Family Tree Frog

A family history buddy directed me to this blog post the other day which stung me into action on the scanning and digitising front.  Not sure how long this will last but my goal is to keep scanning memorabilia and digitise it and file it for successful retrieval.   And so today, here are my mother's school reports and reports from Business College.  Nothing really remarkable to see here but it does provide a trail of where she was and when namely: 1949 - Petersham Girls Junior High School - 1st year or what we would call Grade 7 in Qld I guess. There is much improvement from the first half of the year to the second half of the year.  Mind you, she was absent for 16 days in the first half of the year. She was away for 14 days in the second half but maybe just had to get used to High School.  She did English, French, Maths I and Maths II, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Needlework and Art in the first half of the year with the addition of Music in th...

1955 March Barbara McLoughlin Now, I do hope that you're not quite sick of my mother yet! She is just 19 in this photo.  Younger than my daughter is now.  Younger than my son.  There is no other identifying information on the back of the photo apart from March 1955 written in pencil. She looks very business-like.  I found an application for employment with the NSW Public Service Board in her papers from 1971. It serves as a resume would today.    In her application she records that she completed her Intermediate at Petersham Junior Girls High in 1951 and then completed 4th Year at Fort Street High in1952.  Barbara then spent 10 months at Miss Hale's Business College in Margaret Street, Sydney - 1953.  She also worked for Prudential Assurance Company in Martin Place from May to November 1953 but resigned from 'almost total boredom' (her words).  She then studied Dress Design at East Sydney Tech for 18 mo...