammar and Rosehill and Woodstock Girls' Schools.

I am conducting research for my M.A.Thesis in History with La Trobe
University, Victoria and my topic is 'Victorian Private Rural Boarding
Schools between 1920 and 1945'. The study includes the older established
boys schools (19th Century) at Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Hamilton,
Kilmore and Albury, N.S.W and the girls' schools that subsequently became
affiliated with them.

During 2002 I conducted preliminary research in school archives and I am
now hoping that past boarding students might be prepared to speak to me
about their school experiences. I am looking forward to hearing what every
day life was like for boarding school students during a period that
included the Depression years and the Second World War.

The material collected will be kept confidential and will not identify
individuals unless they give me express permission to do so. Interviews can
be carried out at your home or any other mutually agreed upon venue.

If you are interested you can verify my research credentials with my
university supervisor (name supplied).



Noelle Oke
ALBURY NSW Australia


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