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Fay Cheater
No full textIn 1951 Fay and her husband Keith Cheater came to the Northern Territory. He was the first white Australian builder appointed by the Methodist Overseas Missions to work at Milingimbi and worked there for two years. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. The family then moved to Yirrkala, where Fay taught cooking, sewing and craft work. In 1956 they returned to Darwin, Fay played the organ at various church services around Darwin including Bagot Reserve and the Leprosarium. Between 1970 to1974 she took a position as a teacher's aide at Darwin Special School. In 1973 Fay and three teachers took twenty students on an excursion to Adelaide, which was considered very innovative at the time. From 1975 to 1979 she worked at the Wagaman pre-school. She also worked for the North Australian Show Society since its inception in 1951 and over the years has made hundreds of posies for public speakers and sick people. Fay has sponsored 1st prize at the Royal Darwin Show in the cake decoration classes and was a keen photographer. In 1984 Fay donated 878 images to the Northern Territory Library, PictureNT collection.Teacher aideCommunity Servic
Reminiscences of Lewis Percival Fay
No full textThe collection contains the written reminiscences of Lewis Percival Fay who served with the Bossier Rangers of Louisiana during the Civil War
Fay Jones Undergraduate Pencil Study
No full textFay Jones's geometric pencil study done as a student.Though these exercises were drawn before Jones was a Taliesin Fellow, the complex geometry reflects a Wrightian aesthetic. The date of the drawing is conjectural
Letter from Fay Jones to Frank Lloyd Wright, February 3, 1954
No full textLetter from Fay Jones to Frank Lloyd Wright written February 3, 1954.The careful wording of the draft and final version of this letter from Fay Jones to Frank Lloyd Wright underscores the veneration Jones felt for Wright. In this letter, Fay Jones is ostensibly pursuing a visit from Frank Lloyd Wright to Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas. Jones also makes reference to Wright's advice to "Go to Arkansas"--advice, which hindsight reveals, shaped the course of Jones's career
Letter from Fay Jones to Eugene Masselink, April 5, 1955
No full textLetter from Fay Jones to Eugene Masselink written April 5, 1955. Fay Jones reiterates that his motel reservation needed to be cancelled as his daughter was ill.Fay Jones wrote this letter five days before Easter Sunday 1955. The Jones family was unable to attend the much-anticipated annual Taliesin West Easter due to Cami Jones's case of the mumps. Cami is the younger of the two Jones daughters. The Joe Price referred to was the son of a Frank Lloyd Wright client, Harold C. Price. Price commissioned the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Wright's only built skyscraper. Joe Price photographed and filed the construction process
Letter of Invitation from Fay Jones to Frank Lloyd Wright
No full textThis draft of Fay Jones's letter to Frank Lloyd Wright suggests the efforts Jones went to to convince Wright to make the trip to Arkansas
Fay and Keith Cheater
No full textFay and Keith Cheater, Milingimbi.Cheater, F. and Cheater, K.Date:195
Joanne and Fay
No full textJoanne being nursed by Fay Cheater. East Arm Leprosarium.Cheater, F. and Cheater, K.Date:197
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