Frensham School, 1940-90

Component identifier:

Series 6

Content Summary:

In 1941-47 McCutcheon worked at Frensham School in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales as head of the Junior School. In 1953-55 she rejoined Frensham Junior School at Gib Gate.

The series contains copies of (and loose pages from) the Frensham chronicle (1966-90) including a speech by McCutcheon on her association with Frensham and a piece on the life of Winifred Mary West, headmistress of Frensham. Also includes notes of a speech delivered at Frensham (5 July 1964), two notebooks containing children's prayers and correspondence of Winifred West (including letters by McCutcheon), 1940-71.

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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