Joyce describes her 21st birthday celebrations and tells us what it was like to be 21 years of age in 1958.
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Wait Until Dark My favorite black/white movie is Wait Until Dark, with Audrey Hepburn. I first saw it when I was living in Louisville, Kentucky in the early 1970’s. I had an old tv that my friend Pat Elliott had given me. It was pretty pitiful, but I could see fairly...
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Joyce joined the Citizens Military Force, Royal Australian Nursing Corp in 1958 and there she met her future husband, Ted. But what about the special date when he arrived smelling strongly of beer!! And he was a teetotaller!
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Annette talks about her passions in life, including reading and making fairy costumes
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Joyce talks about her early teenage years, her first romance with a boy named Ray and the social normas of the 1950's.
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LEGACY MATTERS WELCOME PROGRAM CERTIFICATION LESSON-4 Welcome Neighbor Activity The Legacy Matters Program is designed to help assimilate newcomers into the community at large. An activity that makes them the "stars of the show" is part of the plan. You will work with the Activity Director to create--and preferably participate in--periodic...
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On my 16th birthday my beloved grandmother gave me a ring. It was a simple, and in todays standards, very inexpensive ring but to me it was worth EVERYTHING. It was round with dainty scallops around the edges and my initials engraved in the center. I slipped it on my finger...
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Alice talks again about her time at the Kate Cocks Babies Home and her abiding respect for Kate Cocks herself - a pioneer, friend and saviour to many unmarried and single mothers in the 1940's and 1950's in Adelaide. Alice reads from an article she wrote back in 1998. In the...
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Joyce tells us how she went to dances and balls as a young teenager in the early 1950's, and socialised with sailors who were on shore leave. She corresponded with Peter from Surrey for 5 years after meeting him at a dance. She also went on holidays to Perth where she...
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LEGACY MATTERS WELCOME PROGRAM CERTIFICATION LESSON -2 Overview This series of lessons walks you through the entire process from facility signup to delivery of the DVD to the family. It is absolutely critical to know these steps. Print out this section and make notes as you read through and keep...
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Annette tells us about meeting a boy named Scott at the school social. He was a very serious boy and she was very shy. On their first date they went to the drive-in theatre to watch a movie, or so she thought....................
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Bills talks about his long service in the Infantry during the Second World War, serving in Tobruk, Libya, Alemain, New Guinea and Borneo. He also tells us how the War dominates his thoughts as he gets older.
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Joyce talks about attending 5 Primary Schools in South Australia, her Secondary School Years at Norwood Girls Technical School and her choices of study as an adult
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