I Did About Twenty Subjects

1935 – 1937 and 1938 – 1939

June Kidman

I was a student of the Girls Central Art School 1935 – 1937, and the Art School 1938 and 1939, when war was declared and interrupted my studies.

Miss Gladys Good was head of the Girls Central Art School and Mr Laurence Howie head of the Art School. I did about 20 subjects at that time. I was very much influenced by Miss Mary P. Harris (a Quaker) the history of art teacher.

Other teachers were: Miss Laughton, Buttrose, Morris and Mrs Walloscheck and Marie Tuck, Ivor Hele, Mr Pavia, Mr Sierp and Mr Helsby.

One afternoon a week was for sport – tennis – on courts behind the Botanic Gardens. When wet, outdoor sketching at the railway station.

Every day Jacqueline Hick and myself caught the tram from Glenelg to Victoria Square; and another tram round to the Exhibition Building on North Terrace.

We had the use of rooms for working on two floors on the south side of the building facing North Terrace; and used the basement for a cloakroom.

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