Betty Gill interview
Betty Gill (nee Blair) attended Somerville from 1932-1936. Discusses polio epidemic.
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Jennifer Miller and Brigid Cole-Adams interview
Unsure of dates as student. Discusses polio epidemic.
Annabel Custance interview
Unsure of dates as student. Discusses polio epidemic.
Gillian Elliot interview
Oral history with Gillian Elliott who was a student of Clayfield College in the 1930s and 1940s. Topics include: childhood illnesses, the polio epidemic and the closure of the school, kindergarten, children, teachers, grades, activities, punishments and discipline, school spirit, sport enthusiasm, the war years and evacuation.
Pamela Markwell and Dr Wendy Markwell interview
Pamela Markwell was a student at Clayfield College in the 1930s. She speaks about the principals from Somerville House, boys at school, scripture, war, fetes, polio, sport, and the benefit at the Savoy Theatre. Dr Wendy student in 1970s.
Joan Anderson interview
Studied at Clayfield College from 1932-1940. Discusses polio epidemic.
Nancy Sagar interview
One of Clayfield College's first pupils; polio
Edith Logan and Mina Witney interview
Oral history with Edith Logan (nee Jackson) and Mina Witney (nee Darker) who attended Clayfield College in the mid 1930s to 1940. They were both in the junior class of 1938 and the first senior class of 1940. They speak about teachers, subjects, behaviour, sport and equipment, swimming pool, hygiene, the polio epidemic, sport contributions cups, religion, racial attitudes, family and war time, and the Americans.
Marion Ham and Joyce Wagstaff interview
Clayfield College boarders through the 1930s and 1940s. Marion speaks about Polio epidemic.
Nancy Scott interview
Oral history with Nancy Scott who speaks extensively about her school days at Clayfield College in the 1930s. Topics include: teachers, sports days, and the polio epidemic.
Sisters Vida Kathleen McLaren and Estelle Dulcie Thompson interview
Oral history with Sisters Vida Kathleen McLaren and Estelle Dulcie Thompson. This interview covers nurse training at Toowoomba Base Hospital in the 1950s and polio treatment at Mt Lofty Hospital.
Alan Marshall conversations in the Alan Marshall MS 3992 collection
Talks about Aus children,reaction to his work; conversation with his daughter
Bill Mather-Brown interviewed by Robin Poke
Contracted polio age 2
Geoffrey Morris interviewed by Margaret Tomkins
quarantined at school for four months during the polio epidemic - didn't contract polio
Gailene Stock interviewed by Michelle Potter
Born 1946
Ron Finneran interviewed by Mick Fogarty
Born 1944, contracted polio
Colleen Thurgar interviewed by Terry Colhoun
Born 1943. Developed polio when young and so attended a crippled children's home in Adelaide, returned to primary school later with the determination to regain the full use of legs so she could become a dancer
Kevin Bawden interview
Born 1946. Contracted polio, wheelchair sports.
Joan Clarke interviewed by Hazel de Berg
Peter Boyle interviewed by Diana Ritch
Experience of polio, incorporated into writing