Visit by Dr Triolo from Monash University

Photo: Elizabeth Burness and Dr. Rosalie Triolo

Dr. Rosalie Triolo, Senior Lecturer, History/Humanities Education, Monash University visited the Museum on 25 September.

Dr. Triolo was in Canberra to deliver the '2014 Historical Perspectives on Education Lecture' at the Australian National Museum of Education (ANME) and also took the time to visit the Hall and Tuggeranong School Museums.

The subject of Dr Triolo's lecture was "Teachers would make good soldiers": The Relationship between Victorian Teachers' Education and Employment Backgrounds and Experiences as Soldiers in the Great War'. This address was relevant to the Hall School Museum's ANZAC project for 2015 as some enlistees from Hall and the surrounding districts were teachers.

Dr. Triolo gave a short summary of her ANME address to the Friends of the Museum over morning tea and then was shown the various displays.

She was overwhelmed with the amount of research that the volunteers had done and the professionalism of the displays. She was especially impressed with the old school and the unique collection of books, artefacts and furniture that actually belonged to the school and was still available for visitors to enjoy. She said that there was nothing like it in Victoria.

Her comment in the Museum's visitors book was "Congratulations on your magnificent work what a gift to the ACT, the Nation and generations of the past, through to present and future".