Australian Student Christian Movement, 1932-65

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

Rosalie McCutcheon joined the Australian Student Christian Movement in the late 1920s while a student at the University of Adelaide and served as co-President. In 1930-33 she worked as a Travelling Secretary with the Movement. In 1958-64 she worked for the ASCM as a Resident Secretary, counselling students at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales.

The series contains copies of The Australian intercollegian (1939-53), The power of God in human lives: a study of religious experience by W. Wallace F. Pratt and Rosalie W. Joyce (ASCM, 1932), cuttings from Honi soit (1960) and articles on McCutcheon's contribution to the ASCM (1965)

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated to the Library by McCutcheon's literary executor Dr John Garrett in 1992. Two small additions (tapes of McCutcheon's funeral and memorial service and personal correspondence of Sister Constance (Paul) Fairhall) were donated in 1993. A third addition was donated by June Epstein in 2001. This material includes letters from McCutcheon to Madeline Crump, 1978-1991, letters from Anne McCutcheon, Leonore Collard, Mary Learmonth and others to Crump, 1990-1998, photographs (7) of McCutcheon and others, 1932-1970, and other papers.

Names:

Garrett, John, Dr.

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