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Dr. Andrew S. Tomb of Victoria, and Dr. Van D. Goodall of Clifton
No full textDr. Andrew S. Tomb of Victoria, left, elected president of the Texas Academy of General Practice, and Dr. Van D. Goodall of Clifton, president-elect, discuss the academy\u27s program to raise the standards of Texas family doctors. Published in the Fort Worth Star - Telegram morning edition, September 26, 1950.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/6499/thumbnail.jp
Diana Goodall interviewed by Jenny Escritt, 6 July 2017
No full textDiana Goodall (DG) interviewed by Jenny Escritt (JE), 6 July 2017. DG recalls early family life in Braunstone, Leicestershire. Describes decision made by local council to send 250 children to boarding school, give children better opportunities after Second World War. DG sent to Shooting Butts School, Rugeley in 1946 aged twelve. Describes the experience of arriving at Shooting Butts and being treated for potential head lice, chores and difference in background and wealth of pupils. DG returned to Leicester in 1948 at age 14, joined Folville Rise School. Description of starting work at Equity Works, Western Road on 15th birthday. Describes first day and making friends. Recalls using a comptometer: added figures, collected report sheets from each department, switchboard. Mentions attending typing course at Ellesmere Road night school at age 14. Comments on parent's background, came from Birmingham, found it difficult to understand Leicester dialect. Father was a bus driver, council house allocated to family due to father's occupation. DG left Equity Works, started work at Banners Milk Bar, opposite Victoria Park gates. Similar office work to Equity Works. Mentions technological advancement during this time, machine printing of names and addresses. Worked in successive office jobs. Mentions meeting husband at 17 when dancing at her sister's wedding, future husband was on leave from Air Force. Mentions moved to house in Wigston in 1955, took nine years off of work to raise children. Returned to work, factory job at Broughton's making socks and stockings. Went to Mansfield Hosiery when Broughton's closed down. All piece work, three pence a dozen. Describes family income, able to install central heating in the 1960s because of work. Husband a mechanic, had car with job. Comments on Leicester cinemas, liked the Roxy. DG belonged to a youth club called the League of Youth, set up by the Labour Party for young people aged 15-25. League of Youth organised camping, day trips. DG went from age 15 until married. Recalls caravan holidays to Wells-Next-The-Sea, four pounds a week for the caravan. Shopped locally in 1940s on Narborough Road. Queued for food during rationing. Made own clothes, created handkerchiefs and pillowcases out of old sheets. Describes Narborough Road shops: Laxtons Butchers, Claricoates green grocers, Gowers. Mentions shopping in town: haggling for food at Market. Mentions trams ran from market, seats changed direction at the terminus so had to get up quickly before they swivelled round.File replaced with redacted file on 23.01.2024 by Colin Hyde
African American Storyteller, Victoria A. Casey McDonald
No full textIn the deep resonance of storyteller Victoria A. Casey McDonald’s voice, you will hear her tell stories about growing up in Western North Carolina, and the kind of Christmas she had as a child. The late Victoria was our friend, a CSA board member, author, and “Stories of Mountain Folk” interviewer
Art Forum - Lynn, Victoria
No full text4 September 2002. -- Victoria Lynn is a distinguished curator and writer who has worked in the field of contemporary and Australian visual arts over the last two decades. She has recently been appointed Director of Creative Development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, an innovative exhibition venue located at Federation Square in Melbourne, due to open later this year. She is currently Chair of the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council. From 1991 to 2001 she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the numerous exhibitions she has curated have received substantial critical acclaim. She is the author of many articles, catalogue essays and edited collections, and books on artists Marion Borgelt and Eugene Carchesio. In her lecture she will discuss both Australian and International work, the challenges at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the different modes and understandings of what the moving image can and might be understood as
Jane Goodall and Celebration of the Arts to Highlight University of Dayton Event that Celebrates Academic Excellence
No full textNews release announces that the University of Dayton will celebrate academic excellence at the 18th annual Stander Symposium with a keynote address by primatologist Jane Goodall and a Celebration of the Arts on the stage of the Victoria Theatre
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: Dr. Victoria Rovine “Fashion in Africa and Beyond”
No full textDr. Victoria Rovine, “Fashion in Africa and Beyond” at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.Victoria Rovine is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear
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No full text0724109242 (paperback) (ISBN). "March 1976".; Index indicating National Library of Australia holdings, in an online version at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2766744; Library's NL copy does not contain maps.Mallee study are
Progress of Victoria : a statistical essay / by William Henry Archer.
No full textAt head of title: Intercolonial Exhibition essays, 1866.; "Intended as an introductory handbook to the annually-published Statistics of Victoria" -- Pref.; Written by author in his capacity as Registrar-General of Victoria.; Includes index.; Ferguson, J.A. Australia, 6085; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
No full textThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
Author index to the publications of the Royal Society of Victoria, together with those of the societies amalgamated with it; namely, of the former Philosophical Institute of Victoria, of the former Philosophical Society of Victoria, of the former Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and of the first Microscopical Society of Victoria (1879-1882), 1855-1934
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